Tag: Wild Mountain Thyme

  • Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne Look Back on Audition Nightmare Stories When They Used to Be Roommates

    Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne Look Back on Audition Nightmare Stories When They Used to Be Roommates

    Jamie Dornan (“Wild Mountain Thyme”) and Eddie Redmayne (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne began their time in Hollywood as roommates: Reunited on a video chat a decade later, they reflect on…

  • Eddie Redmayne Had to Swim in the Winter for ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’

    Eddie Redmayne Had to Swim in the Winter for ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’

    The “Fantastic Beasts” movies star Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, a wizard and Magizoologist who embarks on a series of adventures that take place decades before the Harry Potter books.In an interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios, Jamie Dornan recalls celebrating with Eddie Redmayne on a vacation in Istanbul — the…

  • John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Is a Guilty Pleasure

    John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Is a Guilty Pleasure

    We all enjoy movies that, if we had to write a review, we’d pan. Mine range from ’60s musical “Bye Bye Birdie” to Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually,” which has become a family Christmas staple. (That scene between Laura Linney and Rodrigo Santoro? Awful.)During my ’80s stint at Film Comment Magazine, we published several directors’ guilty…

  • Wild Mountain Thyme review – Emily Blunt’s Irish romcom is a mess

    Wild Mountain Thyme review – Emily Blunt’s Irish romcom is a mess

    The actor stars alongside Jamie Dornan as stubborn farmers in this clumsy adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s play Outside MullingarIf you’ve seen the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s not-quite-a-romcom about two thirtysomething “star-crossed” (slow to settle into their inevitable pairing) lovers/farmers in rural Ireland, then you’ve most likely slammed into the…

  • John Patrick Shanley on Love, Death and ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’

    John Patrick Shanley on Love, Death and ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’

    John Patrick Shanley won an Oscar for “Moonstruck,” his bittersweet and whimsical romantic comedy about a pair of star-crossed lovers who find themselves inextricably drawn together.More than 30 years later, Shanley is offering another look at love, examining both its irresistible pull and its inherent danger, with “Wild Mountain Thyme.” The film, which opens in…

  • Jamie Dornan and Holliday Grainger to Star in John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’

    Jamie Dornan and Holliday Grainger to Star in John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’

    Jamie Dornan (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) and Holliday Grainger (“Animals”) have been tapped to star in John Patrick Shanley’s romance “Wild Mountain Thyme,” an adaptation of his Tony-nominated 2014 play “Outside Mulingar.”HanWay Films has acquired the international sales rights and will commence sales at Cannes, with CAA Media Finance handling the North American rights.“Wild Mountain…