woots... I know I said that I won't update anymore... But changed my mind... This blog would be open till... Dunno... GAH. Anyway, I will be posting mostly Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench news up here...
Maggie Smith is tempted back to TV by Poliakoff By Neil Midgley
Last Updated: 2:51am GMT 10/11/2006
Dame Maggie Smith will return to the BBC in a new Stephen Poliakoff film — her first British television role in seven years.
The film, Capturing Mary, is the second of a pair of Poliakoff films currently going into production for the corporation. The first is as yet untitled but will star Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
Smith has been famously shy of television drama, preferring to appear in a string of highly successful films.
Recently, she has played professor Minerva McGonagall in Hollywood's Harry Potter adaptations.
She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as the crotchety Constance Trentham in Robert Altman's ensemble mystery drama Gosford Park, and partnered Dame Judi Dench in the wartime drama Ladies in Lavender.
Her only television role in recent years has been in the American made-for-TV movie My House in Umbria, and even that received a cinema release in the UK. Her last British television roles were in 1999, when she appeared as Betsey Trotwood in a BBC adaptation of David Copperfield and as Queen Alexandra in All the King's Men. The two new Poliakoff films, to be made by the independent production company Talkback Thames, are linked by a beautiful but empty English house, and by teenage Joe (played by Danny Lee Wynter), who takes care of it. In the first, Michael Gambon plays the reclusive owner of the house. A successful politician, played by Rupert Penry-Jones of Spooks, carries on an affair at the mansion, opening Joe's eyes to a wider, less innocent world.
In the second film, set in the same house, Smith plays Mary, who was formerly a high-flying writer and critic. As she reflects on her past, she remembers the charming but evil Greville — played by the ubiquitous David Walliams — and the chaos that he wrought in her life.
"I am delighted to be reunited with Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith and Rupert Penry-Jones, whom I have been fortunate enough to work with before," said Poliakoff, who will write and direct both films. "It's very exciting to have such an exceptional cast." The BBC has commissioned both the films, which will be completed next year for transmission on BBC1 and BBC2, with the American network HBO. HBO also helped to fund BBC2's expensive epic, Rome.
Woots!!~~ from telegraph.co.uk
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/30/2006 01:14:00 PM
Saturday, November 04, 2006
yay! end of exams. I've got my own domain now... :) Pls relink soon to either minxff.wordpress.com or 20six.co.uk/minxff/
This blog would be on a deathroll, while I will only post if noteworthy events come up. I'll try to help this prolong its suffering... xD
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/04/2006 08:53:00 PM
Friday, November 03, 2006
Exams are over!!! Hurray!!!!!!
Fox Announces Details of X-Men on Blu-ray Disc Let's face it: Twentieth Century Fox has some great movies you'd want to see in high-def in its archive. Today the company's home entertainment division announced that its first salvo of Blu-ray Disc movies will include X-Men: The Last Stand. The studio is unabashed in noting its shrewd timing: It's offering the third installment in the X-Men trilogy in high-definition on November 14--three days before the Sony's Blu-ray Disc-enabled PlayStation 3 ships. Granted, it may not be Star Wars, but nonetheless X-Men will immediately rank as one of only a handful of current Blu-ray Disc releases that has immediate appeal to the PlayStation 3 crowd. Most interesting to me, though, is how Fox appears to have paid a lot of attention to this film's release in high-def. According to the press release, X-Men: The Last Stand will have 100 percent HD content, for both the film and the bonus features. Fox says it authored the disc in BDMV; encoded the video using MPEG-4 AVC; and encoded the audio in 6.1 DTS ES HD Lossless Master Audio. I've been intrigued by what Fox might have up its sleeve for X-Men after glimpsing hints of the future on a Blu-ray demo disc shown to me recent meetings. I look forward to evaluating the actual release and its extras in the context of the recent standard definition version. While it's good news for the Blu-ray camp and for consumers to see Fox bring titles to the Blu-ray table, one negative is the price tag Fox has assigned to these discs: The suggested retail price of X-Men is $39.98. I'll be interested to see how low that goes when it's on Wal-mart and Best Buy shelves. Would you pay that much for a movie? And what kind of interactivity and extras are you most looking forward to seeing on your high-def movie disc?
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/03/2006 02:15:00 PM
Thursday, November 02, 2006
X-men Animal Instinct
The X-Men!!!!!!! Don't we just love them?
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/02/2006 08:38:00 PM
Haunted--Van Helsing
The one and only....
Van Helsing
Tomorrow's last paper... HURRAY!
Michelle Katherine went down on 11/02/2006 08:02:00 PM
Imaginary
sTORM-ANGEL
Writers of this blog thing: Minerva, Michelle and ME! That Arowlyn for you
Missing
Minerva to come and stay for a year.
A nice fat paycheck
Good Grades
Pass Grade 7 piano exam with a high distinction
learn to speak latin, French and scottish Gaelic from Minerva
Learn guitar
Taking over me
Swimming
Soccer
Playing the piano
Cycling
Rugby
Netball
Archary
Everybody's fool
[Hates]
Discrimination
Racism
people who have their noses stuck 5 feet in the air
[Loves]
Minerva
Arowlyn
My computer
[Music Artists]
Evanesence!
Within Temptation
Yellowcard
U2
Nelly Futardo
Sharkira
And much more
[Movies]
X-Men
Memoirs of a geisha
LOTR
harry Potter
And much more...But I will never tell you
[Movie Actresses/Actors]
Maggie Smith
Halle Berry
Famke Janssen
Rebecca Romijn
Emma Watson
Hugh Jackman
Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
And that's the basics
