Coronation Street is set to see the return of a familiar face. Those who follow the ITV soap will know Tommy Orpington from various mentions and some appearances over the years.
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John Bleasdale Guest Contributor “The Pianist” and “King Kong” star Adrien Brody spoke at the Red Sea Film Festival Friday about a wide variety of creative pursuits, including making music from popcorn in the 1990s. “I liked the sound of the kernels of popcorn hitting the aluminium lid of the pan and so I set my microphone up and recorded it and then I sampled it and put on some reverb,” he told the audience in Saudi Arabia. “It went pok-a-pok-a-pok.” Something of a prodigy, he was cast as a lead in a TV movie “Home at Last” when he was only 15 and later became the youngest actor to win the best male lead Oscar.
Hailing from Queens, New York, the child of a celebrated photographer and a painter, Brody’s love for acting was kindled when he was enrolled by his mother in an acting school — the American Academy of Dramatic Arts — where she had been photographing. “You do what these kids are doing all day,” she told him. Subsequently, he attended the Fiorello H.
LaGuardia High School, made famous by the Alan Parker film “Fame.” Applying for art as well as acting, the decision was made for him when his art application was turned down. Roles followed in films by directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Spike Lee as he made a name for himself in the independent cinema scene. “It was a wonderful time in my life.
They were making so many interesting, independent films, with auteur filmmakers. These films would get actual proper theatrical releases,” Brody says. It was a small European film which was shown to Roman Polanski as he was engaged in an open casting call for “The Pianist.” “He saw the film and took me out for a beer afterwards.
I didn’t have to audition for that movie. It was a miracle,” Brody says. “Wladyslaw Szpilman
.Coronation Street is set to see the return of a familiar face. Those who follow the ITV soap will know Tommy Orpington from various mentions and some appearances over the years.
Prince Louis melted hearts as he sweetly held hands with Mia Tindall during the Royal family's traditional Christmas Day walk to church at Sandringham.The young prince was seen wearing tartan trousers and a blue pea coat as he held onto his dad Prince William and Mia Tindall, the oldest daughter of Mike and Zara Tindall. Louis looked thrilled to be walking with his cousin as both had red cheeks from the cold and flashed grins at waiting royal fans.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody offered some insight into their notoriously private relationship during a conversation for Interview Magazine.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard, one of the most prolific and important forces in contemporary documentary, will be honored by Black Public Media at its upcoming PitchBlack Awards in New York.
Rose Leslie is currently starring in the second series of the BBC show Vigil, which is set in Scotland and is soon set to come to a nail-biting conclusion. The actress, 36, who is from Aberdeen and was raised at Lickeyhead Castle until she was 10, plays Detective Inspector Kirsten Longacre and stars alongside Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva (Suranne Jones).They have been investigating a dark conspiracy in the world of the British Air Force during the new episodes of the drama. Away from the acting world, Rose is married to fellow Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor You wouldn’t expect an animated film about a talking iguana to draw equal inspiration from Andy Kaufman and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but that just might help explain the wide appeal of Netflix’s smash hit “Leo.” It also makes perfect sense when you consider the creative minds behind Adam Sandler-led project, which includes his longtime collaborator and comedy’s not-so-secret weapon, Robert Smigel. Though perhaps best known to audiences for his work as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the foul-mouthed canine puppet who began life on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” where Smigel was the first head writer.
Lorde appeared to tease a new era of music with a cryptic Instagram post this weekend, but has already told fans that they might be waiting a while.The New Zealand singer-songwriter posted a photo of herself wearing headphones to Instagram late Sunday (December 17) with the caption: “Listening to myself.”Fans quickly began to speculate if new music was on the horizon for the ‘Solar Power’ singer.However, the artist elaborated in comment on a fan page that had predicted Lorde’s fourth album could be on the way, which also noted that she’d archived the ‘Solar Power‘ cover art on her feed and changed her profile picture.“We’re not CLOSE close you guys .. i’m just getting so hype n needed to let u know,” Lorde, real name Ella Yelich-O’Connor, wrote.
A gutter cleaner who held a university student captive in his flat and suffocated her with bedclothes until she passed out has been jailed for over a year.
his longtime love, Ariana Madix, with their friend and co-star Raquel Leviss. However, Sandoval is now admitting that he was completely in love with Leviss and that he had hoped to continue their relationship after the drama unfolded.During an appearance on the “Two T’s in a Pod” podcast, Tom Sandoval opened up about his feelings for Raquel Leviss. The “Masked Singer” contestant admitted that he fell hard for Leviss and he wanted to fight to have a relationship for her following “Scandoval” and his split with Ariana Madix.“I stopped drinking.
In one of the earliest announcements in recent memory, the Cannes Film Festival announced early Thursday morning Paris time the president of the jury for 2024. And, in something of a surprise, this year’s president is Greta Gerwig, a soon-to-be multiple Oscar nominee for the 2023 blockbuster “Barbie.” Gerwig is the first woman to lead the jury since Cate Blanchett in 2018 and the second American this decade after Spike Lee presided over the first post-pandemic jury in 2021.
Manodrome, a new film led by Jesse Eisenberg and Odessa Young. This one first hit screens in Berlin earlier this year, where we caught it, and it will start to roll out on screens starting in the US in November.I described the film as Joker and Taxi Driver by way of Uncut Gems at the time and, looking back, probably still stand by that.
Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event launches Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. PT, the latest in our series of showcases that this time turns the focus toward global cinema via discussions with the casts and creatives of 12 movies submitted by their countries for the 2024 Academy Awards’ International Feature race.
A mum spent eight hours painstakingly hand-making 350 decorations for her Christmas tree - and said she saved herself thousands.
There were a bunch of Hollywood A-List stars in Saudi Arabia today for the closing night gala of the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival!
Nick Holdsworth At the closing ceremony of the 3rd edition of the Red Sea Film Festival Thursday, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in front of an audience that included Hollywood stars Nicolas Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Jason Statham and Adrien Brody, the Golden Yusr for best film and a $100,000 cash prize went to Pakistani-Canadian horror film “In Flames,” directed by Zarrar Kahn. The director said that the indie movie was shot for “just $300,000 — the size of a Red Sea Fund production grant.” He urged “everyone who gets a grant to go make a movie, because this was made for nothing.” The Silver Yusr prize for best feature film went to Tarsem Singh for “Dear Jassi.” The film, an India/Canada/U.S.
Naman Ramachandran Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams,” Netherlands’ submission in the Academy Awards international feature category, has secured North American distribution via Dekanalog. The film had its world premiere at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for best performance for Renée Soutendijk (“Suspiria”) and the second prize of the junior jury. The film debuted in North America in Toronto’s Centrepiece section and won the Silver Hugo new directors award at Chicago.
Wes Anderson has been named one of TikTok’s biggest trends in 2023, according to a new report from the video-sharing platform.TikTok shared its annual Year on TikTok report today (December 6) which reveals the most-viewed trends on its site.The Wes Anderson trend saw users make and post videos using the distinctive aesthetic of the US director who released his film Asteroid City this year.According to TikTok’s report, they wrote: “This year, we loved acting like we were in a Wes Anderson film.”To achieve the style, users applied filters, colour grading and a symmetry that is often associated with Anderson’s unique style of filmmaking.You can see some examples of the trend here:With a good imagination, everything is symmetrical. Let a girl day dream! #wesanderson ♬ Obituary – Alexandre Desplat In more Anderson news, the director said that he thought his 1996 directorial debut Bottle Rocket was a “disaster”.The Oscar-nominated director, who recently helmed the short Netflix film The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar, made the confession while talking to attendees at the Lumière Film Festival (via Variety), and added that he wouldn’t have made it had he known how much audiences were going to hate it.The film centres on the character of Anthony (Luke Wilson) just as he’s released from a mental hospital, only to find that his wacky friend Dignan (Owen C.
Suits, the USA procedural series starring Rafferty, Patrick J. Adams, Gabriel Macht, and a certain future Duchess of Sussex, . Nevermind that the nearly decade-long series ; it's arrival on the popular streamer launched the soapy legal drama into its own galaxy.
When the temperature plummets and the nights creep in, sometimes a holiday is what is needed to shake off the winter blues.
The Killers have announced details of a 2024 UK and Ireland arena tour to celebrate their upcoming ‘best of’ album, ‘Rebel Diamonds’. Check out full dates and ticket details below.The upcoming compilation – announced last month and due for release on December 8 – will take from their 20-year career, including classics such as ‘Mr Brightside‘, ‘When You Were Young’ and ‘Human’ to more recent standalone hits such as ‘Boy‘ and ‘Your Side Of Town‘.