Jane Eyre's Laundry In Museum Exhibit

The FIDM Museum & Galleries in Downtown Los Angeles just opened their spectacular annual Emmy Costume Exhibit, featuring the nominated costumes from Jane Eyre, The Tudors, and Rome plus dozens of other t.v. shows. The exhibit runs through September 29th. To get more info, read my post about the exhibit on FIDM Magazine here.

As He Likes It: Branagh Sets Play In 19th C. Japan

Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of As You Like It, starring Romala Garai, Kevin Kline, Alfred Molina, and Bryce Dallas Howard, will premiere on August 21st on Movie Central and August 23rd on The Movie Network. Branagh sets his adaptation in 19th century Japan. More info here.

New Oliver Twist to be Darker, Edgier

EastEnders writer Sarah Phelps has drafted the screenplay for a new adaptation of the already fairly dark Dickens novel Oliver Twist. The "all star cast," reports Easier.com, includes Rob Brydon whom you'll doubt remember as the mysteriously wounded Uncle Toby in the recent film adaptation of Tristram Shandy.

What Would Moliere Do?

A new film about the French actor and playwright, opening tomorrow, aims to answer that question with a fictional conjecture about what he was up to during mysterious gaps in his known history. The L.A. Times describes it as a "Gallic 'Shakespeare in Love'"

Grendel Grumblings...

Dark Horizons has an interesting first take on what the new Robert Zemeckis-directed Beowulf movie has to offer. It stars Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone (whom you may remember as Masterpiece Theater's most recent Henry VIII), Robin Wright Penn and a nearly naked Angelina Jolie, all done in CG rendering a la Polar Express. The image on the left is Jolie as Grendel's mother, fyi. Somehow NOT what I pictured when i read it.

"I Too Can Command the Wind, Sir!"

Austen-tatious posted this absolutely thrilling trailer for the sequel to Elizabeth. I've posted the international trailer below.

I am Katherine Parr

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Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?
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