Glenda Jackson, the two-time Best Actress Oscar winner and former British politician, has died. She was 87. Her passing was confirmed by her agent, Lionel Larner, who said in a statement, “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side.” The statement continued, “She recently completed filming The Great Escaper in which she co-starred with Michael Caine.” Born on May 9, 1936, in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, Jackson made her professional stage debut in Ted Willis’s Doctor in the House. She would go on to appear in various stage productions before making her film debut in a bit part in This Sporting Life (1963). Jackson’s on-screen roles continued from there, with her starring role in Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969) leading to her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Her second Academy Award...
- 6/15/2023
- TV Insider
NBC’s Chicago Med showed strong vitals in its debut, drawing 8.6 million total viewers and a 2.2 rating (per finals), leading all of Tuesday’s scripted series in the demo (in a tie with NCIS).
TVLine readers gave the ChiFi offshoot an average grade of “B+.”
RelatedChicago Med Premiere Recap: Is There a (Shirtless) Doctor In the House?
Bookending the freshman drama, The Voice (11.1 mil/2.6) and Chicago Fire (8 mil/1.9) each were down a tenth.
RelatedThe Voice Top 12 Results Recap: One Is the Loneliest Number
Elsewhere in the ratings….
CBS | NCIS (16.6 mil/2.2) and Limitless (7.6 mil/1.4) each dipped one tenth, while New Orleans (12.9 mil/1.7) was steady.
TVLine readers gave the ChiFi offshoot an average grade of “B+.”
RelatedChicago Med Premiere Recap: Is There a (Shirtless) Doctor In the House?
Bookending the freshman drama, The Voice (11.1 mil/2.6) and Chicago Fire (8 mil/1.9) each were down a tenth.
RelatedThe Voice Top 12 Results Recap: One Is the Loneliest Number
Elsewhere in the ratings….
CBS | NCIS (16.6 mil/2.2) and Limitless (7.6 mil/1.4) each dipped one tenth, while New Orleans (12.9 mil/1.7) was steady.
- 11/18/2015
- TVLine.com
Teams Gwen and Pharrell might not be feeling “Hella Good” and/or “Happy” when The Voice Top 12 results telecast kicks off later tonight (9/8c on NBC).
RelatedThe Voice Top 12 Performance Recap: This Is It! (Make No Mistakes or Get Gone)
Indeed, two contestants from each of those coaches’ teams appear to be the most vulnerable, based on their position on the iTunes Top 200 singles chart at the close of voting.
Meanwhile, Teams Adam and Blake account for five of the top six positions among the Season 9 pack.
Jordan Smith, Amy Vachal and Jeffery Austin are all but guaranteed to...
RelatedThe Voice Top 12 Performance Recap: This Is It! (Make No Mistakes or Get Gone)
Indeed, two contestants from each of those coaches’ teams appear to be the most vulnerable, based on their position on the iTunes Top 200 singles chart at the close of voting.
Meanwhile, Teams Adam and Blake account for five of the top six positions among the Season 9 pack.
Jordan Smith, Amy Vachal and Jeffery Austin are all but guaranteed to...
- 11/17/2015
- TVLine.com
In a novel effort to stress that film noir wasn’t a film movement specifically an output solely produced for American audiences, Kino Lorber releases a five disc set of obscure noir examples released in the UK. Spanning a near ten year period from 1943 to 1952, the titles displayed here do seem to chart a progression in tone, at least resulting in parallels with American counterparts. Though a couple of the selections here aren’t very noteworthy, either as artifacts of British noir or items worthy of reappraisal, it does contain items of considerable interest, including rare titles from forgotten or underrated auteurs like Ronald Neame, Roy Ward Baker, and Ralph Thomas.
They Met in the Dark
The earliest title in this collection is a 1943 title from Karel Lamac, They Met in the Dark, a pseudo-comedy noir that barely meets the criteria. Based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert (whose novel...
They Met in the Dark
The earliest title in this collection is a 1943 title from Karel Lamac, They Met in the Dark, a pseudo-comedy noir that barely meets the criteria. Based on a novel by Anthony Gilbert (whose novel...
- 8/24/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
When "Doctor Who" returns, there will be more than a new Doctor in the house. Keeley Hawes has been cast as the secretive villain, Ms. Delphox.
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) will meet Ms. Delphox on a strange and mysterious planet. She is a banker who is hiding a dark and dangerous secret.
"I am delighted to join 'Doctor Who' and to be working with this incredible team," Hawes said in a statement about the role. "Ms. Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing."
Executive producer Steven Moffat adds, "She achieves the greatest villainy yet attempted on 'Doctor Who': She plays a banker."
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]...
The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) will meet Ms. Delphox on a strange and mysterious planet. She is a banker who is hiding a dark and dangerous secret.
"I am delighted to join 'Doctor Who' and to be working with this incredible team," Hawes said in a statement about the role. "Ms. Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing."
Executive producer Steven Moffat adds, "She achieves the greatest villainy yet attempted on 'Doctor Who': She plays a banker."
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]...
- 3/14/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
At the height of his career, he packed in acting to sell telephone-sterilisers for a Christian sect. As James Fox finally gets a part worthy of his talent, he relives the louche years with Simon Hattenstone
James Fox is telling me how, at the age of 74, he has finally got his confidence back. Not before time. It's half a lifetime since he walked away from acting, at the height of his fame, to become a door-to-door salesman for an obscure Christian movement.
In his new film, A Long Way from Home, he is desperately moving as Joseph, a man who has retired to France with his wife, only to fall for a young woman travelling with her boyfriend. It's his most dominant role since his incendiary Chas in 1970's Performance, but it couldn't be more different: Chas was a terrifying cockney gangster in a movie about decadence; Joseph is a restrained,...
James Fox is telling me how, at the age of 74, he has finally got his confidence back. Not before time. It's half a lifetime since he walked away from acting, at the height of his fame, to become a door-to-door salesman for an obscure Christian movement.
In his new film, A Long Way from Home, he is desperately moving as Joseph, a man who has retired to France with his wife, only to fall for a young woman travelling with her boyfriend. It's his most dominant role since his incendiary Chas in 1970's Performance, but it couldn't be more different: Chas was a terrifying cockney gangster in a movie about decadence; Joseph is a restrained,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
In her new book Rachel Cooke re-examines the 1950s through 10 women who pioneered in their careers. In this extract she tells the stories of sisters-in-law Muriel and Betty Box, two prominent women in the British film industry
Until recently, anyone who wanted to see the film To Dorothy a Son had to lock themselves deep in the bowels of the British Film Institute off Tottenham Court Road, London, and watch it on an old Steenbeck editing machine. A little-known comedy from 1954, To Dorothy is no one's idea of a classic. It has an infuriating star in Shelley Winters, a creaky screenplay by Peter Rogers (later the producer of the Carry On series) and a set that looks as if it is on loan from a local amateur dramatics society.
We are in the home of Tony (John Gregson) and his baby-faced wife, Dorothy (Peggy Cummins). Dorothy is heavily pregnant, and confined to bed.
Until recently, anyone who wanted to see the film To Dorothy a Son had to lock themselves deep in the bowels of the British Film Institute off Tottenham Court Road, London, and watch it on an old Steenbeck editing machine. A little-known comedy from 1954, To Dorothy is no one's idea of a classic. It has an infuriating star in Shelley Winters, a creaky screenplay by Peter Rogers (later the producer of the Carry On series) and a set that looks as if it is on loan from a local amateur dramatics society.
We are in the home of Tony (John Gregson) and his baby-faced wife, Dorothy (Peggy Cummins). Dorothy is heavily pregnant, and confined to bed.
- 10/5/2013
- by Rachel Cooke
- The Guardian - Film News
Dirk Bogarde: ‘Victim’ star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde — one of the most popular and respected British performers of the twentieth century, and the star of seminal movies such as Victim, The Servant, Darling, and Death in Venice — reveals that Bogarde was considerably more caustic and opinionated in his letters than in his (quite bland) autobiographies. (Photo: Dirk Bogarde ca. 1970.) As found in Dirk Bogarde’s letters acquired a few years ago by the British Library, among the victims of the Victim star (sorry) were Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave (Julia), a "ninny" who was “so utterly beastly to [Steaming director Joseph Losey] that he finally threw his script at her face”; and veteran stage and screen actor — and Academy Award winner — John Gielgud (Arthur), who couldn’t "understand half of Shakespeare" despite being renowned for his stage roles in Macbeth,...
- 9/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Currently the theatrical toast of London for her Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic, Sheridan Smith is the best thing in two new British films this week. In the gynaecological oddity Hysteria she plays a cheeky former prostitute employed by Victorian surgeons to test the prototype of a vibrator to provide orgasms for troubled middle-class housewives. After this initial success, a commercial version provides satisfaction for Queen Victoria. Can you imagine a prequel to Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A New Biography with a screenplay by Richard Gordon, author of Doctor in the House? No, nor can I.
In the other and far better film Smith plays a tough single woman, one of the last remaining occupants on the top floor of a run-down tower block. One weekend they find themselves the target of an unseen marksman wielding an automatic rifle equipped with telescopic lens and silencer. Who is the killer?...
In the other and far better film Smith plays a tough single woman, one of the last remaining occupants on the top floor of a run-down tower block. One weekend they find themselves the target of an unseen marksman wielding an automatic rifle equipped with telescopic lens and silencer. Who is the killer?...
- 9/22/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
1948 was a good year for mermaids.
In Britain, producer Betty E. Box presented Miranda, starring Glynis Johns as a Cornish water-nymph who goes on dry land disguised as an invalid, making merry with the menfolk. Six years later, a sequel, Mad About Men, continued the character's amorous adventures in Technicolor.
Meanwhile in America, William Powell romanced mute mermaid Ann Blyth, an apparent manifestation of his mid-life crisis, in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. (Tarzan and the Mermaids, the same year, did not supply any true amphbious ladies.)
What do these fish stories reveal about their respective countries of origin? None of the films' directors have much in the way of auteur credentials—Ken Annakin directed the first Miranda film, staying true to the tradition of innocuous entertainment which was the defining quality of his career, and Ralph Thomas directed the second: though his son Jeremy has produced major films for Bertolucci and Cronenberg,...
In Britain, producer Betty E. Box presented Miranda, starring Glynis Johns as a Cornish water-nymph who goes on dry land disguised as an invalid, making merry with the menfolk. Six years later, a sequel, Mad About Men, continued the character's amorous adventures in Technicolor.
Meanwhile in America, William Powell romanced mute mermaid Ann Blyth, an apparent manifestation of his mid-life crisis, in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. (Tarzan and the Mermaids, the same year, did not supply any true amphbious ladies.)
What do these fish stories reveal about their respective countries of origin? None of the films' directors have much in the way of auteur credentials—Ken Annakin directed the first Miranda film, staying true to the tradition of innocuous entertainment which was the defining quality of his career, and Ralph Thomas directed the second: though his son Jeremy has produced major films for Bertolucci and Cronenberg,...
- 5/31/2012
- MUBI
As a teenager I'd scoff at the unreality of the Hollywood musical, but now their numbers seem utterly delightful
We are now nearing the end of a run of days that, by my reckoning, are always the most enjoyable London can offer. They start around 22 December, when taxis, tubes and restaurants are at last empty of Christmas drunks, and end on 3 or 4 January, when work resumes. Every year during this interval, an older and easier kind of London asserts itself; also, an emptier one. The people for whom the city is mainly a work station go home to Lancashire and France. Commuters, if they bother to come in, return soberly with last-minute parcels on the teatime trains. Tourists are fewer, and easily avoided once you leave the axis that stretches from Harrods to St Paul's. On the buses, you notice more people like yourself: middle-aged, or past it, and often...
We are now nearing the end of a run of days that, by my reckoning, are always the most enjoyable London can offer. They start around 22 December, when taxis, tubes and restaurants are at last empty of Christmas drunks, and end on 3 or 4 January, when work resumes. Every year during this interval, an older and easier kind of London asserts itself; also, an emptier one. The people for whom the city is mainly a work station go home to Lancashire and France. Commuters, if they bother to come in, return soberly with last-minute parcels on the teatime trains. Tourists are fewer, and easily avoided once you leave the axis that stretches from Harrods to St Paul's. On the buses, you notice more people like yourself: middle-aged, or past it, and often...
- 12/31/2011
- by Ian Jack
- The Guardian - Film News
Founded by J Arthur Rank, the studios are home to 007, Harry Potter and American blockbusters – but still invest in UK talent
The horizon at Pinewood alters every month as sets and scaffold towers go up and down. This weekend a visitor told to present themselves at the "main gate" might face a moment's confusion. By far the biggest gate, dwarfing everything else at the entrance to the film studios in Buckinghamshire, is a huge wooden affair, reached by a drawbridge.
A portcullis is suspended above it and a pair of crenellated stone towers stand on either side. It is part of the set constructed for Snow White and The Huntsman, one of a succession of big budget films that have queued up to get inside a production centre that is unrivalled, not just in Britain, but across the world.
The film, directed by Rupert Sanders, will star Charlize Theron as The Evil Queen,...
The horizon at Pinewood alters every month as sets and scaffold towers go up and down. This weekend a visitor told to present themselves at the "main gate" might face a moment's confusion. By far the biggest gate, dwarfing everything else at the entrance to the film studios in Buckinghamshire, is a huge wooden affair, reached by a drawbridge.
A portcullis is suspended above it and a pair of crenellated stone towers stand on either side. It is part of the set constructed for Snow White and The Huntsman, one of a succession of big budget films that have queued up to get inside a production centre that is unrivalled, not just in Britain, but across the world.
The film, directed by Rupert Sanders, will star Charlize Theron as The Evil Queen,...
- 10/1/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Though openly-gay Newsweek journalist Ramin Setoodeh’s infamous 2010 article “Straight Jacket” was certainly a misguided piece of criticism, it unfortunately brought to light an all-too-common misconception held by both Hollywood decision makers and members of the public at large – that gay actors are incapable of adequately portraying straight characters on-screen.
History, of course, shows that ludicrous assertion to be entirely false – particularly considering the number of closeted gay actors from earlier eras who vaulted to stardom specifically because they were able to convincingly portray straight romantic leads.
Of course, those were much more intolerant times – times in which actors were continuously pressured to hide their sexuality for fear they’d be rejected if the truth came out (a sadly valid point in those days). Now, however – while we still have a long way to go – there’s an emerging crop of openly-gay actors who are proving it’s possible to...
History, of course, shows that ludicrous assertion to be entirely false – particularly considering the number of closeted gay actors from earlier eras who vaulted to stardom specifically because they were able to convincingly portray straight romantic leads.
Of course, those were much more intolerant times – times in which actors were continuously pressured to hide their sexuality for fear they’d be rejected if the truth came out (a sadly valid point in those days). Now, however – while we still have a long way to go – there’s an emerging crop of openly-gay actors who are proving it’s possible to...
- 4/25/2011
- by Chris Eggertsen
- The Backlot
How did Dirk Bogarde get from Doctor in the House to The Night Porter? With a wilful desire to destroy his matinee idol status. And the signs were there for all to see in his early work
The Odeon, Leicester Square, 1960. The red-carpet premiere of a film that will change the story of British film and British society. The lights are killed, the crowd falls silent. The roar of industrial machinery thrums from the speakers. And over the noise comes the voice of the hero, a Brylcreemed lathe-operator with greasy overalls and insolent good looks. "Don't let the bastards grind you down," says Dirk Bogarde, and with those words, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and its star give instant definition to the new decade.
In some fairly proximate parallel universe, this is how the 1960s might have begun. It could have happened here, too, if the owner of Pinewood studios...
The Odeon, Leicester Square, 1960. The red-carpet premiere of a film that will change the story of British film and British society. The lights are killed, the crowd falls silent. The roar of industrial machinery thrums from the speakers. And over the noise comes the voice of the hero, a Brylcreemed lathe-operator with greasy overalls and insolent good looks. "Don't let the bastards grind you down," says Dirk Bogarde, and with those words, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and its star give instant definition to the new decade.
In some fairly proximate parallel universe, this is how the 1960s might have begun. It could have happened here, too, if the owner of Pinewood studios...
- 3/25/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s been less than a week since it was confirmed that British actor, Martin Freeman would be donning a pair of rubber feet to play leading role Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s upcoming adaptation of The Hobbit. The same story gave us names of eight of the thirteen-strong Dwarven company and even suggested that James Nesbitt and former Doctor Who star, David Tennant may be up for leading roles.
But regular FilmShaft readers will know that David Tennant is not the only Doctor in the house (sorry).
Way back in August we reported that the seventh Doctor, actor Sylvester McCoy was in talks to play another wizard of Middle Earth, Radagast The Brown. Speaking to a Scottish newspaper, the actor confessed that he and one other were in negotiations for the part -which is expected to be greatly expanded upon thanks to the inclusion of Tolkien’s appendices in the film.
But regular FilmShaft readers will know that David Tennant is not the only Doctor in the house (sorry).
Way back in August we reported that the seventh Doctor, actor Sylvester McCoy was in talks to play another wizard of Middle Earth, Radagast The Brown. Speaking to a Scottish newspaper, the actor confessed that he and one other were in negotiations for the part -which is expected to be greatly expanded upon thanks to the inclusion of Tolkien’s appendices in the film.
- 10/26/2010
- by Craig Sharp
- FilmShaft.com
British production house Ealing Studios has announced several high-profile projects reports Screen Daily.
The most attention is on "Nightwork", a $35 million caper thriller in which Dustin Hoffman plays a man who stumbles across a fortune hidden in a corpse in a hotel. He and his conman partner soon flee across Europe to stay ahead of the money's true owner. William Davies ("How To Train Your Dragon") is penning the script.
Also in the works is the Richard Warlow-scripted "All That Glitters", a $30 million project described as a homage to John Huston’s "The Maltese Falcon". In this case though, the macguffin will be a necklace that once belonged to Helen of Troy.
Ealing Studios has also secured the rights to reboot the classic Brit film "Doctor In the House", and is working on a third entry in the St. Trinian's series entitled "St Trinian’s Versus The World".
The most attention is on "Nightwork", a $35 million caper thriller in which Dustin Hoffman plays a man who stumbles across a fortune hidden in a corpse in a hotel. He and his conman partner soon flee across Europe to stay ahead of the money's true owner. William Davies ("How To Train Your Dragon") is penning the script.
Also in the works is the Richard Warlow-scripted "All That Glitters", a $30 million project described as a homage to John Huston’s "The Maltese Falcon". In this case though, the macguffin will be a necklace that once belonged to Helen of Troy.
Ealing Studios has also secured the rights to reboot the classic Brit film "Doctor In the House", and is working on a third entry in the St. Trinian's series entitled "St Trinian’s Versus The World".
- 5/17/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Hoffman is attached to star in a $30M-40M adaptation of Irwin Shaw’s novel Nightwork, which he brought to the UK studio. William Davies, one of the writers on How To Train Your Dragon, is penning the screenplay. Nightwork is a Catch Me If You Can caper about a man who stumbles across a fortune hidden in a hotel corpse. From then on, he and his conman partner flee across Europe, trying to stay one step ahead of the men whose money it is. Ealing Studios has also secured the rights to remake Doctor In the House. The name won’t mean [...]...
- 5/16/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
London - The Mutant Chronicles unleashes cannibalistic humanoids into a steam punk World War I world. The movie features Thomas Jane (Hung), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Devon Aoki (Sin City), Sean Pertwee (Doomsday) and John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich) as the only defense against these ungodly creatures in the CGI enhanced environment. Can Aoki cut them all down with her cool sword?
Director Simon Hunter took nearly two years to adapt the role playing game into a cinematic universe. You can get great sense of what he undertook for his first major motion picture on the Two-disc Collector’s Edition DVD and the Blu-ray recently released by Magnolia Home Entertainment. I had a chance to swap questions via email with Hunter. Here’s the Q&A action:
Joe Corey: Have you played the game?
Simon Hunter: Yes I have played the game and enjoyed it very much - the...
Director Simon Hunter took nearly two years to adapt the role playing game into a cinematic universe. You can get great sense of what he undertook for his first major motion picture on the Two-disc Collector’s Edition DVD and the Blu-ray recently released by Magnolia Home Entertainment. I had a chance to swap questions via email with Hunter. Here’s the Q&A action:
Joe Corey: Have you played the game?
Simon Hunter: Yes I have played the game and enjoyed it very much - the...
- 8/20/2009
- by UncaScroogeMcD
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