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Goodwill Ambassador actress Emma Thompson visiting Ethiopia
(12/10/04)
Source: Exchange News Network - Ethiopia
Emma Thompson has met Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on her role as Goodwill Ambassador for Action Aid and discussed the significance of women's participation in development activities. Emma was on a 10-day visit in Ethiopia since October 3rd.
She is in Ethiopia to see Action Aid development works, particularly the activities on HIV/AIDS and food security activities. She also met on Thursday President Girma Woldegiorgis. They reportedly discussed about the coffee price crises and the measures needed to be taken to resolve the crisis.
Emma Thompson
to play Beatrix Potter
(03/07/04)
Source: Ananova
Emma Thompson will play Beatrix Potter in
a new film about the children's author.
The Oscar winner has spoken to Australian director
Bruce Beresford about the role in Miss Potter. Alan Rickman
may play Potter's secret admirer.
Thompson, 41, is said to be fascinated by
Beatrix Potter, who died at the age of 77 in 1943.
She created stories such as the Tale of Peter Rabbit
after watching family pets close to her home in the Lake District,
which is now a museum.
A friend told Ananova: "Emma, being a mum
now herself, was charmed by Potter's stories when she was a child.
She thinks it is a huge honour that somebody would want her to
play a woman who has contributed so much to English literature."
Emma goes
for the Emmy
(15/07/2004)
Source: This
is London & BBC
News
Emma has been nominated for an Emmy
as "Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie"
for her work in "Angels in America", the HBO drama
about the 1980s AIDS crisis in New York, which is leading
any other program with 21 Emmy nominations. The Ceremony will
take place in LA in September. It's going to be tough because
among the other nominees are Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and
Helen Mirren, but I am sure Emma's chances are good. She was
nominated before for both her acting and writing in Wit (2001)
and actually won in 1998 for her guest starring in "Ellen".
Good luck, Emma!
European release dates
for "Imagining Argentina"
(15/04/2004)
Source: International
Movie Database
The movie that had the worst reception ever
at the Venice festival last year is finally being released
in Spain on April 16th and in the UK on April 30th. Finally
we can see by ourselves if it was really that bad or the critics
were just being too picky.
Thompson and Firth begin
work on Nanny McPhee
(12/04/2004)
Source: The
Star On Line
Working Title has announced that principal photography
for Nanny McPhee, a family comedy that stars Emma Thompson and
Colin Firth, has already started.
The film is about its titular character (Thompson) who has
magical powers. She enters the household of the recently widowed
Mr Brown (Firth) and helps tame his seven wayward children
with astonishing results.
The film is directed by Kirk Jones from Thompson’s
screenplay, which is adapted from the “Nurse Matilda”
series of children’s books by Christianna Brand.
The film also stars Angela Lansbury as Aunt
Adelaide, Kelly MacDonald as Mr Brown’s scullery maid
Evangeline and Thomas Sangster as Simon, Mr Brown’s
eldest son.
HBO Delays DVD Release
of "Angels in America" to Sept. 14
(07/04/2004)
Source: Playbill.Com
HBO Video has pushed back the release of
the two-disc DVD set of its multi-award winning screen adaptation
of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," to Sept 14.
Emma Thompson joins Harry
for "Prisoner of Azkaban"
(7/10/2003)
Source: Yahoo
News
Emma Thompson has become the latest luvvy
to catch the Rowling bug and join Harry Potter in his latest
adventure, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
Joining fellow thespians Gary Oldman, Julie
Christie and Robert Hardy, Thompson will play the eccentric
Professor Trelawny in a special guest appearance in the third
episode of Harry's adventures.
But hasn't it finishing shooting yet, we
hear you ask? Well, almost. Rather than being released at
Christmas like its two predecessors, the third Potter flick
will now hit our screens next June after shooting under Mexican
director Alfonso Cuaron was extended. Filming at Leavesdon
near London is almost finished while pre-production on the
fourth flick began this week.
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