Altar, Olivia's movie with Matthew Modine, has been retitled as The Haunting of Radcliffe House. Aside from the re-titling, it will now be shown in the UK as a tv movie on December 27th in Channel 5

Here's the plot synopsis from TV Rage and a still from the film

( scary spoilers and not so scary picture under the cut )

WGN America has announced the premiere date of Manhattan, their second scripted series which stars John Benjamin Hickey and Olivia Williams ( previous posts)

Here's the first image of the cast.


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The trailers for Maps to the Stars and Manhattan have been released.

I can't find the first international trailer (the post prod trailer with actual text at the start that says "post production" or PG version), so here's the the red band, NSFW trailer.

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Olivia's BBC2 movie, Salting the Battlefield will premiere on BBC2 on March 27th at 9 PM. She plays Belinda Kay.

Salting the Battlefield is the third installment to the Worricker trilogy. Turk and Caicos will premiere the week prior, on March 20th, also at 9 PM on BBC2. The trilogy stars Bill Nighy and is directed by David Hare.

Here's the ( Read more... )

Hello friends, I come bearing casting news, an update on a film project from last year (that was only briefly mentioned in a My Week article back in July), and an R-rated trailer.

one. Olivia's been cast in the tv series, Manhattan. It's a television drama about the building of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. She plays Liza Winters, a " ( Read more... )

Olivia is part of Simon Pegg's new movie, Man Up. The movie is about a disillusioned single woman (Lake Bell) who mistakenly goes on a date with a freshly-hatched divorcee (Pegg). The movie also stars Rory Kinnear, Sharon Horgan, Harriet Walter, Ken Stott and Stephen Campbell Moore. The script was written by Tess Morris and will be directed by Ben ( Read more... )

Olivia, along with Michael Nyqvist, has been cast in "The Shadows", a film based on Karin Alvtegen's novel "Skugga".

From Variety

Swedish actor Michael Nyqvist and Brit thesp Olivia Williams are set to topline “The Shadows,” an English-language thriller directed by first-timer Ludovic Bernard, who worked as first assistant director on a flurry of ( Read more... )

Trevor Nunn is reviving Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre later this year.

Nunn, who directed Iain Glen and his then-wife Imogen Stubbs in the first production at the Belgrade, Coventry in 2008, is revisiting the play with actress Olivia Willams.

Scenes from a Marriage will run at the St James from 16 September to 9 ( Read more... )

Olivia is part of The Guest, a twelve-minute film directed by Daniel Montanarini. Together with her in the film are Betrand Lesca and Pip Torrens.

Here is the plot synopsis from the film's facebook page

A graduate, Matthieu, meets his old university lecturer for coffee. The professor invites him to a dinner party but upon arrival Matthieu ( Read more... )

Olivia, together with Mia Wasikowska and Evan Bird, has signed up for David Cronenberg's film, Maps to the Stars. She is going to play the manipulative mother to Mia Wasikowska and Evan Bird's characters, (Wasakowski being a disfigured, schizophrenic and fame-obsessed character, and Bird being a troubled and drug-addicted child star character). The ( Read more... )