Amanda Seyfried Joins Ted 2 Cast
Amanda Seyfried is set to replace Mila Kunis as the female lead in Ted 2. Mila Kunis will reportedly only make a small appearance if any in the comedy sequel. A ‘creative decision’ by writer and director Seth MacFarlane regarding the plot for the new film is being cited as the reason for the casting switch.
Red Carpet News recently spoke to Sam J. Jones aka Flash Gordon who confirmed that he will also likely be returning for Ted 2. The cult film star played a hilariously warped version of himself in the first film and is hoping for an even more expanded role in the sequel.
Video Interview below:
What’s On Stage Awards Winners 2014
It was a successful night for the stars of Harry Potter at the What’s On Stage Awards 2014. Daniel Radcliffe won best actor for his performance in The Cripple of Inishmaan and Rupert Grint won best newcomer for his role in Mojo. The Book of Mormon was the biggest winner on the night taking home four awards for best new musical, as well as musical acting awards for best actor, supporting actor and supporting actress.
Matilda The Musical took the top prize for Best West End Show and Dame Helen Mirren added to her recent BAFTA fellowship with another best actress win for her much celebrated reprisal of the role of The Queen in The Audience.
Full List of Winners Below:
Best Actress in a Play - Dame Helen Mirren in The Audience (Gielgud Theatre)
Best Actor in a Play - Daniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan (Noel Coward Theatre)
Best Supporting Actress in a Play - Haydn Gwynne in The Audience (Gielgud Theatre)
Best Supporting Actor in a Play - David Walliams in A midsummer Night’s Dream (Noel Coward Theatre)
Best Actress in a Musical - Scarlett Strallen in A Chorus Line (London Palladium) and Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Best Actor in a Musical - Gavin Creel in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre)
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical - Alexia Khadime in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre)
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical - Stephen Ashfield in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre)
Best Solo Performance - Barry Humphries in Eat pray Laugh! (London Palladium)
Best Ensemble Performance - A Chorus Line (London Palladium)
Best Takeover in a Role - Carrie Hope Fletcher in Les Miserables (Queen’s Theatre)
Best New Play - The Audience (Gielgud Theatre)
Best New Comedy – The Play That Goes Wrong (Old Red Lion and Trafalgar Studios)
Best New Musical - The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre)
Best Play Revival – To Kill A Mockingbird Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park)
Best Musical Revival – The Sound of Music (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park)
London Newcomer of the Year - Rupert Grint in Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Best Off-West End Production - Titanic (Southwark Playhouse)
Best Regional Production - My Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible)
Best West End Show - Matilda The Musical (RSC at the Cambridge Theatre)
Theatre Event of the Year – National Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Gala
Best Shakespearean Production - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Noel Coward Theatre)
Best Director - Michael Grandage for the Michael Grandage Season (Noel Coward Theatre)
Best Set Designer - Mark Thompson for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Best Lighting Designer - Adam Silverman for Macbeth(Trafalgar Studios)
Best Choreographer - Peter Darling for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)
Best Original Music - Once by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Phoenix Theatre)
Silicon Valley Official HBO Trailer
Check out the first full length trailer for Silicon Valley, the new HBO TV series from writer/director Mike Judge. Judge is best known as the creative force behind long running animated series King of The Hill and Beavis and Butt-head, as well as cult classic movie Office Space.
The new comedy series which has its US television premiere on 6th April is based around a group of variously awkward but ambitious tech nerds working in the infamous ‘Silicon Valley’. Apparently facing the enviable dilemma of whether to sell their great idea for $10 million or set up their own company with billion dollar dreams.
Full trailer below:
A New York Winter’s Tale Review
The Plot:
A good hearted burglar strikes up an unlikely and miraculous romance with a beautiful heiress in New York in 1914, but a demonic gangster and the devil himself are determined to put a stop to their love. However, a hundred years later their love continues to change the world and inspire genuine miracles.
The Good:
Downtown Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay has a luminous aristocratic beauty and delicate dramatic delivery that fits perfectly with the role of a terminally ill heiress. The young actress works hard to carry the demanding responsibility of both narrating the film and serving as it’s most ethereal figure. Her charms help soften some of the film’s more awkward and heavy handed dialogue at the very least.
Colin Farrell plays comfortably to type as a roguish orphan thief instantly transformed by the discovery of true love. His handsome face and soft Irish accent go some way to overcoming a questionable haircut and unashamedly fantastical script. He clearly strains to inject actual emotion into an implausible tale burdened with flying cgi horses and religious themed melodramatics.
Russell Crowe also lends a little credibility to far-fetched proceedings by making his demonic gangster Pearly Soames at least effectively menacing. It’s a typically snarling and brutish performance from the bullish Australian actor. Likewise Will Smith proves an unlikely but welcome distraction in a cameo as Lucifer himself.
The film’s most valuable and consistent redeeming feature is actually a memorable musical score from master composer Hans Zimmer. A haunting and elegant soundtrack helps rescue the film from a script that oscillates wildly between randomness and predictability. Giving the film a far more convincing romantic tone and atmosphere than it would otherwise have been capable of. Music is repeatedly the film’s saving grace, pun intended.
The Bad:
Writer Akiva Goldsman has a deeply schizophrenic CV that glitter with great work like a time to kill, a beautiful mind and fringe; but is equally tarnished by being culpable for batman & robin or practical magic. With Winter’s Tale he makes an inauspicious directorial debut, that demonstrates technical ability but lacks a script to match its lush cinematography. In truth the bestselling book which inspires the film fails to transfer its literary magic to screen.
The film struggles often to tread an awkward balance between grounded period drama and outlandish fantasy. Even the characters themselves seem confusingly unaware of just how the film’s more supernatural elements are supposed to integrate into what would have been an otherwise straightforward romantic drama. The film often takes literal and metaphorical leaps into the absurd that ask an awful lot of an audience. Perhaps the original book was able to more delicately integrate the two worlds.
The film has two death scenes which are particularly overplayed and unconvincing. It’s especially unfortunate that the film ironically regards these two embarrassing moments as its most pivotal and profound plot points.
The Ugly Truth:
Winter’s Tale has likeable leads and a wonderful soundtrack, but that can’t entirely disguise a script that fails to be as emotionally profound as it clearly aspires to be.
Check out Red Carpet interviews below from the London Premiere:
Alien Themed Nostromo Fashion Week Show
Check out a gallery of images from the Fashion Week runway show form designer Leyre Valiente inspired by Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien. The shapes and patterns of NOSTROMO, as well as the materials, are inspired by the spacesuits (work of Moebius), structures and interiors of ships, as well as the anatomy of the creatures and textures that appear both in the Alien saga films and in the work of the artist H. R. Giger.
Quilted fabric and simile neoprene create structured outerwear, mikado combines with technological organza which creates plastic glazes, and the skin is pierced and pembossed to give life to the dermis of the alien along with pleated satin. A collection of futuristic lines that mingle with biological textures to use from morning to night. The collection of jewelry is the result, once again, of the Leyre Valiente collaboration with sculptor Imanol Quero (IQ by Imanol Quero).
The scenery of the show has been made by dP ANDROMEDA, with the collaboration of Imanol Quero as author of the alien eggs. Because nothing says high-fashion more than a pulsating space egg containing a terrifying face-hugger….
Check out the surprisingly chic collection below:
