Following a sold out, critically acclaimed run in the West End, the new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Succession actor Sarah Snook in 26 roles will open on Broadway in March for a limited engagement.
The production, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, will play at an-yet-undisclosed Shubert theater, with specific production dates to be announced shortly. The adaptation began at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Williams is the Artistic Director.
The play will mark Snook’s Broadway debut. She won the Olivier Award for the role in the London premiere production. In it, Snook plays all 26 characters in the story.
The official synopsis: “Wilde’s timeless text is revolutionized by Williams’ celebrated collision of form employing an explosive interplay of video and theater through an intricately choreographed collection of on-stage cameras bringing to life a dizzying 26 characters, each brought to life by Snook.”
Snook...
The production, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, will play at an-yet-undisclosed Shubert theater, with specific production dates to be announced shortly. The adaptation began at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Williams is the Artistic Director.
The play will mark Snook’s Broadway debut. She won the Olivier Award for the role in the London premiere production. In it, Snook plays all 26 characters in the story.
The official synopsis: “Wilde’s timeless text is revolutionized by Williams’ celebrated collision of form employing an explosive interplay of video and theater through an intricately choreographed collection of on-stage cameras bringing to life a dizzying 26 characters, each brought to life by Snook.”
Snook...
- 10/2/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Back in the 1890s, writer Oscar Wilde brought the world a story called The Picture of Dorian Gray – and now the Netflix streaming service has announced that they’re teaming up with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television on a new TV series called The Grays, which ComicBook.com hears will be “a contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde classic about our fascination with eternal youth set against the backdrop of the modern beauty industry.“
The Picture of Dorian Gray has the following description: Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.
Supergirl alum Katie Rose Rogers and All American‘s Robbie Rogers,...
The Picture of Dorian Gray has the following description: Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.
Supergirl alum Katie Rose Rogers and All American‘s Robbie Rogers,...
- 8/21/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Netflix is in the process of adapting “The Picture of Dorian Gray” into a modern TV series, TheWrap has learned.
The show, titled “The Grays,” will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with “The Girls on the Bus” showrunner and EP Rina Mimoun serving as showrunner and executive producer, according to an individual with knowledge. Katie Rose Rogers will write the series.
As the team modernizes the Oscar Wilde novel, the series will center on siblings Basil and Dorian Gray as “The Grays” tackles the classic’s themes through the eyes of the modern beauty industry, according to Deadline, who first reported the news.
Representatives for Warner Bros. Television and Netflix declined to comment.
Mimoun and Rogers will executive produce the series alongside Rogers’ brother, Robbie Rogers, with whom she worked on “Fellow Travelers” and who has served as a producer on “All American” and an EP on “All American: Homecoming.
The show, titled “The Grays,” will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with “The Girls on the Bus” showrunner and EP Rina Mimoun serving as showrunner and executive producer, according to an individual with knowledge. Katie Rose Rogers will write the series.
As the team modernizes the Oscar Wilde novel, the series will center on siblings Basil and Dorian Gray as “The Grays” tackles the classic’s themes through the eyes of the modern beauty industry, according to Deadline, who first reported the news.
Representatives for Warner Bros. Television and Netflix declined to comment.
Mimoun and Rogers will executive produce the series alongside Rogers’ brother, Robbie Rogers, with whom she worked on “Fellow Travelers” and who has served as a producer on “All American” and an EP on “All American: Homecoming.
- 8/20/2024
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Stars: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Phillip Schurer, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Matthew Géczy | Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Writer-director Coralie Fargeat follows her acclaimed 2017 debut Revenge with this delicious body-horror starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Provocative, shocking and shot through with blacker-than-black humour, The Substance is one of the best films of the year.
Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a former Hollywood A-lister who now hosts an aerobics show on TV called Sparkle Your Life. When her slimy boss Harvey (Dennis Quaid) casually fires her for being too old, she’s tempted by a hush-hush body enhancement treatment known as The Substance, something she’s quietly offered by a stranger, who hands her a card with a number on it.
However, the treatment comes with a catch – after injecting herself with the substance, Elisabeth will be replaced by a younger clone of...
Writer-director Coralie Fargeat follows her acclaimed 2017 debut Revenge with this delicious body-horror starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Provocative, shocking and shot through with blacker-than-black humour, The Substance is one of the best films of the year.
Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a former Hollywood A-lister who now hosts an aerobics show on TV called Sparkle Your Life. When her slimy boss Harvey (Dennis Quaid) casually fires her for being too old, she’s tempted by a hush-hush body enhancement treatment known as The Substance, something she’s quietly offered by a stranger, who hands her a card with a number on it.
However, the treatment comes with a catch – after injecting herself with the substance, Elisabeth will be replaced by a younger clone of...
- 6/10/2024
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films has acquired the film rights to one of the hottest theater shows around: the Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic The Picture Of Dorian Gray, which has recently been lighting up London’s West End.
Sarah Snook has garnered raves for her performance in the latest iteration of the show and last Sunday the Succession star scored an Olivier Award for Best Actress.
Dirty Films partner Andrew Upton is working with the show’s mastermind Kip Williams on a treatment based on the technically dazzling one woman show, which sees its protagonist play 26 roles. The part was first performed by Eryn Jean Norvill in multiple sell-out runs across Australia. Oscar winner Blanchett attended the most recent run’s opening night in London earlier this year.
Co-producers on the film will be Rachel Gardner and Jo Porter of Australian company Curio Pictures,...
Sarah Snook has garnered raves for her performance in the latest iteration of the show and last Sunday the Succession star scored an Olivier Award for Best Actress.
Dirty Films partner Andrew Upton is working with the show’s mastermind Kip Williams on a treatment based on the technically dazzling one woman show, which sees its protagonist play 26 roles. The part was first performed by Eryn Jean Norvill in multiple sell-out runs across Australia. Oscar winner Blanchett attended the most recent run’s opening night in London earlier this year.
Co-producers on the film will be Rachel Gardner and Jo Porter of Australian company Curio Pictures,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Succession star Sarah Snook and singer-actress Nicole Scherzinger were among the big winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards, which were revealed this evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Snook picked up the Best Actress gong for her multi-character performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play also picked up Best Costume Design for Marg Horwell. Scherzinger landed Best Actress in a Musical for her turn as Norma Desmond in the recent revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard.
Elsewhere, the Best Director award went to Jamie Lloyd for the Savoy Theatre production of Sunset Boulevard while Vanya starring Andrew Scott landed Best Revival. Mark Gatiss won Best Actor for The Motive and the Cue. Will Close nabbed Best Supporting Actor for his role in the National Theatre’s...
Snook picked up the Best Actress gong for her multi-character performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play also picked up Best Costume Design for Marg Horwell. Scherzinger landed Best Actress in a Musical for her turn as Norma Desmond in the recent revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard.
Elsewhere, the Best Director award went to Jamie Lloyd for the Savoy Theatre production of Sunset Boulevard while Vanya starring Andrew Scott landed Best Revival. Mark Gatiss won Best Actor for The Motive and the Cue. Will Close nabbed Best Supporting Actor for his role in the National Theatre’s...
- 4/14/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye and Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Snook, Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and David Tennant were among the nominees for the 2024 Olivier Awards, which celebrate achievements in London theater.
Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tennant was nominated for best actor for his role in Macbeth, in the same category as Andrew Scott, in a one-man version of Vanya.
Sunset Boulevard, which starred Nicole Scherzinger, who is also nominated, and is set to come to Broadway next year, received 11 nominations, while Dear England, a play by James Graham about an English football manager, received nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the television series, which has also hinted at its Broadway ambitions, is up for best new entertainment or comedy play.
The Olivier...
Parker was nominated for best actress for her role in Plaza Suite, opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, while Snook was nominated in the same category for her one-woman take on The Picture of Dorian Gray. Tennant was nominated for best actor for his role in Macbeth, in the same category as Andrew Scott, in a one-man version of Vanya.
Sunset Boulevard, which starred Nicole Scherzinger, who is also nominated, and is set to come to Broadway next year, received 11 nominations, while Dear England, a play by James Graham about an English football manager, received nine nominations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a prequel to the television series, which has also hinted at its Broadway ambitions, is up for best new entertainment or comedy play.
The Olivier...
- 3/12/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars including Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook, Andrew Scott and David Tennant will compete for Olivier Awards at the UK’s most prestigious theater ceremony next month.
The Sex and the City stars is up for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite – her first Olivier – while Succession’s Snook has picked up a nod for her critically-acclaimed performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the Best Actor category, Scott’s performance in Vanya will come up against Tennant’s role in Macbeth, while the starry nominee list also includes Joseph Fiennes for Dear England, which is being made into a BBC series, Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue and James Norton in A Little Life.
Other notable nominations include for singer Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, where she has picked up a nod for Best Actress in a Musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
The Sex and the City stars is up for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite – her first Olivier – while Succession’s Snook has picked up a nod for her critically-acclaimed performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the Best Actor category, Scott’s performance in Vanya will come up against Tennant’s role in Macbeth, while the starry nominee list also includes Joseph Fiennes for Dear England, which is being made into a BBC series, Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue and James Norton in A Little Life.
Other notable nominations include for singer Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, where she has picked up a nod for Best Actress in a Musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
- 3/12/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahead of the UK premiere of graphic and disturbing supernatural horror film The Well at FrightFest Glasgow 2024, director Federico Zampaglione talks about returning to hardcore horror, working with the late, great Giovanni Lombardo Radice and emerging from the shadow of Italian masters of the genre.
So, Federico, The Well has its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, as part of the popular FrightFest event. Are you excited?
Frightfest is the place where everything started in 2009 and it’s one of the best festivals in the world. I can’t wait to show The Well to the UK fans.
What inspired you to make the movie?
Wanting to get back on the horror horse! I deeply love this genre, because it speaks to the human soul, investigates our unknown fears and gets lost in deep darkness whilst clinging to a blade of light. The Well pushes at the most extreme emotions,...
So, Federico, The Well has its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival, as part of the popular FrightFest event. Are you excited?
Frightfest is the place where everything started in 2009 and it’s one of the best festivals in the world. I can’t wait to show The Well to the UK fans.
What inspired you to make the movie?
Wanting to get back on the horror horse! I deeply love this genre, because it speaks to the human soul, investigates our unknown fears and gets lost in deep darkness whilst clinging to a blade of light. The Well pushes at the most extreme emotions,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Succession’s Sarah Snook, now the toast of the town for her dazzling one-woman performance playing 26 characters in a breathtakingly innovative staging of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, will likely head to Broadway early in 2025 once she’s had a break, and if she wants to do it.
There are tentative, in no way definite, plans for the production to be filmed for the National Theatre’s Nt Live.
Look, movies and television are great art forms, and I love ‘em to bits like everybody else, but nothing beats watching an artist at the top of their craft live on a theatre stage. And in Snook’s case in The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s able to command every inch of the Theatre Royal Haymarket stage.
Sarah Snook in ‘Dorian Gray’
Snook went into rehearsals last November to shoot the extensive video content that features...
There are tentative, in no way definite, plans for the production to be filmed for the National Theatre’s Nt Live.
Look, movies and television are great art forms, and I love ‘em to bits like everybody else, but nothing beats watching an artist at the top of their craft live on a theatre stage. And in Snook’s case in The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s able to command every inch of the Theatre Royal Haymarket stage.
Sarah Snook in ‘Dorian Gray’
Snook went into rehearsals last November to shoot the extensive video content that features...
- 2/17/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Production and sales group Yale Entertainment is to collaborate with New York theatre company Djdl Productions on a slate of feature films.
The companies said the features, to be made under a Yale Entertainment Select Projects, or Yes Projects banner, will be “character driven films that empower unique and diverse cinematic voices.” International sales on the projects will be handled by Yale’s sales operation Great Escape.
The first two projects to be revealed under the arrangement are neo-noir suspense thriller Just Over Broken and sci-fi/political thriller Mars.
Written by Mickey Solis, who also wrote Yale’s 2021 action thriller Rogue Hostage,...
The companies said the features, to be made under a Yale Entertainment Select Projects, or Yes Projects banner, will be “character driven films that empower unique and diverse cinematic voices.” International sales on the projects will be handled by Yale’s sales operation Great Escape.
The first two projects to be revealed under the arrangement are neo-noir suspense thriller Just Over Broken and sci-fi/political thriller Mars.
Written by Mickey Solis, who also wrote Yale’s 2021 action thriller Rogue Hostage,...
- 2/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
British Buggery.
After closing out January with the very gay (and very terrible) The Covenant (listen) and the pseudo-remake of Single White Female: The Roommate (listen), we kicked off February with journey to the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator. Now, we’re traveling back in time to discuss Albert Lewin‘s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), tells his friend Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain to stay young forever. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. Unfortunately, his sins take physical form on a portrait of himself, and as the years go by he must decide what type of man he wants to be.
After closing out January with the very gay (and very terrible) The Covenant (listen) and the pseudo-remake of Single White Female: The Roommate (listen), we kicked off February with journey to the world of H.P. Lovecraft in Re-Animator. Now, we’re traveling back in time to discuss Albert Lewin‘s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders), tells his friend Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian inadvertently makes a Faustian bargain to stay young forever. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. Unfortunately, his sins take physical form on a portrait of himself, and as the years go by he must decide what type of man he wants to be.
- 2/12/2024
- by Trace Thurman
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sarah Snook accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a television drama series at the 2024 Golden Globes on Sunday night.
Snook received the award for her performance as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy in HBO’s Succession, which released its fourth and final season in 2023. It is her second Golden Globe for the role, following her win in 2022.
She opened her acceptance speech with a nod to co-star Kieran Culkin, who took home the award for best actor in a TV drama earlier in the evening.
“Kieran is usually better at these speeches,” she quipped. “You want to get up instead?”
Despite the joke, Snook continued with sincerity: “This show changed my life. Everybody in it is amazing. The cast, the crew were fantastic, this was a team effort. It was always a team and that was what made the show amazing to be a part of.”
Later,...
Snook received the award for her performance as Siobhan “Shiv” Roy in HBO’s Succession, which released its fourth and final season in 2023. It is her second Golden Globe for the role, following her win in 2022.
She opened her acceptance speech with a nod to co-star Kieran Culkin, who took home the award for best actor in a TV drama earlier in the evening.
“Kieran is usually better at these speeches,” she quipped. “You want to get up instead?”
Despite the joke, Snook continued with sincerity: “This show changed my life. Everybody in it is amazing. The cast, the crew were fantastic, this was a team effort. It was always a team and that was what made the show amazing to be a part of.”
Later,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Zoe G Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.
Scherzinger, who won the Evening Standard’s best musical performance prize for her show-stopping turn as Norma Desmond, has indicated to producers that she will commit to a six-month season in New York, we understand. The Es also recently named the show’s helmer Jamie Lloyd as Best Director [Disclosure: this writer is a member of the Es judging panel].
Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Meanwhile, another Es winner, Jack Thorne’s glorious drama The Motive and the Cue, staged by Sam Mendes, has transferred from London’s National Theatre to the Noël Coward, and we can also reveal The Motive and the Cue is in the early stages of discussions for a run in NYC.
Scherzinger, who won the Evening Standard’s best musical performance prize for her show-stopping turn as Norma Desmond, has indicated to producers that she will commit to a six-month season in New York, we understand. The Es also recently named the show’s helmer Jamie Lloyd as Best Director [Disclosure: this writer is a member of the Es judging panel].
Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Meanwhile, another Es winner, Jack Thorne’s glorious drama The Motive and the Cue, staged by Sam Mendes, has transferred from London’s National Theatre to the Noël Coward, and we can also reveal The Motive and the Cue is in the early stages of discussions for a run in NYC.
- 12/21/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite the odd cliche, a thriller with an unnerving picture at its core is coated with unsettling energy and a standout performance from Mexican actor Natalia Córdova-Buckley
Simon Ross’s capable debut can be hung in a gallery of films featuring unnerving paintings, from The Picture of Dorian Gray to Ghostbusters 2 and In the Mouth of Madness. Wife turned carer Sofia (Natalia Córdova-Buckley) stumbles across an uncanny canvas in the attic of the mansion to which she has brought her catatonic husband Alex (Ryan Kwanten); it is supposedly a self-portrait of his great-grandfather, but she is startled to find that it is a spitting image of Alex. While this gothic chestnut, and the psychodrama that follows – with Sofia unsure how much is the product of her own under-siege mind – feel familiar, Ross injects them with a troubling inner turbulence that bodes well for him.
Apparently a doting, endlessly patient spouse,...
Simon Ross’s capable debut can be hung in a gallery of films featuring unnerving paintings, from The Picture of Dorian Gray to Ghostbusters 2 and In the Mouth of Madness. Wife turned carer Sofia (Natalia Córdova-Buckley) stumbles across an uncanny canvas in the attic of the mansion to which she has brought her catatonic husband Alex (Ryan Kwanten); it is supposedly a self-portrait of his great-grandfather, but she is startled to find that it is a spitting image of Alex. While this gothic chestnut, and the psychodrama that follows – with Sofia unsure how much is the product of her own under-siege mind – feel familiar, Ross injects them with a troubling inner turbulence that bodes well for him.
Apparently a doting, endlessly patient spouse,...
- 12/6/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscar Wilde is known as one of the greatest wits in literary history. But he has brought some delightful eeriness, too, with works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and more. This month, one of his finest combinations of the two, the 1887 short story “The Canterville Ghost”, will arrive in animated form on the big screen. Now, we have a clip from The Canterville Ghost courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment and Shout! Studios that, like the movie itself, is aimed at the whole family.
In the clip, host Hiram Otis (David Harewood) shows off “the new wonder of the modern world” – electricity – to his dazzled guests, only to be pranked by those channeling the spirit of Sir Simon de Canterville (Stephen Fry), who soon commandeers the spook….
The official plot of The Canterville Ghost: “As the nineteenth gives way to the twentieth century and scientific invention brings forth new...
In the clip, host Hiram Otis (David Harewood) shows off “the new wonder of the modern world” – electricity – to his dazzled guests, only to be pranked by those channeling the spirit of Sir Simon de Canterville (Stephen Fry), who soon commandeers the spook….
The official plot of The Canterville Ghost: “As the nineteenth gives way to the twentieth century and scientific invention brings forth new...
- 10/17/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Sarah Snook is riding her “Succession” acclaim to new acting heights.
Almost a month after the series finale of HBO hit, the 35-year-old Australian, who recently welcomed her newborn with husband Dave Lawson, joined the London production of Oscar Wilde’s 19th-century novel, The Pictures of Dorian Gray, as the Sydney Theatre Company reported.
Snook will certainly be flexing her acting chops as she’s set to play a whopping 26 characters in the stage show, which will run for 12 weeks.
Read More: ‘Succession’ Star Sarah Snook Gives Birth To Her First Child
However, it could be extended onto Broadway if it’s a hit at the ticket booth, according to Deadline.
The production’s trip to London follows its success in Sydney and across Australia. The two-hour spectacle will see Snook immersing herself in the intricacies of each character.
“I am elated to return to the London stage in such an astonishing piece of theatre,...
Almost a month after the series finale of HBO hit, the 35-year-old Australian, who recently welcomed her newborn with husband Dave Lawson, joined the London production of Oscar Wilde’s 19th-century novel, The Pictures of Dorian Gray, as the Sydney Theatre Company reported.
Snook will certainly be flexing her acting chops as she’s set to play a whopping 26 characters in the stage show, which will run for 12 weeks.
Read More: ‘Succession’ Star Sarah Snook Gives Birth To Her First Child
However, it could be extended onto Broadway if it’s a hit at the ticket booth, according to Deadline.
The production’s trip to London follows its success in Sydney and across Australia. The two-hour spectacle will see Snook immersing herself in the intricacies of each character.
“I am elated to return to the London stage in such an astonishing piece of theatre,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
Succession’s Sarah Snook is returning to the stage in London, and possibly Broadway, to take on an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a dark tale of a portrait that ages as its subject remains forever young.
The Emmy-nominated actress will have the gargantuan task of playing all 26 characters in Dorian Gray when it opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End in January 2024 for a limited 12-week season.
It’s a mammoth undertaking for a solo artist who will be required to be on stage for two hours without an interval.
The show was devised by Kip Williams, the artistic director of Australia’s celebrated Sydney Theatre Company. It premiered in Sydney with actress Eryn Jean Norvill creating the part — or parts, because there are 26 of them.
Those connected with it have described the show as “cine-theatre.”
Snook will begin preparing...
The Emmy-nominated actress will have the gargantuan task of playing all 26 characters in Dorian Gray when it opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London’s West End in January 2024 for a limited 12-week season.
It’s a mammoth undertaking for a solo artist who will be required to be on stage for two hours without an interval.
The show was devised by Kip Williams, the artistic director of Australia’s celebrated Sydney Theatre Company. It premiered in Sydney with actress Eryn Jean Norvill creating the part — or parts, because there are 26 of them.
Those connected with it have described the show as “cine-theatre.”
Snook will begin preparing...
- 6/22/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Austrian actor Helmut Berger, the groundbreaking star of European cinematic masterpieces such as Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned” and Vittorio De Sica’s “Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” has died at the age of 78. Berger died at home in Austria from natural causes.
In one of European cinema’s most storied and creative periods, the 60s and 70s, Berger boldly established his place in the pantheon of Continental stars via a handful of films directed by Visconti, his one-time romantic partner. “The Damned,” “Ludwig” and “Conversation Piece” were all crafted with standout roles for Berger and the films were hugely successful both at the arthouse box office and with critics and awards groups.
“The Damned”
Berger was nominated for a Golden Globe for “The Damned,” which was also nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1970. No less an authority than the late German filmmaking maestro Rainer Werner Fassbinder called it “perhaps the greatest film,...
In one of European cinema’s most storied and creative periods, the 60s and 70s, Berger boldly established his place in the pantheon of Continental stars via a handful of films directed by Visconti, his one-time romantic partner. “The Damned,” “Ludwig” and “Conversation Piece” were all crafted with standout roles for Berger and the films were hugely successful both at the arthouse box office and with critics and awards groups.
“The Damned”
Berger was nominated for a Golden Globe for “The Damned,” which was also nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar in 1970. No less an authority than the late German filmmaking maestro Rainer Werner Fassbinder called it “perhaps the greatest film,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
Helmut Berger, the Austrian actor and regular Luchino Visconti collaborator who become one of the most recognizable faces of European arthouse cinema in the 1960s, has died at the age of 78. The news was announced by the actor’s agent, who wrote that he died “peacefully but nevertheless unexpectedly” on his management company’s website.
Born in Austria in 1944, Berger moved to Rome and began pursuing an acting career after expressing disinterest in following his parents into the hospitality industry. He initially found work as an extra before meeting Visconti in 1964. The “Rocco and His Brothers” director gave Berger a small part in his 1967 film “The Witches,” an omnibus film also directed by the likes of Vittorio De Sica and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Berger and Visconti began a professional and romantic relationship that would go on to shape the European cinema landscape of the subsequent decade.
Berger’s most significant...
Born in Austria in 1944, Berger moved to Rome and began pursuing an acting career after expressing disinterest in following his parents into the hospitality industry. He initially found work as an extra before meeting Visconti in 1964. The “Rocco and His Brothers” director gave Berger a small part in his 1967 film “The Witches,” an omnibus film also directed by the likes of Vittorio De Sica and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Berger and Visconti began a professional and romantic relationship that would go on to shape the European cinema landscape of the subsequent decade.
Berger’s most significant...
- 5/18/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Angela Lansbury, the revered actor who won five Tony Awards and anchored the long-running smash TV series Murder, She Wrote, died on Tuesday, Oct. 11, The New York Times reports. She was 96.
Lansbury’s family confirmed her death in a statement, though a cause was not given. Lansbury was just five days away from her 97th birthday.
A star on both the stage and screen, Lansbury picked up multiple Oscar nominations and won five Tony awards over the course of her remarkable career. Lansbury began acting professionally when she was a teenager,...
Lansbury’s family confirmed her death in a statement, though a cause was not given. Lansbury was just five days away from her 97th birthday.
A star on both the stage and screen, Lansbury picked up multiple Oscar nominations and won five Tony awards over the course of her remarkable career. Lansbury began acting professionally when she was a teenager,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Angela Lansbury, one of the most beloved and acclaimed actors of stage, film and television, who had a nearly 75-year career, died at her Los Angeles home today in her sleep, just five days short of her 97th birthday.
The three-time Oscar nominee and Murder, She Wrote star’s death was announced by her family.
“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 Am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” the statement reads.
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She is known to television fans as the star of the long-running smash Murder, She Wrote — she was Emmy-nominated...
The three-time Oscar nominee and Murder, She Wrote star’s death was announced by her family.
“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 Am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” the statement reads.
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She is known to television fans as the star of the long-running smash Murder, She Wrote — she was Emmy-nominated...
- 10/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
This Friday, April 29th, IFC Midnight is releasing Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching, a wildly ambitious creature feature centered around the horrors of adolescence, into theaters (it will make its debut on digital platforms on May 17th). In the film, a young girl named Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) decides to take care of a mysterious egg she finds one night, raising the twisted monstrosity in secret. Tinja’s best efforts to care for her new friend—whom she names Alli—prove to not be enough once the animal begins to wreak havoc on her life, leaving the young girl unable to contend with Alli’s increasingly dangerous behaviors.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gustav Hoegen, the animatronic designer and creature FX supervisor behind Alli about his experiences working on Hatching and collaborating with Bergholm on the project. Hoegen discussed how he approached the creation of Alli, the challenges...
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gustav Hoegen, the animatronic designer and creature FX supervisor behind Alli about his experiences working on Hatching and collaborating with Bergholm on the project. Hoegen discussed how he approached the creation of Alli, the challenges...
- 4/28/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Like so many actors fortunate enough to work over the past year, there was a two-week stretch last fall when Ben Barnes found himself sequestered alone in a Canadian hotel room. He was there for “Shadow and Bone,” the new fantasy series Netflix hopes will become one of its signature genre franchises alongside “The Witcher” and “Stranger Things.” The show had largely wrapped production just before the pandemic lockdown, but Barnes still needed to film some final scenes as the powerful and mysterious General Kirigan, also known as the Darkling, who possesses the ability to control darkness and wield it as a deadly weapon.
Before he could dive back into all that, though, there was that pesky mandatory quarantine to endure. So to pass the time, Barnes started making his own music.
“I managed to buy this very small keyboard off of a Facebook marketplace thing,” he explained over Zoom...
Before he could dive back into all that, though, there was that pesky mandatory quarantine to endure. So to pass the time, Barnes started making his own music.
“I managed to buy this very small keyboard off of a Facebook marketplace thing,” he explained over Zoom...
- 4/22/2021
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on the images for magnified detail)
Watching The Picture of Dorian Gray as a horror film in this, its 75th anniversary year, is a bit of a puzzle. It’s almost unrecognizable within the genre, though director Albert Lewin does treat the revelation of the deformed painting itself as something of a jump scare. But the overall vibe is more akin to a period drama or a film noir than anything we would consider spooky today.
That is, until you think about it a little more closely.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an atmospheric horror film about things that don’t necessarily scare us nearly as much anymore: arrogance, beauty and the simple fact of sexuality. In this way it does actually resemble the great horror films of its time, monster movies that make much out of giant laboratories and cavernous castles, unnerving...
Watching The Picture of Dorian Gray as a horror film in this, its 75th anniversary year, is a bit of a puzzle. It’s almost unrecognizable within the genre, though director Albert Lewin does treat the revelation of the deformed painting itself as something of a jump scare. But the overall vibe is more akin to a period drama or a film noir than anything we would consider spooky today.
That is, until you think about it a little more closely.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an atmospheric horror film about things that don’t necessarily scare us nearly as much anymore: arrogance, beauty and the simple fact of sexuality. In this way it does actually resemble the great horror films of its time, monster movies that make much out of giant laboratories and cavernous castles, unnerving...
- 10/28/2020
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #184: Actress Caroline Goodall on how to write and produce...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #184: Actress Caroline Goodall on how to write and produce...
- 10/2/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
What a fraud, you might have thought glimpsing astrologist Walter Mercado on TV in the ’90s. But you wouldn’t forget his face. The bejeweled and blonded psychic hotline pitchman looked like a sorcerer from outer space. Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch’s giddily glittery documentary “Mucho Mucho Amor” traces the half-century that Mercado was a global icon, his fingers whirling like flamenco dancers as he hypnotized audiences from Holland to Brazil.
Mercado was as at-home on “Sally Jesse Raphael “as he was in his birthplace of Puerto Rico, where strangers would jockey to stroke his fabulous 15-pound capes, or even finagle a kiss on the cheek. Howard Stern hooted that he was “bigger than Jesus Christ.” Mercado demurred that he was closer to Buddha. But when the film starts, Mercado hasn’t been on camera for over a decade. Many fans assume he’s dead. How could that grande dame live without a spotlight?...
Mercado was as at-home on “Sally Jesse Raphael “as he was in his birthplace of Puerto Rico, where strangers would jockey to stroke his fabulous 15-pound capes, or even finagle a kiss on the cheek. Howard Stern hooted that he was “bigger than Jesus Christ.” Mercado demurred that he was closer to Buddha. But when the film starts, Mercado hasn’t been on camera for over a decade. Many fans assume he’s dead. How could that grande dame live without a spotlight?...
- 1/25/2020
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Cummins Jan 24, 2020
We're revealing all the secrets of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's third season in our easter eggs guide.
This Chilling Adventures of Sabrina article contains nothing but spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review right here if you prefer.
Frequent visits to hell! Pagans! Ice Cream! Cheerleading! Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 3 truly has it all. We've already gone on record saying how we think that this new batch of episodes is the series' best yet. Over the course of these eight installments, the show upends not only what we know about how magic works in the Archieverse, but also takes characters into new directions—blowing apart existing relationships and setting up new adversities. It's all compelling stuff to say the least, but to truly enjoy all of the season's nuances require multiple viewings. We participated in just that, and along the way noticed tons of easter eggs and...
We're revealing all the secrets of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's third season in our easter eggs guide.
This Chilling Adventures of Sabrina article contains nothing but spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review right here if you prefer.
Frequent visits to hell! Pagans! Ice Cream! Cheerleading! Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 3 truly has it all. We've already gone on record saying how we think that this new batch of episodes is the series' best yet. Over the course of these eight installments, the show upends not only what we know about how magic works in the Archieverse, but also takes characters into new directions—blowing apart existing relationships and setting up new adversities. It's all compelling stuff to say the least, but to truly enjoy all of the season's nuances require multiple viewings. We participated in just that, and along the way noticed tons of easter eggs and...
- 1/23/2020
- Den of Geek
A new take on Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray is headed to the big screen with St. Vincent directing and one major change to the original tale.
- 8/17/2017
- cinemablend.com
Annie Clark, the rocker known as St. Vincent, will make her feature-length directorial debut with an upcoming reimagining of the classic Oscar Wilde novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
As opposed to the 1890 book and its many cinematic adaptations, a woman will play the Dorian Gray role in the Clark-directed feature, Variety reports. Elle screenwriter David Birke wrote the script, with Lionsgate set to produce. No release date has been announced.
The book centers on a young man, Dorian Gray, who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth. However,...
As opposed to the 1890 book and its many cinematic adaptations, a woman will play the Dorian Gray role in the Clark-directed feature, Variety reports. Elle screenwriter David Birke wrote the script, with Lionsgate set to produce. No release date has been announced.
The book centers on a young man, Dorian Gray, who sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth. However,...
- 8/16/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Annie Clark, also known as musician St. Vincent, will direct a gender-bending adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray for Lionsgate.
David Birke, who wrote the Isabelle Huppertstarring Elle, will adapt the Oscar Wilde classic that follows a beautiful but self-absorbed man who sells his soul in order to retain his beauty, letting his portrait age in his stead. In Clark's take, Dorian Gray will be a woman.
This will be the feature directorial debut for Clark, who directed a segment in the all-female horror anthology Xx, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was...
David Birke, who wrote the Isabelle Huppertstarring Elle, will adapt the Oscar Wilde classic that follows a beautiful but self-absorbed man who sells his soul in order to retain his beauty, letting his portrait age in his stead. In Clark's take, Dorian Gray will be a woman.
This will be the feature directorial debut for Clark, who directed a segment in the all-female horror anthology Xx, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
The Picture of Dorian Gray was...
- 8/16/2017
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sneak Peek Titan Comics' "Penny Dreadful" #1, continuing the Showtime, Sky horror drama TV series, written by Chris King and illustrated by Jesus Hervas, with covers by Stephen Mooney, Rob Davis, Shane Pierce and Louis De Martinis. available April 5, 2017:
"...in 'The Awakening', part 1 of 4, 'Ethan Chandler' finds himself unable to move on.
"As he searches desperately for meaning in a world without 'Vanessa', ancient words echo across the centuries...
"...and he is called on once again to take up arms against creatures crawling out of the night..."
The "Penny Dreadful" TV series used many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish fiction, including 'Dorian Gray' from Oscar Wilde, 'Mina Harker', 'Abraham Van Helsing', 'Dr. Seward', 'Renfield' and 'Count Dracula' from Bram Stoker, 'Victor Frankenstein' and his 'Monster' from Mary Shelley and 'Dr. Henry Jekyll' from Robert Louis Stevenson.
Click the images to...
"...in 'The Awakening', part 1 of 4, 'Ethan Chandler' finds himself unable to move on.
"As he searches desperately for meaning in a world without 'Vanessa', ancient words echo across the centuries...
"...and he is called on once again to take up arms against creatures crawling out of the night..."
The "Penny Dreadful" TV series used many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish fiction, including 'Dorian Gray' from Oscar Wilde, 'Mina Harker', 'Abraham Van Helsing', 'Dr. Seward', 'Renfield' and 'Count Dracula' from Bram Stoker, 'Victor Frankenstein' and his 'Monster' from Mary Shelley and 'Dr. Henry Jekyll' from Robert Louis Stevenson.
Click the images to...
- 4/2/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
TV Line has broken our first bit of casting news for Marvel and Netflix's planned Daredevil spin-off, which will continue the bloody exploits of The Punisher. According to them, Ben Barnes (Westworld, Dorian Gray, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) has signed on to star opposite Jon Bernthal's Frank Castle. We don't know for certain who he'll be playing, but TV Line has heard it'll be Bobby Saint, who is not actually a Marvel Comics character and was introduced in 2004's The Punisher as the son of John Travolta's Howard Saint. This seems like an unusual move, as there are lots of great Punisher villains that could be utilized ahead of a minor thug created for a 12 year-old movie. Anyway, we'll see if this turns out to be the case. In the meantime, let us know what you think in the usual place.
- 9/12/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
Hope you guys made some extra room in your wallets for all the cash you’ll undoubtedly be shelling out this week (love me some “dad humor”), as August 23rd boasts an awesome selection of horror and sci-fi Blu-ray and DVD releases, all capped off by the home entertainment debuts of both season one of Ash vs Evil Dead and the sixth season of The Walking Dead.
Arrow Video is giving the cult classic The Bloodstained Butterfly an HD overhaul for their impressive-looking two-disc Special Edition release that arrives this Tuesday, and Scream Factory is doing the same for another cult classic, Psycho IV: The Beginning. Kino Lorber is releasing a Blu-ray for Chandu The Magician this week, and we’ve also got a DVD and Blu release for Jon Watts’ Clown to look forward to as well.
Other notable releases for August 23rd include Der Bunker, The Ultimate Vincent Price Collection,...
Arrow Video is giving the cult classic The Bloodstained Butterfly an HD overhaul for their impressive-looking two-disc Special Edition release that arrives this Tuesday, and Scream Factory is doing the same for another cult classic, Psycho IV: The Beginning. Kino Lorber is releasing a Blu-ray for Chandu The Magician this week, and we’ve also got a DVD and Blu release for Jon Watts’ Clown to look forward to as well.
Other notable releases for August 23rd include Der Bunker, The Ultimate Vincent Price Collection,...
- 8/23/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Jackie Vernon may be remembered by many for being the voice of Frosty the Snowman, but horror fans know him as Donald, a frustrated husband who develops a taste for fellow humans in Microwave Massacre. In August, Arrow Video will release the cult 1983 horror film on Blu-ray / DVD, and they recently revealed new face-melting cover art for the special release, as well as an updated bonus features list for The Bloodstained Butterfly Blu-ray / DVD:
Press Release: Mvd Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in the Us with several new titles in August...
Microwave Massacre [Blu-ray + DVD] (August 16th)
They Came For Dinner...To Find They Were It!!
Microwave Massacre stars legendary stand-up comedian and actor Jackie Vernon as Donald, a disgruntled construction worker whose wife's predilection for haute cuisine drives him to cannibalism.
Donald unwittingly stumbles upon a solution to his two major problems in his life - his nagging...
Press Release: Mvd Entertainment Group furthers the distribution of Arrow Video in the Us with several new titles in August...
Microwave Massacre [Blu-ray + DVD] (August 16th)
They Came For Dinner...To Find They Were It!!
Microwave Massacre stars legendary stand-up comedian and actor Jackie Vernon as Donald, a disgruntled construction worker whose wife's predilection for haute cuisine drives him to cannibalism.
Donald unwittingly stumbles upon a solution to his two major problems in his life - his nagging...
- 7/6/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Arrow Video has sent us details on their two upcoming releases in August, the cheesy Microwave Massacre and the giallo film, The Bloodstained Butterfly. As usual, the team at Arrow Video will be packing both releases with all sorts of special features. Read on for all the details.
Microwave Massacre [Blu-ray + DVD] (August 16th)
They Came For Dinner…To Find They Were It!!
Microwave Massacre stars legendary stand-up comedian and actor Jackie Vernon as Donald, a disgruntled construction worker whose wife’s predilection for haute cuisine drives him to cannibalism.
Donald unwittingly stumbles upon a solution to his two major problems in his life – his nagging wife and his lack of decent meals – when, one night, he bludgeons his better half to death with a pepper grinder in a drunken rage. Thinking on his feet, Donald dismembers the body and sets about microwaving the remains, which turn out to be rather delicious.
Microwave Massacre [Blu-ray + DVD] (August 16th)
They Came For Dinner…To Find They Were It!!
Microwave Massacre stars legendary stand-up comedian and actor Jackie Vernon as Donald, a disgruntled construction worker whose wife’s predilection for haute cuisine drives him to cannibalism.
Donald unwittingly stumbles upon a solution to his two major problems in his life – his nagging wife and his lack of decent meals – when, one night, he bludgeons his better half to death with a pepper grinder in a drunken rage. Thinking on his feet, Donald dismembers the body and sets about microwaving the remains, which turn out to be rather delicious.
- 6/29/2016
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Exclusive: British thriller Monochrome is set to market premiere at the London Screenings this month.
UK genre specialists Devilworks has acquired worldwide rights to Monochrome, Thomas Lawes’ thriller starring 2013 Screen Star of Tomorrow Cosmo Jarvis (The Naughty Room), Jo Woodcock (Dorian Gray) James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game Of Thrones) and Lee Boardman (Longford).
The film tells the story of a female serial killer who targets the wealthy. Cosmo’s detective tracks her down using special abilities granted to him by his neurological condition synaesthesia, which confuses his senses, allowing him to hear colours and see sounds.
Suzie Norton is producing the project for Birmingham-based Electric Flix.
Monochrome is set to receive a market premiere at the London Screenings later this month.
Devilworks has also acquired international rights (excluding UK, Germany, Australia, Nz, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) to documentary Welcome To Leith, which premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to pick up awards at HotDocs...
UK genre specialists Devilworks has acquired worldwide rights to Monochrome, Thomas Lawes’ thriller starring 2013 Screen Star of Tomorrow Cosmo Jarvis (The Naughty Room), Jo Woodcock (Dorian Gray) James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game Of Thrones) and Lee Boardman (Longford).
The film tells the story of a female serial killer who targets the wealthy. Cosmo’s detective tracks her down using special abilities granted to him by his neurological condition synaesthesia, which confuses his senses, allowing him to hear colours and see sounds.
Suzie Norton is producing the project for Birmingham-based Electric Flix.
Monochrome is set to receive a market premiere at the London Screenings later this month.
Devilworks has also acquired international rights (excluding UK, Germany, Australia, Nz, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) to documentary Welcome To Leith, which premiered at Sundance 2015 and went on to pick up awards at HotDocs...
- 6/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
While Jackie Vernon is remembered by many for his stand-up comedy and for being the voice of Frosty the Snowman, cult horror fans know him as Donald, a frustrated husband who develops a taste for human flesh in 1983’s Microwave Massacre. The horror comedy will be released this summer on Blu-ray / DVD in the Us and UK by Arrow Video, who will also release 1971’s The Bloodstained Butterfly on home media with a new 4K restoration.
While the full release details for the Us Blu-ray / DVDs of Microwave Massacre and The Bloodstained Butterfly have yet to be revealed, we do have a look at the lists of special features for the UK editions, which should feature extras similar to what Us fans can enjoy.
In the UK, Arrow Video will release Microwave Massacre on Blu-ray / DVD on August 15th, followed by an August 22nd Blu-ray / DVD release of The Bloodstained Butterfly.
While the full release details for the Us Blu-ray / DVDs of Microwave Massacre and The Bloodstained Butterfly have yet to be revealed, we do have a look at the lists of special features for the UK editions, which should feature extras similar to what Us fans can enjoy.
In the UK, Arrow Video will release Microwave Massacre on Blu-ray / DVD on August 15th, followed by an August 22nd Blu-ray / DVD release of The Bloodstained Butterfly.
- 5/6/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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Time-travelling journalist Boone Shepard, the lead in an action-packed new Ya adventure novel, is a hero everyone can enjoy...
Does anybody have any idea of what makes a book Young Adult fiction? I would have said a teenaged lead character was the starting point, but in the case of Boone Shepard it's hard to pinpoint the age of the Australian journalist with a dark past, particularly once he starts jumping through time as well. From the 1960s back to the 1880s, Boone always seems like a character out of step with life around him, and perhaps that's what makes this a Young Adult novel; it's that way of seeing the world in a different way. Here we get thrust into a universe where every day is an adventure within a story within a strange bunch of happenings that never quite all tie up to make sense.
Even so,...
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Time-travelling journalist Boone Shepard, the lead in an action-packed new Ya adventure novel, is a hero everyone can enjoy...
Does anybody have any idea of what makes a book Young Adult fiction? I would have said a teenaged lead character was the starting point, but in the case of Boone Shepard it's hard to pinpoint the age of the Australian journalist with a dark past, particularly once he starts jumping through time as well. From the 1960s back to the 1880s, Boone always seems like a character out of step with life around him, and perhaps that's what makes this a Young Adult novel; it's that way of seeing the world in a different way. Here we get thrust into a universe where every day is an adventure within a story within a strange bunch of happenings that never quite all tie up to make sense.
Even so,...
- 3/13/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Can you believe it's been seven years since Colin Morgan's boy wizard first strode onto our screens?
The series premiere of Merlin on September 20, 2008 set us off on a magical five-year journey - one with mythical monsters, wicked warlocks and excessive amounts of bromantic banter.
Millions tuned in each Saturday night for the show's blend of fun, fantasy and friendship - because Merlin and Arthur (Bradley James) were definitely just friends, Ok? - but what's happened to Camelot's finest since that epic final episode?
Colin Morgan
The aged Emrys might still be waiting for King Arthur to revive, but Merlin lead Colin Morgan hasn't lain dormant these past few years. He appeared opposite fellow Irish legend Gabriel Byrne in BBC One's moody detective drama Quirke in 2014, was seduced by Gillian Anderson as mercurial copper Tom Anderson in The Fall and played cyborg Leo in Channel 4's smash hit Humans.
The series premiere of Merlin on September 20, 2008 set us off on a magical five-year journey - one with mythical monsters, wicked warlocks and excessive amounts of bromantic banter.
Millions tuned in each Saturday night for the show's blend of fun, fantasy and friendship - because Merlin and Arthur (Bradley James) were definitely just friends, Ok? - but what's happened to Camelot's finest since that epic final episode?
Colin Morgan
The aged Emrys might still be waiting for King Arthur to revive, but Merlin lead Colin Morgan hasn't lain dormant these past few years. He appeared opposite fellow Irish legend Gabriel Byrne in BBC One's moody detective drama Quirke in 2014, was seduced by Gillian Anderson as mercurial copper Tom Anderson in The Fall and played cyborg Leo in Channel 4's smash hit Humans.
- 9/19/2015
- Digital Spy
The big screen take on Dad's Army arrives in cinemas in 2016. Here's the first trailer...
The big screen take on Dad's Army arrives in cinemas in 2016, and we get our first proper glimpse of it right here.
The movie features Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tony Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courenay, Blake Harrison, Bill Paterson and Daniel Mays. And it would be fair to say that they have some big boots to fill, if they want to come close to the majesty of the TV show that the new film is based on.
Oliver Parker directs this one (he previously rebooted St Trinian's, and helmed the likes of Johnny English Reborn and Dorian Gray). Hamish McColl has penned the script.
Here, then, is the first trailer, and the official synopsis. Trailer first...
And here's that synopsis...
It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to...
The big screen take on Dad's Army arrives in cinemas in 2016, and we get our first proper glimpse of it right here.
The movie features Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tony Jones, Michael Gambon, Tom Courenay, Blake Harrison, Bill Paterson and Daniel Mays. And it would be fair to say that they have some big boots to fill, if they want to come close to the majesty of the TV show that the new film is based on.
Oliver Parker directs this one (he previously rebooted St Trinian's, and helmed the likes of Johnny English Reborn and Dorian Gray). Hamish McColl has penned the script.
Here, then, is the first trailer, and the official synopsis. Trailer first...
And here's that synopsis...
It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to...
- 8/13/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Chicago – I can’t decide which is worse: the “fake deep talk” from Jeff Bridges in “Seventh Son” or the “angry whisper talk” from Eddie Redmayne in “Jupiter Ascending,” which also opened on Friday. Both speech impediments are ugly fish out of water, both films are getting punished by critics and both are underperforming at domestic box offices.
Ironically, both movies have also also been quite delayed and now we see why. “Jupiter Ascending” opened two days ago after initially being slated to open in July 2014. That film’s push back was justified to finish its extensive special effects, which “The Matrix” creators did without remembering to fix its laughable acting and weak story.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Also knowing it was in trouble, “Seventh Son” was originally supposed to open way back in Feb. 2013, but the film was pushed back once and then a second time to Feb. 2015. It even changed distribution...
Ironically, both movies have also also been quite delayed and now we see why. “Jupiter Ascending” opened two days ago after initially being slated to open in July 2014. That film’s push back was justified to finish its extensive special effects, which “The Matrix” creators did without remembering to fix its laughable acting and weak story.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Also knowing it was in trouble, “Seventh Son” was originally supposed to open way back in Feb. 2013, but the film was pushed back once and then a second time to Feb. 2015. It even changed distribution...
- 2/8/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Fans will go to great lengths to prove their love for their obsessions, but celebrity and young-adult franchise fans might be the craziest of them all. Well, crazy might be too demeaning of a word. How about, overly enthusiastic? For Ben Barnes, the star of this week.s fantasy film release Seventh Son, he knows this to be true from firsthand experience. Barnes attracted a number of fans over the years, through his time on films like The Chronicles of Narnia, Dorian Gray and The Big Wedding, and even the History channel miniseries Sons of Liberty. When I first met Barnes, he told a story about how a girl he met at a screening event who was by far the most memorable. While he described her as "very lovely" and "gentle and normal," he said he found a photo she posted during a recent Facebook chat. One girl posted a...
- 2/5/2015
- cinemablend.com
(Cbr) Reeve Carney talks about his experiences as "Penny Dreadful’s" Dorian Gray Just like Dorian Gray himself, playing the ageless hedonist hasn’t gotten old for "Penny Dreadful" actor Reeve Carney. After a three-year stint on Broadway as Marvel’s webbed wonder in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the 31-year-old actor/singer/songwriter segued into the role of the legendary sybarite whose portrait grows old for him from Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in Showtime’s hit Victorian horror mashup series. As part of the ensemble of lurid eccentrics in the John Logan-penned show, Carney’s Gray brushes up against (literally and figuratively) other gaslight luminaries and alters their lives with his avowed self-indulgence but also finds himself questioning his own rules of eternal existence as a result. With the debut season of the series arriving on Blu-Ray earlier this week, Carney spoke exclusively...
- 10/16/2014
- by Scott Huver, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
“I’ve been searching for you, Mr. Ward.”
Ben Barnes (Dorian Gray, The Chronicles of Narnia) stars in next year’s Seventh Son, the film adaptation of The Spook’s Apprentice, which is the first installment in Joseph Delaney’s best-selling The Wardstone Chronicles.
Tom Ward’s (Barnes) quite life as a farmhand is upended when he learns that he is the eponymous seventh son of a seventh son. As such, he is able to see supernatural beasts, a useful talent for someone now under the wing of a warrior -- the mysterious Master John Gregory a.k.a. “The Spook” (Jeff Bridges) -- who fights off evil spirits for a living.
The Spook’s most dangerous enemy? The witch queen Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore).
Seventh Son also stars Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair), Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”), Djimon Hounsou(Blood Diamond), and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer), and...
Ben Barnes (Dorian Gray, The Chronicles of Narnia) stars in next year’s Seventh Son, the film adaptation of The Spook’s Apprentice, which is the first installment in Joseph Delaney’s best-selling The Wardstone Chronicles.
Tom Ward’s (Barnes) quite life as a farmhand is upended when he learns that he is the eponymous seventh son of a seventh son. As such, he is able to see supernatural beasts, a useful talent for someone now under the wing of a warrior -- the mysterious Master John Gregory a.k.a. “The Spook” (Jeff Bridges) -- who fights off evil spirits for a living.
The Spook’s most dangerous enemy? The witch queen Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore).
Seventh Son also stars Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair), Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”), Djimon Hounsou(Blood Diamond), and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer), and...
- 8/29/2014
- by Sasha James
- Cineplex
There was a time we'd give anything to be locked in anywhere with Eliza Dushku. Oh, who are we kidding? Please, someone shackle us to her and throw away the key! Read on for the first word on the home video release of her next flick, Locked In.
From the Press Release
Second chances don't come easy in the mind-blowing thriller Locked In, arriving on DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD, and Video on Demand October 14th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The captivating drama stars Ben Barnes (Dorian Gray), Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Eliza Dushku (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Johnny Whitworth (Limitless). Locked In will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $26.98.
Locked In follows the fragile lives of Joshua (Barnes) and Emma (Roemer) as a freak car accident leaves their daughter in a coma. Josh's world unravels when Emma blames him for the accident and discovers...
From the Press Release
Second chances don't come easy in the mind-blowing thriller Locked In, arriving on DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD, and Video on Demand October 14th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The captivating drama stars Ben Barnes (Dorian Gray), Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Eliza Dushku (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Johnny Whitworth (Limitless). Locked In will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $26.98.
Locked In follows the fragile lives of Joshua (Barnes) and Emma (Roemer) as a freak car accident leaves their daughter in a coma. Josh's world unravels when Emma blames him for the accident and discovers...
- 8/5/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Penny Dreadful turned out to be an unexpected treat for horror fans and work is already underway on the second season. Those looking for behind-the-scenes details on Season 1 and teases of what’s to come in Season 2 will be happy to hear that Showtime will be bringing John Logan and some of the show’s stars to San Diego for a panel at Comic-Con later this month:
“We’re excited to announce that Penny Dreadful will make its Sdcc debut as the opening day headliner on Thursday, July 24th from 6:00Pm – 7:00Pm with a panel session in Ballroom 20. Featured panelists will include series stars Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney and Harry Treadaway and series creator, writer and executive producer John Logan. The panel will be moderated by Emmy® Award-nominated actress (and major Penny Dreadful fan) Aisha Tyler!
Additionally, there will be talent signings, exclusive merchandise offers and more throughout the weekend!
“We’re excited to announce that Penny Dreadful will make its Sdcc debut as the opening day headliner on Thursday, July 24th from 6:00Pm – 7:00Pm with a panel session in Ballroom 20. Featured panelists will include series stars Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney and Harry Treadaway and series creator, writer and executive producer John Logan. The panel will be moderated by Emmy® Award-nominated actress (and major Penny Dreadful fan) Aisha Tyler!
Additionally, there will be talent signings, exclusive merchandise offers and more throughout the weekend!
- 7/8/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Earlier today we announced some of the major horror TV panels at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, and now we have another series to add to our list. Beyond headlining a panel on July 24th, "Penny Dreadful" is also branding the lanyards worn by all attendees!
From the Press Release:
We're excited to announce that "Penny Dreadful" will make its Sdcc debut as the opening day headliner on Thursday, July 24th, from 6:00-7:00 Pm with a panel session in Ballroom 20.
Featured panelists will include series stars Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney, and Harry Treadaway and series creator, writer, and executive producer John Logan. The panel will be moderated by Emmy Award-nominated actress (and major "Penny Dreadful" fan) Aisha Tyler.
Furthermore, the over 150,000 lanyards worn by all Comic-Con attendees will be branded by "Penny Dreadful" (taking over for prior Showtime hit series "Dexter").
Additionally, there will be talent signings, exclusive merchandise offers,...
From the Press Release:
We're excited to announce that "Penny Dreadful" will make its Sdcc debut as the opening day headliner on Thursday, July 24th, from 6:00-7:00 Pm with a panel session in Ballroom 20.
Featured panelists will include series stars Josh Hartnett, Reeve Carney, and Harry Treadaway and series creator, writer, and executive producer John Logan. The panel will be moderated by Emmy Award-nominated actress (and major "Penny Dreadful" fan) Aisha Tyler.
Furthermore, the over 150,000 lanyards worn by all Comic-Con attendees will be branded by "Penny Dreadful" (taking over for prior Showtime hit series "Dexter").
Additionally, there will be talent signings, exclusive merchandise offers,...
- 7/7/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Paris – Cuba Gooding Jr.'s new Bet show, The Book of Negroes, will premiere at October's Mipcom television confab in Cannes. Photos Gone Too Soon: 8 Oscar Winners and Nominees Who Took Their Own Lives Along with Oscar-winner Gooding Jr., the miniseries co-stars fellow Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr., Aunjanue Ellis (The Help), Ben Chaplin (Dorian Gray), Lyriq Bent (Rookie Blue) and Jane Alexander (The Cider House Rules). Gooding Jr. and Gossett Jr. will appear at the red carpet premiere at the Grand Palais alongside director and co-writer Clement Virgo (The Wire) and executive producer Damon
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- 6/24/2014
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We recently joined 60 "Penny Dreadful" fans at an event that offered food, drink, music, and a screening of the latest episode complete with special guest Reeve Carney, who portrays the iconic Dorian Gray on the show.
The Bryant Park Hotel in Midtown Manhattan was the setting for the reception, held in honor of the winners of a Facebook contest. The announcement that "Penny Dreadful" will return for a second season was met with much fan happiness. More creatures! More of the occult!
As we have seen on both network and cable television, the horror genre has established a stronghold, and it's great that Showtime is claiming monster status along with the rest.
Our event report follows; just beware if you're not totally caught up that it does contain a few spoilers.
After libations in the hotel’s art deco bar, we were escorted downstairs, where the gift bags lived (pens,...
The Bryant Park Hotel in Midtown Manhattan was the setting for the reception, held in honor of the winners of a Facebook contest. The announcement that "Penny Dreadful" will return for a second season was met with much fan happiness. More creatures! More of the occult!
As we have seen on both network and cable television, the horror genre has established a stronghold, and it's great that Showtime is claiming monster status along with the rest.
Our event report follows; just beware if you're not totally caught up that it does contain a few spoilers.
After libations in the hotel’s art deco bar, we were escorted downstairs, where the gift bags lived (pens,...
- 6/14/2014
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
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