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Just a short post here, Branagh on Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. (see all our BAFTA coverage including the full winners list and other interviews here). What was it like for you to play such an iconic character against such an iconic character? ‘The big learning curve was just watching Michelle Williams transform into Marilyn [...]
Magnolia Pictures have issued the first official trailer for Take This Waltz. Written and directed by Sarah Polley (Away from Her), Take This Waltz stars Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Sarah Silverman (There’s Something About Mary), Luke Kirby (Shattered Glass) and Aaron Abrams (Cinderella Man). A funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching story about [...]
A few weeks ago, I got to see a very early screening of the fabulous movie, My Week With Marilyn (see Lisa’s review here) and then meet and interview Eddie Redmayne who plays Colin Clark, in the movie. Colin Clark was the man who had a short fling with Marilyn Monroe while she was in [...]
It’s gems like filmmaker Colin Clark’s memoir of his personal experience with an icon that make the best screen stories, the ones that delve deeper into the celebrity’s persona to prove, disprove or enlighten our knowledge further and make for a more honest and intimate affair. My Week With Marilyn, the name of said memoir [...]
My Week with Marilyn hits UK cinemas this Friday, 25th November and I can’t wait to chat with people about it. I was lucky enough to see a very early screening of it to interview Eddie Redmayne (which will go live either today or tomorrow) who plays Colin Clark in the movie. It’s been such [...]
We’re just a few days away from finally getting to see the brilliant twice Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams take up the role of the iconic Marilyn Monroe, and Friday really can’t come fast enough. Everything we’ve seen from Simon Curtis’ My Week With Marilyn (all of which you can catch up on here) has been [...]
To celebrate the highly anticipated release of MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, in cinemas November 25th, we have teamed up with Entertainment Film to offer you the chance to win tickets to the Premiere in London on Sunday 20th November. We’ve seen this film and loved it and we know you will too! The highly anticipated [...]
Back at the end of the summer, we saw the fantastic first poster for Simon Curtis’ directorial feature debut, My Week With Marilyn, the Marilyn Monroe biopic that stars Michelle Williams as the actress, model, and singer renowned the world over. Earlier this month, this was then followed up with a trailer and two images, [...]
Two days ago we were treated to a couple of images and a trailer for Simon Curtis’ film My Week with Marilyn and two things were immediately clear. Firstly that the period detail is spot on and secondly that Michelle Williams is certainly up to the challenge of embodying one of the most beautiful and [...]
My week with Marilyn is one of two biopics being told about Marilyn Monroe. In this version, Michelle Williams takes up the leading role alongside a stellar cast which includes Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoë Wanamaker and Derek Jacobi. The film is directed by Simon Curtis [...]
Vancouver, Canada – On her way home from a business trip, Margot (two-time Academy Award-nominee Michelle Williams) meets a handsome stranger (Luke Kirby) whom she shares an intense and immediate attraction. When she discovers they are actually neighbours, Margot can’t let go of their initial chemistry and is forced to confront uncertainties about marriage, and about herself. The [...]
The Weinstein Company have unveiled the first official poster for My Week with Marilyn. Directed by Simon Curtis (Cranford), My Week with Marilyn stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Derek Jacobi and Dougray Scott. Colin Clark (Redmayne), an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier’s, documents the tense interaction between [...]
We’re smashing out the images this afternoon because they’ve eben released on the TIFF website after being announced earlier today. Here is the first look at the Sarah Polley directed movie, Take This Walz which stars Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Raoul Bhaneja, Aaron Abrams and Luke Kirby. Synopsis: Sarah Polley makes a welcome return to [...]
Bradley Cooper, who has been getting ever more popular in the last few years, will be starring opposite Ryan Gosling in upcoming crime drama, The Place Beyond The Pines, Variety reports. Cooper’s had a brilliant few years, with overnight success after The Hangover in 2009, and has since followed it up with The A-Team last [...]
Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) has been cast as Glinda in Oz, the Great and Powerful. Williams will star opposite James Franco (127 Hours), Mila Kunis (Black Swan) and Rachel Weisz (The Brothers Bloom) in the fantasy adventure. Oz, the Great and Powerful – a prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – tells how [...]
Out on DVD and Blu-ray this week is Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, an exacting, achingly distressing look at the complexity of a marriage and its steady dissolve. The narrative unfolds in a non-linear fashion over two timelines as it tracks the burgeoning romance between Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams), and its eventual breakdown. The action [...]
Soda Pictures have released the official UK trailer and poster for acclaimed western-drama Meek’s Cutoff. Directed by Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy), the film stars Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), Brian Greenwood (Star Trek), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), Shirley Henderson (Marie Antoinette) and Zoe Kazan (Fracture). It’s 1845, and Stephen Meek (Greenwood) is a boastful, rough-hewn wilderness [...]
Oscilloscope, via The Playlist, have released a fresh new trailer for western-drama Meek’s Cutoff. Starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan, Will Patton and Bruce Greenwood, Meek’s Cutoff is directed by Kelly Reichardt (Wendy & Lucy). Meek’s Cutoff centers on a group of settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 who find themselves stranded in harsh [...]
Oscilloscope have released the official poster for indie-western Meek’s Cutoff. Directed by Kelly Reichardt, Meek’s Cutoff stars Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan, Tommy Nelson, Will Patton, Neal Huff and Rod Rondeaux. Meek’s Cutoff premiered to mainly positive reviews at the 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival. Settlers traveling through the [...]
I would want to be nominated for an Oscar just sop that I could go along to this invite only do. All I have to do is create a masterpiece and then maybe I’ll get to get! Yesterday, 152 of the men and women who have been nominated for an Academy Award at the 2011 [...]
