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Colin Firth To Play Noel Coward In 'Mad Dogs And Englishmen,' & Co-Star In Rupert Everett's Oscar Wilde Biopic
22 May 2012 12:50 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Colin Firth is set to play famed English playwright Noel Coward, in the Willy Holtzman-penned project, “Mad Dogs And Englishmen,” about Coward’s eventful two week stay at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955. Although there’s still no director attached, this seems like a great role for the actor to sink his teeth into, as Coward was famous for what Time called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise.” So we’ll be definitely be looking forward to this project in the future. [Screen Daily]
Two giants of the Scandinavian cinematic world, Lone Scherfig (“An Education” and “One Day”) and Pernilla August (“Beyond”), are set to join forces together on an adaptation of the classic Hjalmar Söderberg novel, “The Serious Game.” The novel follows a couple who meet early in life, go their separate ways and then meet again when they are married to other people. »
- Cain Rodriguez
Bond Producer's Daughter Not Surprised By Alfred Hitchcock Telegram
21 May 2012 1:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The daughter of legendary movie mogul Harry Saltzman insists 007 fans shouldn't be surprised to learn Alfred Hitchcock was considered to direct the first James Bond film - because her dad, his business partner Cubby Broccoli and author Ian Fleming had a series of wacky ideas as they plotted the iconic film projects.
A recently uncovered telegram from Fleming to novelist Eric Ambler in 1959 suggests the writer was considering Hitchcock for the first Bond film, which was initially set to be Thunderball.
Saltzman, Broccoli and the 007 creator eventually settled on Terence Young, who picked Sean Connery to play Bond over Cary Grant - the best man at Saltzman's wedding - and Roger Moore, who eventually took over the role from Connery.
And they decided to make Dr. No the first film. Thunderball became the fourth Bond movie in the series.
Saltzman's daughter Hilary tells WENN, "I've never heard about the telegram before, but Fleming was legendary for floating constant ideas about re casting and possible directors... probably too many.
"Don't forget, he also wanted his next-door neighbour Noel Coward to play the role of Dr. No... and my father contacted Salvador Dali because he wanted him to design the tarot cards for Live and Let Die! They all had wild ideas." »
Casting: Pegg, Firth, Hudson, Cullen
20 May 2012 10:05 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Simon Pegg will lead Peter Chelsom's adaptation of François Lelord's novel "Hector and the Search for Happiness". The schedule aims for Pegg to shoot the film once he wraps Edgar Wright's "The World's End".
Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay penned the script which follows the story of an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis -- largely because his patients are just not getting any happier -- who decides to go on his own quest to find a smile. [Source: THR]
Colin Firth has signed on to star as actor, director, playwright and singer Noel Coward in a new comedy drama "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" at BiteSize Entertainment.
The story follows Noel's two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955, when he performed for huge crowds. [Source: The AP]
Jennifer Hudson, Amy Adams and Garrett Hedlund have joined the cast »
- Garth Franklin
Colin Firth Playing Noel Coward In Upcoming Las Vegas Drama
19 May 2012 12:14 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Colin Firth is getting comfortable playing British .royalty.. After earning a well-deserved Oscar for capturing the complicated dignity of King George VI in Tom Hooper.s The King.s Speech, Firth next appears ready to turn his attentions to English legend Sir Noel Coward in the feature film Mad Dogs and Englishmen. The title is borrowed from Coward.s smash-hit song, penned by the award-winning playwright, singer, composer, songwriter and actor. Deadline, which links Firth to the new production, says the film will focus primarily on Coward.s late-career stint at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, circa 1955. At the time, Coward was invited to Sin City to stand in for local legend Liberace, how had fallen and had to cancel a string of dates. The Mad Dogs screenplay, credited to Willy Holtzman, will focus on Coward.s two-week sting in Vegas, and the relationship he forged with the piano »
Cannes: BiteSize Entertainment Launches With Film About News Corp.'s Rebekah Brooks
19 May 2012 9:29 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
New entertainment venture BiteSize Entertainment announced its launch Friday in Cannes with several feature-film projects, including a movie about embattled News Corp. exec Rebekah Brooks. The company also is developing the Bob Odenkirk-directed dark comedy "Girlfriends Day" and the Willy Holtzman-penned drama "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," which will star Colin Firth as Noel Coward during his two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955. BiteSize is the creation of Mevio chairman and CEO Ron Bloom and producers Gene Kirkwood and Ross Elliot, whose Kirkwood-Elliot Productions banner will supply films for theatrical release. The new company aims to become "a modern, vertically integrated entertainment studio that spans multiple platforms," according to a release, including everything from short films and series to feature-length content that can be leveraged using Mevio’s pre-existing online network. BiteSize plans to produce four to »
- Jay A. Fernandez
Colin Firth Headlining Noel Coward Film ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’
19 May 2012 9:03 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
From King George VI to… Noel Coward. Rare is the instance in which those two are grouped together, but Colin Firth will act as the binding tie with Mad Dogs and Englishmen, a biographical picture, of sorts, that Ross Elliot and Gene Kirkwood are producing through their newest business venture, Bitesize.
But you don’t care all too much about the producing credits. What you’ll want to know — and what I’m about to tell you — pertains to the screenplay, written by Willy Holtzman, and which focuses on the legendary actor’s time in Las Vegas performing a two-week cabaret show, an opportunity that was only made possible by the unforeseen injuring of Liberace. Dramatically-speaking, the meat of the film will emphasize relationships Coward had with both his agent and piano teacher; a certain tax evasion on the actor’s part — the whole reason he agreed to this job — might also create some conflict. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Cannes 2012: Colin Firth to Star as Noel Coward in BiteSize Dramedy
19 May 2012 6:02 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Cannes - Colin Firth has signed up to star as Noel Coward in BiteSize Entertainment’s dramedy Mad Dogs and Englishmen, the story of Coward’s two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955. Willy Holtzman is writing the screenplay. Photos: Cannes 2012: Competition Lineup Features 'Cosmopolis,' 'Moonrise Kingdom,' 'Killing Them Softly' Coward, the flamboyant English playwright, director, actor and singer, performed at the Desert Inn in 1955, drawing big crowds, including from Hollywood. There is no start date set for the production, which is currently looking to select a director. Photos: Cannes 2012: Opening Night Gala
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- Georg Szalai
5 Things You Might Not Know About David Lean's 'Lawrence Of Arabia'
18 May 2012 12:12 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Is there a greater film than "Lawrence of Arabia?" Perhaps. There are certainly few longer ones, or few that are more epic and sweeping in their scope (thanks to the timeless Panavision 70 photography by Freddie Young). But even if the film isn't your absolute favorite, it is the number one of many, including Steven Spielberg, who credits the picture with making him want to be a filmmaker.
David Lean's tale of T.E. Lawrence's adventures in Arabia in World War I is fifty years old this year, and ahead of a brand-spanking-new Blu-ray release next month, a glorious new 4K restoration of the film is screening at Cannes tomorrow night. To mark the occasion, as well as the anniversary of the death of Lawrence himself, who died 77 years ago tomorrow, we've assembled five things you might not know about Lean's unassailable classic.
1. David Lean nearly directed a biopic of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
'Downton Abbey' star Dan Stevens Joining Jessica Chastain in 'The Heiress' on Broadway
13 May 2012 9:07 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley on the PBS series "Downton Abbey," will make his Broadway debut in a revival of "The Heiress," with Jessica Chastain and David Strathairn. Stevens has appeared on the stage in London in David Leveaux’s 2009 West End production of Tom Stoppard’s "Arcadia," André Previn’s "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" at the National Theatre in 2009 and Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" in 2006 at the Royal Haymarket Theatre. Also read: Zooey Deschanel Signs on for 'Coal Miner's Daughter' Musical He also played Orlando opposite Rebecca Hall in Peter Hall's »
- Lisa Fung
Joyce Redman obituary
13 May 2012 7:18 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Vivacious Irish actor best known for her role opposite Albert Finney in Tom Jones
The red-haired, vivacious and provocative Irish actor Joyce Redman, who has died aged 93, will for ever be remembered for her lubricious meal-time munching and swallowing opposite Albert Finney in Tony Richardson's 1963 film of Tom Jones. Eyes locked, lips smacked and jaws rotated as the two of them tucked into a succulent feast while eyeing up the afters. Sinking one's teeth into a role is one thing. This was quite another, and deliciously naughty, the mother of all modern mastication scenes.
Redman and Finney were renewing a friendship forged five years earlier when both appeared with Charles Laughton in Jane Arden's The Party at the New (now the Noël Coward) theatre. Redman was not blamed by the critic Kenneth Tynan for making nothing of her role as Laughton's wife. "Nothing," he said, "after all, will come of nothing. »
- Michael Coveney
Rev writer admits show won't return this year
9 May 2012 4:08 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
James Wood says BBC2 sitcom's cast are 'too bloody successful' but hopes to make a third series in 2013
The writer of Rev has admitted there will not be a third series of the award-winning BBC2 sitcom this year because the cast, including Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman, are "too bloody successful".
So far the BBC has made two series and a Christmas special, and has attracted a range of impressive guest stars including Ralph Fiennes, Richard E Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Geoffrey Palmer, James Purefoy and the veteran actor Sylvia Syms.
James Wood, the co-creator with Hollander of the comedy about a London inner-city vicar, told MediaGuardian: "The cast are too bloody successful."
Wood said he was "cautiously optimistic" about getting the cast together in 2013 but this could not be guaranteed.
"The other thing of course we need to do is to make sure that we maintain the same standards as with the other two series, »
- Ben Dowell
Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'
27 April 2012 8:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor on juggling popular teen comedy and mild-mannered mockumentary – and why he's not a fan of the American version of The Office
Eugene Levy does not look quite comfortable, standing on the sofa. Those Groucho brows are frowning, surprised eyes wide. He knows the photos will work better if he's three feet up, and he's much too polite to gripe. But he's wary. That cushion is just a touch plush. Plus, he's had a run of bad luck lately. Yesterday's fish and chips was followed by emergency dental work. Last winter's ceremony to pick up his Order of Canada medal was interrupted by a kidney stone: "I would rather pass a 15-pound baby."
He climbs down gingerly, folds his legs, looks more zen. In fact, Levy has long pulled off one of the most brilliant balancing acts in cinema. Few are so adept at straddling the super-mainstream and the deeply niche. »
- Catherine Shoard
How Classical Music Shaped Sondheim’s Songs
23 April 2012 9:08 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Getty Stephen Sondheim in March 2011.
Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has helped to create some of Broadway’s greatest stage shows. But he says the world of classical music is behind some of his deepest influences, including such composers as Sergei Rachmaninoff and Joseph-Maurice Ravel.
“It is aesthetically fulfilling to hear composers take my music seriously,” said Sondheim, who was interviewed briefly on stage this weekend during a concert of 17 compositions inspired by songs from his musicals “Sweeney Todd,” “Company, »
- Kathy Shwiff
Frank Langella Drops Names, Shares Memories (Video)
14 April 2012 1:52 PM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
In his new book, “Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them,” actor Frank Langella observes that Arthur Miller never once picked up the check after dinner, and Jackie Kennedy was a loving wife who once gave her husband the treat of meeting Noel Coward (by a stroke of serendipity, that was also when Langella met the former president).
Langella, a three-time Tony Award winner and an Academy Award nominee, said the idea for the book came when »
- Barbara Chai
DVD Playhouse--April 2012
13 April 2012 3:07 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—April 2012
By Allen Gardner
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Warner Bros.) An eleven year-old boy (newcomer Thomas Horn, in an incredible debut) discovers a mysterious key amongst the possessions of his late father (Tom Hanks) who perished in 9/11. Determined to find the lock it matches, the boy embarks on a Picaresque odyssey across New York City. Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Eric Roth have fashioned a film both grand and intimate, beautifully-adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, thought by most who read it to be unfilmable. Fine support from Jeffrey Wright, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis and the great Max von Sydow. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection (Anchor Bay) Adapted from Koushun Takami’s polarizing novel (compared by champions and detractors alike as a 21st century version of A Clockwork Orange) and set in a futuristic Japan, »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #140
8 April 2012 8:50 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
This week I don't have anything specific to feature, but I did watch David Lean's Blithe Spirit and This Happy Breed, two films in Criterion's recent David Lean Directs Noel Coward box set, but I still have In Which We Serve to watch before I can review the set. I also started watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World On a Wire, but still have about two-and-a-half hours left to watch in the 212-minute feature. Then, over the weekend I caught parts of The Matrix Reloaded on television and that's about it. Sorry I don't have more to share, but hopefully you can add a few thoughts to the conversation. Anyone catch Titanic in 3-D? I was actually going to try (and still might tonight) but Easter weekend festivities got in the way. »
- Brad Brevet
Blu-ray Review: Glorious Criterion Box Set For ‘David Lean Directs Noel Coward’
4 April 2012 3:26 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – For fans less familiar with the four films in the new Criterion box set — “David Lean Directs Noel Coward” — one might be easily forgiven for assuming that the four films are very similar. Let’s be honest. “Tim Burton Directs Johnny Depp” and “Martin Scorsese Directs Robert De Niro” would have some definite thematic commonality. Perhaps that’s why it’s So remarkable how different each of the four films in this set ended up. They are each of a different genre and, therefore, serve as an amazing history lesson into how one of our most beloved filmmakers began his career by experimenting with genre and form. And he did so with an amazing creative partner. These are the building blocks for what David Lean would do over the rest of his career. And they’re presented with Criterion level transfers and fascinating extras. This is the best HD »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
A room of my own: Julian Clary
31 March 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The comic and writer in the living room of his ancient Ashford house, which was once the home of Noël Coward
After the wonderful welcome from Julian Clary's dog Valerie, the first thing you notice about his living room is the chickens. There are lots – pictures on the walls, ornaments, even a chicken cushion. "Yes, there's a slight obsession with chickens," he says, looking around. "It must have happened when I became a rustic person." His favourite is the chicken on the mantelpiece, from his mother Brenda. It's near the sherry decanter, which is from director Neil Bartlett (they worked together on the 1995 adaptation of the play Splendid's).
There are a lot of things Julian's bought with his mother. He wonders if the antique bucket in the corner, which he picked up when they were "talked into" doing a celebrity version of Bargain Hunt, is too rustic. "It certainly »
- Richard Rogers
DVD Review: David Lean Directs Noel Coward box set from The Criterion Collection
29 March 2012 9:33 AM, PDT | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
Hitchcock and Herrmann. Spielberg and John Williams. Scorsese and Schoonmaker. Kubrick and a novel. Film history's brilliant pairs abound and now one of its unsung dynamic duos are finally getting their day in the sun, thanks to the geniuses over at The Criterion Collection.
Read more on DVD Review: David Lean Directs Noel Coward box set from The Criterion Collection »
- Joshua Brunsting
'The Bodyguard,' 'A Dangerous Method' and 'Extremely Loud' Hit DVD and Blu-ray Today
27 March 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
David Lean Directs Noel Coward (Criterion Collection)
In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, Brief Encounter In this bunch I have only seen Brief Encounter and I loved it. It's a film I would include in a recommended session alongside Before Sunset although Before Sunset is a superior film in my mind. As for the others, I am looking forward to giving them a watch and will be doing so shortly. I tried to find some time yesterday to begin watching This Happy Breed, but the clock was working against me.
Corman's World I wouldn't necessarily say this is a must buy, but it is without a doubt a must rent if only for the Jack Nicholson portion alone. To see cool guy Nicholson break down and start crying while talking about Corman is all I think I really need to say about this film to get you to watch it. »
- Brad Brevet
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