Screening Series Mar 4, 2008
Variety interrogates Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh regarding the release of "Sleuth" ... Actor Michael Caine and Director Kenneth Branagh Variety's screening of "Sleuth". (Variety)
* World News Quick Take Feb 25, 2008
Kenneth Branagh marked the closure of one of the nation's most unusual cinemas with an equally unorthodox movie premiere on Saturday. The actor and director was on hand at La Charette, a 23-seat railway wagon-turned-movie theater in Wales, for the first screening of Danny Boyle's Alien Love Triangle. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Kenneth Branagh bids farewell to Wales's smallest cinema Feb 24, 2008
Kenneth Branagh stars in the film Alien Love Triangle ... Hollywood actor Kenneth Branagh made a guest appearance at La Charrette cinema for the world premiere of Danny Boyle's Alien Love Triangle. (BBC News -- UK)
Hollywood Star Honours Tiny Cinema Feb 24, 2008
Hollywood star Kenneth Branagh has marked the closure of one of Britain's most unusual cinemas with an equally unorthodox movie premiere. Kenneth Branagh stars in film. (Sky News)
Branagh aboard pirate radio film Feb 21, 2008
British actors Kenneth Branagh and Rhys Ifans have joined the cast of Richard Curtis's film about pirate radio DJs broadcasting illegally in the 1970s. Written and directed by Curtis, The Boat That Rocked also stars January Jones who visits the ship and falls for Ifans's character. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Branagh Boards Boat That Rocked Feb 20, 2008
Kenneth Branagh rounds out the cast as a fellow disc jockey, and we can just see him as the film's answer to Kenny Everett, a bearded prankster who became a pirate radio legend in the 1970s. A Working Title pic, The Boat that Rocked will be produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Hilary Bevan-Jones and Curtis himself, with principal photography set to commence in London on March 3. (IGN FilmForce)
Branagh and Ifans join Curtis Feb 19, 2008
Kenneth Branagh and Rhys Ifans have boarded The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis's forthcoming film about a 70s pirate radio ship. The British actors will portray radio DJs who rock the waves in the ensemble comedy, penned and directed by the Four Weddings and a Funeral screenwriter. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Kenneth Branagh and the film premiere in a Swansea back garden Feb 19, 2008
Kenneth Branagh plays a scientist in Alien Love Triangle. It's a world away from Hollywood, but Kenneth Branagh's latest premiere will be in a 23-seat cinema in an old railway carriage in a back garden. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Trio ready to rock 'Boat' Feb 19, 2008
Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans and January Jones have climbed aboard "The Boat That Rocked," a Working Title production for Universal that Richard Curtis wrote and will direct. Branagh and Ifans play deejays for a pirate radio show in England during the 1970s. (Variety)
Bizarre love triangle Feb 15, 2008
"Remake" is perhaps the wrong word; it is essentially an adaptation of Shaffer's play, written by Harold Pinter, directed by Kenneth Branagh ... Director Kenneth Branagh Stars Michael Caine, Jude Law Rated PG. Opens Thursday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Caine follows in Olivier's footsteps Feb 5, 2008
So when the 74-year-old Caine was approached to star in a remake of Sleuth, the 1972 thriller in which he played opposite Sir Laurence Olivier, Caine looked past the prospect of starring alongside Jude Law in a film directed by Kenneth Branagh ... "I must admit doing a Sleuth remake with me in the role of Sir Laurence Olivier and Jude Law doing my part was an exciting challenge especially with the added attraction of Kenneth Branagh directing," Caine said. (The Age)
Confessions of an everyman Feb 4, 2008
Thirty-five years later, Jude Law, a young actor hankering to revive Caine's roles after he starred in a remake of Alfie, the 1966 film which earned Caine the first of his six Academy Award nominations and made him an international star, has produced a new version of Sleuth with Kenneth Branagh directing. Law would naturally take the Caine part and Sir Michael would play the part once embodied by Olivier. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'People thought I was insane' Jan 28, 2008
Michael Grandage has lined up Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi and Jude Law for his new Donmar season ... Grandage does, however, have something to offer in compensation: booking opens today for a star-studded new Donmar season featuring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi and - the big draw for many - Jude Law, playing Hamlet. (Guardian Unlimited)
BBC makes ten dramas out of the Iraq crisis Jan 25, 2008
Kenneth Branagh is to star in a series of Newsnight-produced dramas about the Iraq war that will question the justification for the invasion. 10 Days to War, described as part thriller, part political drama , will run in the BBC Two Newsnight slot during the build-up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion in March. (Times Online)
* 'Sleuth' is elementary, my dear Watson Jan 25, 2008
If you like your contempt for humanity served overcooked and oozing fatty blobs of preening, lazy self-regard, you could not improve on Harold Pinter's redo of the 1970 Anthony Shaffer play Sleuth, which Kenneth Branagh has used to remake the 1972 Joseph Mankiewicz film of the same title ... DIRECTED BY: Kenneth Branagh. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
2008 oscar nomination factoids Jan 23, 2008
(Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick and Kenneth Branagh have received four in one year, but for different pics). Sound mixer Kevin OConnell enters the Oscar pantheon with his 20th nom, for his work on Transformers. (Variety)
Allen's `Dream' examines life's savagery Jan 17, 2008
"I think he has very, very good taste in terms of judging the reality and pitch of a performance," said Kenneth Branagh, who starred in Allen's "Celebrity." "People are so respectful of him that they really do their homework before they start a Woody Allen film, so I think everybody is just on their mettle when they're working for him.". For all his cynicism about life and his conviction that we live in an indifferent, pitiless universe, Allen remains a passionate and prolific filmmaker, even as... (Yahoo News)
Branagh set for BBC adaptation Jan 11, 2008
Kenneth Branagh is set to star as fictional Swedish cop Kurt Wallander in a BBC adaptation of Henning Mankell's bestselling crime novels. Swedish production company Yellow Bird, owned by Zodiak Television, has sold the rights for three 90-minute features based on the novels "Sidetracked," "Firewall" and "One Step Behind.". (Variety)
Another view: Are candidates ready for their close-ups? Jan 6, 2008
A Briton, Kenneth Branagh, as FDR. And, as Ulysses S. Grant, Fred Thompson. Morrison is a Los Angeles Times columnist and host of a daily public-affairs show on Los Angeles public radio. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Jude Law wants to play piano Dec 31, 2007
"To have Michael agree, and then get Kenneth Branagh to direct definitely fulfilled my ambition for this year.". . (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
2007 in film: Surprising gems and unconventional roles Dec 27, 2007
Ben Stiller tanked in a remake of "The Heartbreak Kid." Another remake came with a sterling, cross-generational pedigree: Jude Law and Michael Caine were the stars of "Sleuth," directed by Kenneth Branagh and updated by Harold Pinter. Yet the film made you think: Why did they bother. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Christmas quiz Dec 23, 2007
3 Kenneth Branagh has directed a new film of The Magic Flute. Who has adapted the libretto and written the screenplay. (Guardian Unlimited)
Neeson reveals Paisley influence Dec 6, 2007
Other actors linked to the part have included Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh and Brian Cox. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
It's a wonderful life. Apparently Dec 2, 2007
The Magic Flute (130 mins, PG) Directed by Kenneth Branagh; starring Joseph Kaiser, Benjamin Jay Davis, Amy Carson, Tom Randle ... Kenneth Branagh's The Magic Flute is presumably being slipped in, or fobbed off, as a seasonal entertainment, and it does have a couple of Christmas references. (The Observer)
The feckless Sleuth of today... Nov 25, 2007
Sleuth (90 mins, 15) Directed by Kenneth Branagh; starring Michael Caine, Jude Law ... The patrician Olivier and the parvenu Caine brought this out brilliantly in 1972, but it goes for nothing in the updated version that Kenneth Branagh has maladroitly directed from a dismal Harold Pinter script, in which Caine has moved up into the role of Andrew Wyke and Jude Law (who succeeded Caine in the remake of Alfie) plays Milo. (The Observer)
Crime and punishment Nov 24, 2007
Director: Kenneth Branagh, 15, 86min Stars: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter. On general release. (Times Online)
David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film #26 Nov 23, 2007
"It is unaccountable that Kenneth Branagh has sunk so low to direct Sleuth. It's a long way back to his true talent - as a firebrand actor" ... Kenneth Branagh with his Sleuth stars Jude Law and Michael Caine ... His was one of the saddest of all showbusiness stories, long before anyone thought of remaking Sleuth, and asking Kenneth Branagh to direct it. (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at City Theatre Nov 22, 2007
" More at . Remember Cecil's Suzi Hofrichter, who made her TV movie debut at age 7 in "The Christmas Tree" (1996) and starred opposite Kenneth Branagh in "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" (2000)? Time flies. She's in college at Mount St. Mary's in L.A. and is on an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" called "Crash Into Me," supposedly playing tonight at 9 on ABC. "Just a small part, don't blink," writes her mom. The bottom line Paid admissions at city's pro theaters for the week ending Nov. 18:... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Sleuth Review Nov 20, 2007
A radical remake of the 1970s play and film, starring Michael Caine and Jude Law, directed by Kenneth Branagh and adapted by Harold Pinter. Give Sleuth 2007 this: as a once-over, it leaves few clues behind to identify its victim. (Channel 4 News)
In picturesJude Law dodges the rain at Sleuth movie premiere Nov 19, 2007
Kenneth Branagh (left) directed it. Sir Harold Pinter penned the script, his first screenplay in over 10 years. (BBC News -- UK)
Branagh to play Tudor sleuth Nov 18, 2007
Kenneth Branagh, the Oscar-nominated actor and director, is to star as a 16th-century detective in a major new BBC TV series. He is to follow the path of other celebrated performers, such as Derek Jacobi, who have found popular success solving crimes while dressed in period costume. (Guardian Unlimited)
Museum of Moving Image: Salute to Tom Cruise Nov 6, 2007
Also on hand is Kenneth Branagh, with whom Cruise costars in the upcoming "Valkyrie.". The Museum of the Moving Image, founded in 1981, is located in Astoria, Queens, and contains a collection of 130,000 objects from the history of movies, television and digital media. (Variety)
Interview: Ruth Wilson Nov 6, 2007
"I say I'm lucky, but I also know you make your own luck, you fight for your luck. I always wanted this, so I pushed for it." From the moment she left drama school, she was auditioning for major roles, for such big names in British drama as Kenneth Branagh. "I'd get down to the last two or three, but I wasn't getting them. Just before I got Jane Eyre I was really depressed, wondering if it was ever going to happen - then I got the call from the BBC 10 days later. I always believed I would get... (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Caine keeps coming| Nov 3, 2007
So when the 74-year-old Caine was approached to star in a remake of 'Sleuth', the 1972 thriller in which he played opposite Sir Laurence Olivier, Caine looked past the prospect of starring alongside Jude Law in a film directed by Kenneth Branagh ... "I must admit doing a 'Sleuth' remake with me in the role of Sir Laurence Olivier and Jude Law doing my part was an exciting challenge especially with the added attraction of Kenneth Branagh directing," Caine told AFP.. (iAfrica.com)
Brits are brilliant in two-man Sleuth Nov 2, 2007
Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay for this second go-round, and Kenneth Branagh directs, but the end result is still more like a stage play than a movie ... Director: Kenneth Branagh. (Winnipeg Sun)
Straight from Venice Film Festival, the best films you'll never see Oct 27, 2007
The trio of Michael Caine, Jude Law and Kenneth Branagh were on hand for the premiere of "Sleuth," and Ang Lee (who eventually took home the Golden Lion for "Lust, Caution") posed for photographers with his new star Tang Wei. Director Wes Anderson and Adrien Brody came out for "Darjeeling Limited," and even Woody Allen, who doesn't do anything except play the clarinet on Monday nights, did the movie star thing for his new film, "Cassandra's Dream.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Review: Sleuth (2.5 stars) Oct 27, 2007
Director Kenneth Branagh brings together his combined stage and screen, acting and directing experience to draw sterling performances from all three players. Ah, but then there's the matter of the second half. (National Post)
Screening Room Special: Michael Caine Oct 27, 2007
Directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by co-star Jude Law, the project is entirely British, a fact Caine is particularly proud of ... Part of Caine's magic is his combination of a working-class voice with a very sophisticated intelligence, according to Kenneth Branagh. (CNN -- Showbiz)
* 'Scoop' shares appropriate love Oct 26, 2007
More important, it also means Scoop isn't just another one of those narcissistic revues in which a Woody Allen-like character, sometimes played by the filmmaker himself, sometimes by an unsettling surrogate (Kenneth Branagh, Will Ferrell and so on), gobbles up the screen, the woman, our attention and our presumed love. In Scoop he has to share, and he does. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Stunt casting can't salvage this stolid remake Oct 26, 2007
Directed by Kenneth Branagh ... Finally, in the director's seat, there's Kenneth Branagh, the one-time wunderkind of British theatre who has never quite matched the success of his first film, 1989's Henry V. In an attempt to refurbish the play, and perhaps to counter criticisms that he has a limited visual style, Branagh has created a very different environment: a cavernous, sterile, modernist art gallery or prison, with remote-control gadgets, surveillance cameras, monochrome walls, mirrors and... (Globe and Mail)
Read on... Oct 24, 2007
Last film I saw: Sleuth, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Three films that mean a lot to me: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, directed by Julian SchnabelA Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron HowardAnd of course Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming. (Variety)
Remix of 'Sleuth' is clever, but no fun Oct 19, 2007
Michael Caine (left) and Jude Law in Kenneth Branagh's version of the 1972 movie "Sleuth." (DAVID APPLEBY/SONY PICTURES) ... What director Kenneth Branagh and playwright-turned-screenwriter Harold Pinter have done to 1972's suspense drama "Sleuth" isn't so much remake it as remix it ... Directed by: Kenneth Branagh. (Boston Globe)
Coming Attractions: Cruise prevails in bid to play failed Hitler assassin Oct 19, 2007
Cruise has convinced at least one co-star that he's a good fit: Kenneth Branagh, who plays Henning von Tresckow, Stauffenberg's closest adviser. "Tom Cruise's career is no accident," says Branagh, who directed the new Sleuth. (USA Today -- Life)
LiLos partying may have broken the bank Oct 17, 2007
He's at the back checking, and one of Michael's guides for how the movie's going is if anyone gets up to go to the loo he doesn't like that, said actor/director Kenneth Branagh. You get to the point where you think he's gonna go to the bathroom and bring them back. (MSNBC -- News)
Box office grows Darwinian Oct 15, 2007
Sony Pictures Classics remake "Sleuth," directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Michael Caine and Jude Law, opened in nine locations and grossed an estimated $50,090, for a per-screen average of $5,566. Among holdovers, the marketplace remained a slugfest. (Variety)
Audiences engaged by 'Married' Oct 14, 2007
Remake was directed by Kenneth Branagh and stars Michael Caine and Jude Law. The strong opening of Perry's "Why Did I Get Married?" follows the success he enjoyed when starring in and directing "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," which had a Friday opening of $7. (Variety)
Jude Law And Michael Caine Spar On Screen Oct 13, 2007
Director Kenneth Branagh fills Caine's mansion with cold, modern technology and art, contrasting the fuzzy warmth of the antique games and contraptions crowding Olivier's home in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's version. And barely a line remains of Anthony Shaffer's script for the original, which he adapted from his own play. (CBS News)
'Sleuth' sniffs out a dark, stylish remake Oct 13, 2007
Sleuth* * 1/2 (out of four)Stars: Michael Caine, Jude LawDirector: Kenneth BranaghDistributor: Sony Pictures ClassicsRating: R for strong languageRunning time: 1 hour, 26 minutesOpens Friday in New York and Los Angeles ... As directed by Kenneth Branagh, this new version is darker and more claustrophobic. (USA Today -- Life)
Actor Law 'in clear' over assault Oct 13, 2007
The movie, which was based on a screenplay by Harold Pinter, was directed by Kenneth Branagh and will be released in the UK on 23 November. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
WHEN LAW RAISES CAINE Oct 13, 2007
" Law's Milo goes to visit Caine's Andrew, a wealthy mystery writer who lives in a country manse bristling with sharp angles and bitter technology. Each detail is spotlighted under riveting direction by Kenneth Branagh: When Andrew offers Milo a drink, he requests scotch. Andrew goes to get it, and we see that it's already been poured. The piece depends on twists that reek of the techniques perfected, and then abused, in musty British stage mysteries, which is why the set of the 1972 movie... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
'Sleuth': Flat Feat, By Kurt Loder Oct 13, 2007
With Kenneth Branagh installed as director, this unseaworthy vessel set sail, and is now approaching the merciless reefs of what I suspect will be critical dismay and commercial indifference. The somewhat twisted skeleton of Shaffer's original work (which Pinter says he's never seen or read) can still be discerned here. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Technical setback for Cruise film Oct 11, 2007
Valkyrie, out next summer, is directed by Bryan Singer and co-stars British actors Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Michael Caine swaps roles in 'Sleuth' remake Oct 11, 2007
-Kenneth Branagh, director of the new Sleuth, both starred in and directed films of Hamlet and Henry V. So did Olivier ... The 2007 model, directed with a sparer sense of aplomb by Shakespeare specialist Kenneth Branagh and opening Friday in limited release, wants to prove that a remake needn't be inferior to its predecessor, as Law's slick Tindle, now an out-of-work actor, trades caustic remarks with Caine, switching roles as the wily Wyke ... High-profile talent: Michael Caine, left, director... (USA Today)
Jude Law And Michael Caine Talk About Duking It Out In 'Sleuth,' Getting Overlooked By Harry Potter Oct 10, 2007
Thirty-five years after Caine matched wits with Laurence Olivier in the cat-and-mouse story, Kenneth Branagh has directed a new version of "Sleuth," with a completely new script from famed playwright Harold Pinter. This time it's Caine in the duplicitous elder role and Law donning the famed mantle of Milo Tindle. (VHI.com -- Music News)
In 'Sleuth' Harold Pinter probes fighting instinct Oct 9, 2007
The director, Kenneth Branagh, asked that of the screenwriter, Harold Pinter, in rehearsal, and it was a natural question; in "Sleuth" reality is elusive, and the truth is often little more than an opportunistic weapon. The response was not particularly satisfying, but it was classically Pinteresque. (International Herald Tribune)
Sleuth remake hides all the fun Oct 9, 2007
Oh, and you got Kenneth Branagh to direct ... Starring: Michael Caine, Jude LawDirector: Kenneth BranaghRun time: 1 hour, 28 minutesMPAA rating: R. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Photo Galleries Oct 7, 2007
Variety interrogates Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh regarding the release of "Sleuth" ... Actor Michael Caine and Director Kenneth Branagh Variety's screening of "Sleuth". (Variety)
Variety screening of 'Sleuth' Oct 6, 2007
Caine joined director Kenneth Branagh for a short but lively Qion as an anxious publicist waited to shuttle the knighted Englishman to his next destination. Much of the conversation centered on Pinter's script. (Variety)
National Theater boasts record sales Oct 6, 2007
He will follow rival main Danes from David Tennant for helmer Gregory Doran at the RSC in 2008 and Jude Law for Kenneth Branagh in the Donmar's 2009 West End season. So impressed was Hytner by "Saint Joan," helmed by NT associate director Marianne Elliott, that he has rethought his position on George Bernard Shaw as "a windbag." Next year, he will direct a large-scale revival of "Major Barbara.". (Variety)
Films Worth Seeing Oct 6, 2007
Anthony Shaffer's 1972 two-character script, rewritten by Harold Pinter, recreates the clever twists through the smart directing of Kenneth Branagh. Michael Caine, who was the young man in the first film, is now the older one, and Jude Law vivifies the other man. (New Republic)
CAB CRAZE BEGAN 100 YEARS AGO Oct 4, 2007
Director Kenneth Branagh was in light brown. No tie. (New York Post -- Gossip)
David Oyelowo takes `Five' for HBO Oct 2, 2007
LOS ANGELES - David Oyelowo has mastered characters of influence: Orlando in Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It," the martyred doctor in "The Last King of Scotland" and an English monarch a first for a black actor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News)
Gags to Riches Sep 29, 2007
With The Riches already commissioned for a second series, Izzard has been flying to Berlin to play opposite Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh in Valkyrie, a 2008 blockbuster about a Nazi plot to kill Hitler. "It's a part I couldn't have imagined getting two years ago, and it is the first thing I've done with no comedy element in it at all," he concludes. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tom Cruise, once barred, mourns anti-Nazi heroes in Germany Sep 24, 2007
The film, directed by Bryan Singer and co-starring British actor Kenneth Branagh, is slated for a 2008 release. (Agencies). (Xinhua)
* Planet POP Sep 17, 2007
The film, slated for a 2008 release and to be directed by Bryan Singer and co-starring Kenneth Branagh, is called Valkyrie after Operation Valkyrie, the plot's codename. Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were shot after failing to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
