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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOne quoted William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht. Another spoke of paradigm shifts in cinema.

“No Time to Die” star Daniel Craig in the lead and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga (“Loving”) as his cunning and treacherous wife, Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” will begin its run on March 29, 2022, at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, with opening night set for April 28.The 15-week production will be directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold (“Fun Home”).“Daniel is not only a great film actor but a magnificent theater actor as well,” producer Barbara Broccoli said of Craig, 53, adding that “exquisitely talented”

The plot for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” adapted from William Shakespeare’s classic play, is almost too familiar to waste space for explanation. Even so, the basic premise sees Lord Macbeth (Denzel Washington), a well-respected soldier, spurred by three witches’ prophecy and the aspirations of his wife, the Machiavellian Lady Macbeth (Frances McDormand), transfixed by an ambition for the Scottish crown.

Historian and politician John Dalberg Acton is quoted saying,  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”  Is it possible he was reading William Shakespeare’s 1606 play Macbeth when he thought of this? Macbeth has always been a story about power, and corruption of the spirit. How greed could turn two seemingly good people in sociopaths.

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand share a tense moment in this first image and teaser for Apple TV+’s The Tragedy of Macbeth.

announced his hiatus from film in August — went with a black-and-white motif for his cinematic adaptation for William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” a theatrical critique of blind political ambition and megalomania. It’s also the first time dramatic heavyweights McDormand, as Lady Macbeth, and Washington, playing the titular role, will share the screen.

Selome Hailu editorA24 has released a trailer for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Joel Coen’s new adaptation of the classic play by William Shakespeare premiering at the New York Film Festival in September.Shot in black-and-white, Coen’s take on the Scottish Play stars Denzel Washington as Lord Macbeth and Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth.

Love Island fans were left baffled on Tuesday after Chloe Burrows likened Toby Aromolaran's apology to William Shakespeare. During the episode, Toby, 22, attempted to rekindle his romance with Chloe, 25, after he previously shook the villa by confessing he still has feelings for the marketing executive despite dumping her for Abigail Rawlings who he then ditched for Mary Bedford.

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in the highly anticipated film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe Thane of Cawdor is hitting the Upper West Side.Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 59th New York Film Festival. The update on the William Shakespeare’s classic tale of sound and fury stars Denzel Washington as the title character and Frances McDormand as his scheming wife.

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions are teaming on a film adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel Hamnet. They’ve set Chiara Atik to write the script.

There have been countless “Romeo & Juliet” reimaginings over the years. Time to add one more to the list — “Die in a Gunfight.” Similar to the classic William Shakespeare story, this one involves weapons and families with a deadly grudge.

William “Bill” Shakespeare, the 81-year-old former parish councillor from Coventry who was the second person in the UK to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside a clinical trial. William Shakespeare died in 1616, while his namesake Bill Shakespeare died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke unrelated to the vaccine.

Talk about Hollywood power couples! From Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, to Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz — and a few pairs of exes — there are quite a few duos who have both had the honor of winning Oscars.

told the Daily Beast that the singer crashed his car into a wall on the President George Bush Turnpike in Dallas early Friday.Born in McKinney, Tx., on August 4, 1982, Tarver started out singing in church choirs.

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When we began lockdown a year ago, a popular meme went around informing people that William Shakespeare wrote King Lear while isolating amid the bubonic plague. As weeks and months went by, the meme was repurposed to compare writing King Lear to learning to bake bread orto putting on pants in the morning.

Gael García Bernal is mourning the loss of his father, Mexican stage and television actor and director, José Ángel García. The star posted a series of photos of his father, as well as a throwback of him as a baby with his dear dad.

They might have just celebrated two decades of wedded bliss but it looks like Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas are still deeply in love.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, 51, and husband Michael Douglas, 76, look more in love than ever in their latest PDA-filled pic! The actress shared the gorgeous outside photo, which shows them sharing a smooch in front of a beautiful sunset, to Instagram on Jan. 5. She also captioned it with a romantic quote from none other than William Shakespeare.

Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary but the couple look more in love than ever in a gorgeous new sunset beach photo. The Chicago star, 51, took to Instagram where she shared a photo holding Michael's head in her hands and sweetly kissing him on a beach in the soft light of sunset. She captioned the shot "I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss' William Shakespeare" and she ended it with a kiss emoji. MORE: Catherine

Naman Ramachandran Noomi Rapace, who shot to global prominence as Lisbeth Salander in the “Millennium” trilogy, will lead the cast of acclaimed “Border” director Ali Abbasi’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”Swedish-Danish-Iranian filmmaker Abbasi made his feature debut in 2018 with “Shelley,” which was selected for the Panorama competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

direct to your inbox Matt Hancock was reduced to tears during an appearance on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. The Health Secretary was on the ITV news programme the morning the first coronavirus vaccinations were delivered in the UK.

By Elise SoléSienna Miller recalled ex-fiancé Jude Law’s explosive affair with his nanny as “one of the most challenging moments I hope I’ll ever have to experience” in a new interview with the Daily Beast. Rewind 15 years ago to July 2005 when Miller, now 38, was starring in a London production of the William Shakespeare play As You Like It and engaged to Law after a courtship sparked by their roles in the 2004 film Alfie.

Sienna Miller opened up about her “public heartbreak” in the wake of her ex-fiancé Jude Law‘s 2005 cheating scandal.The 21 Bridges star, 38, recalled the turmoil she faced in the aftermath of his affair during an interview with The Daily Beast on Friday, December 4. At the time, the U.K.

Sienna Miller spoke candidly about the “most challenging” moment of her life when her ex-fiance, Jude Law, was publicly discovered having an affair. In 2005, Miller was engaged to Law after they hit it off on the set of the 2004 movie “Alfie.” While she was in London starring in a production of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” it came to light that Law had an affair with his children’s nanny.

LONDON -- Maggie O’Farrell won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “Hamnet,” a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare’s often-maligned wife and lost son.O’Farrell’s novel beat finalists including Hilary Mantel’s Tudor saga “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winner “Girl, Woman, Other” to the 30,000-pound ($39,000) award.The Northern Ireland-born O'Farrell said she had long been fascinated by Hamnet Shakespeare, who died aged 11 in 1596 —

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, whose Hazy Mills reimagined the Brothers Grimm tales as the brooding, dark supernatural cop drama Grimm, are looking to bring the literary classics by another famous writer, William Shakespeare, to television as a drama series set in present day America.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersNBC has put in development The Stratford, a one-hour drama from Vincent Angell (The Rookie), Hazy Mills and

The Crown stars Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies have reunited to make a socially distanced film to be shown at this year’s virtual Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Rebecca (1940) and Suspicion (1941).Olivia’s first movie role was in the 1934 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She went on to appear in 49 feature films becoming one of the most well-known stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.She is best known for her portrayal of Melanie Hamilton in the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind.

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Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London could be shuttered permanently because of coronavirus restrictions.

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Given music featured so heavily in William Shakespeare's plays, it’s no surprise that it has long been a source of inspiration in pop music – whether it’s direct quotes, borrowing the themes of his work or even a mention of The Bard himself.  

Fans of William Shakespeare from around the world have taken part in a virtual celebration of the playwright’s 456th birthday.

Veteran actor Brian Dennehy, known for roles in "Rambo: First Blood," "Tommy Boy" and "To Catch A Killer," died Wednesday at age 81. The burly actor started in films as a macho heavy and later in his career won plaudits for his stage work in plays by William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller.