Earlier this week I spoke to Stuart Till, the CEO of UIP – one of the UK’s main film distributors.
We discussed a number of topics including the Leitch review – a government report into skills in the UK and how it affects the film industry, the impact of new technology on distribution and the forthcoming split up of UIP into two separate companies.
Listen to the interview
[audio:stuart_till_ interview.mp3]
I caught up with a lot of the Bond crew this week to discuss their roles in Casino Royale.
Daniel Craig discusses playing James Bond
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Daniel_Craig.mp3]
Eva Green talks about her role as Vesper Lynd
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Eva_Green.mp3]
The director Martin Campbell talks about updating Bond for 2006
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Martin_Campbell.mp3]
Mads Mikkelsen discusses playing the villainous Le Chiffre
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Mads_Mikklesen.mp3]
Caterina Murino talks about her role as Solange (the other Bond girl)
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Caterina_Murino.mp3]
Chris Cornell discusses how he came to write the new Bond song “You Know My Name”
[audio:https://www.filmdetail.com/audio/Chris_Cornell.mp3]
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I recently interviewed actor Tobin Bell (who plays Jigsaw in the Saw films) about Saw 3.
Have a listen below
[audio:tobin_bell_on_saw3.mp3]> Official site for Saw 3
> Back of Your Mind – A Saw Fansite
> Dread Central on the news that the series is over
I’ve done a lot of interviews over the last few years with actors and film makers and I’m in the process of archiving them here on FILMdetail.
I’ll post some more up soon but for the moment here is one I did earlier this year with Joss Whedon. The writer and director came to the UK back in February to promote the DVD release of Serenity and you can listen to it below.
[audio:Joss_Whedon_on_Serenity.mp3]>ย Original Post
> Buy Serenity on DVD
> Find out more about Joss Whedon at Wikipedia
> IMDb entry for Joss Whedon
> Discover more about Firefly at Wikipedia – the TV series that led to Serenity
> Whedonesque – Extensive fansite
I spoke to Leonardo DiCaprioย about The Departed.
We discussed the film and his ongoing collaboration with Martin Scorcese, which included:
Have a listen to the interview here:
> The Departed at the IMDb
> Official site
I spoke to British actress Emily Blunt recently about her role in The Devil Wears Prada.
Listen to the interview
[audio:Emily_Blunt_on_The_Devil_Wears_Prada.mp3]I recently interviewed 9/11 survivor and former New York cop Will Jimeno about the new Oliver Stone film World Trade Center which is partly based on his experiences of that day.
Listen to the interview here:
[audio:Will_Jimeno_on_World_Trade_Center.mp3]I recently interviewed Helen Mirren and director Stephen Frears about their new film The Queen.
Listen to the Stephen Frears interview
[audio:Stephen_Frears_on_The_Queen.mp3]Listen to the Helen Mirren interview
[audio:Helen_Mirren_on_The_Queen.mp3]Will Ferrell spoke to me recently about his new NASCAR spoof Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby.
Listen to the interview here:
[audio:Will_Ferrell_on_Talladega_Nights.mp3]I interviewed Samuel L Jackson for TalkSPORT recently and we talked about his latest film Snakes on a Plane. We discussed the proposed title change (“Pacific Flight 121” just doesn’t have the same ring to it does it?), the enormous buzz about the film on the Internet and how marketing a film like this has changed in recent years. We also chatted his love of golf, the atmosphere of a Merseyside derby and whether or not “Snakes…” will be an inflight movie.
Coincidentally, the interview took place in the same TV studios where, 10 years ago, Samuel first expressed an interest in being in the Star Wars prequel which was in pre-production in the UK at the time. In late 1996 whilst promoting The Long Kiss Goodnight on the Channel 4 chatshow TFI Friday he told host Chris Evans that he’d like to be in the “new Star Wars movie” (which turned out to be The Phantom Menace). Someone saw that and word eventually got back to George Lucas who eventually cast him as Mace Windu.
Anyway, you can download an MP3 of the interview from the link below.
> Download an MP3 of the interview from TalkSPORT
> Samuel L Jackson at the IMDb
> Check out reviews and showtimes for Snakes on a Plane near you
> See the latest entries for Snakes at Technorati
Recently I interviewed Joss Whedon about the DVD release of Serenity.
Have a listen to the interview below.
[audio:Joss_Whedon_on_Serenity.mp3]