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My blog has quite a lot of posts about Samuel West (Julius Caesar, On Chesil Beach and Darkest Hour) and Charles Edwards (My Fair Lady Australian tour and Henry IX).

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Entertainment news

  • The Boat That Rocked is going to be re-edited for its US release [link]
  • Article about Comic-Con and TV shows [link]
  • Doctor Who/Torchwood
    • Russell T Davies, John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd interview from Televisionary [link]
    • The audio exclusive story Pest Control by Peter Anghelides is one of APA's "20 Best Audiobooks" [link]
    • David Tennant interview from the Chicago Tribune (via tennant_love) [link]
    • Russell T Davies interviews 1|2
    • Three new Torchwood radio plays will be broadcast on Radio 4 this week [link]
  • Now that the franchise has replaced the blockbuster as Hollywood's holy grail, transmedia storytelling extends film and TV properties across multiple platforms [link]
  • Rupert Grint, John Malkovich, Marion Cotillard and Chace Crawford interviews rupert|john|marion|chace
  • Article about Aboriginal filmmakers [link]
  • Peter Morgan has pulled out as director of The Special Relationship, starring Michael Sheen and Dennis Quaid [link]
  • Stephen Soderbergh's Moneyball has gone into turnaround [link]
  • Trailers for The Invention of Lying, starring Ricky Gervais (via gervsmerchpilk) uk|us
  • Official site for Origin, a short film written and directed by Danny Stack [link]
  • Two Lovers, a romantic drama directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow, is one of a diminishing breed. American independent cinema once delivered to theatres every week smallish adult dramas bolstered by strong casts. [link]
  • Production blog for Paul, starring Nick Frost and Simon Pegg [link]

Monday 29 June 2009

Simon Russell Beale, Ruth Wilson, Hayley Atwell, Samuel West. Television - The Prisoner. Film - Dagenham Girls.

  • Simon will star in Deathtrap by Ira Levin at Wyndham's [link]
  • Ruth interview from WWD. Excerpts:
    "'...[The Prisoner is] quite weird,' says Wilson. 'We all have numbers rather than names. To some people it will make no sense, to other people it will be some kind of philosophical story.'
    ...she's working on putting on a film festival for female writers with Atwell and Emma Thompson. 'Producers [say] women don’t bring in the money,' says Wilson. 'That's the aim of the festival: for writers to start improving women's roles. And not to write boring dramas…[but] action movies and genre movies...'"
  • Sam interview about his favourite teacher [link]
  • Dagenham Girls (formerly titled We Want Sex) has begun filming. The film stars Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike. [link]

Tuesday 23 June 2009

Dan Stevens - Audio - The Angel's Game. Hattie Morahan - Theatre - Three More Sleepless Nights. Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander. BBC Radio drama.

Monday 22 June 2009

Entertainment news

  • Stuart Beattie's directorial debut will be an adaptation of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began [link]
  • Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen and David Thewlis have become patrons of the British Independent Film Awards [link]
  • Anton Yelchin, Colin Morgan & Anthony Head, Simon Pegg and Guillermo Del Toro interviews anton|colin & anthony|simon|guillermo
  • Phillip Noyce will direct the thriller Mixed Blood, starring Samuel Jackson [link]
  • Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Cynthia Beatt plan to retrace their 1998 trip along the remains of the Berlin Wall for the documentary Cycling the Invisible Frame [link]
  • Picture of Matthew Goode on the set of Cemetery Junction [link]
  • Bronson, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, won the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival [link]
  • David Tennant, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner, Euros Lyn and John Barrowman will be attending San Diego Comic-Con [link]
  • Peter Morgan joins Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to pen the script for the next Bond film [link]
  • Blog post by Sydney Arts Journo about the Ruben Guthrie recasting mess [link]
  • Article on how North By Northwest has influenced action films [link]

Thursday 18 June 2009

Theatre. Pinter celebration. Hayley Atwell, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough, Hattie Morahan.

[updated 26 June]

  • Harold Pinter: A Celebration
    • Articles:
      Independent [link]
      Guardian [link]
      The Times [link]
      whatsonstage [link]
      The First Post [link]
      britishlibrary [link]
      Tribune magazine [link]
    • Program excerpts 1|2
  • Hayley Atwell and Simon Russell Beale present the actors tour on the National Theatre website [link]
  • Andrea Riseborough took part in a reading of O.P.C. (Obsessive Political Correctness) by Eve Ensler at the Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club
    • Article from the Santa Monica Mirror [link]
    • Global Green USA [link]
    • Pictures 1|2
  • Hattie Morahan is in The Chamber of Demonstrations, a DVD from the University of Bristol about Jacobean theatre featuring scenes from The Duchess of Malfi, Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Changeling, Love's Sacrifice and The Guardian. [link]

Wednesday 10 June 2009

Samuel West. NISDA conference. Opera - La Boheme.

[updated 21 August]

Sam was keynote speaker at the National Independent Schools' Drama Association annual dinner and reception 1|2

He has had to pull out of directing La Bohème for the Choir of London's Palestine tour - it clashes with rehearsals for Enron. The production is now directed by Poppy Burton-Morgan:
- Young Vic Genesis Directors Project [link]
- Muso Life [link]
- Palestine Music Festivals [link]
- This Week in Palestine [link]

Rory Kinnear, David Tennant, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens. Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. BBC Radio drama.

  • Rory Kinnear will play Septimus in the Cranford Christmas episode (via brit_actors) [link]
  • Scans (click thumbnails for full size): David Tennant - Esquire's 30 Best-Dressed Men, Doctor Who "Planet of the Dead" interview; Hugh Bonneville interview about Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
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  • Dan Stevens' review of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction [link]
  • Casting update for the miniseries Pillars of the Earth, starring Hayley Atwell [link]
  • BBC Radio drama (will be available on iPlayer up to a week after broadcast):
    • Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates the Book at Bedtime One Day [link]
    • Rory Kinnear and Tamsin Greig star in the Afternoon Play Puddle [link]

Sunday 7 June 2009

Entertainment news

  • Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong and Lyndsey Marshall will star in Garrow's Law, a 4 part 18th century legal drama for BBC1 [link]
  • Raymond Chandler had a tiny cameo in Double Indemnity [link]
  • Stephen Fry was on Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4). The show will be available on iPlayer up to a week after broadcast. [link]
  • Lucy Punch has replaced Nicole Kidman in Woody Allen's next film [link]
  • Damian Lewis read some poems on Newsnight last week, which can be downloaded from here. Alternatively here are Youtube links 1|2|3
  • Matt Smith, Rebecca Hall, Rosamund Pike and Andrew Garfield have been included in the "Brilliant Brits" feature in the July issue of Esquire [link]
  • Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Sheen and Anton Yelchin interviews guillermo|michael|anton
  • Mad Men has been nominated for several TCA awards (via ONTD) [link]
  • random amusement:
    • a tweet from Michael Sheen [link]
    • a poem by Ricky Gervais (scroll to week 69) [link]