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Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out'
55 minutes ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
When Alex Kingston landed the infamous role, strange things began happening. She talks to Kira Cochrane about sleepwalking, the chances of a gay Doctor Who – and why America thought she was black
The moment Alex Kingston really started to worry about playing Lady Macbeth – and all the unwelcome spirits the play is said to stir up – was when her 12-year-old daughter, Salome, began sleepwalking. In the days before Kingston left her home in Los Angeles for rehearsals in the UK, Salome asked to share her bed – and every time she got stuck into the script, her daughter's sleep was disturbed. "If I was doing something else, or my mind was somewhere else, she would sleep," says Kingston. "But if I started thinking about the text, or working on it, she would start sleepwalking. It began to freak me out."
To quell her nerves, Kingston bought crystals, and is now sleeping with them beneath her pillow. »
- Kira Cochrane
Meme: Dame Judi’s Naughty Embroidery, Katy Perry Divorced By Text Message, Josh Duggar Joins Hate Group
11 hours ago | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Russell Brand mocks Morning Joe, Disney’s Frozen rips off Ice Age, Armie Hammer likes rough, dominate sex
Back in school, Armie Hammer used to buy Playboys and sell them with a bottle of lotion to other students, and he almost got caught when they searched his locker. Fortunately, the magazines were stashed outside, so he just had to explain several bottles of lotion. He also says that when he was younger, his sex life was different. “I don’t know how much we can put here without my parents being embarrassed, but I used to like to be a dominant lover. I liked the grabbing of the neck and the hair and all that. But then you get married and your sexual appetites change. I mean that for the better — it’s not like I’m suffering in any way. But you can’t really pull your wife’s hair. »
- Ed Kennedy
This Is Why Judi Dench Is The Queen Of All Things
18 June 2013 9:45 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In a recently resurfaced 2005 interview with "Pride and Prejudice" stars Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen, a bit of trivia regarding their co-star Dame Judi Dench stood out.
The 78-year-old Oscar-winning actress, perhaps best known to younger generations as M from the James Bond franchise, is apparently far raunchier than most soft-spoken English royalty.
"But perhaps the most arresting memory that they take away from being on set with living legend Judi Dench is not her boundless fascination with acting but her penchant for subversive needlework," reads the passage from Premier Magazine. "'She makes these like needlework embroideries on set in the tedium of filming', says MacFadyen, 'but they are all: 'You Are a Cunt'. And she gives them as presents. And it's Dame Judi Dench. And she is doing this beautifully, intricate, ornate (work). You kind of see the work materializing as the shoot goes on. Like: 'You Are a Fucking Shit. »
- Liat Kornowski
New International Trailer For Riddick, With Vin Diesel’s Sexy Voice
17 June 2013 11:22 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Vin Diesel is having a very good 2013. First the return of the Fast and Furious franchise with Fast & Furious 6 – I was barely able to handle the awesome. Then, in September we have the upcoming sequel to Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, handily entitled just Riddick. You know, to avoid confusion. If the title wasn’t enough, the new international trailer for Riddick leaves no room for doubt as to just who this movie is about.
The plot for Riddick follows our beloved see-in-the-dark anti-hero as he lies stranded on a lifeless planet, fighting off alien predators. He winds up having to activate an emergency beacon to alert the mercenaries that are out searching for him, just to get off the planet. But based on this trailer, the mercenaries soon find themselves in need of Riddick’s peculiar brand of badassery just in order to survive. Oooo.
The »
- Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Much Ado About Nothing – review
17 June 2013 7:05 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Joss Whedon's California-set Much Ado, filmed in black and white over 12 days, is a charming and witty triumph
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There was a great fear in the 1960s and 70s that various respected directors who'd moved into making epics and blockbusters would be unable to return, even occasionally, to more modest productions. Some of them didn't, most notably David Lean. Some of them did, most impressively John Huston with Fat City, Wise Blood and The Dead. The same query was raised over Francis Ford Coppola and, more recently, hangs over Christopher Nolan. But the 49-year-old Joss Whedon has triumphantly answered the question.
After scripting Buffy the Vampire Slayer for TV and the first Toy Story for the cinema, Whedon rose fairly rapidly to direct The Avengers with a budget of $220m. His producers apparently insisted that between the long shooting schedule on »
- Philip French
Interview: Bruce Vilanch on His Movie “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!,” Oscars, and Cute Boy Neighbors
11 June 2013 11:31 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
We talked to the legendary funnyman about the stars who’ve wowed him, and whether Adele really deserved that Oscar.
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Bruce Vilanch has enjoyed what I’d call the ideal pop cultural existence: He’s written jokes for about two dozen Oscar ceremonies; he’s costarred in glamorous movies and insane Broadway spectacles (Mahogany, Hairspray); he took up Paul Lynde‘s mantle on Hollywood Squares; he’s become an icon himself thanks to his bright blond hair, red glasses, and goofy t-shirts; most fabulously, he’s relished casual and working relationships with everyone from Bette Midler to Lainie Kazan, the latter of whom costarred with him in the cute indie comedy Oy Vey, My Son Is Gay!! Though that movie was released in 2010, director Evgeny Afineevsky has launched an Indiegogo campaign to garner the film some greater distribution. It’s a Bruce Vilanch/Lainie Kazan vehicle, guys. The world »
- Louis Virtel
‘The Rock’ a revealing window into Project 007
9 June 2013 8:54 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The idea of a Michael Bay film being open to interpretive scrutiny is, quite frankly, so fanciful that it practically defies the laws of our known universe. As his champions are so fond of adamantly stating, his flicks are popcorn movies designed purely for entertainment and occasional pre-pubescent escapist wish fulfillment. But it is a fact that any story, no matter how limited or lacking in gravitas, can be twisted and turned to resemble something else entirely. For some viewers, it is a type of defense mechanism to psychologically overcome the trauma of watching an absolute turd on wheels. Seeking a combination of this factor and a long standing theory among film fanatics, this writer has turned to Bay’s finest film, by which he means the film that he doesn’t completely ruin but could have improved by turning down – The Rock. But this week we won’t be »
- Scott Patterson
Kim Cattrall says she's having greatest time in second half of life
7 June 2013 10:40 PM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Jun 8: Kim Cattrall seems to be having the best time of her life at the moment.
The 56-year-old actress was at the wrong side of 40 before her acting career finally skyrocketed but she said that she never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how she was living it.
The 'Sex and the City' star told the Daily Express that people should not feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60; asserting that she is having the greatest time in the second half of her life.
She said that whenever she looked at women like Helen Mirren or Judi Dench, who are in their 60s and 70s, she thinks that is how she wants to be.
Cattrall. »
- Lohit Reddy
Catch-up TV guide: from Vicious to Mad Men
7 June 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Vicious | 99% Invisible | Jonah | The Call Centre | The Fall | Mad Men
TV: Vicious
Though never quite as outrageous – or funny – as advertised, the first series of this ITV sitcom has remained watchable thanks to the hammed-up, camped-up performances of its leads Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi. The final episode of the show's current run is on Monday and features another high-profile thesp in Judi Dench, while episodes three to five are available to view on the ITV Player. Series two is due to start filming in 2014.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible
This podcast on design, architecture and other assorted cleverness may be pocket-sized – most episodes clock in at under 20 minutes – but nevertheless it manages to cram a truckload of illuminating info into each one. Recent instalments have taken in topics as diverse as basketball rule changes, the history of the street sign and a Soviet symphony which sought to make music out »
- Kate Hutchinson, Gwilym Mumford
Dustin Hoffman And Judi Dench Will Star In Adaptation Of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
7 June 2013 9:15 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Taerg swen sredaer! Ahem. Great news readers! One of the quaintest children.s stories of our times is getting a big screen adaptation, and it has instant classic written all over it, if wishful thinking if alive and well. Esio Trot, Raold Dahl.s 1990 illustrated sub-micro .novella is soon going into production. It seems a cheat to just refer to this as a children.s book, as it easily translates adult themes on level enjoyable to all ages. Which is good, because I don.t know how many children skew towards films that star Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench, because those are the two Oscar winning actors that Irish director Dearbhla Walsh will be working with, as reported by Showbiz411. With that kind of talent leading a film that will be adapted from an admittedly slight narrative, the bulk of the work will come down to Walsh, but she »
Judi Dench in the Oscar race this winter thanks to Harvey Weinstein…
7 June 2013 10:02 AM, PDT | Hollywoodnews.com | See recent Hollywoodnews.com news »
“Esiotrot” is tortoise spelled backwards. It’s also the title of a very popular 1990 Roald Dahl illustrated children’s story that involves a love story between two mature adults. And I can tell you that Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench are going to play the main characters. “Esiotrot” will film next month in England. Hoffman told me he’s a little nervous. “She’s Judi Dench!” But something tells me these two will hit it off famously. Dearbhla Walsh, who won the 2010 Emmy Award for Best Mini Series, “Little Dorrit,” will direct…This should be interesting since the book’s description makes it sound like a tough translation to film…Dench, by the way, may be on her way to a second Oscar next March 2014… She’s the star of Stephen Frears’ “Philomena” and will be very much in the Oscar race this winter thanks to a big push by Harvey Weinstein… »
- Roger Friedman
Cruz Oldest Bond Girl-to-Be?
3 June 2013 4:24 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Penélope Cruz: Bond Girl or Bond Woman? Whether you find "age-appropriateness" all-important or just another politically correct inanity, it’s both surprising and good news that 39-year-old Academy Award winner Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) has been reportedly tapped as the next Bond Girl — ahem, Bond Woman. If all goes well, according to Yahoo, Cruz, who turns 40 next April, should start filming the next James Bond movie opposite Daniel Craig in summer 2014. (Photo: Penélope Cruz.) Regarding Penélope Cruz’s casting, Yahoo cites an unnamed source "close to the production." According to the source, "the producers have tried to get Penélope before, but she has never been available because of other commitments. The discussions have been going on for some time and they are working out the contract details now." Other details that need to be worked out is the name of the director to handle the Skyfall sequel. The »
- Andre Soares
2014 Oscar Predictions: Best Actress Update Adds Four New Contenders
3 June 2013 9:25 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The actress categories always seem to be the most exciting every single year and this year is already shaping up to be no different. Following the Cannes Film Festival there is some definite shuffling of the contenders to be done following the initial release of my first predictions in the Best Actress category over two months ago and with the moving and shaking comes four new names added to the list. First, however, we'll begin at the top where I've kept Naomi Watts at #1 for her role in Diana. The film from director Oliver Hirschbiegel was picked up by eOne Films out of the Cannes Film Festival and will be released later this year. I must admit, the fact eOne picked it up and not a larger studio gives me a little pause, but I just get the feeling we're coming to a point in Watts' career where she's considered »
- Brad Brevet
Penélope Cruz: all hail James Bond's first age-appropriate girlfriend
3 June 2013 8:42 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
At 40, the Spanish star will become the oldest Bond girl ever. Has feminism finally filtered through to the 007 franchise?
"I wouldn't be seen dead with a woman old enough to be my wife," a Hollywood celebrity once remarked. It is a line that has been variously attributed to Tony Curtis and Jackie Gleason, though it might just as easily have come from James Bond himself, who exhibits a curious habit of growing steadily older while his women remain on the sunny side of 30. Sean Connery was a strapping, virile 32 when he made his first appearance as 007 in Dr No and found 26-year-old Ursula Andress hunting conch shells on the beach. By the time he bowed out he was a paunchy 52-year-old, romancing a 29-year-old Kim Basinger.
Roger Moore went one better – or worse, depending on your viewpoint. At the end of his tenure as 007, Moore was 57 while his sometime Bond »
- Xan Brooks
Penélope Cruz to Play a Bond Girl in ‘James Bond 24′?
3 June 2013 8:05 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
One of the more unique qualities of Skyfall - which sets it apart from the previous twenty-two installments released in the 50-year old James Bond movie franchise – is that the film does not pair 007 opposite either a (sexy) younger woman or some other age-appropriate female counterpart on his adventure; instead, the story explores the relationship between the secret agent and MI6 head ‘M’ (portrayed by Dame Judi Dench).
Skyfall director Sam Mendes was originally going to pass on directing the 24th Bond movie, but he is reported as having changed his mind after the Bond series producers decided they are willing to wait for Mendes to become available. Mendes ...
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- Sandy Schaefer
Bankable Names Spin Gold at Cannes
30 May 2013 1:30 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Fake gunshots, a $1 million jewel heist and torrential rains generated more drama and excitement at the Cannes Film Festival than most of the movie projects that were offered in this year’s market section.
While Hollywood’s most colorful movie aficionado, Harvey Weinstein, was by far the most active U.S. buyer at the 12-day annual event, overall sales lagged behind last year’s market. And many buyers remarked on the lack of commercial product available.
In the words of one Los Angeles-based buyer’s rep, there was quantity, but not the kind of quality that would guarantee a wide U.S. theatrical release. Still, there were a number of notable transactions.
Sony Pictures bought multiple foreign territories for “Spinning Gold,” a biopic of late music mogul Neil Bogart to star Justin Timberlake, who was in Cannes to wow foreign distribs. Director Martin Scorsese’s 20-year-old pet project “Silence,” a »
- Rachel Abrams
Sam Mendes May Return To Direct The Next James Bond Flick
29 May 2013 10:01 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Mendes directing Judi Dench in Skyfall
Despite assertions to the contrary, Sam Mendes may not be able to resist returning to the 007 series in the wake of the enormous success of Skyfall. Mendes initially turned down the producer's offer to direct the entry in the legendary series, but Deadline now reports that Mendes may be having second thoughts. Click here for more »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Skyfall Concept Art: Silva's Deformed Face, Patrice's Sniper Rifle & James Bond's Gadgets
28 May 2013 6:11 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Concepts For Silva's Deformed Face By Ivan Girard Vehicles & Weapons From Patrice Scenes By Chris Rosewarne Key Frame Art By Chris Rosewarne Walther Ppk & Radio Transmitter Designs By Tim Browning Key Frame Art By Tim Browning Skyfall, Craig's third outing as James Bond now on DVD & Blu-Ray. This time Daniel Craig and Judi Dench will be joined by Javier Bardem, Berenice Marlohe, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCroy, Albert Finney, Ola Rapace, Helen McCrory, and Ralph Fiennes. »
The Most Unlikely Actors in Disney Animated Features
28 May 2013 5:11 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely »
- Moviefone Staff
The Most Unlikely Actors in Disney Animated Features
28 May 2013 5:11 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the G-rated world of a Disney animated feature?
Well, maybe it's not that weird. After all, the family-friendly studio has a history, going back 60 years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its cartoons, and most have proved they can be fun and kid-safe in fantasy worlds far from smoky nightclubs. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classic cartoons are full of unlikely voice actors -- not just blue comics but also performers cast radically against type, and even people not considered actors at all.
Cook, then, joins a distinguished list of stars you'd never have expected to find in a Disney cartoon feature, as you can see from the gallery below.
Gallery | Unlikely »
- Moviefone Staff
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