If you're a fantasy film fan, or if you simply have any children in your life, you might want to brace yourself for some good news and some bad news: Emma Thompson has been forced to choose between the "Harry Potter" and "Nanny McPhee" franchises. And in her mind, the choice was always obvious.
"No, no, no," the Oscar winner insisted when we asked whether she’d be returning as Professor Sybil Trelawney in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". "I'm making my own 'Nanny McPhee' next year. They mean much more to me."
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By Adrianna Kourafas
Sure, everybody knows about the recent box-office success of “The Dark Knight.” But look a little further down the charts, and you’ll notice the name of a small movie-that-could pulling in some impressive summer numbers on a handful of screens: “Brideshead Revisited.”
The film stars “Watchmen” actor Matthew Goode, Oscar-winner Emma Thompson and relative newcomer Hayley Atwell. Based on a classic novel about wealth, sensuality and betrayal, Hollywood has been trying to make a film out of the 1945 Evelyn Waugh book for decades, but only now has someone like director Julian Jarrold (“Becoming Jane”) come along and figured out how to pull it off. Read more...
