Colin Firth News

Award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions in association with BY Experience, the global leaders in alternative content, continue to connect major exhibitions from across the world with art lovers in more than 30 countries with their first of a kind series specifically for cinema, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. The latest film in the series - Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London screens worldwide on October 10, 2013.

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, acquires Worldview Entertainment's crime thriller DEVIL'S KNOT following its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

The actress, coming off a stint in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF on Broadway and a promotional tour for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's DON JON, told the magazine: 'You know, I gotta hustle. I'm a twenty-eight-year-old woman in the movie business, right?' she says. 'Pretty soon the roles you're offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop. I have to hedge against that with work—theater, producing, this thing with Esquire.'

Image Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, acquires Worldview Entertainment's crime thriller DEVIL'S KNOT following its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Academy Award nominated Director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), the film stars Academy Award winners Colin Firth (The King's Speech) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) as well as Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone), Golden Globe nominee Mireille Enos (“The Killing”) and Stephen Moyer (HBO's “True Blood”). DEVIL'S KNOT is scheduled for a Q2 2014 release. The announcement was made today by Image Entertainment's Chief Acquisition Officer, Bill Bromiley.

I was a bit intrusive to my cast this evening: I went around to each cast member and stuck my voice memo recorder in their face asking them 4 on-the-spot questions about Henry Higgins. It proved to be a funny experiment as my cast mates blurted out some of their answers (I made this a timed experiment, asking each cast member to say the first answer that came to mind). As it turns out, there were a few common answers about where Higgins would live, or which celebrity he resembles. And just the same, there were some "left field" answers which were cause for a chuckle. Here are the questions I asked:

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LondonNet reports that Lady Gaga has signed on for director Matthew Vaughn's movie THE SECRET SERVICE for Fox. The site also writes that Adele, Taylor Swift, and David Beckham are set to make appearances, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Firth and Taron Egerton.

The governing body of the Church in Wales yesterday accepted a motion to allow female bishops, a move which was celebrated by the cast of the National Youth Theatre's production of Pope Joan at last night's performance.

Award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions in association with BY Experience, the global leaders in alternative content, continue to connect major exhibitions from across the world with art lovers in more than 30 countries with their first of a kind series specifically for cinema, EXHIBITION ON SCREEN. The latest film in the series - Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure at the National Gallery, London screens worldwide on October 10, 2013.

The world's largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other digital spoken-word entertainment, Audible, Inc., released a comedic video today created in collaboration with Billy Crystal about the downloadable audio version of Crystal's new memoir, Still Foolin' 'Em.

After making a splash with its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jonathan Teplitzky's THE RAILWAY MAN, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, has released its first international trailer. Check it out below!

In THE RAILWAY MAN, Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman star in the true story of Eric Lomax, a British soldier in World War II who endured gruelling conditions as a forced labourer on the Thailand Death Railway after being captured by Japanese troops. ?BroadwayWorld was there for the film's starry arrivals at this year's Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, and brings you photos of the cast on the red carpet below!

In THE RAILWAY MAN, Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman star in the true story of Eric Lomax, a British soldier in World War II who endured gruelling conditions as a forced labourer on the Thailand Death Railway after being captured by Japanese troops. The film just held its gala presentation at this year's Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, and BroadwayWorld brings you photos below!

An all-star cast will take the stage at The 5th Avenue Theatre this fall in the celebrated organization's 15th new musical, Secondhand Lions. Based on the beloved film starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, Secondhand Lions springs to musical life in Seattle with a superbly talented cast of Broadway stars and Seattle musical theater actors. Lead by Tony Award nominees Gregg Edelman and Mark Jacoby, this adventure story also features Jason Danieley, Jenny Powers, Kevin Earley, Jared Michael Brown, Kendra Kassebaum, Sophia Anne Caruso, and Justin Huertas. Johnny Rabe, star of Broadway's A Christmas Story, takes center stage as Walter.

People reports that Tony-winning stage and screen actress Scarlett Johansson is engaged to her boyfriend journalist Romain Dauriac. The proposal happened about a month ago. BWW offers our congratulations!

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announced its official program selections for the 40th anniversary edition of Telluride Film Festival.

Belka Productions present the world premiere and first UK adaptation of Chekhov's The Lady With the Little Dog and Sunstroke by Bunin in London's newest off-West End theatre. SUNSTROKE, adapted from the stories of Anton Chekhov & Ivan Bunin, will open 30 August 2013 at 7.30pm.

Freestyle Digital Media has set August 27th, 2013 for the VOD release of the classic Brit Com THE LEGEND OF FRITTON'S GOLD, directed and produced by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson and written by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.

At the opening night on 30 August guests will be treated to a feast of little plates inspired by the writings of Chekhov and Bunin, and created by Russian Revels - the designers of unique dining experiences that combine their love of chic Slavic dishes with site-specific theatrical creations.