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John Madden Set to Direct My Fair Lady Remake
1 December 2009 7:18 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
John Madden, no not the animated and legendary football commentator, rather the Academy Award winning British director behind Shakespeare In Love is set to direct the remake of the classic Lerner and Lowe musical, My Fair Lady, a 1964 Academy Award nominated film.
Madden is currently completing production on the Helen Mirren film The Debt for Miramax and Marv Films, will ramp up the search for his leading lady and man in the new year. It was recently reported that Keira Knightley was still attached to the project after circling the project for some time, however there is no formal agreement for her to play Eliza.
Joe Wright was also attached to direct previous to Madden’s now involvement. The pic is being produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh, who have been attached to the project since its start. Variety who broke the news says that this remake will draw »
- Kevin Coll
My Fair Lady Set For Remake?
1 December 2009 3:44 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Everybody likes a musical…don’t they? It seems Columbia Pictures and Brit helmer John Madden do. Variety report that My Fair Lady is looking a likely prospect for a shoot in 2010. It has been over forty years since Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn warbled through George Cuckor’s classic – and everybody knows nothing is sacred in Hollywood.
It seems things are gearing up for a re-hash, remake, re-imagining, etc. Rumour has it (which means little) Keira Knightley is circling like a shark around the role of Eliza Doolittle. It won’t be anything too radical with Duncan Kenworthy and John Madden steering the project. At one point, Baz Luhrmann was attached.
The producer and director are location hunting for period London buildings circa 1912. The new version intends on sticking close to the original play by George Bernard Shaw than the 1964 film. If there are any worries Knightley can’t sing, »
- Martyn Conterio
John Madden Directing My Fair Lady?
1 December 2009 3:25 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
After we dispelled the rumours that Joe Wright was set to direct a remake of George Cukor's masterpiece My Fair Lady - the one with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - all has been quiet for a month or so, but now we hear from Variety that the Shakespeare in Love director John Madden is closing in on the project.
According to the trade daily, seasoned producer Duncan Kenworthy (Love Actually, Notting Hill etc. etc.) and stage impressario Cameron Mackintosh are producing the project which will retain the 1963 score but go back to the original source (Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw) for a little bit of fresh drama.
To be honest, the less we think about this project the better - especially considering that Keira Knightley's name is still connected with the main role. We love the original and genuinely think that some things should remain sacred... what do you think? »
Joe Wright Was Directing My Fair Lady, And Now He’s Not, And Now John Madden Is, And That’s The Way It Is…Boom
1 December 2009 12:30 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Hall-of-Famer John Madden announced his stunning retirement earlier this year, leaving the NFL without its most famous ambassador for the first time since before cavemen could paint on walls, but Variety is announcing that he has come out of retirement to apparently direct the remake of My Fair Lady, which is based on a 1956 play starring Julia Andrews and Rex Harrison (itself based on a musical called Pygmalion) that was later turned into the first theatrical version starring Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. The remake will star Brett Favre as Eliza Doolittle. Brett Favre will also play the part of Henry Higgins. He’ll play every part, really. The title of the film will be changed to Brett Favre is Brett Favre. At the end of the film, the cast of Brett Favres will be so overwhelming that it will cause the celluloid to spontaneously combust. (Puts hand in ear John Stewart style) What’s that? »
- Jacob
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
Stephen Poliakoff interview
27 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
'What really buys you freedom is being successful. So long as you deliver, they leave you alone'
For someone best known for Shooting the Past, a television drama apparently so slow and un-televisual that BBC executives begged him to speed it up, Stephen Poliakoff is a very fast talker. Sentences tumble into one another, thoughts jerkily digress, regroup and change their angle of attack. Ideas flit in and out of focus as all the while a plastic drinking straw is furiously twiddled between his fingers. Outlining details of his latest venture, Glorious 39, his first feature film for 12 years, Poliakoff makes glancing references to George W Bush, Bulldog Drummond, the history of the wire tap and Norfolk's evergreen oaks in expressing his fascination and horror at the aristocratic and establishment appeasers who, in the run-up to the second world war, mounted a desperate last effort to do a deal with »
Madhuri in the role of Indira Gandhi
27 November 2009 3:59 AM, PST | BollywoodBuzz | See recent BollywoodBuzz news »
Asian-American filmmaker Krishna Shah will direct a movie named Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story. Madhuri Dixit will play the lead role, that of Indira Gandhi.
Krishna Shah elaborated during a press release: "I have followed Indira Gandhi's life through media, books and critics. It's such an exciting and dramatic story. I want the future generation to know her story. A whole new generation has grown and matured since her assassination and through this film I hope to connect people with their history and legacy."
Apart from Madhuri, who tops the charts whenever she hits the screen, actors Dharmendra, Abhay Deol and Nana Patekar have been approached to play Motilal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and politician Jayaprakash Narayan respectively.
Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones have also been reportedly approached for the roles of Us presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson and Richard Nixon.
This movie will be made in two »
- Ajit
Next!
15 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy². Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer and Bogie. 'Coop' again. William Holden and Marlon Brando a few years late. Ernest Borgnine, Yul Brynner and Alec Guiness. David Niven, Charlton Heston and Burt Lancaster. Maximillian Schell, Gregory Peck and Sidney Poitier who made history. Rex Harrison, Lee Marvin, Paul Scofield, Rod Steiger, Cliff Robertson and 'The Duke'. George C Scott though he refused. Gene Hackman. Marlon Brando by way of Sacheen Littlefeather. Jack Lemmon, Art Carney, Jack Nicholson and (posthumously) Peter Finch. Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Henry Fonda. Ben Kingsley, Robert Duvall, F Murray Abraham, »
- NATHANIEL R
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Calendar of Events 11/01-11/08
8 November 2009 1:30 AM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts calendar of events for the fall months has just been released. All events are subject to change without notice. Free performances are held each evening at 6 p.m. on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
1 & 3 p.m. Concert Hall
Nso Family Concert
Spooky Sounds and Scary Tales
Keep the Halloween costume party going and come dressed in your spookiest get-up for this "spirited" Sunday afternoon concert event. Conductor Brad Lubman and the Nso will be wearing their own trick-or-treat outfits as they perform Steven Reineke's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with narrator Lynda Carter and music from other scary tales. It's guaranteed to be a ghoulish good time! For age 5 and up. Come early for the Musical Instrument "Petting Zoo," a project of the Women's Committee for the Nso. Immediately following the 3 p.m. performance, meet Brad Lubman and special »
Exclusive! Joe Wright Is Not Directing My Fair Lady Remake
30 October 2009 4:53 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
When Screenrush grabbed two minutes with Joe Wright on the red carpet for the London Film Festival's Closing Gala film Nowhere Boy, there was really only one thing on our mind to ask him about - My Fair Lady.
Over the last few days the rumour mills have been churning out stories that the Atonement director and Keira Knightley will be reteaming on a remake of the classic George Bernard Shaw adaptation, which was released in 1964 starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison and has been delighting family audiences ever since.
So we were more than a little taken about when Wright flatly denied any involvement in the project, saying that he had mulled over the idea for a couple of days after the script was sent to him, as he would do with any other project, but decided to pass on the opportunity.
Unfortunately he could not tell us which »
[DVD Review] My Fair Lady
27 October 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
The ever-loverly Audrey Hepburn is back as Eliza Doolittle in the latest release of My Fair Lady on DVD. I wasn't sure why — it had to have been put out on DVD at least once before. In fact, it was released by Warner Bros. in 1998 and then again as a "Two-Disc Special Edition" in 2004. Paramount obtained the rights last year and put out a new edition earlier this month, complete with its own set of special features.
My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, follows Ms. Doolittle, a poor flower girl with a strong Cockney accent which, due to the time period and setting, puts her at a strong social and vocational disadvantage. Looking to better her situation, she approaches Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a phonetics expert, about speech lessons. Higgins, intrigued, bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can pass »
- Jess Goodwin
By George, I think Keira Knightley's got "My Fair Lady"
27 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
We all already know that Keira Knightley is a fair lady, but now she is the Fair Lady. The 24-year-old English actress has landed the role of Eliza Doolittle in the new remake of the Academy Award-winning 1964 musical, My Fair Lady.
The original film, based on the Broadways smash, starred Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl Eliza and Rex Harrison as the prickly, precise professor Henry Higgins. Keira reportedly beat out Scarlett Johansson for the iconic role. Other than Natalie Portman, it’s hard to think of another young actress who could possibly attempt to take Audrey’s place.
And this news just keeps getting better. The script is being written by — get this — Oscar-winner Emma Thompson. Yes, that Emma Thompson. Directing will be Joe Wright, who grew accustomed to Keira’s face when he directed her in 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. And James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, is being »
- dorothy snarker
Is Keira Knightley My Fair Lady?
26 October 2009 3:43 AM, PDT | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Just you wait Henry Higgins, just you wait. Joe Wright, director of Pride And Prejudice and Atonement, is to remake the 1960's eight-time Oscar winning film My Fair Lady. After the cancellation of Indian Summer due to budget and plot conflicts, Wright is now free to take on the family favourite that originally starred Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
Additionally, it is looking more and more likely that Keira Knightley will play cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle after producer Duncan Kenworthy was cited saying "I think Keira would be absolutely fabulous in it". Knightley was allegedly in competition with the musically minded Scarlett Johansson.
So Knightley is looking more and more like the obvious choice for the role -a London girl, cheekbones galore and with a few singing lessons under her belt. If the casting goes ahead, let's just hope she can deliver a successful remake of a George Cukor classic. »
Keira Knightley to Dance All Night in 'My Fair Lady' Remake
25 October 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Producer Duncan Kenworthy has confirmed that Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean) has beaten Scarlett Johansson for the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of 'My Fair Lady', reports the UK's Telegraph.
Joe Wright will helm the remake and chose Knightly partially on account of their successful collaboration on Pride and Prejudice, which Wright also directed.
"Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely," a friend of Wright's was quoted by the Telegraph as saying.
Knightley had previously confirmed that she'd auditioned for the role last year and and already begun singing lessons.
Daniel Craig (Casino Royale) has been mentioned as a possible Professor Henry Higgins.
The script is being penned by Emma Thompson.
'My Fair Lady' is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. »
tMF Fast Forward: Keira Knightley is victorious! Will play Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady!
25 October 2009 3:48 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Probably one of the most coveted roles in film, My Fair Lady's Eliza Dolittle already has a history of being a role most sought after by big stars in cinema - Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Just now, The Telegraph reported that in the latest film adaptation, Keira Knightley was cast as the ambitious, working class girl who started out as a flower seller and became the toast of high society.
Details as follows:
"Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely," says a friend of the 37-year-old director.
In August, I reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film.
"I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American," said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Fast Forward: Keira Knightley is victorious! Will play Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady!
25 October 2009 3:48 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Probably one of the most coveted roles in film, My Fair Lady's Eliza Dolittle already has a history of being a role most sought after by big stars in cinema - Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Just now, The Telegraph reported that in the latest film adaptation, Keira Knightley was cast as the ambitious, working class girl who started out as a flower seller and became the toast of high society.
Details as follows:
"Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely," says a friend of the 37-year-old director.
In August, I reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film.
"I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American," said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Fast Forward: Keira Knightley is victorious! Will play Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady!
25 October 2009 3:48 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Probably one of the most coveted roles in film, My Fair Lady's Eliza Dolittle already has a history of being a role most sought after by big stars in cinema - Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Just now, The Telegraph reported that in the latest film adaptation, Keira Knightley was cast as the ambitious, working class girl who started out as a flower seller and became the toast of high society.
Details as follows:
"Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely," says a friend of the 37-year-old director.
In August, I reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film.
"I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American," said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Fast Forward: Keira Knightley is victorious! Will play Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady!
25 October 2009 3:48 AM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Probably one of the most coveted roles in film, My Fair Lady's Eliza Dolittle already has a history of being a role most sought after by big stars in cinema - Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Just now, The Telegraph reported that in the latest film adaptation, Keira Knightley was cast as the ambitious, working class girl who started out as a flower seller and became the toast of high society.
Details as follows:
"Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely," says a friend of the 37-year-old director.
In August, I reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film.
"I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American," said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time. »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
DVD Review: Lackluster Edition of ‘My Fair Lady’ Disappoints
22 October 2009 10:28 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Can anyone explain to me why there are lavish, bonus-laden, beautifully transferred versions of so-so musicals like “Gigi” and “South Pacific” on Blu-Ray but the beloved “My Fair Lady” languishes in standard definition? It’s completely illogical, a decision made even more frustrating by a grainy, flat picture and mediocre audio track. Eliza deserves an upgrade.
DVD Rating: 2.5/5.0
To be “fair” (slight pun intended), this multiple Oscar winner hasn’t exactly stood the test of time like I remembered. Many of the musical numbers still resonate like they did when I was a child (“On the Street Where You Live” is still one of my favorite movie musical songs of the era) but the film is undeniably bloated, running almost three hours long and dragging as often as it zips.
My Fair Lady was released on DVD on October 6th, 2009.
Photo credit: Paramount Home Video
But that’s not the point. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Party Favors: Those Red Running Hills
21 October 2009 1:09 AM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
Kill Devil Hills - The scary season has arrived.
In the spirit of movies that make you fear going to the movies comes The Hills Run Red on DVD. Tyler (Tad Hilgenbrinck) is a film geek obsessed with an ’80s film called The Hills Run Red. The movie was quickly yanked from theaters and no prints or videotapes of the film exist. He finds a clue to the movie by locating one of its stars played by Sophie Monk. After a lapdance, she agrees to take Tad and his two friends to the shooting location. Tad doesn’t realize there might be a sequel in production.
Star Tad Hilgenbrinck and director Dave Parker called up the Party Favors hotline to chat about their grisly horror film about a gruesome horror film recently released on DVD by Warner Premiere.
Tad has been in Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and Lost Boys: The Tribe, »
- UncaScroogeMcD
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