Jamie Dornan heads to Ireland in Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ trailer

Portraying your director’s real-life parents in a movie can be daunting, but “Belfast” stars Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe say Kenneth Branagh gave them the freedom to improvise in the film based on his childhood.“As Ken said, this is the script version of his parents, and I think he didn’t want to do an exact … he very much gave them over to us,” Balfe told TheWrap’s Steve Pond in a virtual interview during the Toronto International Film Festival.

Kenneth Branagh, director of new film Belfast , where Dornan plays a leading role. Asked about his transition from playing the serial killer Paul Spector to becoming the globally known character of Christian Grey, Dornan said that he'll never forget how sections of the media reacted to the move with disapproval.

Ellise Shafer administratorKenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.The Platform Jury prize went to “Yuni,” directed by Kamila Andini, while the People’s Choice Documentary Award winner went to “The Rescue,” directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.

Fresh from the Ploughing Championships, Jamie Redknapp had another important meeting to keep on his Irish trip, one with an old pal – fellow football legend Robbie Keane!

West End musical-turned feature-film Everybody's Talking About Jamie is already making waves across the world, with the story of 16-year-old Sheffield schoolboy-turned-drag queen Jamie New capturing everyone's hearts.The all-singing, all-dancing production is based off the real life story of Jamie Campbell, who is now 26 years old and works as a fashion designer.

Scots teenager Jamie Cannon.Search and rescue specialists from across the Irish Sea spent a couple of days last weekend helping in the search for Jamie.The 19-year-old was last seen on Thursday May 20 on Kinnier Road in Saltcoats.Searches have been orhanised most weekends since his disappearance as his desperate family and friends hunt for answers.K9 Search and Rescue from Northern Ireland spent two days in Scotland last weekend utilising their specialist equipment to help look for Jamie.Their

Greg Wise has reflected on the press attention he and Emma Thompson attracted at the beginning of their relationship. The Crown actor Wise and Cruella star Thompson started dating in 1995, soon after Thompson’s divorce from Branagh, who she had been married to for six years.

Jamie Dornan steps out for an in discussion panel at the Variety Studio presented by Canada Goose with Kenneth Branagh during the 2021 Toronto Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on Sunday afternoon (September 12).

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLiving in the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe means your favorite superheroes can pop up anywhere in the multiverse — including prestige awards dramas set in the 1960s.That’s precisely what happens in Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” which saw a triumphant premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday night.

th Century Women” to Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” from John Boorman’s “Hope and Glory” to Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.” Writer-director-actor Kenneth Branagh has now tried his hand at the genre, and to say that “Belfast” brings out the best in him would be an understatement.Visually stunning, emotionally wrenching and gloriously human, “Belfast” takes one short period from Branagh’s life and finds in it a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a city fracturing in an instant and a profoundly moving lament

Ellise Shafer administratorAfter dazzling the in-person audience at the Toronto Film Festival, writer-director Kenneth Branagh broke down crying over his loosely autobiographical film “Belfast.”Following what was easily the most rapturous response to a festival entry at Toronto’s Roy Thomson hall this year, Branagh was overcome in a Q&A describing the inspiration behind the film.“I started writing this on March 23, but it had been brewing for a long time.

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NEW YORK -- Tony Award-winning producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann, who helped mount an astounding array of hits on Broadway and in London, including “The Elephant Man,” “Morning’s at Seven,” “Amadeus,” “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” and “Copenhagen,” has died.

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Holywood man also had a reunion with Fifty Shades of Grey co-star Dakota Johnson, as the friends posed for some photos together. He spent some time with Kenneth Branagh, who he has been working closely with over the past few months.

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan had a surprise reunion at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado on Saturday, happily posing for pictures together. The cute reunion marks the first time the co-stars have been photographed together since 2018.Both 31-year-old Johnson and 39-year-old Dornan were promoting their new films at the festival over the weekend.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticUntil watching Kenneth Branagh’s wistfully autobiographical “Belfast,” I don’t think I realized that one of Britain’s greatest living actors — a talent who’s embodied everything from Henry V to Hercule Poirot, Kurt Wallander to Laurence Olivier — had been born in Northern Ireland.

Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey are together again!