Uruguay’s already expanding industry still has plenty of room to grow and looks primed to do so with its new financing pilot program about to be extended until 2025 and a host of companies who cut their teeth in international co-production.
Below, Variety highlights twelve Uruguayan companies with outstanding resumes in both domestic and international production likely to usher in a new era of film and TV prominence.
Cimarrón –
Cimarrón is a pan Latin-American alliance between established producers Hernán Musaluppi, Diego Robino and Santiago López. From their offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, the company has backed six films since 2017, including Argentine Academy Award and San Sebastian Horizons-winner “The Snatch Thief” and Miguel Cohan’s Netflix Original feature “Blood Will Tell.” Currently Cimarrón has two films in post-production, Martín Boulocq’s “El visitante” and Rafa Russo’s “El año de la furia.”
Coral Cine –
Coral Cine focuses on...
Below, Variety highlights twelve Uruguayan companies with outstanding resumes in both domestic and international production likely to usher in a new era of film and TV prominence.
Cimarrón –
Cimarrón is a pan Latin-American alliance between established producers Hernán Musaluppi, Diego Robino and Santiago López. From their offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, the company has backed six films since 2017, including Argentine Academy Award and San Sebastian Horizons-winner “The Snatch Thief” and Miguel Cohan’s Netflix Original feature “Blood Will Tell.” Currently Cimarrón has two films in post-production, Martín Boulocq’s “El visitante” and Rafa Russo’s “El año de la furia.”
Coral Cine –
Coral Cine focuses on...
- 9/4/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: HanWay, 47 Meters Down outfit Tea Shop and Riverstone Pictures (Wind River) are among the team on UK genre pic A Banquet, which will star Resident Evil franchise actress Sienna Guillory.
Recently wrapped in London, the psychological horror also stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks) and Lindsay Duncan (Private Lives).
Ruth Paxton’s directorial debut follows widowed mother Holly who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Above is a first look at the film.
Written by AFI alumnus Justin Bull, the film was shot on location in London during July and August amid strict on-set Covid protocols. HanWay has world rights and will introduce the project to buyers this fall.
Producers are Leonora Darby, Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions, Nik Bower...
Recently wrapped in London, the psychological horror also stars Jessica Alexander (Get Even), Ruby Stokes (Rocks) and Lindsay Duncan (Private Lives).
Ruth Paxton’s directorial debut follows widowed mother Holly who is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Above is a first look at the film.
Written by AFI alumnus Justin Bull, the film was shot on location in London during July and August amid strict on-set Covid protocols. HanWay has world rights and will introduce the project to buyers this fall.
Producers are Leonora Darby, Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions, Nik Bower...
- 9/3/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Low Cut Connie has announced its next studio album Private Lives, the band’s first-ever double LP, set for release later in 2020.
The title track is an archetypal upbeat piano-rocker from the road-warrior collective, with Adam Weiner celebrating the secret side hustles and quiet eccentricities of the “town freaks” in his native Philadelphia.
Private Lives, the band’s sixth album, is the result of three years of recording and writing from Weiner, who has recently been spending his quarantine performing high-energy livestreams from his South Philly living room.
“I’m...
The title track is an archetypal upbeat piano-rocker from the road-warrior collective, with Adam Weiner celebrating the secret side hustles and quiet eccentricities of the “town freaks” in his native Philadelphia.
Private Lives, the band’s sixth album, is the result of three years of recording and writing from Weiner, who has recently been spending his quarantine performing high-energy livestreams from his South Philly living room.
“I’m...
- 4/21/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
February 21, 2019 would have been the 73rd birthday of acclaimed actor Alan Rickman, who left us too soon in 2016 from pancreatic cancer. Rickman came from a working-class background and considered acting and drama school too impractical a choice as a career. He excelled in art and painting as a teen which led to him studying at the Royal Academy of Art and later starting his own design firm. At the age of 26 he decided to change course and applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts to which he was accepted.
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Upon graduation Rickman began working steadily on the British stage. While he played a variety of roles it wouldn’t be until about a decade later that he would find the role that would gain him huge attention in both London and the Us. That role would be as Valmont...
- 2/21/2019
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
February 21, 2019 would have been the 73rd birthday of acclaimed actor Alan Rickman, who left us too soon in 2016 from pancreatic cancer. Rickman came from a working-class background and considered acting and drama school too impractical a choice as a career. He excelled in art and painting as a teen which led to him studying at the Royal Academy of Art and later starting his own design firm. At the age of 26 he decided to change course and applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts to which he was accepted.
Upon graduation Rickman began working steadily on the British stage. While he played a variety of roles it wouldn’t be until about a decade later that he would find the role that would gain him huge attention in both London and the Us. That role would be as Valmont in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Upon graduation Rickman began working steadily on the British stage. While he played a variety of roles it wouldn’t be until about a decade later that he would find the role that would gain him huge attention in both London and the Us. That role would be as Valmont in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
- 2/21/2019
- by Robert Pius, Misty Holland and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Peter Bogdanovich Says It Only Took ‘One Good Idea’ to Make His Buster Keaton Doc ‘The Great Buster’
Almost half a century after he made a documentary about director John Ford, Peter Bodganovich is back with his second look at a classic filmmaker. “The Great Buster: A Celebration,” in which the director of “The Last Picture Show” and “What’s Up, Doc?” follows the life and career of pioneering silent comic and peerless stuntman Buster Keaton, opens on Friday at the Nuart in Los Angeles.
Featuring abundant Keaton footage, from the classic boulder chase in “Seven Chances” to television commercials he made near the end of his life, “The Great Buster” also finds Bogdanovich talking about Keaton with a potpourri of fans that includes Quentin Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Werner Herzog and Johnny Knoxville.
The film is structured chronologically, with one big exception: When it gets to 1923, when Keaton began a string of 10 landmark features that included “The General” and “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” it jumps forward six years and...
Featuring abundant Keaton footage, from the classic boulder chase in “Seven Chances” to television commercials he made near the end of his life, “The Great Buster” also finds Bogdanovich talking about Keaton with a potpourri of fans that includes Quentin Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Werner Herzog and Johnny Knoxville.
The film is structured chronologically, with one big exception: When it gets to 1923, when Keaton began a string of 10 landmark features that included “The General” and “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” it jumps forward six years and...
- 10/19/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Alan Rickman’s film resume includes many memorable characters, but his role as the intimidatingly moody Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise remains one of his most iconic roles. Audiences may have enjoyed him as one of the most layered and pivotal characters in the movie franchise based on the Jk Rowling novels, but in a collection of letters that were released for auction, there were moments where he didn’t enjoy Snape as much as we did.
The archive, which is auctioned off, is a collection of personal papers and letters that span his 40-year career as an actor.
In one particular letter, producer David Heyman wrote to him: “Thank you for making HP2 a success. I know, at times, you are frustrated but please know that you are an integral part of the films. And you are brilliant.”
The frustrations surfaced later in a note Rickman...
The archive, which is auctioned off, is a collection of personal papers and letters that span his 40-year career as an actor.
In one particular letter, producer David Heyman wrote to him: “Thank you for making HP2 a success. I know, at times, you are frustrated but please know that you are an integral part of the films. And you are brilliant.”
The frustrations surfaced later in a note Rickman...
- 5/29/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Every few years, CBS dusts off a minute-long animated holiday greeting that first ran in 1966. Now, more than 50 years later, it’s unveiling several new animated shorts that were inspired by that original spot.
Renowned for its graphic art design, the vintage greeting was designed by illustrator/animator R.O. Blechman (The New Yorker, “The Soldier’s Tale,” “Sesame Street,” Alka-Seltzer ads) and produced by animator Willis Pyle (“Pinocchio,” “Bambi,” “Mr. Magoo”). Because it’s a minute long (the standard back then, but unheard of now, as commercials are stripped to as quick as six seconds), CBS doesn’t have the opportunity to run it often.
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The spot, which features a tree full of birds who tweet until they encounter a saw-wielding man (who then surprises him with music of his own), has found new life on YouTube, in addition to...
Renowned for its graphic art design, the vintage greeting was designed by illustrator/animator R.O. Blechman (The New Yorker, “The Soldier’s Tale,” “Sesame Street,” Alka-Seltzer ads) and produced by animator Willis Pyle (“Pinocchio,” “Bambi,” “Mr. Magoo”). Because it’s a minute long (the standard back then, but unheard of now, as commercials are stripped to as quick as six seconds), CBS doesn’t have the opportunity to run it often.
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The spot, which features a tree full of birds who tweet until they encounter a saw-wielding man (who then surprises him with music of his own), has found new life on YouTube, in addition to...
- 11/22/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Tact, The Actors Company Theatre has announced that Jennifer Ehle Oslo -Tony nomination, The Coast of Utopia - Tony Award, Design for Living, The Real Thing - Tony, Theatre World awards, Kristine Nielsen Present Laughter You Can't Take It With You Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike -Tony Outer Critics Circle Award, Peter Bartlett She Loves Me Something's Rotten Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella, Reed Birney 1984 The Humans - Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination Gemini Picnic Casa Valentina - Drama Desk, Tony nomination, Cynthia Harris Mad About You The Tribute Artist Bad Habits Company Any Wednesday, Lorenzo Pisoni Equus, Humor Abuse, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Last Dance, and Simon Jones The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Party Monster The Thomas Crown Affair 12 Monkeys, Waiting in the Wings Private Lives The Real Inspector HoundHamlet Benefactors The Real Thing will star along with Hanna Cheek,...
- 11/7/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tact, The Actors Company Theatre has announced that Jennifer Ehle Oslo -Tony nomination, The Coast of Utopia - Tony Award, Design for Living, The Real Thing - Tony, Theatre World awards, Kristine Nielsen Present Laughter You Can't Take It With You Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike -Tony Outer Critics Circle Award, Peter Bartlett She Loves Me Something's Rotten Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella, Reed Birney 1984 The Humans - Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination Gemini Picnic Casa Valentina - Drama Desk, Tony nomination, Cynthia Harris 'Mad About You' The Tribute Artist Bad Habits Company Any Wednesday, Lorenzo Pisoni Equus, Humor Abuse, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Last Dance, and Simon Jones The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Party Monster The Thomas Crown Affair 12 Monkeys, Waiting in the Wings Private Lives The Real Inspector HoundHamlet Benefactors The Real Thing will star along with Hanna Cheek,...
- 10/18/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Critics weren’t too kind to last year’s long-gestasting, space-set love story “Passengers,” even though it finally combined the talents of beloved stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The film has just a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (decidedly un-fresh), where pull-quotes lambast the Morten Tyldum feature for a litany of sins, from being “disappointing” to “problematic” and having an “icky stalker scenario” that was “built upon the most disturbing premise” one critic had witnessed in years.
Yet the film prevailed at the box office, where it pulled in over $300 million in worldwide returns (and got nominated for two Oscars to boot). Audiences seemed to like it, and you know who else did, too? Lawrence herself.
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In her revealing new Vogue cover story, the Oscar winner defended the film, though she did admit...
Yet the film prevailed at the box office, where it pulled in over $300 million in worldwide returns (and got nominated for two Oscars to boot). Audiences seemed to like it, and you know who else did, too? Lawrence herself.
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In her revealing new Vogue cover story, the Oscar winner defended the film, though she did admit...
- 8/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
"Anybody will put up with anything if they think a movie is being shot." These are words of wisdom, but also kind of a guerrilla filmmaking mission statement, from filmmaker Larry Cohen. Steve Mitchell's King Cohen offers a breathless sprint through the writer-director-producer's prolific 'lets just shoot the damn movie!' ethos, from writing for NBC's Kraft Theatre in the era of live television in the late 1950s through episodic shows like The Fugitive and Branded -- "The bulk of the series, Dude" -- in the 1960s to directing racy social commentary (Bone, Black Caesar, God Told Me To, The Private Lives of J. Edgar Hoover) in the 1970s and gonzo genre-mashing creature features in the 1980s (Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff), before finally settling with writing mid-tier Hollywood...
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- 7/24/2017
- Screen Anarchy
'The Doll' with Ossi Oswalda and Hermann Thimig: Early Ernst Lubitsch satirical fantasy starring 'the German Mary Pickford' has similar premise to that of the 1925 Buster Keaton comedy 'Seven Chances.' 'The Doll': San Francisco Silent Film Festival presented fast-paced Ernst Lubitsch comedy starring the German Mary Pickford – Ossi Oswalda Directed by Ernst Lubitsch (So This Is Paris, The Wedding March), the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival presentation The Doll / Die Puppe (1919) has one of the most amusing mise-en-scènes ever recorded. The set is created by cut-out figures that gradually come to life; then even more cleverly, they commence the fast-paced action. It all begins when a shy, confirmed bachelor, Lancelot (Hermann Thimig), is ordered by his rich uncle (Max Kronert), the Baron von Chanterelle, to marry for a large sum of money. As to be expected, mayhem ensues. Lancelot is forced to flee from the hordes of eligible maidens, eventually...
- 6/28/2017
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
The current crop of acclaimed Quebec filmmakers shooting feature films south of the border speaks to an unprecedented infatuation on Hollywood’s part with French-Canadian directors.
Among the heavy hitters: Jean-Marc Vallée (“Wild,” “The Dallas Buyers Club,” HBO’s upcoming “Big Little Lies”), Philippe Falardeau (“The Bleeder,” “The Good Lie”), Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Sicario,” the forthcoming “Blade Runner” sequel), not to mention Xavier Dolan, who’s currently shooting his star-studded English-language debut, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.”
But there’s another remarkably prolific, genre-bending Montreal filmmaker – an award-winning festival regular who has clocked in nine features, one medium-length production and shorts to spare over the last decade – who’s never shown much enthusiasm about dipping his toes in the American studio system. No matter how many prizes or festival selections his films rack up (Berlin, Cannes, Locarno and Sundance among them) or how many retrospectives film societies program about his work,...
Among the heavy hitters: Jean-Marc Vallée (“Wild,” “The Dallas Buyers Club,” HBO’s upcoming “Big Little Lies”), Philippe Falardeau (“The Bleeder,” “The Good Lie”), Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Sicario,” the forthcoming “Blade Runner” sequel), not to mention Xavier Dolan, who’s currently shooting his star-studded English-language debut, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.”
But there’s another remarkably prolific, genre-bending Montreal filmmaker – an award-winning festival regular who has clocked in nine features, one medium-length production and shorts to spare over the last decade – who’s never shown much enthusiasm about dipping his toes in the American studio system. No matter how many prizes or festival selections his films rack up (Berlin, Cannes, Locarno and Sundance among them) or how many retrospectives film societies program about his work,...
- 11/11/2016
- by Michael-Oliver Harding
- Indiewire
This morning we are taking a look at the illustrious career of Dame Maggie Smith. I mean, she's a Dame after all Queen Elizabeth doesn't just hand those out to anyone. Her career includes highlights from on stage, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' 'Private Lives,' and 'Lettice and Lovage' to in films as 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' 'Sister Act,' and 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' to her iconic role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham on 'Downton Abbey,' for which she is nominated for an Emmy for the fourth-consecutive year.
- 9/16/2016
- by Matt Tamanini
- BroadwayWorld.com
Gael García Bernal to received inaugural Latin American Cinema Award at San Sebastian Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival The San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that it is inaugurating a Latin Cinema Award this year. The first recipient will be given to Gael García Bernal.
The Mexican actor - who also has a number of directing and producing credits - will receive his award at the Gala screening of Pablo Larraín’s Neruda, in which he co-stars.
Festival director José Luis Rebordinos said: “The creation of this award represents a new landmark in the Festival’s relationship with the Latin world, making for even stronger ties with its film industry while expressing appreciation for our filmmakers’ work”.
This will be Bernal’s third visit to the Festival since he came with his debut film Amores Perros, selected in 2000. He returned in 2001 in support of Y Tu Mamá También...
The Mexican actor - who also has a number of directing and producing credits - will receive his award at the Gala screening of Pablo Larraín’s Neruda, in which he co-stars.
Festival director José Luis Rebordinos said: “The creation of this award represents a new landmark in the Festival’s relationship with the Latin world, making for even stronger ties with its film industry while expressing appreciation for our filmmakers’ work”.
This will be Bernal’s third visit to the Festival since he came with his debut film Amores Perros, selected in 2000. He returned in 2001 in support of Y Tu Mamá También...
- 8/3/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"The Furniture" is our weekly series on Production Design. Here's Daniel Walber...
Hobie Doyle is out of his element. Tossed from the great outdoors into the drawing room by the head of the studio, Alden Ehrenreich’s cowboy careens into words with hilarious indelicacy. It might be the single funniest scene in the Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar!, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, or at least a close second place to the hysterical clerical debate. It also has one of the most interesting sets, if not the flashiest.
The production in question is "Merrily We Dance," a genteel comedy by the director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes). A hodge-podge of George Cukor and Noel Coward, he stands in for the not-quite-closeted geniuses of the era. The film, which seems to fall somewhere between Private Lives and Dinner at Eight, sends a jilted lover to an upscale party from which the hostess has absconded to Lake Onondaga...
Hobie Doyle is out of his element. Tossed from the great outdoors into the drawing room by the head of the studio, Alden Ehrenreich’s cowboy careens into words with hilarious indelicacy. It might be the single funniest scene in the Coen Brothers’ Hail Caesar!, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray, or at least a close second place to the hysterical clerical debate. It also has one of the most interesting sets, if not the flashiest.
The production in question is "Merrily We Dance," a genteel comedy by the director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes). A hodge-podge of George Cukor and Noel Coward, he stands in for the not-quite-closeted geniuses of the era. The film, which seems to fall somewhere between Private Lives and Dinner at Eight, sends a jilted lover to an upscale party from which the hostess has absconded to Lake Onondaga...
- 6/13/2016
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives.
About the films:
Though born to modest means in Hungary, Alexander Korda would go on to become one of the most important filmmakers in the history of British cinema. A producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Korda made a name for his production company, London Films, with the Oscar-winning The Private Life of Henry VIII. He then continued his populist investigation behind the scenes and in the bedrooms of such figures as Catherine the Great, Don Juan, and Rembrandt. Mixing stately period drama with surprising satire, these films are exemplars of grand 1930s moviemaking.
About the films:
Though born to modest means in Hungary, Alexander Korda would go on to become one of the most important filmmakers in the history of British cinema. A producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Korda made a name for his production company, London Films, with the Oscar-winning The Private Life of Henry VIII. He then continued his populist investigation behind the scenes and in the bedrooms of such figures as Catherine the Great, Don Juan, and Rembrandt. Mixing stately period drama with surprising satire, these films are exemplars of grand 1930s moviemaking.
- 6/5/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Lady P from the FlixWise podcast to discuss Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies.
About the films:
Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed...
About the films:
Over the past four decades, Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles) has created one of cinema’s most distinctive bodies of work—formally daring, often autobiographical films about people and places, time and space. In this collection, we present the early films that put her on the map: intensely personal, modernist investigations of cities, history, family, and sexuality, made in the 1970s in the United States and Europe and strongly influenced by the New York experimental film scene. Bold and iconoclastic, these five films pushed...
- 4/29/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noel Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risque. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, 'Some Day I'll Find You', for the play.
- 2/6/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
The world has lost British great, Alan Rickman. The actor sadly died at the age of 69.
From the AP:
Rickman’s family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer.
Born to a working-class London family in 1946 and trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rickman was often cast as the bad guy; with his rich, languid voice he could invest evil with wicked, irresistible relish.
His breakout role was as scheming French aristocrat the Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”
Film roles included the psychopathic villain Hans Gruber who tormented Bruce Willis in “Die Hard” in 1988; a deceased lover who consoles his bereaved partner in 1990’s “Truly Madly Deeply”; the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” in 1991; and a wayward husband in 2003 romantic comedy “Love Actually.
The world has lost British great, Alan Rickman. The actor sadly died at the age of 69.
From the AP:
Rickman’s family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer.
Born to a working-class London family in 1946 and trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rickman was often cast as the bad guy; with his rich, languid voice he could invest evil with wicked, irresistible relish.
His breakout role was as scheming French aristocrat the Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.”
Film roles included the psychopathic villain Hans Gruber who tormented Bruce Willis in “Die Hard” in 1988; a deceased lover who consoles his bereaved partner in 1990’s “Truly Madly Deeply”; the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” in 1991; and a wayward husband in 2003 romantic comedy “Love Actually.
- 1/14/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Veteran stage and screen actor Alan Rickman, best known to American audience for his roles as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard, has died of cancer. He was 69 years old. Rickman arrived in New York with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1987. He was nominated for a Tony for his role as Vicomte de Valmont in the production, and the actor would receive another Tony nomination in 2002 for his work in Private Lives. Rickman was also presented with countless awards and honors for his work on the screen during the past five
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dead at 69...
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dead at 69...
- 1/14/2016
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
Norma Shearer: The Boss' wife was cast in 'The Divorcee.' Norma Shearer movies on TCM: Early talkies and Best Actress Oscar Note: This Norma Shearer article is currently being revised and expanded. Please Check back later. Norma Shearer, one of the top stars in Hollywood history and known as the Queen of MGM back in the 1930s, is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of Nov. 2015. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that even though its parent company, Time Warner, owns most of Shearer's movies, TCM isn't airing any premieres. So, if you were expecting to check out a very young Norma Shearer in The Devil's Circus, Upstage, or After Midnight, you're out of luck. (I've seen all three; they're all worth a look.) It's a crime that, music score or no, restored print or no, TCM/Time Warner don't make available for viewing the...
- 11/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'Saint Joan': Constance Cummings as the George Bernard Shaw heroine. Constance Cummings on stage: From sex-change farce and Emma Bovary to Juliet and 'Saint Joan' (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Frank Capra, Mae West and Columbia Lawsuit.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title roles in two of husband Benn W. Levy's stage adaptations: Levy and Hubert Griffith's Young Madame Conti (1936), starring Cummings as a demimondaine who falls in love with a villainous character. She ends up killing him – or does she? Adapted from Bruno Frank's German-language original, Young Madame Conti was presented on both sides of the Atlantic; on Broadway, it had a brief run in spring 1937 at the Music Box Theatre. Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, the Theatre Guild-produced Madame Bovary (1937) was staged in late fall at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. Referring to the London production of Young Madame Conti, The...
- 11/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Are you looking for your next weekend getaway? We love summer theater festivals for their rotating rep of high-level productions—think classics, family musicals, and hot new works—and for their scenic small-town surroundings. Whether you’ve flocked to a fest every summer since childhood or are looking for a new experience, here are nine amazing destination theater festivals across the country. American Players (Spring Green, Wis.)“Come play in the woods” with this Spring Green, Wis., theater company, which produces eight plays in rotating rep from June through October each year. The company is situated on over 100 acres of beautiful Wisconsin land, and audiences enjoy world-class works from the 1148-seat outdoor amphitheater or Apt’s intimate indoor space. This year, make the trip for plays including “The Island,” written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and the beloved Noël Coward comedy “Private Lives.” Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield,...
- 6/30/2015
- backstage.com
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, based on/built from the TV show – Minuscule – The Private Lives of Insects, is not just an animated adventure, but a kind of artistic experiment.
It’s a story told visually, with no dialog beyond the hoots and squeaks of ladybugs and ants, which makes it a challenging experiment already, but it is also an experiment of form, structure, and thematic content. It’s an effort that ultimately betrays the European sensibilities responsible for it.
A ladybug gets separated from her family, and finds herself in a lunchbox that a group of black ants are very interested in. She (just based on the “ladybug” standard) is dragged away by the ants, who are after the sugar cubes, and when some nasty red ants get involved, the adventure begins. Our ladybug has to figure out, not just the situation she’s in at the moment,...
It’s a story told visually, with no dialog beyond the hoots and squeaks of ladybugs and ants, which makes it a challenging experiment already, but it is also an experiment of form, structure, and thematic content. It’s an effort that ultimately betrays the European sensibilities responsible for it.
A ladybug gets separated from her family, and finds herself in a lunchbox that a group of black ants are very interested in. She (just based on the “ladybug” standard) is dragged away by the ants, who are after the sugar cubes, and when some nasty red ants get involved, the adventure begins. Our ladybug has to figure out, not just the situation she’s in at the moment,...
- 6/9/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The two-time Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes Private Lives, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and composer David Amram scores for the films Splendor In The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate were just honored at Theater for the New City's 12th annual Love 'N Courage evening. An annual event that benefits Tnc's Emerging Playwrights Program, this year's Love 'N Courage event was hosted by Phoebe Legere and Matt Morillo and featured performances by Ms. Grimes, Mr. Amram, Vinie Burrows, Judy Gorman, Yip Harburg Foundation's Rainbow Troupe, Luba Mason, Human Kinetics Movement Arts, and The Love Show, along with select excerpts from plays by Andrea Fulton, Georges Bizet, Daniel Catan and Seymour Barab.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the performances below...
- 3/3/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The two-time Tony Award-winning actress Tammy Grimes Private Lives, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and composer David Amram scores for the films Splendor In The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate were just honored at Theater for the New City's 12th annual Love 'N Courage evening. An annual event that benefits Tnc's Emerging Playwrights Program, this year's Love 'N Courage event was hosted by Phoebe Legere and Matt Morillo and featured performances by Ms. Grimes, Mr. Amram, Vinie Burrows, Judy Gorman, Yip Harburg Foundation's Rainbow Troupe, Luba Mason, Human Kinetics Movement Arts, and The Love Show, along with select excerpts from plays by Andrea Fulton, Georges Bizet, Daniel Catan and Seymour Barab.
- 3/3/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noel Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risque. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, 'Some Day I'll Find You', for the play.
- 2/6/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
It started with an infographic. Then more infographics. And some think pieces. And some brief TwitterRage. Over the last year and a half, women’s role in cinema, specifically Hollywood cinema, has become a lightning rod for discussion and debate, and more so than any time in the past, people are approaching film a little more critically in regards to how women are portrayed. The statistics are mind-numbingly bleak, with women representing a fraction of the work force behind the camera, from director to CEO to the best boy. Women in front of the camera rarely fair much better, with roles such as “beautiful and always understanding girlfriend/wife to the hilarious schlub” and “girl with cleavage that shoots guns in tight clothes”.
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
Last week I happened across a piece about the Best Actress race for the upcoming Academy Award Ceremony and the author talked about how the Actress race...
- 12/11/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
The Old Vic’s production, starring Richard Armitage, to be screened in more than 350 cinemas.
The Old Vic’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, directed by Yaël Farber and starring Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), is to be screened in more than 350 cinemas across the UK on Dec 4 and Dec 7.
The screenings will be handled by DigitalTheatre.com and CinemaLive. Further worldwide territories are set to be announced in the interim.
It marks the first time DigitalTheatre.com has worked with the Old Vic and was filmed live in HD using multiple cameras.
CinemaLive, which hold the record for the highest grossing recorded theatre production in UK box office history for DigitalTheatre.com’s Private Lives, will distribute The Crucible across the UK.
More info can be found at www.thecrucibleonscreen.com...
The Old Vic’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, directed by Yaël Farber and starring Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), is to be screened in more than 350 cinemas across the UK on Dec 4 and Dec 7.
The screenings will be handled by DigitalTheatre.com and CinemaLive. Further worldwide territories are set to be announced in the interim.
It marks the first time DigitalTheatre.com has worked with the Old Vic and was filmed live in HD using multiple cameras.
CinemaLive, which hold the record for the highest grossing recorded theatre production in UK box office history for DigitalTheatre.com’s Private Lives, will distribute The Crucible across the UK.
More info can be found at www.thecrucibleonscreen.com...
- 10/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
This morning we are taking a look at the illustrious career of Dame Maggie Smith. I mean, she's a Dame after all Queen Elizabeth doesn't just hand those out to anyone. Her career includes highlights from on stage, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' 'Private Lives,' and 'Lettice and Lovage' to in films as 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' 'Sister Act,' and 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' to her iconic role as Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham on 'Downton Abbey,' for which she is nominated for an Emmy for the fourth-consecutive year.
- 8/21/2014
- by Matt Tamanini
- BroadwayWorld.com
There’s a war coming to Broadway—but don’t expect to see dueling Yorks and Lancasters.
Instead, this War of the Roses will see Warren Adler adapting his own 1981 novel, a black comedy that follows an affluent couple (yes, their last name is Rose) as they embark on a contentious divorce. The book was adapted into a movie in 1989, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, who also directed the film. (It marked the trio’s third time working together, after 1984′s Romancing the Stone and its 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile.)
Adler, also the author of Random Hearts,...
Instead, this War of the Roses will see Warren Adler adapting his own 1981 novel, a black comedy that follows an affluent couple (yes, their last name is Rose) as they embark on a contentious divorce. The book was adapted into a movie in 1989, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, who also directed the film. (It marked the trio’s third time working together, after 1984′s Romancing the Stone and its 1985 sequel The Jewel of the Nile.)
Adler, also the author of Random Hearts,...
- 6/30/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Noel Coward's fast-talking comedy of manners Private Lives will close the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2013-2014 Season. Directed by Maria Aitken 2009-2010 Season's As You Like It, Private Lives enjoyed wild success at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2012, being deemed 'a diamond-sharp production' The Boston Globe and will find a home at the Lansburgh Theatre from tonight, May 29-July 13, 2014 450 7th Street Nw.
- 5/29/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This morning Chris Colfer put this on his Instagram account with the hashtag “Noel”
We now know why. Screen Daily is reporting that Chris has signed to play the lead role in a biopic on the life of the iconic Noel Coward. And he’s not the only one …
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
This could be a huge step forward in Chris’ career, and with Glee ending next year, it could be a perfect springboard for the actor/writer/director/singer/dancer.
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We now know why. Screen Daily is reporting that Chris has signed to play the lead role in a biopic on the life of the iconic Noel Coward. And he’s not the only one …
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
This could be a huge step forward in Chris’ career, and with Glee ending next year, it could be a perfect springboard for the actor/writer/director/singer/dancer.
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- 5/15/2014
- by snicks
- The Backlot
“Glee” star Chris Colfer has been attached to the lead role in tentatively titled biopic “Noel”. The film is set to portray the early life of playwright Noel Coward, known for his wit and flamboyance, having written works including “Private Lives” and “Blithe Spirit”. Written by Martin Sherman (“Mrs. Henderson Presents”), the project is already attracting sales attention ahead of Cannes, with Joe Stephenson (“Chicken”) set to direct. An impressive cast of Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are also in talks to join the production. Filming is currently scheduled for late summer. Colfer is best known for [...]
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- 5/14/2014
- by Layla Hedges
- UpandComers
It’s been a big spring for Chris Colfer. Last week saw the debut of the first Glee episode he wrote — and now, according to ScreenDaily, Colfer has reportedly signed on to star in a Noel Coward biopic, tentatively titled Noel.
The film, which focuses on the life and influences of the famous British playwright — best known for his classic works Private Lives and Blithe Spirit – will be produced by Joe Stephenson with a script by Martin Sherman (Bent, Mrs. Henderson Presents). Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are also in are in talks to join the cast.
The film, which focuses on the life and influences of the famous British playwright — best known for his classic works Private Lives and Blithe Spirit – will be produced by Joe Stephenson with a script by Martin Sherman (Bent, Mrs. Henderson Presents). Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are also in are in talks to join the cast.
- 5/14/2014
- by Andrea Towers
- EW - Inside Movies
Bill
Damian Lewis ("Homeland") will guest star in the upcoming Shakespeare comedy "Bill". Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond also star.
The story deals with what happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years' - how the hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare left his family and home to follow his dream. [Source: Screen]
The Brand New Testament
Catherine Deneuve has joined the cast of Jaco Van Dormael's surreal comedy "The Brand New Testament" which begins filming in July. Comedian Benoit Poelvoorde plays God while Yolande Moreau plays his wife.
In the story, God currently lives in Brussels where he's an odious man disliked by his family. When his daughter runs away from home, God takes to the streets to find her and discovers the horrors of a world he created himself. [Source: Screen]
Experimenter
Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder are set to star in Michael Almereyda's...
Damian Lewis ("Homeland") will guest star in the upcoming Shakespeare comedy "Bill". Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond also star.
The story deals with what happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years' - how the hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare left his family and home to follow his dream. [Source: Screen]
The Brand New Testament
Catherine Deneuve has joined the cast of Jaco Van Dormael's surreal comedy "The Brand New Testament" which begins filming in July. Comedian Benoit Poelvoorde plays God while Yolande Moreau plays his wife.
In the story, God currently lives in Brussels where he's an odious man disliked by his family. When his daughter runs away from home, God takes to the streets to find her and discovers the horrors of a world he created himself. [Source: Screen]
Experimenter
Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder are set to star in Michael Almereyda's...
- 5/14/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave in talks for biopic of UK playwright.
Glee star Chris Colfer is attached to lead cast in Noel (working title), the Noel Coward biopic scripted by Bent and Mrs Henderson Presents writer Martin Sherman.
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
The project, which has already attracted sales heat for Metro International ahead of Cannes, will mark the second feature from British director Joe Stephenson, who recently completed drama Chicken, starring Yasmin Paige, Scott Chambers and Morgan Watkins.
Producers are Stephenson with Julia Valentine (The Silent Storm). Executive producers are Colin Vaines, Jane Wright...
Glee star Chris Colfer is attached to lead cast in Noel (working title), the Noel Coward biopic scripted by Bent and Mrs Henderson Presents writer Martin Sherman.
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
The project, which has already attracted sales heat for Metro International ahead of Cannes, will mark the second feature from British director Joe Stephenson, who recently completed drama Chicken, starring Yasmin Paige, Scott Chambers and Morgan Watkins.
Producers are Stephenson with Julia Valentine (The Silent Storm). Executive producers are Colin Vaines, Jane Wright...
- 5/14/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave in talks for biopic of UK playwright.
Glee star Chris Colfer is attached to lead cast in Noel (working title), the Noel Coward biopic scripted by Bent and Mrs Henderson Presents writer Martin Sherman.
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
The project, which has already attracted sales heat for Metro International ahead of Cannes, will mark the second feature from British director Joe Stephenson, who recently completed drama Chicken, starring Yasmin Paige, Scott Chambers and Morgan Watkins.
Producers are Stephenson with Julia Valentine (The Silent Storm). Executive producers are Colin Vaines, Jane Wright...
Glee star Chris Colfer is attached to lead cast in Noel (working title), the Noel Coward biopic scripted by Bent and Mrs Henderson Presents writer Martin Sherman.
Sir Ian McKellen, Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce are in talks to join the cast of the feature, which portrays the early life and influences of the famously flamboyant British playwright, producer and wit who penned classics including Private Lives and Blithe Spirit and who worked on films including Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve, for which he was Oscar-nominated.
The project, which has already attracted sales heat for Metro International ahead of Cannes, will mark the second feature from British director Joe Stephenson, who recently completed drama Chicken, starring Yasmin Paige, Scott Chambers and Morgan Watkins.
Producers are Stephenson with Julia Valentine (The Silent Storm). Executive producers are Colin Vaines, Jane Wright...
- 5/14/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Noel Coward's fast-talking comedy of manners Private Lives will close the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2013-2014 Season. Directed by Maria Aitken 2009-2010 Season's As You Like It, Private Lives enjoyed wild success at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2012, being deemed 'a diamond-sharp production' The Boston Globe and will find a home at the Lansburgh Theatre from May 29-July 13, 2014 450 7th Street Nw.
- 5/7/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
[This is a review of The Americans season 2, episode 3. There will be Spoilers.]
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The core principle behind the Soviet Directorate S program, as depicted in The Americans, is to make the transition into American life by engaging in a façade so complete and outwardly flawless that no one would suspect deep cover Soviet spies were posing as an ordinary American couple. One of the key components to generating this veneer of sameness is to varnish it with a thick lacquer of the ordinary and the mundane that will give anyone taking a passing or prolonged glimpse absolutely no reason to pause and think about the inner workings of ...
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The core principle behind the Soviet Directorate S program, as depicted in The Americans, is to make the transition into American life by engaging in a façade so complete and outwardly flawless that no one would suspect deep cover Soviet spies were posing as an ordinary American couple. One of the key components to generating this veneer of sameness is to varnish it with a thick lacquer of the ordinary and the mundane that will give anyone taking a passing or prolonged glimpse absolutely no reason to pause and think about the inner workings of ...
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- 3/13/2014
- by Kevin Yeoman
- ScreenRant.com
London – Tom Hiddleston, Jude Law, Judi Dench and Hayley Atwell are among the high-profile nominees vying for an Olivier Award this year. In the best actor and best actress categories, Law and Dench received nominations for their performances in Henry V and Peter and Alice, respectively. At the British equivalent of the Tony Awards, Law competes with Tom Hiddleston (Coriolanus), Henry Goodman (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui) and Rory Kinnear (Othello) for best actor. Anna Chancellor (Private Lives), Lesley Manville (Ghosts), Atwell (The Pride) and Dench have a tilt at best actress. Photos: Oscars: Behind-the-Scenes Photos From
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- 3/10/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TNT joins the reality TV craze following the “Private Lives” of women in the country music biz in their newest series Private Lives of Nashville Wives debuting tonight at 10pm Et. We caught up with Private Lives of Nashville Wives star Cassie Chapman who gives us some insight on why it’s taken the ladies of Nashville so long to get their own reality series. “What’s interesting about Nashville is that we are really private people. As a Southern lady, the first thing you learn as a child is that you keep your business private,” tells Cassie Chapman, a former Hooters … Continue reading →
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The post Interview with “Private Lives of Nashville Wives” star Cassie Chapman appeared first on Channel Guide Magazine.
- 2/24/2014
- by Barb Oates
- ChannelGuideMag
The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M
Directed by Rouhollah Hejazi
Iran, 2014
When asked what his wife, Ava, does for a living, Mohsen responds that she’s an interior decorator and graphic artist. It’s a lie, told only to impress Mohsen’s boss who has promoted him, and it’s one even Ava is impressed with later, praising her husband for endowing her with such an interesting occupation. During these early stages of The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M, Ava, played by Mahtab Keramati, is meek and and quiet, taking harsh criticisms from her husband in dutiful silence – he thinks her clumsy and thoughtless and her hobby as a wedding table decorator is meaningless. These demeaning evaluations of Ava are poorly disguised as constructive criticisms meant to empower her, but instead keep her dependent on Mohsen’s “expertise.” However, Hamid Farokhnezhad plays Mohsen with a humorous...
Directed by Rouhollah Hejazi
Iran, 2014
When asked what his wife, Ava, does for a living, Mohsen responds that she’s an interior decorator and graphic artist. It’s a lie, told only to impress Mohsen’s boss who has promoted him, and it’s one even Ava is impressed with later, praising her husband for endowing her with such an interesting occupation. During these early stages of The Private Lives of Mr. and Mrs. M, Ava, played by Mahtab Keramati, is meek and and quiet, taking harsh criticisms from her husband in dutiful silence – he thinks her clumsy and thoughtless and her hobby as a wedding table decorator is meaningless. These demeaning evaluations of Ava are poorly disguised as constructive criticisms meant to empower her, but instead keep her dependent on Mohsen’s “expertise.” However, Hamid Farokhnezhad plays Mohsen with a humorous...
- 2/21/2014
- by Jae K. Renfrow
- SoundOnSight
Carnival Films and ITV have set a handful of new names to join the cast of Downton Abbey as it heads into its 5th season. Richard E. Grant will play Simon Bricker who visits the estate as a guest of the Granthams. Anna Chancellor (The Hour), fresh off a West End production of Private Lives, is also coming aboard in the guest role of Lady Anstruther. Rade Sherbedgia (Snatch, Taken 2) will play Russian refugee, Kuragin, who has fled the Russian revolution after World War I. Downton executive producer Gareth Neame said, “We are delighted to welcome these talented actors to the world of Downton. The characters they play are set to bring yet more excitement and intrigue to the show.” Returning guest cast member Dame Harriet Walter will also reprise her role as Lady Shackleton, and Peter Egan will return as Lord Flintshire. Last season, the series added a...
- 2/14/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Today in 1975, Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rogers Theatre, where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noel Coward. It focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in neighbouring rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risque. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, 'Some Day I'll Find You', for the play.
- 2/6/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
DVD Release Date: Feb. 4, 2014
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: BBC
Helena and Dominic are Dick and Liz in Burton and Taylor.
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) and Dominic West (Centurion) star as Hollywood’s most famously volatile on-again-off-again couple in the 2013 TV movie Burton and Taylor.
The film is set in 1983, when Elizabeth Taylor and her ex-husband (twice over!) Richard Burton star in a Broadway stage revival of the Noel Coward play Private Lives. With the middle-aged Taylor’s pill-popping and lack of stage experience and Burton’s ongoing struggle to control his drinking and a new girlfriend who may become his wife, the lives—both private and public of the two legendary stars prove to be both tempestuous, dramatic and funny!
Directed by Richard Laxton, the BBC Drama/BBC America co-production was broadcast on BBC America in October, 2013, with Carter garnering a Golden Globe nomination for her take on La Liz.
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: BBC
Helena and Dominic are Dick and Liz in Burton and Taylor.
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) and Dominic West (Centurion) star as Hollywood’s most famously volatile on-again-off-again couple in the 2013 TV movie Burton and Taylor.
The film is set in 1983, when Elizabeth Taylor and her ex-husband (twice over!) Richard Burton star in a Broadway stage revival of the Noel Coward play Private Lives. With the middle-aged Taylor’s pill-popping and lack of stage experience and Burton’s ongoing struggle to control his drinking and a new girlfriend who may become his wife, the lives—both private and public of the two legendary stars prove to be both tempestuous, dramatic and funny!
Directed by Richard Laxton, the BBC Drama/BBC America co-production was broadcast on BBC America in October, 2013, with Carter garnering a Golden Globe nomination for her take on La Liz.
- 2/3/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Access to tickets for extra performances of acclaimed production starring Tom Hiddleston will be determined by online draw
Theatregoers will get one last chance to catch Tom Hiddleston's critically acclaimed performance as Coriolanus, as the Donmar Warehouse has announced an extension to its sell-out run. Josie Rourke's production will play a further six performances between 10-13 February – but you will have to enter a prize draw in order to win the opportunity to buy tickets.
The ticket lottery, designed to ensure fair access to the extra performances, is the latest measure aimed at improving access to the 250-seat theatre. One of Rourke's first moves as artistic director was the introduction of the Donmar Front Row ticket scheme, through which 300 tickets a week go on sale for performances that are taking place a fortnight later.
Coriolanus is also set for a live broadcast as part of Nt Live on 30 January.
Theatregoers will get one last chance to catch Tom Hiddleston's critically acclaimed performance as Coriolanus, as the Donmar Warehouse has announced an extension to its sell-out run. Josie Rourke's production will play a further six performances between 10-13 February – but you will have to enter a prize draw in order to win the opportunity to buy tickets.
The ticket lottery, designed to ensure fair access to the extra performances, is the latest measure aimed at improving access to the 250-seat theatre. One of Rourke's first moves as artistic director was the introduction of the Donmar Front Row ticket scheme, through which 300 tickets a week go on sale for performances that are taking place a fortnight later.
Coriolanus is also set for a live broadcast as part of Nt Live on 30 January.
- 1/16/2014
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
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