Tom Felton's upcoming period drama Belle has premiered a preview clip exclusively through Digital Spy.
The snippet shows the moment the Harry Potter star's high-society bachelor James Ashford meets title character Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) for the first time.
The Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) produced film was inspired by a 1779 painting of a young mixed-race girl who was rejected by her naval officer father and raised by her uncle as an aristocrat.
The Amma Asante-directed project also stars Sam Reid as Dido's love interest - lawyer John Davinier - and Tom Wilkinson as her caretaker William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
Belle is released in the UK on June 13.
The snippet shows the moment the Harry Potter star's high-society bachelor James Ashford meets title character Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) for the first time.
The Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) produced film was inspired by a 1779 painting of a young mixed-race girl who was rejected by her naval officer father and raised by her uncle as an aristocrat.
The Amma Asante-directed project also stars Sam Reid as Dido's love interest - lawyer John Davinier - and Tom Wilkinson as her caretaker William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
Belle is released in the UK on June 13.
- 5/30/2014
- Digital Spy
A few months after 12 Years A Slave took home the Oscar gold as Best Picture comes another historical drama centering on the issue of slavery, but from a very different perspective. For one thing, it’s set in England where slavery was abolished nearly a hundred years before we “yanks” got with the program. Oh, and the person instrumental, according to this film, was a woman of mixed race. Let’s emulate Peabody and Sherman and jump in our cinematic “way-back” machine and drop in an a great debate spurred on in part by the beauty named, appropriately enough, Belle.
About 100 years before Solomon Northrup went back to his family, an officer of the British Royal Navy, Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) pays a visit to his uncle and aunt, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Tom Wilkinson) and Lady Mansfield...
About 100 years before Solomon Northrup went back to his family, an officer of the British Royal Navy, Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) pays a visit to his uncle and aunt, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Tom Wilkinson) and Lady Mansfield...
- 5/16/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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 as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay's uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield. Gadon and Claflin will play Belle's cousin and love interest respectively. [Source: Screen Daily]
Northern Soul
Steve Coogan has signed on to star in Elaine Constantine's "Northern Soul" which deals with the 1970s underground nightclub-based music movement that took bleak industrial North-West England by storm.
Elliot James Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Lisa Stansfield, James Lance, Christian McKay and Roisin Murphy all star in the project which begins shooting early June in Northern England. [Source: THR]
Copperhead
Jason Patric and Angus MacFadyen are top-lining Ron Maxwell's...
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 as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay's uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield. Gadon and Claflin will play Belle's cousin and love interest respectively. [Source: Screen Daily]
Northern Soul
Steve Coogan has signed on to star in Elaine Constantine's "Northern Soul" which deals with the 1970s underground nightclub-based music movement that took bleak industrial North-West England by storm.
Elliot James Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Lisa Stansfield, James Lance, Christian McKay and Roisin Murphy all star in the project which begins shooting early June in Northern England. [Source: THR]
Copperhead
Jason Patric and Angus MacFadyen are top-lining Ron Maxwell's...
- 5/16/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Quentin Tarantino and Steve McQueen dared to tackle race and slavery with their latest projects, "Django Unchained" and "Twelve Years A Slave," and it looks like they've now paved the way for other filmmakers to follow suit. One such example is British helmer Amma Asante who's set to adapt the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle -- a half-black illegitimate daughter of renowned Admiral Sir John Lindsay, eventually taken in and raised as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay's uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield.
Most impressive is the cast Asante has managed to put together, which sees Gugu Mbatha-Raw ("Larry Crowne," J.J. Abrams' short-lived "Undercovers") in the title role with rising stars Sarah Gadon, Sam Claflin, Emily Watson and Matthew Goode all co-starring alongside veterans Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson. Gadon and Claflin are notably taking prominent roles respectively playing Belle's cousin and love interest,...
Most impressive is the cast Asante has managed to put together, which sees Gugu Mbatha-Raw ("Larry Crowne," J.J. Abrams' short-lived "Undercovers") in the title role with rising stars Sarah Gadon, Sam Claflin, Emily Watson and Matthew Goode all co-starring alongside veterans Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson. Gadon and Claflin are notably taking prominent roles respectively playing Belle's cousin and love interest,...
- 5/16/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
The real value of Bill Murray is to let us see that few movie jobs are more worthwhile than a stupid round of pro-celebrity golf
The most endearing thing about Bill Murray is how he seems to have survived by ignoring so many of the structures and strategies of the movie business. He is 61, and while it would be unfair to say he has looked it for some 20 years, still he has had an air of indifference toward age (or looks) that is not common in pictures. For example, people are now asking themselves, "Can you believe George Clooney is 50?" and getting that serene, knowing smile back from the actor himself. But Murray has wandered around for decades, gloomy but unbowed by the drab certainty of getting to 61.
I used the word "survived" in my first sentence, and it seemed appropriate then, but there is something portentous and unMurray-like in being a survivor.
The most endearing thing about Bill Murray is how he seems to have survived by ignoring so many of the structures and strategies of the movie business. He is 61, and while it would be unfair to say he has looked it for some 20 years, still he has had an air of indifference toward age (or looks) that is not common in pictures. For example, people are now asking themselves, "Can you believe George Clooney is 50?" and getting that serene, knowing smile back from the actor himself. But Murray has wandered around for decades, gloomy but unbowed by the drab certainty of getting to 61.
I used the word "survived" in my first sentence, and it seemed appropriate then, but there is something portentous and unMurray-like in being a survivor.
- 10/20/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
We are saying this out of love but either $hit of get off the pot guys. Mark our words because the fan base - no matter how loyal - will eventually grow tired and turn on this sequel if the negative press continues. For nearly 3 years now the talks of a third Ghostbusters film as swirled and by the end of 2010 we thought it was a lock, until today...
In a great piece written by our friends at camp Deadline, they had this to say about the future of the franchise and what the hold up is. Paging Mr. Murray, Mr. William Murray.
"This is too big a project to play games. "The studio won't even think about [moving] forward on a $150 million film unless Bill has a closed deal and a commitment," said an insider. "It's too huge a risk to do any meaningful prep, hoping he shows up."
It...
In a great piece written by our friends at camp Deadline, they had this to say about the future of the franchise and what the hold up is. Paging Mr. Murray, Mr. William Murray.
"This is too big a project to play games. "The studio won't even think about [moving] forward on a $150 million film unless Bill has a closed deal and a commitment," said an insider. "It's too huge a risk to do any meaningful prep, hoping he shows up."
It...
- 1/12/2011
- by Keepers of the Bid
- Horrorbid
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