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Exclusive: BBC commissioning executives are booked to see the award-winning musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge, which opens Wednesday night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre following its transfer from a sold-out season at the National Theatre. This column told you a year ago that StudioCanal’s Red Production company is developing the musical into a TV drama series.

The TV production will be based on the stage show by playwright Chris Bush and glorious songs from the catalog of singer-songwriter Richard Hawley. Sources tell me that a deal is strongly favored between Red and the BBC.

Bush is writing the screenplay for the series, expanding the storylines for characters they created for the show that originated at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre in south Yorkshire in 2019, having been commissioned by Sheffield Theatres and producer Rupert Lord’s Various Productions.

Red pounced quickly and took out an option on the show...

Anne Hathaway's decision to cut her hair for her role as Fantine in Les Misérables was a critical aspect of the character's story and helped to sell the loss and humiliation she experienced. The haircut was a emotionally intense experience for Hathaway, reducing her to tears and making her feel like a "mental patient". Despite the traumatic nature of losing her hair, Hathaway had a lot of support and love on the set of Les Misérables, which made the experience more bearable.

Anne Hathaway plays Fantine in Les Misérables, and she really did get a haircut for the role. The 2012 Les Misérables is a dark, epic, historical musical based on the stage musical of the same name, which is, of course, an adaptation of the renowned novel by Victor Hugo. Starring Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Javert, and Hathaway as Fantine, Les Misérables earned eight Academy...

Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Nina Sosanya, Laurence Spellman, Nicola Sloane, Tereza Srbova, Freddie Gaminara, Raj Swamy | Written by Lindsay Shapero | Directed by Trevor Nunn

Red Joan, directed by Trevor Nunn, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jennie Rooney and is loosely based off the life of Melita Norwood. An elderly British woman who in the early 2000s was outed in secret documents by British Intelligence, alleging that Norwood provided detailed plans to the Ussr communist regime about Britain’s developing secret nuclear program, throughout her time working as a secretary at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association. Nunn’s film follows the truly bizarre story of a young woman emotionally manipulated and internally conflicted on her political beliefs and the direction her heart wants to take.

It is a shame with what noticeably offbeat material Nunn has at his hands,...

Title: Tale of Tales Director: Matteo Garrone Starring: Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Alba Rohrwacher, Massimo Ceccherini, Laura Pizzirani, Franco Pistoni, Giselda Volodi, Giuseppina Cervizzi, Jessie Cave, Toby Jones, Bebe Cave, Guillaume Delaunay, Eric Maclennan, Nicola Sloane, Vincenzo Nemolato, Giulio Beranek, Davide Campagna, Vincent Cassel, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael, Stacy Martin, Kathryn Hunter, Ryan McParland, Kenneth Collard, Renato Scarpa. Kings, princesses, monsters, ogres, dark fairytales drenched with curses and magic that comes with a price, populate Matteo Garrone’s new cinematic endeavour, through the screen adaptation of a seventeenth-century collections of tales by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile: ‘Lo cunto de li cunti’ (Pentamerone), i.e. ‘Tale [ Read More ]

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Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman have signed on to star in the upcoming musical London Road for director Rufus Norris (Broken).

The project is an adaptation of a stage play that centers around the British community of Ipswich which was devastated when a serial killer murdered five women. Tom Hardy will have a small role as Mark, a cab driver who has just one scene where he sings about a troubling passion he had as a teenager. The Daily Mail reports that the actor is a fan of the play and pursued Rufus Norris for a chance to join the production.

Olivia Colman is playing Julie, the organizer of Ipswich's Neighborhood Watch, who comes up with the idea for London Road in Bloom, hanging baskets full of flowers all throughout the area as she sings away to provide a distraction from the darkness that has taken over the town. Linzi Hateley...

Tom Hardy has scored a small but key role in Rufus Norris' currently shooting film adaptation of the documentary-style musical stage play "London Road" for BBC Films and Cuba Films.

The musical deals with a community in Ipswich shattered when a serial killer murdered five women, and the story follows how they coped with the ensuing frenzy.

"Broadchurch" star Olivia Colman plays the major role of Julie, a Neighbourhood Watch event organiser. Hardy will play a taxi driver who has one scene where he sings about a morbid passion of his youth.

Anita Dobson, Clare Burt, Rosalie Craig, Hal Fowler, Kate Fleetwood, Nick Holder, Claire Moore, Michael Shaeffer, Nicola Sloane, Paul Thornley, Howard Ward and Duncan Wisbey also star.

Source: The Daily Mail...

Los Angeles, Jan 25: Actress Anne Hathaway couldn't stop crying when her hair was cut short for a scene in "Les Miserables".

Dirrector Tom Hooper decided to cut her hair off with a knife for her role to look more authentic in the movie musical. Actress Nicola Sloane, who was given the task, revealed how difficult it was for Hathaway.

"The director said, 'I want it to look really vicious we need you to be hacking at it with a knife.'," mirror.co.uk quoted Sloane as saying.

"We blu-tacked a razor blade against a knife blade and I held the two together and you have to saw away at it that's the only way to get it off. She.

Anne Hathaway burst into tears when her hair was cut off for 'Les Miserables'. The movie's director Tom Hooper decided against using a scissors as he wanted it to look more authentic by having her hair cut off with a knife for her role of Fantine in the movie musical and actress Nicola Sloane, who was given the task, revealed how difficult it was for Anne. She told the Daily Mail newspaper: 'The director said 'I want it to look really vicious we need you to be hacking at it with a knife'. 'We blu- tacked a razor blade against a knife blade and I held the two together and you have to saw away at it that's the only...

Anne Hathaway burst into tears when her hair was cut off for 'Les Miserables'. The movie's director Tom Hooper decided against using a scissors as he wanted it to look more authentic by having her hair cut off with a knife for her role of Fantine in the movie musical and actress Nicola Sloane, who was given the task, revealed how difficult it was for Anne. She told the Daily Mail newspaper: ''The director said 'I want it to look really vicious we need you to be hacking at it with a knife'. ''We blu- tacked a razor blade against a knife...

The actress who chopped Anne’s locks in the film says she used a knife and razor blade to hack off Anne’s hair so it would look more viscous. Get the details here!

Anne Hathaway, 30, may have bravely sacrificed her long luscious locks for dramatic effect, but it wasn’t so easy for her, or the actress cutting them, to let the hair go. West End actress Nicola Sloane was entrusted with the task. She tells Daily Mail, “We blu- tacked a razor blade against a knife blade and I held the two together and you have to saw away at it that’s the only way to get it off.”

Secrets Behind Anne Hathaway’s ‘Les Mis’ Haircut

Nicola says Anne called a halt as her hair was being chopped. “She was all right and I had cut all the front and this little voice went ‘cut’. I...