Bless Benedict Cumberbatch for this photo. Bless Sophie Hunter-batch for it too. If there was ever a photo that perfectly encapsulated Bendy and Sophieâs charming awkwardness, itâs this. He wants to show his love, but heâs an alien still trying to understand his human form. So somehow his nose ends up in her eye, but Sophie understands that the Alien-Lizard is trying to show human affection, so she gives a small, smug sigh, closes her eyes and takes his attempt at affection.
Anyway, since we have new photos of Bendy leaving the Barbican last night, I thought weâd give this yet another go. Now that Hamlet has officially opened, the ârealâ reviews have been pouring in and theyâre mostly good. Critics seem to agree that Benedict is very good in the role, but the production/direction isnât spectacular. Mark Gatiss was there on opening night and he said his Sherlock costar was âmagnificentâ in the role and that âWe’re all very proud and impressed.” Benedictâs mom Wanda Ventham said her boy was âa bloody good Hamlet”.
Here are those photos of Benedict getting âmobbedâ by crazy Cumberbitches last night. I like that heâs changing up his post-performance outfits. I honestly thought his personal closet was just full of denim blouses, but heâs changing it up.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN.
Oh damn. Here go Wanda come. Look at all of those damn people!! He looks exhausted, but I still love him.
I love his mom. I heard a radio interview with her awhile back and she’s very sweet.
Cannot believe I once shanked fellow CBitches over this guy. What the hell was I thinking?
*slaps self in the face*
I’m with ya. How did he go from awesome to tiresome so fast??
Have a Comet Sophie and some cheese-its
I don’t deserve it.
I deserve to be bitch-slapped in the face by every single CBitch I’ve shanked.
I don’t think you ever shanked me, darling, but I’d always be up for a bitch-slapping session with you!
I’m all for shanking CBitches! The CumberBitches I mean.
@ Sixer:
I did shank you. At your request though.
You never shanked me but I never found anything attractive about the alien otter overlord. I’m just here for the drinks.
ooo! ooo! ooo! ooo!
*jumps up and down waving hands in the air*
Me!!
*flexes bitch-slapping hand, conveniently ignoring the fact that she passed Chris Evans on to me*
I’ve always liked pain.
(I hope you are well, my lovely).
@ Sixer:
Hmmmm, we have a kinky one here.
(sometimes that “presence” ever present in my life allows me to play here a little).
Ha! You ladies(?) are why I keep visiting CB. Thx for the giggles.
@ Alice:
Yup. Lady here.
@ T. Fanty:
I’ll accept your hypocritical bitch-slapping as well (you, too, rode the Cumber-train like there was no tomorrow back in the day).
I never rode the Cumbertrain. Take that, slap slap.
No one can stay on the pedestal forever. Theyâll be shown to be human eventually.
He’s fine by me, no Woody Allen.
I was watching Sherlock on PBS the other night. It was the episode where he meets Irene Adler. Damn, he was hot. Past tense.
IKR? *That’s* the guy I was mad about: Sherlock! I bloody fell for the character, I believe. Because I don’t think I’d last in a two seconds conversation with the real Bendy (or Lord Hiddles, TBH).
imo he’ll 10 years younger when he gains weight
you seriously can’t lose weight at 35+ and not look old tbh. your skin won’t go back, you gotta fill it in
I am with you. Must have had on my beer goggles.
Yeah, super thick beer goggles. And a certain someone’s persuasion…
*points finger at Kaiser*
No beer goggles, he really was super lovely before. He just lost too much weight
Hindsight is 20/20 isn’t it?
It’s good to see you again, Eve. You’ve been missed.
I didn’t get in to Cumby until spring of 2014, so by the fall, I was already moving on to Hiddles. We’ll see how long this love affair lasts; the fame whoring this fall could be epic.
You’re lucky then. Saved yourself from the embarrassment I’m feeling now.
Your embarrassment may be mine by November.
@ Nutballs:
Nah. We’ve already accepted TommyAnne’s famewhoriness. It’s part of his charm in a way. He’s a “company man”.
Plus, he’s regrouped a lot better than Bendy who, on the other hand, sold his soul to Harvey Weistein and claimed to be, want and aim things while showing the exact opposite.
Eve, we haven’t seen him in an Oscar campaign yet. I’m cautiously waiting for what he says/does at TIFF.
Ok, let’s wait and see.
I’m the opposite. Hiddleston has scrubbed himself of genuine personality too much for me.
I don’t trust it unless I see flaws.
@ Ally:
Oh, I see a lot of flaws on Hiddles. I just don’t care about them anymore.
đ
My tribe. đ
To be a fair factual wet blanket, Harvey buys souls from not necessarily willing sellers lol. It can be more a lack of bravery on Cumberbatchâs part than anything else.
[The more boring version: actors donât pick distributors, and if yours really wants you to campaign, they can just try to shove it all under your contractâs promo clause and threaten to sue if you donât comply. Things like this are why I am not an actor, as I am a control freak and would flip out all the time].
Ally, I hear ya. I’d love to see the PuddleTom show more of his colorful snarky, naughty side, but until then, I’ll just fill in all the blanks with my imagination. đ
I donât see anything to be frank, heâs made himself generic, just too superficial all the time. To each her own though, everyone has bones to pick with the images of celebs they donât care for.
@ An:
You make a very valid point here. But some people still manage to be an actor and not do everythiing he (Weinstein) tells them to.
Your second paragraph pretty much described my favourite actor’s MO (Joaquin Phoenix). Weinstein tried to push him around when he was nominated for The Master but there was no way Phoenix would comply. He did attend the Oscars, but there was zero campaign.
@Eve:
Itâd be easier for Phoenix legally speaking, heâs known for putting limitations on his promo commitments in his contracts, and heâs in a position where he can because people will accept that to work with him. It probably causes him a project sometimes, thatâs the trade off.
Of course, Iâm not saying Cumberbatch couldnât have handled it better because he certainly could have. Just that itâs possible for more low-rung actors (which Cumberbatch is in the US, I feel) in that situation to get backed into the corner, especially if their own people are not up to handling such a big company. Itâs the reality of being the most replaceable cog in the machine.
@ An:
Fair enough.
But let’s be honest: Cumberbatch’s Oscar campaign was a mess. All over the place. A 9.5 at the “Anne Hathaway’s magnitude scale of obvious, desperate, pathetic Oscar campaigns”.
Definitely a mess. It wasnât very well run and he didnât handle it correctly, especially the pressure. It probably would have gone a lot better with a less aggressive, more honest distributor, but that’s just my guess.
Harvey is gross but he has run campaigns for tonnes of actors and actresses over the years, many of whom are able to keep their dignity intact. And I’m pretty sure he didn’t ask Bendy to act pissy and snarky. Julianne Moore campaigned hard for Still Alice last season; I don’t hear of people calling her desperate cos she’s always a classy and affable lady. Anne Hathaway got dragged for her thirsty Oscar campaign, and she was not under Weinstein. Yes the distributors have a role in one’s campaign, but ultimately the personality that you put out there shines through.
Yes, thatâs why I was mentioned he didnât handle it correctly. Weinstein has run both good and bad campaigns, and itâs a mix of the actor and whether they want to do it or donât feel like they have much of a choice. Some actors are simply not cut out for the stress and pressure of it.
This is where Weinstein mainly differs from other distributors, he will use more aggressive tactics to push unwilling leads more onto the campaign trail if he really wants them to run. You have to learn to say no and risk the consequences.
Oddly, Weinstein often does better with women candidates than men, despite the likelihood heâs a pig.
@ Eve,đ
My shanking scars are still bothering me. Need pancake makeup. You were a bit…..enthusiastic.
Bitch-slap me away, my dear.
Eve,
Oh, I couldn’t! Please accept these jazz hands instead. đ
I will.
:*
I am so delighted to see so many of the Thornfield ladies here… where is Miss Jane, Miss Jupitero and Miss M? The harem isn’t complete without them.
Eve, I’d never bitch slap you since I’m too busy beating up your friend. I’ll give you a Comet Sophie instead.
Nutballs, Miss Jane mentioned something about getting her Crimson Peak wardrobe fitted. I think she’s having some of her bonnets upgraded with some lavender sprigs from the fields.
She looks like the very portrait of wanton dried flowers and herbs this time of year!
In fairness a lot of us got a bit invested, he had his moments…I loved his bitchy humour, Sherlock, that green shirt picture
The Oscar campaign sucked it all out of him, he got a bit pissy and snarky without humour (unforgivable to Lindy) and generally weird.
I wont bitchslap you, how about some spirit fingers instead?
http://i.imgur.com/vZmmEE7.gif
Do not forget those infamous, desperate photobombings. It’s all fine though.
By the way, I’ll be forever thankful for *that* Monty Python’s video you posted. đ
Lindy, Irish spirit fingers look like jazz hands here in the States:
http://i.imgur.com/89L2SqO.gifv
I kinda like “spirit fingers” better…
A bit over invested. Understatement of the century. I still remember the tears and anxiety. Chill pills were greatly needed.
@ Chuchu:
Actually, the Thornfield Battles were usually just harmless fun. We poked fun at each other and Cumberbatch himself.
Things got out of hand when a certain crowd invaded CB threads. Some really humourless fans who would take almost everything seriously and hell would break loose if anyone dared say anything negative about him.
P.S.: I stopped commenting on anything Cumberbatch related when threads about him started having 300+ comments.
“The Oscar campaign sucked it all out of him, he got a bit pissy and snarky without humour (unforgivable to Lindy) and generally weird.”
Agreed. Also, the fact that he was showing open disdain for his fans.
WAIT A MINUTE…are we sure he’s actually even acting when playing Sherlock?
I canât muster up pity for his more hardcore âfans.â A lot of them are terrible, no boundaries and disrespectful. I quite literally would have told them to go to hell but I accept that about myself đ
@Chucky–I’ve wondered that more than once.
Didn’t his sister say something rather implying that, after the first season?
nah, she just said he was smart. mark gatiss has said heâs close to the opposite of sherlock actually.
pardon my word dump but at this point i think people have made him into a bit of a cartoon and everything is being fed back into itself. Like idk if this makes sense, but the press has cottoned onto it too plus the attention they can get with him, so itâs like a free for all
but itâs also kinda messed up to watch. heâs got too many ott fans and too many hardcore haters/nitpickers whatever compared to what hes done. heâs a celeb where i can honestly say i would not want his life, like that human pinata stuff is all not worth the money or fame perks. ymmv
Opposite, yes. Itâs ironic, if he were like Sherlock, he wouldnât have some of the issues he does. Heâs oversensitive and overemotional. Not always bad qualities on their own yet not ideal for a public figure. Itâs easy for everyone to eat you alive when youâre a marshmallow.
>Things got out of hand when a certain crowd invaded CB threads. Some really humorless fans who would take almost everything seriously and hell would break loose if anyone dared say anything negative about him.
Of course, it was the humorless fans who objected to SH being called an escort and worse who spoiled all the fun. Are you sure you are over it? Are you the Kate of the olden days by any chance?
Who is Kate? Eve has been here forever and isn’t Kate, EN. You’re being a little unfair, imo.
I admit it went both ways. Thereâs fans who canât handle any criticism, discuss civilly or they take it too far on one hand; on the other hand, thereâs people who are relentlessly negative even when it’s not warranted or really sound, or they take it way too far.
EN, Eve has been on these threads long before SH was in the picture. The 2012 – 2013 threads were the glory days of Cumby threads (Hiddles too). The tone of the comments completely changed with his Oscar Campaign/Shotgun Engagement and most the former regulars stopped posting anything.
While I called him out on his PR shenanigans, I didn’t understand the hate towards Sophie and thought it was uncalled for. Call me humorless, but I found the name-calling, shaming and presumptions made about a woman people knew very little about petty and immature. I’m glad most of those posters are gone; it’s a much more pleasant place to hang now.
@KT, I think EN is referring to the infamous Kat, a former Cumberbatch stan turned detractor who would jump down your throat if you said anything remotely positive about him.
@EN, Eve and her Stefon avatar were around long before Kat made her first appearance on CB.
Wow! First time I’ve been “accused” of posting as someone else. Kinda flattering, in a strange way. LOL!
@ EN:
Not that you deserve any explanation…but here we go: no, I’m not Kate or Kat or whoever you have a grudge agaisnt. I’ve started posting on CB threads long ago, long before your beloved Cumberbatch was a thing. Kaiser, Bedhead and Celebitchy know that not only I post under the same monicker, I’ve always used the same e-mail address, same IP address.
But the most important thing is: I’VE NEVER said anything bad about Sophie Hunter. Never. I know almost nothing about her, I have no reasons to hate on her. Now that I think of…I’ve never said anything (good or bad) at all about their relantionship.
The crowd I was referring to was the insane, over the top fans that defended Cumberbatch’s every move. Not even the Brangelunatics were that protective of their idol like these Bendy fans were.
You are, undoubtedly, barking at the wrong tree.
@ KT, Et Alors and Nutballs:
Thank you for having my back. Not that a seasoned bitch like myself needed any defense but it’s nice to see most people know who I am here.
:* to all of you.
> Not that you deserve any explanationâŚbut here we go: no, Iâm not Kate or Kat or whoever you have a grudge agaisnt. Iâve started posting on CB threads long ago, long before your beloved Cumberbatch was a thing. Kaiser, Bedhead and Celebitchy know that not only I post under the same monicker, Iâve always used the same e-mail address, same IP address.
I just asked if you were her, because the style was similar and she did post under multiple names.
I do apologize for the mistake.
Though, I still cannot agree with the assumption that one will only defend a stranger because he/ she is a rabid fan. No, people do defend total strangers all the time when they think the criticism and attacks are not warranted.
@Eve, I can attest that I have never seen you post anything negative about Sophie Hunter.
Looking at those photographs I’ve just realised I’ve never asked anybody for an autograph in my life. Is that weird?
I’ve never asked any either… đ So, we can form a club “The ones who never asked for an autograph”
Or ask for selfies or sneak photos?
None of those, hate selfies and definitely have better things to do than to follow famous loonies.. đ
Me neither, apart from a few writers who signed books for me.
I just have no interest in meeting celebrities.
Not at all. I never have either, and never would. The thought of approaching a celebrity for an autograph or photo makes me cringe in disgust.
Count me in the club. I don’t think I ever would, even if it were Harrison Ford himself. I would probably just sit down overcome by his presence and try to hide the drool. What would his autograph give me that I haven’t got from his movies and rare interviews??
I’m so old that I can’t *remember* if I asked anyone for an autograph.
Oh bless you. The good news today is that if you are experiencing ‘senior moment’s it just means your brains in pretty good shape. It’s when you don’t notice you’re in trouble! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11826225/Worrying-about-senior-moments-shows-mind-is-still-in-good-shape.htm
I’ve encountered a number of celebrities but don’t ask for autographs or pictures. I’m not going to interrupt their private time. I’ve had conversations but none of the fan variety. I do get books signed because it increases the value of the book.
It strikes me as a very odd thing to do and no, I wouldn’t want to disturb anyone either – seems a bit rude.
Can I join the club? I’ve never seen the point of getting someone’s signature.
Me neither, whatever about at stage door, premiere etc (honestly these things have never appealed to me) but not when they’re out and about. I’ve even seen casts of plays in the theatre bar afterwards and I figure they’ve just done a show so I’m sure they just want to switch off. I’d hate it if someone came up to me when I’m out for drinks or dinner or whatever.
Don’t even get me STARTED on selfie sticks….
Yes! I see all the time in my IG feed since I follow people who run/hike/climb mountains and use their sticks to take a selfie. Just take a picture of the damn view, people!
Milady Nutballs–
Okay, I plead guilty to taking ONE selfie on a mountain.
In my defense, it was SO last century that I had to use a timer and prop the camera on a lava rock (selfie sticks didn’t exist) and, well, it was Mt. Fuji.
What you gonna do.
ps I DID also take pictures of the amazing sunrise, too.
TB, You know I love you and it’s not like you used a SELFIE STICK or anything. I took a few selfies in my early peak-bagging days, but now I realize that I’m ruining the picture putting my mug in there. Best to just show them the views.
Mt Fuji?? Well now you have me green with envy.
Five hours straight up the chain trail, bloody tears from altitude sickness ‘n’ all!
Had to take the selfie to prove I’d gone and done it, because I sure wasn’t ever going to do it again!
(Japanese proverb, as told to us by the bus driver–‘Everyone must climb Mt Fuji once. Only Americans and fools climb it more than that.) ‘ đ
Not that he was particularly down on Americans, just that folks from the US seemed determined to climb Fujiyama-san ‘more times than was good for them!’
I do usually (if it’s not too much trouble) get my ticket signed at stage door (I always have since forever), but I would never ever ask for a selfie (brrr) or bother them when they are going about their business. And we do see many actors in my neck of the woods đ
neither have I, and I’ve met a fair few actors/singers. It’s just silly to me, I just talk to them like they’re normal people, cause that’s what they are.
From where I stand it’s just silly tocollect signatures of people who just do ther work but I obviously don’t understand the whole celebrity thing which is just smoke and mirrors for us to sell products. People like people with well paid job and expensive wrapping.
Legend has it that it’s bad luck to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Hope he burns sage every day.
Love that hardly any of the comments are on the play or his performance… I have a soft spot for Bendy, happy for him that the reviews are positive when it comes to his performance at least. I think he’s a decent actor. And all this talk about the production/direction actually makes me wish I could go and see it!
People got her name wrong. It’s SophiE, non?
Yep, suppose it’s better than news agencies calling her Sophie Turner. They’re getting there…
@ Eve,
Of course. I mean, mai oui. C’est vrait. She’s French.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to my vulgar American corner….
Mais oui, c’est vrai. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
No she’s not lol
Eve, I see what you did there with that “E”, you sly fox.
Wow, I didn’t think Bendy would deign to in dress jeans and t-shirt, ya know with him being so posh and all lol. Seriously, this is the most casual I’ve ever him dressed
Have you SEEN pictures of him in public before?!?
Not so casually dressed, no
We’re lucky he’s not wearing his jorts. With flip flops and a winter scarf.
The less said about some of his ensembles, the better.
But real talk: He can wear a tux or a suit like it’s his job. Casual wear just isn’t his strong point!
Ah the Ibiza airport look, never fails to make ma laugh.
Still we got to see his amazing calves
That jorts and flip flops ensemble would have killed my Cumberboner, if I had one.
The outfit was awful but the legs were not đ
It is weird to me, how did BC acquire this perception of being posh and moneyed because he is neither.
He is a guy from the upper middle who works extremely hard.
It seems growing up his family wasn’t very financially secure and he is really hung up on making a lot of money and being successful. That is al’right in my book.
He works hard for everything he has. And he has no fashion sense whatsoever.
You are not British are you? đ
If you have been to public school, you are posh. The fact he dresses like a Big Issue seller means very little, like the fact he works hard (which he does). He’s a lovely man, very polite and approachable, but he is posh.
Moneyed is another thing again. Posh is more to do with class and education.
Spot on, Hermia!
> Moneyed is another thing again. Posh is more to do with class and education.
I understand the class concept quite well. Not only the British society is like that. But the amount of criticism BC is receives for his nearly privileged upbringing is still disproportionate. You would think he is a royal cousin or an aristo, at the very least. But he is nowhere near that level.
As a more general point, it puzzles me when Brits start criticizing privileged people for being privileged and having an advantage in workplace and career. In my view, at least these people are working, Would’ve they preferred if all these people from well to do and privileged families just did nothing so that people from poor background had less competition? No, they want all these people to work, yet expect them to constantly apologize for advantages they had. At some point one just gets fed up with apologizing for the accident of birth.
Well, maybe we don’t like them monopolising every single walk of life just based on the schools they went to. I’m sure you can understand how basically unfair that is.
I have a friend who teaches actors and she has very talented pupils who don’t get a break because they haven’t gone to Oxbridge or RADA.
It’s a class ridden system and it is extremely unfair. So yeah, some of us are not thrilled about it đ
As for why he gets so much flak, it’s perhaps because he grumbles about it, while TH or Redmayne just ‘put up and shut up’. They know they are privileged and embrace it. đ
Good points hermia but TH doesnât exactly embrace it lol. Heâs downplayed and complained too (press didnât care enough about him to blow it up). Dunno about Redmayne.
but to be fair to all the above, Dominic West takes the cake by comparing the âstigmaâ of being an old etonian to being a pedophile.
and at the same time, the pillars of the class system are the ones with governmental and/or usable institutional power, so the intense focus on actors is a misaimed target. no one really cares what they say and they canât do much beyond charity work.
also this isnât special to britain because the people whose parents have money get the better schools and the better jobs just about everywhere
I take your point, but no, it’s not the same everywhere. I have lived in a few different countries and things are much more nuanced in other places. Here it is VERY hard to find someone in the top echelons of society who hasn’t been to Oxbridge.
These people all know each other and help each other. It’s the old boys net.
Actors are only a facet of this, an unimportant one I grant you, but go tell it to the boy who loses out because he couldn’t make it into Eton or RADA.
I’m sure Wanda is giving an unbiased opinion
Totally. Just like when she had to tell people she had given birth to a (human) baby and no alien abduction was involved during his conception.
P.S.: I know, I know…bad joke.
She actually didn’t know. The aliens wiped her memory clean
This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where we find out Maggie is Kang’s daughter.
I’d really like to see the sequence of that kiss photo, you know the ones before and after that one, its just so awkward. He looks like he’s sniffing the side of her face.
Surely there was a better one, even post kiss where they’re looking at each other.
I want a gif. In slow motion.
Looks like he’s poking out her eyes! I mean, c’mon Ben, if your nose is in eye height when kissing someone, you’re
doing it wrong!
Laughing a bit from Sophie’s expression though. I think they’re cute together!
If you see him kiss onscreen, he’s usually doing it wrong.
Its kind of an affectionate “oh god, he’s off again” but you’re right, there is a warmth there and affection. I don’t get what some folks say when they say he looks like he hates her.
Case in point, Reese Witherspoon.
I see warmth from him. Or an attempt at warmth. I see “can we please get this over with weird alien cousin?” From her.
I think the picture is funny, awkward, and cute. He looks like he’s using her face as a pillow as he catches up on some much-needed rest, and she seems bemused by it.
It’s like he’s trying to inhale her eyeball.
One can only imagine via what exotic placement of body parts the Cumberchild was conceived. Elbow rubbed vigorously on ankle? Ring finger knuckle jabbed into collarbone? Eyelashes fluttered against navel?
Hahahaha! All of the above?! đ˝
I’m sure it involved explosive violin fingers.
Glad to see a mom supporting her son. Yeah Wanda! Can I have comic Sophie? I need one b/c I’m kinda done with Bendy, but I’d like to toast him au revoir in style.
Yes like an updated version of the man who feel to earth. Or Thomas j newtons half human son. Every time someone talks about bendys alien ness that’s what it reminds me of.
Do not EVER compare BC to the lovely creature that is Thomas J Newton đ đ đ
Are we saying TJN is a lovely creature or that David Bowie is? lol
both, of course đ
I just want to take him out for a pizza with all the toppings, and make him wash it down with a chocolate shake.
bless you for that first paragraph! still giggling
Yes, I’m glad the kissing picture made it into a post. It was the best thing about the DM’s coverage of the preview night.
> like that heâs changing up his post-performance outfits. I honestly thought his personal closet was just full of denim blouses, but heâs changing it up.
No, I think you are right. This is just the white Tshirt that usually goes under these chambray shirts he loves. I guess he lost the shirt somewhere, or may be it is at the dry cleaners.
The reviews aren’t actually that good. The production is generally not that well thought of. Some of the most important critics pretty much panned it.Everyone agrees that Bendy is a good actor, he’s doing a good job i here but he’s not getting the kind of rave reviews people had expected. I think even David Tennant got better reviews not to mention Rory kinnear who is considered the benchmark of Hamlets in the last 5 years here in London.
james mcavoy got fantastic reviews as well, and I personally saw the play and it was brilliant. I most likely won’t go to see BC’s because…. tbh I don’t care.
I think McAvoy should win all the awards this season for his fantastic turn in The Ruling Class. He was jaw-droppingly good.
The reviews I read were really all over the board – about the only thing they can agree on is that this particular production is at times good, but overall is not great. Some critics like BC’s performance, some didn’t, some thought the supporting cast was aces, some thought they were dismal, the sets and direction were visually stunning or distractingly bad – all depending on who was doing the reviewing. Do London theatre critics usually disagree that much?
The British refuse to agree on anything in theatre. There must always be a differing opinion. The Batch has been sky high too long and he needs to go back down for a little while.
It wouldnât surprise me if itâs quite good, and Iâm not a big follower of Cumberbatch. All this brouhaha got me curious about reviews. All of the more negative reviews had veiled complaints about things done to make it more appealing to a general audience.
Hereâs the deal in my view: They knew they had a large audience who wasnât going to be that familiar with Shakespeare, so the dilemma became please the paying audience or the critics. There was no pleasing both, Hamlet is simply not as audience-friendly as say Romeo and Juliet. They went with the audience; I donât think it was the wrong choice. But add that to all the attention surrounding it, and youâve got a recipe for critics spearing it.
Goodness. Has he lost weight? He looks gaunt. Hope he’s not experimenting with some crazy nutrition plan that doesn’t allow anything then green tea.
Hijacking a bit but Del Toro entertained us tonight at TIFF and his baby CP is held back from festivals, I learned. The bear was not happy. Seems the reason is not with him in terms of editing. Can’t wait to hear the story behind it if TIFF doesn’t manage to “steal” it at the last moment as they can.
Oooooohhh, you picked my curiosity here.
Now I MUST KNOW what happened (I’m counting the days to see Crimson Peak). And I’m a huge, huuuuuuuuuge fan of Del Toro.
How’s the early feedback? They won’t run movies in festivals if they think it’s going to get dinged by critics, the word of mouth can hurt the box office.
@ Kaye:
I hope to everything that is holy to me (Leornard Cohen, Stan Lee and my cats) that you’re wrong.
*shudders*
David Ehrlich of Time Out NY just saw a screening of it, and while he says there’s an embargo on actually reviewing it right now, he did name CP as one of the “Seven fall films you can’t miss” in an article from a couple days ago.
CP isn’t really a festival movie, IMO. It’s more commercial, and as a horror movie, it makes sense that Legendary doesn’t want it playing at festivals and having plot twists spoiled before it opens in wide release.
@et alors, that was my thought as well. It’s not so much that Legendary doesn’t want it seen ahead of time because it’s bad, but because too many spoilers would leak. I think the studio has big plans for it and festivals are sadly just not a part of that plan.
I feel for Guillermo, he seems super proud of the film and is probably aching to share it with everyone, but I’m going to side with Legendary. I don’t want to know too much about it before I see it and I know I wouldn’t be able to resist reading about it if it were shown in advance of its official release.
@Dara, a horror movie like The Witch can do festival screenings because word of mouth helps for smaller films like that. CP is a studio film that has a built-in fanbase, and there’s already excitement and buzz for GDT’s return to the horror genre with a high-profile cast. Having spoilers about plot twists or the ending out there prior to opening weekend would kind of deflate things. Personally, I’m going to be scouring the Internet for any spoilers prior to watching the movie because I live for them and, also, I need to know when to avert my eyes. I still can’t watch the bottle scene from Pan’s Labyrinth.
I’m still wondering how TIFF erroneously posted that CP was going to be shown as special presentation at TIFF only to retract it shortly after. Someone said on the last Hiddles thread that Legendary was the one who didn’t want it shown at festivals.
@Nutty, the site where CP appeared is not officially part of TIFF (I don’t think). It sounds like they may have a hard time getting the official schedule in advance to build their site http://scenecreek.com/interviews/tiffr/ so I wonder if they don’t do some educated guessing to build their site as much as possible ahead of time. They may have just assumed CP would be a part of TIFF since Guillermo is such a big supporter, then let their site go live without double-checking all the listings.
Legendary is strongly opposite to put it at festivals.
Still madly in love with Benedict!! Why is everyone saying they’re over him? He’s lovely as ever to me. And I’m so jealous of his wife. He loves her, you can tell by that kiss. Wish he loved ME. He can look as alieny, as lizardy as he does- it doesn’t matter. I’m completely head over heels in love, he’ll always be sherlock to me.
Maybe, just maybe, you are in love with Sherlock and not with him. đ
What else can his mother say!
Awww.. Mommy loves her little boy!
I am pleased for him, what do you all think of the name he and Sophie have given their son? I am not sure myself.
Girl About Town reported today that it’s Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch and that he was born on June 1st, which is the date that was leaked back in mid-June when the birth was announced.
It’s a very fortuitous date, that. Not too early. Not too late. Heard he didn’t do Stage door. That’s a good thing, ’cause he was looking a bit peaked. Said he had to get home to see his son. He hadn’t seen him all week. He must be so tired he can’t see straight! đ
i like it!
i was surprised they kept it hidden for so long, good job there. the press usually check registers once the reg period has passed tho
Nice, elegant name.