Considering we share the same rare first name, I’ve always had a strong affinity with Redmond Barry. His epic travails across Europe – lovingly, beautifully, cynically portrayed in Stanley Kubrick’s once-underrated, now-reappraised classic Barry Lyndon – carry the sweep of history while never losing its romantic core. Like most Stanley Kubrick projects, the behind-the-scenes antics, including a potential threat from the Ira, are legendary – they also prove fertile ground for a metafictional exploration of the life of a below-the-line film crew falling in and out of love across the Irish countryside. With Kubrick By Candelight, location-manager-turned-director (and Stanley Kubrick superfan) David O’Reilly weaves a delicate romantic metafictional comedy that functions both as a tribute to the legendary filmmaker’s unique cinematic vision and as a delightful short in its own right. We had the chance to talk to O’Reilly about recreating Kubrick’s cinematic techniques, being inspired by countless days...
- 4/20/2023
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
From her 1964 big-screen debut to the 90s roles – including James Bond’s boss, M – that made her a Hollywood star, here’s the rundown of every single Dench movie
This is the bottom of the heap. Scrape the barrel long enough and you will find this under the barrel, somewhere near the centre of the Earth. Dench has a baffling cameo as a bag lady in this world-historically terrible and unfunny farce by Ray Cooney.
This is the bottom of the heap. Scrape the barrel long enough and you will find this under the barrel, somewhere near the centre of the Earth. Dench has a baffling cameo as a bag lady in this world-historically terrible and unfunny farce by Ray Cooney.
- 4/18/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If you’re a nonunion actor in Texas, looking to add some theater to your résumé, this one is for you. A regional production of the Ray Cooney farce “Funny Money” is casting non-Equity actors for several roles. The production will hold auditions by appointment Jan. 7–8, 2017 in Dallas, Texas, with a subsequent run slated for Feb. 24–March 25, 2017, also in Dallas. Helmed by director Carol Rice, the production will provide some compensation. Check out the full listing for “Funny Money” to see if there’s a role for you! If not, check out more Texas auditions listings in Backstage casting. Dreaming of making it on Broadway? Head to our YouTube channel for expert insight!
- 12/29/2016
- backstage.com
There's a lot of star wattage in Peter Bogdanovich's new screwball comedy (which premiered out of competition in Venice on Friday) but none of it shines very brightly. The film, executive produced by Bogdanovich's admirers Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, is closer to a Ray Cooney bedroom farce than it is to the great Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s that it self-consciously invokes. Bogdanovich elicits a fair amount of laughs along the way.
- 8/29/2014
- The Independent - Film
London, Feb 16: Naomi Watts starrer Princess Diana's high-criticised biopic 'Diana' has been tipped to win the worst film of 2013 at BAFTA.
The Oliver Hirschbiegel-helmed movie that had supposedly caused the Aussie actress so much stress that she would break down in tears is leading the pack with the judging panel at the British Academy of Rubbish Films and Terrible Acting, the Daily Star reported.
The award for the second worst film is expected to go to 'Run For Your Wife' which was helmed by 80-year-old first-time director Ray Cooney.
Meanwhile, film critic Andy Lea has described Diana as "charmless and utterly.
The Oliver Hirschbiegel-helmed movie that had supposedly caused the Aussie actress so much stress that she would break down in tears is leading the pack with the judging panel at the British Academy of Rubbish Films and Terrible Acting, the Daily Star reported.
The award for the second worst film is expected to go to 'Run For Your Wife' which was helmed by 80-year-old first-time director Ray Cooney.
Meanwhile, film critic Andy Lea has described Diana as "charmless and utterly.
- 2/16/2014
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
★☆☆☆☆ The inimitable Danny Dyer returned to UK cinema screens earlier this year in Ray Cooney and John Luton's infamous Run for Your Wife (2012), occupying the type of role that few would have associated him with - but will be now be praying he never returns to. Far similar in style and tone to an extended CBeebies offering than the type of 1970s British sex comedy that it purports to ape (the Confessions... cycle's Robin Askwith even makes an ill-advised cameo - the first of many), Cooney and Luton's fatuous farce flops from one unbearable skit to the next, before letting its reprehensible bigamist off the hook, scot-free.
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
Dyer plays London cabbie John Smith, who inexplicably finds himself married to not one, but two attractive women - one in Stockwell (Denise Van Outen's Michelle), the other in Finsbury (Sarah Harding's Stephanie). After intervening to halt a late night...
- 9/16/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Star of British film thrillers who specialised in the role of the classy girlfriend
In the 1950s, while watching a second feature before the "big picture" at their local cinema, regular British filmgoers would often have seen Rona Anderson, who has died aged 86. Anderson starred in 20 movies between 1950 and 1958, mostly well-crafted, low-budget thrillers. Opposite such luminaries as Robert Beatty, Jimmy Hanley, John Bentley, Paul Carpenter and Lee Patterson, Anderson was the classy girlfriend who helps the hero solve a murder, usually via a visit to the criminal underground, all within the hour allotted to the film.
According to the Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter, Anderson "had this incredible, porcelain-like face, too beautiful for film … The camera likes angularity, to see the edges, and I think Rona's face was just too perfect." Whatever the reason, Anderson made few major movies, though she appeared in many popular television series, such as The Human Jungle...
In the 1950s, while watching a second feature before the "big picture" at their local cinema, regular British filmgoers would often have seen Rona Anderson, who has died aged 86. Anderson starred in 20 movies between 1950 and 1958, mostly well-crafted, low-budget thrillers. Opposite such luminaries as Robert Beatty, Jimmy Hanley, John Bentley, Paul Carpenter and Lee Patterson, Anderson was the classy girlfriend who helps the hero solve a murder, usually via a visit to the criminal underground, all within the hour allotted to the film.
According to the Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter, Anderson "had this incredible, porcelain-like face, too beautiful for film … The camera likes angularity, to see the edges, and I think Rona's face was just too perfect." Whatever the reason, Anderson made few major movies, though she appeared in many popular television series, such as The Human Jungle...
- 8/9/2013
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
With all the paparazzi pictures that have appeared of her new film, Taking Stock, you may feel you have already seen it. Still, if it's going to save the industry …
Once again, Lost in Showbiz contemplates paging Jimmy Carr's tax accountant, in search of an urgent explanation for a forthcoming work of British cinema.
I am joking, of course. Admittedly, none of us is yet clear what precise percentage of Britflicks are deliberately conceived as Producers-style calamities, which nonetheless result in millions plopping into various tax-avoiders' bank accounts. But I seek absolutely no explanation for news that Kelly Brook has landed a movie role other than the notion that cinemagoers will gladly pay to see her act.
For Kelly, appearances on the silver screen are second nature. "I can't wait to get back to doing what I love," she informed fans. Which is? "Which is being on set and...
Once again, Lost in Showbiz contemplates paging Jimmy Carr's tax accountant, in search of an urgent explanation for a forthcoming work of British cinema.
I am joking, of course. Admittedly, none of us is yet clear what precise percentage of Britflicks are deliberately conceived as Producers-style calamities, which nonetheless result in millions plopping into various tax-avoiders' bank accounts. But I seek absolutely no explanation for news that Kelly Brook has landed a movie role other than the notion that cinemagoers will gladly pay to see her act.
For Kelly, appearances on the silver screen are second nature. "I can't wait to get back to doing what I love," she informed fans. Which is? "Which is being on set and...
- 7/18/2013
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor best known for playing the officious Arp warden William Hodges in Dad's Army
In his early days as a cabaret artist, the actor Bill Pertwee, who has died aged 86, did a manic cricket revue sketch at a fashionable club in central London. A haughty and inebriated diner kicked over his stumps and shouted: "How's that?" Pertwee punched him in the stomach and was escorted out by the head waiter, who informed him that the customer was always right. "As far as I'm concerned, he isn't!" retorted Pertwee.
This bubbling belligerence was successfully incorporated into the bossy character that made Pertwee famous: Arp Warden William Hodges in the celebrated BBC television series Dad's Army (1968-77), written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Hodges, he perpetually clashed with Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) of the Home Guard.
The inspiration for the way Pertwee played the warden came from his boyhood during the second world war,...
In his early days as a cabaret artist, the actor Bill Pertwee, who has died aged 86, did a manic cricket revue sketch at a fashionable club in central London. A haughty and inebriated diner kicked over his stumps and shouted: "How's that?" Pertwee punched him in the stomach and was escorted out by the head waiter, who informed him that the customer was always right. "As far as I'm concerned, he isn't!" retorted Pertwee.
This bubbling belligerence was successfully incorporated into the bossy character that made Pertwee famous: Arp Warden William Hodges in the celebrated BBC television series Dad's Army (1968-77), written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Hodges, he perpetually clashed with Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) of the Home Guard.
The inspiration for the way Pertwee played the warden came from his boyhood during the second world war,...
- 5/27/2013
- by Dennis Barker
- The Guardian - Film News
Amat Escalante's damning indictment of contemporary Mexico is tough to watch at times, but its horrors demand our attention
Man cannot subsist on glamour alone, and Cannes knows it. So, after the sugar rush of opening nighter The Great Gatsby, the programmers scheduled in some veg. It was served New Wave Mexican style: raw, gritty, and force fed by bandits who snap puppies' necks with one hand while recruiting underage sex slaves with the other. It tasted as superficially indigestible, if ultimately nutritious, as the prickly pears our hero hacks off the desert cacti in a frenzy of impotent rage.
Heli (Armando Espitia) is about 20, and lives with his wife, baby, father and 12-year-old sister Estela (Andrea Vergara). This we learn when a census officer pops by his breeze-block house – a half-cute, half-clumsy device – just before he hops on his boneshaker for the night shift at the local auto factory.
Man cannot subsist on glamour alone, and Cannes knows it. So, after the sugar rush of opening nighter The Great Gatsby, the programmers scheduled in some veg. It was served New Wave Mexican style: raw, gritty, and force fed by bandits who snap puppies' necks with one hand while recruiting underage sex slaves with the other. It tasted as superficially indigestible, if ultimately nutritious, as the prickly pears our hero hacks off the desert cacti in a frenzy of impotent rage.
Heli (Armando Espitia) is about 20, and lives with his wife, baby, father and 12-year-old sister Estela (Andrea Vergara). This we learn when a census officer pops by his breeze-block house – a half-cute, half-clumsy device – just before he hops on his boneshaker for the night shift at the local auto factory.
- 5/16/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor best known as the haughty department store supervisor Captain Peacock in the TV comedy Are You Being Served?
The actor Frank Thornton, who has died aged 92, had a flair for comedy derived from the subtle craftsmanship of classical stage work. However, he will be best remembered for his longstanding characters in two popular BBC television comedy series – the sniffily priggish Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and the pompous retired policeman Herbert "Truly" Truelove, in Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine.
Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40." And, said Thornton, "he was quite right." In the event, he was 51 when David Croft, producer of another long-running British staple, Dad's Army, remembered the tall, long-faced actor from another engagement and decided to cast him as the dapper floor-walker in charge of shop assistants played by Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard,...
The actor Frank Thornton, who has died aged 92, had a flair for comedy derived from the subtle craftsmanship of classical stage work. However, he will be best remembered for his longstanding characters in two popular BBC television comedy series – the sniffily priggish Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and the pompous retired policeman Herbert "Truly" Truelove, in Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine.
Robertson Hare, the great Whitehall farceur, told him: "You'll never do any good until you're 40." And, said Thornton, "he was quite right." In the event, he was 51 when David Croft, producer of another long-running British staple, Dad's Army, remembered the tall, long-faced actor from another engagement and decided to cast him as the dapper floor-walker in charge of shop assistants played by Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard,...
- 3/19/2013
- by Carole Woddis
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney's Wreck-It Ralph maintains its momentum at the UK box office as half-term gave a lift to children's films
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
The winner
It lost the best animated feature Oscar to Disney stablemate Brave, but Wreck-It Ralph scored a victory at the UK weekend box-office. Takings for the film were almost the same as the previous weekend (£3.42m v £3.44m), as families slotted in a cinema visit before the end of school half-term. Over the 10 days of the school holiday (15-24 February), the video-game-themed adventure grossed an impressive £11.54m, for a total so far of £18.62m. Audiences will decrease now children are back at school, but Wreck-It Ralph should bump along for a few more weeks and is well placed to overtake the totals for 2012's Madagascar 3 (£22.74m) and Brave (£22.17m).
Wreck-It Ralph returns to the top spot after a weekend when preview takings had boosted the opening of A Good Day to Die Hard,...
- 2/27/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
You’ve gotta love the British – despite all their talk about “stiff upper lips,” they sure do love their hyperbole. The latest comes from the country’s film critics, who’ve taken to asking if Ray Cooney’s silly romantic comedy Run for Your Wife is the worst film ever. While we certainly agree it looks pretty lousy (the jokes are obvious and the plot isn’t particularly inspired…), there’s no way this film is as awful as an Un-MST3K’d version of Manos: The Hands of Fate or even Plan 9 from Outer Space. Heck, we suspect Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star was worse than this adaptation of Cooney’s popular stage play, but that hasn’t stopped Brit critics from teeing off on this piffle. The film earned numerous...
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- 2/22/2013
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
Run for Your Wife is already a contender for worst Britfilm ever made, but could that have been the cunning plan all along?
After the fashion of any self-respecting prime minister, I have not actually seen the thing on which I am about to pass judgment.
In my defence, nor has anyone else. Or rather, a mere £747 worth of cinemagoers have – for it is Run for Your Wife, a film some are already calling the worst Britflick ever made. Which gives you a sense of the scale of its horror.
A movie version of the Ray Cooney farce, Run for Your Wife was billed as a "Danny Dyer comedy vehicle" – and if that didn't suggest the brakes were cut from the start, the presence of 'Allo 'Allo's Vicki Michelle as executive producer should have. (Having said that, Lost in Showbiz does have a soft spot for Vicki Michelle, not so...
After the fashion of any self-respecting prime minister, I have not actually seen the thing on which I am about to pass judgment.
In my defence, nor has anyone else. Or rather, a mere £747 worth of cinemagoers have – for it is Run for Your Wife, a film some are already calling the worst Britflick ever made. Which gives you a sense of the scale of its horror.
A movie version of the Ray Cooney farce, Run for Your Wife was billed as a "Danny Dyer comedy vehicle" – and if that didn't suggest the brakes were cut from the start, the presence of 'Allo 'Allo's Vicki Michelle as executive producer should have. (Having said that, Lost in Showbiz does have a soft spot for Vicki Michelle, not so...
- 2/22/2013
- by Marina Hyde
- The Guardian - Film News
A Good Day to Die Hard is top of the pops, the Valentine's Day battle is won by This Is 40, and Run for Your Wife – why?
The winner
Critics may have questioned the need for a fifth Die Hard movie, but audiences signalled their sustained interest in the franchise, powering the latest instalment to an opening of £4.55m. That was enough for A Good Day to Die Hard to elbow Wreck-It Ralph aside, claiming the chart crown. On closer inspection, however, the Bruce Willis flick saw its takings inflated by Valentine's Day previews totaling £1.28m. Strip those out, and A Good Day's debut falls to £3.27m, below Wreck-It's second-weekend takings of £3.43m. It's actually doing better in the UK than the Us, going by the accepted rule of thumb. The Us four-day opening of $37.54m would typically yield a UK equivalent of £3.8m, but the actual achieved result...
The winner
Critics may have questioned the need for a fifth Die Hard movie, but audiences signalled their sustained interest in the franchise, powering the latest instalment to an opening of £4.55m. That was enough for A Good Day to Die Hard to elbow Wreck-It Ralph aside, claiming the chart crown. On closer inspection, however, the Bruce Willis flick saw its takings inflated by Valentine's Day previews totaling £1.28m. Strip those out, and A Good Day's debut falls to £3.27m, below Wreck-It's second-weekend takings of £3.43m. It's actually doing better in the UK than the Us, going by the accepted rule of thumb. The Us four-day opening of $37.54m would typically yield a UK equivalent of £3.8m, but the actual achieved result...
- 2/20/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Classic farces of the Feydeau, Aldwych and Whitehall kind have rarely worked in the cinema, and this widely performed stage play by Ray Cooney is no exception. The plot turns upon a bigamous London taxi driver (Danny Dyer) and accidental "have-a-go" hero having to explain his irregular lifestyle to the press, the police and the two wives. What we admire in great farce is the ingenuity and precision of the writing, the speed and virtuosity of the playing and the conviction that something serious is at stake for the characters. Run for Your Wife fulfils none of these conditions and is woefully dated in its misogyny and homophobia. Three-quarters of the British acting profession over the age of 60, all of them old chums of the author, appear in walk-on roles so we're constantly distracted by working out who's playing the bag lady (Judi Dench), the buskers (Rolf Harris, Cliff Richard,...
- 2/17/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Side By Side | A Good Day To Die Hard | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God | Beautiful Creatures | This Is 40 | For Ellen | Run For Your Wife | Reign Of Assassins | Sammy's Great Escape | Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino | Madame De… | Murder 3
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
- 2/16/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
- 2/15/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...
- 2/14/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Ray Cooney, John Luton; Screenwriter: Ray Cooney; Starring: Danny Dyer, Sarah Harding, Denise Van Outen, Neil Morrissey; Running time: 94 mins; Certificate: 12A
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
Danny Dyer trades in his wideboy screen persona for slapstick japes in latest movie Run For Your Wife. It's a fresh side to the man best known for Nick Love lads' flicks and Deadliest Men documentaries, seeing him play a London cab driver reeling after a blow to the head threatens to expose him as a bigamist. Dyer's John Smith has two wives (Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding) and two lives, organising his taxi shifts so he can shuttle between homes in North and South London.
Ray Cooney, whose long-running stage play inspired the film, steps behind the camera with John Luton to oversee the mayhem. Many of Cooney's old theatre pals - among them Judi Dench, Richard Briers, Andrew Sachs, Christopher Biggins and Lionel Blair...
- 2/14/2013
- Digital Spy
Disney's arcade hero pulps the competition and British romcom I Give It a Year takes a respectable third place at the box office
The winner
Ending Les Miserables' impressive four-week reign at the chart summit, Wreck-It Ralph smashes its way to the top of the UK box office with a robust £4.53m, the biggest three-day tally for an animated feature since Ice Age 4 last July. Among other recent animations, Madagascar 3 posted a bigger opening number, but its £6.03m debut included £2.39m in previews. Similarly, Brave's first weekend of wide play (£5.27m) included significant previews (£2.67m).
While Wreck-It Ralph's Us opening of $49.1m last November represented the highest ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the UK result can't quite make an equivalent claim, since Tangled debuted here in January 2011 with £5.11m. Disney-owned Pixar, of course, has achieved even bigger numbers. Disney scored some big PR wins with visiting voice cast...
The winner
Ending Les Miserables' impressive four-week reign at the chart summit, Wreck-It Ralph smashes its way to the top of the UK box office with a robust £4.53m, the biggest three-day tally for an animated feature since Ice Age 4 last July. Among other recent animations, Madagascar 3 posted a bigger opening number, but its £6.03m debut included £2.39m in previews. Similarly, Brave's first weekend of wide play (£5.27m) included significant previews (£2.67m).
While Wreck-It Ralph's Us opening of $49.1m last November represented the highest ever for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the UK result can't quite make an equivalent claim, since Tangled debuted here in January 2011 with £5.11m. Disney-owned Pixar, of course, has achieved even bigger numbers. Disney scored some big PR wins with visiting voice cast...
- 2/12/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Denise Van Outen and Sarah Harding looked glamorous in floor-length gowns as they graced the red carpet at the premiere of their new film Run For Your Wife in London's Leicester Square last night (February 5).
© WENN
© WENN / Lia Toby/WENN.com
Despite the downpour and freezing cold weather, Van Outen, 38, wore a sleeveless black gown with a sheer lace panel at the front and back while Harding, 31, donned a shimmering, silver dress with a similar plunging neckline lace panel.
© Pa Images
© Pa Images
Former EastEnders actress and co-star Kellie Shirley wore a grecian-style frock which got drenched at the bottom from the soggy red carpet, while Dyer kept it casual and simple in a pair of jeans and a blazer.
Other guests at the screening included co-stars Neil Morrissey and Lionel Blair, Denise Welch and toyboy Lincoln Townley, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Su Pollard and Liz McClarnon.
Towie's Lydia Bright and former Towie star Kirk Norcross,...
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© WENN / Lia Toby/WENN.com
Despite the downpour and freezing cold weather, Van Outen, 38, wore a sleeveless black gown with a sheer lace panel at the front and back while Harding, 31, donned a shimmering, silver dress with a similar plunging neckline lace panel.
© Pa Images
© Pa Images
Former EastEnders actress and co-star Kellie Shirley wore a grecian-style frock which got drenched at the bottom from the soggy red carpet, while Dyer kept it casual and simple in a pair of jeans and a blazer.
Other guests at the screening included co-stars Neil Morrissey and Lionel Blair, Denise Welch and toyboy Lincoln Townley, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Su Pollard and Liz McClarnon.
Towie's Lydia Bright and former Towie star Kirk Norcross,...
- 2/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Comedy writer and actor who starred in 70s sitcom Sykes and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has died after a short illness
From writing a film where the only word uttered is "rhubarb" to creating one of TV's most popular sitcom partnerships, Eric Sykes – who died on Wednesday aged 89 – will be remembered as one of Britain's finest comedy actors and writers.
Tributes came in thick and fast for a man who was seldom off radios, stages or screens in a career spanning 60 years that will spark different memories for different generations.
Some will know him best for writing and directing the silly slapstick film The Plank while others will remember his sitcom partnership with Hattie Jacques, who played his perpetually exasperated sister.
More recently, in the face of near total deafness and blindness, Sykes appeared in the fourth Harry Potter film and, in 2007, the British comedy Son of Rambow.
From writing a film where the only word uttered is "rhubarb" to creating one of TV's most popular sitcom partnerships, Eric Sykes – who died on Wednesday aged 89 – will be remembered as one of Britain's finest comedy actors and writers.
Tributes came in thick and fast for a man who was seldom off radios, stages or screens in a career spanning 60 years that will spark different memories for different generations.
Some will know him best for writing and directing the silly slapstick film The Plank while others will remember his sitcom partnership with Hattie Jacques, who played his perpetually exasperated sister.
More recently, in the face of near total deafness and blindness, Sykes appeared in the fourth Harry Potter film and, in 2007, the British comedy Son of Rambow.
- 7/4/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Ray Winstone and a host of other stars are to donate their cameo fee for an upcoming film to charity. Richard Briers and Sir Cliff Richard are among 80 uncredited actors and celebrities who will waive their fee in an adaptation of Ray Cooney's 1983 play Run For Your Wife. The money will instead be donated to a theatre charity. Danny Dyer will star in the film about a man who has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for several years. Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding, Men Behaving Badly's Neil Morrissey and Denise Van Outen will star in the film, to be released some time next year. A spokesperson revealed that the stars waived their fees because they knew Ray Cooney, who is directing the adaptation, really well. Cooney has explained that film companies had (more)...
- 8/2/2011
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
British hardmen Ray Winstone and Danny Dyer, crooner Sir Cliff Richard and Australian entertainer Rolf Harris have all waived their fees in the name of charity to feature in an upcoming movie adaptation of 1983 play Run For Your Wife.
The Football Factory actor Dyer portrays a happily married bigamist in the forthcoming comedy, based on the stage show by Ray Cooney, who also takes charge of the big screen version.
The project also stars Brits Neil Morrissey, Denise van Outen and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, as well as uncredited cameos from more than 80 celebrities, including Richard and Harris.
And everyone involved has agreed to donate their fees to a theatre charity because of their close friendships to Cooney, reports the BBC.
Run For Your Wife originally starred Bernard Cribbins and ran for eight years in London's West End.
The Football Factory actor Dyer portrays a happily married bigamist in the forthcoming comedy, based on the stage show by Ray Cooney, who also takes charge of the big screen version.
The project also stars Brits Neil Morrissey, Denise van Outen and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding, as well as uncredited cameos from more than 80 celebrities, including Richard and Harris.
And everyone involved has agreed to donate their fees to a theatre charity because of their close friendships to Cooney, reports the BBC.
Run For Your Wife originally starred Bernard Cribbins and ran for eight years in London's West End.
- 8/2/2011
- WENN
Arts Council England admit to a mistake, plus the playwright plumber, and Tate Britain's underlining fetish
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
Arts Council England admit to a mistake
There were 1,333 applications for Arts Council England (Ace)money this year and 695 winners. Except we can now make that 696 after Ace admitted – get ready – that it made a mistake.
Homotopia, the Liverpool-based gay, lesbian and transgender arts organisation, has been told it will receive £70,000 a year until 2015, after a complaint it made was upheld.
Keen-eyed readers might recall that appeals against refusal were not allowed, but a spokeswoman for Ace told the Diary there was a complaints process when arts organisations felt it had not followed its own procedures: "We wanted to make sure we were absolutely fair."
It received 28 complaints and decided that three should be reassessed, including Homotopia, which had initially been ruled ineligible because it did not have a business model. Homotopia successfully argued...
- 8/2/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
The Palo Alto Players invite audiences to come witness the confusion and hilarity when one seemingly ordinary man tries to balance two lives and two wives in Ray Cooney's Run For Your Wife. Opening June 13th at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto, this popular comedy from the author of "Funny Money" and "Move Over, Mrs. Markham" will be sure to add some heat and humor to your summer.
- 6/17/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
This spring, The Sherman Playhouse is proud to present the uproarious comedic farce, Not Now Darling, by Ray Cooney and John Chapman. Not Now, Darling takes place in a London fur salon and involves two partners, one who struggles to keep things on an even keel, and the other who is an energetic philanderer. Mistaken identities, wives, mistresses, fur coats, and a lightning pace of rapid-fire jokes and slamming doors all become part of the hilarious doings in the tradition of classic English bedroom farce.
- 3/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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