Paxton Whitehead, the prolific and acclaimed actor whose career stretched from 17 Broadway productions, a recurring role on the hit 1990s sitcom Mad About You and a memorable turn as a snooty professor who takes an instant disliking to Rodney Dangerfield’s crude self-made man in 1986’s Back to School, died June 16 at a hospital in Arlington, Va. He was 85.
His death has been confirmed by his son Charles Whitehead, with many friends and colleagues sharing their memories on social media.
Actor Dana Ivey wrote: “We first worked together in My Fair Lady in 1964, and the last time was in Importance of Being Earnest in 2010 — friends for 59 years. I loved him so. Heartbroken.”
Tony-nominated for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot, Paxton, born in English village of East Malling, made his Broadway debut in a short-lived production of Ronald Millar’s The Affair. His next Broadway show — Beyond the Fringe...
His death has been confirmed by his son Charles Whitehead, with many friends and colleagues sharing their memories on social media.
Actor Dana Ivey wrote: “We first worked together in My Fair Lady in 1964, and the last time was in Importance of Being Earnest in 2010 — friends for 59 years. I loved him so. Heartbroken.”
Tony-nominated for his performance as Pellinore in the 1980 revival of Camelot, Paxton, born in English village of East Malling, made his Broadway debut in a short-lived production of Ronald Millar’s The Affair. His next Broadway show — Beyond the Fringe...
- 6/19/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Danny Dyer's actress daughter Dani has revealed that her dad doesn't want her filming sex scenes.
Dani, who stars alongside Martin Kemp in forthcoming film Age of Kill, said that her father will "never be happy" with her doing scenes where 'everyone is on top of her'.
Speaking to The Mirror, Dani said: "[My dad] wouldn't have been happy if I'd been doing scenes where everyone is on top of me."
"It isn't nice for him to see, he will never be happy with me doing things like that."
Speaking about her strict parents, Dani said: "If I tell my parents the truth they are fine but if I take the liberty in the house, I get grounded and get my phone taken away."
She added: "I wasn't allowed a phone until I was 16. And I wasn't allowed home later than 11pm. So I'd say I'm staying at my friend's house,...
Dani, who stars alongside Martin Kemp in forthcoming film Age of Kill, said that her father will "never be happy" with her doing scenes where 'everyone is on top of her'.
Speaking to The Mirror, Dani said: "[My dad] wouldn't have been happy if I'd been doing scenes where everyone is on top of me."
"It isn't nice for him to see, he will never be happy with me doing things like that."
Speaking about her strict parents, Dani said: "If I tell my parents the truth they are fine but if I take the liberty in the house, I get grounded and get my phone taken away."
She added: "I wasn't allowed a phone until I was 16. And I wasn't allowed home later than 11pm. So I'd say I'm staying at my friend's house,...
- 6/13/2015
- Digital Spy
London, Feb 16: Naomi Watts starrer Princess Diana's high-criticised biopic 'Diana' has been tipped to win the worst film of 2013 at BAFTA.
The Oliver Hirschbiegel-helmed movie that had supposedly caused the Aussie actress so much stress that she would break down in tears is leading the pack with the judging panel at the British Academy of Rubbish Films and Terrible Acting, the Daily Star reported.
The award for the second worst film is expected to go to 'Run For Your Wife' which was helmed by 80-year-old first-time director Ray Cooney.
Meanwhile, film critic Andy Lea has described Diana as "charmless and utterly.
The Oliver Hirschbiegel-helmed movie that had supposedly caused the Aussie actress so much stress that she would break down in tears is leading the pack with the judging panel at the British Academy of Rubbish Films and Terrible Acting, the Daily Star reported.
The award for the second worst film is expected to go to 'Run For Your Wife' which was helmed by 80-year-old first-time director Ray Cooney.
Meanwhile, film critic Andy Lea has described Diana as "charmless and utterly.
- 2/16/2014
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Los Angeles, Dec 29: Singer Sarah Harding would love to embark on a film career playing ''sexy baddies'' and says actress Angelina Jolie is her career inspiration.
The former Girls Aloud singer has appeared in films including "Run For Your Wife" and "St. Trinians" and is keen to take her action career further, with her sights set on an action role.
''I love a bit of Angelina Jolie kind of kick-ass! I got down to the last two for 'X-Men: First Class', so something like a sexy baddie who's an adrenalin junkie would be good. I'd love to do my own stunts," contactmusic.com quoted Harding as saying.
She is also readying.
The former Girls Aloud singer has appeared in films including "Run For Your Wife" and "St. Trinians" and is keen to take her action career further, with her sights set on an action role.
''I love a bit of Angelina Jolie kind of kick-ass! I got down to the last two for 'X-Men: First Class', so something like a sexy baddie who's an adrenalin junkie would be good. I'd love to do my own stunts," contactmusic.com quoted Harding as saying.
She is also readying.
- 12/28/2013
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Find out more about Danny Dyer's relationship with the Nobel laureate playwright, plus what he really thinks about Zoo magazine and the true, Dyer-approved, definition of 'slag'
Hi Danny, the press release for your new film, Vendetta, calls it "a career best" for you. Is it a "career best" (1)?
It is. I felt like I had a lot to prove, I'd had so many negative reactions to my recent films and people constantly mocking me. I was just like: "Fuck you – I'm an actor. I'm a serious actor."
Do you feel that your personal life overshadowed your acting?
For some people, yeah. It's like, Ok, you need to re-evaluate things, maybe you've become more of a personality, a celebrity than being an actor. There are some actors out there that are brilliant at just being the actor and not giving the interview, mainly because they're boring as shit and...
Hi Danny, the press release for your new film, Vendetta, calls it "a career best" for you. Is it a "career best" (1)?
It is. I felt like I had a lot to prove, I'd had so many negative reactions to my recent films and people constantly mocking me. I was just like: "Fuck you – I'm an actor. I'm a serious actor."
Do you feel that your personal life overshadowed your acting?
For some people, yeah. It's like, Ok, you need to re-evaluate things, maybe you've become more of a personality, a celebrity than being an actor. There are some actors out there that are brilliant at just being the actor and not giving the interview, mainly because they're boring as shit and...
- 11/22/2013
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
He’s been commendably honest about taking on under-par projects to pay his mortgage and turkeys like Pimp and Run For Your Wife have made Danny Dyer’s Pinter-endorsed heyday seem a distant Mockney memory. Unfortunately for Dyer and writer/director Stephen Reynolds, their collaboration on revenge thriller Vendetta will likely be judged by the star’s several cinematic sins. Which is a shame, because this Dagenham Death Wish – or Romford Rambo, if you like – isn’t just a slick and confidently made pot-boiler, it’s also a film featuring Dyer’s best performance since The Football Factory. Maybe even his best ever.
Styled as ‘judge, jury, executioner’ by the film’s surprisingly restrained marketing campaign, our hero Jimmy Vickers (Dyer) is on his way back from Afghanistan, hoping for a warm family welcome to wash away the memories of his Geneva Convention-flouting work for the Special Forces. But Jimmy...
Styled as ‘judge, jury, executioner’ by the film’s surprisingly restrained marketing campaign, our hero Jimmy Vickers (Dyer) is on his way back from Afghanistan, hoping for a warm family welcome to wash away the memories of his Geneva Convention-flouting work for the Special Forces. But Jimmy...
- 11/21/2013
- by Lewis Bazley
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If there is one thing to be said of Danny Dyer, is that he wears his heart on his sleeve. The actor, renowned as much for his personality off screen as his characters on it, has never been one to shy away from saying what’s on his mind – and ahead of the release of his latest picture Vendetta, we had the pleasure in discussing with him what has been something of a turbulent career.
In this honest interview, Dyer speaks candidly about his work – and describes some of the mistakes he feels he has made, and why he should be taken more seriously as an actor. He tells us why he likes to make films that you ‘f****** hate’, his work with Harold Pinter, and how he can’t seem to avoid calling actor Adam Woodyatt ‘Ian Beale’ since joining the cast of Eastenders…
Warning: This interview contains A Lot of swearing.
In this honest interview, Dyer speaks candidly about his work – and describes some of the mistakes he feels he has made, and why he should be taken more seriously as an actor. He tells us why he likes to make films that you ‘f****** hate’, his work with Harold Pinter, and how he can’t seem to avoid calling actor Adam Woodyatt ‘Ian Beale’ since joining the cast of Eastenders…
Warning: This interview contains A Lot of swearing.
- 11/19/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★☆☆☆☆ The inimitable Danny Dyer returned to UK cinema screens earlier this year in Ray Cooney and John Luton's infamous Run for Your Wife (2012), occupying the type of role that few would have associated him with - but will be now be praying he never returns to. Far similar in style and tone to an extended CBeebies offering than the type of 1970s British sex comedy that it purports to ape (the Confessions... cycle's Robin Askwith even makes an ill-advised cameo - the first of many), Cooney and Luton's fatuous farce flops from one unbearable skit to the next, before letting its reprehensible bigamist off the hook, scot-free.
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
- 9/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It broke BBC Three ratings records back in 2012 and now Bad Education is back - join Alfie, lovely Miss Gulliver (Sarah Solemani) and new addition Harry Enfield, cast as Alfie's dad, for more exploits at Abbey Grove School...
On set, series star Jack Whitehall spoke about what to expect from series two and the pressure of following up last year's hit episodes - plus somehow the conversation veered onto nudity, amateur artwork and professional geezer Danny Dyer.
Jack On Bad Education Fans...
"If people like a series and enjoy it, you've got that pressure with the second series not to let them down. It's good, because you get feedback of what people like when they talk to you about it, so you're hopefully trying to give them what they want and change [the show] to make it better.
"I do Fresh Meat and that's very heavily student fans, but with Bad Education.
On set, series star Jack Whitehall spoke about what to expect from series two and the pressure of following up last year's hit episodes - plus somehow the conversation veered onto nudity, amateur artwork and professional geezer Danny Dyer.
Jack On Bad Education Fans...
"If people like a series and enjoy it, you've got that pressure with the second series not to let them down. It's good, because you get feedback of what people like when they talk to you about it, so you're hopefully trying to give them what they want and change [the show] to make it better.
"I do Fresh Meat and that's very heavily student fans, but with Bad Education.
- 9/2/2013
- Digital Spy
Johnny Depp's blockbuster The Lone Ranger is expected to lose between $160m (£104m) and $190m (£123m), according to an announcement made by Disney today (August 7).
The adventure movie cost more than $215m (£139m) to make, but has so far made just $176m (£114m) worldwide.
We look back at some of the biggest Hollywood stars and their even bigger blockbuster flops - from George Clooney's Dark Knight disaster Batman & Robin to Will Smith and son Jaden's After Earth bomb below.
Will Smith - After Earth
Will Smith's science fiction drama After Earth - released earlier this year - was directed by M Night Shyamalan. It achieved sales of $26.5 million (£17.1 million) upon its release, falling well below the $40m (£25.8 million) predicted by studio Sony. The blockbuster flop, which also starred Smith's son Jaden, was made for an estimated $130 million (£83.9 million).
George Clooney - Batman & Robin
George Clooney's Batman...
The adventure movie cost more than $215m (£139m) to make, but has so far made just $176m (£114m) worldwide.
We look back at some of the biggest Hollywood stars and their even bigger blockbuster flops - from George Clooney's Dark Knight disaster Batman & Robin to Will Smith and son Jaden's After Earth bomb below.
Will Smith - After Earth
Will Smith's science fiction drama After Earth - released earlier this year - was directed by M Night Shyamalan. It achieved sales of $26.5 million (£17.1 million) upon its release, falling well below the $40m (£25.8 million) predicted by studio Sony. The blockbuster flop, which also starred Smith's son Jaden, was made for an estimated $130 million (£83.9 million).
George Clooney - Batman & Robin
George Clooney's Batman...
- 8/7/2013
- Digital Spy
With all the paparazzi pictures that have appeared of her new film, Taking Stock, you may feel you have already seen it. Still, if it's going to save the industry …
Once again, Lost in Showbiz contemplates paging Jimmy Carr's tax accountant, in search of an urgent explanation for a forthcoming work of British cinema.
I am joking, of course. Admittedly, none of us is yet clear what precise percentage of Britflicks are deliberately conceived as Producers-style calamities, which nonetheless result in millions plopping into various tax-avoiders' bank accounts. But I seek absolutely no explanation for news that Kelly Brook has landed a movie role other than the notion that cinemagoers will gladly pay to see her act.
For Kelly, appearances on the silver screen are second nature. "I can't wait to get back to doing what I love," she informed fans. Which is? "Which is being on set and...
Once again, Lost in Showbiz contemplates paging Jimmy Carr's tax accountant, in search of an urgent explanation for a forthcoming work of British cinema.
I am joking, of course. Admittedly, none of us is yet clear what precise percentage of Britflicks are deliberately conceived as Producers-style calamities, which nonetheless result in millions plopping into various tax-avoiders' bank accounts. But I seek absolutely no explanation for news that Kelly Brook has landed a movie role other than the notion that cinemagoers will gladly pay to see her act.
For Kelly, appearances on the silver screen are second nature. "I can't wait to get back to doing what I love," she informed fans. Which is? "Which is being on set and...
- 7/18/2013
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
Danny Dyer has been cast in an upcoming British thriller titled Assassin.
The Run For Your Wife actor will star as a contract killer who discovers that his latest victim is the estranged father of his girlfriend.
Jonathan Sothcott will co-produce the project with Jk Amalou. Sothcott previously worked with Dyer on the action movie Vendetta.
Amalou will also direct the film from his own script.
"Jk has written a brilliantly slick script and I cannot wait to start work with him, he's a force of nature of a filmmaker," Sothcott said.
"I look forward to continuing building the new Danny Dyer brand with Assassin and Vendetta."
Production will begin next month, while the filmmakers hope a promo will be available for the American Film Market in the autumn.
Danny Dyer recently signed up to play a character known as 'The White Man' in E4's Hollyoaks Later.
The Run For Your Wife actor will star as a contract killer who discovers that his latest victim is the estranged father of his girlfriend.
Jonathan Sothcott will co-produce the project with Jk Amalou. Sothcott previously worked with Dyer on the action movie Vendetta.
Amalou will also direct the film from his own script.
"Jk has written a brilliantly slick script and I cannot wait to start work with him, he's a force of nature of a filmmaker," Sothcott said.
"I look forward to continuing building the new Danny Dyer brand with Assassin and Vendetta."
Production will begin next month, while the filmmakers hope a promo will be available for the American Film Market in the autumn.
Danny Dyer recently signed up to play a character known as 'The White Man' in E4's Hollyoaks Later.
- 7/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Not since Run For Your Wife has a Britcom looked like being shot down so comprehensively. Like that turkey, which was “as funny as leprosy”, Bula Quo may not yet have flown across your cultural radar. Here’s what you need to know about the film, another crime caper that swaps South London for Fiji and Danny Dyer for Status Quo – with no added laughs.
- 7/3/2013
- The Independent - Film
With Oscar-winning style, the actor blames his co-stars for the cinematic catastrophe Run For Your Wife
A privileged glimpse into an actor's craft, now, as Danny Dyer is moved to address his recent turn in critically misunderstood film Run For Your Wife.
Danny, you will recall, took top billing in the Vicki Michelle-produced cinematic work, a Britflick of such radioactive awfulness that it took a mere £747 at the box office. "Rarely has a film aimed so low and missed its target so woefully," was the verdict of one reviewer, who had presumably also seen Mad Cows and Sex Lives of the Potato Men. "Perhaps never in the field of light entertainment have so many actors sacrificed so much dignity in the cause of so few jokes," ran another.
Lost in Showbiz had been wondering how Danny's agent would advise him to treat the opus should he find himself in the company of an interviewer.
A privileged glimpse into an actor's craft, now, as Danny Dyer is moved to address his recent turn in critically misunderstood film Run For Your Wife.
Danny, you will recall, took top billing in the Vicki Michelle-produced cinematic work, a Britflick of such radioactive awfulness that it took a mere £747 at the box office. "Rarely has a film aimed so low and missed its target so woefully," was the verdict of one reviewer, who had presumably also seen Mad Cows and Sex Lives of the Potato Men. "Perhaps never in the field of light entertainment have so many actors sacrificed so much dignity in the cause of so few jokes," ran another.
Lost in Showbiz had been wondering how Danny's agent would advise him to treat the opus should he find himself in the company of an interviewer.
- 4/4/2013
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
Brit Frank Thornton, who played Captain Peacock in the long-running TV sitcom Are You Being Served? has died at his home in London. He was 92. Thornton played mainly comedic roles during his decades-long career, including Truly in Last Of The Summer Wine, but it was the role of Captain Stephen Peacock, a pompous department store floor manager, in Are You Being Served? that he is best remembered. The innuendo-laden sitcom ran for 13 years from 1972 and was based in the fictional London department store Grace Brothers. It became popular in the U.S. on PBS and BBC America. He also appeared in comedies Hancock’s Half Hour, The Goodies, Steptoe And Son, and The Benny Hill Show. His feature film credits include Carry On Screaming, No Sex Please, We’re British, Gosford Park and most recently Run For Your Wife.
- 3/18/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Disney's Wreck-It Ralph maintains its momentum at the UK box office as half-term gave a lift to children's films
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Run for Your Wife is already a contender for worst Britfilm ever made, but could that have been the cunning plan all along?
After the fashion of any self-respecting prime minister, I have not actually seen the thing on which I am about to pass judgment.
In my defence, nor has anyone else. Or rather, a mere £747 worth of cinemagoers have – for it is Run for Your Wife, a film some are already calling the worst Britflick ever made. Which gives you a sense of the scale of its horror.
A movie version of the Ray Cooney farce, Run for Your Wife was billed as a "Danny Dyer comedy vehicle" – and if that didn't suggest the brakes were cut from the start, the presence of 'Allo 'Allo's Vicki Michelle as executive producer should have. (Having said that, Lost in Showbiz does have a soft spot for Vicki Michelle, not so...
After the fashion of any self-respecting prime minister, I have not actually seen the thing on which I am about to pass judgment.
In my defence, nor has anyone else. Or rather, a mere £747 worth of cinemagoers have – for it is Run for Your Wife, a film some are already calling the worst Britflick ever made. Which gives you a sense of the scale of its horror.
A movie version of the Ray Cooney farce, Run for Your Wife was billed as a "Danny Dyer comedy vehicle" – and if that didn't suggest the brakes were cut from the start, the presence of 'Allo 'Allo's Vicki Michelle as executive producer should have. (Having said that, Lost in Showbiz does have a soft spot for Vicki Michelle, not so...
- 2/22/2013
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
Danny Dyer's Run For Your Wife has made just £602 at the UK box office over its opening weekend.
Dyer's adaptation of the long-running West End play has been widely panned by critics, and also failed to connect with UK audiences.
Its taking of £602 from nine cinemas translates to an average of £67 per cinema, plus preview takings of £320, as reported by The Guardian.
The film is set to expand to a further 65 cinemas across the UK this week, playing mainly at late morning and early afternoon screenings.
Run For Your Wife stars Dyer as a taxi driver who must prevent his two wives (played by Sarah Harding and Denise Van Outen) from coming face to face.
Involved in bigamous marriages for five years, he lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell.
> UK box office top 10: 'A Good Day to Die Hard' beats 'Wreck-It Ralph...
Dyer's adaptation of the long-running West End play has been widely panned by critics, and also failed to connect with UK audiences.
Its taking of £602 from nine cinemas translates to an average of £67 per cinema, plus preview takings of £320, as reported by The Guardian.
The film is set to expand to a further 65 cinemas across the UK this week, playing mainly at late morning and early afternoon screenings.
Run For Your Wife stars Dyer as a taxi driver who must prevent his two wives (played by Sarah Harding and Denise Van Outen) from coming face to face.
Involved in bigamous marriages for five years, he lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell.
> UK box office top 10: 'A Good Day to Die Hard' beats 'Wreck-It Ralph...
- 2/20/2013
- Digital Spy
Richard Briers has died at the age of 79.
The Good Life actor had recently revealed that he was battling with emphysema as a result of his smoking addiction and his agent confirmed that he died "peacefully" at his London home yesterday (February 17).
> Richard Briers 1934-2013: Career highlights in video
"I've got emphysema, you see, so I'm buggered," Briers told the Daily Mail only last month.
"I haven't even got the strength to garden anymore. Five hundred thousand cigarettes, darling - that's the trouble."
He added: "It's totally my fault. So, I get very breathless, which is a pain in the backside. Trying to get upstairs - oh God, it's ridiculous. Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing because you've had it anyway.
"The ciggies got me. I stopped ten years ago but too late. If you do it in your 30s then you're okay, but after 30 it gets you.
The Good Life actor had recently revealed that he was battling with emphysema as a result of his smoking addiction and his agent confirmed that he died "peacefully" at his London home yesterday (February 17).
> Richard Briers 1934-2013: Career highlights in video
"I've got emphysema, you see, so I'm buggered," Briers told the Daily Mail only last month.
"I haven't even got the strength to garden anymore. Five hundred thousand cigarettes, darling - that's the trouble."
He added: "It's totally my fault. So, I get very breathless, which is a pain in the backside. Trying to get upstairs - oh God, it's ridiculous. Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing because you've had it anyway.
"The ciggies got me. I stopped ten years ago but too late. If you do it in your 30s then you're okay, but after 30 it gets you.
- 2/18/2013
- Digital Spy
Classic farces of the Feydeau, Aldwych and Whitehall kind have rarely worked in the cinema, and this widely performed stage play by Ray Cooney is no exception. The plot turns upon a bigamous London taxi driver (Danny Dyer) and accidental "have-a-go" hero having to explain his irregular lifestyle to the press, the police and the two wives. What we admire in great farce is the ingenuity and precision of the writing, the speed and virtuosity of the playing and the conviction that something serious is at stake for the characters. Run for Your Wife fulfils none of these conditions and is woefully dated in its misogyny and homophobia. Three-quarters of the British acting profession over the age of 60, all of them old chums of the author, appear in walk-on roles so we're constantly distracted by working out who's playing the bag lady (Judi Dench), the buskers (Rolf Harris, Cliff Richard,...
- 2/17/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Side By Side | A Good Day To Die Hard | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God | Beautiful Creatures | This Is 40 | For Ellen | Run For Your Wife | Reign Of Assassins | Sammy's Great Escape | Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino | Madame De… | Murder 3
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
- 2/16/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
- 2/14/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Ray Cooney, John Luton; Screenwriter: Ray Cooney; Starring: Danny Dyer, Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen, Neil Morrissey; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 12A
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
- 2/14/2013
- Digital Spy
Disney's arcade hero pulps the competition and British romcom I Give It a Year takes a respectable third place at the box office
The winner
Ending Les Miserables' impressive four-week reign at the chart summit, Wreck-It Ralph smashes its way to the top of the UK box office with a robust £4.53m, the biggest three-day tally for an animated feature since Ice Age 4 last July. Among other recent animations, Madagascar 3 posted a bigger opening number, but its £6.03m debut included £2.39m in previews. Similarly, Brave's first weekend of wide play (£5.27m) included significant previews (£2.67m).
While Wreck-It Ralph's Us opening of $49.1m last November represented the highest ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the UK result can't quite make an equivalent claim, since Tangled debuted here in January 2011 with £5.11m. Disney-owned Pixar, of course, has achieved even bigger numbers. Disney scored some big PR wins with visiting voice cast...
The winner
Ending Les Miserables' impressive four-week reign at the chart summit, Wreck-It Ralph smashes its way to the top of the UK box office with a robust £4.53m, the biggest three-day tally for an animated feature since Ice Age 4 last July. Among other recent animations, Madagascar 3 posted a bigger opening number, but its £6.03m debut included £2.39m in previews. Similarly, Brave's first weekend of wide play (£5.27m) included significant previews (£2.67m).
While Wreck-It Ralph's Us opening of $49.1m last November represented the highest ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the UK result can't quite make an equivalent claim, since Tangled debuted here in January 2011 with £5.11m. Disney-owned Pixar, of course, has achieved even bigger numbers. Disney scored some big PR wins with visiting voice cast...
- 2/12/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Feb 11: Singer Sarah Harding says she is confused between her love for singing and acting.
The 31-year-old, member of Girls Aloud, will soon be seen in the film "Run For Your Wife".
"I'm in two minds about what direction to go - I love music but acting is close behind," thesun.co.uk quoted Harding as saying.
"There's been a lot of talk about me going to Hollywood and I'd really love to do more stuff in America, but it's good to fly the flag for Britain - hence 'Run For Your Wife'," she added.
However, for Harding nudity in movies is a big no.
"A few extreme scripts have come through and I did.
The 31-year-old, member of Girls Aloud, will soon be seen in the film "Run For Your Wife".
"I'm in two minds about what direction to go - I love music but acting is close behind," thesun.co.uk quoted Harding as saying.
"There's been a lot of talk about me going to Hollywood and I'd really love to do more stuff in America, but it's good to fly the flag for Britain - hence 'Run For Your Wife'," she added.
However, for Harding nudity in movies is a big no.
"A few extreme scripts have come through and I did.
- 2/10/2013
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
No | Hitchcock | Warm Bodies | I Give It A Year | Wreck-It Ralph | I Wish | A Liar's Autobiography – The Untrue Story Of Monty Python's Graham Chapman | The Fall Of The Essex Boys
No (15)
(Pablo Larraín, 2012, Chi/Fra/Us) Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle. 118 mins
Advertising and revolution form an unlikely but powerful allegiance in this factually based Chilean movie, in which archive TV footage blends seamlessly with a bold, retro-video aesthetic. It's 1988 and, bowing to international pressure, General Pinochet has ceded 15 minutes of state airtime to the campaign to vote against him. Enter Bernal as a smart ad exec charged with "selling" democracy, though his Coke-commercial strategy exposes political divisions, media ironies and personal vulnerabilities.
Hitchcock (12A)
(Sacha Gervasi, 2012, Us) Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson. 98 mins
Disappointingly, the real making of Psycho is a mere backdrop for this fanciful tale of Hitch's (fictional) marriage anxieties,...
No (15)
(Pablo Larraín, 2012, Chi/Fra/Us) Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle. 118 mins
Advertising and revolution form an unlikely but powerful allegiance in this factually based Chilean movie, in which archive TV footage blends seamlessly with a bold, retro-video aesthetic. It's 1988 and, bowing to international pressure, General Pinochet has ceded 15 minutes of state airtime to the campaign to vote against him. Enter Bernal as a smart ad exec charged with "selling" democracy, though his Coke-commercial strategy exposes political divisions, media ironies and personal vulnerabilities.
Hitchcock (12A)
(Sacha Gervasi, 2012, Us) Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson. 98 mins
Disappointingly, the real making of Psycho is a mere backdrop for this fanciful tale of Hitch's (fictional) marriage anxieties,...
- 2/9/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Danny Dyer likes to humiliate his Twitter trolls. The cheeky actor won't tolerate abuse from nasty followers on the social networking website, and rather than put up with their negative comments he uses their own accounts to mock them. Speaking at the premiere of his new film 'Run For Your Wife' at the Odeon Cinema in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday evening (05.02.13), Danny told Bang Showbiz: 'I get trolled severely, like, nasty. So I like to expose people. 'I'm known for biting but I will bite all day f***ing long. And I will pull their pants down in front of my followers, I don't give one f**k. You want to bring it on? Let's go to f***ing...
- 2/7/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Danny Dyer likes to humiliate his Twitter trolls. The cheeky actor won't tolerate abuse from nasty followers on the social networking website, and rather than put up with their negative comments he uses their own accounts to mock them. Speaking at the premiere of his new film 'Run For Your Wife' at the Odeon Cinema in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday evening (05.02.13), Danny said: ''I get trolled severely, like, nasty. So I like to expose people. ''I'm known for biting but I will bite all day f***ing long. And I will pull their pants down in front of my followers,...
- 2/7/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Sarah Harding loves the red carpet. The 31-year-old singer looked stunning as she stepped out at the 'Run For Your Wife' premiere last night (05.02.13) in a floor-length shimmering black and bronze gown and she insists she is at home at the glitzy events. Speaking outside the Leicester Square Odeon cinema, she told Bang Showbiz: 'I love the red carpet! I love it. I've been waiting for about two years to see this film backed, seriously. It feels great to be here.' Sarah stars in the film with Denise Van Outen and Danny Dyer - who plays a bigamist who has to stop his wives, Denise and Sarah, from meeting in the comedy - and she insists it was great...
- 2/6/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Sarah Harding loves the red carpet. The 31-year-old singer looked stunning as she stepped out at the 'Run For Your Wife' premiere last night (05.02.13) in a floor-length shimmering black and bronze gown and she insists she is at home at the glitzy events. Speaking outside the Leicester Square Odeon cinema, she told Bang Showbiz: ''I love the red carpet! I love it. I've been waiting for about two years to see this film backed, seriously. It feels great to be here.'' Sarah stars in the film with Denise Van Outen and Danny Dyer - who plays a bigamist who has to stop...
- 2/6/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding looked glamorous in floor-length gowns as they graced the red carpet at the premiere of their new film Run For Your Wife in London's Leicester Square last night (February 5).
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© WENN / Lia Toby/WENN.com
Despite the downpour and freezing cold weather, Van Outen, 38, wore a sleeveless black gown with a sheer lace panel at the front and back while Harding, 31, donned a shimmering, silver dress with a similar plunging neckline lace panel.
© Pa Images
© Pa Images
Former EastEnders actress and co-star Kellie Shirley wore a grecian-style frock which got drenched at the bottom from the soggy red carpet, while Dyer kept it casual and simple in a pair of jeans and a blazer.
Other guests at the screening included co-stars Neil Morrissey and Lionel Blair, Denise Welch and toyboy Lincoln Townley, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Su Pollard and Liz McClarnon.
Towie's Lydia Bright and former Towie star Kirk Norcross,...
© WENN
© WENN / Lia Toby/WENN.com
Despite the downpour and freezing cold weather, Van Outen, 38, wore a sleeveless black gown with a sheer lace panel at the front and back while Harding, 31, donned a shimmering, silver dress with a similar plunging neckline lace panel.
© Pa Images
© Pa Images
Former EastEnders actress and co-star Kellie Shirley wore a grecian-style frock which got drenched at the bottom from the soggy red carpet, while Dyer kept it casual and simple in a pair of jeans and a blazer.
Other guests at the screening included co-stars Neil Morrissey and Lionel Blair, Denise Welch and toyboy Lincoln Townley, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Su Pollard and Liz McClarnon.
Towie's Lydia Bright and former Towie star Kirk Norcross,...
- 2/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Danny Dyer is set to show off his secret comedic acting skills in a new film alongside Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen, Kellie Shirley - and Judi Dench.
Speaking to former EastEnders star Kellie - who played Carly Wicks - she said to Digital Spy about the former hard man: "I think it's a brave thing for him to do. Everyone is used to him doing all those football hooligan-type films and he's doing comedy in this.
© Run For Your Wife
[Neil, Danny, Sarah, Denise and Kellie]
"People are going to be surprised. He's a really nice guy but people forget and think he's just kind of a hard man, but actually he's just a good actor.
"I think it's going to change people's opinion of him. It shows a different side. He's a fun person to have on a film set. Naughty but fun.
"It was so much fun. It's a brilliant cast, from Danny Dyer to Judy Dench,...
Speaking to former EastEnders star Kellie - who played Carly Wicks - she said to Digital Spy about the former hard man: "I think it's a brave thing for him to do. Everyone is used to him doing all those football hooligan-type films and he's doing comedy in this.
© Run For Your Wife
[Neil, Danny, Sarah, Denise and Kellie]
"People are going to be surprised. He's a really nice guy but people forget and think he's just kind of a hard man, but actually he's just a good actor.
"I think it's going to change people's opinion of him. It shows a different side. He's a fun person to have on a film set. Naughty but fun.
"It was so much fun. It's a brilliant cast, from Danny Dyer to Judy Dench,...
- 1/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Danny Dyer stars as a London taxi driver married to two women in upcoming comedy Run For Your Wife.
Girl Aloud's Sarah Harding and Denise Van Outen co-star in the movie, which sees Dyer's character John Smith desperately trying to stop his two London wives from ever meeting. The trailer features Pimp star Dyer getting involved in numerous pratfalls, including eating and regurgitating a piece of paper, falling out of a bedroom window (more)...
Girl Aloud's Sarah Harding and Denise Van Outen co-star in the movie, which sees Dyer's character John Smith desperately trying to stop his two London wives from ever meeting. The trailer features Pimp star Dyer getting involved in numerous pratfalls, including eating and regurgitating a piece of paper, falling out of a bedroom window (more)...
- 1/7/2013
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
It's only January, but Bret Easton Ellis's 'sexual thriller' starring Lindsay Lohan is set to be the most redundant film of the year
Three days into the new year and you're probably already sick of hearing about 2013's myriad cinematic delights. Especially when there's a much more important question at stake – that of 2013's least essential movie.
Usually this is the sort of accolade best awarded at the end of a year, when we're able to look back at 12 months of trainwrecks and missteps with all the benefit that hindsight affords. But this year, things are different. This year, in terms of talent, publicity and execution, it seems unlikely that any film will manage to beat The Canyons when it comes to sheer undiluted pointlessness.
That's really saying something, because 2013 is already stacking up with films destined to limp unwatched on to minor TV channels at midnight five years from now.
Three days into the new year and you're probably already sick of hearing about 2013's myriad cinematic delights. Especially when there's a much more important question at stake – that of 2013's least essential movie.
Usually this is the sort of accolade best awarded at the end of a year, when we're able to look back at 12 months of trainwrecks and missteps with all the benefit that hindsight affords. But this year, things are different. This year, in terms of talent, publicity and execution, it seems unlikely that any film will manage to beat The Canyons when it comes to sheer undiluted pointlessness.
That's really saying something, because 2013 is already stacking up with films destined to limp unwatched on to minor TV channels at midnight five years from now.
- 1/3/2013
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Ray Winstone and a host of other stars are to donate their cameo fee for an upcoming film to charity. Richard Briers and Sir Cliff Richard are among 80 uncredited actors and celebrities who will waive their fee in an adaptation of Ray Cooney's 1983 play Run For Your Wife. The money will instead be donated to a theatre charity. Danny Dyer will star in the film about a man who has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for several years. Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding, Men Behaving Badly's Neil Morrissey and Denise Van Outen will star in the film, to be released some time next year. A spokesperson revealed that the stars waived their fees because they knew Ray Cooney, who is directing the adaptation, really well. Cooney has explained that film companies had (more)...
- 8/2/2011
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
British hardmen Ray Winstone and Danny Dyer, crooner Sir Cliff Richard and Australian entertainer Rolf Harris have all waived their fees in the name of charity to feature in an upcoming movie adaptation of 1983 play Run For Your Wife.
The Football Factory actor Dyer portrays a happily married bigamist in the forthcoming comedy, based on the stage show by Ray Cooney, who also takes charge of the big screen version.
The project also stars Brits Neil Morrissey, Denise van Outen and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, as well as uncredited cameos from more than 80 celebrities, including Richard and Harris.
And everyone involved has agreed to donate their fees to a theatre charity because of their close friendships to Cooney, reports the BBC.
Run For Your Wife originally starred Bernard Cribbins and ran for eight years in London's West End.
The Football Factory actor Dyer portrays a happily married bigamist in the forthcoming comedy, based on the stage show by Ray Cooney, who also takes charge of the big screen version.
The project also stars Brits Neil Morrissey, Denise van Outen and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, as well as uncredited cameos from more than 80 celebrities, including Richard and Harris.
And everyone involved has agreed to donate their fees to a theatre charity because of their close friendships to Cooney, reports the BBC.
Run For Your Wife originally starred Bernard Cribbins and ran for eight years in London's West End.
- 8/2/2011
- WENN
Arts Council England admit to a mistake, plus the playwright plumber, and Tate Britain's underlining fetish
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
- 8/2/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
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