Alan Rickman News
Whoa, he's got lots of things going on!
Thanks to FifthOfFive for the links!
It figures that while we were offline from Harry Potter Network, and too busy to post about still another awards push, Alan actually won a huge fan award! I'm not complaining, actually - this is awesome considering that both he and his play Seminar were snubbed by the Tony Awards. The audience got Alan's character and appreciated his stellar performance, even if the Tony committee didn't (hmmm, reminds once again of the Oscars).
Broadway.com Announces Audience Choice Awards
Favorite Actor in a Play
Alan Rickman, Seminar
Hollywood.com: Rumors of a Love,Actually Sequal
Universal chief Eddie Cunningham is hoping to convince the film's mastermind to pen a sequel.
He tells Britain's Mail on Sunday, "I think there should be a Love Actually 2. I'd give it a green light. I think many American movies try to emulate that brilliant format where the stories interweave and no one's on screen for more than six minutes, but only Richard has achieved it. It really makes you appreciate the beauty of his writing."
Love Actually boasted an all-star cast, including Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.
Collider: Gambit Release Moved to October 12
Michael Hoffman’s remake of the 1966 caper comedy Gambit has been moved up from January 11th, 2013 to October 12th of this year (per Box Office Mojo). Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth star as partners in a con to sell a fake Monet painting, and the film has a script by Joel and Ethan Coen. Given the caliber of talent involved, the January date was always a bit of a puzzler.
Alan Speaks at Leonard Cohen Tribute in Toronto
Rickman’s dry delivery had everyone beat. He quoted Cohen responding to a female fan at a London concert, suggesting it might be time he changed the Book of Longing to the Book of Fufillment.
“It was perfectly timed pause and then Mr. Cohen said, ‘What’s fufillment got to offer?’” said Rickman to huge laughs.
This last one is so cool!!! I can totally see AR playing the slow-talking Hilly Kristal, owner of the legendary CBGB's music club in the Bowery of NYC.
NYT: Alan to play CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal
The project has been in development for several years, but the filmmakers - Jody Savin and Randall Miller - say they are finally set to begin filming on June 25, with Mr. Rickman taking on the part of the iconoclastic bearded, flannel-wearing bar owner who played a key role in the birth of punk and new wave music in the 1970s, providing the scarred stage where the Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie and other seminal groups got their starts.
...“It’s mostly about his journey,” he said. “He’s like a modern-day salonist. It’s not his métier, the whole atmosphere of punk, but he became a supporter of the art.”
Mr. Miller said the club’s grubby and graffiti-covered interior would be recreated on a soundstage in Georgia. But the exterior scenes will be filmed in New York City. Several rock figures with ties to the club are expected to make cameo appearances, he said.
If all goes according to plan, he and Ms. Savin hope to have the film make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January and release it later in 2013.
Thanks to FifthOfFive for the links!
It figures that while we were offline from Harry Potter Network, and too busy to post about still another awards push, Alan actually won a huge fan award! I'm not complaining, actually - this is awesome considering that both he and his play Seminar were snubbed by the Tony Awards. The audience got Alan's character and appreciated his stellar performance, even if the Tony committee didn't (hmmm, reminds once again of the Oscars).
Broadway.com Announces Audience Choice Awards
Favorite Actor in a Play
Alan Rickman, Seminar
Hollywood.com: Rumors of a Love,Actually Sequal
Universal chief Eddie Cunningham is hoping to convince the film's mastermind to pen a sequel.
He tells Britain's Mail on Sunday, "I think there should be a Love Actually 2. I'd give it a green light. I think many American movies try to emulate that brilliant format where the stories interweave and no one's on screen for more than six minutes, but only Richard has achieved it. It really makes you appreciate the beauty of his writing."
Love Actually boasted an all-star cast, including Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman.
Collider: Gambit Release Moved to October 12
Michael Hoffman’s remake of the 1966 caper comedy Gambit has been moved up from January 11th, 2013 to October 12th of this year (per Box Office Mojo). Cameron Diaz and Colin Firth star as partners in a con to sell a fake Monet painting, and the film has a script by Joel and Ethan Coen. Given the caliber of talent involved, the January date was always a bit of a puzzler.
Alan Speaks at Leonard Cohen Tribute in Toronto
Rickman’s dry delivery had everyone beat. He quoted Cohen responding to a female fan at a London concert, suggesting it might be time he changed the Book of Longing to the Book of Fufillment.
“It was perfectly timed pause and then Mr. Cohen said, ‘What’s fufillment got to offer?’” said Rickman to huge laughs.
This last one is so cool!!! I can totally see AR playing the slow-talking Hilly Kristal, owner of the legendary CBGB's music club in the Bowery of NYC.
NYT: Alan to play CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal
The project has been in development for several years, but the filmmakers - Jody Savin and Randall Miller - say they are finally set to begin filming on June 25, with Mr. Rickman taking on the part of the iconoclastic bearded, flannel-wearing bar owner who played a key role in the birth of punk and new wave music in the 1970s, providing the scarred stage where the Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Blondie and other seminal groups got their starts.
...“It’s mostly about his journey,” he said. “He’s like a modern-day salonist. It’s not his métier, the whole atmosphere of punk, but he became a supporter of the art.”
Mr. Miller said the club’s grubby and graffiti-covered interior would be recreated on a soundstage in Georgia. But the exterior scenes will be filmed in New York City. Several rock figures with ties to the club are expected to make cameo appearances, he said.
If all goes according to plan, he and Ms. Savin hope to have the film make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January and release it later in 2013.
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