Author Archives: Tom Brook

WATCH: ‘Les Miserables’ Director Tom Hooper on Fictionalizing in Reality-Based Films

By | Posted on January 14th, 2013
(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

British director Tom Hooper — who was snubbed by the Academy last week when it chose not to give him a Best Director Oscar nomination for Les Misrables — has willingly weighed in over whether or not feature filmmakers ...

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WATCH: Rachel Weisz Surprised at Her U.S. Awards Season Momentum

By | Posted on January 9th, 2013
Rachel Weisz in 'The Deep Blue Sea' (Photo: Music Box Films)

British actress Rachel Weisz says she has no idea why her portrayal in the film The Deep Blue Sea has brought her significant awards recognition in the U.S. after having had a relatively modest impact in the U.K.

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WATCH: Hugh Jackman on playing Jean Valjean: “It took everything from me.”

By | Posted on December 21st, 2012
(Photo via Working Title Films)

Hugh Jackman put his heart and soul into playing Jean Valjean, the central character in Les Miserables. “It took everything from me,” he says.

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WATCH: Original Producer of ‘Les Miserables’ Stage Show Praises Hugh Jackman

By | Posted on December 21st, 2012
Cameron Mackintosh at NYC Les Miserables premiere. (AP)

British theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who was the producer of the original Les Miserables stage musical in London, is clearly a big fans of Hugh Jackman who plays the central role of Jean Valjean in the new film version of ...

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WATCH: Eddie Redmayne on the Englishness of ‘Les Miserables’

By | Posted on December 19th, 2012
(AP/Alastair Grant)

While the forthcoming film adaptation of the stage musical Les Miserables has roots in the writings of French author Victor Hugo it is, in the eyes of British actor Eddie Redmayne, a very English production.

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WATCH: Tom Hooper on ‘Les Miserables’ as ‘Great Anthem of the Dispossessed’

By | Posted on December 18th, 2012
Tom Hooper on the set of 'Les Miserables' (AP Photo/Universal Pictures/Laurie Sparham)

Tom Hooper — the British director of the eagerly awaited Les Misérables — sees his new movie adaptation of the celebrated stage musical in very passionate terms.

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WATCH: Jennifer Ehle On ‘Zero Dark Thirty’s’ Women

By | Posted on December 14th, 2012
(AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

British-American actress Jennifer Ehle, who plays a CIA operative in the forthcoming film Zero Dark Thirty, believes the film’s screenplay is unusual for the way in which it presents women.   

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WATCH: ‘Hobbit’ Cast on the Merits of 48 Frames Per Second

By | Posted on December 12th, 2012
Martin Freeman in 'The Hobbit' (Photo: New Line Cinema)

A much talked-of aspect of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, out on Friday (December 14), is that it was shot at 48 frames per second. Most movies are shot at half this speed.

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WATCH: Olivia Williams on No Knife and Fork for Visiting British Royals in ‘Hyde Park’

By | Posted on December 5th, 2012
Olivia Williams in 'Hyde Park on Hudson' (Photo: Nicola Dove/Focus Features)

In the new period drama Hyde Park on Hudson, out on Friday (December 7), First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, played by English actress Olivia Williams, wanted the visiting British King and Queen to drop their airs and graces.

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WATCH: Dame Helen ‘Would Have Loved to Work With Hitchcock’

By | Posted on November 30th, 2012
Helen Mirren (left) with Anthony Hopkins in 'Hitchcock' (Photo: Fox Searchlight)

Dame Helen Mirren, who’s portraying filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma in the new picture Hitchcock, says she would have loved to have worked with the Master of Suspense. But she adds, “not when I was young, but now ...

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