Belle Sam Claflin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson have all joined the cast of "Belle", British filmmaker Amma Asante's new biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle. Dido (Mbatha-Raw) was the half-black illegitimate daughter of renowned Admiral Sir John Lindsay, eventually taken in and raised … [Read more...]
Coogan, Dorff Commit To A “Catastrophist”
September 4, 2011 by
Steve Coogan, Stephen Dorff and Canadian rapper K'naan are all set to star in British director Nick Broomfield's "The Catastrophist" for Lafayette Films, Escape Pictures and Blighty's Channel 4 reports Variety. An adaptation of Ronan Bennett's romance novel which is set against the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo in 1959 & 1960, the story … [Read more...]
Coogan & Brydon’s “Trip” Gets A Sequel
July 18, 2011 by
It looks like Michael Winterbottom's acclaimed video journal comedy "The Trip" is about to get a follow-up. The original was a six episode UK mini-series in 2010 which was whittled down to a feature length film which scored a release in the U.S. earlier this year. Both versions were a video chronology of comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan … [Read more...]
