Author Archives: Tom Brook

WATCH: Daniel
Radcliffe on
Alan
Rickman’s
Oscar Snub

Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Rickman. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca)

“The one thing I would have loved was for Alan Rickman to get nominated,” declared Daniel Radcliffe in an interview this week.

Arab Brothers,
One Gay, One
Straight: UK
Film Heads to
Berlin

James Floyd (left) and Fady Elsayed in 'My Brother the Devil'

The British drama My Brother The Devil — set on the mean streets of London — is to screen at the Berlin Film Festival next month after emerging as one of the more critically praised pictures at Sundance.

Peter Jackson:
‘Hobbit’
Films Set to
Wrap Shooting
in July

Peter Jackson at the Sundance Film Festival. (AP Photo/Victoria Will)

In just a few days, filmmaker Peter Jackson will return to the Hobbit movies after spending a brief time at the Sundance Film Festival promoting the documentary West of Memphis, which he co-produced.

Sundance:
Rebecca Hall
Breaks New
Ground with
‘Lay the
Favorite’

Rebecca Hall

In the Sundance film Lay The Favorite, British actress Rebecca Hall presents herself in a completely new light as a ditzy stripper turned Las Vegas sports bettor who’s good with numbers.

WATCH: Felicity
Jones Talks
Dickens, Warren
Beatty, and Her
Oscar Chances

Felicity Jones at the 2012 National Board of Review ceremony. (PatrickMcMullan.com via AP Images)

British actress Felicity Jones has a new project in the works starring in a film called The Invisible Woman.

‘Hugo’s
Asa Butterfield
and Sir Ben
Kingsley to
Reunite in
‘Ender’s
Game’

Asa Butterfield and Sir Ben Kingsley in 'Hugo'

Asa Butterfield, the 14-year-old British actor who’s been winning effusive praise for his portrayal of the title character in director Martin Scorsese‘s epic Hugo, will re-team with Sir Ben Kingsley in the new film ...

WATCH: Michael
Fassbender
Looks Forward
to Re-Teaming
with Brad Pitt

Michael Fassbender (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

It has been reported that Michael Fassbender will be starring opposite Brad Pitt in the U.S. period drama 12 Years a Slave.

Interview: Abi
Morgan on the
Next Miniseries
of ‘The
Hour’

(l-r) Dominic West, Ben Whishaw, and Romola Garai from 'The Hour'

With the BBC America’s 1950s-set newsroom drama The Hour basking in the glory of its three Golden Globe nominations, screenwriter Abi Morgan has been giving some details of what might be in the new miniseries.

Meryl Streep on
Getting
Margaret
Thatcher Right

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady'

Meryl Streep’s long-awaited screen portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady arrives in U.S. cinemas Friday (Dec.

Actor Jamie
Bell on
Tintin’s
Newest
Adventure
– Winning
Over American
Audiences

Jamie Bell

The Adventures of Tintin opens in U.S. cinemas today (Dec.