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Michael Caine interview: ‘Everybody’s going to die – at least I’ve lived to f---ing 90’
Michael Caine is sitting on a sofa watching the Wimbledon championships on TV when, on a cloudy day in early July, I arrive to meet him at his apartment in a tower block at Chelsea Harbour. ‘I’ll turn it down,’ he says, reaching for the remote.
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How Hollywood enabled Russell Brand – by paying him millions to play himself
The role was originally meant to be for a young Hugh Grant type: bookish, well-spoken and dashing in loafers and tweed. When writing the screenplay for his 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel had wanted to put his luckless hero through the ultimate romantic humiliation – and having his girlfriend stolen by a debonair bestselling English author was the worst scenario he could come up with.
8-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Coup de Chance, review: Woody Allen gets lucky in Paris with his funniest film in years
Isn’t Woody Allen meant to be cancelled? Well – in Hollywood and on Twitter, maybe. But at the Venice Film Festival, not so much. When the 87-year-old director’s name appeared at the opening of his latest feature, the thousand-strong audience in the Sala Darsena erupted in applause – while an hour and half later, its closing credits were met with outright cheers.
3-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Canine copulation with a CGI penguin? Roman Polanski’s The Palace is an utter dog’s dinner
In 2003, when Roman Polanski won his Best Director Oscar for The Pianist, the filmmaker was unable to collect the honour in person. Having fled the United States 25 years previously to avoid a custodial sentence for statutory rape, he would have been arrested on his return, and so the trophy had to make its own way to him in Europe.
3-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Anime is now bigger than Bond – time to take it seriously?
Netflix is after a piece of the action. More literally, a piece of the One Piece action. The streamer has just released its live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese comic book and cartoon about a crew of happy-go-lucky pirates seeking a mythical treasure. That treasure is the “One Piece”: hence the name of the show.
5-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
The secret to great child acting – and why the Americans are better than us
A nine-year-old boy is sitting in a darkened room with a camera trained on his face, tears trembling in his eyes. A man’s voice off camera – gentle but firm – tells him that he has come to take the boy’s best friend away. “You can’t take him away, he’s mine,” the boy sobs, lips quivering. “He’s my best friend, and you can’t take him away.”
6-min read - EntertainmentThe Telegraph
The Dune 2 delay is a disaster for cinemas – and it could get worse
August is the month that traditionally proves the biggest challenge for cinema operators. After all, studios already released their major titles at the start of the summer holiday period, and now we must contend with the leftovers: a motley collection of smaller and mid-size films fighting for box office scraps.
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