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Eye on Emmy: Homeland’s Damian Lewis Talks About Playing No Ordinary Anti-Hero
12 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Just as Nicholas Brody received a hero’s welcome upon being rescued from captivity in Afghanistan, Damian Lewis of Showtime’s Homeland has been met with plaudits for his riveting portrayal of the conflicted Marine sergeant, husband, father and… would-be terrorist. Lewis – going for his first Emmy nomination this year, having previously been nominated for the 2012 Golden Globes for playing Brody on this series and in 2002 for his role in HBO’s Band of Brothers – reveals how he makes the potentially reprehensible relatable.
Tvline | You had to play a character who for much of Season 1 needed to keep us guessing about his agenda. »
- Matt Webb Mitovich
[First Look] Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth Romance In ‘Romeo and Juliet’
25 May 2012 9:52 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
“This is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for the Twilight Generation.”
So says a member of the team on Romeo and Juliet, an upcoming, Carlo Carlei-directed interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic led — one led by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Douglas Booth (Lol) that expressly hopes to bring this tale to modern teenagers. Please, please, please let this be “for the Twilight Generation” because “the Twilight Generation” is simply seeing the movie in the first place.
Little new details can be gleaned from our first look — the costumes look very nice! — and the only other solid detail in 24Frames‘ report is that the dialogue of Romeo and Juliet will be spoken in “understandable iambic pentameter.” So this won’t be Luhrmann‘s Romeo Plus Juliet Equals “Lovefool,“ but there’s still a decent amount of fidelity going on ehre. For that alone, this could come out on the other side looking okay. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Classic British TV Series Being Streamed By Acorn TV
24 May 2012 3:40 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
The leading ‘Best British TV’ streaming service Acorn TV is now streaming full seasons of several popular British mystery and drama series, along with two critically acclaimed Canadian series. This week Acorn TV also has a special Memorial Day Weekend Midsomer Marathon with the first 22 episodes of its best-selling series,Midsomer Murders, and the U.S. debut of John Nettles final episodes.
Acorn TV is currently streaming a full season of Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect; the final seasons of the universally acclaimed Canadian dramedy Slings & ARROWSand Derek Jacobi’s mystery series Cadfael; the U.S. debut of the newest season of Murdoch Mysteries; Lynda La Plante’s Trial & Retribution; John Mortimer’s Under The Hammer; the final episodes of WWII drama Wish Me Luck; Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter) in Pie In The Sky; and John Nettles final episodes with Midsomer Murders, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Pablo Larrain's 'No' Picked Up For U.S. By Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Nabs Ben Wheatley's 'Sightseers'
23 May 2012 8:41 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
When movies aren’t being watched at the Cannes Film Festival, they’re being purchased, and we’ve got news of a couple that have been picked up for North American distribution.
First up is Pablo Larrain’s “No,” which has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Larrain’s most notable feature to date was probably his “Saturday Night Fever”-inspired serial killer flick “Tony Manero,” but thanks to having Gael Garcia Bernal in the lead role (and a strong Cannes reception) “No” may be about to eclipse his previous efforts. The film, which has been screening in Director’s Fortnight, is based on the true story of a brash, young advertising exec (Bernal) who in 1988 launched an audacious plan to win over Chilean voters in a referendum on the presidency of their military dictator, General Augusto Pinochet. That immediately sounds like a fascinating premise to us, our reviewer on the Croisette loved it, »
- Joe Cunningham
'Homeland' Producers on Being Obama's Favorite Show, Shooting Season 2 in Israel
21 May 2012 12:12 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Tick off the list of impressive accomplishments already achieved by Homeland in after its inaugural ten episodes: the Showtime CIA drama earned a Golden Globe, multiple shoutouts from President Obama and, at Monday's ceremony in New York, a Peabody. Not a bad first season at all. The show, which features Claire Danes as a manic CIA intelligence officer and Damian Lewis as a former prisoner of war who may or may not have been turned into a terrorist, was one of a number of scripted series honored at the prestigious electronic media awards given by the University of Georgia. Following
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- Jordan Zakarin
Ray Winstone & Ben Drew Ready to Kick Ass on 'The Sweeney' Poster
21 May 2012 8:50 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Though we're not exactly familiar with the source material, when the first trailer for the adaptation of the British TV series The Sweeney showed up, our interest was somewhat piqued. Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka rapper Plan B) lead the film as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Detective Sergeant George Carter respectively, two members of the "Flying Squad," a branch of the Metropolitan Police specializing in armed robbery and violent crime in London. Now the two are front and center in leather jackets and wielding guns in the first UK quad poster for the film that also stars Hayley Atwell and Damian Lewis. Here's the first poster for Nick Love's adaptation of The Sweeney from HeyUGuys: Nick Love (The Football Factory) directed The Sweeney and co-wrote the screenplay with John Hodge (Trainspotting, The Beach) based on 1970's British TV series of the same name. Ray Wintsone and Ben Drew »
- Ethan Anderton
First Official Poster for The Sweeney with Ray Winstone and Plan B
21 May 2012 2:15 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Nick Love, well known for writing and directing the likes of The Football Factory and The Firm, is back behind the camera with The Sweeney, based on the original UK ’70s TV programme of the same name.
Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (a.k.a. Plan B) take the lead, with the ever-rising talents of Hayley Atwell and Damian Lewis supporting.
The first trailer made its way online early last month, and now the film’s official Facebook has debuted the first official poster (succeeding the white/blue promo poster that surfaced a while back), and it gets the image of the film across nicely.
I also enjoy that the official website (which currently redirects to Facebook) is www.yourenicked.com. Classic.
“Based on the original ITV cult classic TV show, The Sweeney will be a modernization of the London Flying Squad, directed by Nick Love (The Football Factory, The Firm »
- Kenji Lloyd
The New Romeo and Juliet Hold Court at Cannes
20 May 2012 6:15 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
It's been sixteen years since director Baz Luhrmann put a gleefully anachronistic spin on Williams Shakespeare's enduring classic Romeo and Juliet, and twenty-eight years before that, Franco Zeffirelli delivered his faithful big-screen version, starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. Is it time, then, for a new take? At Cannes, producers made their pitch for the just-wrapped, Carlo Carlei-directed Romeo and Juliet, which was scripted by Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes and stars True Grit Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld and Brit actor Douglas Booth. "People will want to try to compare this, and I think it has the romance of the Zeffirelli and the energy of the Baz Luhrmann," Booth told us. The new Romeo, due out sometime next year, also has a supporting cast that includes Paul Giamatti, Holly Hunter, and Damian Lewis, as well as a performance by Ed Westwick as the fiery Tybalt. Westwick was on the »
- Kyle Buchanan
Casting News: Lewis, Marsan, Moore
19 May 2012 8:10 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Driven
Damian Lewis, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Peter Capaldi and Iwan Rheon will star in "Vera" actor turned filmmaker David Leon’s debut feature - the crime thriller "Driven" at Zeitgeist Films.
Shooting kicks off in Newcastle and Northumberland in early 2013 and is based on Leon’s own childhood experiences growing up in the area in the late ’80s and early ’90s. [Source: Screen Daily]
Eddie Marsan and Joanne Froggatt will star in Uberto Pasolini's "Still Life" which begins shooting tomorrow in London and Southeast England.
Marsan plays council worker on his final case of notifying the next of kin for someone who died alone. The story is described as a "poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife". [Source: Screen Daily]
Demi Moore will play the mother of one of the characters in Naomi Foner’s "Very Good Girls" which begins shooting in New York next month for Herrick Entertainment and Groundswell Productions. »
- Garth Franklin
Elizabeth Banks Asks 'What's The Matter With Margie?' With Alan Ball, 'The Angriest Man In Brooklyn' Finds A Few Friends & More
18 May 2012 7:50 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Even though he scripted "American Beauty" for Sam Mendes before his two successful television shows "Six Feet Under" and "True Blood," Alan Ball has only returned to the silver screen for little-seen directorial debut "Towelhead." Last year, though, brought news that Emmy and Oscar winning writer-director (hello Egot?) was lining up a return with a dark comedy for Paramount.
While Ball has now stepped away from the director's chair for "True Blood" protégé and television vet Daniel Minahan (who came close to landing the job directing "Thor 2,") he's now found his leading lady for film in the form of the versatile Elizabeth Banks. The actress will play a stepped-on office-worker who after years of abuse snaps and resorts to murderous revenge. Lensing will begin early next year in L.A. soon after Banks team with Charlie Kaufman for his highly anticipated film industry musical satire, "Frank Or Francis." [ThompsonOnHollywood]
- Simon Dang
Rewind TV: Homeland; Prisoners of War; Planet Earth Live; A Civil Arrangement; Edward VIII
12 May 2012 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The American thriller was fabulous. And until it returns, here's the Israeli version…
Prisoners of War (Sky Arts 1)
Planet Earth Live (BBC1) | iPlayer
A Civil Arrangement (BBC4) | iPlayer
Edward VIII: The Plot to Topple a King (Channel 4) | 4oD
Homeland – surely the best American TV thriller in years – finished last week with everything but the bang, postponing the expected showdown between the most potent pairing of male-female antagonists since I don't know when (but I'm not going to say Luther) for a second mouth-watering series in the autumn. Claire Danes has been as vivid a bug-eyed bipolar CIA agent as you could wish for in the role of Carrie Mathison, up against (and unhelpfully besotted by) the unblinking menace of Damian Lewis as Us marine and family man Brody, turned by his al-Qaida captors into a would-be suicide bomber just a hug away from the vice-president. »
- Phil Hogan
Prisoners of War: why the original is always the best
10 May 2012 2:31 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Israeli drama Hatufim displays a level of sophistication that Us remake Homeland didn't quite achieve
Prisoners of War (or Hatufim as pretentious tweeters will no doubt insist on calling it just so people have to ask them what they're talking about) is the Israeli drama that inspired Homeland. It's made on a fraction of the Us budget and was heaped with praise and awards in its home country. Gideon Raff's brilliantly paced drama arrives on our screens this week just in time for your joy/horror/disappointment/impatience to subside after the Homeland finale.
But why should you watch it when you've just ploughed through hours of Clare Danes rifling through her bathroom cabinet and Damian Lewis subtly tightening and releasing his facial muscles like he's trying to secretly chew a fruit pastille?
Dramatically, it's a far more nuanced piece of work. Where Homeland hinged on whether or not »
- Julia Raeside
Damian Lewis Sought Hugh Laurie's Advice For Big U.S. Move
10 May 2012 1:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Damian Lewis turned to Hugh Laurie for career advice in the mid-2000s after buying his London home from the House hunk.
The Homeland star moved into Laurie's old family property in Islington, but was subsequently offered the lead in U.S. show Life.
Lewis was unsure about taking up the offer, so he turned to his fellow Brit - who moved to America when he landed his role in House - for tips on how to handle a big upheaval.
He tells the Mr Porter website, "You've got to be English on a popular show and then you get to sell each other property...
"I'd never met him, I just asked his advice because he was doing so well in L.A. with House. And he said, 'It's lovely working out here, you should take the job and good luck'." »
Damian Lewis Considered Quitting Acting
9 May 2012 6:36 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
British actor Damian Lewis considered quitting acting following his flop 2003 movie Dreamcatcher because shooting the project so far from home left him feeling like a loner.
The film adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name was only Lewis' second movie, but the star power of Morgan Freeman failed to pull in viewers and it raked in just $75 million (£46 million) worldwide.
And Lewis confesses the experience alone was enough to almost put him off a career in acting.
He tells the Mr Porter website, "I was a young 30, very much on my own and a long way from home. We shot in Vancouver for five months, and I mostly just sat in my hotel room on rainy days not knowing anyone. I think it scared me off a bit." »
Gripping and daring, Homeland raised questions British TV needs to answer
8 May 2012 4:35 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As with Victorian novels, much of its power comes from the space available for narrative development, writes Mark Lawson
The highest levels of televisual tension have generally rested, in recent years, on which of two aspiring performers would be allowed to record an album for Simon Cowell. But – for upwards of 2.5 million viewers of Channel 4 on Sunday night – genuine pulse-thumping, sweaty expectation attended not the result of a public phone-vote but that oldest of dilemmas: the outcome of a story.
Twelve weeks after he returned to America a hero from eight years as a hostage in Iraq, would Damian Lewis's Sergeant Brody finally prove the view of CIA handler Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) that he was an al-Qaida sleeper set on devastating the American government?
Following three months of unnerving reverses, in this adaptation by the American cable network Showtime of the Israeli prisoner of war drama Hatufim, »
- Mark Lawson
Homeland goes out with a bang | TV ratings - 6 May
8 May 2012 2:17 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Channel 4 to air second series of Us conspiracy thriller as finale draws series high of 2.78 million viewers
Channel 4's Homeland ended on a high with nearly 2.8 million viewers for its feature-length finale, the drama's biggest audience of the series.
The Claire Danes and Damian Lewis conspiracy thriller pulled in 2.78 million viewers, an 11.5% share of the audience, between 9pm and 10.45pm on Sunday.
It was half a million viewers up on the 2.2 million people who watched the opening episode on 19 February. The second series will begin in the Us on cable channel Showtime on 30 September and has also been bought by Channel 4.
Homeland had the better of the World Championship Snooker on BBC2, where an average of 2.1 million viewers (9.1%) watched Ronnie O'Sullivan take his fourth world title, including 101,000 viewers on the BBC HD channel.
The snooker peaked with 2.5 million viewers, an 11.7% share, between 10.15pm and 10.30pm, but it »
- John Plunkett
TV review: Homeland
6 May 2012 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
This great final episode to a great series leaves us looking forward to more
Where were we, then, in Homeland (Channel 4)? That's right; the bomb that went off in the square tipped Carrie over the edge, left her in a dark and lonely place – manic, abandoned, ignored, fired. At least she has her family, an understanding sister and father with similar issues. And Saul, the only person in the whole world who thinks there may actually be something in Carrie's crazy collage of colour and classified information on the wall.
Brody has been on his very American/ very un-American family mini-break to Gettysburg, taught the kids a bit of history and picked up his special vest, packed with wires and explosives and ball bearings. Now he's busy – making some small adjustments to the vest, getting in a little bit more quality time with Jessica and the children, filming a video message, »
- Sam Wollaston
Why Do We Love Homeland?
5 May 2012 1:27 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Less than a year ago, HuffPostUK spoke to Damian Lewis about a small French-funded film he was about to appear in. As an afterthought, he added, “I’ve just done a pilot for a TV series about a war veteran coming back from Afghanistan – who you don’t know if he’s been turned or not – so we’ll see what happens with that.”
What happened with that was two Golden Globes – one for Best TV Series, one for Best Actress – and a further nomination for Lewis himself, as Best Actor. And reports that it was the President’s favourite bit of telly, and an invitation for the British actor and his wife to dinner at the White House during our Prime Minister’s own state visit. So, it’s probably not overstating it to say that Homeland has become a phenomenon.
And we’ll have to learn to do without on Sunday nights, »
- Caroline Frost
Why Do We Love Homeland?
5 May 2012 12:35 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Less than a year ago, HuffPostUK spoke to Damian Lewis about a small French-funded film he was about to appear in. As an afterthought, he added, “I've just done a pilot for a TV series about a war veteran coming back from Afghanistan – who you don't know if he's been turned or not – so we'll see what happens with that.”
What happened with that was two Golden Globes – one for Best TV Series, one for Best Actress – and a further nomination for Lewis himself, as Best Actor. And reports that it was the President's favourite bit of telly, and an invitation for the British actor and his wife to dinner at the White House during our Prime Minister's own state visit. So, it's probably not overstating it to say that Homeland has become a phenomenon.
And we'll have to learn to do without on Sunday nights, after it reaches its crashing finale this weekend. »
- Caroline Frost
Homeland: season one, episode 10
22 April 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
A genuine thriller of an episode puts Claire Danes's Carrie back at the heart of events
Spoiler Alert: This blog is for people watching Homeland on Channel 4. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode 10 – and if you've seen further in the series, please do not leave spoilers
Rebecca Nicholson's episode nine blog
Representative Brody
Tonight we had a genuine thriller of an episode, particularly when compared with last week's more flashback-heavy installment. I'm pleased we've moved back into present-day action, and have a few more scenes of Carrie being good at doing her job – even though that seems to entail her being bad at being a person, to a large extent. With only two more episodes to go, this really tightened the strings. Plus, both Damian Lewis and Claire Danes started to do the acting technique I shall call "crazy eyes", which is a sure sign »
- Rebecca Nicholson
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