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Dan Stevens is Dashing in Toronto for The Fifth Estate Screening

08 Sunday Sep 2013

Posted by Tonya in Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Dan Stevens, Daniel Brühl, Downton Abbey, The Fifth Estate, Toronto International Film Festival

Dan Stevens is looking very un-Matthew Crawley-like at The Fifth Estate screening at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival.  Since his Downton Abbey days are behind him, he has slimmed down and shunned his blonde locks – and I think I like it.

Read all about The Fifth Estate here.

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Dan Stevens poses for a photograph on the red carpet at the gala for the new movie “The Fifth Estate” during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Jason Merritt/Getty Images

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But the fandoms really collided when Benedict Cumberbatch entered the picture with Dan Stevens – Sherlockians, Trekkies and Downtonians.  Oh my!!!

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Dan Stevens and Daniel Bruhl look smoking hot for debut of “The Fifth Estate” at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2013

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Benedict Cumberbatch arrives on the TIFF red carpet for The Fifth Estate. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

Will you be going to see The Fifth Estate because of Dan Stevens or Benedict Cumberbatch?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Dan Stevens in The Fifth Estate

22 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by Tonya in Downton Abbey

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Alicia Vikander, Anthony Mackie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Condon, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Downton Abbey, Dr. Who, DreamWorks Pictures, Fifth Estate, Laura Linney, PBS Masterpiece, Peter Capaldi, Stanley Tucci

Dan Stevens has been a busy boy since his Downton Abbey character Matthew Crawley died in a tragic car crash leaving us to mourn without him last year.   He filmed The Fifth Estate this past year along with a star-studded cast, including PBS Masterpiece’s own Laura Linney.  What would the U.S. viewers do without Laura Linney introducing Downton Abbey to us on Sunday nights???

The Fifth Estate is a DreamWorks Pictures film directed by Bill Condon and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney.

Dan Stevens and Peter Capaldi

Stevens (picture above with Peter Capaldi) will play Ian Katz who is a South-African born British journalist who was the deputy editor of The Guardian. In May 2013 it was announced that Katz was to become the new editor of the BBC Two current affairs program Newsnight.

(Dr. Who fans should be thrilled to get a sneak peek at Peter Capaldi since he was recently announced as the newest Doctor on the show.)

DreamWorks just released the official movie poster for the film which is opening on October 18, 2013.

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The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?   Written by DreamWorks Pictures

Check out the trailer – sadly, Dan Stevens doesn’t appear in it.

Downton’s Allen Leech’s new role

18 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by Tonya in Downton Abbey, The Imitation Game

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Alan Turing, Allen Leech, Amersand Pictures, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bletchley Park, Downton Abbey, Enigma machine, Ido Ostrowsky, Keira Knightly, Nora Grossman, Teddy Schwarzman

Filming of Season Four of Downton Abbey is done and the show is about to premiere in the U.K.  Woohooo!!!    But, the cast must be bored with nothing to do.  Not so much for Allen Leech, who plays the former chauffeur, now estate manager/son-in-law, Tom Branson, on Downton Abbey.  He has just signed on for his first major Hollywood production in The Imitation Game which starts shooting next month.

downton 2Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly are staring in the film about the famous Enigma code breaker Alan Turing.  No word yet on what role Allen Leech will be playing.

Keira Knightly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Turing

Cumberbatch will be playing Alan Turing and Knightly will be playing Joan Clarke, Turing’s co-worker in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, a good friend to whom he proposed marriage in 1941 despite being his being gay.  Turing later decided he could not go through with the marriage and the pair remained good friends until his death.

Turing was a mathematician and is famed for writing the first blueprint for modern computing. He also invented an electromagnetic machine called the ‘bombe’ which formed the basis for deciphering Germany’s Enigma codes during the war.

The work Turing and his team did at Bletchley Park has been credited with shortening World War II by as many as two years, but it is only six decades after his death that Turing’s contribution is beginning to be fully acknowledged .

Because of the Official Secrets Act, his code-breaking did not become public knowledge until twenty years after his suicide. His parents and brother never knew of his secret war efforts during his lifetime

Turing was found dead on 7 June 1954, a few weeks before his 42nd birthday, having apparently bitten into an apple laced with cyanide.

His death came soon after he was found guilty of gross indecency for homosexual acts (which were then illegal) avoiding prison by agreeing to be chemically castrated.

Despite his premature death aged 41, Turing was so prolific in the fields of mathematics, computer science and mathematical biology, specifically morphogenesis, that the Science Museum dedicated a whole exhibition to him upon the centenary of his birth last year.

The Imitation Game is an indie film being produced by Teddy Schwarzman with Nora Grossman and Ido Ostrowsky of Amersand Pictures.  Rumor has it that the budget is around $15 million.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/keira-knightley-may-costar-as-complicated-love-interest-with-benedict-cumberbatch-in-alan-turing-biopic-the-imitation-game-8645806.html

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