'On Chesil Beach' Review: Dominic Cooke's Adaptation Is Dead On Arrival [TIFF]
Read our On Chesil Beach review from the film's debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle star in the movie.
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Mike Newell To Direct 'On Chesil Beach' By 'Atonement' Author Ian McEwan
Back when MGM's financial woes put plans for Bond 23 on indefinite hiatus, director Sam Mendes signed on to direct a quick feature titled On Chesil Beach, based on a 2007 novella by Atonement author Ian McEwan. But now that those Bond issues have worked themselves out, Mendes is hard at work on Skyfall, and…
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'On Chesil Beach,' Meant To Be The Next Sam Mendes Film, Has Been Postponed
Call this as you'd like -- either it is a weird confluence of events, or a sign that the pieces are really coming together at MGM. We just reported on the story that Sam Mendes had taken himself off the director shortlist for The Hunger Games so that he might be free to shoot the…
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Sam Mendes To Direct Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Stage Musical And 'On Chesil Beach' Before Bond
With Bond 23 indefinitely delayed, Sam Mendes has been looking for new projects. For a moment it looked like he might jump on to The Great and Powerful Oz, Disney's new Oz movie that could star Robert Downey, Jr. (Think this year's Alice in Wonderland plus Sherlock Holmes.) But it looks like Mendes will cede…
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