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...
It's one of the most beloved cult television shows of all time, and it's about to get a high-profile remake. Now, "The Prisoner" miniseries has a new lead actress.
"I'm about to go to Namibia to shoot 'The Prisoner' with Ian McKellan and Jim Caviezel," revealed 27-year-old British beauty Hayley Atwell to MTV on Monday. "It's a remake of a very strange 1960's cult sci-fi classic with Patrick McGoohan."
For those of you who aren't down with Number Six, "Prisoner" told the story of a former British secret agent held captive in a mysterious village, as authorities tried to break his will. The trippy storylines often included hallucinations, mind control, and a lot of references to "hooks" and "crooks."
"It's [about] this guy who gets taken into this village and everyone’s got a number, not a name," explained the actress, who releases "Brideshead Revisited" with Matthew Goode later this month. "And it's about how he finds his way back, and what the village is. It's very ambiguous but completely different. I don't wear a corset in it, finally, in my career." Read more...
