Belfast writer-director Kenneth Branagh and actor Ciarán Hinds have tested positive for Covid-19 and missed the Producers Guild Awards ceremony Saturday, where the film is up for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.
THRreported that Jude Hill, the young star of Branagh's…
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from his Oscar nomination, Belfast star Ciarán Hinds is joining Netflix spy drama series Treason.
Hinds, who scored a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his role in the Kenneth Branagh-directed film, will star alongside Olga Kurylenko, Oona Chaplin and Charlie Cox in the six-part series, which comes…
Belfast writer-director-producer Ken Branagh, actor Ciarán Hinds and sound supervisor Simon Chase – all Oscar nominated – spoke with us at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event about the acclaimed film's journey to screen.
Based on Branagh's own experiences growing up in Northern Ireland, the Focus Features…
Ciarán Hinds is a face you’ll instantly recognize even if you don’t know the name, which is likely mispronounced. Nevertheless, this is an actor who knows how to pick ’em.
Among his credits are Road to Perdition, There Will Be Blood, Munich, Harry Potter, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Frozen, Miami Vice, Lara Croft: To…
"It was really a story and an experience that was kind of burning a hole in my head, burning a hole in my heart," reveals Belfast director Kenneth Branagh of his motivation to make the very personal film.
"I wanted to go back to try and understand better something which really had had been haunting me, both the…
Having received a SAG nomination Wednesday for her performance as Ma in Kenneth Branagh’s childhood memoir film Belfast, Caitríona Balfe said she had been texting with co-star Jamie Dornan, who she said was “super excited” for both her and for their nomination as an ensemble cast.
However, Balfe admitted to feeling…
When Ciarán Hinds accepted the role of 'Pa' in Kenneth Branagh's fictionalized memoir Belfast, he felt honored to step into the writer-director's personal story, and to be cast opposite Judi Dench. Belfast centers around Buddy—played by breakout Jude Hill—a character based upon Branagh's young self, growing up during…
EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson (Taken) is set to star in Ireland-set thriller In The Land Of Saints And Sinners, which will re-team the actor with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz. Their previous collaboration topped the U.S. box office earlier this year.
Set in a remote Irish village, Neeson will play a newly retired…
Kenneth Branagh's Belfast tells the story of a fictional nine-year-old version of himself during the Troubles in late 1960s Northern Ireland. Today, he told Deadline's Contenders Film: London event that he had long wanted to write something about the city, but was thinking "perhaps there was a story about my…
Coming on the heels of the Venice debut this week of Paolo Sorrentino’s memories of growing up in 1980s Naples is a trip back in time for yet another celebrated director, and of course actor: Kenneth Branagh. He revisits the memories of being 9 years old and growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, right in the middle…
EXCLUSIVE:Sebastian Gutierrez returns to Austin for the fourth time to debut a film of his — this one is the sleek lookingElizabeth Harvest, a Gothic-vibed sci-fi pic starring Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Abbey Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Matthew Beard and longtime Gutierrez collaborator Carla Gugino.
The riff on the Bluebeard…
EXCLUSIVE: Ciaran Hinds, who was recently seen in Martin Scorsese's Silence and boxing biopic Bleed For This, has boarded Fox’s Red Sparrow, a film adaptation based on Jason Matthews’ espionage novel. He joins Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson in the thriller…