Tag: Colin Firth
Hugh Grant Has Not Left Bridget Jones
No doubt, the threequel will hit theaters eight years after Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and eleven years after Bridget Jones’s Diary. Furthermore, Hugh Grant is still on board for the Bridget Jones’s Baby, confirmed Working Title chairman Tim Bevan, despite rumors being reported that threequel was in trouble:
Reports that Hugh Grant has exited Bridget Jones’s Baby are untrue.
Firth Joins Witherspoon for West Memphis 3 Dramatization DEVIL’S KNOT
Mara Leveritt’s 2003 book ‘Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three’ is based on the true events surrounding the 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the subsequent arrest of three teens — known by their supporters as the West Memphis 3 — suspected of committing the murders through satanic rituals.
Atom Egoyan’s (Chloe) new directorial effort, Devil’s Knot from a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) is based on this non-fiction book.
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Opening Friday – Focus Features Giveaway
In celebration of the national release of the long-awaited Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy film version of a 1974 British spy novel by John le Carré, we have some wonderful goodies to offer, thanks to Focus Features!
ABOUT THE FILM
National Release Date: January 6, 2012
Genre: Spy Thriller
Studio: Focus Features
Starring: Gary Oldman, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong
Directed By: Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)
Novel By: John le Carré
Colin Firth Will Not Star in OLDBOY
I’m confused. Why would anyone normal refuse to accept an offer to play a role in Spike Lee‘s upcoming remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy?
Well, ask Colin Firth that question, maybe he has some good reason!
Rachel Weisz Joins Colin Firth in THE RAILWAY MAN
The Deep Blue Sea star Rachel Weisz has signed on to join a recent Oscar-winner Colin Firth in a post-World War II drama The Railway Man, a movie that could well be a kind of award picture.
Weisz is set to play the role of Patricia ‘Patti’ Wallace, the second wife of Firth’s character Eric Lomax, who helps him to heal some of the psychological wounds.
Colin Firth Offered Villain Role in Spike Lee’s OLDBOY
Oscar-winner Colin Firth has been offered the villainous role of a wealthy businessman who has a strange history with the lead character in the Spike Lee remake of Oldboy, one of the greatest crime thriller that won the Grand Prize Jury Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Both Christian Bale and Rooney Mara have been the likely candidate of the psycho-thriller adaptation, but have since gone off to star in new untitled Terrence Malick project.
Colin Firth Boards Big-Screen Adaptation THE RAILWAY MAN
The Railway Man is a real-life story of courage and forgiveness, a story about torture and reconciliation, but British army officer Eric Lomax shows in his best-selling book of the same title also an endurance and will to survive that requires other qualities such as hope and faith.
New TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Poster and Featurette
We already had a little chat about this one, but who cares, let’s continue it! Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, that’s one of my favourite titles these days.
So, whenever I see something interesting about this movie, you can check it right here on FilmoFilia, simply because – it deserves your full attention. Today I’m here to present a new poster and a new featurette for the whole thing, so in case you’re Gary Oldman‘s fan – there’s no way you’re not going to like this!
First TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Clip
Do I really have to write something spectacular about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy? I don’t think so. Let the cast speak for itself!
I mean, really guys, when we have Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch all in one project, which is by the way directed by Tomas Alfredson, what can we expect? I guess – only the best.
And that’s exactly why you should definitely check out the first clip from this project! Especially if you’re Hurt’s fan, because that man has a lot of smart spy – things to say!
