British-born actor Colin Firth is hanging up his Mamma Mia dancing shoes to take on a much darker in the new film Dorian Gray based on Oscar Wildes classic tale The film directed by Oliver Parker follows the story of Gray played by Ben Barnes an attractive young man who becomes the subject of a painting Gray meets an aristocrat Lord Henry Wotton Firth and becomes enthralled by his hedonistic worldviews As Gray begins to pursue pleasure his portrait begins to morph and age though he does not As per the Hollywood Reporter the films producer Barnaby Thompson said Parker plans to make a visceral dark horror story and said the themes of stardom are as relevant as ever while at Mays Festival de CannesHow do you think Firth will fair in this classic retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray Will he be able to convey the darkness needed to make this film work Gina DiNunno
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Dec 14, 2007 12:01 AM ET
- by Ken Fox
How can I resist you? Hot on the heels of Hairspray, Mamma Mia! -- the hugely popular NYC tourist must-see based on the naggingly memorable ABBA songbook -- is also making the transition from Broadway stage to screen, with original stage director Phyllida Law behind the camera and a pretty stellar cast out front. Amanda Seyfried (Veronica Mars, Big Love) plays Sophie, the young bride-to-be determined to solve the mystery of her birth dad's identity on the eve of her Greek Isle wedding. Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard and Pierce Brosnan are the three likeliest suspects; Meryl Streep stars as her mom. Universal will be releasing Mamma Mia! in Summer 2008, but the trailer is starting to make the rounds. Will it be the summer’s biggest guilty pleasure? Probably, but who am I to get snarky about ABBA? “Waterloo” was the very first record I ever bought. It cost 98 cents, which makes me kind of pathetic and old.
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Per Variety, Kate Hudson will star in (and who knows, perhaps find a new boyfriend in) Bride Wars, a romantic comedy about two gal pals who clash over identical wedding dates.... Uma Thurman is a radio show "love doctor" whose advice bites her on the butt in The Accidental Husband, also starring Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane and Justina Machado.
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Just a week before its premiere, Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies has been fanny-slapped with an NC-17 rating, largely due to its depiction of an explicit three-way sex scene between Kevin "In Wild Things You Saw My" Bacon, Rachel Blanchard and Colin Firth (the Bridget Jones movies). "It was so close [to getting an R rating]," a defeated Egoyan tells the New York Daily News. Having had his appeal for an R denied by the MPAA, the director will now reinsert a lesbian scene that previously had been cut. So there.
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