We're going to have a party, a jolly good party. Splendid!Variety.com has a new trailer for Valkyrie, which is scheduled for release on the 13th of February 2009. There are several Bill bits in the trailer.
Update: OK, there has been some confusion around, this is not the new trailer, but the trailer from November 2007. The truly new trailer will be available soon, if it’s […]
Bill Nighy will star in “Wild Target” a hitman caper that will be shot on location on the Isle of Man and in the UK later this year. The film will also star Helena Bonham Carter.
(Source: Variety)
More information as it comes available.
BBC2(tv) has just broadcasted the first 2 episodes of a new series of […]
It is going to be a tough year for all Bill Nighy fans, as the release of Bill’s only film coming out this year, Valkyrie, has been moved to 2009.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists announced today they are moving the release date of Bryan Singer’s World War II thriller VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise, to President’s Day […]
There is more information available about your without a doubt favourite film of 2009.
Production of The Boat that Rocked has just started in the UK. Shooting will take place in both the Shepperton Studios and on a vessel in the Channel.
From the Working Title website:
Synopsis:
n 1966, arguably British pop music’s finest era, the BBC […]
It’s getting more crowded on Richard Curtis’ The Boat That Rocked, as it seem to turn into a beautiful British ensemble project:
January Jones (Love Actually)
Rhys Ifans (Spike from Notting Hill)
Kenneth Branagh
have just boarded.
Add Bill Nighy and Philip Seymour Hoffman to that mix and it is getting rather explosive.
Shooting starts in the beginning of March in […]
There is no better way to begin your day than open up the news paper reading an article with those words in the same sentence:
“Bill Nighy” and “lead role”.
The Guardian has an article about producer Scott Rudin, who mentions to be producing Saturday, which is a film based on a novel by the same name […]
The actor who still rocks is on board The Boat That Rocked.
Not much is known about this movie yet, but 3 essential things:
1. Richard Curtis wrote it (Remember Love Actually and The Girl In The Cafe?)
2. Richard Curtis will direct it (he directed Love Actually too).
3. It is a comedy, to be more specific […]
According to several sources on the internet Bill Nighy has joined the cast of G-force, a half live/half animated film produced by Disney. Bill will play one of the live characters.
The story follows a group of ultra-intelligent animal commandos who work for a government agency trying to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the […]
Yahoo has the first film trailer online of Valkyrie, in which you can see some bits of Bill Nighy as General Friedrich Olbricht, one of the plotters in the attempt to kill Hitler..
See the trailer on Yahoo
Valkyrie is set for a release in June 2008.
Apple has a new Valkyrie featurette online. There is little Bill in it, but it gives a good impression of the production as a whole.
The release date for Valkyrie now seems to be set to the 28th of June, October 2008.
The Guardian has more information about Coping Strategies, and a lovely and passionate interview (audio) with everybody’s favourite actor.
Hear Bill about wearing “a very bad jumper”, about working alongside people with learning disabilities and the effect of doing plays or film on people with those difficulties.
Read the article on the Guardian.
Hear Bill talking about the […]
The first picture of Bill Nighy as General Friedrich Olbricht in Valkyrie has been published on the internet. Click the image for a slightly larger version of the picture.
The Daily Mail has a very interesting article about the story behind Valkyrie, and also has a photo of the real General Friedrich Olbricht, the character […]
On the officlal Stormbreaker site you can now see a first trailer for the film. You can spot Bill Nighy, as Mr. Blunt for a short moment.
If you happen to live in the UK, you can see a much longer trailer, including a lot more of Bill Nighy (Mr. Blunt) in the cinemas.
The Stormbreaker movie […]
Bill Nighy has signed to star in Australian director Stephan Elliott (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) Easy Virtue, a screenplay based on Noel Coward’s play, “Easy Virtue”. The play is one of Coward’s early works and is a melodrama. Alfred Hitchcock made a silent movie version of it in the 20’s.
The project is “in-developtment”.
(Source […]