A fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr Parnassus and his extraordinary ‘Imaginarium’, but Parnassus made a bet with the devil thousands of years ago, and the prize is Parnassus’ daughter…
Actress/director Jodie Markell first read Tennessee Williams screenplay for The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond while she was in drama school in New York. Now Markell is bringing the story to the screen…
The daughter of Academy Award winning director, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard, has had featured roles in Spider-man 3 and the upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, now takes her most challenging part to date of Fisher Willow, in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, a new drama based on a recently rediscovered original screenplay by the legendary Tennessee Williams…
In a new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous characters, Sherlock Holme sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson on their latest challenge. Holmes will battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot…
Mark Strong, who portrays Lord Blackwell, has now made three movies with Guy Ritchie. The director felt Strong gave Blackwell the gravity the character needed in order to provide a formidable challenge for Sherlock Holmes…
Helped by his traveling theatre troupe, including his sarcastic and cynical sidekick Percy (Verne Troyer), Doctor Parnassus offers audience members the chance to transcend their reality by passing through a magical mirror into Imagination…
Jude Law is portraying Dr John Watson in Guy Ritchie’s re-imagining of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes but this is not his first encounter with Holmes…
The charming and mysterious Tony (Heath Ledger) is saved from hanging to death by members of a traveling show, headed by Dr Parnassus. When Ledger died from an accidental overdose of prescription pills, director Terry Gilliam Gilliam found a way to change Tony into three new personas, performed by Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Ferrell…
Ritchie admits that when he was a child, he had a ‘strong visual sense’ of who he thought Sherlock Holmes was, so when Warner Brothers contacted him about making the movie he immediately said yes…
Christina Applegate and Amy Poeholer are part of the Chipettes and are the competitors to The Chipmunks in a school talent contest. We spoke with Amy and Christina about their new personas, as sexy rocking chipmunks! [...]
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