Kenneth Branagh’s wickedly funny portrayal of Sir Laurence Olivier in the Weinstein Co’s My Week With Marilyn has earned pretty much every awards-season nomination available and also landed him an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor. It’s fitting, as com

GABY Roslin on why she’d invite Bradley Cooper to dinner, and why working at Harrods was not an experience to treasure Who would attend your fantasy dinner party? Oprah Winfrey, the Obamas, Julie Walters, Miranda Hart, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Desm

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- As anyone who keeps an eye on what we so optimistically call the criminal justice system can tell you, juries are hard to figure. Still, defense attorneys can’t go wrong in presenting the accused in the most harmless and sympathetic li

EXCLUSIVE: WME signed Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe, the duo nominated for a Best First Feature BAFTA for the existential comedy Black Pond. The film, about an ordinary English family and a Japanese friend who are accused of murder when a guest drops dead a

Last week Jake Dee did us all a solid by dropping the news that Academy Award winner Emma Thompson would be toplining Richard LaGrevenese's upcoming adaptation BEAUTIFUL CREATURES. Now personally I take this as a great sign. I mean, a two-time Academy Aw

Artistic director Joe Dowling announced Feb. 15 the three plays that will comprise the Guthrie’s 2012 celebration of British playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton. The plays include the Guthrie commission of Appomattox, a new play bas

"I really must stop saying sorry; it doesn't make things any better or worse." Actor, comedian, and author Stephen Fry follows 1999's Moab is My Washpot -- a quirky and moving account of his childhood -- with a new memoir that finds a young Fry navigatin

A HEROIN addict and persistent offender has been jailed for six months for stealing Lego worth £25 while drunk. Elvis Morris, 34, of Short Street, Stapenhill, appeared at Burton Magistrates’ Court and admitted a charge of theft on January 30 — while alre

As this Valentine’s Day is coming to a close why not wind down with a movie or two, or three? Don’t worry, these aren’t the usual Nicholas Sparks picks. Here is a quick list of movies, quirky and poignant, that won’t add to your toothache or your heartac

Warner Bros just updated its release calender with a pair of additions. The horror movie Chernobyl Diaries is slated to open May 25, 2012. Diaries, from Alcon Entertainment, is set in Prypiat, the city that housed workers at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor

Emma Thompson will be joining the cast of the movie adaptation of Beautiful Creatures, Coming Soon has announced. The young adult paranormal novel, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, will star Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert, with Thompson set to play t

PUPILS at a Gwent school where a teaching assistant died after collapsing on the first day of of the current term, have named a star in her memory. Emma Thompson, 35, worked at Ystruth primary school, Blaina, where she collapsed on January 3. She died la

In a further validation, if it were needed, of the market for upbeat comedies with an international reach, SND, the sales-distribution arm of France's M6 Group, has sold out most of the world on "Love Punch," starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson. In

BERLIN -- In one of the biggest deals so far at the European Film Market, Herbert Kloiber’s Tele-Munchen Group has picked up German rights to Beautiful Creatures, the supernatural coming-of-age project billed as the next Twilight or Hunger Games. Richard

Emma Thompson is in final talks to star alongside Viola Davis in Richard LaGravenese's supernatural romance adaptation of the Margaret Stohl-Kami Garcia novel "Beautiful Creatures" reports Heat Vision. The story follows two teens (Jack O'Connell and Alic

The last week has proved mighty busy for Richard LaGrevenese and the team behind his new supernatural love story BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, with the latest move so far being one of the wisest. Deadline is reporting that two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson (pic

John Williams's top 10 movie scoresAs John Williams celebrates his 80th birthday, we take a look at his 10 best movie scores. Copyright © 1999-2012 Hearst Magazines UK, the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd. "Digital Spy" is the Registere

The casting news keeps coming for our soon-to-be new favorite supernatural romance "Beautiful Creatures" (smell ya later, vampires! We're all about the Southern gothic witchery now). This book about two star-crossed lovers, secret sorcery and lots of sma

Emma Thompson is joining writer/director Richard LaGravenese's , an adaptation of the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, says Heat Vision. In the book, high-school student Ethan Wate meets and becomes bewitched by Lena Duchannes, a 16-year-old whos