As the BBC Go Dickens Crazy Why Not Go Mental With Derek Jacobi This Christmas in Charles Dickens’ England?

derek jacobi

Are you the type of person who likes watching the stimulating highlights over the real thing? Do you always want to get straight into the filthy action without any of the messing around? Do you like people going on and on about Charles Dicken’s no matter how incompetently? Well Ultra Culture has recently solved your [...]

Felicity Jones to star in Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman

Felicity Jones

Earlier this year it was reported that Ralph Fiennes was to follow up his directorial debut with an Abi Morgan scripted adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s book The Invisible Woman and with last night’s triumph for Vanessa Redgrave at the British Independent Film Awards for her Best Supporting Actress win for Coriolanus it is being reported [...]

First Look at Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Great Expectations

Jeremy Irvine as Pip

We’ve just been sent the first image of Jeremy Irvine as Pip in Mike Newell’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expecations. We recently saw Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham and now we have a look at Irvine in his role as Pip. Newell is in the middle of shooting the film now and the [...]

First Look At A Terrifying Helena Bonham Carter In Great Expectations

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Helena Bonham Carter seems to be able to pull off the Queen of Darkness look with ease – you only need to watch her performance as Bellatrix Lestrange in one of the Harry Potter films to see it – and it looks like she’ll be taking advantage of that in her upcoming role as Miss [...]

Ralph Fiennes Seeks Out The Invisible Woman

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes is set to direct his second feature film, The Invisible Woman, based on the 1990 book by Claire Tomalin of the same name, which looks at the relationship between author Charles Dickens and actress Ellen Ternan over the last thirteen years of his life, the Daily Mail report. Fiennes recently made his debut as [...]

Mike Newell Working on New Adaptation of Great Expectations

Mike Newell

Throughout the decades, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations has been the subject of a number of film and TV adaptations (including Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 visually sumptuous modernisation) and now under the guise of seasoned British helmsman Mike Newell, another version is in the works. The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Newell is readying a new production [...]

Review: Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the World Premiere

Leicester Square - A Christmas Carol World Premiere

Update: Video footage from outside the event by GeekTown.co.uk below. Tonight the lovely people at Sky Movies HD invited us along to the World Premiere of Disney’s A Christmas Carol. This was no ordinary premiere as it boasts the largest premiere for a 3D movie, EVER! Greeted by fake snow falling from the sky and [...]