"British Academy Television Awards" in London
British actor Kenneth Branagh attends the "British Academy Television Awards" at Royal Festival Hall in London on April 26, 2009. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad)
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore have signed up for roles in Kenneth Branagh's big-screen Hollywood adaptation of the Marvel comic book, "Thor."
LOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) -- HBO's fact-based movies "Grey Gardens" and "Into the Storm" each picked up more than a dozen Emmy Award nominations in Los Angeles Thursday.
LOS ANGELES, July 14 (UPI) -- Israeli-born U.S. actress Natalie Portman has signed up to play Jane Foster in "Thor," the Marvel superhero picture Kenneth Branagh is to direct next year.
LONDON, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- David Tennant's return to the British stage as Hamlet after back surgery has been named the theater event of the year by participants in an online poll.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. director Bryan Singer says he decided not to have the international cast of "Valkyrie" speak with German accents because it would be distracting.
LONDON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- More than 100 members of the British film and television industry have banded together to urge their government to crack down on illegal downloading.
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LONDON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- London's Donmar Warehouse has announced Northern Irish actor-director Kenneth Branagh will not direct Jude Law in "Hamlet" as planned.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Northern Irish actor-director Kenneth Branagh reportedly is in talks to direct the upcoming Marvel Comics superhero movie "Thor."
CARDIFF, Wales, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Welsh actor Rhys Ifans is teaming up with director Richard Curtis on a new movie about a British pirate radio station in the 1960s, a cast member says.
