In his most personal film to date, Kenneth Branagh's Belfast tells the story of a fictional nine-year-old version of himself during the Troubles in late '60s Northern Ireland.
"It's really the story of something that happened to me when I was nine years old," says Branagh, "that happy life with a big extended family…
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…
Focus Features has confirmed it will be releasing Kenneth Branagh's Belfast to theaters on November 12, unveiling the trailer and poster art today.
Outlander's Caitriona Balfe stars with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and 10-year-old Jude Hill in the pic, a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one…
Kenneth Branagh has been forced to cancel a significant UK theater production due to an "increasing number of Covid-enforced absences".
The play was a revival of The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan and was due to be staged at London's Riverside Studios next month. The venue sent a note to ticket holders…
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman and Theodore Melfi’s Netflix dramedy The Starling starring Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Kline are among the first announced official selections of the 46th edition of the Toronto Film Festival, which is taking place September…
Focus Features will be releasing Kenneth Branagh’s Belfaston November 12.
Outlander‘s Caitriona Balfe stars with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and 10-year-old Jude Hill in the pic, a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Dornan…
Kenneth Branagh has been set to direct the untitled Bee Gees biopic movie for Paramount Pictures.
The film got set up in a massive rights package in late 2019 by Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King at GK and it became the first film project for Sister — the venture launched by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and…
Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its upcoming Michael Winterbottom series This Sceptred Isle.
Filming has commenced on the five-part series, which will premiere in fall 2022. The project first emerged last year as part of a deal between The Trip director…
Henry V star Kenneth Branagh is to play British Prime Minister in Sky drama This Sceptred Isle.
The project first emerged as part of a deal between The Trip director Michael Winterbottom and Fremantle's Passenger, run by True Detective producer Richard Brown.
Sky Atlantic has now boarded the series with Branagh, who…
Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh-directed feature drama Belfast.
Written and directed by Oscar-nominee Branagh, the semi-autobiographical film charts a boy's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
Cast includes Golden Globe-nominee Caitriona Balfe…
Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith and Derek Jacobi will take part in a live Q&A hosted by Kenneth Branagh over Zoom on November 29 to benefit the UK's theater community.
The event is being put on to aid UK workers who have struggled during the pandemic. Tickets cost £45 and are limited. Proceeds are going to…
The brilliant actor and director Kenneth Branagh has an impressive film legacy behind the camera with sterling Shakespearean adaptations from Henry V to Hamlet, the dazzling recent remake of Murder on the Orient Express and big-scale Disney movies Thor and Cinderella, the latter in my book being far and away the best…
