Latest Jim Broadbent News
Dame Helen Mirren Thinks That The Duke Is A Fitting Finale For Roger Michell
Dame Helen Mirren believes that 'The Duke' is a fitting final film for Roger Michell.The 76-year-old actress plays Dorothy Bunton in the art caper – which was the final movie made by the 'Notting Hill'...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18 February 2022
Jim Broadbent Relished Playing An 'Anti-establishment Hero' In The Duke
Jim Broadbent was attracted to playing Kempton Bunton in 'The Duke' because he was an "anti-establishment" hero.The 72-year-old star leads the cast of the movie as Kempton - a man who allegedly stole Goya's portrait...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 February 2022
Dame Helen Mirren Joined The Duke To Work With Jim Broadbent
Dame Helen Mirren was drawn to 'The Duke' as she has always wanted to work with Jim Broadbent.The 76-year-old actress plays Dorothy Bunton in the new comedy-drama and reveals that the presence of Jim as...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 February 2022
Keira Knightley To Star In Boston Strangler
Keira Knightley is to star in 'Boston Strangler'. The 36-year-old actress will team up with director Matt Ruskin on the project, which is based on the infamous Boston Strangler, the name given to the killer...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 05 October 2021
Dame Helen Mirren's The Duke Delayed
Dame Helen Mirren's new film 'The Duke' has been delayed.The 76-year-old actress stars in the comedy-drama movie with Jim Broadbent but has postponed until next spring as bosses fear that older audience members may not...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 August 2021
Keira Knightley Lends Voice To Charlotte
Keira Knightley is to lead the voice cast of 'Charlotte'.The 36-year-old actress will play the main role in the animated drama that will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin,...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22 July 2021
Stephen Merchant Joins Cast Of A Boy Called Christmas
Stephen Merchant is to star in 'A Boy Called Christmas'.The 46-year-old actor will lend his voice to the role of Miika the mouse in Gil Kenan's festive flick. The film is based on Matt Haig's...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 December 2020
Jim Broadbent Loves His Flawed Character In The Sense Of An Ending
To play the lead role in the film adaptation of Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, Jim Broadbent says that going back to Julian Barnes' writing was the key. "Just how someone speaks...
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17 April 2017
Jim Broadbent Says The Sense Of An Ending Is About Complexity, Not Age
At 67 Jim Broadbent is also one of the few actors who plays his age on-screen. In the British drama The Sense of an Ending, he plays a retired man looking back at his life,...
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 March 2017
Jim Broadbent Reveals Details About His 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 Character
Veteran British actor Jim Broadbent has teased a few details about the “significant” character he will portray in the upcoming seventh season of ‘Game of Thrones’ – and it turns out that a great deal...
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 08 March 2017
Jim Broadbent Joins Cast Of 'Game Of Thrones' For Season 7
Veteran British actor Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of ‘Game of Thrones’ for its seventh series, in what is described as a “significant” role.The 67 year old actor, renowned for dozens of award-winning roles...
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 01 September 2016
Michelle Dockery Cast In The Sense Of An Ending
Michelle Dockery has been cast as Jim Broadbent's daughter in 'The Sense Of An Ending'. The 'Downton Abbey' star will be joined by her co-stars, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter and Emily Mortimer, and the 'The...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 07 August 2015
Brenda Blethyn & Jim Broadbent To Play Raymond Briggs' Parents
The film adaptation of the bestseller will chronicle the half-century marriage of The Snowman author's parents from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. The animated film will debut on the BBC...
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 03 August 2015
Gemma Jones Wants Next Bridget Jones Film To Hurry Up
Gemma Jones is worried she'll be on a Zimmer frame by the time the next 'Bridget Jones' movie is made. The 72-year-old actress - who plays Bridget's mum in 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and 'Bridget Jones:...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11 May 2015
Jim Broadbent Lined Up For Teletubbies Reboot - Report
The Moulin Rouge! star is set to play the 'Voice Trumpet' which makes announcements in the beloved children's programme. A source tells Britain's The Sun newspaper, "Teletubbies is a British institution and...
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 March 2015
Jim Broadbent: How To Play Santa Claus
Merry Christmas to all. It's probably the case that everyone has had to dress up as Santa Claus at least once in their life; stomping around the house, 'Ho Ho Ho'-ing and eating mince pies...
By Stephen Caswell in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25 December 2014
Jim Broadbent Proves Genius Casting For 'Get Santa'
Dopey Christmas movies are such a staple this time of year that it's actually rather shocking when one comes along that isn't stupid. Even if some critics struggle with the holiday-crime movie mashup, 'Get Santa'...
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 05 December 2014
Paddington Bear Makes Debut In Funny New Trailer…Minus His Voice
Missing the lead actor in your movie four months before its release? No problem! As was evidently thought by director Paul King and the makers of the upcoming children's adaptation, Paddington. A new trailer has...
By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 03 July 2014
'Postman Pat: The Movie' Delivers A Cracking British Cast In A Starry New Adventure [Trailer]
The well-loved British children's programme, Postman Pat, is being turned into a new movie that will bring the stop motion techniques employed in the series into the 21st century with 3D animation. The show, which...
By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 04 February 2014
'Philomena' Actors Shortlisted For British Independent Film Awards
Philomena has been released in UK cinemas and is proving to be one of the British film events of the year as critics flock to praise Steve Coogan and Judi Dench's performances in this touching,...
By Lauren James in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 November 2013
Felicity Huffman Joins Big Game With Samuel L. Jackson
Felicity Huffman has joined the cast of Samuel L. Jackson's new action movie, 'Big Game'.The 'Desperate Housewives' actress and 'Alias' actor Victor Garber have joined the final weeks of the film's shoot in Bavaria, starring...
By Bang Showbiz in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24 October 2013
First Look At Samuel L. Jackson & Onni Tommila In Adventure 'Big Game' [Picture]
Big Game might just be one of the more original action films to emerge in recent years, when the President of the United States of America (Samuel L. Jackson) teams up with a young Oskari...
By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24 October 2013
What Should You See Tonight, Machete Kills? The Fifth Estate? It's Le-weekend!
It’s Friday folks – your mundane, work-a-day week has come to an end, and now you’ve got a chance to spend the money you’ve earned on some form of entertainment, be it alcohol, video games,...
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11 October 2013
"Le Week-end" Is Warm, Honest And Clever And That's Just The Critics Talking
Le week-end is sweet, it’s quirky and it has its token dose of snark – the perfect combination to warm those chilly autumn nights. To top it all off, this Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan...
By Victoria Pavlova in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 October 2013
Colin Firth Will Put On His Wellies & Raincoat As He Lends His Voice To Paddington Bear
Colin Firth has agreed to play Paddington Bear in a re-boot of the famed Michael Bond books about a bear from Peru with a taste for marmalade. In the original Bond books, Paddington is found...
By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 September 2013
Living For 'Le Week-end' - Jim Broadbent And Lindsay Duncan Star [Trailer]
We’ve seen screen-legends combine to bring us the other side of a ‘coming of age’ story before - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel did it to some degree of success – and now we have...
By Jack de Aguilar in Movies / TV / Theatre on 09 September 2013
With Bana And Hall, How Did 'Closed Circuit' Fail To Please?
Closed Circuit, the new crime-thriller from Is Anybody There? director John Crowley, has failed to impress the critics ahead of its highly anticipated release this week. The international suspense thriller features a glittering cast including...
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 August 2013
Harry Hill And Julie Walters Race Scooters For 'The Harry Hill Movie' [Pictures]
Forget The Fast & The Furious! This week, comedian Harry Hill and British movie legend Julie Walters took to their scooters and powered through a quiet London suburb to film scenes from Hill's new movie...
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 May 2013
James Mcavoy Needs To Clean Up His Act In Filth (Trailer)
Filth, the latest movie to star James McAvoy, is an adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel of the same name and it has all the hallmarks of a classic Irvine Welsh movie adaptation, with its fast-paced,...
By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 April 2013
James D'arcy Scared Of Ageing Since Cloud Atlas
James D'Arcy is petrified of ageing after starring in 'Cloud Atlas'.The 'Hitchcock' actor has gone on a health kick since playing Rufus Sixsmith - one of his many alter egos in the Wachowski siblings and...
By Bang Showbiz on 20 February 2013
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