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Kenneth Branagh: TV Guide News

New (and Some Old) Faces on Mystery! | Roush Dispatch | 7/13/2008
This summer, PBS’s rechristened Masterpiece Mystery! series is saying farewell to some favorite franchises, with the final installments of Foyle’s War (starting tonight), which I recently reviewed, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. To fill the gap, Mystery! is turning to some old friends for next summer’s line-up, specifically Agatha Christie’s renowned sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and introducing a new crime-solver. Kenneth Branagh will star and co-produce a... read more
New (and Some Old) Faces on Mystery! | Roush Dispatch | 7/13/2008
This summer, PBS’s rechristened Masterpiece Mystery! series is saying farewell to some favorite franchises, with the final installments of Foyle’s War (starting tonight), which I recently reviewed, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. To fill the gap, Mystery! is turning to some old friends for next summer’s line-up, specifically Agatha Christie’s renowned sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and introducing a new crime-solver. Kenneth Branagh will star and co-produce a... read more
Movie News: Smallville Star Picks a Fighter, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 2/19/2008
Smallville's Kristin Kreuk will play martial artist Chun-Li in Twentieth Century Fox's adaptation of the Street Fighter video-game series. Michael Clarke Duncan and Chris Klein also star in this second attempt to bring the popular title to the big screen.... Peter Facinelli (Damages) and Elizabeth Reaser (Grey's Anatomy) have joined the cast of Twilight, which stars Kristen Stewart as a teen who befriends a classmate only to learn he's a vampire.... Kenneth Branagh and Rhys Ifans are hoping to... read more
Kenneth Branagh Brings the Bard, As You Like It | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 8/21/2007
Aside from the poet himself, nobody does Shakespeare quite like Kenneth Branagh. For his latest Bard-based project, the Emmy-winning native of Ireland directs Shakespeare's As You Like It (premiering on HBO Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 9pm/ET) and sets it in 19th-century Japan. The former Royal Shakespeare Company member spoke to us from the set of his new movie Valkyrie, in Berlin, about his modern take on the 16th-century text. TV Guide: You've done a lot of Shakespeare before, so why adapt this ... read more
In the Works: As You Like It, Christina Milian's Snow Job | Today's News: Our Take | 7/11/2007
HBO has announced an Aug. 21 premiere for a Kenneth Branagh-helmed adaptation of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, starring Kevin Kline, Bryce Dallas Howard and Alfred Molina.... Actress-singer Christina Milian is attached to star opposite Matt Keeslar (Scream 3) in Snowglobe, an ABC Family pic about a young woman who is able to escape real life by venturing inside her grandmother's Christmas-themed tchotchke. read more
Roush Review | 4/18/2005
The classic TV-movie is almost a lost art. But not on HBO. Warm Springs (April 30, 8 pm/ET) is an unabashedly emotional read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/11/2004
Kenneth Branagh will star as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs, a telepic for HBO. Named after the Georgia town wher read more
FlickChick | 6/24/2004
Question: Some years back, I remember reading about a movie in development called Alien Love Trilogy. The studio liked o read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/29/2004
Lost in Translation's Scarlett Johansson is the latest A-lister to join Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible 3. Kenneth Bra read more
Today's News: My Take | 5/28/2003
Thesp Kenneth Branagh married girlfriend Lindsay Brunnock over the weekend. This is Branagh's second marriage; he was pr read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 11/6/2002
During the filming of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Emma Watson — who plays know-it-all Hermione Granger read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/5/2001
After an unprecedented three-week delay due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the 53rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards wil read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/14/2001
A woman posing as Fight Club actress Helena Bonham Carter had to be "forcefully ejected" from the set of Saturday Night read more
Today's News: My Take | 1/11/2001
Temptation Island premiered last night to even more controversy than expected. Following the discovery that one of the f read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/1/2000
Respected Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branagh has a confession to make ? he once tried to arrange a seemingly impromptu read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/31/2000
Could there be traces of killer drugs in your dinner? Clueless star and die-hard vegan Alicia Silverstone seems to think read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/11/2000
Actress Alicia Silverstone says she's left her fat behind and has her new vegan lifestyle to thank for the change. Si read more