‘Empire Of Light’ is Old School Oscar Contender With a Career Best Performance from Olivia Colman

A Guardsman who walked behind the Queen's coffin during the state funeral procession has been found dead at his barracks. Trooper Jack Burnell-Williams, 18, took on an important role at the Queen's state funeral last Monday, and was found to have died less in London than two weeks later.

Leonardo DiCaprio.The actor, known for his breakout roles in Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Dune, first met DiCaprio in 2018, where he shared some advice for his future career.As revealed in an interview with Vogue, DiCaprio told Chalamet: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.”Speaking to Time in October last year, Chalamet previously said that he received the advice from “one of my heroes” without revealing his identity. “One of my heroes – I can’t say who or he’d kick my ass – he put his arm around me the first night we met and gave me some advice.“No hard drugs and no superhero movies,” he told the outlet.Chalamet has reunited with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for his next film, Bones And All, a coming-of-age romantic horror road film based on the novel of the same name.Alongside Chalamet, the film stars Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlberg, Andre Holland, Chloe Sevigny, Jessica Harper and David Gordon Green.

Sam Mendes was writing the screenplay for what would become Empire of Light and he’d hit a wall.

Do you ever wonder where every great fairytale begins? Coming this fall, the new Netflix film “The School For Good & Evil” from director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”) and based on the string of novels by author Soman Chainani tries to answer those questions. READ MORE: ‘The Sandman’ Trailer: Tom Sturridge Plays Neil Gaiman’s Master Of Dreams In Netflix’s New Series The supernatural adventure pic boasts a rather impressive cast with Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Kit Young, Peter Serafinowicz, Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Rob Delaney, Patti LuPone, and Cate Blanchette will lend her voice as the film’s narrator.

Olivia Coleman looked positively regal as she stepped onto the red carpet for the premiere of her new film Empire of light at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday. The Crown star’s appearance comes after she made an emotional tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death aged 96 on Thursday September 8. Olivia, 48, played the Queen for two seasons of The Crown, which debuted on Netflix in 2016, and described the late monarch as having “such dignity” in an interview over the weekend.

Olivia Colman sandwiches herself in between Michael Ward and Tanya Moodie at the premiere of their new film, Empire of Light, during the 2022 Toronto Film Festival at Princess of Wales on Monday (September 12) in Toronto, Ontario.

The Crown star Olivia Colman has paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch passed away on Thursday at the age of 96, ending a reign of more than 70 years and plunging the nation into mourning. While attending a Variety Studio event as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, Olivia - who portrayed the royal on two seasons of drama series The Crown - offered her own tribute.

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 edition of the Toronto Film Festival continued with Day 3 by hosting fest-goers such as Tilda Swinton from The Eternal Daughter; Daniel Craig from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Jennifer Lawrence from Causeway; Olivia Coleman from Empire Of Light and Margaret Qualley from Sanctuary. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter On the stage at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Harry Styles is a bonafide rock star, brimming with swagger and self confidence. But Styles, the actor, was more soft spoken while accepting an acting award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Styles was a man of few words as he, along with the cast of “My Policeman,” received the ensemble award at the festival’s Tribute Awards on Sunday.  “Thank you so much to everyone here on behalf of all of us for this wonderful, wonderful award,” said Styles, who stars in the romance drama as a closeted police officer. “We all loved working on this film so much. And we hope you enjoy it.”

Michelle Yeoh is a mythological goddess in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese. Based on the genre-hopping graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, Disney unveiled a featurette of the new series during the D23 Expo.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Olivia Colman, who portrayed Queen Elizabeth II for two seasons of Netflix’s royal sensation “The Crown,” is still processing the loss and legacy of the British monarch. The queen’s death was announced on Thursday, the same day as the start of the Toronto International Film Festival. “I wouldn’t know where to begin with that,” she told Variety at the Variety Studio presented by King’s Hawaiian at the Toronto International Film Festival. “She made a promise as a young woman and she absolutely kept it with such dignity. We’re all incredibly impressed by what she did.” Colman, who touched down in Canada to promote “Empire of Light,” a romantic drama from director Sam Mendes, also praised King Charles III’s first address to the nation. In his speech, he paid tribute to his mother and vowed to serve with “loyalty, respect and love.”

Queen Elizabeth II, has sadly died at the age of 96 years old.In the years during her reign, the monarch was portrayed on screen by a number of big name celebrities, including Harry Potter star Emma Thompson and award winners Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.Their performances captured The Queen during different eras of her reign - from her first years on the throne, through to her later life.READ MORE: Buckingham Palace statement in full as Queen is 'placed under medical supervision'Here, Daily Star takes a look at some of the celebrities who have played The Queen.Helen Mirren played the royal in the critically acclaimed 2006 film The Queen, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.Speaking to Radio Times, Helen revealed that prior to taking on the role, she wrote to The Queen, saying: "I realised we were investigating a profoundly painful part of her life, so I wrote to her."I said, 'We are doing this film. We are investigating a very difficult time in your life.

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Robbie Williams previously revealed he smoked a joint inside Buckingham Palace.The singer, 48, has never been one to live by the rules and didn't hesitate to play with fire when he stepped inside the Palace in Westminster back in 2012.The Rock DJ hitmaker was part of the line-up for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert that took place 10 years ago, allowing him a free pass inside the royal residence. READ MORE: Stephen Fry once 'took cocaine at Buckingham Palace' during 15-year drug spiral He made the shocking admission to The Sun when they queried rumours about whether he had ever thrown up inside the palace walls.The former Take That singer informed the publication: "Threw up in Buckingham Palace? No, I smoked a spliff in Buckingham Palace."Robbie has continually been open about his past battle with drugs and in 2013, admitted that he still used the class B drug occasionally.The Angels songwriter isn't the only famous face to get up to no good in Buckingham Palace, with Stephen Frey admitting he once took cocaine and Emma Bunton revealing she stole a toilet sign from the ladies.And it seems stealing items from the toilets of the palace in Westminster isn't unheard of as actress Olivia Colman added that her husband made off with a roll of toilet paper.The Oscar-winning actress, who played the late monarch for two seasons on Netflix series The Crown, visited Buckingham Palace with her spouse when they attended a charity event back in 2019.She told The Sunday Times: "My husband stole some loo roll just to say we got it from Buckingham Palace."Olivia's husband swiped the item just moments after they met Prince William at the event, who reportedly told them he doesn't watch the series.Queen Elizabeth II peacefully passed

Portraying a legend. Some of the biggest stars in the U.K. have had the honor of portraying the late Queen Elizabeth II in both film and television alike.

TELLURIDE – Venice may be enraptured in gossip-y drama over a film no one will be talking about two months from now (and, clearly, a very frustrating ticketing system), but the 49th edition of the Telluride Film Festival was where the 2023 Oscar season truly kicked off. The annual Colorado set festival certainly has its fair share of world premieres and curated Venice and Cannes titles, but that’s only one reason it has solidified its reputation as an awards season staple.

Like other filmmakers of recent years such as Alfonso Cuaron with Roma, Paulo Sorrentino with The Hand Of God, and Kenneth Branagh with Belfast, Sam Mendes is in a mood to explore his own memories of his formative years, but unlike those films, he doesn’t put his younger self at the center of the story, but he does put his own experience of seeing movies in theatres right up front. But make no mistake, this is decidedly not the lovingly sentimental Cinema Paradiso, but rather a film that is, at least in part, a valentine to moviegoing in a world of increasing tension and racial strife, a place to get away from the sad realities of life, if only for a couple of hours.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the era where content is king, Sam Mendes still believes in moving pictures. “Empire of Light” is the proof. While the world was in lockdown these past couple years, Mendes let his imagination run to his happy place: a grand old English movie palace he dubbed the Empire Cinema. Thousands pass through its Art Deco doors seeking escapism, but Mendes is more interested in the employees — the projectionist, the ticket-takers, the box office attendant and so forth, who collectively form an ersatz family — whose stories, he senses, are every bit as interesting as the ones they show. And so he put them up on screen where they belong. But “Empire of Light” is more than just Mendes’ homage to an endangered art form — in fact, it spends a lot less time valorizing the medium than you might imagine. He has assembled a terrific cast, trusting that these performers can go deeper than their dialogue makes explicit, whether it’s Olivia Colman (who can do anything) as the romantically frustrated theater manager Hilary or relative newcomer (and “Blue Story” breakout) Micheal Ward as Stephen, Mr. Ellis’ latest hire (in an unusually sleazy cameo, Colin Firth plays the boss).

TELLURIDE – When has Olivia Colman ever been bad in anything? Think about it for a moment. Can you remember any performance of hers where you reacted with an “Eh, she was fine”? The answer is you have to do some serious digging to find a miss (we tried).