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It’s a weird day to interview Oona Chaplin. The most anticipated film of the year, James Cameron’s Avatar sequel The Way of Water, has just been released, and Chaplin is set to take on a key role in the already filmed third instalment. We’re not talking about that, though. We’re chatting about her new Netflix spy thriller series Treason, which she stars in alongside Daredevil’s Charlie Cox and former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko. It’s the kind of bingeable crime caper that has become synonymous with the BBC over the years. However, this Boxing Day, as people roll out of bed heavy with yesterday’s indulgences, many will flick through Netflix, not the terrestrial channels, and land on Treason, where they will spend the next four hours.

“I’m admiring your shelves,” Chaplin tells me of my Zoom background, which has been carefully curated to...

A global livestream event that aims to benefit the Amazon Emergency Fund, an indigenous-led effort providing rapid response grants in that region to address the pandemic, is set for May 28.

Jane Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel and numerous other artists will join indigenous leaders, scientists, and a coalition of NGOs in presentng Artists United for Amazonia: Protecting the Protectors, a livestream event produced by Artists for Amazonia.

The two-hour event will run from 8 Pm Eastern to 10 Pm Eastern and will be hosted by Game of Thrones co-star Oona Chaplin, who played Talisa Maegyr in the series. The livestream will be available via Facebook ​and through the event website.

The program will promote the Amazon Emergency Fund, launched last month by a coalition of indigenous organizations, NGOs, and allies to respond to the urgent needs of indigenous peoples of the Amazon threatened by Covid-19.

Funds raised will be used...

Two months after shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic that forced lockdowns all over the world, production on the “Avatar” sequels will resume next week in New Zealand. The news was announced by producer Jon Landau on Instagram Thursday night.

“Our #Avatar sets are ready — and we couldn’t be more excited to be headed back to New Zealand next week,” Landau wrote in a post that included a set photo. “Check out the Matador, a high speed forward command vessel (bottom) and the Picador jetboat (top) — can’t wait to share more.”

An individual with knowledge of the production told TheWrap that Landau’s post was accurate.

Production on the four “Avatar” sequels, which are all shooting back to back at facilities in New Zealand, stopped on March 17 when the country’s film commission halted TV and film work. At the same time, most flights to and from...

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"Are you willing to devote your life to telling stories?" IFC Films has debuted an official trailer for the film Rebel in the Rye, an indie drama which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The film stars Nicholas Hoult as famed author J.D. Salinger, telling the story of his early years, his time fighting in WWII, and his pursuit of a love interest. It also shows how the success of his novel, Catcher in the Rye, turned him into a recluse, staying out of the public for the rest of his life after it was published in 1951. The cast includes Zoey Deutch as Oona O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Lucy Boynton, Sarah Paulson, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Amy Rutberg, James Urbaniak, Celeste Arias, and Eric Bogosian. This received dismal reviews at Sundance, and not so surprisingly the trailer doesn't look that great either. Here's the first official trailer...

Pretty much everyone who survived the events of Avatar, as well as some who didn't, are expected to return for the whopping four sequels to the James Cameron epic, but there are still plenty of new characters to be cast. During CineEurope in Barcelona it was announced that Oona Chaplin (yes, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter) will be heading to Pandora. Plot details of the Avatar sequels are... Read More...

Network: The CWEpisodes: Nine (half-hour)Seasons: OneTV show dates: July 9, 2015 -- August 6, 2015Series status: Cancelled/EndedPerformers include: Will Mellor, Oona Chaplin, Neil Maskell, Sheridan Smith, Ben Chaplin, Andrew Scott, Greg McHugh, Katie McGrath, Gemma Chan, Montanna Thompson, and Sian Breckin.TV show description: A romantic drama, this TV show is set in modern-day London. It revolves around the first dates between two people who have met on an online dating service.Read More…...

She may be Hollywood royalty thanks to her famous grandfather, but Kiera Chaplin isn’t afraid to get a little extreme.

The 34-year-old granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin is participating in the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc — an off-roading rally in the Moroccan desert that has the women-only participants rely on old-school navigation techniques to get through a series of obstacles and checkpoints every day. After two weeks, the team who completes the race with the fastest time and the least number of miles wins the rally — but Chaplin isn’t thinking that far ahead.

“I’m a little scared and nervous,...

[[tmz:video id="0_8yui6xss"]] "Game of Thrones" star Oona Chaplin says nudity doesn't draw people to the show, because there are way better outlets for that. Oona -- the grandaughter of Charlie Chaplin and holder of arguably the most epic death title on G.O.T. -- was strolling in Bev Hills Friday and she has a clear view on what the show's such a monster hit. She's right but still ... shout out to all the body parts. Read...

Chicago – She is the oldest daughter of movie legend Charlie Chaplin, from his fourth marriage to Oona O’Neill, but she also was a spectacular actress in her own right. She is Geraldine Chaplin, and she was honored at the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, and was president on a film jury for the fest.

Chaplin was born in Santa Monica, California. When she was eight years old, her father and mother took her on a trip to Europe, and while there Charlie Chaplin was exiled through government order from America. The family then settled in Switzerland, and Geraldine eschewed college for dance, and studied in England and Paris. She reluctantly left that art, and turned to modeling. That is how director David Lean discovered her and cast her as Tonya in the classic “Doctor Zhivago” (1965).

Geraldine Chaplin on the Red Carpet at the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival

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Rebel in the Rye

Zoey Deutch has landed the sought-after role of Oona O'Neill in Danny Strong's J.D. Salinger biopic "Rebel In The Rye" starring Nicholas Hoult as the author alongside Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Brian D'Arcy James and Hope Davis.

Oona O'Neill was the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and the toast of the New York City social scene, a fixture in gossip columns. She and a young Salinger dated and had a tumultuous relationship. [Source: EW]

Miss Sloane

Meghann Fahy ("Next to Normal") has joined the cast of John Madden's "Miss Sloane" at EuropaCorp and FilmNation. The story follows a ruthless and highly successful political strategist (Jessica Chastain) who exposes the cutthroat world of D.C lobbyists on both sides of the gun legislation debate.

Fahy steps into the part of Clara, a lobbyist on Chastain's team who gets bamboozled by one of her bosses' ploys. [Source: Deadline]

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Exclusive: Zoey Deutch has landed the sought-after role of Oona O'Neill in Danny Strong's Rebel In The Rye, the biopic that follows author J.D. Salinger as he prepares to write his classic novel Catcher In The Rye. Nicholas Hoult stars as Salinger and Kevin Spacey is already aboard as are Laura Dern, Brian D’Arcy James and Hope Davis. Oona O'Neill was the daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill and the toast of the New York City social scene, a fixture in gossip columns…...

Following years of delay, the Manoir de Ban, the Swiss home where Charlie Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life, will finally open to the public in April, developers announced Monday, according to reports.Following extensive rebuilding and renovations, the stately home will act as the centerpiece of Chaplin's World, a theme park dedicated to "The Little Tramp." Set on an 18-acre property overlooking Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the restored home will form half of the attraction. A separate Hollywood studio-tour-type structure tracing his life from Victorian London boyhood to Hollywood screen legend will treat visitors to films,...

Following years of delay, the Manoir de Ban, the Swiss home where Charlie Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life, will finally open to the public in April, developers announced Monday, according to reports.Following extensive rebuilding and renovations, the stately home will act as the centerpiece of Chaplin's World, a theme park dedicated to "The Little Tramp." Set on an 18-acre property overlooking Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the restored home will form half of the attraction. A separate Hollywood studio-tour-type structure tracing his life from Victorian London boyhood to Hollywood screen legend will treat visitors to films,...

Limelight

Written and directed by Charles Chaplin

USA, 1952

Rightly dubbed a “supreme auteur” by David Robinson, who provides a video essay on the newly released Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Limelight, Charlie Chaplin wore many hats in making this 1952 film. Aside from writing, directing, and starring in the picture, he was the producer, he arranged the score, and he choreographed the dance sequences, in addition to other supervisory duties behind the scenes. Part of the preparation for the film even included Chaplin penning a novel on which the movie was based, called Footlights, which was then adapted with great ease by the author. Set in 1914 London (about the time Chaplin had left England for America), Limelight is a basically familiar showbiz story, with one performer’s career on the wane as another’s is ripe for revival, but there is far more to this late Chaplin classic. For the great comedian,...

George R.R. Martin takes a lot heat for all those deaths on HBO's Game of Thrones, but it isn't always his pen striking the killing blows. The series has a history of killing off characters who are still alive in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books, and the author has confirmed the same will be true in season five. Perhaps the saddest example came in season three, when Robb Stark's (Richard Madden) pregnant wife Talisa (Oona Chaplin), died at The Red Wedding after being stabbed in the stomach. Her book counterpart Jeyne Westerling wasn't even at the wedding in the novels and lives on.

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It was all about the famous celebrity offspring at last night's "The Longest Ride" premiere! Scott Eastwood looked dapper in all black on the red carpet for the flick's premiere. Clint Eastwood's son turned heads in his understated wardrobe and let his good looks take center stage. His costar Britt Robertson also donned black for the premiere. The 24-year-old went with a fun futuristic Christian Dior mini, which featured a partially-sequined turtleneck. She gave the look a pop of color with hot pink pumps. The movie stars the hunky 29-year-old and the blonde beauty as star-crossed lovers Luke Collins and Sophia Danko. Luke is a champion bull rider, while Sophia is a college student. Things get tricky when Collins injures himself in a rodeo and their lives intertwine with a much older man, Ira Levinson (played by Alan Alda), whose personal love story influences the young couple. Also at...

Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock heroine (image: Joseph Cotten about to strangle Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt') (See preceding article: "Teresa Wright Movies: Actress Made Oscar History.") After scoring with The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, and The Pride of the Yankees, Teresa Wright was loaned to Universal – once initial choices Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland became unavailable – to play the small-town heroine in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. (Check out video below: Teresa Wright reminiscing about the making of Shadow of a Doubt.) Co-written by Thornton Wilder, whose Our Town had provided Wright with her first chance on Broadway and who had suggested her to Hitchcock; Meet Me in St. Louis and Junior Miss author Sally Benson; and Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville, Shadow of a Doubt was based on "Uncle Charlie," a story outline by Gordon McDonell – itself based on actual events.

Here’s the first look at Jon Hamm starring in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror Christmas special…

Farewell Don Draper, hello dark allegorical tale of Christmas woe. Mad Men star Jon Hamm, as you may already know, is set to appear in the 2014 Black Mirror Christmas special, airing on the 16th of December on Channel 4.

"Its dark humour and intelligent observation of our society and values hooked me deeply as a viewer and I'm honoured that Charlie and the rest of the creative team have asked me to participate in wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas," said Mr Hamm.

Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin are also set to appear. Here’s some pictures that landed online today…

The Black Mirror Christmas special will air on Channel 4 on Tuesday the 16th of December at 9pm.

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Of Gods And Men director Xavier Beauvois and screenwriter Etienne Comar unveiled their Competition pic La Rançon De La Gloire (The Price Of Fame) in Venice today. They were accompanied by Eugene Chaplin, the son of a key figure in the 1970s-set picture. Charlie Chaplin is the basis of the movie because it’s his coffin that is stolen from a Swiss cemetery by two down-on-their-luck immigrants.

Based on real events, The Price Of Fame has received largely positive reviews here on the Lido. (I personally could have done without an overlong exposition and some frustrating scenes of huffing and puffing graveside…) Eugene has a small role in the movie that recounts the events of March 1978 when, a few days after his father’s death, a pair of Polish and Bulgarian men dug up his grave and held the body for ransom. The film switches the nationalities of the men...

The romantic quartet is almost complete. Deadline reports Britt Robertson has snagged the other female lead role in Nicholas Sparks adaptation “The Longest Ride,” joining Scott Eastwood and the just cast Oona Chaplin. The parallel/interweaving romantic tales follow a cowboy (Eastwood) who falls for a college student (Robertson) on one end, with a 91 year old man who lies trapped after a car accident and reflects back on his life with his wife on the other. Chaplin plays his wife in flashbacks set after the end of WWII. George Tillman will direct the film starting next month, and it already [...]

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April 29

7:30 p.m.

Light Industry

155 Freeman Street

Brooklyn, NY 11222

Hosted by: Light Industry

Although currently an assistant law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, Brian L. Frye will be in attendance at this retrospective of his films made between 1999 and 2002. Following the screening, he will participate in a discussion of his work with Chrissie Iles, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The full lineup of films screening are listed below with thorough descriptions of each film written by the filmmaker. The majority of his work involves found footage, much of it heavily manipulated. Some films, though, consist of majorly abstracted, but fully original footage.

P.S. Brian L. Frye has the best mustached cat of all time, named The T.J. Hooper, as a companion.

The screening lineup:

The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1999, 16mm, 11 mins

Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City...

Director Catalan Pau Teixidor ('Leyenda') will make his feature debut with new Spanish thriller 'Purgatorio'. The new project from Apaches Entertainment is set to star the gorgeous Oona Chaplin (below) whom is better known to many as the ex-Talisa Maegyr in HBO's 'Game of Thrones'. The psychological thriller will see Chaplin play a young woman whom finds herself involved in an extremely scary situation when she offers to babysit her neighbours child. Oona is the granddaughter of famous silent movie star Charlie Chaplin and is actually named after her grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie's fourth wife. Teixidor will helm from a script by Luis Moreno which had a bit of re-write contribution from 'The Orphanage' scribe Sergio G. Sanchez....

Director: Mj Delaney; Screenwriter: Rachel Hirons, Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash, Oona Chaplin; Running time: 86 mins; Certificate: 15

Here's a turn-up for the books: a chick flick without romance. But there's plenty of heart and lots of cheek as well in a British comedy set mostly in and around the ladies toilets at a nightclub. It's not as stifling as it sounds. For one thing, leading lady Sheridan Smith is totally engaging as a twenty-something partygoer thrown into a personal crisis.

A dynamic opener with fast tracking shots and Scorsese-style freeze-frames introduces Sam (Smith) as a bit of a loser on her way to the club - "late... not even fashionably". Her mates are already in the queue, including Jaime Winstone as the loudest of them, Chanel, and Riann Steele (graduate of Holby City) a likeable presence as the quietest of the bunch, Paige. She'd much rather be sitting...

Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging filmmaker from the world of cinema. This April, we’ve got a first: two for the price of one. Husband and wife filmmaking team of Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke premiered Stranger Things at such fests as Slamdance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best Narrative Feature), Raindance (Winner Grand Jury Prize Best U.K. Feature), Woodstock, Karlovy Vary, and is now they’ve got a one week theatrical run (April 5 – 11) at the reRun Theater in Brooklyn. Here is our profile on the filmmaker team and worth checking out is our accompanying original/combined personal Top Ten films list.

Eric Lavallee: During your childhood…what films were important to you?

Eleanor Burke: I remember going to the cinema as a very young child. The ceremony of it all was impressive: the velvet curtains, the hush as the lights went down.

Concord, N.H. -- Truman Capote's 1958 typed manuscript of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is rife with the author's handwritten edits – most notably changing the femme fatale's name from Connie Gustafson to the now-iconic Holly Golightly.

Its plot – built around a young woman who supports herself through trysts with various wealthy lovers – was controversial. Harper's Bazaar bought serialization rights for $2,000, then balked at its explicit content and profuse profanity. Esquire magazine purchased it from Harper's and launched it to its 1961 silver screen adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn.

The manuscript is being offered for sale by a New Hampshire auction house and is expected to net at least $250,000 later this month.

It is the centerpiece of hundreds of Hollywood-themed items offered by Rr Auctions in its online auction April 18-25. Other items include memorabilia autographed by James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Judy Garland and Lucille Ball. Also offered is an...

Last year the gripping 6-part series The Hour debuted and knocked fans off their feet. Its slumbering tale of newsroom politics intersecting with global terrorism in the late 1950’s was glorious to behold. It introduced to the dawn of television as it struggled to find a foothold in serious journalism and still meet the increasing demands for sensationalized news.

Carried by the strong ensemble of Romola Garai, Dominic West, Ben Whishaw, Anton Lesser, Anna Chancellor, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Oona Castilla Chaplin, as well as a special guest appearance by Burn Gorman, The Hour proved a captivating drama. In fact it earned a coveted spot on our Top 10 List for 2011.

What really set it apart was how delicately The Hour brilliantly wove a tightly nuanced conspiracy thriller amongst the subtle burning desires of the newsroom. It showcased how greed, ambition, lust, wantonness counterbalanced by civic duty and political interest that can dominate...

Chaplin Ethel Barrymore Theater, NYC Putting together a new musical is no easy task, and every season we witness shows that demonstrate the difficulties involved. Yet, even when a musical is flawed, it still can have moments that make it worthwhile and leaves one wishing the entire show could have measured up to its best scenes. I was reminded of all this while watching Chaplin, the uneven new musical based on the life of film star Charlie Chaplin, and the first new musical to open this season.

Chaplin starts well, and for its first half hour, as we see a young Charlie get his early entertainment experience in a British music hall, I thought that, perhaps, Chaplin was better than its mixed to negative reviews indicated. And, after he comes to the United States to work for legendary movie producer Mack Sennett, there is a truly magical moment, as we witness Rob McClure,...

Robert Downey Jr sparkles as the British comedy giant but Richard Attenborough's film feels somewhat dutiful around him

Director: Richard Attenborough

Entertainment grade: C+

History grade: B+

Charlie Chaplin was a British comedian who became one of the earliest and greatest stars of Hollywood cinema.

Childhood

The film begins with Chaplin's grim childhood in Victorian London, complete with an absentee father, a mentally ill mother (played by Geraldine Chaplin, the granddaughter of the real thing) and a stint in the workhouse. One night, when his mother sings in a music-hall show, her voice fails. Five-year-old Charlie is brought on to replace her. His precociously adorable performance brings the house down. Much though this rise-to-fame story sounds too good to be true, it is what Chaplin described in his autobiography.

Love

In adulthood, Chaplin is played by Robert Downey Jr. The film makes a big deal of the 19-year-old...

Producer of films that expressed the late 60s and early 70s zeitgeist, including Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and Hearts and Minds

In the late 60s and early 70s, youth movies identified with the draft-dodging campus rebels disillusioned by their elders and the war in Vietnam. Among the leading lights that embodied the counterculture were the producer Bert Schneider, who has died aged 78, and the director Bob Rafelson. They came together to form Raybert Productions, and then Bbs Productions (with Steve Blauner), which produced several pictures that expressed the zeitgeist, such as Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Drive, He Said (1971) and the Oscar-winning anti-Vietnam war documentary Hearts and Minds (1974).

Schneider was no bandwagon jumper, but a committed leftist, who vigorously opposed the American presence in Vietnam. He was also close to the 1960s political activists Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther party, the African-American radical organisation, and Abbie Hoffman...

LONDON -- Andie MacDowell and Rupert Graves have joined the cast of Mary McGuckian's latest comedic feature, Art in Las Vegas.

U.K. production company Pembridge Pictures said Tuesday that Art in Las Vegas will begin production this summer, filming in London and Las Vegas.

"Drawing on the evolving talent pool of cast and crew from (previous movies) 'Rag Tale' and 'Intervention, ' the production will continue to redefine the film production process, focusing on performance and collaborative improvisation," the company said in a statement.

Art, or Assisted Reproductive Technology, presents a look behind the scenes of the fast-growing "test-tube baby" industry. The film follows a number of women undergoing the procedure when something goes amiss.

Other cast members include John Sessions, Jennifer Tilly, Lucy Davis, Donna D'Errico, Colm Feore, Geraldine Chaplin and daughter Oona Chaplin.

Pembridge Pictures is producing alongside U.K.-based Scion Films and Toronto-based Prospero Pictures.