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Kenneth Branagh returns to Royal Shakespeare Company for first time in 30 years

Sir Kenneth, best known for Belfast and Hamlet, made his first appearance with the theatre company aged 23 in the 1984 production of Henry V.

Evening Standard

Channing Tatum’s failed Thor audition left him with invaluable acting advice

Actor said director Kenneth Branagh ‘nailed my crutch’

The Independent UK

Channing Tatum unsuccessfully auditioned to play Thor

In a frank chat about his failed attempt to land the role, actor Channing Tatum has admitted he once unsuccessfully auditioned to play Thor.

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Avengers: Doomsday actor Channing Tatum opens up on his failed Thor audition – and the main lesson he learned from the underwhelming experience

The Gambit star has a past with the MCU

Total Film

5 Years Ago, An Iconic Sci-Fi Director Made A Legendarily Divisive Movie

You have to give it to Christopher Nolan: even his duds are worth talking about.

Inverse

Emma Thompson jokes she could’ve ‘changed American history’ by saying yes to date with Donald Trump

The now-US President asked Emma Thompson out in 1998, following her divorce from Kenneth Branagh. The celebrated actress recalled the strange moment during a talk at Locarno Film Festival, and joked that she could have “changed the course of American history.”

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Dame Emma Thompson turned down date with Donald Trump

Dame Emma Thompson has revealed she got a phone call from US President Donald Trump asking her out on a date on the same day her divorce from Kenneth Branagh was finalised back in 1995.

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Love? Actually, no: Emma Thompson reveals Donald Trump asked her on a date

Actor said Trump phoned her to make the offer on the day her divorce from Kenneth Branagh was confirmed in 1998

The Guardian - UK

Emma Thompson says Donald Trump asked her out on day she divorced Kenneth Branagh

The actress says she was in her trailer when she received a bizarre proposition

Evening Standard

The Devil Wears Prada 2: release date, full cast and everything we know so far about the Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep sequel

A sequel? For spring? Groundbreaking. Here's everything we know so far about The Devil Wears Prada 2, which has dropped its final official trailer.

TechRadar

Will Meryl Streep be in The Devil Wears Prada 2? Plus all we know about the sequel

The sequel has finally been confirmed and we've done some digging to find out everything you need to know about The Devil Wears Prada 2, from its cast to the plot

Woman & Home

Greg Wise thought he was destined to marry Kate Winslet

Greg Wise has revealed a "witchy friend" predicted he would meet his "life partner" on the set of his 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility and he thought it meant he was destined to marry Kate Winslet because Dame Emma Thompson was married to someone else at the time.

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Lily Gladstone cast in The Thomas Crown Affair

Lily Gladstone has been added to the cast of Amazon MGM’s re-imagining of The Thomas Crown Affair.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2: Who's Coming Back, Plot, and What We Know of the Sequel

After nearly twenty years, fans will see Miranda Priestly, Andy, and others return in a new film exploring fashion's evolving landscape.

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Kenneth Branagh to star in The Devil Wears Prada 2 as filming starts

The British actor will act alongside Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt

The Guardian - US

The Devil Wears Prada 2: Kenneth Branagh joins cast as sequel begins filming

British actor-director joins Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci for a long-awaited follow-up to the comedy hit

The Conversation

Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem

The British media has a class problem, according to recent research by The Sutton Trust. In short, the privately educated are over-represented in the creative industries, especially in film and television. The trust’s report, A Class Act (2024), demonstrates that this area of British culture is disproportionately produced by the…

The Independent UK

Bafta’s Best TV Drama winners ranked, from Happy Valley to Shameless

THE COUNTDOWN: As the Bafta TV Awards return for another year, The Independent’s chief TV critic Nick Hilton recommends the best of the past winners in the drama category – from supernatural tales to working-class stories and crime capers

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Tom Cruise is 'an underestimated actor', Sir Kenneth Branagh says

Tom Cruise should be seen as more than just a "movie star", according to his 'Valkyrie' co-star Sir Kenneth Branagh.

The Guardian - UK

Phyllis Dalton obituary

Costume designer who won Oscars for her work on the film epic Doctor Zhivago and for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V

The Guardian - UK

Sigourney Weaver’s Prospero may finally set us free of this celebrity Shakespeare indulgence

Film star’s floundering performance in The Tempest exposes flaw in theatreland’s reliance on big names

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Emma Thompson Says Her ‘Love Actually’ Crying Was All Too Real, Actually

"I knew what it was like to find a necklace that wasn't meant for me..."

Evening Standard

To be or not to be: could actors really pull off staging Hamlet in the violent video game Grand Theft Auto?

During lockdown, an out-of-work actor discovered a venue within the bestselling game and decided to put on Shakespeare’s great work with friends... they just had to avoid the audience shooting them

TechRadar

6 new horror movies on Prime Video, Shudder, Hulu and more in December 2024

Deck the halls with lots of horror movies this December, as there's lots to enjoy on the best streaming services.

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare’s play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema’s avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke

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