Stars including Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook, Andrew Scott and David Tennant will compete for Olivier Awards at the UK’s most prestigious theater ceremony next month.
The Sex and the City stars is up for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite – her first Olivier – while Succession’s Snook has picked up a nod for her critically-acclaimed performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the Best Actor category, Scott’s performance in Vanya will come up against Tennant’s role in Macbeth, while the starry nominee list also includes Joseph Fiennes for Dear England, which is being made into a BBC series, Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue and James Norton in A Little Life.
Other notable nominations include for singer Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, where she has picked up a nod for Best Actress in a Musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
The Sex and the City stars is up for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite – her first Olivier – while Succession’s Snook has picked up a nod for her critically-acclaimed performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the Best Actor category, Scott’s performance in Vanya will come up against Tennant’s role in Macbeth, while the starry nominee list also includes Joseph Fiennes for Dear England, which is being made into a BBC series, Mark Gatiss for The Motive And The Cue and James Norton in A Little Life.
Other notable nominations include for singer Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard, where she has picked up a nod for Best Actress in a Musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s...
- 3/12/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Recent moves by two of the biggest names in tech may be shedding light on their plans for digitally connected televisions. Can Apple and Microsoft succeed where Google and Yahoo have already been?
Microsoft's interactive TV business
Microsoft's Tom Gibbons, a member of the Windows Phone team since 2009, and previously head of Microsoft Hardware business (makers of some very successful keyboards and mice) has recently been repurposed. His job title inside Ms is now "corporate vice president of TV and Service Business within Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business." His responsibilities include "driving subscriptions usage and global partnerships" for this business unit, using the fact that he's "experienced in hardware, software and consumer product development."
Gibbons is, to put it bluntly, a hardware guy. While at the Windows Phone team, he's reported to have led the group that came up with the hardware reference designs for Win Phone 7 handsets--and his experience at...
Microsoft's interactive TV business
Microsoft's Tom Gibbons, a member of the Windows Phone team since 2009, and previously head of Microsoft Hardware business (makers of some very successful keyboards and mice) has recently been repurposed. His job title inside Ms is now "corporate vice president of TV and Service Business within Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business." His responsibilities include "driving subscriptions usage and global partnerships" for this business unit, using the fact that he's "experienced in hardware, software and consumer product development."
Gibbons is, to put it bluntly, a hardware guy. While at the Windows Phone team, he's reported to have led the group that came up with the hardware reference designs for Win Phone 7 handsets--and his experience at...
- 3/25/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
"New Moon is going to be stepped up a whole nother notch," confidently states star Taylor Lautner. It goes without saying that the werewolves have some great scenes in New Moon and in the latest video to leak from Summit, fans get a behind the scenes look at what went into making the wolf pack sizzle. It is easy to watch the trailer and get caught up in the story, but does anyone stop to think about the work that goes into bringing the werewolves to life? Director Chris Weitz had a tough task on hand when he signed onto New Moon; how was he going to realistically bring to life the werewolf pack? In the latest video interview, Weitz says, "We introduced the world of the werewolves which is also the world of some amazing CGI stuff." Before New Moon, CGI was on center stage with the success of...
- 10/30/2009
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
MSN Movies has debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette from "The Twilight Saga's New Moon", which will hit U.S. theaters on November 20. The more-than-one-minute clip is about the introduction of wolf pack, in which Taylor Lautner's Jacob Black becomes one of its members.
The clip is opened by the film's director Chris Weitz, who explains the werewolf roles on the "Twilight" sequel. The scene then switches to highlight the movie's crew, including visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett, animation supervisor Tom Gibbons, and art director Nate Fredenburg, who all explain about how they created the characters.
Moreover, the clip also gives fans a glimpse of the werewolves' leader, Chaske Spencer's Sam Uley, who details his character on the film. Then, some other personnel of wolf pack, such as Bronson Pelletier's Jared, Alex Meraz's Paul, and Kiowa Gordon's Embry, are all featured in the video. Additionally, the film's leading star,...
The clip is opened by the film's director Chris Weitz, who explains the werewolf roles on the "Twilight" sequel. The scene then switches to highlight the movie's crew, including visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett, animation supervisor Tom Gibbons, and art director Nate Fredenburg, who all explain about how they created the characters.
Moreover, the clip also gives fans a glimpse of the werewolves' leader, Chaske Spencer's Sam Uley, who details his character on the film. Then, some other personnel of wolf pack, such as Bronson Pelletier's Jared, Alex Meraz's Paul, and Kiowa Gordon's Embry, are all featured in the video. Additionally, the film's leading star,...
- 10/28/2009
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
In the clip, Kristen Stewart says the wolves make the 'Twilight' series 'more animalistic, more violent.'
By Eric Ditzian
Taylor Lautner in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
" 'New Moon' is going to be stepped up a whole 'nother notch," Taylor Lautner says in a freshly released featurette available on MSN.com — and after checking it out, it's hard to dispute that assessment.
The video gives a behind-the-scenes look at how filmmakers on the "Twilight" sequel have created the visual effects for Lautner's Jacob Black and the rest of the pack of Native American werewolves. It shows technicians working on computers to simulate wolf attacks and close-up shots of the digital building blocks for CGI animation
"We introduce the world of the werewolves, which is also the world of some amazing CGI stuff," director Chris Weitz explains.
In past trailers, we've seen a sequence in which Jacob runs...
By Eric Ditzian
Taylor Lautner in "New Moon"
Photo: Summit Entertainment
" 'New Moon' is going to be stepped up a whole 'nother notch," Taylor Lautner says in a freshly released featurette available on MSN.com — and after checking it out, it's hard to dispute that assessment.
The video gives a behind-the-scenes look at how filmmakers on the "Twilight" sequel have created the visual effects for Lautner's Jacob Black and the rest of the pack of Native American werewolves. It shows technicians working on computers to simulate wolf attacks and close-up shots of the digital building blocks for CGI animation
"We introduce the world of the werewolves, which is also the world of some amazing CGI stuff," director Chris Weitz explains.
In past trailers, we've seen a sequence in which Jacob runs...
- 10/28/2009
- MTV Movie News
One of the most memorable aspects of the much-loved (by both critics and fans) but sadly underseen Drag Me To Hell is the ending of Sam Raimi’s supernatural thriller (Spoiler Alert: that conclusion will be discussed heavily in this piece, with photos from the sequence—so if you haven’t seen the film yet, read no further). Even if you see it coming, as some people have claimed to, it’s a hell of a note to end on, and has sent audiences out buzzing.
When it came time to bring this finale to the screen, Raimi (who also scripted the Universal release with his brother Ivan) looked to Academy Award-winning visual FX house Tippett Studios (Cloverfield, Blade II, Starship Troopers), which also ended up contributing to the opening sequence and the moment in which heroine Christine (Alison Lohman) snorts and swallows a fly. Matt Jacobs, who has been...
When it came time to bring this finale to the screen, Raimi (who also scripted the Universal release with his brother Ivan) looked to Academy Award-winning visual FX house Tippett Studios (Cloverfield, Blade II, Starship Troopers), which also ended up contributing to the opening sequence and the moment in which heroine Christine (Alison Lohman) snorts and swallows a fly. Matt Jacobs, who has been...
- 6/18/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
- Fangoria
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