Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for his third Emmy yesterday. Everything’s coming up Cumby! He was previously nominated for Emmys for his performances in Sherlock: A Scandal In Belgravia (which is probably the best Sherlock episode ever) and Parade’s End. This year’s nomination is for Sherlock: His Last Vow. Which… I don’t know, I thought was the weakest episode of the last season. He did some great acting, for sure, but if I was in charge of the world, I would have put him up for The Sign of Three just because that episode is so much more enjoyable. Anyway, Benedict issued a statement about his nomination and it’s absolutely charming:
“That’s amazing news to start the day with here in Boston! An early birthday present. I’m honored to be in such great company not least Martin. Thrilled for all who make Sherlock and especially those who has been nominated in so many categories.”
“Especially those who HAS”? NO BENEDICT. But I’ll forgive him because he was probably excited and because who knows if he even typed out this statement himself. Maybe it was even E!’s fault? Also: Benedict just wanted to remind everyone about his birthday. July 19th, in case you didn’t know. He’s a Cancer.
In other exciting Cumberbatch news, San Diego is going to get a thorough ‘Batching this month. Yes, our Cumby is going to Comic-Con. YES YES YES.
Benedict Cumberbatch will make his first trip to San Diego Comic-Con to promote DreamWorks Animation’s feature “The Penguins of Madagascar,” although he may also stick around for Warner Bros.’ “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” and support Peter Jackson, who is scheduled to present the final installment of his trilogy.
In addition to Cumberbatch, who plays Agent Classified, the panel for “Penguins” will also feature John Malkovich, Tom McGrath and directors Simon J. Smith and Eric Darnell. Fox will release the toon on Nov. 26. The 90-minute DreamWorks panel will take place in the convention center’s Hall H on July 24, starting at 11:30 a.m. WB’s presentation takes place the morning of the 26th.
The DreamWorks presentation will also promote the animated feature “Home,” out March 27, which features music by Rihanna and is helmed by Tim Johnson.
While “Sherlock” has been promoted at Comic-Con in the past, Cumberbatch nor co-star Martin Freeman were on hand to discuss the series with fans. Cumberbatch was nominated for an Emmy in the outstanding lead actor in a miniseries of movie category for “Sherlock” on Thursday, while Freeman nabbed a nom for “Fargo.”
Yes, it seems weird that Benedict’s first time at Comic-Con is going to be to promote… The Penguins of Madagascar. That’s very odd. But the movie looks like a good one and I’m pleased Benedict is going to be front-and-center to promote it. Oh, I’m so jealous of all the Comic-Con nerds this year. They’re going to get Batched. Sigh…
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
Welcome to San Diego, lovely boy! I’m available to give you a personal guided tour of our beautiful city! Call me!
Nooooo!!! I was going to go to Comic-Con this year since I have family there but ended up choosing an Iceland/London trip instead. This choice will haunt me for the rest of the year.
Also, the Jezebel article on this is amazing since the Jezzies are also Cumberbitches and Dragonflies.
http://goo.gl/mSqsv4
Lol. That was great.
Funny. Enjoyed the GIFs in the comments, too.
Tbh, I cringed at the Hiddles gifs in the comments =/ The poster seems to be doing it specifically to irritate Benedict fans. Not cool at all imo. Hiddles doesn’t really need THIS type of dubious fan promotion.
Ui, that is definetely going to haunt you… No possible way to change back?
Sadly no. The Iceland/London trip already came and went (no Hiddles or Cumby sightings unfortunately) and Comic-Con tickets sold out earlier in the year. Guess it’s YouTube for me.
If anyone is going, please report back so we can live vicariously through you!
Cumby at Comic Con? Oh boy. I wonder if the building will spontaneously combust from all the fangirl-dom.
BC is more popular here than at ComicCon.
The structure of the building will remain unharmed by any reaction over him, at least.
I think the building will remain intact but the websites that love him may not!
I’ve never been more angry that the Marine Corps sent us away from San Diego. I could be batched, too. 🙁
Congrats to him on his Emmy nod! I hope he wins (even though I really want Idris to win, too).
Love him!
ooooo he gon get mauled. Buried under a mountain of fangirls, like in WWZ. He should bring some rations and keep them in his pocket.
He’s going to have to hire a fleet of bodyguards. I’m afraid for his sanity. And quite possibly his life.
As long as someone from Australia doesn’t pop up… He’ll be fine… 😀
It will be interesting to see if he shows up at any other panels (*cough* Marvel *cough*). At the very least it could put the rumours to bed.
I’ll see that Penguin movie just for the cheese puffs scene. 🙂
theonering.net hinted at him attending the Marvel panel.
I’ve attended for the last 8 years and will be there again this year. It’s definitely crazier than it used to be. I think it’s odd that BC wasn’t there to promote Sherlock, Hobbit or Star Trek (although I don’t think they had a panel that year) , but he’s going to be in hall h for Penguins? There’s a lot of talk about his visit to the Marvel headquarters and the upcoming Dr Strange movie. It might just be us nerds hoping for BC in the MU!
Some people have been gossiping on Twitter that what Cumby is REALLY attending SDCC for is the announcement of him being cast as Dr. Strange 😉
P.S. Nice to be back! Went abroad for a week and was too busy to pop in here but it seems that my fav boy is busy in Ireland and I haven’t really missed anything ^_^
Of course it is Intro. I put a tenner on this announcement last week. it’s been in the bag for months, and I mean months. Just been to obvious from the start, if by the odd chance I am wrong it’s because he dropped out because Hiddles told him too ;-p
[yes first hiddles -bomb of post] ‘evil’
Ugh. I think you’re right penny. I was really hoping he wouldn’t get sucked into the superhero vortex. Sigh.
Oh ‘P’enny… *shakes head and sighs dramatically* Couldn’t you follow my example and choose some politically correct way of mentioning You-Know-Who without calling him by his name? Like The Flat Iron Man or something…
@intro but that’s boring. [flat iron man? eh] I am tired of all the Benny posts and no Hiddles posts because he is shunning the paps! no wimbo, no glasto, no grand prix, no hugs with dogs! just boring fan-hug posts on twitter. And until Lilacflowers turns up with her glittery-rhinestone cowboy sock monkey he won’t get papped. Belfast just doesn’t attract the press, was any of the Games of Thrones or Gillian Anderson/Jamie D ever papped in Belfast? nah… they are too chicken to go there.
I might call him Mr Whippy in honour of his new hairstyle.
Mr. Whippy? 😀 Or maybe Mr. Jag? Looks like he wasn’t able to avoid ALL paps in the end lol http://31.media.tumblr.com/24ebe79d8d05e7f99c8828bd99dfa3aa/tumblr_n8jjhuePjX1ty14ilo5_1280.png
@intro. Hot damn he’s gorg. I may have to fight you for him. I’ll make it a lame girl fight and probably allow you to win, but I feel I must at least attempt to wrench him from your clutches.
@Sighs, I’ve been away from my Tommyboy for a whole week so I’m way too clingy now! I’m afraid that instead of fighting you’ll have to peel me off him. With pliers.
@’P’enny, if you think CB has a hard case of Cumberbatchietis, you need to lurk around his IMDb forums. Now THAT is a completely different level of dedication 😉
@intro
Mr Whippy is a type of ice-cream that swirls into a big curl, like his fringe is doing right now.
IMBD for Benny is a very unwelcome place to try and get into, don’t even or ever try and be critical they make Hiddles Nannies look normal.
Intro- may I at least have him for an evening once you’ve had a little of your fill? I like you, I don’t want to have to break out the tools.
@Sighs: *side-eyes the instruments* Ahem, oh-kaaay… But just for an evening. And not this one. Or the next one. Maybe the day after the next one. Can’t peel myself off earlier than that, sorry. Not humanly possible.
Oh that’s fine, intro. I have a busy weekend. Though not, it seems, as busy as yours.
😉
lots of TWHiddleston photo shoots around and photos with fans in Bangor with fans around this week..Link to a short video. He called a fan who could not get there because if work and made some joke about not being a god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bZZjXJ4HY#t=23
I love the seventies Laing hair.
Oh and he also had a Dreamworks voice over coming up as the Shadow villain in Me and my Shadow. I honestly think he and Benny PR for each when they are working. Benny at Marvel and Tom at DreamWorks.
http://dreamworks.wikia.com/wiki/Me_and_My_Shadow
@’p’enny, the glittery, sparkly, sequined, rhinestone-covered sock monkey is coming along nicely although I’ve managed to get crystals stuck in my eyelashes and a hot glue gun burn on my arm. And the whole house is covered in glitter.
@icerose, his voice sounds a bit gravelly still. Has he ever been officially confirmed for that Dreamworks cartoon?
A GORGEOUS black Jag, fans-giving-him-Irish-woolly-lambs videos, Faisal (his security guard from Coriolanus stage door) is the new Luke–it’s been too long! Thumb-hat man is talented, and all that…but there’s been three, four ‘batch posts since the last THids…and I, for one, have been wearing the cranky pants for just too long.
@TotallyBiased, oh no! No cranky pants! Have a cookie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ubVVnWglk&feature=kp
Or some not appropriate for work e.e. cummings poetry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWtaHZzKA4
And it is really wonderful that Jaguar seems to be providing him with vehicles.
@Lilac flowers-ooh, how very kind of you. Well, I don’t have to say that “may I feel” edit had the Cranky Pants coming *right* off, do I?
Cookies weren’t bad, either. 😉
@Totally Biased, so glad you enjoyed both. I know they both lift my spirits, but in very different ways.
BY. THE. WAY, @TotallyBiased, thanks for mentioning Mr. Whippy’s bodyguard! I found that my eyes are drifting in the direction of Mr. Faisal waaay too often lol. He’s quite gorgeous and seems to be very competent *sighs* Looks like this pair of gents is really going to kill me. And please let there be no Luke in Hiddles’ vicinity in the foreseeable future, Mr. Hot Bodyguard is so much easier on the eyes 😛
@Intro Outro– you’re so welcome!
I’m such a Faisal fan that I sent him a Christmas card. Hold up, not as weird as it sounds! Made cards using the PR shots from Coriolanus (properly credited) for my Dragonfly friends (and boy was THAT ever problematic to tie into a Holiday theme 😉 ) , had a few extra, and sent them to Donmar staff–NOT as apology for real or imagined fan girl misbehavior, but as kudos for their grace and quite evident hard work. Faisal got one of his own because I happened to know his name.
I also kind of get a kick out of how he blatantly tells untruths to try and cut down on the number of people waiting, especially to people he knows have been there multiple times.
@Lilacflowers I dida bit more searching and it is still in in development. So maybe not, It sounded like a great bit of voice over work. Re his voice it was a fan video and the quality was not great so it is difficult to tell.I did not pick it up but I only watched it once. It has been a while since Coriolanus so it should be better by now.
@Intro Outro I noticed the new improved body guard as well. He did not look quite so interesting at Coriolanus but I guess he was all bundled up in a coat.Mind you he still looks like a slim down version.
@lilacflowers
Can’t wait to see the rhinestone sock monkey, you need to be careful with those glue-guns make sure you take it with you when you see Tom so you can accidentally glue yourself to him. “oops Tom only mean’t to glue back in place your dropped rhinestone, you have two lovely ones.”
@intro wrestle tom to the ground and you will find the body guard will wrestle you in turn 😉
Yes, we have now hi-jacked a thread to discuss our lust for another actor’s bodyguard. Wondering if GDT will show any Crimson Peak at Comic Con. And if the bodyguard will be there. Not expecting a Loki appearance at Marvel’s panel since the Avengers will all be there and they’re supposed to think the character is dead. But I am expecting a release date for Thor 3.
@TotallyBiased:
“I also kind of get a kick out of how he blatantly tells untruths to try and cut down on the number of people waiting, especially to people he knows have been there multiple times”
Wow, then he’s even a more precious find for Hiddles who’s waaaay too much of a yes-man for his own good.
@’P’enny, I wouldn’t mind finding myself on the ground in the company of these two guys. Hmmm… *looks at Tommy appraisingly* But how do you tackle a man who’s 9.5 inches taller than you?
@Intro, that height difference actually gives you a bit of an adventure in tackling. Your center of gravity is closer to the ground and you knock him off balance as you grab around the mid-section. He thinks you’re coming in for a hug but you use a bit more force and speed, while sliding one of your feet through his and using it to take out one of his lower legs, so he’s only on one foot and you thrust your full weight against his mid-section. Yes, I have lots of experience with this. Our family reunions tend to get a bit rambunctious. I’ll be happy to demonstrate for you. If you would kindly send Thomas over here while you copy my moves on Faisel.
@’p’enny, I just managed to glue sequins in my hair accidentally and my leg is now bedazzled. I may be turning myself into a giant rhinestone-covered sock monkey. He had better appreciate my efforts. GDT recently said that his director’s cut of Crimson Peak, using temporary effects is almost complete and he’s thrilled with it, so maybe there will be footage shown at Comic Con.
@intro – You catch more bees with honey. Show up with a lovely cake and tell bodyguard that is for him and TH. Ask bodyguard to hold it for you whilst you “take a photo” and then ask TH to kneel before you 😉
.. .. that should give you the advantage.
@Lilacflowers, so if I use your tackling technique, do you think he’ll drop backwards and I’ll land nicely and comfortably on top of him? Because, as skinny as he is, I really REALLY don’t want those 6+ feet to drop forwards and slam me to the ground. I mean, if the action took place in a more pillow-y place, I wouldn’t mind, of course… And no, sorry, can’t send Tommy over yet, haven’t done my deal of clinging and besides Mr. Faisal says he’s contractually bound not to let Tommy out of his line of vision for longer than it takes to go to a bathroom.
@JulK, hmmm, I’d so use your advice but I’m afraid that in this case I’d be more worried about Mr. Hot Bodyguard dropping my cake while he’d be rushing to wrestle me off Hiddles lol.
@IntroOutro, with this technique, you control the direction of his fall – again you have the lower center of gravity. It is particularly fun if executed while standing near a swimming pool. Let me demonstrate again while you practice with Faisel.
Interesting… I’ve read that Dr. Strange will start filming in the Spring of 2015… is Cumby’s schedule open for filming at that point in time? Or would it conflict with The Lost City of Z?
MTE. I have no idea how he’ll be able to cram in Dr. Strange unless LCOZ is postponed yet again – but hasn’t the director said a couple of weeks ago that they were definitely proceeding with it?
LCOZ is like the Crow its permanently in development hell. Luke Evans was supposed to film last year, then this April and now… well it’s dead in the water. Director’s may sound optimistic, but it’s not happening probably because they can’t get the money they need.
I get warm fuzzys in my tummy every time I hear another set back/lack of production on the Crow. Thank goodness Hiddles isn’t attached.
I don’t know, I guess I will still be surprised if it turns out Benny has really been cast as Dr. Strange. He seems to be at a slightly different point in his career. On the other hand… If LCOZ has really fallen through – and if he indeed was supposed to appear in Star Wars VII and that fell through, too – then he’s currently probably left with Hamlet, Hollow Crown II and Sherlock as his only confirmed projects (which are all TV/theatre). In which case hopping onto the Marvel franchise train seems like quite a good idea.
I feel like Hamlet is going to occupy too much of 2015 and a franchise with a big commitment isn’t feasible, but I could be wrong.
Meh. Most theatre rehearsals are 4-6 weeks. Could he squeeze that in between the Sherlock special in Jan and a July Hamlet start? Don’t most Marvel movies take a horrifically long time to make? Maybe they’re willing to cram it all into 5 months?
@Katie, that’s my initial understanding, too. However, judging by how Ben has been persistently keeping himself visible these past few months, I get the feeling he really wants to make it big on the big screen – but so far he hasn’t yet managed that. The Fifth Estate flopped. I’m pretty sure that IG will be a success and a serious leap for him – but it’s still only one film =/ So, if I am not mistaken in my speculations – and I can very easily be, of course – then taking up Dr. Strange’s role is quite a logical move. We’ll just have to wait and see, I guess.
Officially confirmed projects and shooting time (nothing is known about the Yellow Birds)
Richard III October to January
Sherlock (according to Martin) January-February
theater
Hamlet rehearsal June-July
Hamlet 6 August-31 October 2015
If we were to go by the schedule Patris posted, it could be possible for him to do Doctor Strange in November 2015. However, if the film were to be released during the summer of 2016 it won’t give them that much time in post. Plus, Sherlock takes more than month to film. That January to February sounds more like the Christmas special film time frame than the 3 part series.
I, for one, wouldn’t mind him not doing the Marvel movie (or at least this Marvel film) just for the simple fact that he doesn’t even look like the character.
Yellow birds this year will not shoot accurately, in October the director shooting another film. Sadly yet another project fails.
http://www.moviecastingcall.org/2014/07/casting-call-disney-feature-film-petes-dragon-lead-role.html
Yellow birds once transferred for an indefinite period Ben free for three months, may be some new project?
@Intro Outro,
You could be right, he’s confusing really. Hamlet is screwing me up, being the time-commitment that it is. I sometimes think his ‘grand plan’ is just to make sure he’s not faced with ‘Man On Bus’ or ‘Guy in Bar #2’ as his role options in 10 years, so he jockeys between both industries.
For some reason, I don’t think he’ll do Strange since it carries more negatives than positives given where he’s at (same for Hardy), but who knows?
@Katie, I must confess I find his general career situation quite confusing lol. On the one hand, he’s all over social media sites, attending everything that can get him any sort of coverage. His fanbase is extremely active and is substantially adding to the Internet buzz. On the other hand, if you look at his current slate of big screen projects, it’s not particularly crowded/doesn’t have much star potential imo =( Which, I want to specifically emphasise, is not his fault since so many of the potentially successful projects he’s been attached to seem to be falling through!
So, if you look at the situation from this perspective, his hypothetical agreement to sign up for a Marvel franchise seems much less strange 😉
Re: Hardy: I think he’s already on a much more stable ground in his career than Cumby. He’s got a steady stream of projects, even Locke which is a very indie and small project opened internationally and did quite well for its budget (and boy did I LOVE it, one of the best films I’ve seen this year so far!).
(This is awkward…scrambles about in thread)
My guess is he’s doing the big Hobbit panel too. It was announced a week or so ago but they haven’t given out the guest list yet.
This film makes no sense. He is a part of multiple other popular comic/scifi based movies. Penguins? Yea… This is either a ploy to mislead or BC just has nothing better to do.
It does seem Strange( hint,hint)!Poor boy will be worn out if he does all the things his name’s linked with (and I don’t just mean professionally)!
Any of you lovely people attending?
Funnily, Dreamworks animated films make huge money, so they naturally get the full promo treatment-this isn’t the first time they’ve done Hall H. The last Madagascar made more than both CA2 and TDW, and I’m not joking: grossed around $740 million.
I don’t see him committing to Dr Strange if filming is 2015.Is it definatly going into production then?
@Kazlock 1307,
Yes, Marvel’s said it’s to shoot in 2015 for a 2016 release.
i think he will pop in support the Hobbit as a lot of their main actors are on film or stage at the moment and just not available, Freeman, Armitage, Evans, cutey-pie Aiden Turner they are all out of doing other stuff.
Ooh!Richard Armitage…….had a “thing” for him since his Robin Hood days.I’m a sucker for sexy,brooding eyes!
Thank goodness we got a Benny thread this week. I was starting to think something was wrong! 😉
So without further ado…I don’t know what people see in him, he looks like an alien/otter/alien otter, what’s wrong with his face, he’s ugly, (there has already been a Hiddleston mention in comment 2), blahblahblah, etc…
I think that just about covers it!
You are such a tease!
Secret honey, where have you been.. Haven’t seen you lately…
Love 🙂
@Janeite… hiddlejacking BC. heheheh
Hello my darling
Hiddlebottom and I both agreed to go quiet for a while, you know, until the wedding rings are resized and we can start wearing them in pubic. Mine of course will still not fit properly because of the sextuplets I am carrying. Expect a reality show. It shall be called “Shakespeare’s Spawn”
So, this is a BC thread. I suppose I should comment on that… Ben can totally be a godfather to one of the babies. The others will have their godparents selected on the reality show based on a series of challenges through Thornfield Garden and their ability to disgrace themselves on public TV… Tom and I think it is a great lark!
I lost it at Shakespeare’s Spawn 😀 😀 😀
I wonder if he will do the NerdHQ thingy like his buddy Hiddles did last year.
Hiddleston did it as a favor for Zach Levi, his TDW co-star.
Favor or not I thought it was a good panel and it would be interesting to see Cumberbatch there.
Hiddles was threatened if he didn’t do it ‘something painful to his u know what’ 😉
@’P’enny I remember this threath, if he didn’t go he’d be kicked in the glorious *ahem*.. 😉
He looked fabulous at that nerd hq in that white shirt….
Ahem, no hijacking, Benny, hat, otter etc etc etc…
This white shirt, Anne tommy? This threat, ‘p’enny? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjl31wExhSQ
The creators of Sherlock did a Nerd HQ session last year – Vertue, Gatiss and Moffat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUq1lypgu2M
Levi’s gotten a lot of interesting people to play.
That is the white shirt lilacflowers…it’s right up there with the coriolanus leather vest thingee in my “Tom’s top torso” list…
I too like the white shirt, Anne tommy. I believe I have the power to unbutton it just by looking at it.
Obviously the only reason BC is attending is to meet up with his mystery girlfriend. Who will it be I wonder?Posh totty,50 shades or the Russian “actress”…..?Of course he could fall madly in love with a female hobbit and live happily ever after!
Have there been any female hobbits in the second trilogy?
No. The only females we have seen is a made up elf & Lady Galadriel.
Lady Galadriel,definatly. They will have lots of baby Batches and live happily ever after.
*snicker* Came here to make a similar comment, Kazlock, lol.
MissMary, I just can’t seem to help myself!In the last 2 months BC’s been linked to everyone from Dakota to a male escort agency( someone posted that on a CB thread)….BC must have more energy than the Duracell bunny!
This… @Kazlock 1307…. lol
The Duracell bunny must be jealous of both BC an TH, so many women… 😀
omg that male escort suggestion… *smdh* I don’t care if the man is gay, bi, straight, asexual, pansexual, whatever–he’s a grown up and can do his own life however he sees fit, but really? I think the idea of hiring any escort to be “delivered” to a trailer while on set is ridic, no matter who the actor may be. I’m sure it’s happened but in this day and age? When *everything* ends up instagrammed and online? Doubtful.
I can’t decide if I love or hate the little Bing Crosby hats he wears. Seriously, are they adorkable or just odd?
Adorkable! Love how he dresses.Very much his own man with his own style.
I’m not gone on hats on him as I prefer to see the Cumber curls in all their glory but do admire his style and agree he is adorkable
There’s a lot of baiting about the Dr Strange rumors (thanks theonering.net lol) but I really don’t trust that sort of thing esp as it’s been done before and nothing comes of it with other actors/movies. Just a lot of frothing up the fans. It’s weird to me he’s there for the Penguins movie but didn’t go for STiD, but who knows what his contract is like for Dreamworks.
Think benny was filming last year, and couldn’t go. He will be in Hall H too. Prime place to be.
I’m hoping there will be lots of coverage on it….if not I’m sure at least one of you lovely people will update us
There is another possibility. StarTrek 3. It will be released in 2016 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ST. Rumours are the director Orci is a purist and Khan is his favourite character. Maybe he is just returning as Khan (which I would personally prefer than Dr. Strange).
Julk,with his schedule for next year,I don’t see how he would be available to film though.
I use to like him, but I am so over it. I now put him with Bradley Cooper as the two actors who put my back up as soon as I see their faces.
Ben today at the airport
http://ouchluke.tumblr.com/post/91597733653/my-best-friends-uncle-saw-benedict-cumberbatch-in
Is he headed to San Diego this early?
Might be going back to London first, since it’s at least a week till SDCC. Or if he is going to LA, maybe he just wants a mini vacation before the promotion gigs start.
Wow, he ALWAYS has his earpieces in these days! I’m wondering if he’s still working on his Boston accent.
No URL … buaaaaa……
It’s still on this reblog:
http://blueeyedsister.tumblr.com/
You will need to scroll down past a few posts, but at the moment it is still on the first page.
Thanks TotallyBiased 😀
@sonalaceae But of course! You’d do the same for me, if it was That Other Guy…/hiddlejacking (and can I say how much I LOVE that term? 😉 )
So, looks like he may have wrapped in Boston….
Today Ben in Boston, he attended with private visit the MFA
The MFA? Checking on the Magna Carta? It’s visiting along with drafts of the Declaration of Independence.
@Patris: that was a few days ago–it showed up on some gossip sites on thursday or friday.
@MissMary: No, before that he was in another museum, today he was in the MFA
Mel Skitch @MelSkitch ·
UGH. NO FAIR. Benedict Cumberbatch is at the MFA today. Why dont I work weekends?! #jellyjellyjelly.
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@cigarfield He’s at the MFA! My co-worker just texted me, theres a couple of curators giving him a private tour. I hate them all lol
I was there Wednesday and Friday. Good Lord, Benedict Cumberbatch is stalking me! No! The bejeweled sock monkey is for Tom! Go get your own!
Well, then….what was he doing hanging out at Logan? Picking someone up? Hmmm…..
Yeah, the other day he was at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, quite different from the MFA.
They are around the corner from each other. It’s possible to visit both in the same day.
Aaaaaah, well, the man seems to love his museums, doesn’t he? *g* Totally possible the Logan airport pic was just slow in coming (doubtful he was picking someone up, otherwise that would be all over, too) from the friend’s uncle or whatever.
Wonder if he’s going to hang out in LA till SDCC?
*message for icerose if she’s reading*
Skylight is making the rounds of NTLive this week. I saw it t’other day and it is BRILLIANT. If you’re free and it’s on near you, don’t miss it!
That looks fantastic, Sixer. I just shot off an e-mail to the local theater that does NTlive stuff to get that one. I would watch Bill Nighy just stand there for two hours.
Best thing I’ve seen in ages! International broadcast in October, I think, missy.
Great! I’ll be there if it plays here and I will be harassing the cinema to show it.
Shakespeare’s Globe is coming here this fall with King Lear; has anyone seen their production of it?
Is Benedict still in the US?A social media group posted that he was at the airport earlier today.Thought he was in Boston until Comic- Con
Someone posted a picture of him in an airline club at Boston Logan airport last night, but someone else reported on Twitter that their co-worker gave him a private tour at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts earlier today. I can’t see how both could be true. Maybe the airport sighting didn’t actually happen last night but was just posted then. It was a “my friend’s uncle” type of thing, so the picture may have taken a while to get to the poster. Someone on another site said that a crew member had told them Benedict would be in Boston until the 22nd, but things like that are subject to change.
double comment, sorry.
What I’d really love to know is how the Cumbercollective managed to plant a GPS tracker on Ben. Because they obviously did.
@Intro Outro, it’s really crazy if you think about it. When I was young, we relied on magazine articles, fan club newsletters, and TV appearances for our celebrity crush news. Being able to actually meet or talk to them was a once in a lifetime event that most of us could only dream about. Now with the Internet, there’s a constant onslaught of information, pictures, and gossip and it’s all being updated constantly. Celebrity sightings are reported on a nearly daily basis by both paparazzi and civilians alike. You can even have conversations with your faves if you’re both plugged into social media. Never before has the public had such access to celebrities and their lives. It has its good and bad points, that’s for sure.
Thankyou Raven.Googled BC a little while ago and can’t believe the things that come up for him!Yesterday (according to the information) he was in LA,Boston and London!Does he have his own Tardis? Also still saying that he’s dating Dakota Johnson( another reliable source who is close to them both.!!!!)Photo rehash of their lunch date from May.All these claim to be accredited publications…Kpopstarz???
I agree with you, Raven, and I think it’s a much bigger strain on the celebrities. As you said, the actor can reach out to the audience (via twitter for example) and do some self-promotion but the audience can also – at all times – reach out to you unless you sequester yourself in your home with the blinds drawn. If I were famous and knew that my every step gets tracked, I’d probably get quite paranoid after a time. A few years back a celeb’s biggest problem were the paparazzi, however they are bound to certain areas (L.A. for example) because they have to watch out for several celebrities and can’t just stalk one. Now celebrities get monitored by their fans and they are possibly everywhere once you reach a certain fame, not only in L.A. but in a tiny one-horse town in Nagorno-Karabakh. If they have internet you can’t even hide there.
(Oh, and hello everyone. I totally oversaw this thread as there was so much Cumberlove lately but no Mr Whippy.)
@Isadora, hey there, haven’t talked to you for awhile! I gave up and registered on IMDb. I can’t with CB’s lack of Hiddles threads lol. Benny eats his first cannoli and gets to shout through a megaphone, and each of these formidable events gets a thread. Hiddles has started filming a freakin’ Ben Wheatley film based on freakin’ J.G. Ballard with that gorgeous cast – and we get zilch 😀 I understand that all the Bangor pics are from fans and CB is probably waiting for some official photos – but I can’t waaait that long! I need some distraction from my never-ending stream of work projects!
@Raven, I think we were teenagers at roughly the same time lol. I so agree with everything you’ve said. I used to photocopy (!) pics of my fav musicians from those magazines that my friends brought from abroad and I had no opportunity to buy where I was living. Mad! But so precious 😛
Yeah, I’m really just into CB for the Mr. Whippy as well…hence my willing participation in the hiddlejacking of Cumber threads (to be fair, they are often interesting enough reading in their own right–it’s just that the disparate level of coverage has gotten too, too annoying.)
There’s plenty of stock footage out there…and other events have come and gone (New York Film centers run of all three Joanna Hogg movies, for example.)
Sooo…Intro…how does one manage to find the good stuff on imdb? I have yet to navigate my way about there successfully.
Gleep! The Sienna Miller is feelin’ the hormones (is she nursing?) Or something…she’s tweeting about Mr.Whippy’s teenage fans in 6″ heels and not enough warm clothes waiting outside the set. Difficult to tell from her tweets if she’s feeling maternal or jealous. 😀 Go check out @guillorybe and her #hiddlesteria hash tag!
@TotallyBiased:
Re: IMDb: you just register there, then find Tom’s page here http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/, then scroll down to Message Boards and click on “Discuss Tom Hiddleston on the IMDb message boards”. It will take you to this page http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1089991/board/?ref_=nm_bd_sm The newest discussed threads are on top. If you click on “Latest Posting” times, they will take you to the last uploaded post in each respective thread.
I find his IMDb forums to be a bit slow but generally sensible. Their format is somewhat different from CB, rumour discussions are not encouraged which imo is good and in line with IMDb’s format.
Re: Sienna: it’s a different Sienna, not Miller 😉 We’re discussing it in the Jessica Chastain is not dating Hiddleston thread lol.
@Intro-much thanks for the imdb guidance!
Also for the breadcrumb trail to the *correct* hiddlejacked thread. Eh ehehe…(though I s’pose, since his name is in the title..)
@Totally sweety She’s not Sienna Miller, she’s Sienna Guillory…. two different actresses… Sienna Guillory wrote the hilarious tweet… 🙂
Maybe he met someone at the airport, not necessarily that he was flying out
Can I second the disappointment re the Hiddles news drought? He must be doing something more exciting than eating stuff and wearing a hat which has prompted this CB Benny post. No wonder there are desperate hiddlejackers out there…
”Black Mass” stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Joel Edgerton brunching with “Orange is the New Black” inmate Diane Guerrero, a Boston homegal, at the Back Bay Social Club. (Hint for Cumber*****es, cast members have been regulars at Sonsie and Back Bay Social Club while in town shooting) ….
http://bostonherald.com/inside_track/the_inside_track/2014/07/tracked_down_gisele_bundchen_robert_de_niro_seth_macfarlane
I don’t know who is lucky to meet who in this case cz Diane is frickin gorgeous. But it’s cool if they know each other. I wonder if BC or Joel watch OITNB
I wonder if Diane appeared in Black Mass. Fun actress who looks great with her boyfriend (as seen on Instagram). Absolutely love Orange is the New Black. I can’t tell if it would be BC’s cup of tea or not.
I must be the only never to have seen OITNB…is it worth a marathon catchvup?
Kazlock: It might be… it’s not a fun and easy watch, to be sure. It’s very good, though, and can be pretty emotionally intense.
Should we add Diane’s name to the list if potential mystery girlfriendsgirlfriends?I think even Mrs Hudson must be on it now!
Lol nope Diane has a boyfriend. She has posted pics of them on her IG account
Also, the way the gossip item is phrased makes it sounds like they were all together when it could very well have been Joel and BC grabbing brunch and Diane was there in the restaurant, too, in another group.
Or who knows, lol.
Thanks MissMary and Duri. I’ll give it a go.Any girlfriend sightings for BC?Has he got them hidden in his trailor?
Nope, he just hung out with Joel Edgerton apparently, and no one reported him having a date on any of the tours he went on while there. I call bs on the whole “secret gf” thing–it’s the whole “hot actor must be dating! How can they be single!” attempt to flush out gossip by some sites/reporters that’s just spread like wildfire.
Benedict is filming in Belfast next Jan, apparently it’s the new Amazon. I think i may have take it back about Dr Strange, cause there is no way on earth if Marvel is going into production next spring Benedict can do LCOZ, Sherlock, Shakespeare. etc unless they have managed to clone him ? that might be possible. he looks the a clone-type. 😉
Belfast the new Amazon killed me 😀 Though, to be fair, I heard that they’d be doing the city scenes there, and the Amazon shooting will be done in Colombia I think.
had to admit, setting up a studio to look like an amazon would be a bit cheap, it would end looking like Dagobah,
Doesn’t Sherlock start filming in January to?
I honestly think LCOZ has been shelved or postponed to few months. Chances are also there that BCmight have dropped it
He has given January to Sherlock which is surely confirmed by BBC. February he might campaign and attend all these awards. Now they can start shooting in March but I am not sure because James Gray is all meh about not knowing any proper details as to when they will begin shooting.
BC might walk out as well because they wasted his summer 2014 by not starting in June, the time he has allotted for this extensive shoot. This project was dropped earlier with Pitt involved and can be dropped again. So let’s see.
So the window from March to end of June is open if LCOZ doesn’t happen. They might fillm Yellow Birds at that time, who knows. End of June he’ll start rehearsals for Hamlet.
And since the Sherlock filming is only/primarily for the special and not the usualy three episode series, it won’t be as extensive (I think the three eps come later in the year? Or is it early 2016 when they film those?).
January to February for Sherlock special.Series 4 begins airing in 2016,so perhaps filming of that will be after Hamlet? Heard a whisper that Series 5 has been commissioned/confirmed…Gatiss on Twitter.Another forum posted that.
Belfast is to stand in for London, Amazon locations to film in Colombia.
Hi.What’s happening in Cumber-land? Have I missed anything?
Just popped up on Twitter that BC spotted attending performance of “The Crucible” at the Old Vic in London this evening. Explains that photo at Logan, if true.
Encumbered, thanks.Look’s as if he is done on Black Mass then.Do you happen to know if he attended with anyone?Looking for clues to who the “secret girlfriend” could be!
Tweet mentioned nothing about with whom he may/may not attended. And the secret GF stuff has been beat to death here and other places. If she exists, only time will tell–or not.
Here is something nice….
https://twitter.com/Cumberbuddy/status/489131890658779136
There’s no secret GF. Seriously. Since it’s literally the *same story* quoted over and over (most recently by two very minor gossip sites who rehash and rarely provide new news), the chances he’s smuggling some poor woman around in secret are slim. Esp as he’s a favorite of the Fail to stalk and they haven’t even turned up anything.
@MissMary, word. I found this comment on a site discussing his girlfriend and it sums up my thoughts pretty well:
“I highly doubt he has a secret girlfriend or anyone he’s dating seriously. He’s not been in the same country for more than a few weeks at a time since last November, and he is generally seen out alone or with male friends. He is not dating Dakota as she has a boyfriend and their lunch date was a getting to know you lunch as they were about to star together in the film Black Mass. Two other people were out to lunch with them, as you can see in pictures, but the press tried to frame it as something more intimate. The closest thing Kinvara has had to a date with him was the Monaco Grand Prix, which they attended with a group of friends and there was absolutely no public interaction between the two. The other events were large events that they attended separately. He has been seen out with a wide variety of female friends over the past few months, never the same girl more than once or twice, and nothing has looked even remotely romantic. Not to mention that his schedule is absolutely packed for the next year with lots of filming and traveling. Sorry, but he appears utterly single.”
@Raven: That is everything I wanted to say, exactly, lol.
No, he was a weekend in Boston http://greatideas.people.com/2014/07/15/benedict-cumberbatch-lobster-boston-black-mass/
Today few people have seen it in London, maybe he flew to London to celebrate birthday with friends
His part looks to be finished then…
yeah it looks like he may be done with location filming.
Ben in London
AGF Productions @ fogtheplay
Well The Crucible at the Old Vic was incredible! Made even betta by a close encounter with Mr Cumberbatch whilst queuing 4 the loo!
I’m so jels. Would love to see Armitage as Proctor.
Once again would REALLY like some clue as to how threads are handled. This is still open (cool) but Mr. Whippy’s closed in less than 24 hours.