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A third Bridget Jones movie is being developed with Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger once again set to play the beloved British singleton.
Variety.com said Working Title is working on a sequel to the hits “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” which were films based on Helen Fielding’s newspaper columns and novels about a fictional spinster.
The third movie reportedly could go into production late next year. It is expected to be based on columns Fielding penned in 2005 about Bridget getting pregnant and having a baby while in her 40s, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.
The first two movies co-starred Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as Bridget’s suitors. The Variety report did not say whether they will be on board for the as-yet-untitled third installment of the film franchise.
Firth told UPI last year he hasn’t ruled out reprising his “Bridget” role of Mark Darcy, a modern incarnation of his Mr. Darcy character from British TV’s “Pride and Prejudice” miniseries.
“I remember being on the set of the second (’Bridget Jones’) with Hugh one day and one of us asked the other, ‘Do you remember saying yes to this?’ ‘No, never did!’” Firth told UPI in 2008.
“Then, once the process was in motion, it had that kind of air of inevitability and then you would have had to be the one to unglue it all. So, if there was a third one, it might be like that. We might all come back as a kind of dysfunctional family again,” he quipped. “It would have to be pretty damn good, I think.”
source: upi.com

Colin Firth is Mr. Whittaker and Jessica Biel is Larita in “Easy Virtue.”
Here, he is by far the best drawn and most sympathetic of characters in an airless family of British aristocrats aghast to find an American suddenly in the fold.
Young John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) has returned to the clan’s sprawling country estate to announce, without preamble, that he has married an American rally car driver from Detroit. Larita Huntington (Biel) is a self-possessed, adventurous and thoroughly modern woman, qualities her new mother-in-law Veronica Whittaker (Kristin Scott Thomas) regards with horror. It’s bad enough that she’s a Yank, and a widow, but her unfettered flamboyance is decidedly at odds with the kind of decorum demanded by Veronica, who was expecting her 20-something son to return home and marry within his class.
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Hugh Hudson will direct the bigscreen adaptation of George Orwell’s “Catalonia,” with Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey attached to star. Arclight Films is repping the film at the Cannes market.
Hudson (”I Dreamed of Africa,” “Chariots of Fire”) will direct from a script by Bob Ellis.
Orwell’s book revolves around the real-life story of how he and his wife Eileen traveled to Barcelona to fight Stalinism. There, Orwell joined the Anarchist brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. Film will highlight the relationship between Orwell and Georges Kopp, the charismatic commander of the brigade.
Al Clark is producing with veteran French producer Alian Sarde and Fernando Meirelles through his Brazilian company O2 Films.
Clark was co-producer on the last film adaptation of an Orwell book, “1984,” toplining John Hurt and Richard Burton.
Sarde’s credits include Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and Mike Leigh’s “Vera Drake.”
Hudson is scheduled to begin lensing in the first half of 2010 in England, Spain and then Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Uruguay.

source: variety

The work of the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter, who passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer, will be celebrated with a stellar one-off evening of readings and performance excerpts in the National’s Olivier Theatre on June 7 at 7 pm. Ian Rickson will direct.
Amongst the high-profile actors who will be taking part in Harold Pinter: A Celebration are Eileen Atkins, David Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, Janie Dee, Lindsay Duncan, Colin Firth, Henry Goodman, Sheila Hancock, Douglas Hodge, Jude Law, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Indira Varma, Samuel West, Lia Williams, and Penelope Wilton, most of whom have numerous Pinter credits to their names already. The evening will also feature students from LAMDA.
A number of Pinter’s plays premiered at the NT: Betrayal, No Man’s Land, Other Places and Mountain Language and his adaptation (with Di Trevis) of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Other productions of the playwright’s work at the National over the years included The Hothouse, The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and The Homecoming.
Tickets are priced £10 and are available in person or by telephone from the National Theatre box office on 0207 452 3000.
For more information, visit www.whatsonstage.com.

source: theatermania.com

Colin Firth went back to basics while filming his new movie Genova with director Michael Winterbottom.
The prolific British filmmaker is known for his unorthodox working methods, including the use of handheld cameras and improvised dialogue.
Firth plays an English father who moves his two American daughters to Italy following the death of their mother.
The actor said: “This was the basics. This had no lights, no crew to speak of, no security, no background people - just us.
“He (Winterbottom) never says: ‘Action’. He never says: ‘Cut’. He just keeps going.
“There is a script but if you finish the dialogue it’s up to you what you do after that.”

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Catherine Keener has admitted to having a crush on fellow actor Colin Firth before she was aware of his heartthrob status.
Keener and Firth appeared together in Michael Winterbottom’s 2008 movie Genova.
Keener told The Guardian: “He’s very honest, especially if you say something idiotic, which I do a lot. He’ll just look at me like, ‘Twerp’. I found him hysterically funny.
“I have the biggest crush on him, then I found out everyone else does, too, because of his Mr Darcy, which I’d never seen. I realised I didn’t discover this new sex bomb at all.
“And his wife - she’s even hotter than Colin!”

source: digitalspy