Does Benedict Cumberbatch deserve to win Emmy #2 for ‘Sherlock: The Lying Detective’? [POLL]

GOLD DERBY
Marcus James Dixon
TV May 4, 2017 6:00 pm

“Sherlock” fans, do you think Benedict Cumberbatch deserves to win a second Emmy Award for playing genius detective Sherlock Holmes on the PBS program? Now that we know “Sherlock: The Lying Detective” is Cumberbatch’s official Emmy 2017 submission should he receive a nomination, is his performance good enough to win a bookend trophy following his jaw-dropping 2014 victory for “Sherlock: His Last Vow”? Vote in our poll below.

As in years past, “Sherlock” is once again trying its luck in the race for Best TV Movie by submitting only one of its three telefilms for Emmy consideration. The network feels confident that “The Lying Detective” is their potential winner this year — that’s the second installment from Season 4 that aired January 8. The case is a twisty one, as Sherlock is contacted by the daughter of an entrepreneur who she claims has confessed to murder, only she can’t remember the specific details because her father wiped her memory.

Joining Cumberbatch’s Sherlock as usual is Martin Freeman as supporting sidekick John Watson. Freeman also won an Emmy in 2014 for “Sherlock,” though awards pundits theorize he may have earned a few extra votes thanks to his starring role in “Fargo” that same year. The other eligible supporting cast members for the movie/miniseries Emmy races are Toby Jones as Culverton Smith, Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, Amanda Abbington as Mary Morstan, and Sian Brooke as Elizabeth.

Last year “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride” earned six nominations and went on to become the first installment to win the Emmy for Best TV Movie. Besides Cumberbatch’s Emmy victory in 2014, his other major claim to fame in the awards spotlight was when he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for “The Imitation Game” (2014).


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Charlize Theron and James McAvoy blow through South by Southwest with 'Atomic Blonde'

LA TIMES
Mark Olsen
March 17, 2017

 At a place like the South by Southwest film festival, movies are one thing, movie stars are quite another. And so Austin’s Paramount Theater bubbled over with energy on Sunday night when Charlize Theron took to the stage to introduce her new “Atomic Blonde” alongside director David Leitch and costar James McAvoy.

In the film, adapted from a graphic novel — “The Coldest City” by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart — Theron plays a British secret agent being sent to Berlin just ahead of the fall of the Berlin Wall to retrieve a sensitive list of clandestine contacts. The story is told in flashback, as she is debriefed by superiors played by Toby Jones and John Goodman, which renders everything the work of an unreliable narrator and provides any number of surprises along the way. The cast also includes McAvoy, Eddie Marsan and Sofia Boutella.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman lead acting nominations at BAFTA TV Awards... as X Factor is snubbed in the Entertainment category

DAILY MAIL
By LUCY MAPSTONE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:02 EST, 8 April 2015 | UPDATED: 05:13 EST, 8 April 2015



He missed out on the Academy Award for Best Actor during this year's awards season.
But Benedict Cumberbatch is now in the running to pick up a TV BAFTA for his performance as the master detective Sherlock Holmes, arguably his most famous role of all.

The star, who lost out on a Best Actor Oscar earlier this year for his portrayal of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, is nominated for the Leading Actor prize at the House Of Fraser BAFTA Television Awards, which will take place on May 10.

However, he faces stiff competition from the esteemed likes of Toby Jones for Marvellous, James Nesbitt for The Missing and Jason Watkins for The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies.
It is the third nomination for Benedict's performance in the hit show, a modern day re-imagining of the beloved detective who lives on Baker Street, but he has yet to take home the title.

Seasoned BAFTA TV winner Olivia Colman - who has three BAFTA wins under her esteemed belt - has received yet another nomination, this time in the Female Performance In A Comedy Programme category for Rev.

Nominated for the fourth consecutive year, she'll be up against the incredible talents of Tamsin Greig in Episodes, Jessica Hynes in W1A and Catherine Tate for Catherine Tate's Nan.

The actresses nominated in the Leading Actress category are Line Of Duty star Keely Hawes, Sheridan Smith for Cilla, Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley and Georgina Campbell who starred in Murdered By My Boyfriend.

The nominations were announced at BAFTA’s central London headquarters by actors Freddie Fox and Sherlock star Amanda Abbington.


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Downton Abbey flies the flag for Brits with 12 nods at the Emmys... while Benedict Cumberbatch, Helen Mirren and Damian Lewis are also nominated (MAIL ON LINE) By EMILY SHERIDAN PUBLISHED: 09:13 EST, 18 July 2013 | UPDATED: 13:24 EST, 18 July 2013

Period drama Downton Abbey is leading the way for the Brits as this year's Emmy Awards, with 12 nominations.

The ITV series, which runs on PBS in the US, has received major nominations, including acting nods for stars Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Dame Maggie Smith and Jim Carter.

Hugh is up for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series for his performance as Earl of Grantham, while his on-screen daughter Michelle is up for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series as Lady Mary Crawley.

Creator Julian Fellowes has received a nod for Outstanding Writing In A Drama Series, while the show is also up for Directing and Best Drama Series.

Last year's Best Actor In A Drama Series Damian Lewis is up in the category again for the second year.

The Oscar winner has already won four Emmys already for Prime suspect, Elizabeth I and The Passion of Ayn Rand, her last win being in 1996.

Brits Toby Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch will go head-to-head in the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie for The Girl and Parade's End respectively.

Toby's The Girl co-star Imelda Staunton, who played Alfred Hitchcock's wife Alma is nominated for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries Or A Movie, although Sienna Miller missed out on a nod for her performance as Tippi Hedren.


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RIPPER STREET: 2013 BAFTA TV Award Nominations Announced: ‘Ripper Street,’ ‘The Graham Norton Show’ By staff | Posted on April 9th, 2013

BBC America is proud to announce two of our own have been nominated for BAFTAs.

The 2013 BAFTA Television Award nominations are in. BBC America’s thriller Ripper Street has received a nomination in the drama category; and Graham Norton, who will be hosting the award ceremony on Sunday, May 12, has received two nominations for his entertainment chat show The Graham Norton Show.

Benedict Cumberbatch is notably absent from the list while his Parade’s End co-star Rebecca Hall was nominated for leading actress.

Did your favorite show or actor/actress make the list? … maybe you’ve come across some new programs and talent to check out?!

Here is the complete list of nominations.

Leading Actor:

Ben Whishaw – The Hollow Crown (Richard II)

Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax

Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie’s Story)

Toby Jones – The Girl

Leading Actress:

Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax

Rebecca Hall – Parade’s End

Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs

Sienna Miller – The Girl

Supporting Actor:

Peter Capaldi – The Hour

Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie’s Story)

Harry Lloyd – The Fear

Simon Russell Beale – The Hollow Crown (Henry IV Part 2)

Supporting Actress:

Anastasia Hille – The Fear

Imelda Staunton – The Girl

Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo’s Story)

Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax

Entertainment Program:

Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man

Ant and Dec for I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!

Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show

Sarah Millican for The Sarah Millican Show

Female Performance in a Comedy Program:

Jessica Hynes for Twenty Twelve

Julia Davis for Hunderby

Miranda Hart for Miranda

Olivia Colman for Twenty Twelve

Male Performance in a Comedy Program:

Greg Davies for Cuckoo

Hugh Bonneville for Twenty Twelve

Peter Capaldi for The Thick of It

Steve Coogan for Welcome to the Places of My Life

Single Drama:

Everyday

The Girl

Murder

Richard II (Hollow Crown)

Mini-Series:

Accused

Mrs Biggs

Parade’s End

Room At The Top

Drama Series:

Last Tango In Halifax

Ripper Street

Scott And Bailey

Silk

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Eileen Atkins wins an award for off-West End work Upstairs Downstairs actress Eileen Atkins has won the OffWestEnd award for best actress for her role in All That Fall at Jermyn Street Theatre. (TELEGRAPH)

By Daisy Bowie-Sell
6:00PM GMT 24 Feb 2013

She is a Dame, has been awarded a CBE and won many awards including Baftas, Tonys, Oliviers and Emmys for her film, theatre and television work.

Now, the 78-year-old actress Eileen Atkins has been recognised for her work on London's fringe theatre scene.

At a ceremony at Battersea Arts Centre today, Atkins picked up the best actress award at the Offies – the Off West End theatre awards.

She was recognised for her role in a Beckett radio play All That Fall, which was staged for the first time at the Jermyn Street Theatre last year. Atkins starred alongside Michael Gambon in the show, which earned a four star review from The Telegraph's Charles Spencer.

Atkins attended the ceremony along with other theatre greats including Simon Callow, Toby Jones and Richard Bean who appeared alongside a long list of up and coming theatre names.


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Toby Jones: Hitchcock mastered control -- as well as suspense -- with his actors (SIOUX CITY JOURNAL)

9 hours ago  •  BRUCE MILLER bmiller@siouxcityjournal.com 

LOS ANGELES | Tippi Hedren is convinced director Alfred Hitchcock didn't love her -- contrary to popular belief.

"When you love someone, you treat them well," the star of "The Birds" and "Marnie" told members of the Television Critics Assocation in August. "I think we're dealing with a mind that is incomprehensible. I certainly am not capable of discerning what was going through his mind or why."

Still, there were signs. While filming "The Birds," Hitchcock made overt moves on the actress. When she rebuffed his advances, he put her through difficult times on the set.

The new HBO film "The Girl" suggests that Hedren was subjected to five days of bird attacks. Later, she was forced to redo difficult scenes and pull back her performance. When she tried to get out of her contract, he refused and, basically, derailed her career.

"He was an extremely sad character," Hedren said. "We are dealing with a brain here that is unusual, genius and evil -- deviant to the point of dangerous because of the effect he can have on people who are totally unsuspecting."

Surprisingly, few knew about the relationship until after the films were released and Hedren was out of his control.

She agreed to talk to director Julian Jarrold and Sienna Miller -- who plays her in the film. Acclaimed British actor Toby Jones portrays Hitchcock.

"When I first heard Toby's voice as Alfred Hitchcock, my body just froze," Hedren said. At a screening, "nobody moved. Nobody said anything until my daughter, Melanie Griffith, jumped up and said, 'Now I have to go back into therapy.'

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:


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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.

Opens: June 1 (Universal)
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

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Six Actors Who Actually Look Like the Famous People They Portrayed (Philadelphia Weekly)

By Matt Prigge   

Posted Jan. 10, 2012

Ben Kingsley in Hugo

Walter Huston, Abraham Lincoln (1930): Because most people don’t look like attractive movie stars, biopics rarely wind up starring people who look like them. Erin Brockovich doesn’t look like Julia Roberts, Virginia Woolf didn’t look like Nicole Kidman and Salvador Dalí looked nothing like Robert Pattison. That said, apply the right makeup to Meryl Streep and she’ll look like Margaret Thatcher, as happened with The Iron Lady. Likewise, throw the right beard on Walter Huston and doesn’t he look like Honest Abe. In his first sound film (of two), D.W. Griffith did just that, with Huston making for a more believable Lincoln than Joseph Henaberry in a previous Griffith production, The Birth of a Nation.

Val Kilmer, The Doors (1991): Val Kilmer looks exactly like Jim Morrison. That’s about the only thing this Oliver Stone movie got right.

Robert Downey Jr., Chaplin (1992): Kilmer’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang co-star looks exactly like the younger Charles Chaplin. RDJ’s expert pantomime is about the only part of Dickie Attenborough’s doddering biopic—perhaps the poster child for all that is wrong and insufferable about the genre—that’s actually entertaining.

Stephen Fry, Wilde (1997): The British comic legend was born to play Oscar Wilde. Why he got stuck with this paint-by-numbers biopic while the less deserving Rupert Everett scored the Wilde-standby roles in An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest is a question for the ages.

Toby Jones, Infamous (2006): For one of his least interesting performances, Philip Seymour Hoffman scored an Oscar for impersonating Truman Capote, even as he more closely resembled Ralphie from A Christmas Story. This performance and film wound up entirely overshadowing the Capote -circa-In-Cold-Blood project made at the same time, which starred an actor who actually looked like Truman Capote, and wasn’t as ponderous or tiresomely self-satisfied to boot.

Ben Kingsley, Hugo (2011): Of part Indian descent, British-born Ben Kingsley made a shockingly credible Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi. But the person of historical importance he most truly resembles is Georges Méliès, the magician-turned-cinema pioneer. Lucky for him, a major studio was convinced a $170 million extravaganza about his obscure latter life was a sure bet.

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REVIEW: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Advance Screening)

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is like a James Bond spy movie without the James or the Bond. It’s a meticulous espionage film depicting the true world of gentlemen in shadows hoarding and sharing information on behalf of their country’s security. It’s a grainy time piece that takes us back to the 70s with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in London. It’s a torturous puzzle that may put you to sleep if you can’t follow along and requires an intellect to enjoy. It did wonderfully in Britain but I can’t see its success repeating in America. It’s painfully slow and dull at times but oh so rewarding in the end if you can keep up.


The performances are paramount and Gary Oldman shines in a way in which he deserves. There is a masterfully shot monologue of his that may have been the best film making of the year. Joining him is Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch and Ciarán Hinds. The entire film is character driven so their acting had the utmost importance and they all delivered. Since we’re dealing with spies and double agents, their expressions and body language had to tell the story while hiding their true intentions but still give the audience some clues to go off of.

Behind every big decision is a soundproof room full of old spies

The plot of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TTSS) is actually pretty straight forward: find the mole. What ensues, however, is the complete opposite of straight forward. Control (the cheif of Circus – the headquarters of the SIS) and George Smiley are forced to retire after a mishandled operation in Hungary as Control believes there is a mole in their midst. After Control (John Hurt) dies, Smiley (Gary Oldman) is brought out of retirement to investigate allegations by a scalphunter, Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy), which supports Control’s beliefs of a long-time mole in a senior position of SIS. They narrow their suspicions down to a few men: Percy Alleline (Toby Jones) “Tinker”, Bill Haydon (Colin Firth) “Tailor”, Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds) “Soldier”, and Toby Esterhase (David Dencik) “Poorman.” Through interviews with former employees of the circus and spying on his own, Smiley must figure out who is the double agent.

Who could be the double agent!?

The story travels from London to Budapest and Istanbul with stories of Russia and America. It’s confusing, to say the least, to keep track of people, places and things but as a master spy, this is what must be done. As you slowly start figuring out the jargon of the men in suits, codewords and code names, and understanding their inner workings, you’re pulled into this immense would of paranoia and deal-making that’s so interesting but also so bland at the same time. The extent of most of these men’s actions is sitting in a soundproof room with each other discussing documents. Not much action going on in there. Instead, it’s a mind game that puts you to the test to figure out what’s going on before George Smiley himself.

I'm always fascinated on how they make these esquite period sets

I can’t recommend this movie to the average theatergoer. It’s not a popcorn movie. It’s a deep thinker with beautiful direction and acting. It’s not going to keep you on the edge of your seat but it will make the gears in our head turn faster than any other movie in theaters if you get engaged in the scenarios. There were about 20 walkouts in my screening and a few people snoring so if you’re not up to the task, don’t go. But if you are interested in the underworld and workings of true espionage, this is a delightful film that will leave you in awe at the end. Who is who, what is what, what’s going on!? Even though TTSS isn’t as flashy as other spy films, it’s still really cool… I want a codename now.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Colin Firth, Gary Oldman) (SkyMovies top 20 movies of 2011)

 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

 

"There's a mole, right at the top of the Circus. And he's been there for years."

Outrage ensued when Tinker Tailor failed to receive a single Golden Globe nomination, despite Gary Oldman being lauded as a shoe-in for an Oscar nod when the film was released in September.

Tomas Alfredson's reworking of John Le Carre's Cold War espionage thriller (and of the much-loved BBC version starring Alec Guinness) is as methodical and difficult to read as George Smiley himself, but it's definitely worth the effort.

Also featuring a stellar British cast that includes Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Hurt and Ciaran Hinds.

 

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Film review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Film review Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Published: November 27, 2011

Filmed in London, Budapest and Istanbul, this movie is based on the 1974 book of the same name by John le Carre. The film premiered at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival, and condenses a highly complex book to its bare essentials, and gives his novel a broodingly distinctive stamp.

The film is set in London in the early 1970s. A Cold War spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), who has been disgraced as a spy, is rehired and pressured to help uncover a Russian double-agent working inside the British Intelligence in a unit known as the “Circus”.

The Circus is at the highest level of the British Secret Intelligent Service, and a mole has been in its ranks for years. At the time, the Circus was headed by Control (John Hurt), and Smiley has been given the job of uncovering the traitor.

In the opening moments of the film, a British agent (Mark Strong), sent by Control, is shot and captured during a mission to Hungary. The captured spy is later repatriated, and Control is stood down and replaced, but what happens indicates that someone on the inside is feeding intelligence to the Soviets. We don’t know whether it is Tinker (Toby Jones), Tailor (Colin Firth), or Soldier (Ciaran Hinds), or maybe Smiley himself. All of them are vulnerable enough to make spying for the other side a very real possibility.

This is a cool, measured British production with a wonderful cast. It is not a fast-paced film that has moments of great excitement. There are no chase sequences, and it reserves special moments for the use of guns. Violent killings occur in high impact scenes, and they are sudden. Gary Oldman is exceptional as Smiley, who negotiates the dark underworld of the secret intelligence service. He and the other actors in the movie underplay their roles, highlighting the film’s measured pace.

Nothing in the plot is very easy to follow, and this is a demanding film for the viewer with its multiple twists and turns. However, it is an absorbing movie that captures perfectly the emotional coldness of Cold War espionage.

Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, and Ciaran Hinds. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. Rated MA 15+. Restricted. (Strong violence). 128 min.


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Colin Firth: 35 New Images from TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

by Dave Trumbore Posted:November 19th, 2011 at 2:44 pm

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Just a few weeks out from the US debut of Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Focus Features has released a host of new images. The spy thriller that features Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth, just to name a few, is set during the Cold War era and follows former spy George Smiley (Oldman) through his investigation of a possible double agent within MI-6. Based off of the 1974 British novel by John le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the first novel of the “Karla Trilogy” and the first film installment may spawn a franchise.

Since the UK saw a September release for the film, we have a host of clips, images and trailers that you can find here. But with the US release coming up, we’ll also have new interviews with the cast coming soon. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy also stars Mark Strong, Toby Jones, John Hurt and Benedict Cumberbatch and opens December 9^th. Hit the jump to check out the new images.