Should you be interested, Bill Nighy’s artwork is now for sale on QXL. (Current price 465 GBP but that will probably go even more up).
Money raised on this charity auction will go to Tsunami victims.
The first pictures of Bill Nighy on the set of Stormbreaker are floating on the internet.
And from the character description of the book:
“Grey suit, grey hair, grey lips and grey eyes. Wears square gun-metal/steel-rimmed spectacles with thick lenses.”
Seems like Bill Nighy is a perfect match, classy, grey hair and a moustache. Is this man [...]
BBC7, treating us well with a lot of Bill Nighy on the radio lately, broadcasted The Photographer yesterday. You can still catch it on Listen Again until saturday. The Photographer was part of the spoof documentary series People Like Us.
In The Photographer you can hear Bill Nighy as Vaugn, a very professional photographer …
People [...]
Pictures of Bill Nighy on the set of Notes on a Scandal are popping up here, there and everywhere.
DVDtimes has an extensive review of the soon to be released The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy DVD. Apart from the film, there are of course The Extras. And the best of it, from a Bill Nighy point of view, and apart from the film, is this:
… “not one, but two feature-length audio [...]
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The opening introduction gives each individual meerkat names like Flower, Mitch and Tosca. With each name is a quip that gives a personality to each meerkat like ‘rebellious’ or ‘honest’.
There is a bossy mother meerkat called Flower, and a father meerkat who stays very close to Flower’s side and is charged with [...]
Both Holland, Denmark and Germany are broadcasting Meerkat Manor from the 19th of september - at 19.00 pm.
The Meerkats have gotten names like Flower, Zaphod (!), Shakespeare, Youssarian, Tosca and Mitch.
As you all know, Bill Nighy is narrating this soap, and one could suspect him for making up some of those names too.
Check [...]
The Hollywood reporter is reviewing The Constant Gardener, and has an interview with director Fernando Meirelles, known from the fantastic City of God film. Not too much Bill Nighy in this article (though he gets mentioned for good supporting performances), but interesting enough to read to get some more background information about the film.
Read [...]
Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy are both working/filming in London for the drama Notes On A Scandal, set for release in 2006. Cate Blanchett plays a pottery teacher whose affair with one of her students disrupts both her personal and her professional lives.
Bill also gets to play with Judi Dench, who is casted for this [...]
For those of you who missed the 4 Bill Nighy radioplays on BBC7, they are still available (for 5 more days) in their Listen Again section. Hear it if you are a Bill Nighy fan.
Next weekend will be the second part of BBC7’s Bill Nighy weekend, bringing you :
Saturday - 20th of august - [...]
It was already announced, but now there is a little bit more information: Next week on BBC7 (which is everybody’s favorite radiochannel from now on) you can hear a mini-season of Bill’s work, and Jim Lee having an interview with Bill, talking about his radiowork.
The Rolling Stone is one of the first to review the upcoming The Constant Gardener.
“In negotiating the slippery slope of political and personal commitment, Meirelles emerges with one of the year’s best and most provocative movies. Long after it’s over, you still feel its sting.”
Read the whole review at RollingStone.com
JimHillmedia has some insight information about Flushed Away the new project of Aardman animation film, known for the Oscar winning Wallace & Gommit and Chicken Run. Even though Flushed Away is not going to be clay animation but entirely computer graphics, the film should be a lot of fun to watch.
What the film is about [...]
UPDATE: Bill Nighy will be interviewed and introducing each play on Saturday and Sunday at 1pm for two weekends (this is confirmed by BBC).
Here are the broadcasting times for the BBC7 Bill Nighy specials, as you could see announced on the Bill Nighy Experience:
Saturday 13th of August
13:00-14:00
Bill Nighy Season
Almost Always African: Lenny Henry joins Bill [...]
Bill Nighy / Sir Bernard Pellegrin in The Constant Gardener
The website for the upcoming The Constant Gardener has now been launched. There is one more picture of Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin (see above), and you find more backgroundinformation about the cast and the film.
Check the site: The Constant Gardener
Opening date : 26th of [...]