Ralph Fiennes has said Gerard Butler was just the warrior he needed for Coriolanus. In the big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, the Scottish actor stars as Aufidius, the sworn enemy of Roman soldier Coriolanus - played by Ralph, who also directed the film....
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Release Dates for SAFE, PARIAH CORIOLANUS, THE LUCKY ONE, THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
Time to catch up with the release dates the studios have announced over the last couple weeks. Via Box Office Mojo: Lionsgate pushed the Jason Statham actioner Safe from October 28 to March 2, 2012. The move explains why we haven't seen a trailer yet. Focus Features...
First Look: ‘Coriolanus’ Poster Featuring Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler (Exclusive)
[i]In The Weinstein Company film, the actors play sworn enemies who are forced to work together for the sake of revenge.[/i] A new poster for The Weinstein Company's Coriolanus reveals a dramatic face off between two leading men, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler. The...
Machine Gun Preacher’ and ‘Coriolanus’ to premiere in Toronto
Gerard Butler's Machine Gun Preacher and Coriolanus will make their North American debuts at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September it was announced today. Continue reading on...
CORIOLANUS | Shakespeare’s super-soldier enters The Hurt Locker for Ralph Fiennes ferocious directorial debut… (Blog)
It's got more battles than any other Shakespeare play and its Rambo - it mught be the bard, but you won't be bored. For his directorial debut, Ralph Fiennes charts the path of destruction of a brilliant, fearless general undone by pride and arrogance. Updated to a...
Ralph Fiennes to Open Belgrade Film Festival
[i]Oscar contenders dominate the lineup at this year's International Film Festival FEST in Belgrade.[/i] The British actor and director is to open the International Film Festival FEST in Belgrade, which runs from February 25 to March 6. Among the most eagerly...
Ralph Fiennes: Shakespeare Would Make a Great Screenwriter (Berlin)
[i]Courtesy of Berlinale 2011 At a press conference at the European Film Market, where the actor-director's "Coriolanus" screened, he said that he would like to do another contemporary-set version of one of the playwright's works.[/i] BERLIN -- Ralph Fiennes, whose...
Fiennes directorial debut a hit in Berlin
BERLIN — British actor Ralph Fiennes won applause at the Berlin film festival Monday for his directorial debut, "Coriolanus", a modern adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy about a vengeful Roman general. The all-star cast includes the two-time Oscar nominee in the...
Fiennes modernizes Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’
Ralph Fiennes has pulled Shakespeare tragedy "Coriolanus" into a present-day world of 24-hour news television and modern warfare for his debut as a director. Fiennes takes the lead role as a great but flawed Roman general in the movie, which has its premiere Monday at...
Weinsteins to Distribute Ralph Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’ (Berlin)
Set for a 2011 release, the contemporary political thriller centers on the life and times of Shakespeare's Roman general antihero. The Weinstein Company has taken U.S. rights to Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut Coriolanus, which is due to unspool in Competition at the...
Weinstein Co. buys Ralph Fiennes’ ‘Coriolanus’
[i]Berlin competition pic stars Gerard Butler[/i] BERLIN -- The Weinstein Co. has snapped up U.S. rights to Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," in Berlin. Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and James Nesbitt star in the $10 million pic, which is...
Could ‘Coriolanus’ Be the Next ‘The King’s Speech’? (Blog)
mood: excited On Monday February 14, Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, a modern day interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy, will have its world premiere at the prestigious Berlinale (the Berlin Int'l Film Festival.) There has already been considerable...
Ralph Fiennes takes Coriolanus to Berlin film festival (Blog)
Modern-day interpretation of 15th-century tale is sole British production in competition at next month's Berlin film festival. Coriolanus marks Ralph Fiennes's debut as a director. Photograph: Larry D Horricks It's the 15th-century tale of a renegade Roman general...
Berlin Film Festival unveils 2011 line-up (Blog)
Berlin - Films from Turkey, Israel, Britain, Germany, France and the US are to form part of the main competition line-up for next year's Berlin Film Festival, organizers announced Wednesday. The movies unveiled include the directorial debut by British actor Ralph...
Berlin reveals first competish titles Pics from Fiennes, Wenders in lineup
BERLIN -- Ralph Fiennes' modern take on Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," starring Gerard Butler; "Pina," Wim Wenders' 3D portrait of late choreographer Pina Bausch; and Sundance screener "The Future," by Miranda July ("Me and You and Everyone We Know") are among the first...
Ralph Fiennes’ Directorial Debut Showing in Berlin
Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," to premiere at Berlin film festival Actor Ralph Fiennes' debut as a director a version of the Shakespeare tragedy "Coriolanus" is to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Organizers said...
On the set in Serbia with a bloody Ralph Fiennes
BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - Dressed in military fatigues and with their faces covered in blood, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler are at each others' necks, fighting on the ground atop broken glass and debris, trying to kill each other. Still breathing heavily after an...
Making a Fiennes fist of an anti-hero: First pictures of Coriolanus on the big screen
Ralph Fiennes has been obsessed with bringing Shakespeare's anti-hero Coriolanus to the screen ever since he played the human killing machine on stage. A decade later, the actor is directing the movie, as well as playing the central role. He has persuaded Serbian...
Ralph Fiennes’s full-metal Coriolanus
[i]Ralph Fiennes has picked a modern war-zone version of Coriolanus for his directorial debut. Cath Clarke finds herself embedded on set in Belgrade – bullets, bandanas, Gerard Butler and all[/i] A dozen or so soldiers are sprawled in front of a communist-era block...
Minister Sutanovac on the set with the crew of “Coriolanus”
Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac visited today the crew of "Coriolanus," which captures the scene in the territory of the Military Museum in Belgrade. Sutanovac spoke with producers of the film and the main protagonists, Gerald Butler and actors Ralph Fiennes who is...
Minister of Defense on the set of ‘Coriolanus’
[b]NOTE: Click the link above to watch the video.[/b] Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac visited the crew of "Coriolanus," which captures the scene in the territory of the Military Museum in Belgrade. Sutanovac spoke with producers of the film and the main...
Stars in the Army Museum
The team of "Coriolanus," the recording continued yesterday in Belgrade, Kalemegdan. Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Slavko Stimac, and Radoslav - Rale Milenkovic were shooting scenes at military museum, a fortress in Belgrade was quiet, and passers-by did not know that...
Butler barely fit in the uniform
Translated Text: Scottish actor Gerard Butler yesterday in the complex KPGT at sugar refineries, under the watchful eye of an enormous number of people from security, filming his first scene in "Coriolanus" and directed by actor Ralph Fiennes. The team arrived on the...
Butler in charge of humor at shooting of ‘Coriolanus’
Shooting of the Hollywood movie 'Coriolanus' in Belgrade was continued yesterday in the ruins by the old Sugar plant in the vicinity of the KPGT club. The set with George Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Slavko Stimac and Elizabeta Djorevska had a nice time yesterday. 'Butler...
Shooting at dawn
Gerard Butler who arrived in Belgrade the other day, as early as yesterday at half past six in the morning was in front of cameras shooting scenes from 'Coriolanus' directed by Ralph Fiennes. The area around the KPGT and the old Sugar plant was forbidden zone the...