Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is putting his own spin on a Charles Dickens classic with a new Great Expectations BBC limited series adaptation.
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January is a bad month to release, or go to, a movie. But history has found diamonds in the rough. Here, read about the best January movie releases ever.
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To be totally honest, we kinda forgot that Mike Newell's Great Expectations existed at all. Can you blame us? The project started casting two and a half years ago, released a trailer and got a TIFF premiere a year ago, and since then we've heard next to nothing about it. But now it's getting ready for…
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There are a handful of classic tales that seem to get reinterpreted for the screen every few years, and among them is Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The most recent theatrical version you probably recall is Alfonso Cuarón's 1998 modernized version featuring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, and Ethan Hawke, and since then there have been at…
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If you ask me, Helena Bonham Carter playing bitter Miss Havisham in Mike Newell's Great Expectations has sounded like ideal casting from the very start. But if you had any doubt in your mind whatsoever as to Bonham Carter's suitability, let these new photos put those worries to rest. Two new stills from the film have been…
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The theme of this Casting Bits seems to be "rising stars," as All My Children's Ambyr Childers stakes out a spot in an all-star cast, War Horse star Jeremy Irvine leads a movie starring Britain's finest, and Thor actress Jaimie Alexander signs on to co-star with the Governator himself. Read more after the jump. Ambyr…
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Oliver Stone is quickly locking down the cast for Savages, the adaptation of Don Winslow's novel about two pot dealers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) whose mutual girlfriend (Blake Lively) is kidnapped by a drug cartel (Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro) in an effort to coerce the guys into bowing to the cartel's will.…
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The cast of Odd Thomas just got even better. Stephen Sommers is writing and directing the film based on the supernatural novel by Dean Koontz, and has Anton Yelchin playing the clairvoyant title character; Addison Timlin as his girlfriend; and Willem Dafoe as the local police chief. Now Patton Oswalt will be " Oswald "Ozzie"…
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Mike Newell will follow up Prince of Persia, not quite a modern classic, with a new take on a genuine classic and perennial enemy of disinterested English classes across America. He'll direct a new version of Great Expectations as part of a year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth, in 2012. THR…
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