Denzel Washington said he’s not worried about getting older. Nor is he envious of the leading men lining up behind him (his son John David Washington is in the queue). And he doesn’t care if he no longer cuts the svelte figure he did when Geena Davis handed him his first Oscar statuette three decades … Read more
BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Emma Thompson has signed up to play Miss Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a schoolgirl with magical powers, in a new film version of Matilda.
The former model, 29, who studied drama at Yale and is known professionally by her middle name, plays heroine Marion Brook For those on the hunt for a good old costume drama to get your teeth into, there is good news on the horizon. Filming resumes imminently on The Gilded Age, the lavish new nine-part … Read more
Gary Oldman’s mother never doubted that her son would win an Academy Award. ‘She’d say: “Oh, I think you could win an Oscar,” ’ Oldman recalls. ‘Or: “I’d love to see you win an Oscar!” ’ Her son did not share her confidence. ‘Really, for a long time in Hollywood I didn’t exactly play the … Read more
With filming back under way on director Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic after a lengthy delay, Kelvin Harrison Jr. has signed on to join the cast. Harrison Jr., 26, has come aboard to play blues legend B.B. King in the biopic, according to Deadline. He joins a star-studded cast that includes Austin Butler as Elvis … Read more
Rachel Brosnahan may be American, but she believes a little bit of her funny bone is British. Brosnahan is famous for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Amazon Prime’s smash comedy hit in which she plays New Yorker Midge, the ‘perfect housewife’ from the Upper West Side who becomes a Downtown stand-up (specialising in mocking men) after her … Read more
Theatrical sorcery will be front and centre in the new stage version of the beloved Disney film Bedknobs And Broomsticks. The 1971 movie musical starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch trying to conjure up duff spells, sold to her by fake magician Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), to stop the enemy … Read more
Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. George Orwell is pictured above Animal Farm, George Orwell’s allegorical fairy tale, is being adapted into a musical by Olivier award-winning playwright James Graham. The music will come from Alan Menken, the eight-time Oscar-winning composer behind … Read more
The sisterhood on the set of The Black Narcissus clearly took no vow of silence when it came to discussing their costumes. ‘The habit? I hated it by the end of the shoot,’ said actress Aisling Franciosi, who appears with Gemma Arterton and Diana Rigg (in one of her last roles), in the mini-series based … Read more
Tuppence Middleton felt very much at home in old Hollywood, where she spent three months filming Mank, director David Fincher’s masterful homage to celebrated screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (a magnificent Gary Oldman). Each morning she’d draw back the curtains in her room at the fabled Villa Carlotta, nestled beneath the Hollywood sign, and gaze out … Read more