Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland
The full nominations list is
here.
The winners will be announced at the Traverse Theatre on Sunday June 9,
as part of the theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. The event is
open to the public and tickets are available from the Traverse. A full
list of nominations can be found on the
CATS website.
John Barrowman
John Barrowman is to reunite with comedy duo The Krankies for Glasgow's Christmas pantomime season.
The three are set to star in the SECC's production of
Dick McWhittington later this year.
It
is the fourth time Glasgow-born Barrowman has teamed up with The
Krankies, having previously been in Jack and the Beanstalk, Robinson
Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates and Aladdin.
Read more at
Scottish Daily Record
Master of the Universe: interview at
StarPulse
ABC has signed judges, cast and a host for its new competition series
Sing Your Face Off, and it’s quite a unique collection of famous names. First, actor
John Barrowman (
Torchwood, Arrow) will host the show, where five celebrity contestants take on the identity of an iconic music performer each week.
Read more at
Entertainment Weekly
Head of Zeus has acquired a new trilogy from Carole and
John Barrowman.
Editorial Director Laura Palmer acquired UK & Commonwealth rights
in
Hollow Earth Unbound, a new trilogy for ages 12+ by writer Carole
and her actor brother
John Barrowman. The series follows the
adventures of twins Matt & Em Calder who can bring anything they
draw to life.
Read more at
Head of Zeus
Caitlin Blackwood
Caitlin will be a guest at the Norwich SciFi Convention in September.
More information at
NorCon
Billy Boyd / Gawn Grainger
Double Olivier Award winner
Gawn Grainger and
The Lord Of The Rings star
Billy Boyd have joined the cast of
Macbeth, Eve Best’s forthcoming directorial debut at Shakespeare’s Globe.
The pair joins the previously announced Joseph Millson, Samantha
Spiro and Bette Bourne in Shakespeare’s much-loved exploration of
ambition, guilt and destiny, which will play at the alfresco venue from
22 June.
Read more at
Official London Theatre
Paul Brannigan
Having served time inside Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution,
Paul
Brannigan wasn’t fazed when he was asked to play a hood on the make in
River City.
He did have one condition, however – the hardman had to have a soft centre.
The
26-year-old shot to fame at the Cannes Film Festival last year after
starring in Ken Loach’s award-winning film
The Angels’ Share.
His real-life story of growing up in poverty in Glasgow’s east end
amid drugs, gangs and violence has since been well documented and there
was never any chance he was going to repeat any of it in Shieldinch.
Having briefly played the role of Gareth O’Connor last year, he only became interested in returning when
he knew there was a love interest in the shape of Nicole Brodie, played by Holly Jack, to smooth out Gareth’s rough edges.
Read more at
Scottish Daily Record
Ewen Bremner
Bill Nighy will return to the part of the MI5 spy in
'Turks & Caicos' and 'Salting The Battlefield', the final two parts
of 'The Worricker Trilogy' on BBC Two, alongside a string of famous
names.
'Turks & Caicos' will also star
Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes,
Ewen Bremner, James Naughton, Dylan Baker, Zach Grenier. Helena, Ralph and Ewen will also star in the third film.
Read more at
Female First
Comic Book Movie have a new image from
Snowpiercer - showing most of the main cast members together -
here
Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler is currently eying the a role in
The Raven.
Olympus Has Fallen star Butler is in talks to star in the Universal Pictures thriller, andis tipped to play a man desired by both the government and the military for his special powers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Read more at
Digital Spy
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi has said the new BBC adaptation of
The Three Musketeers is so good it looks like a film.
The
Thick Of It actor has been shooting the programme in Prague and reckons viewers have a lot to look forward to.
He said: "It looks wonderful, we're doing it in Prague and it looks like a movie, it's very big.
"We started in the snow, we've been through the rain and now it's getting quite spring-like and warm. I think it's going to be good, the Musketeers are fantastic."
Read more at
Belfast Telegraph
Peter Capaldi / Billy Connolly / Ewan McGregor / David Tennant
Lionsgate UK has picked up six British pics, including
Peter Capaldi’s
comedy
Born to be King, which toplines Kate Hudson and
Ewan McGregor.
Also acquired is
What We Did on Our Holiday, a British family comedy
written and directed by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the creators of
BBC hit comedy
Outnumbered. It stars
Billy Connolly, Rosamund Pike and
David Tennant (
Doctor Who).
Read more at
Variety
Scottish celebrities have added their voice to the ‘See me’ campaign and are urging Brechin and Angus residents to ‘just listen’
The ‘see me’ campaign is a Scottish national campaign to help tackle the stigma and discrimation of mental ill-health
‘Just Listen’ encourages people in Angus to talk about mental ill-health, and to listen to what is being said.
Deacon Blue’s lead singer Ricky Ross, TV and film actor Martin Compston, Emmy award winning actor, Brian Cox, interior designer and TV presenter Colin McAllistair, Scottish actor and writer Greg McHugh and Scottish actress and singer Clare Grogan have all got behind the campaign.
Read more at Brechin Advertiser
Sean Connery
If Manchester United fans weren’t emotional enough
during Alex Ferguson’s final home game, Sky wrapped up their coverage
from Old Trafford with a
Sean Connery-voiced montage.
Read more, and watch the montage, at
The Score
James Cosmo
Budding film-makers got some help from veteran Scottish actor
and Game of Thrones star James Cosmo as they made a horror film in
Greenock.
The movie –
Dying Light – was produced and filmed by unemployed youngsters from Inverclyde.
The actor, who has starred in Hollywood hits
Braveheart and
Highlander agreed to voice a character in the psychological thriller
after being contacted by the film-making team.
The project, which aims to give unemployed young people a taste of
what it is like to work in the film industry also has the support and
technical expertise of Bafta award-winning film director David
Newbigging.
David, of Inverkip, said: "
James Cosmo agreeing to appear in our film is amazing.
"He's a great supporter of Scottish films. The young people who made
Dying Light are all massive fans of
Game of Thrones and couldn't believe
that he is involved."
Read more at
Glasgow Evening Times
Female First have a summary of
Get Lucky, which will be released on 9 August. Read more
here.
Brian Cox
Libby Purves meets actor
Brian Cox; adventurer Jason Lewis; artist Adela Jusic and singer June Tabor.
Actor
Brian Cox has performed in the West End, on Broadway, at the National
Theatre and the Royal Court. He is currently playing Jack in Conor
McPherson's
The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse. Brian joined Dundee Rep as
a young man and since then has carved out a successful theatre and
Hollywood career - his films include
Manhunter,
The Bourne Identity,
The
Bourne Supremacy and
Coriolanus.
The Weir is at the Donmar Warehouse.
Listen to the interview, and read more, at
BBC
More info on
The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse
here
Design in Action are proud to have Hollywood actor
Brian Cox, famous for
appearing in blockbuster films such as
Troy,
X-Men and the
Bourne
series amongst many others, as one of their project ambassadors. In a
video interview, Brian explains the ethos behind Design in Action and in
particular the Chiasma process that drives it. Watch the video at
Design in Action
Swedish sales outfit Yellow Affair has taken international rights on
The Carer (the last film scripted by the late Gilbert Adair, screenwriter of Bernardo Bertolucci’s
The Dreamers).
Yellow Affair has already concluded a deal on the film with Rialto for Australia/New Zealand.
The Carer,
directed by Janos Edelenyi, is billed as “a feel-good, life affirming
film about death and the relationship between a famous actor and his
immigrant carer”. It stars Brian Cox as Sir Michael Gifford, a stage and star screen who is dying.
Read more at
Screen Daily
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is on Broadway playing the title role — and every other major one — in
Macbeth, a reimagined version of Shakespeare’s tragedy set in a mental institution. In this scene
Mr. Cumming plays the ruthless Lady Macbeth asking the spirits to
“unsex me here.” Directed by John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg,
Macbeth
continues through June 30 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
Watch the scene at
Arts Beat
Fans were outraged when Tony voters snubbed
Macbeth and its versatile star
Alan Cumming, but the Scottish play
and
the Scottish-born actor were big winners at the Broadway.com Audience
Choice Awards! Cumming took home the Favorite Actor in a Play award for
his portrayal of nearly every role in Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy, and
Macbeth won the trophy for Favorite Play Revival at the awards ceremony on May 5.
Read more at
Broadway
Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and
Alan Cumming are among the 2013 recipients of the "Made in NY Awards," which will be presented June 10 at Gracie Mansion.
The awards recognize "individuals and
organizations that have made significant contributions to various fields
in the city's entertainment and digital media industries."
Read more at Playbill
Tony Curran
Syfy has ordered a second season of its ratings winning drama
Defiance starring Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene and Mia Kirshner.
Read more at
ATV Today
Many more May updates are
here
Henry Ian Cusick
The CW
is going a bit darker next television season, looking at almost one
hundred years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization in new drama
pilot
The 100.
The 100 comes from Writer/Executive Producer Jason Rothenberg with Executive Producers Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo. It stars Eliza Taylor,
Henry Ian Cusick, Kelly Hu, Isaiah Washington, Eli Goree, Bob Morley, Paige Turco, Thomas McDonell, Christopher Larkin, and Marie Avegeropoulos for a very eclectic and talented group.
Read more at
Examiner
C21 Media have a trailer
here
Red Carpet News TV have a video interview with Henry
here
Iain De Caestecker
Watch a trailer for the upcoming thriller
In Fear, which premiered at
the Sundance Film Festival and stars Alice Englert (
Beautiful Creatures),
Iain De Caestecker ("The Fades"), and Allen Leech ("Downton Abbey"). Check it out at
Worst Previews
In Fear review by
HeyUGuys
Following the success of 2012's
The Avengers, ABC television announced that it has officially picked up the
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D for a series, taking place in the same universe.
Centered around the resurrected Agent Coulson (Clarke Gregg), the show will also be starring Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet,
Iain De Caestecker and Elizabeth Henstridge as agents in the mysterious organization named Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. The pilot was filmed in January 2013, written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, and directed by Joss Whedon.
Read more at
Geek Exchange
Huffington Post has a 'sneak peak' promo video
here
The full first-look preview is at
411 Mania
TV Fanatic have a gallery of the S.H.I.E.L.D. characters. Iain's character is here
Ryan Gosling's
How To Catch A Monster, which was recently acquired by Warner Bros, has an all-star cast with the latest addition being
Coronation Street's
Iain De Caestecker, who was spotted on set in Detroit on Saturday (18 May).
Read more (with photos) at
Daily Mail
Also reported (with photos) by
Metro
Ron Donachie
Dundee-born
Ron Donachie, who played Ser Rodrik Cassel in hit fantasy
series
Game of Thrones and Angus MacInnes, from
Star Wars, are two of
the voiceover artists who will play key roles in new interactive
displays when the Black Watch Museum opens in Perth later this year.
Read more at
The Courier
Tommy Flanagan
Stacy Martin, one of the stars of Lars von Trier’s forthcoming
Nymphomaniac, is among the lead cast of new British feature
Barking At Trees.
The
cast also includes
Tommy Flanagan, Judith Godreche, Tom Payne, Bill
Milner, Kate Magowan, Simon Kunz and a cameo from Jessica Hynes.
Read more at
Screen Daily
Karen Gillan
Not Another Happy Ending will close
the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year, the film’s
producers have confirmed. The film, which stars former Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan alongside Stanley Weber, is an indie rom-com set in the Scottish city of Glasgow directed by John McKay.
The film will be shown on the 30th of June.
Read more at
zConnection
The Scotsman has an on-set report from
Not Another Happy Ending here
EntertainmentWise has the EIFF preview reel - which includes
Not Another Happy Ending -
here
She once travelled the world in a police phone box, but now
Karen Gillan has a new cop car to roll in.
The British actress was announced as the newest cast member in
NTSF:SD:SUV:: back in March and now she's on set ready to play the character Daisy in season three.
The American TV show - short for National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle - was filming scenes in London's Parliament Square with Karen and the rest of the crew on Monday (6 May).
Read more (with photos) at
Daily Mail
Karen Gillan is set to star in indie flick
The List.
The
Doctor Who actress is joining Patrick Fugit in the romantic comedy drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Directed
by
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo writer Harris Goldberg,
The List is about
a man who ticks off a list of self improvements to win over the woman
he loves.
Read more at
Irish Independent
Former
Doctor Who star
Karen Gillan’s Elvis-mad dad has recorded his first album – after his daughter paid for it all. Blues singer Raymond Gillan has recorded his first album, Deep Down Inside, and released it on iTunes. And his delighted daughter couldn’t wait to plug its nine songs to her Twitter followers.
She tweeted: “PAPA MADE AN ALBUM. Get into it. It’s really good. The magic lies in hard work.”
Read more at
Scottish Daily Record
Former
Doctor Who actress
Karen Gillan has lined up her next film role, starring in the Marvel movie
Guardians Of The Galaxy.
According to reports Gillan – who sprang to fame as the Doctor’s
companion Amy Pond in the BBC One show – will play one of the movie’s
‘major villains’ although no other details were revealed.
Read more at
Metro
John Hannah
Portrait of the Artist: interview at
The Guardian
John also shares his favourite cycling routes from around the world, in
The Telegraph (and reveals his travel preferences
here)
Susan Boyle's career in showbiz has been taking a high road since her
Britian's Got Talent win. Her first movie role in
The Christmas Candle, a
period drama, where she plays the role of a church warden's wife. Other
stars besides Boyle are Samantha Banks and
John Hannah. Banks was
recently seen in the hit musical
Les Miserables.
Read more at
Top News
Douglas Henshall
Previously announced Palme d'Or recipient Mads Mikkelsen has been joined
by Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt,
Douglas Henshall, Michael Raymond-James and Jonathan Pryce among others
for upcoming
The Salvation.
The film has just (as at 22 April) begun an eight-week shoot on location in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Read more at
Coming Soon
Kelly MacDonald
After 11 years raising £13million for sick youngsters in Glasgow, the Yorkhill Children's Foundation is to expand its services.
Actress
Kelly Macdonald and two former patients from the Royal
Hospital For Sick Children helped the organisation relaunch itself in
Glasgow.
It has been renamed Yorkhill Children's Charity.
The Foundation had donated all its fundraising cash to the Yorkhill
hospital, but bosses plan to expand the charity's services to support
the treatment and care of children and their families on a local,
national and international level.
This means it will raise funds for any hospital or community-based organisation helping sick kids.
Read more at Glasgow
Evening Times
Also reported (with photo) by
Scottish Daily Record
Angus MacFadyen
New Mexico-based Greenwomb Productions announced on Monday [13 May] that Wes
Studi, Adam Beach, GÃsli Örn GarÄ‘arsson and
Angus MacFadyen will star
in eco-thriller
Terra Infirma.
Read more at
Screen Daily
James McAvoy
In a long line of news, behind-the-scenes images and teasers, director Bryan Singer has tweeted the first image of
James McAvoy on the set of
X-Men: Days of Future
Past as Charles Xavier/Professor X in his 1970s costume.
Read more, and see the photo, at
Flicks and Bits
James McAvoy talks about Shakespeare at last month's Press Conference for
Macbeth - transcript and video at
Live Magazine
Ewan McGregor
The resilient indie Western
Jane Got A Gun finally has its bad guy.
Ewan McGregor is negotiating to play the pivotal role of the leader of an outlaw gang in the film that Gavin O’Connor is now directing.
Read more at
Deadline
The Daily Mail has photos of Ewan
here which they believe show his new 'look' for
Jane Got A Gun
The trailer for
August: Osage County has hit the web and by the looks of things, Meryl Streep is easily on her way to capturing her 18th Academy Award nomination.
The upcoming comedy-drama, based on the Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play and produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, finds the screen legend leading an all-star cast that includes Julia Roberts,
Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Sam Shepard, Abigail Breslin, Juliette Lewis, and Dermot Mulroney.
Read more at
EOnline
Watch the trailer at
YouTube
Greg McHugh
Fresh Meat will air its third series in the autumn.
The returning Channel 4 comedy will follow JP (Jack Whitehall),
Howard (
Greg McHugh), Vod (Zawe Ashton), Oregon (Charlotte Ritchie) and
Kingsley (Joe Thomas) as they begin their second university term.
Read more at
Digital Spy
Kevin McKidd
Kevin will be appearing at Comic Con in July
. Read more at
Grey's Gabble
Kevin McKidd is filming his new movie, comedy drama North of Hell, and Kevin has revealed a picture of himself on the set of the film, looking completely unrecognisable.
Read and see more at FansShare
Warner Home Video have released the official trailer for Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, the next
entry in the popular ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original
Movies.
In Justice League: The
Flashpoint Paradox, time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for
Flash (Justin Chambers) and his family, but the event's temporal ripples
prove disastrous, creating a fractured, alternate reality where the
Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found.
Amidst a new world being ravaged by a fierce war between Wonder Woman's
(Vanessa Marshall) Amazons and Aquaman's (Cary Elwes) Atlanteans, Flash
must team with a grittier, more violent Batman (Kevin McKidd) and
government agent Cyborg (Michael B. Jordan) to restore the continuity of
Flash's original timeline.
Read more, and watch the trailer, at Superman Supersite
Richard Madden
Disney has issued a press release naming
Richard Madden as the Prince in their upcoming live-action re-imagining of
Cinderella. The Scottish actor, who is best known for playing Robb Stark (King of the North!) on
Game of Thrones, will be joining a cast that includes
Downton Abbey's Lily James as the titular princess, and the ever-elegant Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine.
Read more at
Cinema Blend
Peter Mullan
The Liability is the tale of a seasoned assassin hoping to retire named
Roy (Tim Roth), who gets teamed with a young, enthusiastic driver, Adam
(Jack O’Connell) for his next job (as a result of Adam owing a ruthless
local crime boss, played by
Peter Mullan).
Read more, and watch a clip, at
What Culture
According to Screen Daily, director James Watkins (
The Woman In Black) has a joint company with Altitude, which is launching its first production,
The Loch,
written by Watkins and Simon Duric. Watkins was initially attached to
direct, but now Duric will take the helm.
Peter Mullan (
War Horse, Trainspotting) has come on board to lead the cast.
Read more at
Dread Central
Writer/director/actor
Peter Mullan's
Paradise,
a movie about the founding of legendary Scottish soccer team Celtic
Football Club by a priest in 1887, is creating buzz among buyers.
Read more at
Hollywood Reporter
The Guardian's "best TV for summer 2013" includes
Top of the Lake.
Holly Hunter,
Peter Mullan
and Elisabeth Moss star in
The Piano director Jane Campion's rich,
languorous crime thriller, in which the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of
a local drug lord goes missing. Its small-town setting and dreamy pace
has earned it Twin Peaks comparisons, but it has its own unique feel and
flavour.
BBC2, July.
Read more
here.
Ruaraidh Murray
Sean Connery has said “yes” to Ruaraidh Murray twice and the young Scots
actor and writer hopes the next time he says it – it will be to give his
blessing for a film.
Edinburgh-born
Ruaraidh’s one-man show Big Sean, Mikey and Me was shown at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year and had the ex-Bond actor as the
main character’s imaginary friend.
Ruaraidh
(it’s Rory if you hadn’t worked it out yet) is adapting the script to turn it into a film, which they hope to make next year.
He said: “Sean Connery has not been in touch but I’m sure I’ll need to get his blessing.
“Hopefully he’ll be cool about it.
“I
have met Sean once. I have the scene where I met him in my Big Sean
show. I was on my way to an audition in Belgravia in London when I saw
him walking towards me. I stuck out my hand and said ‘Sean, my name’s
Ruaraidh, I’m an actor from Edinburgh.’
“He
said ‘yes.’ A cabbie then screeched to a halt to say hello too. I said
‘It’s nice to meet you Sean.’ And again he said ‘yes.’ I left them to it
feeling like I’d just met God.
“Hopefully, third time lucky, he will say ‘yes’ to the film.”
Barbara Rafferty / Elaine C Smith
They left millions in stitches as Govan's most famous housewives, Mary Doll and Ella Cotter.
Now, after ten years apart,
Elaine C Smith and
Barbara Rafferty are
back together again for His Majesty's Theatre's Christmas performance of
Cinderella.
The
Rab C Nesbitt actresses are starring as the Fairy Godmother and Wicked Stepmother for the seasonal panto.
Read more at
STV
Daniel Sloss
Aged just 16, Scottish comedian, writer and actor
Daniel Sloss began
writing for Frankie Boyle after his mother badgered the comedian about
her funny son. Three years later, after performing stand-up himself, he
is now one of the fastest rising stars on the comedy circuit, having
released his debut DVD,
Daniel Sloss Live, last year.
Source:
GQ
Ken Stott / Peter Mullan
The first ever public screening of the BBC series
Your Cheatin' Heart is to open Scotland's newest film festival. Writer John Byrne and co-star
Eddi Reader will attend the event at the inaugural Dunoon Film Festival. The series, also starring
Peter Mullan,
Ken Stott and Tilda Swinton, was never repeated after its 1990 showing.
Read more at
BBC Scotland
David Tennant
All May's news about David can be found
here (scroll down!)
