More than 50 charities are supporting a UK campaign to levy a Tobin tax on transactions between financial institutions, which can be used to help fight poverty, protect public services and tackle climate change.
The campaign will be launched today with an online promotional film written by Richard Curtis, the writer of Four Weddings and a [...]
Pirate Radio
More video clips and still from Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) have been released. One of the funniest scenes in the film is where The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is about to say the F-word on radio for the very first time. Quentin, boss of Radio Rock isn’t too pleased about that:
You can [...]
Here is the brand new poster for Pirate Radio (ready made for the US release of The Boat That Rocked)
Read more about Pirate Radio / The Boat That Rocked here.
More The Boat That Rocked posters here and here.
Bill Nighy has recorded an exclusive Telegraph podcast for anyone wishing to train (running) in Hyde Park. The podcast describes the history of the royal parks and offers tips to runners.
Bill giving tips to runners, who would have thought!
The podcast is highly enjoyable, so be sure to listen to it.
If Bill has made [...]
It has been a long wait for Bill Nighy fans in the US, but Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) is on its way to your cinemas at last.
The film has been reedited and will be slightly shorter than the original version, but here is a taste of what to expect:
US release date: 13th of [...]
BIll Nighy is starring in Statuesque, a new short film which tells the story of a love triangle between two living statues and an admirer who observes his object of affection every day among the Christmas shoppers – but is unaware that he too is being watched.
It is a silent short film written and directed [...]
Bill Nighy will star in a new black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
It is uncertain what role Bill will play, but it won’t be one of the two murderous leads. Simon Pegg has been cast as one of them though.
The film [...]
Bill in 12 Days of Christmas
Sky will produce 12 Days of Christmas, a dozen eight-minute silent films which will be broadcast on Sky1.
Bill Nighy will star in Statuesque, which tells the story of a love triangle between two living statues and an admirer who observes his object of affection every day among the Christmas shoppers [...]
More Bill
G-Force and Leonard Saber are doing really well at the US Box office: Guinea pigs break Potter’s spell
Bill Nighy: ‘As an actor, I’ve never had a plan’ Lovely interview in the UK Times.
BBC: Bill on “first guinea pig movie”
New (?) Afternoon radio play with Bill Nighy on BBC4, Thursday 14:15 – [...]
Nice and funny interview with Bill about G-Force and Leonard Saber
And another one – with very little Bill
And a interview with Bill Nighy about being Bill
“It was just a groovy job,” he explains. “It was the sweetest engagement and they looked after you really well.” In a slightly gnawed nutshell, Nighy plays evil billionaire Leonard [...]
Video interview about Harry Potter
Astro Boy trailer
Bill is voicing the little curly grey haired professor, professor Elefun.
Some more Bill bits
Some shorts bits of interview with Bill about Pirates, G-Force, Wild Target and Glorious 39. http://bit.ly/3fUm6
Bill Nighy – my summer reading: (video) http://bit.ly/LEz6u (filmed in Oxfam Marylebone, London)
Two images of Bill at the G-Force premiere [...]
Inspired by Music book for The Prince’s Trust
Bill has contributed to a book for the Prince’s Trust called Inspired by Music
Sponsored by Starbucks, Inspired* by music is The Prince’s Trust new book featuring amazing insights into the lives of our celebrity ambassadors and young people. Each shares their personal account of how one piece of [...]
There is a very short clip of Bill as Leonard Saber around 50s into the video.
And there is a second trailer with a little bit more Bill here:
For more info, visit the Official G-Force website.
It is about time, but Bill Nighy is at last attached to the Harry Potter franchise.
Bill Nighy has an announcement. “I don’t think I’m allowed to say it but I’m going to be in the next Harry Potter film,” he tells us. “I won’t say which character, but he’s a goodie. I just got the [...]