Colin Firth & Kevin Hart Are 'Intouchables,'

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By Kevin Jagernauth | The Playlist
October 1, 2014 at 11:14AM



The long-brewing remake of the French hit dramedy "Intouchables" seems to be coming back to life. Colin Firth, long attached to the project, now has Kevin Hart in the co-starring role. The movie tells the heartwarming, based-on-true-story tale of the relationship of a wealthy quadriplegic and his immigrant caregiver. Paul Feig was once linked to helm the project, but it's not clear if he's still involved. We presume more news will arrive shortly. [Allocine]

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The New ‘Kingsman’ Trailer: You Wouldn’t Like Colin Firth When He’s Angry

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by john walker 10 hours ago



Not to get all Stefon from “Saturday Night Live,” but the new trailer for “Kingsman: The Secret Service” that premiered during tonight’s episode of “Gotham” has everything.

Explosions? Check. Colin Firth being all scary-sexy-serious? Check. A new song by Iggy Azalea featuring Ellie Goulding? Check. A morbidly practical Samuel L. Jackson warning that “If you get blood on the carpets, you have to take the carpets up!”? Check. Ummmmm, LEGS THAT ARE ALSO SWORDS?! Oh my god, check.

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Mr Darcy's soaking shirt left my wife cold, says Colin Firth: Actor says he never understood what all the fuss was about

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By LAURA COX FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:53 EST, 31 August 2014 | UPDATED: 05:52 EST, 1 September 2014



It is an image few women will forget in a hurry – Colin Firth and his wet shirt as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice.

But the actor, 53, has admitted his wife was left cold by the sight of him in his ‘sodden shirt’ and breeches.

Giving an interview Firth claimed neither he nor and Livia, 44, whom he married in 1997, understood what all the fuss was about the famous ‘wet shirt’ scene.

Their adolescent sons Luca, 13, and Matteo, 11, will likely be equally unimpressed to see their father emerge from the pond, his white shirt clinging to his chest.

Reacting to the hype, Firth, said: ‘I’ve spent years trying to figure out why Mr Darcy’s fully clothed swim in his breeches and shirt caused such a sensation.

'My wife certainly wouldn't go weak at the knees if I came home in a sodden shirt.’

It would seem plenty of others would, however. The appearance as Mr Darcy has led to the actor featuring on several ‘sexiest man’ lists in recent years.

And People Magazine named him the ‘sexiest man alive’ in 2007.

But Firth said he doesn’t think of himself as a sex symbol. He told the Sun on Sunday’s Notebook magazine: ‘All I can say is that I’m glad people feel that way, but I don’t feel it when I look in the mirror. I don’t get chased down the street, nor has anyone ever thrown their underwear at me. 

'I’ve certainly never seen myself as a sex symbol.’

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Watch! TEN talks to Colin Firth and Emma Stone

RTE TEN
September 16, 2014



TEN's Sarah McIntyre caught up with Colin Firth and Emma Stone to chat about their new film Magic in

Check out TEN's interview with the actors, where they chatted about being intimidated working with Woody Allen, stifling laughter while filming scenes with the hilarious Hamish Linklater and wanting to take home the incredible costumes.

Plus, we find out which famous actress Colin named his pet cat after!

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Emma Stone brings vintage glamour to Parisian red carpet with Colin Firth (video)

DAILY MAIL
September 11, 2014
By HANNA FLINT FOR MAILONLINE




Emma Stone looked magic in the moonlight as she arrived for the premiere of her new film in Paris, Thursday night.

The American star takes the female lead in Woody Allen's latest cinematic endeavour, and was joined on the red carpet by co-star Colin Firth.

As the movie is set in the Roaring Twenties, it's no surprise to see Emma's glamorous look inspired by the fashion of the time.

Colin looked every bit the English gentleman in his sharp suit, while his wife Livia Firth dazzled in a metallic gold knitted top with a floral A-line skirt.

Emma and Colin were in Paris for the 'Magic In The Moonlight' Premiere at UGC Cine Cite Bercy.

It is in France where the majority of the movie is set, as Firth's skeptical character Stanley Crawford is enlisted to help debunk the clairvoyant and mystic Sophie (Stone).

Soon the story sees middle-aged Stanley and the young Sophie become romantically entwined, but of course a dramatic age-gap has never troubled Woody Allen when it comes to story telling and real life. 

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Colin Firth shines in Moonlight’

KENOSHA NEWS
By Cary Darling
August 15, 2014

After dealing with the emotional breakdown at the core of “Blue Jasmine,” a very contemporary tale of free-falling down the social ladder that won star Cate Blanchett the Best Actress Oscar, director / writer Woody Allen once again seeks refuge in the past. With “Magic in the Moonlight,” Allen turns out a well-wrought and clever but lightweight bauble set in late-1920s France that echoes the European daydream of his 2011 hit, “Midnight in Paris.”

What makes “Moonlight” most memorable is the performance from Colin Firth, who is in nearly every scene. Without him, “Moonlight” just might evaporate.

Firth is Stanley, the Penn Jillette of his day, a magician and a man of science and secularism whose specialty is to debunk those claiming to engage in the supernatural. An old magician friend of his, Howard (Simon McBurney), shows up after a performance to tell him of Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), a young American woman residing in the south of France who claims to have psychic powers and the ability to channel the dead.

Howard says he tried to prove she was really just a trickster but left her seance perplexed. She seemed to be the real deal.

Eager to discredit her, Stanley agrees to attend her next seance, where he will also meet her mother (Marcia Gay Harden) and fiance, Brice (Hamish Linklater), both of whom are convinced of her powers.

But things get complicated when Stanley, who is also engaged, finds himself attracted to Sophie and vice versa. He had never anticipated that he might have to choose love over logic.

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Colin Firth: Movie review: ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ is a good Woody Allen film

SAULT STE. MARIE
Posted Aug. 1, 2014 @ 2:01 am
By Ed Symkus



Woody Allen has often spoken about his drawer full of movie ideas, some of them hastily written down, that he visits now and then when the prolific director feels that it’s time to write and direct another one. Though many of his most ardent fans were saying that his best days are behind him, that his last great film was “Husbands and Wives” two decades ago, it’s always such a great surprise when something the caliber of last year’s resoundingly acclaimed “Blue Jasmine” pops up. (Personal note: I’d also put 1999’s “Sweet and Lowdown” right up there with the strong stuff.)

And though “Magic in the Moonlight” mostly pales next to “Blue Jasmine” – except for Colin Firth’s terrific performance – I can still comfortably recommend it as good, if not great, Woody Allen.

It’s a period piece about the timeless subject of fraud. In 1928 Berlin, a Chinese magician named Wei Ling Soo astonishes audiences with his impossible stage illusions. Of course, all magicians are committing fraud, but it’s the sort of deception that audiences enjoy. Wei Ling Soo takes it a step further, in that he’s actually a Brit named Stanley (Colin Firth) posing, in heavy costuming and makeup, as a Chinese magician. When his magician pal Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney) asks him for a favor – to prove that an American woman claiming to be a psychic is a total fake – he agrees to take on the task, gallantly but tiredly saying, “OK, I’ll expose yet another fraudulent spiritualist.”

But Sophie (Emma Stone) who travels the world under the guidance of her no-nonsense show biz mom (Marcia Gay Harden), is pretty darn good at what she does. When Stanley, who doesn’t reveal his true identity as a prestidigitator, attends a séance at the lavish home where the widowed Grace (Jacki Weaver) – accompanied by her dimwit, ukulele-strumming son Brice (Hamish Linklater) – wants to speak with her dead husband Harry, Stanley is impressed that Sophie seems to be able to know absolutely unknowable things. Sophie calls what she does “miracles.” Stanley admits that they’re “bewildering feats, but not possible.”

He also believes that Grace and Brice are perfect marks, and can see that Brice is smitten with Sophie. But though he can’t figure out how she does what she does, he remains a non-believer because, he says, “I’m rational.”


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Magic In The Moonlight - official trailer of Colin Firth/Woody Allen film

CANNES: eOne Partners with Colin Firth, Ged Doherty on ‘Eye in the Sky’

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LONDON — Entertainment One is partnering with Colin Firth and Ged Doherty’s Raindog Films to produce contempo international thriller “Eye in the Sky.” Firth is attached to star in the pic, which will be helmed by Gavin Hood (“Tsotsi,” “Ender’s Game,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”).

Entertainment One also has unveiled its global film production arm, which is led by Xavier Marchand, prexy, film production. The goal is to finance or co-finance up to eight films with strong international potential a year.

Firth and Doherty will produce “Eye in the Sky” alongside Marchand. eOne will distribute in the U.K., Canada, Benelux, Spain and Australia/New Zealand. Its international sales division under prexy Harold van Lier will handle sales in all other territories, including the U.S.

The film, which is penned by Guy Hibbert, is set in the shadowy world of remotely piloted “drone” warfare. It centers around London-based military intelligence officer Colonel Michelle Madden, who is set to remotely command an operation to capture a group of terrorists from their safe-house in Nairobi, Kenya. The mission escalates from a “capture” to a “kill” operation when Madden realizes that the terrorists are about to embark on a deadly suicide mission.

“The use of unmanned aircraft in modern warfare and in the so-called ‘War on Terror’ poses critical questions for us all,” said Firth. “Raindog was launched with the hope of making challenging thoughtful films, and I’m pleased to be a part of an exploration into such a crucial issue.”



Production is expected to begin in South Africa on Aug. 11, 2014.

” ‘Eye in the Sky’ showcases what our film group is all about: source a sought-after project with outstanding talent attached, produce it, secure all rights, and handle direct distribution in our territories and sales around the world,” Marchand said.

The global film production arm under Marchand will work closely with van Lier’s sales division to leverage eOne’s distribution infrastructure to invest and finance projects at source.

“Xavier is so very well suited to lead our production efforts. He has an extensive knowledge of both film production and the demands of international market,” said Patrice Theroux, who oversees eOne’s global film business.


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COLIN FIRTH: Woody Allen’s MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT Starring Emma Stone, Colin Firth, and Marcia Gay Harden

COLLIDER
by Matt Goldberg  
Posted 7 hours ago

A new image has gone online for Woody Allen‘s upcoming film Magic in the Moonlight.  We previously reported that the movie “is a romantic comedy about an Englishman (Colin Firth) brought in to help unmask a possible swindle.  Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.”  The latest issue of EW reports that the “possible swindle” involves the Englishman trying “to expose a phony mystic (Emma Stone), only to end up falling for her.”  Furthermore, Marcia Gay Harden will play “Stone’s mother and co-conspirator.”

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Colin Firth: Woody Allen's upcoming film to be 1920s comedy

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Updated: 2:59 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 | Posted: 2:59 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014



The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Woody Allen's upcoming film "Magic in the Moonlight" will be a 1920s romantic comedy set on the French Riviera.

Little had been known about Allen's next film before Thursday when Sony Pictures Classics announced it will distribute "Magic in the Moonlight." It stars Colin Firth, Emma Stone and Marcia Gay Harden.

Sony Pictures Classics said it's about "an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle." The film is set "against the backdrop of the Cote d'Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age."


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Colin Firth in Woody Allen's new film "Magic in the Moonlight" (video)

First Look At Colin Firth and Emma Stone In Woody Allen's Next Feature Magic In The Moonlight

CINEMA BLEND
uthor: Kristy Puchko
published: October 15, 2013

Despite being a world-renowned writer-director who typically has his pick of A-list stars, Woody Allen is somehow able to keep his projects under wraps as he sees fit. But having recently wrapped on an film known only as The Untitled Woody Allen Project, he has released to THR the feature's title (Magic in the Moonlight), along with a couple of stills that show off cast mates Marcia Gay Harden, Emma Stone and Colin Firth.

Details on the plot are still a mystery, but we do know that the film was shot in the South of France, making Magic in the Moonlight Allen's eighth movie to be set in Europe. Aside from the three stars seen above and below, Magic in the Moonlight boasts an ensemble that includes English actress Eileen Atkins, who most recently appeared in the teen fantasy-romance Beautiful Creatures, Hamish Linklater from the Robin Williams sitcom The Crazy Ones, The Borgias's Simon McBurney, two-time Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver, Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Erica Leerhsen, 28 Weeks Later's Catherine McCormack, Paul Ritter from the British series Vera, and Jeremy Shamos, who will be seen later this year in the James McAvoy/Jessica Chastain drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.

The pic below tells us that Colin Firth plays a dapper gentleman in the film, but really we could have guessed that even without this image. However, the wardrobe of Harden and Stone plus posh cars spotted up top suggest this will be a period piece, which I'd estimate to be set in the early 1930s. Based on Allen's past works, it seems safe to assume the plot will involve romance and shenanigans within this colorful setting. But without even a hint as to when Magic in the Moonlight will open, this is all we have to go on for now.

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