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Helen Mirren, Stephen Daldry, Peter Morgan Team For West End Drama ‘The Audience’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday September 21, 2012 @ 2:32am PDTTags: Helen Mirren, Peter Morgan, Stephen Daldry, The Audience

After executive producing the London Olympics’ closing ceremony, Stephen Daldry is turning his attention to another live spectacle with The Audience, a stage play written by The Queen scribe Peter Morgan. The Queen Oscar winner Helen Mirren will return to the stage and the role of Queen Elizabeth II for the run in London’s West End beginning February 15, 2013. For 60 years, the Queen has met with each of 12 Prime Ministers from Winston Churchill to David Cameron in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. The meetings are private with an unspoken agreement never to reveal their contents. The Audience imagines a series of pivotal, sometimes revealing meetings between the Queen and the PMs. Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries are producing.

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Big Movie Musicals Coming As Universal Courts Stephen Daldry For ‘Wicked’ Film As Jon Favreau Gets Close To ‘Jersey Boys’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 12:08pm PDTTags: Jersey Boys, Jon Favreau, Stephen Daldry, Universal, Wicked
Mike Fleming

Jon FavreauStephen DaldryEXCLUSIVE: While Disney is at Comic-Con today to unveil some details on its Sam Raimi-directed Oz: The Great And Powerful, Universal is finally moving forward with … Read More »

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Danny Boyle, Stephen Daldry Chime In On London Olympics Plan

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 27, 2012 @ 6:36pm PSTTags: 2012 London Olympics, Danny Boyle, Stephen Daldry

For the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, movie director Danny Boyle said he’s aiming for intimacy rather than spectacle. “We wanted to make the feel of the opening ceremony … intimate and personal,” he said in an interview today. The anticipated TV audience of a billion viewers is important, “but we wanted the 80,000 people who were lucky enough to be in there to be the conduit through which you feel this experience.” The ceremony will be called “Isles of Wonder” and it will involve a big bell and lots of nurses. The nurses are part of a tribute to the National Health Service, and the title was inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A specially cast bell will ring out to signal the start of the opening ceremony. The bell will be inscribed with Caliban’s line in The Tempest: “Be not afear’d; the isle is full of noises.” Read More »

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Palm Springs Fest To Honor Stephen Daldry

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday December 22, 2011 @ 3:37am PSTTags: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Stephen Daldry

Palm Springs, CA (December 22, 2011) – The 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present three time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry with the Director of the Year Award for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will be held Saturday, January 7, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Hosted by Mary Hart, the Awards Gala will also present awards to previously announced honorees George Clooney, Glenn Close, Michel Hazanavicius, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Octavia Spencer, Michelle Williams, and the film Young Adult. The Festival runs January 5-16.

“Stephen Daldry has garnered international acclaim as a director, bringing his consummate skill to both the cinema and stage,” said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner. “In his latest work, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, he directs a virtuoso cast in the story of a young boy who, after losing his father on 9/11, goes on a quest to learn what an unusual key found in his father’s possessions may unlock. This journey then becomes a metaphor for the need of a child to maintain a close bond with a loved one who died tragically and too soon. For this haunting film and for all of his achievements as a “director’s director,” the Palm Springs International Film Festival is honored to present the 2012 “Director of the Year Award” To Stephen Daldry.”

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Hammond: Incredibly Late, Can ‘Extremely Loud’ Catch Up In Best Picture Race?

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday December 19, 2011 @ 11:12pm PSTTags: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Max Von Sydow, Sandra Bullock, Scott Rudin, Stephen Daldry, Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks
Pete Hammond

Coming into December Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, producer Scott Rudin’s third Oscar hopeful this Fall (after Moneyball and December 21 release The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), was expected to become an immediate major player in the Oscar game, but several problems crept up including some last-minute… Read More »

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Scott Rudin Buys Film Rights To ‘The Marriage Plot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 2:44pm PDTTags: David Fincher, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin, Stephen Daldry
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Using his own money, producer Scott Rudin has acquired screen rights to The Marriage Plot, the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides that was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The novel is a love … Read More »

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BREAKING: Tonight’s NYFF Mystery Film Is Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 10, 2011 @ 9:35am PDTTags: Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Clint Eastwood, Emily Mortimer, Graham King, Hugo, Hugo Cabret, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Martin Scorsese, Michael Pitt, Ray Winstone, Richard Pena, Sacha Baron Cohen, Stephen Daldry
Mike Fleming

VIDEO: Martin Scorsese Introduces ‘Hugo’
HAMMOND: NY Film Festival Mystery Movie

BREAKING: I can confirm that tonight’s New York Film Festival mystery film is Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, the John Logan-scripted adaptation of the Brian Selznick novel Hugo Cabret. The festival revealed late last week that it would feature a film by a master filmmaker, and speculation covered everything from Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar to Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I’m told that Richard Pena will introduce the picture at Avery Fisher Hall, but I’m not sure if Scorsese will be in the house. The film isn’t quite finished, but it will be shown in 3D, though there might be some green screen moments. Paramount releases Hugo on November 23. Scorsese hasn’t shown an unfinished film like this before (though he did once tell me that The Last Temptation Of Christ qualified as that when Universal rushed it into release because protesters were dragging crosses in front of the houses of studio higher-ups like Sid Sheinberg), and the NYFF hasn’t shown an unfinished print like this since Disney’s Beauty And The Beast in 1991. But it’s a great opportunity to build buzz on the movie, Scorsese’s first family and 3D film. Read More »

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John Goodman Boards Paramount’s ‘Flight’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 7:56am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Denzel Washington, Flight, John Goodman, Michel Hazanavicius, Robert Zemeckis, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Daldry, Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: John Goodman has joined the cast of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Flight, which stars Denzel Washington as an airline pilot who averts a plane crash, only to come under a cloud for possible substance abuse problems. Goodman will play a … Read More »

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Warner Bros Sets Its Oscar Season Dance Card

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: Alfonso Cuaron, Brian Grazer, Chris Nolan, Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ron Howard, Sandra Bullock, Scott Rudin, Stephen Daldry, Tom Hanks, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Though Warner Bros found itself in the Oscar race last year with Chris Nolan’s Inception, awards season isn’t usually when the studio shines. This year, Warner Bros finds itself with not one but two potential contenders in the Oscar race, … Read More »

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