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Sheridan Smith dressed in shells on the set of Harry Hill debut film
12 June 2013 7:23 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Sheridan Smith was spotted dressed in seashells on the set of Harry Hill's debut movie in Blackpool yesterday (June 11).
The 31-year-old actress, who won a BAFTA last month for her role in Mrs Biggs, wore different sized shells all over her head and body, with bits of seaweed hanging down from her waist and orange starfish for fingers as she filmed scenes for The Harry Hill Movie at the seaside resort.
Smith stars as "an undersea shell person" who steals Hill's heart, while Julie Walters plays Hill's grandmother and Matt Lucas his estranged Alsatian-raised twin brother Otto.
Julian Barratt, Jim Broadbent and indie band The Magic Numbers are also set to feature in the supporting cast.
Speaking about the film previously, TV Burp comic Hill has said: "I'm thrilled at last to be able to tell the world the true story of my hamster's struggle on the big screen »
First Look At Harry Hill And Matt Lucas In ‘The Harry Hill Movie’
12 June 2013 1:45 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
It seems that every year we get a film version of a hit UK TV show. Last year it was the turn of Keith Lemon, and the year before it was the Inbetweeners. This year sees Harry Hill take his comedy to the big screen in The Harry Hill Movie, which arrives in cinemas later in the year. Hill stars opposite Julie Walters, Sheridan Smith and Matt Lucas in the film, which revolves around Hill, who discovers that his hamster only has one week to live. Inbetweeners star Simon Bird (‘briefcase wanker) also appears in this, along with Marc Wootton, Julian Barratt, Jim Broadbent and strangely, the band The Magic Numbers.
Here’s the first official still from the film showing Hill and Otto (Lucas) on set. Expect this at the end of 2013.
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- Paul Heath
10 tip-top tap dancing movies
24 May 2013 1:57 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Top 10 Aliya Whiteley 28 May 2013 - 06:55
The 1930s to the end of the 20th century saw the release of some classic tap dancing movies. Here's Aliya's pick of the 10 best...
Either you love movies in which people suddenly break into tap dance routines to express their innermost desires, or you hate them. If you hate them, you’re in luck – they pretty much don’t exist in modern film any more.
Having said that, there have been some great dancing moments in the last few years, such as Amy Adams having a me party in The Muppets, or Meryl Streep bouncing up and down on the bed in Mamma Mia! But these aren’t tap dances, and they’re much more about enthusiasm than skill. Or High School Musical, Take The Lead and others give us great modern or ballroom dancing, but within the context of people putting on a show, »
- ryanlambie
Just 18% of UK television presenters over 50 are women, study finds
15 May 2013 5:56 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Harriet Harman accuses TV industry of ageism and sexism, saying female presenters' days on screen are numbered after 50
Fewer than one in five presenters at major broadcasters over the age of 50 are women, a new study reveals.
Research compiled from figures taken from the main UK broadcasters found that just 18% of presenters over 50 are women. BBC television and radio, Sky, ITN and Channel 5 combined have just 26 women over 50 working as regular on-air presenters out of a total of 481 presenters.
Overall, women over 50 make up just 5% of on-screen presenters of all ages and both sexes and 7% of the workforce, both on and off screen.
Senior executives at the BBC, ITV, ITN, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky are to meet members of the Older Women's Commission on Thursday to discuss what can be done to end such discrimination.
Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy and the shadow culture secretary, accused the TV industry of ageism and sexism. »
- Jane Martinson
Harry Hill, Julie Walters film 'The Harry Hill Movie' - on-set pictures
15 May 2013 2:06 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Julie Walters has been pictured filming The Harry Hill Movie in new on-set photos.
In the images, Harry Hill can be seen driving a mobility scooter alongside his Nan, played by the veteran British actress.
The film follows the TV Burp comic as he embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his hard-drinking grandmother, when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Hill previously said of his movie: "I'm thrilled at last to be able to tell the world the true story of my hamster's struggle on the big screen and even more excited to be working with some of the comedy greats of the British film industry."
Sheridan Smith is set to appear as "an undersea shell person" who steals Hill's heart, and Matt Lucas portrays Hill's estranged Alsatian-raised twin brother Otto.
Marc Wootton, Julian Barratt and Jim Broadbent and indie band The Magic »
Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics
14 May 2013 8:04 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Armstrong and Miller comic lambasts 'inverse snobbery' while Ricky Gervais teaches guitar – and who's the hottest comedian?
This week's comedy news
We begin with the Telegraph's tale of Alexander Armstrong and the apparent victimisation of "posh" comics. "Why should your background be held against you?," asks the descendant of William the Conqueror, alumnus of a Durham public school and director of a production company called Toff Media. "It is so short-sighted … This tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring." Armstrong – best known as one half of the sketch double-act Armstrong and Miller – even lodges the improbable complaint that his privileged upbringing has been detrimental to his career in British entertainment. In the piece, he blames inverse snobbery for the BBC initially spurning Armstrong and Miller after their big break on the Edinburgh fringe in the mid-1990s. And, he adds, "I'm not anticipating an offer to »
- Brian Logan
Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics
14 May 2013 8:04 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Armstrong and Miller comic lambasts 'inverse snobbery' while Ricky Gervais teaches guitar – and who's the hottest comedian?
This week's comedy news
We begin with the Telegraph's tale of Alexander Armstrong and the apparent victimisation of "posh" comics. "Why should your background be held against you?," asks the descendant of William the Conqueror, alumnus of a Durham public school and director of a production company called Toff Media. "It is so short-sighted … This tribal aversion to anyone with a posh voice is very boring." Armstrong – best known as one half of the sketch double-act Armstrong and Miller – even lodges the improbable complaint that his privileged upbringing has been detrimental to his career in British entertainment. In the piece, he blames inverse snobbery for the BBC initially spurning Armstrong and Miller after their big break on the Edinburgh fringe in the mid-1990s. And, he adds, "I'm not anticipating an offer to »
- Brian Logan
The Harry Hill Movie starts filming with Julie Walters, Sheridan Smith
10 May 2013 3:24 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Harry Hill has started production on his first feature film.
The Harry Hill Movie will see the TV Burp star embark on a road trip to Blackpool with his hard-drinking Nan (Julie Walters) when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Inbetweeners star Simon Bird will play a vet in pursuit of the pair, while Sheridan Smith is to appear as "an undersea shell person" who steals Harry's heart. Matt Lucas is on board to portray Harry's estranged Alsatian-raised twin brother Otto.
Marc Wootton, Julian Barratt and Jim Broadbent and indie band The Magic Numbers will also feature in the supporting cast.
"I'm thrilled at last to be able to tell the world the true story of my hamster's struggle on the big screen and even more excited to be working with some of the comedy greats of the British film industry," Hill said.
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Bendelack To Helm "Harry Hill" Feature
9 May 2013 7:53 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Steve Bendelack ("Mr Bean’s Holiday") is set to direct "The Harry Hill Movie" which begins production next week in the United Kingdom.
UK TV personality Harry Hill plays himself as he goes on a road trip to Blackpool with his petrol drinking Nan (Julie Walters), all while being pursued by a lunatic vet (Simon Bird).
Along the way, Harry falls in love with an undersea shell person (Sheridan Smith), and gets into a fight with his evil twin Otto (Matt Lucas). Jim Broadbent and Julian Barratt also star.
Hill, Jon Foster and James Lamont penned the script with a late 2013 release expected.
Source: Screen Daily »
- Garth Franklin
Harry Hill movie to be a salve for sick hamsters
9 May 2013 6:04 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Julie Walters and Matt Lucas on board as British comic prepares to make big-screen debut in tale of ailing rodent
He has won a Perrier award at the Edinburgh fringe, fronted the successful small-screen clip show TV Burp, and recorded a novelty record with Coronation Street star William Roache (sample line: "I made some mistakes, real howlers, especially with the kids"). Now the British comic Harry Hill is set to make his big-screen debut in an eponymous movie co-starring Julie Walters, Matt Lucas and Jim Broadbent.
The Harry Hill Movie, which begins its eight-week shoot on 12 May, promises a tale of sick hamsters, a fraught road trip, and a King Kong-esque climax atop Blackpool Tower. Walters is set to play Hill's hard-drinking grandmother, while Lucas will appear as the comic's evil twin Otto. According to the press release, the film is "based on a true story".
"I'm thrilled at »
- Xan Brooks
Harry Hill Movie To Start Shooting
9 May 2013 5:06 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Those distant cheers and strange scraping sounds you can hear are Harry Hill's army of fans celebrating news that the big-shoed bad boy is coming to the big screen. Oh, and the scraping? That's the badger kingdom logging on for tickets. The Harry Hill Movie, which promises to bring "his madcap comedy world to the big screen", kicks off on May 8 with eight weeks' worth of shooting around the UK. The plot will be fuelled by Hill's sick hamster. The NHS-spec'ed japster must get his pet to a vet in Blackpool before the clock winds down on his bewhiskered buddy - presumably forcing someone to operate at gunpoint a la James Caan in A Bridge Too Far when he gets there. Okay, perhaps not, but the roadtrip will definitely be complicated by the presence of Hill's gas-guzzling granny (Julie Walters, surely too young to play his granny) and the »
British Comedian Harry Hill Set for Movie Debut
9 May 2013 2:08 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London – Cult British comedian and U.K. TV stalwart Harry Hill is bringing his "madcap comedy world" to the big screen with The Harry Hill Movie. Shooting on location in the U.K. for eight weeks from May 12, the comedian will be joined by a cast that reads like a who's who of British comedy regulars, including Julie Walters (Billy Elliot), Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners Movie), Matt Lucas (Bridesmaids), Sheridan Smith (Quartet), Marc Wootton (Nativity), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) and Jim Broadbent (Bridget Jones’s Diary). Photos: Bad Jokes and Surprising Successes: Behind the Scenes of THR's Comics Roundtable
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- Stuart Kemp
John Travolta Is Criminally Inclined In The Forger
8 May 2013 6:36 AM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
It’s a John Travolta kind of day. How long has it been since we said That? All kinds of exciting things are happening in Travolta-land and none of them include Battlefield Earth or weird allegations of sexual misconduct! First, there’s the announcement that Joe Johnston will direct Travolta in the Gotti biopic. Now we have news that the star will playing a very different type of criminal in Philip Martin’s heist movie The Forger.
The Forger is all about Ray Cutter (Travolta), an art prodigy turned petty thief who buys his way out of prison in order to spend time with his ill son. Things go wrong, of course, and he’s forced to do ‘one last big job’ for the guys that helped him get out of prison.
The story sounds pretty standard, but the proof will always be in how it’s carried out. Travolta »
- Lauren Humphries-Brooks
David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV?
25 April 2013 11:52 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
David Tennant is appearing in The Politician's Husband tonight, days after wrapping up Broadchurch with Olivia Colman. But there's no danger of overexposure for either of these brilliantly versatile performers ...
This week, David Tennant faces one of the toughest tests of his career. Most actors dream of securing a stream of jobs, because of the insecurity of what they do. But for screen performers, this can lead to the potential nightmare of being seen in very close succession in two roles. Though the CV and bank balance are helped in the short-term, they can be harmed later on by the exposure of limited tricks and tics.
Tonight at 9pm on BBC2, Tennant, 71 hours after he stopped being Di Alec Hardy in Broadchurch on ITV, reappears as Aiden Hoynes MP in The Politician's Husband, a three-part drama written by Paula Milne. Hoynes is a politician with party-leadership ambitions who resigns on »
- Mark Lawson
Wallace and Gromit ride in to revamp Blackpool as a grand day out
21 April 2013 4:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Aardman characters to launch Thrill-o-Matic ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach as part of VisitEngland's 'staycation' campaign
Two newly appointed figureheads of a campaign to breathe fresh life into English tourism are to start working next week in Blackpool – the Lancashire seaside town that, despite its long reputation as a holiday resort, has been struggling to update its appeal.
On Wednesday Wallace and Gromit, the stars of a Oscar-winning series by Aardman Animations, are to attend the launch of the world's first theme park ride to be based on their adventures in the films A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. Their creator, Nick Park, will be at their side as visitors try out the Thrill-o-Matic, the £5.25m new jewel in the crown of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park.
"I grew up in Preston, which is just down the road, so Blackpool feels like a natural home for Wallace and Gromit, »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Wallace and Gromit ride in to revamp Blackpool as a grand day out
21 April 2013 4:46 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Aardman characters to launch Thrill-o-Matic ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach as part of VisitEngland's 'staycation' campaign
Two newly appointed figureheads of a campaign to breathe fresh life into English tourism are to start working next week in Blackpool – the Lancashire seaside town that, despite its long reputation as a holiday resort, has been struggling to update its appeal.
On Wednesday Wallace and Gromit, the stars of a Oscar-winning series by Aardman Animations, are to attend the launch of the world's first theme park ride to be based on their adventures in the films A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. Their creator, Nick Park, will be at their side as visitors try out the Thrill-o-Matic, the £5.25m new jewel in the crown of the Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park.
"I grew up in Preston, which is just down the road, so Blackpool feels like a natural home for Wallace and Gromit, »
- Vanessa Thorpe
Margaret Thatcher and the Movies
8 April 2013 5:33 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at 87, had a much greater impact on the world of film than just inspiring an Oscar-winning role for Meryl Streep in 2011's "The Iron Lady." The woman who led Great Britain from 1979 to 1990 cast a long shadow over filmmaking in her country during her time in office, inspiring much reaction (pro and con) among filmmakers, inspiring some classic movies, and unwittingly giving major career boosts to some of our era's greatest movie talents. The conventional wisdom about Thatcher's impact on pop culture was that performing artists, being a lefty, proletarian bunch, hated her with a passion. Certainly the British musicians of the '80s, from Billy Bragg to Pink Floyd, composed numerous bitter protest anthems condemning her as a war-mongering tyrant who was strangling the working class. But the movies British filmmakers created during her three terms in office were a lot more ambivalent, »
- Gary Susman
Emma Thompson's Effie cleared for release after winning second lawsuit
21 March 2013 4:47 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Victorian-era drama about John Ruskin's wife Effie Gray greenlit after judge deems film 'quite dissimilar' to work of Us playwright
The Emma Thompson period drama Effie, about one of the Victorian era's most infamous love triangles, is now cleared for release after winning a second copyright case in New York against a Us playwright who claimed it was based on his work.
Judge Thomas P Griesa of the southern New York district court ruled the high-profile film, which centres on the story of famed art critic John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, did not infringe on Gregory Murphy's similarly themed 1999 play The Countess, which was performed 634 times in New York and was revived for the London stage in 2005. Murphy had claimed in a Daily Mail article in April 2011 that he was considering his legal options after a mutual friend allegedly sent Thompson and »
- Ben Child
Has Britain got talent show fatigue?
15 March 2013 11:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As The Voice and Bgt returm, we ask music and TV experts whether the format's days are numbered
Whack "slams TV talent shows" into Google and a procession of varied names pops up, each with their own opinion. There's Elton John ("Brain-crippling"); Julie Walters ("People's real vulnerabilities are being exploited"); Des O'Connor ("I don't like people who trample on dreams"); Ne-Yo ("They don't know what it is to bleed"); and Shirley Bassey ("Lives are ruined"). Even Pop Idol winner Will Young insists that talent shows are "cynical and manipulative".
These criticisms have been flung at the format for over a decade, and they routinely bounce off armour-plated behemoths like The X Factor, a show with all the too-big-to-fail swagger of a twatty bank, particularly when they could claim that they were giving unknowns a chance at stardom. But in 2012, both The X Factor's season launch and season finale ratings »
- Peter Robinson
Julie Walters attacks arts cuts
14 March 2013 4:53 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor criticises lack of grants for drama students as she wins outstanding achievement prize at South Bank Sky Arts awards
Julie Walters has criticised government cuts in arts funding, saying she might not have made it as an actor if she was starting out as a performer now because of the lack of grants.
Walters, 63, who got her big break starring opposite Michael Caine in 1983's Educating Rita and has since featured in films including the Harry Potter franchise, said there were no grants now for budding actors to attend drama school and urged the government to change tack.
"If I was coming out into the business now I would never get into drama school," she said, after accepting the outstanding achievement prize at the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts awards in London on Tuesday.
"It would have been a really hard journey if I had ever made it at all, »
- Jason Deans
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