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Sep 2 |
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Last Night to screen at Rome festival
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Aug 31 |
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“Last Night”, starring British actress Keira Knightley, will open the International Rome Film Festival which runs from October 28 to November 5, organizers said.
The movie, directed and written by Massy Tadjedin, also stars Eva Mendes, and is described by the festival as “a romantic tale of sexual attraction, betrayal, and jealousy.”
Also showcased at the 2010 event, which is seeking to rival the much older Venice film festival held a few weeks earlier, is “Rabbit Hole”, directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest and Aaron Eckhart.
The movie tells the tale of a couple who grapple with the sudden loss of their child as their already troubled marriage is further tested by the bereavement.
The Focus Section of the Rome festival will spotlight Japanese cinema and culture and will hold a special event dedicated to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa on the centenary of his birth.
The festival will screen the restored version of Kurosawa’s masterpiece, “Rashomon”.
- reuters.com
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Pride & Prejudice & King Arthur HQ DVD Caps
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Aug 21 |
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Never Let Me Go to open London film fest
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Aug 21 |
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Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” will open this year’s 54th BFI London Film Festival, event organizers said Thursday.
The Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley starrer will unspool Oct. 13, trumpeting the start of two weeks of movie magic in the British capital. The trio is expected in town to boost the red carpet glamour quotient.
Based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro and adapted for the screen by Alex Garland, is billed as a story about of love, loss and hidden truths.
Twentieth Century Fox will release the film in the U.K. in January next year.
Backed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films and Film 4, the movie is produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich. Garland, Ishiguro and Film4 chief Tessa Ross are executive producers.
The festival runs Oct. 13-28.
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Keira Knightley wins My Fair Lady role
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Oct 24 |
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Keira Knightley has beaten Scarlett Johansson to land the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of My Fair Lady, it has emerged.
Now the 24-year-old actress will be seen starring in the film which will be directed by Joe Wright.
“Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely,” says a friend of the 37-year-old director.
In August, it was reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film, reports The Telegraph.
“I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American,” said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time.
“You”d know their names, but I”m not letting on,” he added.
Recently, Kenworthy said: “I think Keira would be absolutely fabulous in it.”
Emma Thompson is writing the film’s script, for which Daniel Craig has been mooted as a possible Professor Henry Higgins.
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Sienna Miller Envies Keira Knightley
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Oct 21 |
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Sienna Miller has confessed to making ‘bad choices’ in her personal and professional life, adding her fellow actress Keira Knightley handled fame better than she did.
The G.I. Joe star previously made headlines over her hard partying lifestyle, a string of failed relationships and wild antics at bashes.
“I’ve made some bad choices and done some stupid things. I haven’t been as bright in some of the decisions i’ve made,” the Daily Express quoted the 27-year-old as saying.
“Keira’s just a more evolved person. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and i just don’t have those smarts.
“I think with age and time it will change, but i can’t obsess about it,” she added.
A friend said: “Sienna’s growing up. It’s a conscious decision to show the world there’s a serious actress behind the train wreck of a personal life.”
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Keira being considered for Dusty Springfield film
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Oct 18 |
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Keira Knightley, Nicole Kidman and singer Amy Winehouse are being considered to play Sixties icon Dusty Springfield in a new movie.
To be produced by husband-and-wife producer team Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of London-based Number 9 Films, the 5-million-pound film, would most likely be titled ‘Dusty’.
Shooting for the film could start late next year.
‘Playing Dusty would be a dream role and there is sure to be fierce competition to land the part,’ The Daily Express quoted Terence Doyle, editor of British film magazine, as saying.
Dusty’s career got off the ground in 1963 and she had a string of hits such as ‘I Only Want To Be With You’ and ‘You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me’.
A movie insider said the film would ‘almost certainly’ explore the ‘complicated private life’ of the gay singer who died from breast cancer in 1999, aged 59.
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The hot ticket starring Knightley made £1million
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Oct 16 |
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Every theatre owner in London has been studying how the production marking the stage debut of Keira Knightley managed to take nearly £1million in just four days.
That’s a phenomenal amount for a straight play. Huge-budgeted musicals can take that amount in 24 hours – but that comes after the product has been advertised in newspapers and magazines, and on radio, TV and the internet.
The production of The Misanthrope, in which Keira is part of an ensemble led by Damian Lewis, in the title role, was initially revealed exclusively in this column last week.
It was followed up around the world next morning, but there were no ads. Anywhere. It was only yesterday that some of the cast met to shoot an official poster for the play.
The box- office tally took ATG, owners of the Comedy Theatre, by surprise. Naturally, with a cast line-up like that, they knew they’d do well. But plays rarely take mega-money at the box office.
Even yesterday they were being reticent. Tali Pelman, one of the producers, would only describe the ticket sales as ‘a strong response’, so as not to be seen as over-confident.
The actors in the company aren’t concerned with the sales either. They just want to get on with rehearsals that start on November 2, and then they want to move into the Comedy for previews that start on December 7.
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Keira to make West End Debut in The Misanthrope
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Oct 11 |
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Keira Knightley is set to move from the big screen to the boards of London’s West End — she has landed a role in a play!
The British actress has bagged the lead role in a modern version of Moliere’s 17th century comedy The Misanthrope.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star, 24, will play a vacuous Hollywood film star who seduces a disillusioned playwright.
She will star alongside British actors Damian Lewis and Tara Fitzgerald.
The production — which will run at the British capital’s Comedy Theatre from December 17 until March 13 — will be directed by Thea Sharrock whose credits include the West production of Equus, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths.
“It’s not a whim on her part. She’s absolutely ready to come into this vulnerable position,” Sharrock said of Knightley.
“I’m interested in working with her, to push her in a way that I don’t think she has been pushed before because although she has worked with amazing directors, film doesn’t work like that.”
Knightley is said to be “terrified but excited” about the play and has been taking voice and singing lessons to prepare for the role.
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