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28 July 2011 12:04 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Academy Award nominees Bill Murray and Laura Linney star in the historical tale Hyde Park on Hudson, which began filming this week in the U.K. for co-producers and co-financiers Focus Features and Film4. BAFTA Award winner Roger Michell (Film4.s Venus) is directing from a screenplay by Richard Nelson. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

Focus will release Hyde Park on Hudson in the second half of 2012. Focus holds worldwide rights . excluding U.K. free-tv rights, which are held by Film4 . to the movie. Filming is taking place in the U.K. on the Free Range Films/Daybreak Pictures production. Kevin Loader (In the Loop) and David Aukin (Endgame) are producing the feature with Mr. Michell. Focus executive vice president, European production Teresa Moneo is supervising Hyde Park on Hudson.

In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (played by Mr. Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams of »

- Melissa Howland

6 May 2011 8:42 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Laura Linney is in advanced talks to play Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley in the drama “Hyde Park On Hudson” for Focus Features International says The Daily Mail.

Based on a British radio play by Richard Nelson and set in the Summer of 1939 just before World War II broke out, the story follows the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to President Roosevelt's upstate New York home near Hyde Park on Hudson.

Over the course of the weekend, details of Fdr's private life begin to unfold including his affair with his distant cousin Daisy.

British actors Samuel West ("Notting Hill,” “Persuasion") and Olivia Colman ("Tyrannosaur," "Hot Fuzz") are set to play King George and Queen Elizabeth.

Roger Michell (''Notting Hill'') is on board to direct the story while Nelson adapted the script. Kevin Loader and David Aukin will produce. »

- Garth Franklin

8 February 2011 1:00 PM, PST | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »

Tom Sturridge may fit right in the midst of his generation of dark-haired, handsome British actors, but he refuses to consider his colleagues as competition. "If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy," says Sturridge. "I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not." Indeed, the actor says he thoroughly enjoyed himself during a two-year gap between roles. And he won't plot and struggle for his next role. "You can construct something and make decisions and do film after film to try and get to this place, and never get there," he says. "And you can do nothing, and then get a phone call randomly saying X has just seen you do an interview on the Internet and thinks you'd be perfect for this film, and suddenly you're in Brazil shooting the best film ever made. All of it is circumstance. »

31 January 2011 1:00 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

Filed under: Columns, Cinematical

When we think of English writers, we think of the irreplaceable William Shakespeare -- the man so prolific, in so many genres, that we've been served well over 800 films and series that dig into his tomes. But there's another English writer whose also had a massive impact with far fewer -- and far less diverse -- works. She is Jane Austen.

You can't throw a stone into female-centric fare without hitting Austen in some way, shape or form. In the last decade alone, there have been four 'Pride and Prejudice' productions, two treatments of Emma, dalliances into 'Mansfield Park,' 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Persuasion,' not to mention four looks into 'Sense and Sensibility,' including this week's Latina-spinned twist, 'From Prada to Nada.' That's all of her novels getting at least one adaptation, if not multiple stabs, »

- Monika Bartyzel

31 January 2011 1:00 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Filed under: Columns, Cinematical

When we think of English writers, we think of the irreplaceable William Shakespeare -- the man so prolific, in so many genres, that we've been served well over 800 films and series that dig into his tomes. But there's another English writer whose also had a massive impact with far fewer -- and far less diverse -- works. She is Jane Austen.

You can't throw a stone into female-centric fare without hitting Austen in some way, shape or form. In the last decade alone, there have been four 'Pride and Prejudice' productions, two treatments of Emma, dalliances into 'Mansfield Park,' 'Northanger Abbey' and 'Persuasion,' not to mention four looks into 'Sense and Sensibility,' including this week's Latina-spinned twist, 'From Prada to Nada.' That's all of her novels getting at least one adaptation, if not multiple stabs, »

- Monika Bartyzel

5 items from 2011