Helena Bonham Carter to Narrate BBC’s “Charles III: The Coronation Year” Documentary on King Charles III

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter has landed a royal storytelling role…

The 57-year-old part-Spanish English actress will narrate Charles III: The Coronation Year, a BBC documentary that explores King Charles III‘s first year on the throne.

Charles III: The Coronation Year will air next month, as viewers are taken behind the scenes via exclusive access to see the landmark moments of the king and his wife, Queen Camilla’s, first year since the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Filmed as Buckingham Palace prepared for, delivered, and celebrated the first Coronation in 70 years in May, and in the months that followed, the documentary features contributions from members of the Royal Family and key players in The King and Queen’s Household.

“It’s a real privilege to be given such extraordinary behind the scenes access to the first year of King Charles’ reign,” said Kate Phillips, BBC Director of Unscripted. “It is a remarkable time in history and this documentary will offer a unique insight into King Charles and Queen Camilla, and the preparation and planning leading to their coronation – a momentous ceremony watched by millions around the world.”

Oxford Films is producing the 90-minute documentary, which will air next month. EP for Oxford Films is Nicolas Kent and commissioning editor for the BBC is Simon Young. It’s directed by Ashley Gething, produced by Faye Hamilton and the writer and co-producer is Robert Hardman.

Bonham Carter played Princess Margaret in Seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown.

Masterpiece to Premiere Helena Bonham Carter’s Miniseries “Nolly” in March 2024

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter’s latest project will be airing on Masterpiece.

Masterpiece has revealed the premiere date and released a trailer for the upcoming miniseries Nolly, starring the 57-year-old part-Spanish English actress as Noele “Nolly” Gordon, one of the most famous faces on British television in the 1960s and ’70s.

Nolly played Meg Richardson in the hit ITV soap Crossroads before she was abruptly axed at the height of the show’s success. With the boss’ words “all good things must come to an end” ringing in her ears, Gordon found herself thrown out of the show that was her life for almost 20 years. Her firing was front-page news.

Nolly will premiere on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 9/8c on PBS. The series also stars Mark Gatiss and Con O’Neil.

The biopic comes from It’s A Sin creator Russell T Davies and is produced by ITV Studios-backed Quay Street Productions.

Helena Bonham Carter to Star in Audible’s Series Adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield”

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter is helping breathe new life into a Charles Dickens classic…

The 57-year-old part-Spanish English Oscar-nominated actress will star in David Copperfield, a new all-star Audible series executive-produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes.

Ncuti Gatwa will star as the title character,

In addition to Bonham Carter and Gatwa, the series will also star Theo James, Jessie Buckley, Richard Armitage , Jack Lowden, Toby Jones, Indira Varma, Ralph Ineson and newcomer Reece Kenwyne Mpudzi.

David Copperfield is the second in Sam Mendes’ Charles Dickens collaborations with Audible, following Oliver Twist, which was released last year.

Dickens himself referred to David Copperfield as his “favorite child” and the series will explore the life and loves of a gentle orphan in an indifferent adult world.

Characters will include the novel’s eccentric Aunt Betsey, the faithful Peggotty and loquacious Mr.Micawber, the villainous Micawbers and Uriah Heep, Little Em’ly, Dora and Agnes, as well as old school friend James Steerforth, dashing, daring and seductive.

According to Audible, this dramatization “explores the complexities and intimacies of the Steerforth relationship beyond anything possible in Dickens’ day”.

As with Mendes’ Oliver Twist, David Copperfield will be released globally by Audible and is being recorded in Audible’s London studio, as well as in the Charles Dickens Museum. Release is slated for November 30. Directors are Daniel Jewel and Mariele Runacre-Temple.

Mendes said: “I’m thrilled to continue my collaboration with Audible after the success of Oliver Twist and where better to go next than to David Copperfield, which for so many – and indeed for Dickens himself – is a favorite amongst his canon. We have an outstanding cast, led by the incomparable Ncuti Gatwa whose amazing comic timing brings new dimensions to the character of David. In the sound design we’ve leaned into hyper realism so that the listener really feels like they’re on the journey with David through his misfortunes and triumphs. Another feast for the ears.

See-Saw Films Releases First Look Images of James Hawes’ “One Life,” Starring Helena Bonham-Carter

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Here’s a first look at Helena Bonham-Carter’s one life…

See-Saw Films has released first look images of James Hawes’ One Life, starring the 57-year-old part-Spanish English actress, which will receive its world premiere as a Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) special presentation in September.

Written by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, the film is based on the book, If it’s not impossible… The life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton.

It tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London banker who, on the eve of World War II, saved 669 children from the Nazis – more than the number of children who survived the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia.

With war fast approaching, Winton visited a recently annexed Prague and witnessed first-hand Jewish refugee families with little to no shelter and food. He immediately realized it was a race against time to see how many children he and his friends could rescue before time ran out.

Fifty years later, in 1988, Winton is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England. It’s not until a live television show That’s Life surprises him with the surviving children – now adults – seated all around him that he can finally make peace with the loss he had carried for five decades.

Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn both play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his life. Bonham-Carter plays Winton’s mother, Babi. The cast also includes Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin, Romola Garai and

The film is a Warner Bros. Pictures, BBC Film and MBK Productions presentation in association with Cross City Films, Filmnation Entertainment and Lipsync and is a See-Saw Films Production.

TIFF takes place September 7-17.

Helena Bonham Carter Starring in the Period Drama “The Offing”

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter is off(ing) to her next project…

The 56-year-old part-Spanish British actress, a two time Oscar nominee, will star in the period drama The Offing, which Beta Cinema will launch sales on at next week’s EFM.

Bonham Carter is reteaming with The Crown director Jessica Hobbs on the project.

Hobbs, an Emmy winner who is currently directing HBO drama The Palace with Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant, has directed the second-most episodes of Netflix’s smash series The Crown, including multiple episodes with Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret.

Their new collaboration is an adaptation of Benjamin Myers’ well-received novel set in post war northern England. The film charts the intense and uplifting relationship between a teenage boy and a hard drinking, foul-mouthed, bohemian recluse called Dulcie (Bonham Carter).

Casting is underway for the 16 year-old Robert, a shy, nature-loving son of a miner who sets out to see a little more of the world before he follows his father down the pit. Under Dulcie’s eccentric tutelage, his life opens up to food, girls, and the transformative beauty of poetry. Over time he discovers that her idyllic home is hiding a tragic secret about Dulcie’s great love and the two go on a journey which will open Dulcie’s own heart and re-engage her with the world.

The film is being produced by Charlotte Walls and Emily Barttelot for Catalyst Global Media, which developed the film with support from Beta. Amy Roberts is adapting the screenplay and Bonham Carter is also aboard as an executive producer. Shooting is being lined up for later this year.

“The Offing presents the notion that being introduced to the right person can transform your life forever,” says Bonham Carter. “Dulcie teaches Robert how to live – everyone needs a Dulcie Piper in their life! And Robert, after uncovering Dulcie’s secret, leads her to peace. From the beginning I wanted Jessica Hobbs on board. She is so brilliant with character and rigorous about being authentic with following the psychological and emotional story. If we can succeed in capturing an iota of Benjamin Myers’ novel the film will be beautiful and a life enhancer. In Jessica’s hands I have little doubt we will.”

Jessica Hobbs commented: “When I first read the book, Helena Bonham Carter was immediately vividly present as Dulcie. She is so unapologetically, joyously, who she is, as is Dulcie. What the film ultimately delivers is a deep and timely meditation on the power of friendship, of creativity, of healing in the most unexpected of ways. I am excited to have the chance to work closely with Helena again since we were last together on The Crown. She is a spectacular actress and a director’s dream.“

Tassilo Hallbauer, Beta Cinema’s Head of Sales & Acquisitions, added: “We immediately felt very strongly about this very modern, warm-hearted and funny take on a period drama. The characters, the language, the unapologetic nature of our heroine, make this film vastly contemporary and relevant. The Offing is incredibly charming, extremely entertaining and truly uplifting – exactly what audiences around the world want to see right now.”

The King’s Speech and Alice In Wonderland star Bonham Carter is currently on screens as the lead role in Nolly, the new UK series from Doctor Who showrunner and It’s A Sin creator Russel T Davies.

Benjamin Myers’ novel The Gallows Pole won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction and is being adapted as a six-part TV series co-produced by the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows.

PBS Masterpiece to Air Helena Bonham Carter’s British Period Drama “Nolly”

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter is getting the masterpiece treatment…

PBS Masterpiece has signed on to air the 56-year-old part-Spanish English Oscar-nominated actress’ British period drama series Nolly.

The public broadcaster will air the series, which will debut on UK streaming platform ITVX, in the U.S. although no premiere date has been announced.

Nolly will tell the story of Noele Gordon (Bonham Carter), who played Meg Richardson in hit ITV soap Crossroads before being abruptly axed at the height of the show’s success.

With the boss’s words “all good things must come to an end” ringing in her ears, Gordon found herself thrown out of the show that was her life for almost 20 years.

The biopic comes from It’s A Sin creator Russell T Davies and is produced by ITV Studios-backed Quay Street Productions.

It also stars Augustus Prew and Mark Gatiss.

Helena Bonham Carter to Narrate Netflix’s Natural History Series “Wild Babies”

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter is wild about her new project…

Netflix has hired the 55-year-old part-Spanish–British actress and two-time Oscar nominee to narrate a blue-chip natural history series about the secret world of baby animals in the wild.

Bonham-Carter will reveal the animals’ moving stories in Wild Babies, which comes from UK indie Humble Bee Films and will run to eight episodes. Netflix will launch the show globally on May 5 but has kept it under wraps until now.

The character-driven series will follow 17 animal families across 16 countries, with subjects including lions, wild dogs, sea otters, orangutans, grizzly bears, elephants, bottlenose dolphins and emperor penguins featuring. Their young will be followed from birth through developmental milestones and coming-of-age moments.

Stephen Dunleavy and Charlotte Crosse are executive producers for Humble Bee, which is the Bristol-based producer behind BBC, Netflix and Channel Nine co-production Attenborough’s Life in Colour and Attenborough and the Giant Elephant for the BBC and CBC.

“Wild Babies will resonate with a broad family audience, with heart-warming stories that will feel relatable to viewers around the world,” said Crosse.

“Delivering an ambitious wildlife series during a global pandemic certainly presented new challenges for our team, but what we hadn’t anticipated were the creative opportunities and innovative approaches that also emerged.”

The show marks Netflix’s latest foray into the natural history space. Its biggest bet to date was 2021’s Attenborough-narrated Our Planet, though it has more recently announced a co-production with Sky titled Predators.

Five-time Emmy nominee Bonham Carter narrated last year’s BBC Earth/BBC America series Eden: Untamed Planet, becoming the latest in a line of A-listers narrating natural history docs.

Helena Bonham Carter to Star in the ITV Biopic “Nolly”

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

It’s a Nolly, jolly time for Helena Bonham Carter…

The 55-year-old part-Spanish English actress has been cast as the lead in the ITV biopic Nolly.

From Russell T Davies, the debut project for Nicola Shindler’s ITV Studios-backed drama label Quay Street Productions, the project will tell the story of Noele Gordon (Bonham Carter), who played Meg Richardson in hit ITV soap Crossroads before being abruptly axed at the height of the show’s success. With the boss’s words “all good things must come to an end” ringing in her ears, Gordon found herself thrown out of the show that was her life for almost 20 years.

The three-parter is Doctor Who showrunner Davies’ first show for ITV since 2004 and reunites him with long-time collaborator Shindler, who he has worked with numerous times including on It’s A Sin for her previous outfit Red Production Company, which she left last year to set up Quay Street. It’s A Sin director Peter Hoar is set to direct Nolly, Davies and Shindler will executive produce and ITV Studios is distributing internationally.

ITV Head of Drama Polly Hill called Nolly a “bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules, the women it cannot understand and the women it fears.”

“Russell’s scripts are magnificent and a great tribute to Noele Gordon, but also to our national love of soaps and a celebration of the incredible women they create,” she added.

Shindler said: “I couldn’t be prouder or more excited that the first drama we will be filming for Quay Street Productions is this beautiful script by Russell T Davies. And that Helena Bonham Carter will star as such an iconic British woman is dream casting.”

Super LTD Acquires North American Rights to the Helena Bonham Carter-Narrarted Holocaust Documentary “Three Minutes — A Lengthening”

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham Carter is spending three minutes in theaters…

Super LTD has acquired the North American rights to Bianca Stigter’s Holocaust documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening, narrated by the 55-year-old part-Spanish English actress.

Co-produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, the documentary will be released in theaters next year.

Stigter’s first feature-length doc centers on a three-minute home movie shot by David Kurtz on a European holiday in 1938, in a Jewish town in Poland.

The amateur footage— discovered by Kurtz’s grandson, writer Glenn Kurtz, in his parents’ Florida home—captures the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk just one year before the Nazis invaded. Most were eventually killed in the Treblinka extermination camp.

Family Affairs Films’ Floor Onrust produced Stigter’s meditation on history and memory with Lammas Park, with the support of The Netherlands Film Fund and Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

The film made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival before screening in Telluride and Toronto. Its upcoming stops on the festival circuit include the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam and DOC NYC.

Stigter is a Dutch historian and cultural critic who writes essays for Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. She previously collaborated with McQueen as an associate producer on his films 12 Years a Slave and Widows, and published the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 in 2019.

Helena Bonham-Carter Joins Voice Cast of Netflix’s Stop Motion Dark Comedy Animation Anthology “The House”

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

Helena Bonham-Carter is coming home…

The 55-year-old part-Spanish English actress will star in Netflix’s The House, the streamer’s upcoming stop motion dark comedy animation anthology from Nexus Studios.

Directed by leading stop motion animation directors Emma de Swaef, Marc Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and 46-year-old half-Mexican English actress/director Paloma Baeza, The House centers on a home and the three surreal tales of the individuals who made it their own.

“The characters in The House, albeit in different ways, are all trying to make sense of the world and their place within it. It’s about their flawed attempt to conform to an idea of who they think they are or who they think they ought to be,” said Charlotte Bavasso, producer. “And whether they manage to break free or not. We couldn’t have dreamt of a better cast: they all embraced the heart of those existentialist comedies and the uniquely caustic sense of humour of our visionary filmmakers and writer in spectacular ways.”

Here are the project details.

Chapter One:

Cast:
Claudie Blakley is Penelope.
Matthew Goode voices Raymond, a father who strives for something more for his family.
Mia Goth voices Mabel, the daughter of Raymond and Penelope.
Mark Heap voices Mr. Thomas.
Miranda Richardson voices Aunt Clarice.
Josh McGuire voices Uncle Georgie.
Stephanie Cole voices Great Aunt Eleanor.

Directors:
Emma de Swaef & Marc James Roels

Chapter Two:

Cast:
Musician/writer Jarvis Cocker voices the contractor who’s determined to refurbish the house.
Yvonne Lombard and the late Sven Wollter voice the Odd Couple – curious and mysterious potential buyers.
Musician Dizzee Rascal voices the Policeman.

Director:
Niki Lindroth von Bahr (The Burden)

Chapter Three:

Cast:
Helena Bonham-Carter voices Jen, an eccentric tenant.
Paul Kaye voices Cosmos, a spiritual friend of Jen’s.
Will Sharpe voices Elias, a sensitive young artist and tenant
Susan Wokoma voices Rosa, the landlady determined to restore the house to its former glory.

Director:
Paloma Baeza (Poles Apart)

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