'Yesterday': Writer Richard Curtis Explains The Changes Danny Boyle Made To The Script
Writer Richard Curtis (Love Actually, About Time) reveals the Yesterday script changes that director Danny Boyle made in the new movie.
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'Yesterday' Writer Richard Curtis On His Feel-Good Movies And Why He Doesn't Miss Directing [Interview]
In our Richard Curtis interview, the screenwriter behind Yesterday and many beloved romantic comedies talks about his process.
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'Yesterday' Review: A Fresh Gimmick Is Wasted In A Generic Musical Comedy
In /Film’s Yesterday review, we look at Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis’ musical romantic-comedy about the one man who remembers The Beatles.
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'Four Weddings And A Funeral' Reunion On The Way For Red Nose Day Charity Special
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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Kate McKinnon Teaming With Director Danny Boyle For New Comedy
There's a new Kate McKinnon movie in the works coming from Steve Jobs director Danny Boyle and About Time writer Richard Curtis. Find out more about the project here.
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'Red Nose Day Actually' Trailer: Jamie Is Still Fond Of His TurtleNecks
14 years after Love Actually came out, we'll see some of the film's beloved characters return for a good cause. Watch the Red Nose Day Actually trailer.
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'Love Actually 2' First Look: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Rowan Atkinson & More Are Back
Check out the first Love Actually 2 photos straight from the set of the Red Nose Day short film production that brings back Hugh Grant and more of the cast.
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Chloë Grace Moretz Dives Into Live-Action 'Little Mermaid' Retelling; Richard Curtis To Script
A Little Mermaid live-action movie is coming from Universal and Working Title. Chloe Moretz will star and Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) is scripting.
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'About Time' Helmer Richard Curtis Explains Why He's Done With Directing
As a director, Richard Curtis has had a pretty enviable career. His debut Love, Actually is a bona fide Christmas classic at this point, and he's brought even the most hardened film critics to tears with his latest, About Time. Nevertheless, he's ready to be done with the whole directing thing. Curtis has stated in…
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'About Time' Red-Band Trailer: The Time-Traveler's Girlfriend
The last time Rachel McAdams fell in love with a time traveler, things took a turn for the romantically tragic. But she's apparently willing to go back and do it all over again, in hope of a sunnier result. Richard Curtis' About Time stars Domhnall Gleeson as unlucky-in-love Tim, whose father (Bill Nighy) reveals that the…
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'About Time' Trailers: Time Travel Is Helpful For Finding Love, Actually
The time-travel love story is nearly a constant in film, and it can be played a few ways: there are sweet, earnest, slightly creepy, and super-creepy, just for starters. About Time, in which the rather charming Domhnall Gleeson learns of his ability to travel through time, stars off seeming like it might be the super-creepy…
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Zooey Deschanel And Domhnall Gleeson In Talks For 'About Time,' From 'Love Actually' Director
Briefly: Since (500) Days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel has been only two features: Our Idiot Brother and Your Highness, both released last year. Now she'll go back to the big screen with director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Pirate Radio) and co-star Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the upcoming Dredd). The film is…
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'War Horse' Roundtable With Steven Spielberg, Richard Curtis, And Kathleen Kennedy: "I Don't Consider 'War Horse' To Be A War Movie"
It's not even a slight exaggeration to say that Steven Spielberg is one of the most beloved filmmakers of all time, so the fact that we're getting not one but two Spielberg-helmed film this holiday season is a treat indeed. One of those is War Horse, based on a classic children's book by Michael Morpurgo.…
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Richard Curtis Adapting Adventure Tale 'Trash' For Director Stephen Daldry
When you see the names Richard Curtis (screenwriter, Bridget Jones, Love Actually, War Horse)and Stephen Daldry (director, The Hours, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) together, you'll might well think that a mannered but quirky award-season film is forthcoming. But in this particular case, they're teaming to adapt Trash, an adventure novel by Andy Mulligan that…
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Tom Hiddleston Reportedly Snags Lead Role In Spielberg's War Horse
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the novel War Horse, scripted by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, is starting to cast up. Last week we heard that Eddie Redmayne had one of the (human) lead roles, and now there's word that the second has been filled by Tom Hiddleston, who plays…
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Steven Spielberg Has Selected His Next Film: War Horse
Steven Spielberg has finally chosen to next film, a big screen adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's World War I novel War Horse. DreamWorks acquired the rights to the novel in December 2009. The book was runner-up for the Whitbread in 1982. Here is the official plot synopsis from the 1982 novel: In 1914, Joey, a beautiful…
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Richard Curtis Writing Low-Budget Time Travel Film As Well As Dr. Who
Rom-com superemo Richard Curtis has been discussing the various projects on his plate, and none of them have been pitched as romantic comedies. That's not to say one or two of them won't be - they just haven't been touted as such... so far. As well as an episode of Dr. Who (which is under…
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The Boat That Rocked Goes To Focus, Gets Shorter Cut
The Boat That Rocked, the latest directorial effort from Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) never looked like a stone cold comedy classic, but it has such a fun cast (Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans) that it should have been a good time, at least. But reviews overseas, where the film…
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Tom Cruise's Fantastic Options
Variety have published a very exciting list of every film that could, potentially, become the next film for Tom Cruise - as well as a list of the various writers and directors working on them. The focus is on the writers, as the umbrella notion here is that Cruise is calling for lotsa costly rewrites…
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The Boat That Rocked Three Minute Clip
In my day job as a teacher of film (and, I must admit, other media - when I have to) I'm privy to some nice mail outs from the British Film Education council. Today brought me a DVD Rom carrying a series of classroom exercises built around Richard Curtis' upcoming The Boat That Rocked. Amongst…
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