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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Exclusive: First Poster for THE SWEENEY Starring Ray Winstone, Hayley Atwell, and Damian Lewis by Adam Chitwood (COLLIDER)
We’re happy to debut the first poster for the upcoming action thriller The Sweeney today. Directed by Nick Love (Outlaw) and co-written by John Hodge (Trainspotting), the film stars Ray Winstone as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Ben Drew as his partner George Carter. The two are “old school crime fighters” who enforce the law in a modern underworld, and with a bank heist in progress and Regan’s old enemy making an appearance on the streets of London, the veteran cop will do whatever it takes to get the job done. The pic also stars Homeland’s Damian Lewis and Captain America’s Hayley Atwell. The Sweeney will be available in theaters and VOD on March 1st.
Monday, July 23, 2012
THE BRIT LIST: TOP TEN BRITISH CHARACTER ACTORS IN MOVIES TODAY By Leah Rozen | Posted on Friday, July 20th, 2012 (BBC AMERICA)
It’s well known among actors that while leading roles may afford the most screen time and biggest pay checks, supporting roles offer the greater acting challenges and often juiciest lines and scenes.
As Britain’s Eddie Marsan, one of the most talented character actors working today, once said, “I have friends who are leading men, and they’re only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there’s a wider variety of projects available.”
While a few lucky character actors eventually become leading men – think Bob Hoskins, Alan Rickman, Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy – most, thanks to physiognomy, build or age, are left to shine in secondary roles.
British thespians have always excelled as character actors. Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Donald Crisp, C. Aubrey Smith, Roland Young and plenty more regularly brightened studio releases.
The tradition continues today. Just run through the cast list for any of the eight Harry Potter films and you’ll find a veritable Who’s Who of British talent trotted out as characters who either instruct Harry and his adolescent pals or threaten them.
In salute of these supporting stalwarts, here’s a list (in alphabetical order) of the ten busiest British male character actors working in movies today:
READ MORE: http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/07/the-brit-list-top-ten-british-character-actors-in-movies-today/
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Snow White and the Huntsman: Film Review 2:40 AM PDT 5/31/2012 by Todd McCarthy (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)
The Bottom Line
Strikingly designed and cast makeover of the children's tale into a straight-line, romance-free action odyssey.
A bold rethinking of a familiar old story and striking design elements are undercut by a draggy mid-section and undeveloped characters in Snow White and the Huntsman. After the campy family farce of Mirror, Mirror, this second revisionist take of the year on the 19th century fairy tale strides out deadly serious and in full armor, not to mention with more costume changes for Charlize Theron than a Lady Gaga concert. Designed to appeal to teen and young adult girls and guys, this muscular PG-13-rated action adventure conspicuously lacks romance but should get a good box office ride on the shoulders of stars Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth.
The teeing up is dramatic, to say the least, giving a swift and dire account of the malevolent usurpation of the throne of a rugged waterfront kingdom by Ravenna (Theron), a stunning blonde who infiltrates from enemy territory, bewitches the widowed monarch and dispatches him on their wedding night. The king's daughter is kept prisoner in a high tower until her maturity, at which point the queen's mirror, in this case a giant golden plate that morphs into a molten statue, informs her that the status of fairest in the land has shifted to Snow White (Stewart), who represents the queen's greatest threat as well as her salvation.
Production: Roth Films
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Sam Spruell, Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Harris, Brian Gleeson, Vincent Regan, Lily Cole
Director: Rupert Sanders
Screenwriters: Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock, Hossein Amini, screen story by Evan Daugherty
Producers: Joe Roth, Sam Mercer
Executive producers: Palak Patel, Gloria Borders
Director of photography: Greig Fraser
Production designer: Dominic Watkins
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood
Editors: Conrad Buff, Neil Smith
Music: James Newton Howard
Visual effects supervisors: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brensan
PG-13 rating, 128 minutes
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Masterpiece: Great Expectations April 1 & 8
Watch Great Expectations Preview on PBS. See more from Masterpiece.
An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron, on Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge, starring Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, Bleak House), David Suchet (Hercule Poirot), Ray Winstone, and Douglas Booth.
Anderson appears as one of Dickens' most haunting creations: Miss Havisham, a bride-to-be who was jilted at the altar years before. Newcomer Booth stars as Pip, the promising young man who is snared in Miss Havisham's lair. Great Expectations airs during the bicentennial of Dickens' birth and marks the fifteenth Masterpiece adaptation of the great novelist's works.
Three video-based lessons will be posted in April on the free teacher resource, PBS LearningMedia. Using video clips from Great Expectations, English Lit classrooms can compare and contrast the film with the book, learn about the moral underpinnings of the work, and explore Dickens's writing process.
Masterpiece Classic: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/greatexpectations/index.html
Friday, December 30, 2011
Downton to Dickens, the period drama steals the show (Downton spoilers) (Irish Times.com)
DAVIN O'DWYER
So it is testimony to the success of Downton Abbey (Christmas Day, UTV; St Stephen’s Day, TV3) that after just two series it already feels so established that it formed the centrepiece of the Christmas schedules. And it set the tone with sparkling production design – plenty of tuxedos and gowns were swanning around in front of a Christmas tree so large the forest seemed to have invaded the ballroom.
The plot actually skipped by the festivities in fairly short order to focus on the trial of noble Mr Bates from downstairs, charged with the murder of his wife. First-time Downton viewers might have struggled to keep up with all the dead husbands, fiancees and Turkish diplomats, fearing that as a plot device it was being somewhat overutilised, and there was a slight creakiness to the regular sessions on the Ouija board, with the servants summoning all sorts of spirits for life-changing advice.
And plenty of advice was needed, what with Bates being sentenced to hang, Mary Grantham being blackmailed into marriage by an unctuous press baron (modern-day-parallel alert) and Lord Grantham’s beloved dog going missing. As expected, Maggie Smith’s delightful and pithy put-downs were the highlights that everything else seemed arranged around, and while there was plenty to exercise the historical pedants – would upstairs and downstairs really congregate for some ballroom dancing? – the whole exercise was so impeccably tasteful and uplifting that the prospect of Downton Abbey specials becoming a Christmas standard felt inevitable.
BEAUTIFUL PERIOD costumes, pristine stately homes, a nostalgic evocation of a golden past . . . None of that was to be found in the BBC’s flagship Christmas-week production, an exceptional three-part adaptation of Great Expectations (BBC1, Tuesday to Thursday), the first in a year of events to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth.
From the opening scene, in which Ray Winstone’s Magwitch rises from the Kentish marshes, gasping for air, a nightmarish apparition about to change young Pip’s life forever, this was a haunting, grimy vision of Dickens’s most acclaimed novel. Screenwriter Susan Phelps and director Brian Kirk have taken liberties with the source material, obviously, but have infused it with a slightly baroque sadness – evident above all in the central performances.
Winstone has always been an actor of such limited range that it never ceases to amaze how compelling he usually is in such a variety of roles – the humanity in his Magwitch thrums beneath the threats and between his curses. Gillian Anderson’s ethereal Miss Havisham, on the other hand, is such an odd creation that it very nearly works, an audacious reimagining of the jilted spinster as a highly strung wraith in suspended animation, devious and despairing, her bony features hinting at the beauty that once held so much promise and, indeed, expectation.
It was the striking features of Douglas Booth as older Pip, however, that attracted most of the attention, and it was not hard to see why: to say he doesn’t look Dickensian enough sounds a bit facile, but his is a very contemporary sort of male beauty, all perpetual pout and dreamy eyes. Booth was actually quite good in the role, simultaneously self-possessed and convincingly insecure, but our willingness to invest in Pip’s journey from orphan to well-bred gentleman of great expectations hinges on the scale of his struggle, and with features like Booth’s, that struggle doesn’t seem so arduous, frankly.
Still, it says a lot about the strength of this adaptation that Pip’s beestung lips were about the most serious concern: it stands proudly alongside any of the Beeb’s esteemed Dickens adaptations of the past.
BRENDAN O’CARROLL isn’t easily confused with one of the great chroniclers of the human condition, but he returned with a Christmas special of Mrs Brown’s Boys (RTÉ1, Christmas Day; BBC1, St Stephen’s Day). O’Carroll’s creation is about as old-fashioned and populist a sitcom as has been created in the past 20 years, so it was only fitting he came up with a seasonal special episode. It has always been easy to dismiss O’Carroll – I thought Mrs Brown was tiresome when I first heard the character nearly 20 years ago – but amid the lame innuendo and tired plots and wooden acting and predictable slapstick, the Christmas special confirmed that he has created something quite unexpected with this series – it is much funnier and, indeed, more sincere than it has any right to be. If great expectations can lead to great disappointment, then low expectations can lead to, well, a fairly amusing half hour at any rate.
ANOTHER OLD MATRIARCH was on TV on Christmas Day, blathering on about the demands of family and responsibility – yes, yes, Queen Elizabeth’s speech (various channels, Christmas Day), so routinely mocked in this country for so many years, suddenly became the subject of intense interest as we waited to see if she mentioned us after her visit in May. It was another chance to bask in the year’s unexpected highlight and, finally, an opportunity to interrupt afternoon tea and enjoy, without irony, a few minutes of festive Albion.
However, it was our own head of State who provided the best TV on the big day, as Michael D: Rás go dtí an tÁras (TG4, Christmas Day) offered a skilfully arranged blend of biography and fly-on-the-wall documentary.
Following the interminable presidential election was the device, but examining his life constituted the substance. Watching Higgins stand outside the stone ruins of the Co Clare cottage in which he grew up, recalling how his father used to visit from Limerick, his voice faltering, his eyes wandering away from the camera’s stare, was to recognise what an extraordinary journey he has taken.
It’s often said that the United States is the land of opportunity, where anyone can rise to the presidency, but almost unbeknown to ourselves we have made that a reality here, too, once again. And it was so very refreshing not to have any Christmas trees in the back of every shot.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1231/1224309661604.html
Monday, December 26, 2011
Hugh Bonneville in Ben Hur (Radio Times)
28/12/2011
- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
a Canadian/German co-production shot in Morocco with stars in unlikely places (Marc Warren as a surly zealot; Ben Cross as an emperor) and crowds of extras in cheesecloth.
We’re in first century Palestine, where two boys have a playful race in their hay carts, foreshadowing the you-
know-what race due in three hours’ time. Joseph Morgan plays Judah Ben Hur with the right air of bruised nobility while Stephen Campbell Moore smoulders as his Roman frenemy Messala. Hugh Bonneville and Ray Winstone cruise through cameos.
About this programme
New governor of Judea Octavius Messala arrives in the region and meets his estranged friend Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince and merchant in first-century Jerusalem. Their differing political views over local dissent lead to a bitter quarrel, and Messala uses the pretext of an accident to sell the trader into slavery. Years later, the outcast wins his freedom by saving the life of an admiral and is determined to exact revenge on his return home, seeking justice in a battle to the death during a chariot race. Historical drama based on Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, starring Joseph Morgan, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ray Winstone, Emily VanCamp, Kristin Kreuk and Hugh Bonneville.
Cast and crew
Cast
- David
- Marc Warren
- Quintus Arrius
- Ray Winstone
- Ilderim
- Art Malik
- Ruth
- Alex Kingston
- Emperor Tiberius
- Ben Cross
- Marcellus
- James Faulkner
- Pontius Pilate
- Hugh Bonneville
- Pilate's physician
- Dick Ward
- Simonides
- Simon Andreu
- Hortator
- Michael Nardone
- Tirzah
- Kristin Kreuk
- Jesus
- Julian Casey
- Athene
- Lucia Jimenez
- Esther
- Emily VanCamp
- Octavius Messala
- Stephen Campbell Moore
- Pilate's tweezer
- Jonathan Stamp
- Judah Ben-Hur
- Joseph Morgan
- Young Messala
- Toby Marlow
- Young Ben-Hur
- Eugene Simon
- Gaius
- Kristen Holden-Ried
- Conspirator 3
- Guy Faulkner
- Conspirator 2
- Leo Faulkner
- Antegua
- Miguel Angel Munoz
- Young Tirzah
- Daniella Ereny
- Conspirator 1
- Ricky Simmonds
- Athene's body servant
- Bauchra El Saddki
- Ilderim's female reader
- Ghita Tazi
- Officer
- Alex Walters
Crew
- Director
- Steve Shill
- Executive Producer
- Frank Konigsberg
- Executive Producer
- Michael Prupas
- Executive Producer
- Manuel Corbi
- Executive Producer
- Dirk Beinhold
- Executive Producer
- David Wyler
- Producer
- Simon Vaughan
- Producer
- Roger Corbi
- Writer
- Alan Sharp
- Categories
- Drama
http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/n4ghp/ben-hur--28122011
Friday, November 25, 2011
PBS Announces Air Dates Of ‘Great Expectations’ & ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’, Plus See The First Images
PBS gave details of their spring line-up last week and in addition to Downton Abbey (premiering January) and Sherlock (premiering May) we now also have two more great mini-series to look forward to, when they announced that their co-productions with the BBC, Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood will premiere next April.
In the official press release PBS stated that their Masterpiece series will celebrate Charles Dickens with the Masterpiece / PBS co-production of the two-part “Great Expectations,” on Sundays, April 1 and 8 at 9:00 p.m., and their production of the Dickens classic “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” will air Sunday, April 15 at 9:00 p.m.
Widely considered one of Dickens’ greatest novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip the battered orphan boy, who rises from blacksmith’s apprentice to gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor, who assures him of “great expectations.” As Pip grows up, he befriends Magwitch, a convict, becomes the pet to Miss Havisham, an insane heiress, and falls in love with Estella, her cold-hearted ward. A series of shocking setbacks teaches Pip the true source of moral worth.
We have been keeping you up to date with the latest adaptation of Great Expectations as it has such an all star cast lined up. David Suchet (Poirot), who will play Jaggers, Ray Winstone takes the role of Magwitch, Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) takes the role of Miss Havisham and Douglas Booth (Worried About The Boy, Christopher And His Kind) as Pip. You can see first images of all the cast members below.
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood is an adaptation and completion of Charles Dickens’ last novel, Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the halfway mark at his death on 9 June 1870. It tells the story John Jasper, a troubled man, his psyche split between darkness and light. He has spent his life in the stifling and claustrophobic cathedral town of Cloisterham in a state of frustrated ambition and has become addicted to opium in an attempt to still his ennui and expand his horizons. But the opium is fracturing Jasper’s mind so that even as his soul reaches for the sublime in his music, his darker self has conceived a murderous hatred of his nephew Edwin Drood who, he believes, stands between him and the lovely Rosa. The stage is set for a story of mental and moral decline as we discover exactly how far Jasper will go to attain the object of his desire.
As with Great Expectations another all-star cast is lined up for this one with Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters) as John Jasper, Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Women In Love, Lennon Naked) as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle, Freddie Fox (Worried About The Boy, The Shadow Line) as Edwin Drood, and Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre, Miranda, The Tudors) will play Rosa Bud.
Take a look at the first images from the BBC Christmas centerpiece, Great Expectations below, it is going to be interesting to compare the two adaptations of this novel that are arriving over the next year with Mike Newell’s big screen adaption of the Dickens classic also set to arrive in 2012.
BritScene
Monday, October 24, 2011
Trailer and Clip: ‘London Boulevard’ starring Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis, Anna Friel and Ray Winstone
Daily Actor
London Boulevard: Fresh out of prison, Mitchell lands a legitimate job as a handyman for a rich actress who’s eager to reward him with cash, cars and sex. But Mitchell can never truly escape his violent past or the dangerous world of loan sharks, druggies and other bottomfeeders.Starring: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ray Winstone
Directed by: William Monahan
In Theaters: November 11, 2011
Charlotte (Keira Knightley) admits her feelings for Mitchell (Colin Farrell)
Friday, October 21, 2011
Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley in London Boulevard
Starring: Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Ray Winstone
The story of a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster.
The story of a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Must Watch: Full US Trailer for William Monahan's 'London Boulevard'
First Showing.net
October 17, 2011
Source: YouTube
by Alex Billington
Watch the newest official trailer for William Monahan's London Boulevard, via YouTube:
London Boulevard is both written and directed by Oscar winning American screenwriter William Monahan, who's making his directorial debut with this after winning an Academy Award for writing The Departed. He also worked on the Kingdom of Heaven, Body of Lies and Edge of Darkness scripts. This was based on Ken Bruen's novel. FilmDistrict will be releasing London Boulevard limited starting on November 11 this fall.
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