The Movie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: A London author (Lily James from Cinderella and Baby Driver) receives a letter from a quiet, hunky, mysterious man (Michiel Huisman, AKA Daario Naharis from Game of Thrones) who lives on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel. He's a…
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There will be a Four Weddings and a Funeral reunion short included in the Red Nose Day 2019 festivities with the original cast and director returning.
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Robert De Niro project The Comedian gets off the ground again, with Mike Newell set to direct this fall.
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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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Christoph Waltz didn't get to play one important figure from history, as he had to fall away from playing Sigmund Freud for David Cronenberg in A Dangerous Method. But roles out of history have to be thrown at an actor of Waltz's capacity on a daily basis. Now he's lunged at one, and will join Michael…
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We've heard a lot lately about actors being courted to play US Presidents, but most are for one film, Lee Daniels' new movie The Butler. That one has Alan Rickman set to play Ronald Reagan, and Jane Fonda controversially set to be Nancy Reagan. Over in a different corner of the indie landscape, Mike Newell…
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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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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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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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Rowan Joffe, screenwriter of the underrated The American and of 28 Weeks Later, is now working with director Mike Newell on an adaption of the WWII double-agent story Agent Zigzag, based on the book of the same name by Ben MacIntyre. The subject of the book and the film is Eddie Chapman, dashing and charming…
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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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Yesterday it was reported that Neil Marshall, Mike Newell and David Slade are on the short list of filmmakers being considered to direct Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper circling the lead roles. The Wrap now adds a couple more interesting names to the list: Jonathan Demme has read the…
Read MoreAs unbelievable as the notion of Darren Aronofsky directing Wolverine 2 might be, there's something more difficult to swallow going on in Hollwood: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is becoming a hot property. Initially set to be directed by David O. Russell with Natalie Portman starring (she is still producing) the film now needs a…
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In this week’s /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley debate whether or not Michael Bay is the right person to take over Ninja Turtles, discuss the artistic ethics of "fixing" an older film, and remember the passing of Dennis Hopper. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail…
Read MoreNote: This post will be sticky'd to the top of the site until Monday. My biggest question going into Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (in theaters everywhere today) was whether or not Newell and Jerry Bruckheimer had successfully transcended the oft-disparaged genre of "video game movies" and managed to cobble together…
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Italian-German reporter/comedian Daniele Rizzo decided to interview the cast and crew of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time dressed as Jake Gyllenhaal's character, and pretending to be the long lost son of Tamina and Dastan. The results vary depending on who he is interviewing, but Sir Ben Kingsley really plays along with the gag while…
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Walt Disney Pictures has released a new movie trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on IGN. The new trailer incorporates some of the new special effects footage from the Superbowl spot and new "Creating of an Epic" featurette, as well as a lot of never before seen sequences. I'm still not digging…
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When I look at director Mike Newell's filmography, I'm impressed by its breadth, depth, and quality. It's difficult for me to imagine that the same man who made Donnie Brasco also made Four Weddings and a Funeral, and also made Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Yet despite (or perhaps because of) his eclectic…
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Mike Newell (Prince of Persia, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Donnie Brasco) has signed on the write and direct a yet-to-be-officially-titled feature film based on the book The Terminal Spy by Alan Cowell, the New York Times' London bureau chief when the events narrated in this book reached their climax.. The 448-page book…
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I've always loved reading and hearing what great filmmakers think of other great films and directors. You may have noticed that we ask some directors about their favorite films, from time to time, and I've even featured other websites and books that delve into this subject on the site from time to time. Geoffrey Macnab…
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Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, based on the UbiSoft reinvention of Jordan Mechner's classic video game, doesn't hit until May 28 2010. But Disney is apparently not so confident that the video game basis will translate to a large audience, so the studio has been pumping out images and footage since the…
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Empire has the exclusive debut of two new UK posters for the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced adaptation of the Prince of Persia videogame series. And, oooh, they're arty! At first glance, I thought Gemma Arterton's was a magazine cover, and Jake Gyllenhaal's image looks a bit like a prototype Criterion Collection cover from a couple years back.…
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Another great Tweetscoop from Production Weekly tells us that Mike Newell is "in talks to direct Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott's big screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger at Disney." I may have recently had trouble calling Newell's surname to mind (ahem) but I've definitely enjoyed a good number of his films over the years.…
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Disney has announced that they will be pushing the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time back to May 28th 2010, from it's previously announced June 19th 2009 release date. The old date was one week before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The good news is that the new date is…
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Even with the writers strike in full effect, preproduction on the big screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is ramping up. Last month Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire helmer Mike Newell signed on to direct the video game adaptation. Our friends at Collider spoke with Jerry Bruckheimer, and the producer…
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