Endgame
In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Strong, William Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller, Derek Jacobi, Clarke Peters
Derek Jacobi
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Medieval Rochester in Wales
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... the cast includes Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemying, Derek Jacobi and Kate Mara. The film has a budget of $25 million. This film could be useful for Rochester and Medway. I hope that Medway Council and our Tourist authorities will take advantage of this film due to be released next year.
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Did ballet make Margot Fonteyn 'really unhappy'?
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
As to whether they were lovers, Margot asserts firmly that they were, to the point of including an energetic bedroom scene. “He certainly f----- the old girl into shape,” drawls choreographer Frederic Ashton (Derek Jacobi) at one point. (Though in real life, Ashton maintained that their relationship was platonic.) “There’s half a millimetre of Lycra between dancing and sex,” Bathurst...
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reflections
Ramblings (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... about it. The theatre. I loved seeing shows. I saw some of the greatest performers of my time. Derek Jacobi, Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Dame Judi Dench, Rosamund Pike, Patrick Stewart, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, Dame Eileen Atkins, Sophie Thompson, Gina McKee. Saw productions like HAMLET and TWELFTH NIGHT, plays that are no where better made than in the soil...
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Actors, politicians and royalty pay respects to Sir John Mortimer
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... the canon of Mortimer himself, declaimed in the most actorly of ways by the likes of Edward Fox, Derek Jacobi and Patricia Hodge. Topping up the bill were Joss Ackland, with a concessionary reading from Ecclesiastes and Jeremy Irons reciting the Thomas Hardy poem Afterwards. Mortimer was well-known for his defences of artistic free speech as a barrister in court, admired as the playwright...
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Helena Bonham Carter Joins “The King’s Speech”
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Tom Hooper’s period drama “The King’s Speech” is growing its cast. Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon have all recently joined the project. Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are already set to headline “The King’s Speech.” Tom Hooper, who last directed the English football drama “The...
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The King's Speech draws great British cast
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Colin Firth joined by Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall and Derek Jacobi in biopic about reluctant wartime monarch George VI A roll call of British acting talent has been added to the cast list of The King's Speech, a drama about George VI's struggles to overcome his stammer. Already on board were Colin Firth as the reluctant monarch, who was pushed on to the throne...
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Cast set for Hooper's 'Speech'
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Film News: Carter, Pearce join Firth, Rush in film -- Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon have all boarded helmer Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" alongside the previously announced Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
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Speech cast fills out
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Tom Hooper's THE KING’S SPEECH just got a shot in the arm in the form of a team of new actors who have signed on to star alongside Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon have all officially boarded the project, though their roles remain under wraps for now. The period drama follows the young...
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Friends gather to remember Sir John Mortimer, man of contradictions
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The guest of honour was the Duchess of Cornwall, but even without royalty it was one of the more illustrious audiences addressed by Sir John, from either side of the grave. Sir Derek Jacobi, Peter O’Toole, Sir Tom Stoppard, Lord Mandelson, Jeremy Paxman, Lord Gowrie, Alan Rickman, Anna Ford, Lord Bragg, Jon Snow, Alan Yentob, Joss Ackland, Patricia Hodge, Jeremy Irons, Michael Howard...
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Helena Bonham Carter joins The King's Speech
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
HELENA Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce will join Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush on historical drama The King’s Speech . They will also be joined by thesps Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon, as well as Jennifer Ehle on Tom Hooper’s drama, according to Variety. The film follows the young King George VI as he assumes the thrown in the days after the abdication of his...
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Oscar winners and royalty at memorial service for the life of Sir John Mortimer
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... Cathedral for the service. They included the Oscar winning actor Jeremy Irons, Joss Ackland, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Hodge, Peter O’Toole, and Alan Rickman. Jon Lord, of the rock group Deep Purple, played one of his own compositions. From the House of Windsor came the Duchess of Cornwall and Lord Mandelson represented the government. Lord Kinnock, the former Labour leader who was...
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Monday's TV exorcism news
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Doctor Who Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who novel? Film Aaron Sorkin to write movie about the founding of Greenpeace? Butch Cassidy legend to be shot as Blackthorn Independence Day to get two sequels ? Helena Bonham Carter , Jennifer Ehle, Derek Jacobi, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon join The King's Speech Trailer for Ed Norton in Leaves of Grass Trailer for Steve Carell...
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Great Cast Assembled for 'The King's Speech'
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... actors filling out the cast: Variety reports Helena Bonham Carter , Jennifer Ehle , Guy Pearce , Derek Jacobi , Timothy Spall , and Michael Gambon have all signed on, and that's about as good as it gets.
- ‘The King’s Speech’ Gets a Great Cast - Atomic Popcorn
- The King's Speech draws great British cast - The Guardian
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Casting Announced For King's Speech
Empire News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Bonham-Carter, Gambon and Jacobi