Tag: Macbeth
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‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’: Everything We Know
Come this November, audiences shall soon again be chanting the infamous mantra: May the odds be ever in your favor. Michael Lesslie, the British screenwriter known for Assassin’s Creed and the 2015 Macbeth adaptation has been set to write the screenplay for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, based on the best-selling…
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The Word “Virgin” Didn’t Appear in a Movie Until 1953 — People Still Lost It
When Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler told Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara he “didn’t give a damn,” 1939 movie audiences audibly gasped. Gone With the Wind was the first mainstream American film in which a character uttered an actual swear word, signaling the first loosening of the Puritanical rules instituted by the Motion Picture Production Code. Producer…
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Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult Cast in Crime Thriller ‘The Order’
Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult are teaming up on screen together as Deadline reports that the two actors will be starring in The Order, an upcoming true-crime film currently in development from AGC Studios. The film will be directed by Justin Kurzel, best known for helming projects such as Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed, with production…
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Akira Kurosawa Had A Theory About His Films’ International Appeal
When Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, it allowed Japanese cinema to begin gaining more of a foothold abroad. Throughout his career, Kurosawa incorporated Western influences into his work, with Shakespeare being one ready example as seen in Kurosawa’s “Macbeth” and “King Lear” adaptations, “Throne of Blood”…
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‘The nation had lost its mind’: the extraordinary new documentary about the death of Princess Diana
The team behind new film, The Princess, explain why the royal family possess all the vital ingredients to make them the perfect cinematic subjectsOnly a genius of longform plotting could have planned the sting in the tail of the royal 2022. In the rolling melodrama of the British monarchy, the platinum jubilee was always slated…
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Kaleidoscope boards medieval adventure ‘Kingslayer’ for EFM (exclusive)
The film stars Ryan Gage, David Hayman and John Rhys-Davies.UK sales agency Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has boarded world sales rights excluding UK-Ireland for Stuart Brennan’s medieval adventure feature Kingslayer.The completed film will have its market premiere at next month’s online European Film Market, with a first screening on Friday, February 11.Kingslayer follows a young Richard…
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Actor Kathryn Hunter: ‘I gravitated towards male roles because men are given more interesting things to do’
The theatre star on the car crash that transformed her life, changing her name for work – and playing all three witches in Joel Coen’s new film of MacbethKathryn Hunter, 64, is an actor who has done more than make a name for herself in theatre. In shows for Complicité, Shared Experience and the RSC…
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The Tragedy Of Macbeth Review: Denzel Washington And Frances McDormand Cut A Bloody Swathe Through Joel Coen’s Expressionist Nightmare
“Life is but a walking shadow,” Denzel Washington’s Macbeth quietly bemoans as he sees the beginning of the end of his short and violent reign in Joel Coen’s explosive adaptation of The Scottish Play. Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” strong emphasis on the “tragedy,” is the latest in a long line of adaptations of the…
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‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Enters Oscar Race with Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington
On the opening day of The New York Film Festival, the Walter Reade Theatre was packed for the press screening and press conference for Joel Coen’s first solo outing, his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, “
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‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Trailer: Joel Coen Tackles Shakespeare with Washington, McDormand
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand look to set the screen ablaze in Joel Coen’s “