32 h. ago ‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza?

Musician Brian Eno and artist Malak Mattar, key figures in next week’s Together for Palestine concert, explain why artists are putting fears of a backlash aside and uniting in the call for actionA red carpet event, especially one to promote the new Downton Abbey film, is not typically a place for radical political statements. But at the film’s premiere in London earlier this month, that movie’s star, Hugh Bonneville, spoke out about Gaza. “Before I talk about the fluff and loveliness of our wonderful film, what’s about to happen in Gaza City is absolutely indefensible,” he announced to a visibly shocked showbiz reporter. “The international community must do more to bring it to an end.”Bonneville’s words may have been surprising for some, but they’re actually part of a larger pattern of actors, musicians, artists and cultural figures who feel increasingly moved to speak out. This week hundreds of actors – including Olivia Colman, Aimee Lou Wood and Mark Ruffalo – signed a pledge prom...

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57 h. ago Israeli film industry calls boycott pledge ‘deeply troubling’

Screenwriters’ guild of Israel says campaign that has now won backing from 1,800 film-makers will only ‘deepen the darkness’, while representatives of the country’s documentary and directors’ guild also voice concernRepresentatives of the Israeli film industry are redoubling efforts to caution against the wisdom of a pledge signed by some 1,800 significant professionals vowing not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.The pledge, announced on Monday, was initially signed by 1,200 film-makers including Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Asif Kapadia, Boots Riley and Joshua Oppenheimer; and actors Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Ayo Edebiri, Riz Ahmed, Josh O’Connor, Cynthia Nixon, Julie Christie, Ilana Glazer, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Lou Wood and Debra Winger. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Olivia Colman among 1,300 refusing to work with firms ‘implicated in genocide’

The Film Workers For Palestine pledge was also signed by the likes of Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Julia Sawalha and Miriam Margolyes.

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9 d. ago Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman movie in hot water over ‘dangerous’ EpiPen scene

A scene in the new marriage drama ‘The Roses’ has sparked controversy

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9 d. ago Olivia Colman reveals she was 'uncomfortable' with scene from The Roses movie

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in The Roses, which follows a couple whose seemingly perfect marriage violently falls apart

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9 d. ago Olivia Colman admits she was uncomfortable with The Roses script as she and Benedict Cumberbatch defend domestic violence 'jokes' amid controversy over 'dangerous' allergy scene

The Peep Show actress, 51, and Sherlock actor, 49, star in a new film about a husband and wife whose fierce competition destroys their marriage.

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1 week ago Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch's new movie The Roses is blasted as 'dangerous' over controversial allergy scene

It is a film about a husband and wife whose fierce competition destroys their marriage.

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1 week ago Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch on family dynamics and working together for the first time in The Roses

Before the idea to reimagine the 1989 classic film The War Of The Roses came about, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch had never worked together.

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1 week ago Olivia Colman made a child cry by hitting her with a belt as she thought she was acting

Incident happened when the actress while she was shooting 2019 musical Les Misérables and she had to say , ‘I’m so sorry' after the awful incident

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1 week ago Benedict Cumberbatch says things 'got nasty' between him and Olivia Colman during filming

Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that the toxic nature of the characters in his new film spilled into real life with his co-star and friend Olivia Colman

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1 week ago Benedict Cumberbatch reveals his friendship with The Roses co

The actor, 49, stars alongside Olivia, 51, in The Roses, which is a remake of the original 1989 movie The War of the Roses.

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1 week ago Amal Clooney and Olivia Colman suffer the same fate as their pricey gowns are left soaked after hitting separate rainy red carpets in Venice and London

While Amal, 47 supported husband George, 64, at the Jay Kelly premiere amid the Venice Film Festival , back in the London Olivia, 51, walked the equally wet red carpet.

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1 week ago Olivia Colman stuns in a £4,000 silk kaftan dress as she is supported by husband Ed Sinclair at the star

Olivia Colman showcased her impeccable sense of style as she was joined by her husband Ed Sinclair at the London premiere of her latest movie, The Roses, on Thursday. 

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2 w. ago Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon ‘excited’ that show is coming to UK

A UK version of the sketch comedy series, which McKinnon has starred in, is to air in 2026.

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2 w. ago Benedict Cumberbatch looks smitten with his wife Sophie Hunter as he joins co

The Sherlock star, 49, arrived at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London on Thursday for the premiere of the remake of the 1989 Hollywood classic War Of The Roses.

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2 w. ago The Roses review: cartoonishly insane, even if both characters are unlikeable

Ingenuity is not the order of the day here - just as well Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are excellent

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2 w. ago The Roses review – Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are relentlessly entertaining

In this remake of 1989’s ‘The War of the Roses’, which charts the breakdown of a marriage, desire and disgust become one

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2 w. ago The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriageOlivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, the two most prestigious English screen actors in the world, resoundingly butt heads in this feel-bad movie; it is oddly, but not uninterestingly, composed throughout in feelgood romcom style. In casting terms, this is a Borg-McEnroe 10-set tie-break leading to play being suspended even as the leads bring every microlitre of their technique to the game.They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents. Colman and Cumberbatch are acting black-belts and they are never an...

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