News Archive (most recent first)
2005
July 31st
The KeiraWeb promotions page for Domino is now online. Click here.
Keira was on the cover of the Sunday
Times magazine Culture today, with a double-page feature on P&P. The
article starts here.
If anyone can send me the scans,
please
do.
Thanks to Aslam.
The official Star Wars magazine of France has a Keira article in its new issue.
July 29th
AustenBlog has had an update from P&P's distributor Focus Features. The UK release date remains September 16th. The US date is November 18th on limited screens, going wider on the 23rd, and wider again on December 2nd and 9th, much the same as Love Actually did. Never quite sure why they do this with a movie of such potential as this - anybody know ?
Today's Daily Mail has an interesting article about P&P.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment are releasing a double pack DVD of Jerry Bruckheimer productions, Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, on October 3rd. Pre-order.
July 28th
WireImage have some thumbnails from Tuesday's P&P screening in Amsterdam. And Working Title have some pics from the Hamburg screening.
UK cinema-goers can now see the Domino trailer before 'appropriate features'. Not Willy Wonka, then.
July 27th
Well, despite the increasing number of premieres and previews of Pride and Prejudice, it would appear the general release has gone way out to the Christmas season. The official site is now listing November 18th as the release date.
Meanwhile, cries of "That's Me!" will be ringing out in Peterborough this weekend. Working Title is showing the movie to local residents who took part in the Meryton village scenes, filmed in nearby Stamford. Article.
The Keira Knightley 2006 Calendar is now available for pre-order from Amazon, out on September 1st. The cover can be seen here - not the best cover picture I've ever seen but at least there's twelve more chances for redemption inside !
One of the Pirates writers, Terry Rossio, has confirmed that 'World's End' is a working title for Pirates 3, but stresses that it is not the final title, and others are being considered such as Calypso's Fury and Uncharted Waters. For legal reasons, it will probably end up being NONE of these.
July 25th
Ahead of the premiere on Sky Movies this weekend, Sky are running a 'Bonus!' featurette on the movie, of which I've edited Keira's bits into a clip (see TV Guide for schedule). Might be new to some of you. Watching this now, Pirates seems like decades ago. How time flies. 2.2Mb
Here is the segment from VH1's '100 Most Wanted Sexy Bodies'. The Knightley body came in at a measly 97. Don't blame me, I didn't compile it ! 4.5Mb
Keira was in Hamburg, Germany today
for a screening (described in the photo captions as the premiere) of Pride
and Prejudice, marking the first in a long haul of promotions for Lizzie
Bennet. Photo.
More watermarked pics here.
Don't forget to keep checking the
P&P promotions page at the link above for everything Pride and Prejudice.
Toronto fans can enjoy a free open air screening of Bend It Like Beckham on July 30th at 9pm at the CIBC Stage of the Harbourfront Centre.
July 22nd
Are you fat, hideously unattractive,
funny-shaped, look like a serial killer or have missing teeth ? Wannabe
in Pirates 3: World's End ? Now you can... well, if you live in the LA
area, anyway. A casting call has been posted for the movie here.
The scenes required for these characters will be filmed at the LA studios,
you won't get a free holiday to the Caribbean !
Thanks to Lila Chu
Notes: Its requirement for "tons
of Asian people" would seem to confirm the story takes place in the Far
East, hence the apparent title and Yun-Fat's casting. Also of note is the
filming period "thru the middle of next year." So January's wrap has been
extended - that would still allow twelve months for post-production before
the movie is released in the Summr of 2007. It also means (assuming she
still has a significant role in Pirates 3), that Keira won't be signing
on for anything else until next Summer !
Here's some new pics of Keira doing
what women do very well - nattering.
Her phone is a Nokia 7610 by the way, in case you were interested :-)
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Thanks to Captn Llama
July 19th
Variety is listing P & P as having
a PG-13 rating in North America.
And the poster is now available
- take a look here.
Meanwhile, if you're interested
in Jane Austen generally, I captured a feature from BBC2 tonight on Jane's
home in the South of England, Chawton House, and a look at some of her
personal items and first editions, including Pride and Prejudice. It was
captured for my good friends over at AustenBlog.com,
the must-see site for Janeites.
Part
1 - Part 2.
July 17th
KeiraWeb has more exclusive video
clips for you to enjoy - none of which have previously appeared online.
From Keira's earliest available performance in A Village Affair, to her
stunning portrayal of Lara in Doctor Zhivago, these are just three of a
huge collection of clips soon to be made available online. See the Archives
in the column opposite to view.
Incidentally, if you have trouble
viewing WMVs I would recommend the VLC
Media Player - it's free and will play any type of multimedia file,
even incomplete downloads. I use it everyday.
Bend It Like Beckham distributors Redbus have finally settled a long-running dispute with the film's director Gurinder Chadha and producer Deepak Nayar over their share of the profits from the sleeper hit of 2003. Figures have not been disclosed but today's Variety reports that "...Redbus has agreed to pay a substantial sum to Chadha and Nayar." BILB cost £3.5m to make, of which £900,000 was funded from the National Lottery. It went on to take in more than £45m worldwide, not including video and DVD sales.
July 16th
Pirates Of The Caribbean: World's End
is the title of Pirates 3, according to star Marty Klebba's web
site. Perhaps a working title only ? We shall see.
Thoughts:
- It does suggest a long and dangerous
journey for the crew, which would tie in with Chow Yun-Fat's character
(a Chinese pirate) being in this movie only.
- The cast do now have their scripts
for POTC3, as Keira mentioned on the Good Morning America interview on
May 25th. But scripts don't always have final titles on the top of them
!
- On the subject of subtitles, the
'Chest' in the title of Dead Man's Chest may not be an actual wooden chest,
but possibly the real Caribbean pirate island of that name (long since
changed) which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write the song that appeared
in Treasure Island. See here.
Here's one of the ships you will see in Pirates DMC, The Bounty.
And another rave review of P & P.
Sudoku no.5 is up, plus the answers to no.4
July 15th
Britain's top talk show Richard &
Judy had a feature on Domino Harvey on tonight's programme. I've split
the segment into two. The first features Domino's godfather Peter Evans
talking about her and her life, plus some great photos we've not seen before.
It also featured the movie trailer, which I've edited out as you can see
that at the official
site. The second half features FHM Magazine writer Piers Hernu who
spent time with real bounty hunters in Indianapolis. (Amazingly,
I'd only just got in from work and switched on to catch the 'coming up
after the break' link, and just managed to boot up my PC and plug it into
my digital TV box to capture it).
Part
1 (8.8Mb) - Part 2 (5.5Mb).
Here are some screen grabs of the
Domino photos (2 and 3 are my faves - they almost seem to hark back to
her former life as a model):
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Don't forget there's a page of Domino promo reel captures still online.
July 14th
Keira flew back from a shopping trip in New York last night to be back in her home, London, for today's two-minute silence, observed by millions around the world. She stood in Trafalgar Square with thousands of other people, in remembrance of the 54 innocents who died a week ago today.
July 13th
US viewers can now see four Keira movies throughout July - check the schedules.
Keira was in New York yesterday,
as this People
photo shows.
Thanks to Caitlin
July 12th
Pride and Prejudice will be shown at the Toronto Film Festival, it was announced today. The festival runs September 8th - 17th. This will be a few days after the London premiere on the 5th, although the press release below says Toronto will be the world premiere (?). As mentioned here last month, Working Title premiered Love Actually at this fest so there was a good chance it would showcase P&P here too. Press release.
On the TV Guide Channel's countdown
of 'Summer Movie Hunks and Babes' Keira came in at No.14.
Thanks to Troy.
July 11th
Bad news (again) for North American
fans, Domino is now delayed until October 14th. At least that's what the
official
site is now saying, as well as the New Line site. The whole point of
moving it back to August was to have Keira free to promote it while the
Pirates filming is on hold. So the November date for the UK may well be
correct after all. Who knows - it's burning my brain!
Meanwhile, the full-length trailer
is meant to premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con
this week, with Richard Kelly and Tony Scott possible attendees.
And Christopher Walken is due on
David Letterman this Friday.
Check this out and spot the stupid mistake.
July 10th
Here are the three latest pap snaps
of Keira. I have airbrushed out the street name as it's not far from her
home. Some of us respect her privacy, even if you do find the unairbrushed
pics elsewhere.
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- 2 - 3.
Thanks to Captn Llama.
The ever-unreputable ContactMusic.com now reports that Keira has warned boyfrined Jamie not to get involved with Kirsten Dunst while on-set of Marie Antoinette. Trouble is, the movie finished filming last month. Credibility comes with a little research, I always find.
There's a new poll up on the Polls page. It's the third one down. Just curious.
Pre-production on the bulk of Pirates 3 commences on August 1st in Los Angeles while post-production is underway now on DMC, in time for its release next July 7th.
Promotions should kick off any day for Keira & co.'s big push for Domino. August 19th is still the US release date, although some sites now have an October date. IMDb has November 24th as a UK date, even though this has always been listed as August 19th, even amidst the US shuffles. Bewitched has been moved up to the same weekend here in the UK, so one or the other movie may well be about to move. Of course, most of the interviews are bound to be dominated by the death of Domino Harvey, even though Keira will more than likely be instructed not to speak too much on the subject, and the press too. You know what the media are like - tell them not to ask about something and they'll ask it. I'm sure Keira will tackle them with her usual intellect, initiative and diplomacy.
July 8th
Here is the segment from The Biography Channel's new series Hollywood's Ten Best. Tonight's programme featured the Ten Best 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Flicks. Keira and Parminder were at No.9. 2.8Mb.
July 7th
It was inevitable it would happen one day, and today it did. I hope everyone's friends and families have not been affected by today's atrocities in London, and our sympathies go out to those who have lost loved ones in the numerous bomb blasts across the city. In terms of Keira's London I cannot say where Keira was today, but geographically the third blast occurred just two blocks North of Keira's apartment in Mayfair, and the bus blast happened three blocks North of Keira's agency offices at PFD.
In other news, Chow Yun-Fat is confirmed for the second Pirates sequel, Pirates 3. He will play Captain Sao Feng and not, as originally reported (Dec 16th 2004 news), Chinese pirate legend Cheung Po Tsai. Filming on the sequels will resume in LA in mid-August, before heading back to the Caribbean (pending hurricanes of course).
July 6th
Variety has its first look at potential
Academy Award contenders today:
"The year is half over, but in
terms of awards, the fun is just beginning. Only a few serious kudos contenders
have so far emerged, such as "Cinderella Man" and "Crash"; the bulk of
hopefuls arrive, as usual, in the second half of the year.... Following
are some of the July-December openers -- not including animated features,
docus or foreign films -- that will be up in a variety of categories, from
tech to best pic...
September: Focus Features'
"Pride And Prejudice" (Keira Knightley); Miramax's "Proof" (Gwyneth
Paltrow) and "The Libertine" (Johnny Depp)..."
Site news: Although I'm working on two other sites at the moment, there are three brand new sections coming to KeiraWeb soon, including a much larger, more permanent home for the medium that sets KeiraWeb apart from the other Keira fan sites - the videos. Stay tuned.
July 4th
Domino screenplay writer Richard Kelly puts the record straight about the reshoots at richard-kelly.net.
A memorial service for Domino Harvey was held in Los Angeles on Friday. Among the mourners was the movie's star Mickey Rourke who said: ""I came today because Domino was such a great girl. The moment we met we really clicked. Something in both our characters mirrored each other. We were the same kind of people. I met her to do research for the film role. She was fun, lively, charismatic. She would ring me up, or I would ring her up, and she would say, 'Come on, let's raise hell,' and we would go out for a few drinks and talk the night away."
Keira's fella Jamie Dornan is due to sign to Sony Records later this year with his band Sons Of Jim. You heard it here first.
With Disney UK's premiere broadcast rights to Pirates now at an end, the movie comes to Sky Movies from the 30th of this month. There will be 15 minute multistarts from 8pm on the 30th across the Sky Movies network. It will premiere on BBC1 at Christmas.
For obvious reasons, Domino has seen a huge climb on IMDb's MovieMeter this week, based on clicks from visitors. It rose from No. 389 to No. 18. Keira's StarMeter also rose from No. 30 to No. 16, her highest position since February.
July 3rd
It's no surprise really but Keira is one of several actresses suggested for the role of American aid worker Maria Ruzicka who was killed in Iraq. Maria herself joked that Drew Barrymore would be perfect to play her if ever a movie biopic were made of her life.
More details here on the investigations into Domino's death and the ongoing investigation before her death.
July 1st
There's a nice collection of personal photos from the set of Pirates on actor Marty Klebba's web site, starting here.
Site news:
- There's a new sudoku
puzzle online until the middle of the month.
- As KeiraWeb was the only site
with a photo of the real Domino Harvey, it received 420,000 hits in the
last two days, compared to a usual average of 40,000 for the same period.
75% of new visitors came from Google Images via a search for "Domino Harvey".
Talk about "fame coming after death."
June 30th
Today's Variety has announced that not only will Domino's ending NOT be changed in the light of this week's tragedy, but that New Line have moved it back to an August release so that Keira is available to promote it while the Pirates filming is taking a break.
Domino Harvey, the model turned bounty hunter to be portrayed by Keira later this year, died Monday night. She was 35. The cause of her death - whether natural, accident or suicide - is not yet clear. On behalf of all Keira's fans, I'd like to express our deepest sympathies to her family.
The media are quick to jump on the fact that Domino was on bail awaiting trial on drug possession and trafficking charges, hinting at suicide, but Police Lt. Don Mauldin denied any evidence of a gunshot, overdose or other form of suicide. An inquest has been opened into the cause of her death. Media reports also claim Domino hated the forthcoming movie and wanted nothing to do with it. This is totally false. She had been actively involved in the screenplay and soundtrack. Keira met with her prior to filming the movie and said soon after "She is an extraordinary woman, really amazing. It was fantastic meeting her because she's very intelligent and just incredible."
Born on August 7th 1969, Domino - named after one of Ian Fleming's Bond heroines - was the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey and Vogue model Paulene Stone. After spending some time with the Ford model agency, she took to running a nightclub and being a ranch hand in the San Diego mountains, and at the same time began to love the independence from her mother's money, and the look and feel of firearms. She then worked with the San Diego Fire Department before joining the Celes King Bail Bond Agency in 1994 as a bounty hunter, getting paid 10% of the captured bail bond from drug dealers. On May 4th this year, after a multi-state FBI operation, Domino was arrested and charged with possession of $2m of methamphetamines. She was released on $1m bail awaiting possible extradition to Gulfport, Mississippi where the arrest took place. On Monday someone called paramedics from Domino's home in West Hollywood. Domino was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 11pm where she was pronounced dead. A post-mortem was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon but cause of death will not be released until the results of blood tests are returned.
The movie's director Tony Scott said
in a statement:
“Domino never failed to surprise
or inspire me over the last 12 years. She was a free spirit like no other
I have ever known.”
Producer Samuel Hadida said:
“We were enormously saddened
to hear of Domino’s untimely passing. She and I had been conferring about
her music to be used in the film only weeks ago. I know I speak for all
of us on the movie’s cast and crew when I say how much we enjoyed her presence
on set when she visited. And although our film is not intended as a biographical
piece, hers was the dynamic personality and indomitable spirit that spawned
an exciting adventure, not just on screen, but in real life.”
Domino Harvey, August 7th 1969 - June 27th 2005.
Here are the KeiraWeb Archive clips
from the set of Domino:
E!
News (5Mb) - Entertainment
Now (1.6Mb) - MTV Screenplay
(1.6Mb)
In other news, the UK premiere of Pride and Prejudice is confirmed for London's Leicester Square on Monday 5th September.
June 28th
More bad news for the North American release of Domino - it's been pushed back again, from November 4th to 23rd.
June 27th
According to the Daily Mirror Keira got more than muddy wellies during her time at Glastonbury. This report says she was heckled and taunted by a bunch of drunken yobs until she and Jamie had to leave. Bear in mind this is the 'celebrity gossip' pages of the paper, where the embroidering of facts to make a juicy story is par for the course, but it seems obvious something happened to spoil Keira's day.
There's a short interview with Johhny
re: the Pirates sequels here.
And SciFiWire have a longer chat
here,
including the news that Keith Richards is back on (possibly) and Kevin
McNally (Gibbs) has been taken ill.
The Pride & Prejudice official
site is starting to stir, with the trailer now online.
Thanks to Trevor/Fiona.
And there's three pages of P&P promo pics starting here.
June 26th
K & J visited the Glastonbury music festival this weekend at the invite of a record company. This pic shows them living the traditional image of Glasto, ie. mud and wellington boots, although the Sunday Mirror reports they spent most of their day snogging their faces off in the hospitality suite. More pics here.
This site proves that not everyone is a fan of Keira. Not many members, though.
Those Brits who are addicted to the KeiraWeb Sudoku, or don't know where to start with it, may want to watch Vorderman's Sudoku Live on Sky One, Friday night at 9pm.
You can view the Pure trailer here.
June 25th
The Biography Channel has a new series for July called Hollywood's 10 Best, each show having a different theme. In the episode '10 Best 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Flicks' Keira is featured in a segment about Bend It Like Beckham. UK premiere is July 8th at 6.30pm. Othr countries check your listings.
The Jacket DVD will be out on Region 2 (Europe) on September 12th. No details yet of its contents, but most likely the same as the Region 1 disc.
June 22nd
Keira and Jamie were in London's theatreland last night for the opening night of the Wyndham Theatre's production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West. Agency photos here.
The new British Film magazine is finally getting some press thanks to its 'Thermal 30' list of hot British movie stars. As previously reported, Keira is No.1 and is on the cover of the magazine. You can buy a copy from the publishers via eBay (as I have) or Amazon right here.
June 21st
Still quiet in Keira land, except a reminder that The Jacket is out today for those of you in North America. There's apparently an integrated featurette/deleted scenes section. You can of course buy it from the KeiraWeb Store.
New Archive contents are online, opposite. It's all videos this week. As it's Midsummer's Day today (at least here in the Northern hemisphere) I thought The Seasons Alter would be appropriate. There's another video below, too. It's midsummer video madness, folks ! Stay tuned to KeiraWeb for some great video clip premieres coming soon - stuff no-one's ever seen online before !
Here is the collected Keira-related
footage from BBC3's documentary series Paparazzi. I never captured this
on previous broadcasts as there's barely a glimpse of Keira, but several
people outside the UK have asked about it, so here it is. Filmed at Burghley
House in Lincolnshire in August 2004 near the set of Pride and Prejudice.
Burghley will be seen as Rosings in the movie, home of Catherine deBourgh,
played by Dame Judi Dench.
It's a good insight into the lengths
a paparazzo will go to to get his celebrity snaps. Very funny, if a little
disturbing. 6.5Mb
June 17th
A new, longer version of the Pride and Prejudice trailer is now online at the Working Title Films site along with a photo gallery and synopsis page.
Filming of POTC DMC has been suspended
(as per its schedule) until August, according to this
diary from a Bahamas tourist site. It also has some nice pics of the
ships.
And here's
a snap of Orlando and Stellan as Will and Bootstrap Bill, together
with some other strange creatures.
Thanks to Vini for the links.
The organiser of the annual Jane
Austen Festival in Bath told me today that they hope to have the regional
premiere of Pride and Prejudice as the highlight of this year's events.
This would presumably be after the UK premiere but before its national
UK release, which is still stated as the 16th September. Last year they
had the regional premiere of Bride and Prejudice, attended by its director,
Gurinder Chadha.
Other release dates are: Netherlands
22nd - USA 23rd - Switzerland 29th - Finland 30th - Germany 20th October
- Belgium 4th January - Czech Rep. 5th January - Sweden 6th January.
Hello! Magazine has an article
on Jamie's movie debut, marking the first time JD has made a news splash
on his own.
June 16th
EXCLUSIVE: It's been a long time
coming, but I'm very pleased to announce that Keira's 2002 short film New
Year's Eve is now online at KeiraWeb. There's a teaser page of DVD
captures here.
A two-part compilation of Keira's
scenes is available here:
Part
One (5.4Mb) - Part Two (4.8Mb).
This is my first attempt at a DVD
rip, so apologies for the occasional pixellation!
Keira's boyfriend Jamie Dornan is
to make his acting debut in Marie Antoinette, currently filming in France
and being directed by Sofia Coppola. It will be released through Sony Pictures
and co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Rip Torn. It is based on the biography of
the Austrian princess turned French Queen by Antonia Fraser.
Jamie is a client of PFD talent
agency, as is Keira, but they do not have the same agent. Press
release.
The real Domino Harvey is due to appear in court on June 22nd according to this article in the local paper of the region where she will appear.
There's a brand new su-doku puzzle online to bend your brain, plus the answer to the previous one.
June 12th
Here's the Sunday Mirror's take on "loved-up scruffy couple Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan". Scan.
June 11th
After what is probably KeiraWeb's longest time without anything to report (a whole five days !), here's a couple of snippets.
Keira is up for Best Actress: Action/Adventure
at the Teen Choice Awards, for King Arthur. Please
vote here (it demands an email address but you don't have to put your
real one in - I didn't).
Thanks to Thais for the info.
The new magazine celebrating British cinema, which featured Keira on the cover of Issue 1 (see April 26th news) is up for grabs now on eBay UK. There's plenty left, as the seller had a thousand copies. Could be collectible in future as it doesn't look like the mag might last very long. The seller told me there's 3 other pics of Keira in the mag, including an article on The Jacket. There's also a full-page Asprey ad elsewhere in the mag, featuring Keira of course.
June 6th
Here's the latest couple of pap snaps
of KK and JD, taken last Monday, here
and here.
Thanks to Captn Llama.
There's new Archive stuff online, over there >>>>>
US viewers with TMC can catch The Hole throughout June. See the TV Guide, opposite.
The Jacket falls seven places to No.14 in the UK box office for last weekend, with a total tally of £532,765, mostly due to six new entries above it.
June 4th
The official site for P & P will
be at http://www.prideandprejudicemovie.net/
Aren't you glad you don't have to
type all that in ?! Nothing there yet, though. And Working Title will no
doubt have their own special section, starting from here.
There's a preview/article on the movie in today's Daily
Telegraph.
June 3rd
KeiraWeb EXCLUSIVE:
Further to the announcement yesterday
regarding the brand new Keira Knightley photobook due out in March (see
below), I am pleased to reveal a special offer available only to KeiraWeb
visitors: a discount of 35% off the retail price !
When the book is published a unique
reference code will be published here which you will need to type in when
you order the book direct from the web site of the publishers Artnik. So
bookmark KeiraWeb today (as if you haven't already!) and put a note in
your diary to take up this great offer from Artnik.
June 2nd
The first book to be published just about Keira will be in the shops from March next year. Don't worry, it's not one of those 'unauthorised biographies' containing 99% lies and fiction (though I'm sure there's one of those in the pipeline), it's an 80 page photobook from entertainment publishers Artnik. There's more info here
The person who informed me of the Stories of Lost Souls DVD is now selling a copy on eBay. Click here to bid or to see the cover.
For the first time in a number of years The Winter Guest will be shown on UK TV later this month. FilmFour will air it on June 13th at 8.10pm. Originally a play by Keira's mum Sharman Macdonald, the screenplay for the movie version was written by Sharman and actor Alan Rickman (Love Actually, Harry Potter). This also provided Rickman with his directorial debut. The movie stars real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson. More on the film and some video clips can be found at the official site here. The screenplay book is still available here.
June 1st
Here's the link
to the full Pride & Prejudice trailer - a whole 2 and a half minutes,
plus a new pic or two from Domino.
Thanks to all who emailed the
links.
May 31st
There's a brand new su-doku puzzle online, together with the answers to puzzle no.1.
Congrats to Keira's beloved football team West Ham United who were promoted to the Premiership today after a two year absence.
May 30th
I've been sent some high-res pics
of Keira in London last Thursday 26th.
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Thanks to Captn Llama
Entertainment Tonight on Friday showed a large part of the Pride & Prejudice trailer. We get ET the following weekday here in the UK, so I've captured it today: 800kb.
The mystery surrounding Stories of
Lost Souls has been solved. The film is a compilation of six separate short
films, of which Keira's is the 2002 short New Year's Eve, directed by Colin
Spector. So the bad news is it's not a new Keira performance, although
most people have not seen New Year's Eve, which brings me onto the good
news - this compilation is already available on DVD ! It was spotted in
a Wal-Mart bargain bin in the US over the weekend, despite it not appearing
on Amazon or anywhere else. The synopsis on the back of the DVD reads:
"In the spirit of The Twilight Zone, Stories of Lost Souls is a hard hitting
presentation of six short stories of conquest, desperation and perseverance
featuring remarkable performances by an all star cast. Confronted with
tragic and mysterious circumstances, six varying personalities from different
walks of life must come to terms with the bizarre twists their lives have
taken. From an abusive alcoholic husband (Gandolfini) to a seductive temptress
at a New Year’s Eve party (Knightley) to debonair swindler (Bettany), all
of the characters share one common element – the desperation for redemption
felt by all those who live in the realm of Lost Souls."
So there we have it - no new Keira
performance, but still one most fans would never be able to see. I suggest
a trip to your local Wal-Mart is in order!
Huge thanks to Michael Warnke
for this information.
Some background on New Year's Eve:
British film director Colin Spector
shot this debut 16-minute film with £20,000 of his own money and
all the actors who took part were paid no fee. The movie itself was shot
on what is now regarded as 'old-fashioned' 35mm celluloid. In this social-observation
cum comedy, Keira plays Leah, a 15-year old seductress at a less-than-swinging
party on New Year's Eve, at which people from different backgrounds and
with different outlooks on life start to mingle. Co-stars included Stephen
Mangan and Philip Herbert. It premiered at the London Film Festival on
November 18th 2002 and was entered into the Sky Shorts film contest, organised
by Sky Movies in the UK. This allowed several broadcasts of the film on
the Sky Movies network in early 2003. Keira's on-screen time totals only
about 5 minutes of the 16 minute film.
May 29th
The Jacket climbed one place to No.7 last weekend in the UK, taking a further £121,000. UK cumulative now stands at £411,290. Not a bad move in the face of Anakin and co.
Scotland's Sunday Mail newspaper has picked up on the Domino reshoots but has linked it to the arrest of the real Domino Harvey. This has not been announced elsewhere as the reason for the reshoots. The article states the ending has had to be changed to reflect Miss Harvey's current situation, but the story only follows her life very loosely anyway, so it may be a case of linking two unconnected events purely to make a story out of it. That wouldn't be the first time.
May 27th
Here is the Keira/Orlando Good Morning
America appearance.
Part
1 - Part
2 (both 4.5Mb)
Credit: OrlandoLove.
And here is a brand new, albeit six
second, peek at Pride and Prejudice. Taken from a promo video for Focus
Features, the US distributor of the movie. Choose from a 1.1Mb
mpeg or a 260kb WMV.
I've made some screencaps here:
1
- 2 - 3
- 4
And some more official
stills are out now, too.
There'll be a P & P page up
as soon as the hype machine gets rolling in earnest.
May 26th
Marilynka has a nice selection of screen caps from yesterday's Orlando and Keira appearance on ABC's Good Morning America. Dig the hat !
May 25th
The Cannes poster for Stories of
Lost Souls was snapped here.
It shows Keira apparently around the time of Love Actually (late 2002),
if her hair is anything to go by. Another synopsis I found reads: "What
defies expectations leads to the unpredictable...Six short stories of conquest,
desperation and the will to overcome."
Curiouser and curiouser!
Keira and Orlando appeared on one of the US breakfast shows Wednesday - possibly GMA or the Early Show - keep an eye out for repeats !
The reworked poster for the US release of Pure can be seen here - with Keira now bumped up to first credit, natch.
May 24th
NEW PERFORMANCE !!!
Less than a month since KeiraWeb told you about Villette (see April 28th news below) and her second Lux commercial (May 6th news), another totally-unknown Keira performance has come to light. But this time it's a movie !
Stories of Lost Souls.
A 90-minute movie described as 'six
stories of lonely souls in unexpected situations' and 'frantic individuals
discover to what extremes they will go to resolve desperate circumstances'.
The film co-stars Josh Hartnett, Paul Bettany, Illeana Douglas, Cate Blanchett,
James Gandolfini and Hugh Jackman. It was filmed (possibly) in early 2004
and released through America Video, a company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Keira's screen time and number of scenes is not yet known.
With a cast like that, it is to
be hoped it will get at least a limited theatrical release. It premiered
at the American Film Market in November 2004, and has recently been shown
at the Cannes Film Festival. Article.
Little else is known at present.
More if I find anything !
May 23rd
More date changes for your diary: The expected April limited release of Pure across North America by Indican Pictures never materialised. It will now be screened from June 10th. Check your area listings, not necessarily your local theatre.
Domino's postponement (see below)
may be due to reshoots. A resident living near to where quite a few scenes
were shot in October says equipment is being brought back into the area
(in LA) which would indicate a reshoot for one reason or another.
Thanks to Bailey for the info.
The Archive opposite only has a new video this week, but it's a biggie - her entire appearance on David Letterman last June. It's 17 Meg but it's worth it.
May 22nd
Domino has been pushed back to a November 4th release in the US. The web sites of the distributor New Line, BoxOfficeMojo.com and IMDb all now list the new date. Strangely, the UK date is still August 19th. So the next Keira movie to hit Stateside may well be Pride and Prejudice, which is still down for mid-to-late September.
ContactMusic.com is reporting
that Keira is close to purchasing a property in LA and that she will be
'moving to Hollywood to live'. While it's no surprise that Keira needs
a place to call home over there as Hollywood increasingly becomes her 'place
of work', it's unfair to say she's quitting the UK completely. She has
family, friends and barely-lived in property over here, which I doubt she
would leave behind, especially as she has said many times that she couldn't
possibly do that.
Two things: ContactMusic.com never
(or very rarely) quote a source for their information, which renders any
of their articles (including this one) doubtful until verified. Also, get
ready for the hypocritical British tabloid 'Keira quits Britain for Tinseltown'
headlines, digging out old quotes where she contradicts such possiblilities.
ScreenDaily (a reputable source of information, unlike the above) states that Pride and Prejudice may get its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy which runs from August 31st to September 10th this year. The UK release of the movie has now been pulled forward to September 16th.
May 21st
The Daily Mirror interview from Friday
is here.
It was accompanied by a few new photos which I'd not seen before, apparently
from a Jacket promotional photo set. Keira still has her long dark hair,
so they must have been taken at the time of filming early last year. If
anyone can point to this set online, please do.
You'll note in the interview the
media's small capacity for distinguishing between two films, as it mentions
the 'Keira body double' story as pertaining to The Jacket, instead of Domino.
Honestly, why do they bother if they can't get basic facts correct ?
May 19th
How's this for free movie publicity? - Domino Harvey, the bounty hunter on which Keira's next movie is loosely based, is in prison in Los Angeles awaiting trial for possession of amphetamines with intent to distribute! Read the full story here. The trial may possibly affect the August 19th release date. Watch this space.
Keira will be featured in Friday's Daily Mirror movie supplement The Ticket.
Are you a Su-Doku addict ? Never
heard of it ? You will do very shortly. It's the simple-looking but fiendishly
difficult logic puzzle which is set to do for the brain in this century
what the Rubik's Cube did last century - and KeiraWeb has the very first
Keira Knightley Su-Doku for you all to pull your hair out over.
Click
here - but be warned, it's addictive!
May 18th
The Jacket debuted at No.8 in the UK Box Office today, taking only £176,000 across 100 screens. A 'wide release' in the UK is 420 screens, but it's still a pretty poor turnout for what could be Keira's 'Gigli'.
The OK! magazine interview is now online. In the week The Jacket is released in the UK, what's the interview all about? Yep, Domino.
May 17th
OK, hands up who thought Natalie's hair would ever be shorter than Keira's ? I keep singing Sinead O' Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2U' when I see it :-)
Keira is interviewed in this week's OK! magazine in the UK (issue 469). Scans are online now, interview tomorrow.
Want to know what Keira listens to? Here's a list, posted at KKW.
New Archive material up, opposite.
May 14th
Love Actually is being re-released on Region 2 (Europe) DVD on June 20th. No new extras.
Sky Movies News featured The Jacket in its current show: 1.1Mb
May 12th
Here's a Jacket audio review from
BBC Radio 1. Click
here then skip 15mins in.
Thanks: Louise.
More UK reviews: ioFilm - The Scotsman - Channel 4
May 11th
Here's the first couple of Jacket reviews. There seems to be more press about Domino at the moment: Islington Gazette - Sky Movies
Talking of Domino, the official site is in place, though there's not much online yet, except confirmation that it will be an R rating in the US.
May 10th
Keira is No.53 in US Maxim's 'Hot 100' women poll. Press release.
I've added Keira's biography to the site. I wrote it for IMDb and never thought to add it to my own site ! Doh !
May 9th
The UK premiere of The Jacket slipped by without notice tonight - just like the film is about to, I fear. Keira attended the screening at the Rex cinema in London's Soho with her mother, director John Maybury and actor Daniel Craig. At least some photographers turned up - see some pics here, and a couple of soundbites here.
New Archive material up - see opposite column.
May 8th
Today's Sunday Times magazine Style has a new interview.
May 6th
Guess who ? Yes, it's Dame Keira.
Seriously. She has recorded a brand new TV commercial - her second - for
Lux Styling mousse, for broadcast on Japanese TV. Called 'Timeless Princess'
and promoting the Lux Super Styling product, it was recorded earlier this
year in Los Angeles. This follows her first ad for the company 'Ready
To Go', which promoted the original Lux Styling back in 2003. The new
ad does not yet appear to be online, but it will turn up on this
page when it does.
Thanks to Emma for the heads-up.
Keira pre-recorded an interview for
today's Steve Wright In The Afternoon show on BBC Radio 2 here in the UK.
To listen, click
here, then click Listen Again > Steve Wright Show > Friday and fast
forward the audio stream to 2hrs 20mins in. She talks about The Jacket
and about her brother who sometimes works as producer on that very radio
show. She also says her brother lives with her - now that's one we haven't
heard before.
Thanks to Rachey.
May 5th
Keira is on the cover of, and is interviewed inside, the June issue of Marie Claire magazine. Scans are up on the Magazines page.
KeiraWeb has the honour of being the very first 'Site of the Month' at VisionsOfAlexis. Cheers Anna !
In case you're wondering where the middle column has gone, most of it was the Production Update section which is now on its own page. Updates were few and far between and will remain so for this year, so I didn't see a place for it on the homepage. It's up there on the Contents menu if you need it. We shouldn't expect details of Keira's next project until September at the earliest.
May 4th
MTV UK's film review show Screenplay has a peek at Domino in this week's show: 1.6Mb
With Scotland abuzz ahead of The Jacket's UK release (a large part of it was filmed there), Scotland's Sunday Post newspaper had Keira on the cover of their PostPlus supplement this month, with this feature inside.
Keira has again been snapped in London with Jamie, presumably yesterday. Perhaps she's here for The Jacket premiere - she's the only one who knows about it if she is!
As reported earlier, you can now listen to Part 1 of Villette at the BBC7 web site archive here. Keira's main dialogue in this first part is within the first ten minutes. Towards the end of the programme she plays another role, Fleur, in a scene during a school French lesson. Part 2 is broadcast today and Part 3 on Thursday.
May 2nd
A few more morsels about Pirates from this Orlando interview with Empire.
A few Jacket promos:
-
BBC
Radio 4's The Film Programme talks to John Maybury on Saturday 7th
at 5.30pm.
- Irish viewers with RTE1 can see
a guest panel discuss the movie on The View, Tuesday 10th at 11.20pm.
- STC (The Soundtrack Channel) is
currently showing the full trailer in its 'First Look' programme - Sky
channel 241.
General promos are a bit thin on
the ground. Let's hope they take off next week, before the movie disappears
in the wake of Star Wars a week later.
April 29th
The UK Jacket promotions kick off on May 10th with ITV3's movie show Film File featuring a segment, presumably with clips and interviews. See the TV Guide for times.
Can anybody who wrote to Keira at the above address and have received a reply please let me know, as I want to know if it works and to reassure everyone else that it's still the address to use. Thanks.
French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has composed the score for Pride and Prejudice, according to this interview.
Domino makes the Top 25 big films of the summer in Box Office Prophets' new poll.
April 28th
KeiraWeb is pleased to announce the
existence of a previously-unknown performance by Keira from 1999. It is
a version of Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette, recorded and broadcast
by BBC Radio 4, in which Keira played the character of Polly, known later
in the story by her proper name of Paulina. The BBC's digital radio station
for classic drama and comedy, BBC7, is repeating the serial in three parts
next week, at the times listed at the link below. The main characters of
the novel are played by Catherine McCormack and Joseph Fiennes. BBC7 have
confirmed to me via email Keira's performance in this dramatisation. Keira
was 14 years old in 1999 and it was the year she played Rose Fleming in
another literary classic, Oliver Twist.
Each part of the serial is being
broadcast at 10am next Tuesday to Thursday, with repeats at 9pm and 2am.
Complete listings are available here.
Times are BST, so EDT is -5 hours, PDT is -8 hours.
UK listeners can access BBC7 via
DAB digital radio, Sky channel 881, Freeview channel 78, NTL channel 866
or Telewest channel 910. Outside the UK you can listen live online
here.
The broadcast may also be archived here.
The dramatisation is also available
to buy from the BBC Radio Collection here.
A synopsis of Villette is available
here.
April 26th
The British film industry is launching its own magazine at the end of this month, and guess who's gracing the cover of the very first issue, exemplifying all that's good and getting better about British film talent? Click here to confirm your suspicions.
Disney are planning a Pirates of the Caribbean online role-play game to coincide with the promotions of Pirates DMC next summer. More here.
April 25th
The design of the US DVD of The Jacket can be seen here.
New Archive contents in the right-hand column.
Keira is No.4 on the list of Martini King and Queen of the 21st Century, according to a press release today. "The public were invited to select a modern man and woman who they think epitomise old fashioned vodka martini-era glamour based on icons such as Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn."
April 22nd
BBC3 have today broadcast their annual
Essential
Top 50, listing all the things to watch in the worlds of entertainment,
music, books, places to be seen in etc. Last year, Keira was at No. 39.
This year she is at No.10.
You can still view last year's profile
here
(1.4Mb). This year, she shares tenth place with Orlando Bloom. See it here
(1.4Mb).
April 21st
Empire reports Keira's Love Actually co-star Bil Nighy will play the baddest of the bad: Davy Jones himself in the Pirates sequel.
Keira is No.18 in this year's FHM UK's Sexiest Women poll.
Here are some pics of the newly-built Black Pearl, prior to its sailing to the Caribbean for filming (bandwidth may be exceeded).
Keira's beau Jamie Dornan is becoming a BIG personality - at least on posters like this one snapped in Houston.
April 20th
Another day, another part of Keira's
anatomy is under the media microscope. Today children, we're taking a look
at her nipples.
Oh, purr-lease!
The text says she's after more property,
even though she's hardly lived in the one she's got. But why have one 'den
of iniquity' when you can afford two ? ;-)
Keira's return to St. Vincent makes
her the cover
girl of Caribbean World magazine.
Thanks to Cassie.
And the interview in the current issue of Heat magazine is now online. See the Magazines page.
People magazine have one of the Portobello Road pics, too.
April 19th
Tom Hollander, who stars with Keira in Pride and Prejudice, has won a villainous role in both Pirates sequels, according to comingsoon.net.
Here's a couple of media pick-ups from an AlphaPress gallery of Keira and Jamie in London's Portobello Road: The Sun and Hello!
April 18th
According to my statistics, there
seems to be an enormous number of people coming to KeiraWeb looking for
the picture of the real Domino Harvey, so here
it is.
I've also added a search engine
to the middle column which searches the entire site. I hope you'll find
it useful.
BVG announce details already of their Pirates DMC tie-in computer game. Press release.
Off-topic-ish: UK Natalie Portman fans may like to know the premiere for Star Wars Episode III will be on May 16th, and Johnny Depp fans can catch Johnny at the premiere of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory on July 17th. Both in Leicester Square, London. I'm not saying either will attend of course, but it's more than likely.
If anyone can provide good scans of recent UK mags featuring Keira, I would be most grateful and will give you credit. I just don't have time to go to the shops lately! Mucho grassy arse.
April 16th
FilmReview magazine puts Keira at No.2 in its list of 'bankable stars', after Orlando Bloom.
The Jacket DVD debuts in North America on June 28th. JoBlo.com says it will feature just the usual documentary and deleted scenes.
Novelist Deborah Moggach will be giving a masterclass on her adaptation of the screenplay for 'Pride & Prejudice' on June 3rd and 5th at the Hay Literary Festival this year. She also told me earlier this week she has still not heard of any developments regarding the movie of her novel Tulip Fever, which was to star Keira and Jude Law.
The Guardian has a profile of the chairmen of Working Title Films, with a few mentions of Pride & Prejudice.
And The London Evening Standard had an interview with Keira's Mr. Darcy, Matthew MacFadyen this week.
There's a review of a rough-cut screening of Domino at richard-kelly.net.
April 14th
June 21st is the provisional North American release date for The Jacket DVD.
April 12th
The BBFC states The Jacket will receive a '15' certificate when it opens in the UK on May 13th. This page of their database also features details of two trailers, one suitable for showing before '12A' films, and a longer one suitable only for showing before '15' films.
A very interesting technical
article
on the making of the 'hallucinatory sequences' for The Jacket.
Thanks to Ian Failes.
April 11th
New Archive content in the right-hand column.
New pics from the Pirates set here, complete with captions suggesting they may be officially endorsed.
April 9th
Here's another capture from Keira's 1995 appearance on The Bill, which is currently being used to promote 'They Started On Soaps', reported on April 5th below. I personally think she has the looks of a young Jodie Foster in that shot.
DarkHorizons has an Orlando Bloom interview with a few more facts about the current Pirates shoots.
April 8th
The Internet Movie Database have accepted and published my vastly-expanded biography of Keira Knightley on its database. Some of the hyperlinks haven't come across properly and I've submitted the corrections, but you can read it now here. It appears below the shorter biography written - incredibly - by my good friend Leanne a few years before we'd even met! Spooky - talk about a small world!
Keira is interviewed in the special
'British Film Elite' issue (no.57, May) of FilmReview magazine, and probably
a few more in the run-up to the May 13th release of The Jacket.
Thanks to Tom at FilmReview magazine
for the press release.
Today's Variety confirms New Line have moved Domino to an August 19th North American release.
The Sun publishes some more of the Pirates DMC training pics today.
April 7th
Some swashbuckling is called for
from Elizabeth Swann in one of the Pirates sequels, as this
training photo shows.
Thanks to Vini.
April 6th
Here is the latest pic everyone is talking about - Keira in a bikini, relaxing with Jamie on the St. Vincent & Grenadines Islands. No doubt the photographers were annoyed she kept it on.
April 5th
American viewers with access to SoapNet
can see Keira's early role in The Bill on 'They Started On Soaps', premiering
this Thursday. More info here.
View The Bill performance at KeiraWeb
here.
Thanks to Kiera
for the info.
April 4th
American viewers can catch the TV premiere of The Hole throughout April on Showtime, Showtime 2 and Starz 2, while Bend it Like Beckham returns to the HBO network. Complete listings here.
New Line's Domino synopsis page now states August 19th for its US release.
Keira's mum insists her daughter's public outgoing personality is in complete contrast to her natural introversion - she'd rather read a book than go out, according to this interview. No indication of the source for these comments, which is never a good sign for their reliability.
April 3rd
Today's Sunday Mirror has a 'new' interview with Keira. If you've been keeping up with the last month's worth of interview links and video clips at KeiraWeb, you'll read nothing new in it. Should really have been published closer to The Jacket's release date, but that's Sunday tabloids for you.
April 2nd
I hope you're all recovering well
from your April Fool's Day heart attacks! Anyway, in an effort to rebuild
my reputation for truthful, accurate reporting I promise not to do that
again. Until next April 1st.
Back to business.
The UK release of the The Jacket is confirmed as May 13th, as the official UK site is now online.
Domino producers New Line have replaced the previously precise August 12th release date with just 'summer 2005'. Perhaps they're pulling it forward to the 'big July weekend' ? If not, this will be the only summer out of five consecutive years that Keira won't have a July weekend release: 2003 Pirates, 2004 King Arthur, 2006 Pirates DMC, 2007 Pirates 3.
March 31st
Jack Davenport gives little away about the Pirates sequels in this chat with Empire magazine, other than filming will wrap next January.
March 29th
Bit of a catch-up time - I've been busy working on another web site (I know, as if four isn't enough).
A Domino teaser is now online here, and there's a new still here.
Some listings now state May for the limited theatrical release of Pure across the US. Many sources still say early April, so check your local listings.
Keira is in the April issue of Sci
Fi magazine (US edition).
Thanks to Jennifer.
Archive section updated (right-hand column).
March 27th
While it's true that Keira is not in the Top 10 FHM 100 Sexiest Babes, she's not far away - she's in at No.11 !! Top 25.
March 26th
On behalf of all visitors to KeiraWeb.com I'd like to wish Dame Keira Knightley a very happy 20th birthday today. Not that she visits this site, but you never know :-)
Keira fan and KeiraWeb visitor Jonno Hardy has made this nice video tribute from clips I've posted over the last year or so. It's a good tribute to the success of the site and the enjoyment people get out of it, as well as a cool homage to the lady herself. 3Mb.
March 25th
Keira flew back into London yesterday, perhaps to see out her teenage years at home with family and friends. Keira turns the grand old age of 20 on Saturday.
Sharman speaks more about daughter Keira in an interview here.
Keira is in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll again, but not in the Top10. Exact placing to be advised.
UK Easter viewers can enjoy Pirates
and the behind-the-scenes documentary on Disney, King Arthur on Sky Box
Office, The Hole on FilmFour and the terrestrial premiere of Thunderpants
on Channel 4 Easter Monday.
TV
Guide.
Today's Variety previews Domino's
competition on its North American release date of August 12th:
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Rob
Schneider)
Skeleton Key: (Kate Hudson)
Dark Water: (Jennifer Connelly)
Four Brothers (Mark Wahlberg)
March 22nd
Here is the Doctor Zhivago blooper from ITV1's Alright On The Night All-Star Special. 1.4Mb
Keira helped to raise $11,200 for a gift bag signed by herself and other celebrities at Sundance, the proceeds of which went to the Asian tsunami disaster relief fund. Press release.
Mena Suvari talks about her role in Domino in this interview.
March 21st
Disney are to enter their own boat
in the Volvo Ocean Race round the world yacht race to promote Pirates of
the Caribbean 2. Some news sources are reporting that Keira, Orlando and
Johnny will help man the boat on various in-port - ie. press photo opportunity
- legs of the race (Keira's leg will be around the UK, Orlando in the Southern
Ocean and Johnny in the Americas). This remains to be confirmed, but the
boat promoting the film is confirmed. Reuters
says the organisers are hoping to persuade the cast to take part.
Official
press release. Apparent artwork for Pirates 2 can also be seen at this
link.
March 18th
Regular contributor and now Pirates 2 extra Diane Rooney has submitted an article on the two days she recently spent on the set of Dead Man's Chest in LA. Read it here.
March 17th
Ahead of its London debut, Keira's mum talks about her new play and life with Keira in an interview in today's Guardian.
There's a gallery of captures from
Keira's scenes in The Jacket here.
Thanks to Jasmine.
March 16th
The scans from April's Elle magazine are now on the Magazines page. Photos are by Gilles Bensimon, and were taken in a townhouse in Paris, France.
March 15th
New Archive contents - see right-hand column.
Here's a behind-the-scenes look at Domino, from ITV1's late-night show Entertainment Now!: 1.6Mb
The BBC's movie review show Film2005 had a quick preview for UK viewers of The Jacket (out May 13th provisionally) and a brief interview with Keira: 2Mb
Pride & Prejudice will be released on September 23rd in North America.
Richard-Kelly.net have uncovered the source for the Domino captures, now in this gallery. It is from a 'promo reel' of rough cuts put together by producer Samuel Hadida to help secure international distribution for the movie. The full collection of images can be viewed in a slideshow here. An official trailer is due April 1st.
ITV1 in the UK are repeating the outtakes show Alright On The Night All-Star Special on Tuesday 22nd at 8pm. At the very end of this show is an outtake from Doctor Zhivago where Keira and Sam Neill are together in a carriage. It's the only behind-the-scenes footage you're ever likely to see, unless they repeat The South Bank Show documentary from the set (which is unlikely). Bookmark the TV Guide if you need reminding.
The only talk show booking for The Jacket stars so far is Adrien Brody who will be a guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show this Friday 18th.
March 14th
Here is a gallery of DVD captures from a 'promo reel' of rough cuts from Domino. The reel was used to help secure the movie's foreign distribution. Thanks to the original capper, whoever that is, and to Richard-Kelly.net for uncovering the source. Gallery.
Here's a scan from the Sunday Mirror of Keira shopping in LA, with model Helena Christensen and a 'mystery man', probably a bodyguard or one of the stars' PAs.
March 13th
The Jacket has fallen to an estimated No.13 in its second week, taking a further $1.325m. Final figures out Monday.
Kate Winslet has beaten Keira to the Best Actress award at the Empire Film Awards in London tonight.
March 12th
Here is Keira's entire appearances
on 'When Johnny Met Keira', from BBC Comic Relief night, Friday March 11th.
This is perhaps the first time most of her fans have seen her just being
her. She's witty, relaxed and natural in straight-to-camera presenting.
As Keira says throughout the clips, please make a donation to Comic Relief
if you can. Hit the chad over there in the top right-hand corner.
- First is a quick trailer with
footage not shown in the programme itself: 400kb
- And here are all the scenes edited
together, minus the TV show clips. These files contain some strong language
and adult themes: Part 1 -
6.9Mb - Part 2 - 5.6Mb
- Part 3 - 5.6Mb
UK viewers can catch the Empire Film Awards on Five, at 10.55pm this Tuesday 15th. Hosted by Johnny Vaughan. Unlikely Keira will be present, unless she is 'informed' (in the way winners usually are) that she has won the Best Actress award.
Final figures for The Jacket's debut
week are now in. The movie is still placed at No.10 in the US Box Office,
but the $2.7m estimate is now a $3.65m actual.
March 10th
Disney have advised me of the appropriate address to write to Keira while she is filming Pirates 2:
Keira Knightley - Pirates Of The
Caribbean,
Walt Disney Fan Mail
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-5064
Here's Keira and Johnny Vaughan in a publicity still from their show 'When Johnny Met Keira', being broadcast tomorrow night at the end of the Comic Relief telethon on BBC1.
March 9th
The Elle magazine shoot seems to have brought out the punk in Keira, as these preview pics show. The US edition has a Keira cover while the UK gets a Beyonce cover with the photoshoot inside. Larger stationers such as WHSmiths should have the US edition in eventually.
March 8th
Keira was due to perform a live sketch
for Comic Relief on Friday's telethon, but has had to pull out due to filming
of Pirates in LA. She would have been the damsel in distress saved by 'Spider
Plant Man', played by Rowan Atkinson. The sketch also stars Rowan's Blackadder
co-star Tony Robinson and Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg. The damsel
will now be played by ex-S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens.
Meanwhile, When Johnny Met Keira
may be back in its originally-billed slot of 1.30am. Matchsticks for the
eyes, anybody?
There's new stuff in the Archive if you haven't seen it already - see right column.
March 7th
The Sun continues its coverage of celebrity reports for Comic Relief with an article about Keira's visit to Ethiopia last year. Read it here.
The Jacket's director John Maybury has a go at just about everything in Hollywood, including the marketing of The Jacket. Interview here.
Keira is nominated for Best British Actress at this year's Empire Magazine Film Awards, which takes place on March 13th.
March 6th
The Jacket has debuted at No.10 in the US box office, according to preliminary figures. That's $2.7m across 1,331 screens - a limited release. Triple that (roughly) for a wide release, and it would have come in at No.5. Not bad for an 'indie' film.
I know they say Keira is a 'bankable star', but this is ridiculous.
March 4th
Filming, or at least dress rehearsals,
of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is now underway in Los Angeles
as these
spy
snaps show. Many of the people on the ground seem to be looking curiously
at the photographer so I'm guessing he shouldn't be there or is at least
unwelcome (which paparazzi aren't ?!), and the scene apparently shows a
wedding ceremony, possibly Elizabeth and Will's ? Keira still has her short
hair, which suggests a dress rehearsal only.
The special edition of the POTC DVD (the one with the 'Lost Disc') is finally coming out on Region 2 (UK and Europe) on April 25th. You can pre-order it from the Store.
I can now confirm that 'When Johnny Met Keira' is indeed the rumoured raunchy bed antics from KK and Johnny Vaughan, and written by Richard Curtis. It's a 90-minute countdown of some of the best comedy clips from both sides of the Atlantic. It is now billed at 1am on the morning of Saturday 12th, half an hour earlier than originally scheduled.
Keira had two movies in the Top 10 VHS sales in the UK for 2004, with Love Actually at No.5 and Pirates at No.8.
Keira will have a brand new photoshoot in the next edition of US Elle magazine, and is likely to be cover girl too.
March 3rd
Keira is interviewed in the current
issue of US magazine StarLog. Part of the interview is here.
(Thanks to Emily)
March 2nd
Here's last night's E! News segment from The Jacket premiere in LA - 1.3Mb
Keep an eye on this page and this one for The Jacket reviews.
March 1st
The official premiere of The Jacket took place in Los Angeles Monday night at the Pacific Arclight Theater, with an after-show party at the nearby Falcon Club. Thumbs here. It slipped by almost unnoticed, much like the rest of the promotions for this movie. Compare this with the entire page I had for the King Arthur promotions. Next Monday's box office figures will make interesting reading for Warner Independent.
February 27th
More thumbs from Keira's weekend appearances in Hollywood.
The first of no doubt several interviews to appear over the next week or so promoting The Jacket comes from the San Francisco Chronicle.
February 26th
'When Johnny Met Keira' is a 95-minute comedy sketch compilation show to be broadcast as part of Comic Relief night, Friday March 11th on BBC1. I am awaiting confirmation that the Keira of the title is indeed of the Knightley tribe (I'm guessing TV presenter Johnny Vaughan, not Depp). If it is her, this will be the first time Keira will have tried her hand as a TV presenter. Billed as 'a late-night romp', it will air at 1.30am on the Saturday morning. Watch this space for confirmation soon. It's still quite likely that Keira, Richard Curtis and Andrew Lincoln's visit to Ethiopia will be featured earlier in the evening, and the 'Bedful of Celebrities' sketch may also have KK under the covers.
Yahoo! Movies has some clips from The Jacket.
Keira attended a party at the Soho House Oscar Village in West Hollywood on Wednesday, which presented the new range of footwear from Taryn Rose, a leading designer in the industry. Other attendees included Vivica Fox and Selma Blair. Some thumbnails here. Keira was in Hollywood to promote The Jacket last week, so look out for some interviews on the entertainment shows this coming week.
February 25th
August 12th will be the release date of Domino in North America, according to the distributor's web site. This is still only provisional, but it's the first date from an 'official' source since the April rumours.
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August may also be the date for Pride and Prejudice, if the December 13th DVD date at SendIt.com is anything to go by. Provisional to say the least.
Uber movie critic Leonard Maltin
had Keira on his mind in an article
about the rise of middle-aged actresses today:
"When you think of great female
talent, there's got to be someone other than 19-year-old Keira Knightley
on the horizon. She's good, but she's a kid. Now and then you need a mature
woman in the part."
February 24th
A brief clip from the Domino press call interviews. Not sure when this was filmed but we see the movie's logo for the first time and some new footage. This is from BBC Liquid News, which is only quarter-screen size, hence the poor quality. 1.2Mb.
February 23rd
Music news: Pirates soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer is back on board for both sequels' soundtracks, according to this report, and Harry Gregson-Williams will continue his partnership composing for Tony Scott movies with the soundtrack for Domino.
Here's the text of the Talking Movies interview (see Feb 20th news below), and a choice of formats to view the interview, and here is the review of The Jacket.
February 21st
Good news for U.S. fans! You won't have three Keira movies to see this year (Jacket, Domino, Pride) - you'll have four. Indican Pictures have secured a limited release of the 2002 movie Pure, showing in theatres from April 8th. Some sources say April 1st so check your local listings. It's likely it will be rated R, as there's heavy depiction of drug-taking (including by KK herself) and some strong language - but I hope those people who say Keira can't act will go to see this movie, as I think she's superb in it. See it if you can. Here is Indican's site feature, and here is the KeiraWeb DVD captures gallery.
Keira did indeed attend the Edinburgh premiere of mum Sharman Macdonald's new play The Girl With Red Hair on Saturday. Some BigPictures snaps here, here, here and here.
Fresh goodies are up for your delectation in From The Archive (top right of this page).
February 20th
With less than two weeks to go before
The Jacket opens in North America, there has been noticeably little promotion,
except for the screenings at Sundance. All the more surprising, then, that
the
first detailed TV review, coupled with a very interesting interview with
Keira, should come from the BBC - the movie does not open in the UK until
May 13th. This week's Talking Movies (showing throughout the week on BBC
World), devoted the first 15 minutes of its 25 minute show to The Jacket,
including footage not in the trailer and featuring talks with Adrien Brody
and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Never one to ask the 'usual' questions at interviews,
presenter Tom Brook is frank and critical in his questioning of Keira,
but her immediate and insightful responses prove - more so than in previous
interviews - that she has incredible intelligence and extraordinary professional
acumen.
Large files, but worth it. Enjoy.
BBC Talking Movies - The Jacket:
Review
8Mb - Keira interview
10Mb
Observer newspaper reporter David Keeps writes about his lunch with Keira and Adrien at Sundance.
Keira did apparently attend the premiere of mum Sharman Macdonald's new play The Girl With Red Hair in Edinburgh on Saturday, according to this report. Pics and hopefully vids coming soon.
February 18th
King Arthur comes to Sky Box Office
in the UK from 6th March, playing every 15 minutes. It starts this month,
28th, on other digital platforms such as Telewest.
The Hole returns to FilmFour on
2nd March too.
TV Guide.
According to this report, Domino Harvey has rubbished the story about her being upset at the movie not portraying her as the lesbian she apparently was: "I'm not gay, and I couldn't be happier about the way Tony Scott is treating my story." What a surprise. Not.
InTouch magazine readers have voted Keira a having the Best Abs in their celebrity fitness poll.
Advance screenings of The Jacket are up for grabs if you live in Florida. Enter here.
February 17th
Keira made a very rare non-promotional
appearance last night, attending the Moet et Chandon Fashion Tribute Award
show in London at which her designer friend Matthew Williamson was honoured.
Keira and the other celebrity females all wore Williamson dresses for the
occasion. (Keira's pink coat
in the Love Actually airport scene was also a Williamson creation). The
event took place in London's East End at the Old Billingsgate Market -
a former warehouse now refurbished as a conference venue. An after-show
party, also attended by Keira and Jamie, was held at the Kabaret Prophecy
nightclub in the Soho district of London's West End (about 2 blocks from
Keira's flat).
Some thumbnails here,
here,
here
and stories here
and here.
And if you're relying on KeiraWeb
to have some video of the bash, well voila! Here's a couple of news clips
I grabbed earlier tonight:
ITV London Tonight: 900kb
Sky News: 500kb
There's a press release here
for The Girl With Red Hair, the brand new play by Keira's mum Sharman
Macdonald, which premieres tomorrow in Edinburgh. This is from a
Sean Biggerstaff fan site, who stars in the play (he played Oliver Wood
in the Harry Potter movies). Interestingly, his acting debut was in the
film The Winter Guest, also written by Sharman, and directed by Alan Rickman,
who also stars in the Harry Potter movies!
The book of the play will be published
on April 7th. You can pre-order a copy here.
Journalist Diane Rooney, whose article on the casting of the Pirates sequels was reproduced on KeiraWeb on December 17th, has now submitted another report from the day she attended a costume fitting for the films! You can read both articles (today's first) on this page.
February 16th
Animated-News reports that Keith Richards may not be in Pirates 2 after all, as he was asking for too much money.
A new-design poster for The Jacket has appeared.
February 15th
More here on the Domino Harvey storyline 'anger', this time with her mother adding fuel to the fire and adding Domino wasn't consulted on the script and wants nothing to do with the film. However, insiders claim the real Domino not only WAS consulted on the script, but that she was visited by Keira during her research AND attended the movie's wrap party, AND that she even has a cameo in the film! Whatever the truth, all publicity is good publicity.
Movie industry trade journal Variety
has a lukewarm review of The Jacket, with its best praise reserved for
Keira:
"...Sticking to a game plan that
served him well for his Oscar-winning role in "The Pianist," Brody journeys
through "The Jacket" with a look of shock and awe on his face, while most
of the rest of pic's stellar cast have similarly been given one note to
play. Among the principals, only Knightley, doing a spot-on American accent
and projecting sensitivity and warmth beneath her steely exterior, seems
to be playing a character with an inner life...."
A new interview
with Sharman hints that she MAY have at least the idea for a play to feature
Keira treading the boards for the first time.
Performance details for Sharman's
new play 'The Girl With Red Hair' are as follows:
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh from Saturday
until March 12, Hampstead Theatre, London NW3, March 23-April 16.
Moviehole reports Jack Davenport will be returning as Commodore Norrington in Pirates 2.
February 14th
Residents of Dominica are angry at the Pirates sequels' storyline for portraying their ancestors as cannibals. Article.
February 13th
Domino Harvey is allegedly angry
at her portrayal as a heterosexual in Keira's movie Domino, when she has
in fact been a lesbian for many years. Article.
The final sentence about the publicity
seems strange, as there has been hardly any so far.
U.S. people with Comcast HDTV can go to Free Movies > Sundance > Festival Daily 1/24 to see an interview with The Jacket cast.
Entertainment Weekly have a profile
of The Jacket.
Thanks to Caitlin for the link,
February 11th
Los Angeles residents can see preview
screenings of The Jacket at the following times and venues:
Wednesday, February 23 at 4:00pm
at the Raleigh Studios, Pickford and 7:30pm at the Interactive Corp , 8800
Sunset Blvd.
Check out the 'RND05' video at the Comic Relief media page. There's a preview of the 'Bedful of Celebrities' sketch, which may be the one the press were referring to as starring Keira (see Feb 2nd news below). No sign of her in this clip, but it looks like a long sketch. Only four weeks left to find out.
Pride And Prejudice has been voted
'most romantic novel of all time' in a new
poll by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Meanwhile here's a very positive
review
of a pre-screening of the movie.
Men from the English Midlands (where I live) vote Keira 'sexiest woman' in a new survey.
February 9th
Upcoming band The Jane Doe's feature
on the soundtrack to The Jacket and played the Sundance premiere's after-show
party. Here are
some pics of the band with Keira at the gig.
Thanks to the band's acting manager
Tyler for the link.
February 8th
Much media lately about Keira choosing a 'botty double' for her lapdancing scenes in Domino. This one is typical of the press attention.
Most of The
Jacket official site is now online. Click on 'Enter The Jacket' to
load The Jacket Experience, with more clips from the movie.
Tip: On the Jack Starks page you
need to place the white hexagon in the hexagonal space and click on it;
on the Jackie Price page you need to click on the cigarette ash. The eye
icon changes the character profile.
US release is to 1,200 screens from
March 4th. This is about one third of a 'wide release'.
February 6th
Another promotional interview with Mother Knightley in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday, and one from today's Glasgow Herald.
Bend It... came in at No.3 in the most-watched films on British TV over Christmas, it was announced today.
February 5th
The Scotsman has an interview with Keira's mum, promoting her new play The Girl With Red Hair, which premieres in Edinburgh on February 18th.
Keira's alleged comments are again coming back to haunt her. Reports such as those here, here, here, here, here and here refer to how she has apparently said she wouldn't know what she would do if she wasn't an actress, and commented on her fears about publicity. They were probably jovial remarks thought up on the spur of the moment in answer to a banal question, but the media love to prey on celebrities' insecurities and so the comments flew around the world in seconds, getting changed and embroidered at each point. She will continue to learn what to say and what to avoid, lest it gets misinterpreted, as these perfect examples show.
February 3rd
Official plotlines for Pirates 2
are out now. Read them at Comingsoon.net.
Release dates are also revised:
Pirates 2 in the summer of 2006, Pirates 3 in the summer of 2007. Oh, and
the subtitle of Pirates 2 *IS* Dead Man's Chest after all.
February 2nd
The Daily Record now confirms my earlier suspicions (see January 7th news below) that Keira will be part of the BBC's Comic Relief night on March 11th - and not just the report of her visit to Ethiopia last year. Today's Sun newspaper is reporting that Keira has filmed a 'raunchy' scene on a bed for the show, presumably written by Richard Curtis, as he writes most of the sketches. It's not clear if this will be shown in trailers for the show or part of the show itself, but Richard is more than aware of Keira's 'pull' at the moment, from both men and women, so it's understandable she'd get asked to do a funny sketch, and that she'd readily agree to do it. The Sun also exclusively published Richard's Ethiopia report and photographs last year, so presumably they are actively involved in the Comic Relief campaign this year.
King Arthur comes to UK pay-per-view television at the end of February, starting with Front Row on the 28th.
A new still from The Jacket has sneaked out - see it here.
And here's a Sundance interview with Keira from MovieHole.
February 1st
Press materials for The Jacket are now online.
Orlando Bloom is now officially single again. If that's not fuel for the fire of the upcoming Orlando/Keira rumours again while they're off filming, I don't know what is.
January 30th
BBC World's film review show Talking Movies had a special edition from Sundance this week, with this tidbit of Keira and The Jacket. 800kb.
January 29th
Sky News had a quick interview with
Keira from Sundance and a preview of The Jacket today. 2Mb.
Note how Sky avoided the press call
and accosted her in the street instead :-)
Naomie Harris has now been confirmed
as Tia Dalma, the gypsy queen I reported on back on December 29th (scroll
down), and Alex Norton is on board as Scottish captain Sam Bellamy.
A preliminary cast and crew list
is now online
below.
January 26th
In another twist for the Pirates sequels, Comingsoon.net announce that Bootstrap Bill (father of Will Turner) was not sent to Davey Jones' Locker after all. He will be played by Stellan Skarsgard (Cerdic in King Arthur).
January 25th
First new clip for a while. Here's Keira talking to E! News Live about her 'first Sundance experience'. 500kb
January 24th
The UK release of The Jacket will be Friday 13th May, making an early May premiere likely. Its superstitious release date will be justified the following week when Lord Vader rises to storm the box office in Star Wars Episode III.
There are now mixed reviews about The Jacket, such as this from TimeOut: "...It's also marred by a poor performance from Keira Knightley, who clearly believes she's giving a worthy, down-and-dirty turn as a screwed-up alcoholic...."
Scotland is bidding to host the UK premiere of The Jacket, as it was half-filmed there. If it's as successful as my local Birmingham hosting the prem of Lord of the Rings because Tolkien grew up there, then pigs might fly over Glasgow.
January 23rd
Photos here from The Jacket photocall, and out and about in Park City.
January 21st
First review
of The Jacket from Sundance is very promising:
Adrien Brody gives a solid performance
in a complex character, but the film’s biggest surprise is an extraordinary
performance by a barely recognisable Keira Knightley. Vocally and physically,
there is no evidence of the pretty blonde who stole the likes of "Bend
it Like Beckham" and "Love, Actually". Encapsulating working class Americana
at every turn, Knightley is a revelation here. "The Jacket" is an enthralling
and compelling film, both visceral and engaging, daring the viewer to be
propelled into an original and unique cinematic world."
Tulip Fever author Deborah Moggach gives her thoughts in The Guardian on the tax break removals which has effectively mothballed the project indefinitely. Entitled 'Gordon Brown Killed My Movie' (Gordon Brown is the UK's government money man), it comes almost a year after Tulip Fever's producer Alison Owen wrote an equally damning piece for the SAME newspaper entitled 'The Tax Man Killed My Movie'. Hmm, some more creative headline writers required at The Guardian, methinks.
Keira was snapped with Jamie in London recently, which this scan from Thursday's Daily Mirror shows, accompanied by this story in a full-page feature.
January 20th
Another chat with Geoffrey Rush regarding the Pirates sequels.
Keira spent the weekend with her boyfriend's family in Northern Ireland, according to the Belfast Telegraph. Earlier this week they were seen in London's West End watching a performance of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Here are some modelling shots of Jamie.
January 16th
Better quality, and downloadable, versions of The Jacket trailer are now available from this link or this page.
Here are some quick screengrabs I
made from the trailer:
1
- 2 - 3
- 4 - 5
- 6 - 7
- 8 - 9
The Sunday Times for Scotland has a rare interview with Keira's mother Sharman Macdonald today.
The full interview from the Pirates sequel press conference in Hollywood last week.
January 14th
The trailer for The Jacket is now
online.
Thanks to Ulrik for the info.
In case you're wondering, yes that
IS Keira with an American accent. It's supposedly a Vermont dialect, and
she was trained by 'voice coach to the stars' Julie Adams.
My partner in crime 'Frankie' has put together a cool wallpaper featuring Keira in scenes from The Jacket. Download your size preference: 1024x768 - 800x600 - 640x480
We've seen Keira on screen and her mum on photos, but what about her actor father Will? Here he is in crime drama Rosemary & Thyme, shown on ITV3 this week. Daddy Knightley played a recovering heart attack victim who was later found dead in the local park. 600kb
January 13th
The Jacket's first posters are now
online at RopeOfSilicon. See Keira's
and Adrien's.
Spooky.
Thanks to Sarah for the info.
This week's trashy celeb mag Zoo
in the UK has Keira in its 'Rude Archive' section, with pics from Zhivago
and The Hole (no prizes for guessing which ones), plus three clothed pics.
For completists only. You can still catch the video clips if you scroll
down to December 14th news.
Thanks to Ashley for the info.
IMDB is listing September 23rd for the UK release of Pride and Prejudice. A long way off, and therefore subject to change before then.
Here's an interview with Domino co-star Ian Ziering.
January 9th
Pirates of the Caribbean: <see
update below>
is a new title that's appeared online
for the first sequel. Time will tell whether this is accurate, and if it
is it may only be a working title.
(January 15th: Subtitle has been
removed for legal reasons)
January 8th
Here's a great studio still from Domino which will no doubt form part of the first photo set in a month or two. This was sent out as an autographed 10x8.
Keira's earlier roles continue to get a well-deserved airing on British TV. After Oliver Twist, The Treasure Seekers, The Bill, Love Actually and Bend It Like Beckham, the wonderful Coming Home is on ITV1 next Saturday at 3.10pm. Here's the DVD gallery.
Vote for Keira and King Arthur in the Sony Ericksson/Empire Awards.
And Keira is up for Best Female Action Movie Star in the People's Choice Awards.
January 7th
The charity telethon Comic Relief will air on March 11th this year on BBC1. With Richard Curtis the main writer and arranger of content, it's virtually guaranteed that his, Andrew Lincoln's and Keira's visit to Ethiopia last year will be featured prominently.
Bend It star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was arrested last night on charges of assaulting his girlfriend. Story.
January 5th
Get ready to hear the patter of tiny Keiras. No, she's not pregnant, but Keira's name had a huge rise in popularity among new baby names in 2004. According to figures out today, Keira rose 100 places to No.53. The alternate spelling of Kiera (which Keira NEVER had) was also up 30 places to No.92.
Details are out on the premiere of The Jacket at the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah. Screening times and a brief blurb can be found here. More interesting for me is the news that Brian Eno has composed the score! Now I'm really looking forward to this movie. Of Keira's three upcoming films, I think it is The Jacket that is the more likely material to be considered for Golden Globe, and therefore Academy Award, consideration.
There's an interview here with Mickey Rourke, in which he talks about working with Keira on Domino.
And a set report here from Latino Review, with screen caps from Access Hollywood (the US edition, so I don't have the video. Sorry.).
BoxOfficeProphets.com has Domino as their Movie of the Day for today.
With the New Year generally a 'slow
news day' period, magazines and media appear to have unearthed some old
stories about Keira. Some of the old chestnuts currently doing the rounds
again include:
- Mum lets Keira pierce belly button.
Today
- Original
17th November 2003
- Keira to be a bricklayer if she
quits acting.
Today
- Original28th
March 2004
- Keira's paparazzi terror.
Today
- Original (top right)
September 2004
- Keira denies eating disorder.
Today-
Original
(6th para up) 3rd July 2004
January 4th
The UK TV premiere of Bend It Like Beckham on Monday night trounced all other network viewing figures, according to data published today. ITV's new multi-million pound drama Uncle Adolf had 3.5 million viewers, while Parmy, Keira & co. pulled in 7.1 million. Article.
The first results of last month's Domino photoshoot are out, with this nicely toned shot of the main cast.
An Italian magazine has published a photo of Keira from the set of The Jacket. The decor certainly suggests it is an ex-British health service hospital, as was Bangour Village Hospital, where the asylum scenes were filmed.
As I reported on Christmas Eve (scroll
down to read), after speaking to Keira's agent that day, I was told of
Keira's plans for the holiday period. For privacy reasons I withheld the
location, due to the paparazzi's 'no expense spared' attitude to getting
exclusive snaps. I'm happy to announce that Keira and her family spent
the festive period in the tropical sunshine of Kenya, in East Africa. Kenya's
foreign visitors either hit the safari trail in the national parks or stay
in the many coastal resorts along the Indian Ocean. Last week's catastrophic
tsunami *did* reach the shores of Kenya, causing coastal damage, but only
one local resident has been reported killed. I trust Keira and her family
had a great time and are safe and well (I'm sure we'd have heard otherwise
by now).
Thank you to those who clicked-through
from the links at the top of this page to donate to the aid relief. The
links will stay there for the foreseeable future. Though the headlines
will fade, the suffering will remain.
Hello! Magazine are once again pitting celebrities against each other in their 2004 poll. You can vote for Keira here. Some of you (especially those who frequent forums) may remember the incredible fuss made over a similar poll last year, when Keira's fans were locked in keyboard combat with those of Aishwarya Rai. It even got to the ridiculous stage of people emailing Keira's agent to intervene in the possibility that the poll was rigged. Well there's the link above, people, and I'll say no more about it! Vote, or don't - in the Grand Scheme of Things, it's hardly important.
January 2nd
Keira has given her first Domino press interview, conducted in December.
About.com have a great FAQ on Domino, featuring interviews with most of the cast.
Here's Keira's full appearance (two scenes) as Princess Beatrice in The Treasure Seekers. Keira was 10.
January 1st 2005
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL VISITORS TO KEIRAWEB.COM !!!!
The KeiraWeb Review of the Year for Keira's 2004 is now online.
Here's Working Title's synopsis for
Pride & Prejudice:
Pride and Prejudice follows the
adventures of the five Bennet sisters, including the strong-willed eldest
Lizzie and the youngest Lydia, and their attempts to find husbands. When
a wealthy new bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up
summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with hope that
potential suitors wil be in full supply. But once Lizzie meets up with
the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr. Darcy, what seemed at first like a
match made in Heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of
the sexes ever portrayed in literature.
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