Friday, 30 May 2014
the pitch : The pic is the true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family.
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s painting “The Lady in Gold.”
Together with her young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court."
The cast includes / Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes and Tatiana Maslany....Antje Traue , Moritz Bleibtreu and Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons, Charles Dance.
<<< began on May 23 for eight weeks on location in the U.K., Austria and the U.S.
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/max-irons-charles-dance-elizabeth-mcgovern-join-woman-in-gold-1201198066/
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s painting “The Lady in Gold.”
Together with her young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court."
The cast includes / Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl, Katie Holmes and Tatiana Maslany....Antje Traue , Moritz Bleibtreu and Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons, Charles Dance.
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http://variety.com/2014/film/news/max-irons-charles-dance-elizabeth-mcgovern-join-woman-in-gold-1201198066/
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
"Also happening in Game of Thrones Season 4 is the death of Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance). Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) kills Tywin after learning of some maddening revelations from his brother Jamie (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)."
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/554084/20140529/game-oh-thrones-season-4-episode-8.htm#.U4bOySBOLIU
In the books: After murdering Shae, Tyrion finds his father on the chamberpot. The two engage in a rather tense conversation, and Tyrion ends it by shooting his father in the stomach with a crossbow. The elder Lannister bleeds out on the toilet
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/554084/20140529/game-oh-thrones-season-4-episode-8.htm#.U4bOySBOLIU
In the books: After murdering Shae, Tyrion finds his father on the chamberpot. The two engage in a rather tense conversation, and Tyrion ends it by shooting his father in the stomach with a crossbow. The elder Lannister bleeds out on the toilet
June 24th - July 4th
A number of celebrities including Joanna Lumley, Charles Dance, Idris Elba and Mel & Sue have contributed school reports and other items to a unique online auction in aid of Cecily's Fund. The items will be open to bids for ten days, with all funds raised going to support the work of Cecily's Fund. Further details and and auction link to be confirmed.
http://www.cecilysfund.org/events
A number of celebrities including Joanna Lumley, Charles Dance, Idris Elba and Mel & Sue have contributed school reports and other items to a unique online auction in aid of Cecily's Fund. The items will be open to bids for ten days, with all funds raised going to support the work of Cecily's Fund. Further details and and auction link to be confirmed.
http://www.cecilysfund.org/events
Saturday, 24 May 2014
in an interview, in 2005
"In February 2001, Dance had the dubious honour of being spotlighted by the British version of This is Your Life. When asked about it, he lets out a long, suspicious "Yeeeeees?" Satisfied that there is no malicious intent behind the inquiry, merely curiosity to know whether the experience was flattering or, as often appears to be the case, an exercise in prolonged awkwardness, he lets loose."
It was one of the most sphincterclenching evenings of my life! Deeply embarrassing. It really was - and it was the last thing I wanted because actually, that night, I was in the middle of a run with (Eugene O'Neill's) Long Day's Journey Into Night on the West End with Jessica Lange. I was playing Tyrone and she was playing my wife."
So, after a night of emotional shredding on stage, I was going to go to a club and just have a drink and maybe some supper. Then this man with a big red book leaps out at me! And I'm wheeled down to the BBC and the thing was recorded there and then about bloody midnight!
"They were wheeling people out who were recounting things that happened donkey's years ago, which not only did I not remember, but I didn't remember them, either! People came out who I was at school with who I simply didn't recognise. It was really embarrassing. 'Who the f--k is that?' Terrible."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/Dance-with-the-ladies/2005/03/24/1111525238388.html
Friday, 23 May 2014
“ The National Hospital saved my friend Joanna’s life so I’m thrilled to be able to support The National Brain Appeal.”
http://www.nationalbrainappeal.org/headliners/**actress Joanna David, mother of Emilia fox
Monday, 19 May 2014
with Helena Bonham Carter and Emilia Clarke...he will be British Prime Minister Henry Herbert Asquith
“The Guns of August,” based on the Barbara W. Tuchman book, traces the misunderstandings, missed opportunities and aristocratic follies of the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Production will begin on “The Guns of August” in early 2015."
from : http://variety.com/2014/film/news/cannes-helena-bonham-carter-charles-dance-starring-in-world-war-i-drama-1201185992/
“The Guns of August,” based on the Barbara W. Tuchman book, traces the misunderstandings, missed opportunities and aristocratic follies of the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Production will begin on “The Guns of August” in early 2015."
from : http://variety.com/2014/film/news/cannes-helena-bonham-carter-charles-dance-starring-in-world-war-i-drama-1201185992/
Sunday, 18 May 2014
...But I like Tywin as a character, mostly because Charles [Dance] is such a formidable presence. You kind of like him because he's so cold. He's the perfect royal, because everything is about the future. The present doesn't matter. It's all about the endgame. So I loved the scene where they're making the deal for Tyrion where Jaime realizes, "Oh, I just got played. This was my father's plan all along. He was willing to sacrifice my brother to get me to do what he wants." Wow. It's a fucked-up family, I'm sorry! [Laughs]
http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/nikolaj-coster-waldau-game-of-thrones-chat.html
http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/nikolaj-coster-waldau-game-of-thrones-chat.html
Saturday, 17 May 2014
"Piccadilly Pictures, the UK financier that backed We Need to Talk About Kevin and Coriolanus, has unveiled a new development fund to sit alongside its $25m finance fund – and have already backed projects from BBC Films and Charles Dance.
Piccadilly’s Christopher Figg and Robert Whitehouse currently have a handful of projects benefitting from their SEIS-qualifying development fund and are looking to add more.
The first projects include a feature version of Alice Thomas Ellis’s novel The Inn at the Edge of the World, which is being co-executive produced by Charles Dance and is aiming for a late 2014 shoot..."
http://www.screendaily.com/news/uk-financiers-add-development-fund/5072029.article?blocktitle=Latest-news&contentID=276
-the director : Peter Hewitt
-producers : Charles Dance, Robert Habermann, Christopher Figg, Lamia Nayeb
-cast : Kim Catrall, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton...no more Stephen Fry
***Charles was supposed to direct it in 2009....it's about a group of people who go to a remote Scottish island to escape Christmas... based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel
in 2009 : the former partner : Intandem CEO, Gary Smith said "Charles's vision will give the film an exciting edge that will appeal to an international audience as well as satisfying the fan base from the novel."
Dance who wrote the screenplay said 'I wanted to build upon the success of the best-selling novel by making the necessary adaptations to the characters and the plot that will make The Inn as successful on the big screen.'
Piccadilly’s Christopher Figg and Robert Whitehouse currently have a handful of projects benefitting from their SEIS-qualifying development fund and are looking to add more.
The first projects include a feature version of Alice Thomas Ellis’s novel The Inn at the Edge of the World, which is being co-executive produced by Charles Dance and is aiming for a late 2014 shoot..."
http://www.screendaily.com/news/uk-financiers-add-development-fund/5072029.article?blocktitle=Latest-news&contentID=276
-producers : Charles Dance, Robert Habermann, Christopher Figg, Lamia Nayeb
-cast : Kim Catrall, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton...no more Stephen Fry
***Charles was supposed to direct it in 2009....it's about a group of people who go to a remote Scottish island to escape Christmas... based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel
in 2009 : the former partner : Intandem CEO, Gary Smith said "Charles's vision will give the film an exciting edge that will appeal to an international audience as well as satisfying the fan base from the novel."
Dance who wrote the screenplay said 'I wanted to build upon the success of the best-selling novel by making the necessary adaptations to the characters and the plot that will make The Inn as successful on the big screen.'
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
about The Laws of Gods and Men ep
It was tense, and it was masterful. As befits a show in which nice guys are generally patsies and/or dead, almost everyone leapt at the chance to stick it to Tyrion. Charles Dance, as Tywin, presided. Dance could never do anything but preside, really. I imagine that even while ordering a Zinger Tower at KFC he would still radiate majesty.
Dance's eyebrows alone, glued to a piece of A4, could stand for election. But his diction must also have something to do with it; there are few better than Dance when it comes to commanding peroration. As he told Jaime what his plans were for Tyrion I felt sorry for Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who is Danish and whose delivery sounds a little garbled compared to Dance’s crisp elocution and never-ending vowels.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10817077/Game-of-Thrones-The-Laws-of-Gods-and-Men-review-Tyrion-goes-thermonuclear.html
It was tense, and it was masterful. As befits a show in which nice guys are generally patsies and/or dead, almost everyone leapt at the chance to stick it to Tyrion. Charles Dance, as Tywin, presided. Dance could never do anything but preside, really. I imagine that even while ordering a Zinger Tower at KFC he would still radiate majesty.
Dance's eyebrows alone, glued to a piece of A4, could stand for election. But his diction must also have something to do with it; there are few better than Dance when it comes to commanding peroration. As he told Jaime what his plans were for Tyrion I felt sorry for Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who is Danish and whose delivery sounds a little garbled compared to Dance’s crisp elocution and never-ending vowels.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10817077/Game-of-Thrones-The-Laws-of-Gods-and-Men-review-Tyrion-goes-thermonuclear.html
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Saturday, 10 May 2014
on youtube in one part....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZWrpJQ-YTM
and from an interview with director Mark Hartley
BUG: Very cool. Well how did you assemble this cast? It’s a really great cast, with Charles Dance, Rachel Griffith, Sharni Vinson—how did each of them become involved in this film?
MH: We always wanted to get some kind of prestige cast for this film. And so when we wrote the screenplay we really did overwrite it, we wanted it to read like it was a smart dialog-driven story so we could attract a decent cast. And thankfully Charles, you know, responded to it, and Rachel had been a fan of the original when she was a kid so I think that was part of the appeal for her also in playing Julia Blake’s role. Sharni, I think Sharni was just an actress who like the script and sent in an audition and almost at the same time as we originally started casting this film, YOU’RE NEXT had played Toronto had played Midnight Madness and it made huge buzz of that film so casting Sharni seemed like a complete no-brainer to reach a link to the sales agent for this film.
BUG: Speaking of Dance, he’s such a distinguished gentleman sort, in a diabolical way. Was it tough to get Charles Dance to eat the frog?
MH: It wasn’t tough to get Charles to do it. He was great. He was up for anything. He was sitting on the floor in the kitchen covered in frog slime and I kept thinking of this horrible taste he must have had in his mouth. There were some moments when I did think surely this actor is above this. But no, Charles was really great and it was amazing coming to work each day and hearing him put his life into the character that we scripted.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67287
and :
http://www.ripitup.com.au/lifestyle/article/mark-hartley-director-of-patrick-interview#.U3-KnCBOLIU
and :
DG: How did Charles Dance feel about playing such an enjoyably creepy character?
MH: Charles just liked the script. We’d actually overwritten the script, it was much more verbose than most screenplays are because we wanted to attract a couple of prestige actors. And we wanted people to think this was a smart dumb movie as opposed to a dumb dumb movie? And Charles really liked the script and he liked the idea of coming to Australia, and he just liked the character. So I went over to England and met with him, and he’s very charming. He was just an absolute delight to work with. This was a very compact shoot, and we didn’t have a lot of time for takes, and he would just nail it. I said to him that it’s just amazing that you bring this slightly clunky dialogue on the page to life. He was just great to work with, a really lovely guy. The crew and the rest of the cast just really loved him.
http://dailygrindhouse.com/interviews/not-hollywood-director-mark-hartley-takes-patrick/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZWrpJQ-YTM
DVD Release Date: June 10, 2014
BUG: Very cool. Well how did you assemble this cast? It’s a really great cast, with Charles Dance, Rachel Griffith, Sharni Vinson—how did each of them become involved in this film?
MH: We always wanted to get some kind of prestige cast for this film. And so when we wrote the screenplay we really did overwrite it, we wanted it to read like it was a smart dialog-driven story so we could attract a decent cast. And thankfully Charles, you know, responded to it, and Rachel had been a fan of the original when she was a kid so I think that was part of the appeal for her also in playing Julia Blake’s role. Sharni, I think Sharni was just an actress who like the script and sent in an audition and almost at the same time as we originally started casting this film, YOU’RE NEXT had played Toronto had played Midnight Madness and it made huge buzz of that film so casting Sharni seemed like a complete no-brainer to reach a link to the sales agent for this film.
MH: It wasn’t tough to get Charles to do it. He was great. He was up for anything. He was sitting on the floor in the kitchen covered in frog slime and I kept thinking of this horrible taste he must have had in his mouth. There were some moments when I did think surely this actor is above this. But no, Charles was really great and it was amazing coming to work each day and hearing him put his life into the character that we scripted.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/67287
and :
And then there’s Charles Dance as Dr Roget, the role played by Robert Helpmann in the original. And Charles doesn’t get anywhere near as hammy as Robert…
"Robert does have a camp edge in the original, yes, and that was the last thing that we wanted for our film. And Charles brings real authority to it, and he’s playing a character who’s so driven that nothing else is more important than his work, he brings real sincerity to the role too... And in some ways we wanted the film to be a throwback, and some people are saying that it reminds them of a Hammer horror film and so, if that’s the case, then Charles is our Peter Cushing. He’s got such charisma in real life too: he’s such a lovely, great guy, and he said to me often, 'Do you have any notes about my performance?', and I’d say, 'No! It’s just wonderful watching you breathe life into our dialogue!'. You know, when people heard that we were going to be remaking Patrick, they thought that we were going to be going for the whole hi-tech-thriller route, with Patrick able to program supercomputers, and be like a Bourne film with a guy in a coma......http://www.ripitup.com.au/lifestyle/article/mark-hartley-director-of-patrick-interview#.U3-KnCBOLIU
and :
DG: How did Charles Dance feel about playing such an enjoyably creepy character?
MH: Charles just liked the script. We’d actually overwritten the script, it was much more verbose than most screenplays are because we wanted to attract a couple of prestige actors. And we wanted people to think this was a smart dumb movie as opposed to a dumb dumb movie? And Charles really liked the script and he liked the idea of coming to Australia, and he just liked the character. So I went over to England and met with him, and he’s very charming. He was just an absolute delight to work with. This was a very compact shoot, and we didn’t have a lot of time for takes, and he would just nail it. I said to him that it’s just amazing that you bring this slightly clunky dialogue on the page to life. He was just great to work with, a really lovely guy. The crew and the rest of the cast just really loved him.
http://dailygrindhouse.com/interviews/not-hollywood-director-mark-hartley-takes-patrick/
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Charles stars as ex-tour manager Floyd, a man used to mingling with the stars. Now in retirement, he is still as rock 'n' roll as ever; a flamboyant, free spirited, party goer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GydJFGVpof4
Monday, 5 May 2014
Tywin and Cersei Lannister - About Tyrion :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGY-bJla08s
- The new king ceremony - Tommen :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYa_NLjLzA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGY-bJla08s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYa_NLjLzA
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