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When a plumber visits the remote farmhouse of two murderous sisters, he’ll need a trick up his sleeve to survive in Damn Handy.

Written and directed by The Craft and Flatliners screenwriter Peter Filardi, the 18-minute horror-comedy can be viewed in its entirety below.

Roger Clark, best known for portraying Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption II, stars alongside Kaili Vernoff, who played Susan Grimshaw in the video game. Kellari Crispin, Elliot Evans, Jason Deshefy, and Colin Clark round out the cast.

Winner of Best Short Film at the Chattanooga Film Festival, Damn Handy‘s crew features local high school students in key positions.

“These shorts don’t make any money,” Filardi told me during a set visit. “They’re just to have fun, to teach, to inspire, to share my passion for horror movies with other people. I’ve always been open to the collaborative process.”

He continued,...

Superman accidentally creates "Bat-Man" after a cricket game mishap. Batman seeks revenge on Superman by exposing his true identity. John Cleese's humorous take on Batman vs. Superman is a refreshing twist.

From a dark God who watches over Gotham to a vigilante in Victorian England, there have been countless interpretations of Batman over the years. But his most hilarious re-invention came when famous comedian John Cleese changed Batman's origin to make him a victim of Superman's super-strength after a disastrous cricket game.

Superman: True Brit by Kim Johnson and John Cleese set out to answer the timeless question of "What if Superman were British?" This experiment naturally had hilarious results, as Superman was encouraged to never use his powers (for fear of what the neighbors would think). This led Superman to repress any memory of his powers, including his super strength.

During a cricket game, Superman accidentally tosses his...

Superman lands in the UK, named Colin Clark, with a different upbringing & daily life struggles. Colin works at the untruthful Daily Smear, reveals his identity, and only then moves to the Daily Planet. Despite hardships, Colin/Kent Clark upholds heroic ideals, proving that origins don't define a hero — especially Superman.

One of the most well known comic book origins is that of Superman. It's been parodied over the years by just about everyone, and the planet of Krypton is well known in pop-culture. Plenty of writers have tried to leave their touch on Superman's iconic origin, and John Cleese of Monty Python fame made a few hilarious changes to Superman's origin as well.

In Superman: True Brit by Kim Johnson and Cleese, Superman's ship doesn't land in the United States as usual, but instead lands in the United Kingdom. Superman is found by the Clark family, where he's given the...

Priscilla is a biographical drama film produced, written, and directed by Sofia Coppola. Based on the 1985 memoir titled Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon, the romantic drama film revolves around the life of Priscilla Presley and her relationship with Elvis Presley. Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles with Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, and Tim Post in supporting roles. So, if you loved Priscilla, here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Walk the Line (Max & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – 20th Century Studios

Synopsis: Singer. Rebel. Outlaw. Hero. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, the legendary “Man in Black” revolutionized music – and forged his legacy as a genuine American icon. Golden Globe winners Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon star (and sing) as Johnny Cash and June Carter in this inspiring true story of...

As if the divisive reception to Andrew Dominik's "Blonde" wasn't already an indication, the legacy of Marilyn Monroe still shows widespread interest in her story. The "Some Like It Hot" star is propped up as one of the great Hollywood legends, after all. She represented the glamor of show business, but behind closed doors, the life of Norma Jeane was a bit more complicated.

In 1956, Monroe traveled to London, where she was going to star in Laurence Olivier's "The Prince and the Showgirl." During production, the actress notoriously had a difficult time learning her lines, as well as showing up to set on time. The 2011 biographical drama "My Week With Marilyn" depicts this period of Monroe's life, where she formed a kinship with production assistant Colin Clark. He was her wrangler of sorts, and one of the people who got to see a side of Monroe few ever did.

With The Good Nurse now streaming on Netflix, Eddie Redmayne returns to the big screen as the bloodthirsty Nurse Cullen in a chilling account of a real-life disaster in New Jersey throughout the '80s and '90s. Many critics claim that Redmayne provides one of his most compelling performances as this unsettlingly logical killer.

The Good Nurse is completely unlike anything that Redmayne has done before, channeling a totally different kind of character that's sure to take audiences by surprise. It might not be the most prestigious or spectacular film under his belt, but his turn as Charles Cullen will undoubtedly stand out within his filmography.

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (2016) - 3.2/5 Stream On HBO Max

The long-awaited sequel to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series might not capture the same magic and wonder as those original films, but it's still a worthy addition to the saga...

Image Source: Getty / Walter McBride Celebrity wax figures are meant to be an exact replica of the star in question. But sometimes, they don't quite match up to the celebrity they're meant to be modeled after. Such is the case for Lady Gaga, whose wax sculpture was recently unveiled at an art exhibition in Lima, Peru. Suffice to say, it looks nothing like her, and we aren't the only ones who think so. From the hair to the teeth to the complexion, Gaga's Little Monsters could not find one thing that resembled Gaga. "It's a wax sculpture of an alien cockroach that murdered Lady Gaga and is wearing her skin," one Twitter user wrote. Take a look at some of the most outraged Twitter reactions. RelatedLook Back on Lady Gaga's Monstrous Rise to Fame How on earth did someone get Paid to professionally make a Lady Gaga wax figure that looks like This?...

Chicago – Winnie the Pooh is a cultural icon of four generations, due both to the character’s literary roots and Walt Disney’s interpretation. A new film, “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” is the origin story of the famous bear, as created by author A.A. Milne. The movie is directed by veteran helmsman Simon Curtis.

“Goodbye Christopher Robin” features Dohmnall Gleeson as A.A. Milne, who was a notable playwright in 1920s England, but found himself at a crossroads in his career. Moving to the country, he began to find inspiration in the imagination of his son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston as the younger Cr) and created the books of Winnie the Pooh. The book was a runaway best seller – much to the pleasure of his flapper wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) and the consternation of the boy’s nanny (Kelly Macdonald) – but a torture to the actual Christopher Robin, who couldn’t understand the family’s sudden fame.

On May 18, 2017, as part of their ongoing Classic Film series, the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois (outside Chicago) will present a 50th Anniversary digital restoration screening of the 1967 James Bond extravaganza, You Only Live Twice.  Showtimes 2:00pm and 7:30pm.

At the 7:30pm show, Bond author Raymond Benson will provide the Introduction and Ian Fleming Foundation board member Colin Clark will exhibit the Model 47 Bell Helicopter used in the motion picture. The first 100 patrons through the door will get a chance to win a tour of the James Bond vehicles facility in Illinois that is overseen by the Iff.  Jay Warren will perform pre-show music on the theatre organ beginning at 6:30pm.

Tickets available online at http://www.pickwicktheatre.com/showtimes.asp .

Pickwick Theatre

5 S. Prospect Ave.

Park Ridge, Il 60068

Matinee:  $6 (2pm)

Evening:  $10 / $8 (advance) (7:30pm)...

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The historic Pickwick Theater in Park Ridge, Il, will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Thunderball with the screening of the classic James bond blockbuster film on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:00pm.

Hosts Matthew Hoffman and Elizabeth Rye of the Classic Film Series welcome as special guests, representative of the Ian Fleming Foundation Colin Clark, and 007 continuing novelist and film historian Raymond Benson, who will introduce the movie and sign books.

Iff board member Colin Clark will have on display from the Foundation the five foot model of the Raf Vulcan Bomber use in the filming of the picture, restored to its original condition.

The evening's festivities will include discussion of Thunderball's history and behind-the-scenes stories, several Bond-related raffles, and photo ops with Bond movie props and theater standees.

Pickwick's Classic Film Series presentations often draw fans in costume. Attendees are invited to dress as their favorite Bond,...

Chicago – The painting “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” was created by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, and was considered Austria’s greatest artwork. The remarkable journey of the painting, stolen from its original Jewish family by the Nazis during World War II, is the basis for the new film, “Woman in Gold,” directed by Simon Curtis.

“Woman in Gold” is based on the true story of Maria Altmann (portrayed in the film by Helen Mirren), a Viennese immigrant in the United States who fought the Austrian government for rightful claim to her family’s paintings in the 1990s, including the famous gold leaf portrait of her Aunt Adele. Altmann brings in an American lawyer named Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) to act as her lawyer, and their years of litigation to make this art restitution was one of the most high profile of these cases. The film includes flashbacks of the family in Vienna during those war years,...

A few weeks ago, we reported that Fox had narrowed the pool of candidates for the role of Doctor Doom in its Fantastic Four reboot to four actors: Sam Riley, Eddie Redmayne, Domnhall Gleeson and Toby Kebbell. Now, it appears that we have a winner, with news that Kebbell has been officially offered the part.

The casting comes as somewhat of a surprise, considering Kebbell is the least known of all the candidates, with mostly minor supporting roles (in everything from War Horse to Wrath of the Titans) to his name. All the other actors in consideration have at least had lead roles before; Riley starred as Sal Paradise in Beat biopic On the Road, Redmayne played Marius in Les Miserables and starred in My Week with Marilyn as filmmaker Colin Clark, and Gleeson had a big hit last fall with About Time. Evidently, Fox believes that Kebbell has the...

"Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe ... I was petrified." –'The Wizard of Oz' (1939)

Greetings from the apocalypse! As North Korea readies their nukes for a pre-emptive strike against the U.S., and Dennis Rodman plays a game of pick-up basketball with supreme leader Kim Jong-un with the very survival of the planet on the line, I'm ready for a solid weekend of moviegoing. How about you? Sure you are. If you're really worried about Kim's missiles made out of Campbell's Soup cans and old Sony Walkmans, then go to Home Depot and grab a 30-dollar tarp to cover your roof with. That oughta do the trick.

Friday, March 8

When he wasn't directing and starring in hardcore gay pornography, Jack-of-all-trades James Franco made a 200-million-dollar Disney film. That's how badass that guy is. "Oz the Great and Powerful...

My Week with Marilyn

Written by Adrian Hodges, based on the books My Week with Marilyn and The Prince, the Showgirl and Me by Colin Clark

Directed by Simon Curtis

2011, imdb, Josh Slater-Williams’ review, William Bitterman’s review

Hitchcock

Written by John J. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello

Directed by Sacha Gervasi

2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review

Hyde Park on Hudson

Written by Richard Nelson

Directed by Roger Michell

2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, Kenneth Broadway’s Nyff review, Lane Scarberry’s Telluride review

Lincoln

Written by Tony Kushner, based in part on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Directed by Steven Spielberg

2012, imdb, Josh Spiegel’s review, The Mousterpiece Cinema Podcast on Lincoln, The Almost Arthouse/Sound on Sight podcast on Lincoln, Jeremy Caesar’s article on Lincoln‘s score,...

Saturday Night Live needs some fresh blood (understatement of the decade), and it looks like they're starting with the ladies. While they're talking to a number of funny women, it's Big Gay Sketch Show's Kate McKinnon who will be getting a live tryout on the next show.

After discovering gay dolphins have an enormous amount of drama in their lives, there was nothing to do but give them their own reality show.

Will Ferrell dropped by Conan last night to announce Anchorman 2. Stay classy.

James Cameron isn't the only billionaire trolling the ocean floor. Jeff Bezos has been searching for Apollo 11's engines on the bottom of the sea. He claims to have found them, and intends to raise the engines that first took man to another heavenly body.

Carson Daly claimed it was fortunate the recently diverted Jet Blue flight was full of security people. He said if...

Birthday shoutouts go to Gareth David-Lloyd (above, on some show), who turns 31, Dianne Wiest is 64, and the faboo Reba McEntire is 57. What are your fave Reba songs? Here are mine: 5. "Is There Life Out There?" 4. "Whoever's In New England," 3. "Little Rock," 2. "Fancy," 1. "If I Were A Boy"

Bravo has announced seven new series in development, most of which sound like every other series on Bravo.It appears that ABC's The Revolution may be near the chopping block, as its ratings are down 40% from One Life To Live's numbers, and a timeslot has to be made for Katie Couric's probable-flop talk show.TV Line interviews Matt Bomer about his upcoming stint on Glee.Colin Clark Suspended Three Matches By Mls For Gay Slur.Happy Birthday, Act Up, Wherever You Are, by Larry Kramer. Behind the scenes of the cast recording of Broadway's Newsies.Martina Navratilova was the first castoff...

Chicago – Last year’s slate of Best Actress Oscar-nominees was among the weakest in recent memory. There was no clear front-runner since there was no picture worthy of the exemplary actress at its core. From Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady” to Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs,” 2011 deserves to be remembered as the year of great female performances trapped in subpar material.

Perhaps the most frustrating misuse of talent is contained within TV veteran Simon Curtis’s feature debut, “My Week with Marilyn,” an adaptation of a memoir written by Colin Clark, who served as Third Assistant Director on the set of 1956’s unremarkable romance, “The Prince and the Showgirl.” The film was most famous for teaming up the unlikely duo of Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who would subsequently go on to deliver some of the most acclaimed work of their careers.

Blu-ray Rating: 3.0/5.0

The unsatisfactory premise of...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

It’s been 50 years since the tragic death of Hollywood’s most tortured star, Marilyn Monroe, but her legacy lives on and her legend remains as popular today as when she was alive. My Week With Marilyn – released this week on Blu-ray and DVD – offers a tender and intriguing glimpse at the woman behind the façade. Read on for our review…

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougary Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week...

This week: George Clooney plays a Hawaiian landowner who must reconnect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a terrible accident in "The Descendants," the drama by writer-director Alexander Payne that just won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Also new is Steven Spielberg's motion-capture 3-D animated film "The Adventures of Tintin," the maudlin Lars von Trier drama "Melancholia," Michelle Williams' turn as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn" and the Blu-ray debut of Martin Scorsese's controversial "The Last Temptation of Christ."

'The Descendants'

Box Office: $81 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 89% Fresh

Storyline: Matt King (George Clooney) is a Honolulu lawyer who tries to connect with his two daughters when his wife slips into a coma after a boating accident. As his family comes to terms with his wife's secret life, Matt wrestles with the decision to sell 25,000 acres of pristine Kauai land in this...

Title: My Week With Marilyn Directed by Simon Curtis Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dougray Scott, Emma Watson and Judy Dench Running time: 99 minutes, Rated R, Available on DVD In the summer of 1956 and fresh from Oxford, 23 year old Colin Clark (Redmayne) is determined to make it on his own without the help of his overachieving family. He manages to get a job under family friend Sir Laurence Olivier (Branagh) as a 3rd assistant director (basically a gopher) on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl.” Marilyn Monroe (Williams) travels to England with her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller (Scott) to star alongside Olivier. [ Read More ]...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1; The Help; My Week With Marilyn; Straw Dogs; Mysteries of Lisbon

Fans of Stephenie Meyer's addictive teen Twilight novels (whose number may be few among Observer readers) have long been worrying how the ongoing screen adaptations of her international bestsellers would handle the twisted psycho-sexual contortions of the final instalment. On the evidence of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011, EOne, 12) the answer is "not without a little difficulty". Director Bill Condon may be a safe pair of hands, but even under his mainstream moderation this tale of fatal attraction, vampire babies and alien love triangles still drifts into territory in which Davids Lynch or Cronenberg may have been more at home. Certainly, Bella's descent into living death in the wake of her long-awaited marriage to Edward contains some stark visual imagery, which pushes at the boundaries of the 12 certificate. Watching her wither...

Back in 1956, young production assistant Colin Clark had an experience to die for, spending a week as Marilyn Monroe's assistant, friend and confidante during the filming of "The Prince and the Showgirl."

Well, we can't give you a week with Marilyn Monroe, but we can give you the next best thing: A lifetime's worth of entertainment thanks free copies of both the "My Week with Marilyn" Blu-ray and Clark's book.

Starring the incomparable Michelle Williams as Monroe, "My Week with Marilyn," which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray March 13, earned a slew of accolades this award season, including Oscar nominations in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor categories for Williams and co-star Kenneth Branagh. Seriously, it's a pair of performances you won't want to miss.

And since it's based on the memoir of the same name by Clark, we thought we'd give you the chance to both see the...

Beautiful, insecure, talented, ambitious, shy, sexy, manipulative, charming, sweet, sad...Marilyn Monroe was all of these things and more. And Michelle Williams captured every side of Monroe in her Oscar-nominated turn in "My Week With Marilyn," a slice out of the legendary actress' life that serves as an illuminating window onto the price of fame, and the weight of expectation.

Directed by Simon Curtis, the drama centers on Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's production company, who documented the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the making of "The Prince and the Showgirl" during the late 1950s. Clark quickly became close with Monroe during the filming, and "My Week With Marilyn" is a dramatization of the brief time he spent with her. The movie features an all-star cast of supporting players including Kenneth Branagh as Olivier (also nominated for an Oscar), Dougray Scott,...

With brilliant performances from Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn is a behind the curtain look at one of Hollywood.s biggest icons and one of its greatest actors. Based on Colin Clark's books The Prince, The Showgirl and Me and My Week with Marilyn, the film was directed by Simon Curtis (Cranford) and written by Adrian Hodges (1994's Tom & Viv). Along with Branagh and Williams, it stars Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Dougray Scott, Pip Torrens, Geraldine Somerville, Michael Kitchen, Miranda Raison, Karl Moffatt, Simon Russell Beale, Toby Jones, Robert Portal, Philip Jackson, and Jim Carter. The film opens with 23-year-old Colin Clark (a wide-eyed Redmayne) explaining his love...

Janet Leigh in Psycho

Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment It was announced late yesterday that Scarlett Johansson will be playing Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil). Fine. Whatever. I'm sure we'll see a recreation of the iconic shower scene and I hope, at the very least, there will be a scene dedicated to the conversation between Hitchcock and screenwriter Joseph Stefano with Stefano urging Hitchcock to show the flushing toilet. Yeah, that would be a highlight for me. Along with Johansson, James D'Arcy has been added to the cast as Anthony Perkins and the two join Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren who will play Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville respectively. The story is said to center on the relationship between Hitch and Alma as he sets about making what has become one of the most iconic horror movies of all time.

To celebrate the Blu-ray and DVD release of My Week With Marilyn available to own form March 12th, we are delighted to offer one lucky HeyUGuys reader the chance to win a signed poster from the movie and a copy of the film on Blu-ray. My Week with Marilyn has an all-star cast which includes Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Toby Jones, Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoë Wanamaker and Derek Jacobi.

In the summer of 1956, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) worked as an assistant on the British set of The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). Monroe, also on honeymoon with her new husband, Arthur Miller was chaperoned by Clarke when Miller left the country.

Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee My Week with Marilyn is based on Clark’s diaries which note how he introduced Monroe...

Anchor Bay Entertainment and The Weinstein Company announced today the Blu-ray and DVD release of the "warm, wonderful and enchanting" (Rex Reed, The New York Observer) film, My Week with Marilyn, starring three-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), who is "flawless, brilliant and exhilarating" (Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair) in the iconic title role. Based on Colin Clark's memoir, My Week with Marilyn also stars Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) as Sir Laurence Olivier, Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Good Shepherd) as Clark, and Academy Award winner Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love) as Dame Sybil Thorndike.

The film's principal cast is joined by Dominic Cooper (An Education), Emmy Award winner Julia Ormond (Temple Grandin) as Vivien Leigh, Zo&#235 Wanamaker (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Emma Watson (Harry Potter series), Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible 2) as Arthur Miller, Toby Jones (Frost/Nixon), and Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 13, 2012

Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99

Studio: The Weinstein Company/Anchor Bay Entertainment

Nominated for two Academy Awards, My Week With Marilyn got plenty of acclaim when it was in theaters but was screened in only a limited release.

The independent film, which grossed $13 million at the box office, stars Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) as the titular blonde bombshell and Kenneth Branagh (Pirate Radio) as actor Sir Laurence Olivier. Both were nominated for Oscars for their performances.

In the drama movie, Marilyn Monroe makes her first trip to London to film The Prince and the Showgirl with Olivier. There, she befriends Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne, Glorious 39), the film’s third assistant director, but as their relationship progresses, he begins to focus less on the movie and more on rescuing Marilyn from the pressures of celebrity life.

Julia Ormond (The Music Never Stopped) and Emma Watson...

Join us from 7.40am when we'll be liveblogging the nominations in the second round of voting for this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards

7.40am:

Tim Curry is teeing things up …

We're going to star those longlist contenders that make the shortlist:

Best Film

The Artist

The Descendants

Drive

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Help

Hugo

The Ides of March

The Iron Lady

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

My Week with Marilyn

Senna

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

War Horse

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Film Not in the English Language

Extra Potiche 1

Abel

As If I Am Not There

The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan

Calvet

Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)

Incendies

Little White Lies

Pina

Post Mortem

Potiche

Le Quattro Volte

A Separation

The Skin I Live In

Tomboy

The Troll Hunter

Outstanding British Film

Attack The Block

Arthur Christmas

Attack the Block

Coriolanus...

By Josh Abraham

Jean Shafiroff and The Weinstein Company hosted a luncheon with Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh in honor of The Weinstein Company film My Week with Marilyn, Tuesday, January 10th at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood, CA. The film stars Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh and documents the brief period filmmaker Colin Clark spent with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in England during the late 1950s.

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HollywoodNews.com: Jean Shafiroff and The Weinstein Company hosted a luncheon with Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh in honor of The Weinstein Company film My Week with Marilyn, Tuesday, January 10th at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood, CA. The film stars Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh and documents the brief period filmmaker Colin Clark spent with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in England during the late 1950s.

The luncheon was attended and honored by many of the founding members of The Actors Studio and those who shared the screen with Marilyn Monroe in her heyday. Guests enjoyed a delicious lunch planned and prepared by Cecconi’s and received exclusive gift bags with exciting items such a Byu-Ti Salon gift certificate and products from Pureology® and Smashbox.

In Attendance:

Jean Shafiroff, New York Philanthropist and Socialite

Michelle Williams, Actress

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

Colleen Camp, Actress

Dyan Cannon,...

It's certainly a must-see film for many, and Michelle Williams was spotted at yet another screening of her new movie "My Week with Marilyn" on Monday night (January 9).

The "Blue Valentine" babe looked lovely in a knee-length, belted frock as she posed for pictures with co-star Kenneth Branagh out at The Bing Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

In case you haven't seen the film . which hit theaters on December 23 - a synopsis provided by IMDb tells: "Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of 'The Prince and the Showgirl.'"

Meanwhile, it's been a busy 2012 for Williams thus far, as she picked up the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Fest Awards Gala over the weekend for her role as Marilyn.

Eddie Redmayne in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn The Artist, My Week With Marilyn, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Lead BAFTA Longlists Leading Actor Antonio Banderas (Robert Ledgard) – The Skin I Live In Brad Pitt (Billy Beane) – Moneyball* Brendan Gleeson (Gerry Boyle) – The Guard Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist) – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Eddie Redmayne (Colin Clark) – My Week with Marilyn Gary Oldman (George Smiley) – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* George Clooney (Matt King) – The Descendants* Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) – The Artist* Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar Hoover) – J. Edgar Michael Fassbender (Brandon) – Shame* Owen Wilson (Gil) – Midnight in Paris Peter Mullan (Joseph) – Tyrannosaur Ralph Fiennes (Caius Martius Coriolanus) – Coriolanus Ryan Gosling (Driver) – Drive Ryan Gosling (Stephen Meyers) – The Ides of March Leading Actress Bérénice Bejo (Peppy Miller) – The Artist* Carey Mulligan (Sissy) – Shame Charlize Theron (Mavis Gary) – Young Adult Emma Stone (Skeeter Phelan) – The Help Helen Mirren (Rachel Singer...

My Week with Marilyn envelops the star in a chaste aura. This desire to desexualise goes back to Arthur Miller

It is not entirely the fault of the recent movie My Week with Marilyn – about Monroe's disastrous attempt to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier – that it is devoid of sex, which is something like depicting the life of Napoleon without mentioning that he was French. Monroe might have been one of the most sexual beings who ever lived, but the portrayals of her, even by disillusioned observers, sooner or later descend into a sanitised ideal.

The sex is overtaken by sentimental treacle, or heroic fantasy, or defensive over-analysis. In his book on Monroe, Norman Mailer, for all his worldly candour, concluded that "she was our angel, the sweet angel of sex, and the sugar of sex came up from her like a resonance of sound in...

The full list of contenders in the first round of voting for this year's British Academy Film Awards

Best Film

The Artist

The Descendants

Drive

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Help

Hugo

The Ides of March

The Iron Lady

Midnight in Paris

Moneyball

My Week with Marilyn

Senna

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

War Horse

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Film Not in the English Language

Abel

As If I Am Not There

The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan

Calvet

Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)

Incendies

Little White Lies

Pina

Post Mortem

Potiche

Le Quattro Volte

A Separation

The Skin I Live In

Tomboy

The Troll Hunter

Outstanding British Film

Arthur Christmas

Attack the Block

Coriolanus

The Guard

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

The Iron Lady

Jane Eyre

My Week with Marilyn

Senna

Shame

Submarine

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tyrannosaur

War Horse

We Need to Talk About Kevin...

Simon Curtis’ romantic drama My Week With Marilyn, about a brief romance between Marilyn Monroe and Colin Clark, Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant during the shooting of The Prince and the Showgirl, led the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) longlists, the first round of voting by BAFTA that reduced the 285 eligible films to 15 nomination titles in most categories and five apiece in animation and documentary. Variety reported that My Week With Marilyn earned 16 nominations; equal to Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Both dramas picked up longlist nominations in the overall film, outstanding British film director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, production design, makeup and hair, costume, sound and music categories.

Simon Curtis’ romantic drama My Week With Marilyn, about a brief romance between Marilyn Monroe and Colin Clark, Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant during the shooting of The Prince and the Showgirl, led the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) longlists, the first round of voting by BAFTA that reduced the 285 eligible films to 15 nomination titles in most categories and five apiece in animation and documentary. Variety reported that My Week With Marilyn earned 16 nominations; equal to Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Both dramas picked up longlist nominations in the overall film, outstanding British film director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, production design, makeup and hair, costume, sound and music categories.

Simon Curtis’ romantic drama My Week With Marilyn, about a brief romance between Marilyn Monroe and Colin Clark, Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant during the shooting of The Prince and the Showgirl, led the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) longlists, the first round of voting by BAFTA that reduced the 285 eligible films to 15 nomination titles in most categories and five apiece in animation and documentary. Variety reported that My Week With Marilyn earned 16 nominations; equal to Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s Cold War spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Both dramas picked up longlist nominations in the overall film, outstanding British film director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, production design, makeup and hair, costume, sound and music categories.

Back Stage and the SAG Foundation invite you to An Evening With…"My Week With Marilyn" in Los Angeles. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with actors Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh.The screening will be Friday, January 6 at 7 p.m. at the Harmony Gold Theatre, 7655 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Free parking is available. To attend, please email EveningWith@backstage.com with "Marilyn" in the subject header. Indicate if you plan on bringing a guest. This event is free, but we overbook to ensure capacity so please arrive early. You will not receive a response until the event is full. "My Week With Marilyn" has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. Stars Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh have both received SAG Award nominations and Golden Globe nominations for their work in the movie. In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from.

New York -- Long before Kenneth Branagh stepped into the role of Sir Laurence Olivier in "My Week With Marilyn," there already were strong parallels between them.

Both are synonymous with film adaptations of William Shakespeare, delivering lines with implausible realism, and earning accolades for their troubles. Each starred and directed their own successful adaptations of "Hamlet," and "Henry V," that earned Oscar nods for their work on both sides of the camera. (Olivier received an honorary award that included directing the film).

With such similarities, it seems fitting that Branagh earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as the legendary actor.

"He was a master of his craft, and at the same time very vulnerable," Branagh says of Olivier.

"My Week with Marilyn," is in theaters and stars two-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. It's based on the writings of Colin Clark, who spent a week...

In the much buzzed about My Week with Marilyn – currently in limited release and opening wide on Christmas Day – 23-year-old, first-time production hand, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), went to work on Laurence Olivier’s (Kenneth Branagh) The Prince and the Showgirl. When American film star Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, Colin came to her aid and romance developed. Unfortunately, one week of fun was just not enough to save the doomed star from her eventual self-destruction. At a press day for the film, actor Kenneth Branagh talked about creating a character instead of just doing an impersonation of Laurence Olivier, how his admiration for the star only increased while researching him, working with both Michelle Williams and Julia Ormond (who plays Vivien Leigh), and the fact that he never met but did correspond once with Olivier. He also said that he hopes to be directing next,...

Actress Sandra Bullock is excited about celebrating Christmas with her son Louis, who will be 2 in January -- and yes, he thinks Santa Claus exists.

"He's met Santa," Bullock laughed with "Extra's" Aj Calloway. "He's already in with Santa... because Santa is very real."

Bullock said having a small child has reminded her how fun life can be. "If you let a child into your life, you get a second chance at a childhood and...

The new film "My Week With Marilyn" tells the story of a brief yet wondrous puppy dog love affair between Marilyn Monroe and a young gofer on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl." Michelle Williams has drawn raves for total inhabiting of Monroe, but while her performance may ring authentic, there are new questions being asked about the truthfulness of the story on which the film is based.

A new article in the La Times digs deep into the alleged affair between Monroe and Colin Clark, the then-gofer who would go on to write the two books that inspired the film: "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me," and "My Week With Marilyn." The latter describes the short fling between Clark and Monroe, who is portrayed as desperate for love in a foreign land and distraught by misgivings over her new husband, Arthur Miller.

Those that were on set...

Monroe and Thatcher might seem to have played opposite roles. But the biographical films My Week with Marilyn and The Iron Lady suggest that their similarities outweighed their differences

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, impersonation is fast becoming our culture's favourite form of acting. At least since Nicole Kidman's nose won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours, famous actors have been applauded for pretending to be other famous people: Helen Mirren as the Queen, Michael Sheen as David Frost, Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, the list of actors nominated for Oscars for impersonating famous people goes on and on. Now we have two more to add to the list, in star turns already accumulating predictions of Oscar nominations: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

At 2pm Est today, Kenneth Branagh will participate in HuffPo's live Q & A on making "My Week With Marilyn" (which expands nationwide Christmas day). You can watch it here. The webcast will take place from Sweden, where the actor is currently shooting "Wallander." You can ask questions via Twitter and Facebook. Synopsis below: In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle...

The Weinstein Company announced this morning that four-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh will participate in a live webcast Q&A from Sweden where he is currently on the set of .Wallander.. 

The event will take place Today, Thursday, December 8th at 2:00 Pm Est.

The Q&A will be streaming online exclusively at The Huffington Post allowing film fans across the country a unique opportunity to submit questions and participate in a discussion with Mr. Branagh regarding the making of My Week With Marilyn, working with the film.s terrific ensemble cast and Branagh.s own illustrious career. Additionally, fans can ask questions via Facebook and Twitter. The Weinstein Company hosted a similar event last year with the film .The King.s Speech. and had over 20,000 questions submitted in a 30 minute period during the Q&A. Please visit the live chat at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-branagh/making-my-week-with-maril_b_1136692.html,...

Nearly fifty years after her death, the jury is still out on the quality of Marilyn Monroe’s acting ability. This struggle to see the talent for the celebrity is just as common a dilemma in today’s paparazzi-infested environment—just ask George Clooney, Jennifer Anniston and the like. The question of which is larger, Monroe’s talent or her celebrity, is in play throughout My Week With Marilyn, an adaptation of Colin Clark’s memoir The Prince, the Showgirl and Me. (Clark was a production hand on the set of her 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl.)...

If you're still upset that Michelle Williams' Oscar nominations for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Blue Valentine" didn't translate into gold statues, you may be finding solace with her performance in "My Week with Marilyn." In portraying 1950's bombshell Marilyn Monroe, the actress has found herself at the center of Academy Awards talk yet again.

The film centers around Monroe's first and only trip to England while shooting "The Prince and the Showgirl," and her unexpected week-long whirlwind romance with a young assistant director named Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne), from whose memoirs the movie is based. With a cast that includes Emma Watson (in her first post-"Potter" role), Kenneth Branagh, Toby Jones, Dominic Cooper and Judi Dench, "My Week with Marilyn" is generating considerable buzz as an intriguing look at celebrity culture in an age before TMZ.

To get a firsthand account of the movie, we turned to...

Actor Michael Fassbender, probably best known to U.S. audiences for his role as a young Magneto in "X-Men: First Class," has turned in two searing performances in the last month; first as the famed psychoanalyst Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method," and now as Brandon, a man dealing with sex addiction in the dark character study, "Shame."

Fassbender sat down with "ExtraTV.com's" Kit Bowen to talk about the similar themes of sex in both movies.

Working with Marilyn Monroe must have been quite a special experience for third assistant director Colin Clark, whose brief time with the star has turned into two memoirs, and now a film, titled My Week with Marilyn. Similarly, the experience of working with Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams portraying Monroe must have been something magical for first-time director Simon Curtis.

I sat down with Curtis in a roundtable interview to discuss working with Williams on her inevitably Oscar-nominated performance, his feelings about Monroe, and what film set he wishes he could witness just as Colin Clark did back in 1956.

My Week with Marilyn is now playing in select theaters.

What fascinates you most about the movie star and production system of the 1950s, and which you wanted to communicate that in the film?

My way into this film was reading Colin Clark’s diaries, and Clark seeing the details as to...