2005   July 31st The KeiraWeb promotions page for Domino is now online. Click here. Keira was on the cover of the Sunday Times magazine Culture today, with a double-page feature on P&P. The article starts here. If anyone can send me the scans, please do. Thanks to Aslam. The official Star Wars magazine of France has a Keira article in its new issue. July 29th AustenBlog has had an update from P&P's distributor Focus Features. The UK release date remains September 16th. The US date is November 18th on limited screens, going wider on the 23rd, and wider again on December 2nd and 9th, much the same as Love Actually did. Never quite sure why they do this with a movie of such potential as this - anybody know ? Today's Daily Mail has an interesting article about P&P. Buena Vista Home Entertainment are releasing a double pack DVD of Jerry Bruckheimer productions, Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure, on October 3rd. Pre-order. July 28th WireImage have some thumbnails from Tuesday's P&P screening in Amsterdam. And Working Title have some pics from the Hamburg screening. UK cinema-goers can now see the Domino trailer before 'appropriate features'. Not Willy Wonka, then. July 27th Well, despite the increasing number of premieres and previews of Pride and Prejudice, it would appear the general release has gone way out to the Christmas season. The official site is now listing November 18th as the release date. Meanwhile, cries of "That's Me!" will be ringing out in Peterborough this weekend. Working Title is showing the movie to local residents who took part in the Meryton village scenes, filmed in nearby Stamford. Article. The Keira Knightley 2006 Calendar is now available for pre-order from Amazon, out on September 1st. The cover can be seen here - not the best cover picture I've ever seen but at least there's twelve more chances for redemption inside ! One of the Pirates writers, Terry Rossio, has confirmed that 'World's End' is a working title for Pirates 3, but stresses that it is not the final title, and others are being considered such as Calypso's Fury and Uncharted Waters. For legal reasons, it will probably end up being NONE of these. July 25th Ahead of the premiere on Sky Movies this weekend, Sky are running a 'Bonus!' featurette on the movie, of which I've edited Keira's bits into a clip (see TV Guide for schedule). Might be new to some of you. Watching this now, Pirates seems like decades ago. How time flies. 2.2Mb Here is the segment from VH1's '100 Most Wanted Sexy Bodies'. The Knightley body came in at a measly 97. Don't blame me, I didn't compile it ! 4.5Mb Keira was in Hamburg, Germany today for a screening (described in the photo captions as the premiere) of Pride and Prejudice, marking the first in a long haul of promotions for Lizzie Bennet. Photo. More watermarked pics here. Don't forget to keep checking the P&P promotions page at the link above for everything Pride and Prejudice. Toronto fans can enjoy a free open air screening of Bend It Like Beckham on July 30th at 9pm at the CIBC Stage of the Harbourfront Centre. July 22nd Are you fat, hideously unattractive, funny-shaped, look like a serial killer or have missing teeth ? Wannabe in Pirates 3: World's End ? Now you can... well, if you live in the LA area, anyway. A casting call has been posted for the movie here. The scenes required for these characters will be filmed at the LA studios, you won't get a free holiday to the Caribbean ! Thanks to Lila Chu Notes: Its requirement for "tons of Asian people" would seem to confirm the story takes place in the Far East, hence the apparent title and Yun-Fat's casting. Also of note is the filming period "thru the middle of next year." So January's wrap has been extended - that would still allow twelve months for post-production before the movie is released in the Summr of 2007. It also means (assuming she still has a significant role in Pirates 3), that Keira won't be signing on for anything else until next Summer ! Here's some new pics of Keira doing what women do very well - nattering. Her phone is a Nokia 7610 by the way, in case you were interested :-) 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Thanks to Captn Llama July 19th Variety is listing P & P as having a PG-13 rating in North America.  And the poster is now available - take a look here. Meanwhile, if you're interested in Jane Austen generally, I captured a feature from BBC2 tonight on Jane's home in the South of England, Chawton House, and a look at some of her personal items and first editions, including Pride and Prejudice. It was captured for my good friends over at AustenBlog.com, the must-see site for Janeites. Part 1 - Part 2. July 17th KeiraWeb has more exclusive video clips for you to enjoy - none of which have previously appeared online. From Keira's earliest available performance in A Village Affair, to her stunning portrayal of Lara in Doctor Zhivago, these are just three of a huge collection of clips soon to be made available online. See the Archives in the column opposite to view.  Incidentally, if you have trouble viewing WMVs I would recommend the VLC Media Player - it's free and will play any type of multimedia file, even incomplete downloads. I use it everyday. Bend It Like Beckham distributors Redbus have finally settled a long-running dispute with the film's director Gurinder Chadha and producer Deepak Nayar over their share of the profits from the sleeper hit of 2003. Figures have not been disclosed but today's Variety reports that "...Redbus has agreed to pay a substantial sum to Chadha and Nayar." BILB cost £3.5m to make, of which £900,000 was funded from the National Lottery. It went on to take in more than £45m worldwide, not including video and DVD sales. July 16th Pirates Of The Caribbean: World's End is the title of Pirates 3, according to star Marty Klebba's web site. Perhaps a working title only ? We shall see. Thoughts: - It does suggest a long and dangerous journey for the crew, which would tie in with Chow Yun-Fat's character (a Chinese pirate) being in this movie only. - The cast do now have their scripts for POTC3, as Keira mentioned on the Good Morning America interview on May 25th. But scripts don't always have final titles on the top of them ! - On the subject of subtitles, the 'Chest' in the title of Dead Man's Chest may not be an actual wooden chest, but possibly the real Caribbean pirate island of that name (long since changed) which inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write the song that appeared in Treasure Island. See here. Here's one of the ships you will see in Pirates DMC, The Bounty. And another rave review of P & P. Sudoku no.5 is up, plus the answers to no.4 July 15th Britain's top talk show Richard & Judy had a feature on Domino Harvey on tonight's programme. I've split the segment into two. The first features Domino's godfather Peter Evans talking about her and her life, plus some great photos we've not seen before. It also featured the movie trailer, which I've edited out as you can see that at the official site. The second half features FHM Magazine writer Piers Hernu who spent time with real bounty hunters in Indianapolis. (Amazingly, I'd only just got in from work and switched on to catch the 'coming up after the break' link, and just managed to boot up my PC and plug it into my digital TV box to capture it). Part 1 (8.8Mb) - Part 2 (5.5Mb). Here are some screen grabs of the Domino photos (2 and 3 are my faves - they almost seem to hark back to her former life as a model): 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Don't forget there's a page of Domino promo reel captures still online. July 14th Keira flew back from a shopping trip in New York last night to be back in her home, London, for today's two-minute silence, observed by millions around the world. She stood in Trafalgar Square with thousands of other people, in remembrance of the 54 innocents who died a week ago today. July 13th US viewers can now see four Keira movies throughout July - check the schedules. Keira was in New York yesterday, as this People photo shows. Thanks to Caitlin July 12th Pride and Prejudice will be shown at the Toronto Film Festival, it was announced today. The festival runs September 8th - 17th. This will be a few days after the London premiere on the 5th, although the press release below says Toronto will be the world premiere (?). As mentioned here last month, Working Title premiered Love Actually at this fest so there was a good chance it would showcase P&P here too. Press release. On the TV Guide Channel's countdown of 'Summer Movie Hunks and Babes' Keira came in at No.14. Thanks to Troy. July 11th Bad news (again) for North American fans, Domino is now delayed until October 14th. At least that's what the official site is now saying, as well as the New Line site. The whole point of moving it back to August was to have Keira free to promote it while the Pirates filming is on hold. So the November date for the UK may well be correct after all. Who knows - it's burning my brain! Meanwhile, the full-length trailer is meant to premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, with Richard Kelly and Tony Scott possible attendees.  And Christopher Walken is due on David Letterman this Friday. Check this out and spot the stupid mistake. July 10th Here are the three latest pap snaps of Keira. I have airbrushed out the street name as it's not far from her home. Some of us respect her privacy, even if you do find the unairbrushed pics elsewhere. 1 - 2 - 3. Thanks to Captn Llama. The ever-unreputable ContactMusic.com now reports that Keira has warned boyfrined Jamie not to get involved with Kirsten Dunst while on-set of Marie Antoinette. Trouble is, the movie finished filming last month. Credibility comes with a little research, I always find. There's a new poll up on the Polls page. It's the third one down. Just curious. Pre-production on the bulk of Pirates 3 commences on August 1st in Los Angeles while post-production is underway now on DMC, in time for its release next July 7th. Promotions should kick off any day for Keira & co.'s big push for Domino. August 19th is still the US release date, although some sites now have an October date. IMDb has November 24th as a UK date, even though this has always been listed as August 19th, even amidst the US shuffles. Bewitched has been moved up to the same weekend here in the UK, so one or the other movie may well be about to move. Of course, most of the interviews are bound to be dominated by the death of Domino Harvey, even though Keira will more than likely be instructed not to speak too much on the subject, and the press too. You know what the media are like - tell them not to ask about something and they'll ask it. I'm sure Keira will tackle them with her usual intellect, initiative and diplomacy. July 8th Here is the segment from The Biography Channel's new series Hollywood's Ten Best. Tonight's programme featured the Ten Best 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Flicks. Keira and Parminder were at No.9. 2.8Mb. July 7th It was inevitable it would happen one day, and today it did. I hope everyone's friends and families have not been affected by today's atrocities in London, and our sympathies go out to those who have lost loved ones in the numerous bomb blasts across the city. In terms of Keira's London I cannot say where Keira was today, but geographically the third blast occurred just two blocks North of Keira's apartment in Mayfair, and the bus blast happened three blocks North of Keira's agency offices at PFD. In other news, Chow Yun-Fat is confirmed for the second Pirates sequel, Pirates 3. He will play Captain Sao Feng and not, as originally reported (Dec 16th 2004 news), Chinese pirate legend Cheung Po Tsai. Filming on the sequels will resume in LA in mid-August, before heading back to the Caribbean (pending hurricanes of course). July 6th Variety has its first look at potential Academy Award contenders today: "The year is half over, but in terms of awards, the fun is just beginning. Only a few serious kudos contenders have so far emerged, such as "Cinderella Man" and "Crash"; the bulk of hopefuls arrive, as usual, in the second half of the year.... Following are some of the July-December openers -- not including animated features, docus or foreign films -- that will be up in a variety of categories, from tech to best pic... September: Focus Features' "Pride And Prejudice" (Keira Knightley); Miramax's "Proof" (Gwyneth Paltrow) and "The Libertine" (Johnny Depp)..." Site news: Although I'm working on two other sites at the moment, there are three brand new sections coming to KeiraWeb soon, including a much larger, more permanent home for the medium that sets KeiraWeb apart from the other Keira fan sites - the videos. Stay tuned. July 4th Domino screenplay writer Richard Kelly puts the record straight about the reshoots at richard-kelly.net. A memorial service for Domino Harvey was held in Los Angeles on Friday. Among the mourners was the movie's star Mickey Rourke who said: ""I came today because Domino was such a great girl. The moment we met we really clicked. Something in both our characters mirrored each other. We were the same kind of people. I met her to do research for the film role. She was fun, lively, charismatic. She would ring me up, or I would ring her up, and she would say, 'Come on, let's raise hell,' and we would go out for a few drinks and talk the night away." Keira's fella Jamie Dornan is due to sign to Sony Records later this year with his band Sons Of Jim. You heard it here first. With Disney UK's premiere broadcast rights to Pirates now at an end, the movie comes to Sky Movies from the 30th of this month. There will be 15 minute multistarts from 8pm on the 30th across the Sky Movies network. It will premiere on BBC1 at Christmas. For obvious reasons, Domino has seen a huge climb on IMDb's MovieMeter this week, based on clicks from visitors. It rose from No. 389 to No. 18. Keira's StarMeter also rose from No. 30 to No. 16, her highest position since February. July 3rd It's no surprise really but Keira is one of several actresses suggested for the role of American aid worker Maria Ruzicka who was killed in Iraq. Maria herself joked that Drew Barrymore would be perfect to play her if ever a movie biopic were made of her life. More details here on the investigations into Domino's death and the ongoing investigation before her death. July 1st There's a nice collection of personal photos from the set of Pirates on actor Marty Klebba's web site, starting here. Site news: - There's a new sudoku puzzle online until the middle of the month. - As KeiraWeb was the only site with a photo of the real Domino Harvey, it received 420,000 hits in the last two days, compared to a usual average of 40,000 for the same period. 75% of new visitors came from Google Images via a search for "Domino Harvey". Talk about "fame coming after death." June 30th Today's Variety has announced that not only will Domino's ending NOT be changed in the light of this week's tragedy, but that New Line have moved it back to an August release so that Keira is available to promote it while the Pirates filming is taking a break. June 29th Domino Harvey, the model turned bounty hunter to be portrayed by Keira later this year, died Monday night. She was 35. The cause of her death - whether natural, accident or suicide - is not yet clear. On behalf of all Keira's fans, I'd like to express our deepest sympathies to her family. The media are quick to jump on the fact that Domino was on bail awaiting trial on drug possession and trafficking charges, hinting at suicide, but Police Lt. Don Mauldin denied any evidence of a gunshot, overdose or other form of suicide. An inquest has been opened into the cause of her death. Media reports also claim Domino hated the forthcoming movie and wanted nothing to do with it. This is totally false. She had been actively involved in the screenplay and soundtrack. Keira met with her prior to filming the movie and said soon after "She is an extraordinary woman, really amazing. It was fantastic meeting her because she's very intelligent and just incredible." Born on August 7th 1969, Domino - named after one of Ian Fleming's Bond heroines - was the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey and Vogue model Paulene Stone. After spending some time with the Ford model agency, she took to running a nightclub and being a ranch hand in the San Diego mountains, and at the same time began to love the independence from her mother's money, and the look and feel of firearms. She then worked with the San Diego Fire Department before joining the Celes King Bail Bond Agency in 1994 as a bounty hunter, getting paid 10% of the captured bail bond from drug dealers. On May 4th this year, after a multi-state FBI operation, Domino was arrested and charged with possession of $2m of methamphetamines. She was released on $1m bail awaiting possible extradition to Gulfport, Mississippi where the arrest took place. On Monday someone called paramedics from Domino's home in West Hollywood. Domino was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 11pm where she was pronounced dead. A post-mortem was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon but cause of death will not be released until the results of blood tests are returned. The movie's director Tony Scott said in a statement:  “Domino never failed to surprise or inspire me over the last 12 years. She was a free spirit like no other I have ever known.”  Producer Samuel Hadida said:  “We were enormously saddened to hear of Domino’s untimely passing. She and I had been conferring about her music to be used in the film only weeks ago. I know I speak for all of us on the movie’s cast and crew when I say how much we enjoyed her presence on set when she visited. And although our film is not intended as a biographical piece, hers was the dynamic personality and indomitable spirit that spawned an exciting adventure, not just on screen, but in real life.” Domino Harvey, August 7th 1969 - June 27th 2005. Here are the KeiraWeb Archive clips from the set of Domino: E! News (5Mb) - Entertainment Now (1.6Mb) - MTV Screenplay (1.6Mb) In other news, the UK premiere of Pride and Prejudice is confirmed for London's Leicester Square on Monday 5th September. June 28th More bad news for the North American release of Domino - it's been pushed back again, from November 4th to 23rd. June 27th According to the Daily Mirror Keira got more than muddy wellies during her time at Glastonbury. This report says she was heckled and taunted by a bunch of drunken yobs until she and Jamie had to leave. Bear in mind this is the 'celebrity gossip' pages of the paper, where the embroidering of facts to make a juicy story is par for the course, but it seems obvious something happened to spoil Keira's day. There's a short interview with Johhny re: the Pirates sequels here. And SciFiWire have a longer chat here, including the news that Keith Richards is back on (possibly) and Kevin McNally (Gibbs) has been taken ill. The Pride & Prejudice official site is starting to stir, with the trailer now online. Thanks to Trevor/Fiona. And there's three pages of P&P promo pics starting here. June 26th K & J visited the Glastonbury music festival this weekend at the invite of a record company. This pic shows them living the traditional image of Glasto, ie. mud and wellington boots, although the Sunday Mirror reports they spent most of their day snogging their faces off in the hospitality suite. More pics here. This site proves that not everyone is a fan of Keira. Not many members, though. Those Brits who are addicted to the KeiraWeb Sudoku, or don't know where to start with it, may want to watch Vorderman's Sudoku Live on Sky One, Friday night at 9pm. You can view the Pure trailer here. June 25th The Biography Channel has a new series for July called Hollywood's 10 Best, each show having a different theme. In the episode '10 Best 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' Flicks' Keira is featured in a segment about Bend It Like Beckham. UK premiere is July 8th at 6.30pm. Othr countries check your listings. The Jacket DVD will be out on Region 2 (Europe) on September 12th. No details yet of its contents, but most likely the same as the Region 1 disc. June 22nd Keira and Jamie were in London's theatreland last night for the opening night of the Wyndham Theatre's production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West. Agency photos here. The new British Film magazine is finally getting some press thanks to its 'Thermal 30' list of hot British movie stars. As previously reported, Keira is No.1 and is on the cover of the magazine. You can buy a copy from the publishers via eBay (as I have) or Amazon right here. June 21st Still quiet in Keira land, except a reminder that The Jacket is out today for those of you in North America. There's apparently an integrated featurette/deleted scenes section. You can of course buy it from the KeiraWeb Store. New Archive contents are online, opposite. It's all videos this week. As it's Midsummer's Day today (at least here in the Northern hemisphere) I thought The Seasons Alter would be appropriate. There's another video below, too. It's midsummer video madness, folks ! Stay tuned to KeiraWeb for some great video clip premieres coming soon - stuff no-one's ever seen online before ! Here is the collected Keira-related footage from BBC3's documentary series Paparazzi. I never captured this on previous broadcasts as there's barely a glimpse of Keira, but several people outside the UK have asked about it, so here it is. Filmed at Burghley House in Lincolnshire in August 2004 near the set of Pride and Prejudice. Burghley will be seen as Rosings in the movie, home of Catherine deBourgh, played by Dame Judi Dench. It's a good insight into the lengths a paparazzo will go to to get his celebrity snaps. Very funny, if a little disturbing. 6.5Mb June 17th A new, longer version of the Pride and Prejudice trailer is now online at the Working Title Films site along with a photo gallery and synopsis page. Filming of POTC DMC has been suspended (as per its schedule) until August, according to this diary from a Bahamas tourist site. It also has some nice pics of the ships. And here's a snap of Orlando and Stellan as Will and Bootstrap Bill, together with some other strange creatures. Thanks to Vini for the links. The organiser of the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath told me today that they hope to have the regional premiere of Pride and Prejudice as the highlight of this year's events. This would presumably be after the UK premiere but before its national UK release, which is still stated as the 16th September. Last year they had the regional premiere of Bride and Prejudice, attended by its director, Gurinder Chadha. Other release dates are: Netherlands 22nd - USA 23rd - Switzerland 29th - Finland 30th - Germany 20th October - Belgium 4th January - Czech Rep. 5th January - Sweden 6th January. Hello! Magazine has an article on Jamie's movie debut, marking the first time JD has made a news splash on his own.   June 16th EXCLUSIVE: It's been a long time coming, but I'm very pleased to announce that Keira's 2002 short film New Year's Eve is now online at KeiraWeb. There's a teaser page of DVD captures here.  A two-part compilation of Keira's scenes is available here: Part One (5.4Mb) - Part Two (4.8Mb). This is my first attempt at a DVD rip, so apologies for the occasional pixellation! Keira's boyfriend Jamie Dornan is to make his acting debut in Marie Antoinette, currently filming in France and being directed by Sofia Coppola. It will be released through Sony Pictures and co-stars Kirsten Dunst and Rip Torn. It is based on the biography of the Austrian princess turned French Queen by Antonia Fraser. Jamie is a client of PFD talent agency, as is Keira, but they do not have the same agent. Press release. The real Domino Harvey is due to appear in court on June 22nd according to this article in the local paper of the region where she will appear. There's a brand new su-doku puzzle online to bend your brain, plus the answer to the previous one. June 12th Here's the Sunday Mirror's take on "loved-up scruffy couple Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan". Scan. June 11th After what is probably KeiraWeb's longest time without anything to report (a whole five days !), here's a couple of snippets. Keira is up for Best Actress: Action/Adventure at the Teen Choice Awards, for King Arthur. Please vote here (it demands an email address but you don't have to put your real one in - I didn't). Thanks to Thais for the info. The new magazine celebrating British cinema, which featured Keira on the cover of Issue 1 (see April 26th news) is up for grabs now on eBay UK. There's plenty left, as the seller had a thousand copies. Could be collectible in future as it doesn't look like the mag might last very long. The seller told me there's 3 other pics of Keira in the mag, including an article on The Jacket. There's also a full-page Asprey ad elsewhere in the mag, featuring Keira of course. June 6th Here's the latest couple of pap snaps of KK and JD, taken last Monday, here and here. Thanks to Captn Llama. There's new Archive stuff online, over there >>>>> US viewers with TMC can catch The Hole throughout June. See the TV Guide, opposite. The Jacket falls seven places to No.14 in the UK box office for last weekend, with a total tally of £532,765, mostly due to six new entries above it. June 4th The official site for P & P will be at http://www.prideandprejudicemovie.net/ Aren't you glad you don't have to type all that in ?! Nothing there yet, though. And Working Title will no doubt have their own special section, starting from here. There's a preview/article on the movie in today's Daily Telegraph. June 3rd KeiraWeb EXCLUSIVE: Further to the announcement yesterday regarding the brand new Keira Knightley photobook due out in March (see below), I am pleased to reveal a special offer available only to KeiraWeb visitors: a discount of 35% off the retail price ! When the book is published a unique reference code will be published here which you will need to type in when you order the book direct from the web site of the publishers Artnik. So bookmark KeiraWeb today (as if you haven't already!) and put a note in your diary to take up this great offer from Artnik. June 2nd The first book to be published just about Keira will be in the shops from March next year. Don't worry, it's not one of those 'unauthorised biographies' containing 99% lies and fiction (though I'm sure there's one of those in the pipeline), it's an 80 page photobook from entertainment publishers Artnik. There's more info here The person who informed me of the Stories of Lost Souls DVD is now selling a copy on eBay. Click here to bid or to see the cover. For the first time in a number of years The Winter Guest will be shown on UK TV later this month. FilmFour will air it on June 13th at 8.10pm. Originally a play by Keira's mum Sharman Macdonald, the screenplay for the movie version was written by Sharman and actor Alan Rickman (Love Actually, Harry Potter). This also provided Rickman with his directorial debut. The movie stars real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson. More on the film and some video clips can be found at the official site here. The screenplay book is still available here. June 1st Here's the link to the full Pride & Prejudice trailer - a whole 2 and a half minutes, plus a new pic or two from Domino. Thanks to all who emailed the links. May 31st There's a brand new su-doku puzzle online, together with the answers to puzzle no.1. Congrats to Keira's beloved football team West Ham United who were promoted to the Premiership today after a two year absence. May 30th I've been sent some high-res pics of Keira in London last Thursday 26th. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Thanks to Captn Llama Entertainment Tonight on Friday showed a large part of the Pride & Prejudice trailer. We get ET the following weekday here in the UK, so I've captured it today: 800kb. The mystery surrounding Stories of Lost Souls has been solved. The film is a compilation of six separate short films, of which Keira's is the 2002 short New Year's Eve, directed by Colin Spector. So the bad news is it's not a new Keira performance, although most people have not seen New Year's Eve, which brings me onto the good news - this compilation is already available on DVD ! It was spotted in a Wal-Mart bargain bin in the US over the weekend, despite it not appearing on Amazon or anywhere else. The synopsis on the back of the DVD reads: "In the spirit of The Twilight Zone, Stories of Lost Souls is a hard hitting presentation of six short stories of conquest, desperation and perseverance featuring remarkable performances by an all star cast. Confronted with tragic and mysterious circumstances, six varying personalities from different walks of life must come to terms with the bizarre twists their lives have taken. From an abusive alcoholic husband (Gandolfini) to a seductive temptress at a New Year’s Eve party (Knightley) to debonair swindler (Bettany), all of the characters share one common element – the desperation for redemption felt by all those who live in the realm of Lost Souls." So there we have it - no new Keira performance, but still one most fans would never be able to see. I suggest a trip to your local Wal-Mart is in order! Huge thanks to Michael Warnke for this information. Some background on New Year's Eve: British film director Colin Spector shot this debut 16-minute film with £20,000 of his own money and all the actors who took part were paid no fee. The movie itself was shot on what is now regarded as 'old-fashioned' 35mm celluloid. In this social-observation cum comedy, Keira plays Leah, a 15-year old seductress at a less-than-swinging party on New Year's Eve, at which people from different backgrounds and with different outlooks on life start to mingle. Co-stars included Stephen Mangan and Philip Herbert. It premiered at the London Film Festival on November 18th 2002 and was entered into the Sky Shorts film contest, organised by Sky Movies in the UK. This allowed several broadcasts of the film on the Sky Movies network in early 2003. Keira's on-screen time totals only about 5 minutes of the 16 minute film. May 29th The Jacket climbed one place to No.7 last weekend in the UK, taking a further £121,000. UK cumulative now stands at £411,290. Not a bad move in the face of Anakin and co. Scotland's Sunday Mail newspaper has picked up on the Domino reshoots but has linked it to the arrest of the real Domino Harvey. This has not been announced elsewhere as the reason for the reshoots. The article states the ending has had to be changed to reflect Miss Harvey's current situation, but the story only follows her life very loosely anyway, so it may be a case of linking two unconnected events purely to make a story out of it. That wouldn't be the first time. May 27th Here is the Keira/Orlando Good Morning America appearance. Part 1 - Part 2 (both 4.5Mb) Credit: OrlandoLove. And here is a brand new, albeit six second, peek at Pride and Prejudice. Taken from a promo video for Focus Features, the US distributor of the movie. Choose from a 1.1Mb mpeg or a 260kb WMV. I've made some screencaps here: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 And some more official stills are out now, too. There'll be a P & P page up as soon as the hype machine gets rolling in earnest. May 26th Marilynka has a nice selection of screen caps from yesterday's Orlando and Keira appearance on ABC's Good Morning America. Dig the hat ! May 25th The Cannes poster for Stories of Lost Souls was snapped here. It shows Keira apparently around the time of Love Actually (late 2002), if her hair is anything to go by. Another synopsis I found reads: "What defies expectations leads to the unpredictable...Six short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome." Curiouser and curiouser! Keira and Orlando appeared on one of the US breakfast shows Wednesday - possibly GMA or the Early Show - keep an eye out for repeats ! The reworked poster for the US release of Pure can be seen here - with Keira now bumped up to first credit, natch. May 24th NEW PERFORMANCE !!! Less than a month since KeiraWeb told you about Villette (see April 28th news below) and her second Lux commercial (May 6th news), another totally-unknown Keira performance has come to light. But this time it's a movie ! Stories of Lost Souls. A 90-minute movie described as 'six stories of lonely souls in unexpected situations' and 'frantic individuals discover to what extremes they will go to resolve desperate circumstances'. The film co-stars Josh Hartnett, Paul Bettany, Illeana Douglas, Cate Blanchett, James Gandolfini and Hugh Jackman. It was filmed (possibly) in early 2004 and released through America Video, a company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Keira's screen time and number of scenes is not yet known. With a cast like that, it is to be hoped it will get at least a limited theatrical release. It premiered at the American Film Market in November 2004, and has recently been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Article. Little else is known at present. More if I find anything !   May 23rd More date changes for your diary: The expected April limited release of Pure across North America by Indican Pictures never materialised. It will now be screened from June 10th. Check your area listings, not necessarily your local theatre. Domino's postponement (see below) may be due to reshoots. A resident living near to where quite a few scenes were shot in October says equipment is being brought back into the area (in LA) which would indicate a reshoot for one reason or another. Thanks to Bailey for the info. The Archive opposite only has a new video this week, but it's a biggie - her entire appearance on David Letterman last June. It's 17 Meg but it's worth it. May 22nd Domino has been pushed back to a November 4th release in the US. The web sites of the distributor New Line, BoxOfficeMojo.com and IMDb all now list the new date. Strangely, the UK date is still August 19th. So the next Keira movie to hit Stateside may well be Pride and Prejudice, which is still down for mid-to-late September. ContactMusic.com is reporting that Keira is close to purchasing a property in LA and that she will be 'moving to Hollywood to live'. While it's no surprise that Keira needs a place to call home over there as Hollywood increasingly becomes her 'place of work', it's unfair to say she's quitting the UK completely. She has family, friends and barely-lived in property over here, which I doubt she would leave behind, especially as she has said many times that she couldn't possibly do that.  Two things: ContactMusic.com never (or very rarely) quote a source for their information, which renders any of their articles (including this one) doubtful until verified. Also, get ready for the hypocritical British tabloid 'Keira quits Britain for Tinseltown' headlines, digging out old quotes where she contradicts such possiblilities. ScreenDaily (a reputable source of information, unlike the above) states that Pride and Prejudice may get its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy which runs from August 31st to September 10th this year. The UK release of the movie has now been pulled forward to September 16th. May 21st The Daily Mirror interview from Friday is here. It was accompanied by a few new photos which I'd not seen before, apparently from a Jacket promotional photo set. Keira still has her long dark hair, so they must have been taken at the time of filming early last year. If anyone can point to this set online, please do. You'll note in the interview the media's small capacity for distinguishing between two films, as it mentions the 'Keira body double' story as pertaining to The Jacket, instead of Domino. Honestly, why do they bother if they can't get basic facts correct ? May 19th How's this for free movie publicity? - Domino Harvey, the bounty hunter on which Keira's next movie is loosely based, is in prison in Los Angeles awaiting trial for possession of amphetamines with intent to distribute! Read the full story here. The trial may possibly affect the August 19th release date. Watch this space. Keira will be featured in Friday's Daily Mirror movie supplement The Ticket. Are you a Su-Doku addict ? Never heard of it ? You will do very shortly. It's the simple-looking but fiendishly difficult logic puzzle which is set to do for the brain in this century what the Rubik's Cube did last century - and KeiraWeb has the very first Keira Knightley Su-Doku for you all to pull your hair out over.  Click here - but be warned, it's addictive! May 18th The Jacket debuted at No.8 in the UK Box Office today, taking only £176,000 across 100 screens. A 'wide release' in the UK is 420 screens, but it's still a pretty poor turnout for what could be Keira's 'Gigli'. The OK! magazine interview is now online. In the week The Jacket is released in the UK, what's the interview all about? Yep, Domino. May 17th OK, hands up who thought Natalie's hair would ever be shorter than Keira's ? I keep singing Sinead O' Connor's 'Nothing Compares 2U' when I see it :-) Keira is interviewed in this week's OK! magazine in the UK (issue 469). Scans are online now, interview tomorrow. Want to know what Keira listens to? Here's a list, posted at KKW. New Archive material up, opposite. May 14th Love Actually is being re-released on Region 2 (Europe) DVD on June 20th. No new extras. Sky Movies News featured The Jacket in its current show: 1.1Mb May 12th Here's a Jacket audio review from BBC Radio 1. Click here then skip 15mins in. Thanks: Louise. More UK reviews: ioFilm - The Scotsman - Channel 4 May 11th Here's the first couple of Jacket reviews. There seems to be more press about Domino at the moment: Islington Gazette - Sky Movies Talking of Domino, the official site is in place, though there's not much online yet, except confirmation that it will be an R rating in the US. May 10th Keira is No.53 in US Maxim's 'Hot 100' women poll. Press release. I've added Keira's biography to the site. I wrote it for IMDb and never thought to add it to my own site ! Doh ! May 9th The UK premiere of The Jacket slipped by without notice tonight - just like the film is about to, I fear. Keira attended the screening at the Rex cinema in London's Soho with her mother, director John Maybury and actor Daniel Craig. At least some photographers turned up - see some pics here, and a couple of soundbites here. New Archive material up - see opposite column. May 8th Today's Sunday Times magazine Style has a new interview. May 6th Guess who ? Yes, it's Dame Keira. Seriously. She has recorded a brand new TV commercial - her second - for Lux Styling mousse, for broadcast on Japanese TV. Called 'Timeless Princess' and promoting the Lux Super Styling product, it was recorded earlier this year in Los Angeles. This follows her first ad for the company 'Ready To Go', which promoted the original Lux Styling back in 2003. The new ad does not yet appear to be online, but it will turn up on this page when it does. Thanks to Emma for the heads-up. Keira pre-recorded an interview for today's Steve Wright In The Afternoon show on BBC Radio 2 here in the UK. To listen, click here, then click Listen Again > Steve Wright Show > Friday and fast forward the audio stream to 2hrs 20mins in. She talks about The Jacket and about her brother who sometimes works as producer on that very radio show. She also says her brother lives with her - now that's one we haven't heard before. Thanks to Rachey. May 5th Keira is on the cover of, and is interviewed inside, the June issue of Marie Claire magazine. Scans are up on the Magazines page. KeiraWeb has the honour of being the very first 'Site of the Month' at VisionsOfAlexis. Cheers Anna ! In case you're wondering where the middle column has gone, most of it was the Production Update section which is now on its own page. Updates were few and far between and will remain so for this year, so I didn't see a place for it on the homepage. It's up there on the Contents menu if you need it. We shouldn't expect details of Keira's next project until September at the earliest. May 4th MTV UK's film review show Screenplay has a peek at Domino in this week's show: 1.6Mb With Scotland abuzz ahead of The Jacket's UK release (a large part of it was filmed there), Scotland's Sunday Post newspaper had Keira on the cover of their PostPlus supplement this month, with this feature inside. Keira has again been snapped in London with Jamie, presumably yesterday. Perhaps she's here for The Jacket premiere - she's the only one who knows about it if she is! As reported earlier, you can now listen to Part 1 of Villette at the BBC7 web site archive here. Keira's main dialogue in this first part is within the first ten minutes. Towards the end of the programme she plays another role, Fleur, in a scene during a school French lesson. Part 2 is broadcast today and Part 3 on Thursday. May 2nd A few more morsels about Pirates from this Orlando interview with Empire. A few Jacket promos: - BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme talks to John Maybury on Saturday 7th at 5.30pm.  - Irish viewers with RTE1 can see a guest panel discuss the movie on The View, Tuesday 10th at 11.20pm.  - STC (The Soundtrack Channel) is currently showing the full trailer in its 'First Look' programme - Sky channel 241. General promos are a bit thin on the ground. Let's hope they take off next week, before the movie disappears in the wake of Star Wars a week later. April 29th The UK Jacket promotions kick off on May 10th with ITV3's movie show Film File featuring a segment, presumably with clips and interviews. See the TV Guide for times. Can anybody who wrote to Keira at the above address and have received a reply please let me know, as I want to know if it works and to reassure everyone else that it's still the address to use. Thanks. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has composed the score for Pride and Prejudice, according to this interview. Domino makes the Top 25 big films of the summer in Box Office Prophets' new poll. April 28th KeiraWeb is pleased to announce the existence of a previously-unknown performance by Keira from 1999. It is a version of Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette, recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 4, in which Keira played the character of Polly, known later in the story by her proper name of Paulina. The BBC's digital radio station for classic drama and comedy, BBC7, is repeating the serial in three parts next week, at the times listed at the link below. The main characters of the novel are played by Catherine McCormack and Joseph Fiennes. BBC7 have confirmed to me via email Keira's performance in this dramatisation. Keira was 14 years old in 1999 and it was the year she played Rose Fleming in another literary classic, Oliver Twist.  Each part of the serial is being broadcast at 10am next Tuesday to Thursday, with repeats at 9pm and 2am. Complete listings are available here. Times are BST, so EDT is -5 hours, PDT is -8 hours. UK listeners can access BBC7 via DAB digital radio, Sky channel 881, Freeview channel 78, NTL channel 866 or Telewest channel 910. Outside the UK you can listen live online here. The broadcast may also be archived here. The dramatisation is also available to buy from the BBC Radio Collection here. A synopsis of Villette is available here. April 26th The British film industry is launching its own magazine at the end of this month, and guess who's gracing the cover of the very first issue, exemplifying all that's good and getting better about British film talent? Click here to confirm your suspicions. Disney are planning a Pirates of the Caribbean online role-play game to coincide with the promotions of Pirates DMC next summer. More here. April 25th The design of the US DVD of The Jacket can be seen here. New Archive contents in the right-hand column. Keira is No.4 on the list of Martini King and Queen of the 21st Century, according to a press release today. "The public were invited to select a modern man and woman who they think epitomise old fashioned vodka martini-era glamour based on icons such as Brigitte Bardot, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn." April 22nd BBC3 have today broadcast their annual Essential Top 50, listing all the things to watch in the worlds of entertainment, music, books, places to be seen in etc. Last year, Keira was at No. 39. This year she is at No.10. You can still view last year's profile here (1.4Mb). This year, she shares tenth place with Orlando Bloom. See it here (1.4Mb). April 21st Empire reports Keira's Love Actually co-star Bil Nighy will play the baddest of the bad: Davy Jones himself in the Pirates sequel. Keira is No.18 in this year's FHM UK's Sexiest Women poll. Here are some pics of the newly-built Black Pearl, prior to its sailing to the Caribbean for filming (bandwidth may be exceeded). Keira's beau Jamie Dornan is becoming a BIG personality - at least on posters like this one snapped in Houston. April 20th Another day, another part of Keira's anatomy is under the media microscope. Today children, we're taking a look at her nipples. Oh, purr-lease!  The text says she's after more property, even though she's hardly lived in the one she's got. But why have one 'den of iniquity' when you can afford two ? ;-) Keira's return to St. Vincent makes her the cover girl of Caribbean World magazine. Thanks to Cassie. And the interview in the current issue of Heat magazine is now online. See the Magazines page. People magazine have one of the Portobello Road pics, too. April 19th Tom Hollander, who stars with Keira in Pride and Prejudice, has won a villainous role in both Pirates sequels, according to comingsoon.net. Here's a couple of media pick-ups from an AlphaPress gallery of Keira and Jamie in London's Portobello Road: The Sun and Hello! April 18th According to my statistics, there seems to be an enormous number of people coming to KeiraWeb looking for the picture of the real Domino Harvey, so here it is. I've also added a search engine to the middle column which searches the entire site. I hope you'll find it useful. BVG announce details already of their Pirates DMC tie-in computer game. Press release. Off-topic-ish: UK Natalie Portman fans may like to know the premiere for Star Wars Episode III will be on May 16th, and Johnny Depp fans can catch Johnny at the premiere of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory on July 17th. Both in Leicester Square, London. I'm not saying either will attend of course, but it's more than likely. If anyone can provide good scans of recent UK mags featuring Keira, I would be most grateful and will give you credit. I just don't have time to go to the shops lately! Mucho grassy arse. April 16th FilmReview magazine puts Keira at No.2 in its list of 'bankable stars', after Orlando Bloom. The Jacket DVD debuts in North America on June 28th. JoBlo.com says it will feature just the usual documentary and deleted scenes. Novelist Deborah Moggach will be giving a masterclass on her adaptation of the screenplay for 'Pride & Prejudice' on June 3rd and 5th at the Hay Literary Festival this year. She also told me earlier this week she has still not heard of any developments regarding the movie of her novel Tulip Fever, which was to star Keira and Jude Law. The Guardian has a profile of the chairmen of Working Title Films, with a few mentions of Pride & Prejudice. And The London Evening Standard had an interview with Keira's Mr. Darcy, Matthew MacFadyen this week. There's a review of a rough-cut screening of Domino at richard-kelly.net. April 14th June 21st is the provisional North American release date for The Jacket DVD. April 12th The BBFC states The Jacket will receive a '15' certificate when it opens in the UK on May 13th. This page of their database also features details of two trailers, one suitable for showing before '12A' films, and a longer one suitable only for showing before '15' films. A very interesting technical article on the making of the 'hallucinatory sequences' for The Jacket. Thanks to Ian Failes. April 11th New Archive content in the right-hand column. New pics from the Pirates set here, complete with captions suggesting they may be officially endorsed. April 9th Here's another capture from Keira's 1995 appearance on The Bill, which is currently being used to promote 'They Started On Soaps', reported on April 5th below. I personally think she has the looks of a young Jodie Foster in that shot. DarkHorizons has an Orlando Bloom interview with a few more facts about the current Pirates shoots. April 8th The Internet Movie Database have accepted and published my vastly-expanded biography of Keira Knightley on its database. Some of the hyperlinks haven't come across properly and I've submitted the corrections, but you can read it now here. It appears below the shorter biography written - incredibly - by my good friend Leanne a few years before we'd even met! Spooky - talk about a small world! Keira is interviewed in the special 'British Film Elite' issue (no.57, May) of FilmReview magazine, and probably a few more in the run-up to the May 13th release of The Jacket. Thanks to Tom at FilmReview magazine for the press release. Today's Variety confirms New Line have moved Domino to an August 19th North American release. The Sun publishes some more of the Pirates DMC training pics today. April 7th Some swashbuckling is called for from Elizabeth Swann in one of the Pirates sequels, as this training photo shows. Thanks to Vini. April 6th Here is the latest pic everyone is talking about - Keira in a bikini, relaxing with Jamie on the St. Vincent & Grenadines Islands. No doubt the photographers were annoyed she kept it on. April 5th American viewers with access to SoapNet can see Keira's early role in The Bill on 'They Started On Soaps', premiering this Thursday. More info here. View The Bill performance at KeiraWeb here. Thanks to Kiera for the info.   April 4th American viewers can catch the TV premiere of The Hole throughout April on Showtime, Showtime 2 and Starz 2, while Bend it Like Beckham returns to the HBO network. Complete listings here. New Line's Domino synopsis page now states August 19th for its US release. Keira's mum insists her daughter's public outgoing personality is in complete contrast to her natural introversion - she'd rather read a book than go out, according to this interview. No indication of the source for these comments, which is never a good sign for their reliability. April 3rd Today's Sunday Mirror has a 'new' interview with Keira. If you've been keeping up with the last month's worth of interview links and video clips at KeiraWeb, you'll read nothing new in it. Should really have been published closer to The Jacket's release date, but that's Sunday tabloids for you. April 2nd I hope you're all recovering well from your April Fool's Day heart attacks! Anyway, in an effort to rebuild my reputation for truthful, accurate reporting I promise not to do that again. Until next April 1st. Back to business. The UK release of the The Jacket is confirmed as May 13th, as the official UK site is now online. Domino producers New Line have replaced the previously precise August 12th release date with just 'summer 2005'. Perhaps they're pulling it forward to the 'big July weekend' ? If not, this will be the only summer out of five consecutive years that Keira won't have a July weekend release: 2003 Pirates, 2004 King Arthur, 2006 Pirates DMC, 2007 Pirates 3. March 31st Jack Davenport gives little away about the Pirates sequels in this chat with Empire magazine, other than filming will wrap next January. March 29th Bit of a catch-up time - I've been busy working on another web site (I know, as if four isn't enough). A Domino teaser is now online here, and there's a new still here. Some listings now state May for the limited theatrical release of Pure across the US. Many sources still say early April, so check your local listings. Keira is in the April issue of Sci Fi magazine (US edition). Thanks to Jennifer. Archive section updated (right-hand column). March 27th While it's true that Keira is not in the Top 10 FHM 100 Sexiest Babes, she's not far away - she's in at No.11 !! Top 25. March 26th On behalf of all visitors to KeiraWeb.com I'd like to wish Dame Keira Knightley a very happy 20th birthday today. Not that she visits this site, but you never know :-) Keira fan and KeiraWeb visitor Jonno Hardy has made this nice video tribute from clips I've posted over the last year or so. It's a good tribute to the success of the site and the enjoyment people get out of it, as well as a cool homage to the lady herself. 3Mb. March 25th Keira flew back into London yesterday, perhaps to see out her teenage years at home with family and friends. Keira turns the grand old age of 20 on Saturday. Sharman speaks more about daughter Keira in an interview here. Keira is in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll again, but not in the Top10. Exact placing to be advised. UK Easter viewers can enjoy Pirates and the behind-the-scenes documentary on Disney, King Arthur on Sky Box Office, The Hole on FilmFour and the terrestrial premiere of Thunderpants on Channel 4 Easter Monday. TV Guide. Today's Variety previews Domino's competition on its North American release date of August 12th: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Rob Schneider) Skeleton Key: (Kate Hudson) Dark Water: (Jennifer Connelly) Four Brothers (Mark Wahlberg) March 22nd Here is the Doctor Zhivago blooper from ITV1's Alright On The Night All-Star Special. 1.4Mb Keira helped to raise $11,200 for a gift bag signed by herself and other celebrities at Sundance, the proceeds of which went to the Asian tsunami disaster relief fund. Press release. Mena Suvari talks about her role in Domino in this interview. March 21st Disney are to enter their own boat in the Volvo Ocean Race round the world yacht race to promote Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Some news sources are reporting that Keira, Orlando and Johnny will help man the boat on various in-port - ie. press photo opportunity - legs of the race (Keira's leg will be around the UK, Orlando in the Southern Ocean and Johnny in the Americas). This remains to be confirmed, but the boat promoting the film is confirmed. Reuters says the organisers are hoping to persuade the cast to take part. Official press release. Apparent artwork for Pirates 2 can also be seen at this link. March 18th Regular contributor and now Pirates 2 extra Diane Rooney has submitted an article on the two days she recently spent on the set of Dead Man's Chest in LA. Read it here. March 17th Ahead of its London debut, Keira's mum talks about her new play and life with Keira in an interview in today's Guardian. There's a gallery of captures from Keira's scenes in The Jacket here. Thanks to Jasmine. March 16th The scans from April's Elle magazine are now on the Magazines page. Photos are by Gilles Bensimon, and were taken in a townhouse in Paris, France. March 15th New Archive contents - see right-hand column. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at Domino, from ITV1's late-night show Entertainment Now!: 1.6Mb The BBC's movie review show Film2005 had a quick preview for UK viewers of The Jacket (out May 13th provisionally) and a brief interview with Keira: 2Mb Pride & Prejudice will be released on September 23rd in North America. Richard-Kelly.net have uncovered the source for the Domino captures, now in this gallery. It is from a 'promo reel' of rough cuts put together by producer Samuel Hadida to help secure international distribution for the movie. The full collection of images can be viewed in a slideshow here. An official trailer is due April 1st. ITV1 in the UK are repeating the outtakes show Alright On The Night All-Star Special on Tuesday 22nd at 8pm. At the very end of this show is an outtake from Doctor Zhivago where Keira and Sam Neill are together in a carriage. It's the only behind-the-scenes footage you're ever likely to see, unless they repeat The South Bank Show documentary from the set (which is unlikely). Bookmark the TV Guide if you need reminding. The only talk show booking for The Jacket stars so far is Adrien Brody who will be a guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show this Friday 18th. March 14th Here is a gallery of DVD captures from a 'promo reel' of rough cuts from Domino. The reel was used to help secure the movie's foreign distribution. Thanks to the original capper, whoever that is, and to Richard-Kelly.net for uncovering the source. Gallery. Here's a scan from the Sunday Mirror of Keira shopping in LA, with model Helena Christensen and a 'mystery man', probably a bodyguard or one of the stars' PAs. March 13th The Jacket has fallen to an estimated No.13 in its second week, taking a further $1.325m. Final figures out Monday. Kate Winslet has beaten Keira to the Best Actress award at the Empire Film Awards in London tonight. March 12th Here is Keira's entire appearances on 'When Johnny Met Keira', from BBC Comic Relief night, Friday March 11th. This is perhaps the first time most of her fans have seen her just being her. She's witty, relaxed and natural in straight-to-camera presenting. As Keira says throughout the clips, please make a donation to Comic Relief if you can. Hit the chad over there in the top right-hand corner. - First is a quick trailer with footage not shown in the programme itself: 400kb - And here are all the scenes edited together, minus the TV show clips. These files contain some strong language and adult themes: Part 1 - 6.9Mb - Part 2 - 5.6Mb - Part 3 - 5.6Mb UK viewers can catch the Empire Film Awards on Five, at 10.55pm this Tuesday 15th. Hosted by Johnny Vaughan. Unlikely Keira will be present, unless she is 'informed' (in the way winners usually are) that she has won the Best Actress award. Final figures for The Jacket's debut week are now in. The movie is still placed at No.10 in the US Box Office, but the $2.7m estimate is now a $3.65m actual.   March 10th Disney have advised me of the appropriate address to write to Keira while she is filming Pirates 2: Keira Knightley - Pirates Of The Caribbean, Walt Disney Fan Mail 500 S. Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521-5064 Here's Keira and Johnny Vaughan in a publicity still from their show 'When Johnny Met Keira', being broadcast tomorrow night at the end of the Comic Relief telethon on BBC1. March 9th The Elle magazine shoot seems to have brought out the punk in Keira, as these preview pics show. The US edition has a Keira cover while the UK gets a Beyonce cover with the photoshoot inside. Larger stationers such as WHSmiths should have the US edition in eventually. March 8th Keira was due to perform a live sketch for Comic Relief on Friday's telethon, but has had to pull out due to filming of Pirates in LA. She would have been the damsel in distress saved by 'Spider Plant Man', played by Rowan Atkinson. The sketch also stars Rowan's Blackadder co-star Tony Robinson and Shaun of the Dead star Simon Pegg. The damsel will now be played by ex-S Club 7 star Rachel Stevens. Meanwhile, When Johnny Met Keira may be back in its originally-billed slot of 1.30am. Matchsticks for the eyes, anybody? There's new stuff in the Archive if you haven't seen it already - see right column. March 7th The Sun continues its coverage of celebrity reports for Comic Relief with an article about Keira's visit to Ethiopia last year. Read it here. The Jacket's director John Maybury has a go at just about everything in Hollywood, including the marketing of The Jacket. Interview here. Keira is nominated for Best British Actress at this year's Empire Magazine Film Awards, which takes place on March 13th. March 6th The Jacket has debuted at No.10 in the US box office, according to preliminary figures. That's $2.7m across 1,331 screens - a limited release. Triple that (roughly) for a wide release, and it would have come in at No.5. Not bad for an 'indie' film. I know they say Keira is a 'bankable star', but this is ridiculous. March 4th Filming, or at least dress rehearsals, of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is now underway in Los Angeles as these spy snaps show. Many of the people on the ground seem to be looking curiously at the photographer so I'm guessing he shouldn't be there or is at least unwelcome (which paparazzi aren't ?!), and the scene apparently shows a wedding ceremony, possibly Elizabeth and Will's ? Keira still has her short hair, which suggests a dress rehearsal only. The special edition of the POTC DVD (the one with the 'Lost Disc') is finally coming out on Region 2 (UK and Europe) on April 25th. You can pre-order it from the Store. I can now confirm that 'When Johnny Met Keira' is indeed the rumoured raunchy bed antics from KK and Johnny Vaughan, and written by Richard Curtis. It's a 90-minute countdown of some of the best comedy clips from both sides of the Atlantic. It is now billed at 1am on the morning of Saturday 12th, half an hour earlier than originally scheduled. Keira had two movies in the Top 10 VHS sales in the UK for 2004, with Love Actually at No.5 and Pirates at No.8. Keira will have a brand new photoshoot in the next edition of US Elle magazine, and is likely to be cover girl too. March 3rd Keira is interviewed in the current issue of US magazine StarLog. Part of the interview is here. (Thanks to Emily) March 2nd Here's last night's E! News segment from The Jacket premiere in LA - 1.3Mb Keep an eye on this page and this one for The Jacket reviews. March 1st The official premiere of The Jacket took place in Los Angeles Monday night at the Pacific Arclight Theater, with an after-show party at the nearby Falcon Club. Thumbs here. It slipped by almost unnoticed, much like the rest of the promotions for this movie. Compare this with the entire page I had for the King Arthur promotions. Next Monday's box office figures will make interesting reading for Warner Independent. February 27th More thumbs from Keira's weekend appearances in Hollywood. The first of no doubt several interviews to appear over the next week or so promoting The Jacket comes from the San Francisco Chronicle. February 26th 'When Johnny Met Keira' is a 95-minute comedy sketch compilation show to be broadcast as part of Comic Relief night, Friday March 11th on BBC1. I am awaiting confirmation that the Keira of the title is indeed of the Knightley tribe (I'm guessing TV presenter Johnny Vaughan, not Depp). If it is her, this will be the first time Keira will have tried her hand as a TV presenter. Billed as 'a late-night romp', it will air at 1.30am on the Saturday morning. Watch this space for confirmation soon. It's still quite likely that Keira, Richard Curtis and Andrew Lincoln's visit to Ethiopia will be featured earlier in the evening, and the 'Bedful of Celebrities' sketch may also have KK under the covers. Yahoo! Movies has some clips from The Jacket. Keira attended a party at the Soho House Oscar Village in West Hollywood on Wednesday, which presented the new range of footwear from Taryn Rose, a leading designer in the industry. Other attendees included Vivica Fox and Selma Blair. Some thumbnails here. Keira was in Hollywood to promote The Jacket last week, so look out for some interviews on the entertainment shows this coming week. February 25th August 12th will be the release date of Domino in North America, according to the  distributor's web site. This is still only provisional, but it's the first date from an 'official' source since the April rumours. .  Above left is the provisional artwork styling for Domino, from the distributors' site. As you can see, this is the first movie in which Keira's name alone will apparently sell the movie. However, compare this design with the one on the right, seen next to Keira during the interview segment of the clip I posted a couple of days ago. This appears to show the Stratosphere Tower as the letter 'i', the building in Las Vegas in which the climactic scenes of Domino take place. Which is correct? Either way, you saw them here first !! August may also be the date for Pride and Prejudice, if the December 13th DVD date at SendIt.com is anything to go by. Provisional to say the least. Uber movie critic Leonard Maltin had Keira on his mind in an article about the rise of middle-aged actresses today: "When you think of great female talent, there's got to be someone other than 19-year-old Keira Knightley on the horizon. She's good, but she's a kid. Now and then you need a mature woman in the part." February 24th A brief clip from the Domino press call interviews. Not sure when this was filmed but we see the movie's logo for the first time and some new footage. This is from BBC Liquid News, which is only quarter-screen size, hence the poor quality. 1.2Mb. February 23rd Music news: Pirates soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer is back on board for both sequels' soundtracks, according to this report, and Harry Gregson-Williams will continue his partnership composing for Tony Scott movies with the soundtrack for Domino. Here's the text of the Talking Movies interview (see Feb 20th news below), and a choice of formats to view the interview, and here is the review of The Jacket. February 21st Good news for U.S. fans! You won't have three Keira movies to see this year (Jacket, Domino, Pride) - you'll have four. Indican Pictures have secured a limited release of the 2002 movie Pure, showing in theatres from April 8th. Some sources say April 1st so check your local listings. It's likely it will be rated R, as there's heavy depiction of drug-taking (including by KK herself) and some strong language - but I hope those people who say Keira can't act will go to see this movie, as I think she's superb in it. See it if you can. Here is Indican's site feature, and here is the KeiraWeb DVD captures gallery. Keira did indeed attend the Edinburgh premiere of mum Sharman Macdonald's new play The Girl With Red Hair on Saturday. Some BigPictures snaps here, here, here and here. Fresh goodies are up for your delectation in From The Archive (top right of this page). February 20th With less than two weeks to go before The Jacket opens in North America, there has been noticeably little promotion, except for the screenings at Sundance. All the more surprising, then, that the first detailed TV review, coupled with a very interesting interview with Keira, should come from the BBC - the movie does not open in the UK until May 13th. This week's Talking Movies (showing throughout the week on BBC World), devoted the first 15 minutes of its 25 minute show to The Jacket, including footage not in the trailer and featuring talks with Adrien Brody and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Never one to ask the 'usual' questions at interviews, presenter Tom Brook is frank and critical in his questioning of Keira, but her immediate and insightful responses prove - more so than in previous interviews - that she has incredible intelligence and extraordinary professional acumen. Large files, but worth it. Enjoy. BBC Talking Movies - The Jacket: Review 8Mb - Keira interview 10Mb Observer newspaper reporter David Keeps writes about his lunch with Keira and Adrien at Sundance. Keira did apparently attend the premiere of mum Sharman Macdonald's new play The Girl With Red Hair in Edinburgh on Saturday, according to this report. Pics and hopefully vids coming soon. February 18th King Arthur comes to Sky Box Office in the UK from 6th March, playing every 15 minutes. It starts this month, 28th, on other digital platforms such as Telewest. The Hole returns to FilmFour on 2nd March too. TV Guide. According to this report, Domino Harvey has rubbished the story about her being upset at the movie not portraying her as the lesbian she apparently was: "I'm not gay, and I couldn't be happier about the way Tony Scott is treating my story." What a surprise. Not. InTouch magazine readers have voted Keira a having the Best Abs in their celebrity fitness poll. Advance screenings of The Jacket are up for grabs if you live in Florida. Enter here. February 17th Keira made a very rare non-promotional appearance last night, attending the Moet et Chandon Fashion Tribute Award show in London at which her designer friend Matthew Williamson was honoured. Keira and the other celebrity females all wore Williamson dresses for the occasion. (Keira's pink coat in the Love Actually airport scene was also a Williamson creation). The event took place in London's East End at the Old Billingsgate Market - a former warehouse now refurbished as a conference venue. An after-show party, also attended by Keira and Jamie, was held at the Kabaret Prophecy nightclub in the Soho district of London's West End (about 2 blocks from Keira's flat). Some thumbnails here, here, here and stories here and here. And if you're relying on KeiraWeb to have some video of the bash, well voila! Here's a couple of news clips I grabbed earlier tonight: ITV London Tonight: 900kb Sky News: 500kb There's a press release here for The Girl With Red Hair, the brand new play by Keira's mum Sharman Macdonald, which premieres tomorrow in Edinburgh. This is from a Sean Biggerstaff fan site, who stars in the play (he played Oliver Wood in the Harry Potter movies). Interestingly, his acting debut was in the film The Winter Guest, also written by Sharman, and directed by Alan Rickman, who also stars in the Harry Potter movies! The book of the play will be published on April 7th. You can pre-order a copy here. Journalist Diane Rooney, whose article on the casting of the Pirates sequels was reproduced on KeiraWeb on December 17th, has now submitted another report from the day she attended a costume fitting for the films! You can read both articles (today's first) on this page. February 16th Animated-News reports that Keith Richards may not be in Pirates 2 after all, as he was asking for too much money. A new-design poster for The Jacket has appeared. February 15th More here on the Domino Harvey storyline 'anger', this time with her mother adding fuel to the fire and adding Domino wasn't consulted on the script and wants nothing to do with the film. However, insiders claim the real Domino not only WAS consulted on the script, but that she was visited by Keira during her research AND attended the movie's wrap party, AND that she even has a cameo in the film! Whatever the truth, all publicity is good publicity. Movie industry trade journal Variety has a lukewarm review of The Jacket, with its best praise reserved for Keira: "...Sticking to a game plan that served him well for his Oscar-winning role in "The Pianist," Brody journeys through "The Jacket" with a look of shock and awe on his face, while most of the rest of pic's stellar cast have similarly been given one note to play. Among the principals, only Knightley, doing a spot-on American accent and projecting sensitivity and warmth beneath her steely exterior, seems to be playing a character with an inner life...." A new interview with Sharman hints that she MAY have at least the idea for a play to feature Keira treading the boards for the first time. Performance details for Sharman's new play 'The Girl With Red Hair' are as follows: Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh from Saturday until March 12, Hampstead Theatre, London NW3, March 23-April 16. Moviehole reports Jack Davenport will be returning as Commodore Norrington in Pirates 2. February 14th Residents of Dominica are angry at the Pirates sequels' storyline for portraying their ancestors as cannibals. Article. February 13th Domino Harvey is allegedly angry at her portrayal as a heterosexual in Keira's movie Domino, when she has in fact been a lesbian for many years. Article. The final sentence about the publicity seems strange, as there has been hardly any so far. U.S. people with Comcast HDTV can go to Free Movies > Sundance > Festival Daily 1/24 to see an interview with The Jacket cast. Entertainment Weekly have a profile of The Jacket. Thanks to Caitlin for the link, February 11th Los Angeles residents can see preview screenings of The Jacket at the following times and venues: Wednesday, February 23 at 4:00pm at the Raleigh Studios, Pickford and 7:30pm at the Interactive Corp , 8800 Sunset Blvd. Check out the 'RND05' video at the Comic Relief media page. There's a preview of the 'Bedful of Celebrities' sketch, which may be the one the press were referring to as starring Keira (see Feb 2nd news below). No sign of her in this clip, but it looks like a long sketch. Only four weeks left to find out. Pride And Prejudice has been voted 'most romantic novel of all time' in a new poll by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Meanwhile here's a very positive review of a pre-screening of the movie. Men from the English Midlands (where I live) vote Keira 'sexiest woman' in a new survey. February 9th Upcoming band The Jane Doe's feature on the soundtrack to The Jacket and played the Sundance premiere's after-show party. Here are some pics of the band with Keira at the gig. Thanks to the band's acting manager Tyler for the link. February 8th Much media lately about Keira choosing a 'botty double' for her lapdancing scenes in Domino. This one is typical of the press attention. Most of The Jacket official site is now online. Click on 'Enter The Jacket' to load The Jacket Experience, with more clips from the movie. Tip: On the Jack Starks page you need to place the white hexagon in the hexagonal space and click on it; on the Jackie Price page you need to click on the cigarette ash. The eye icon changes the character profile. US release is to 1,200 screens from March 4th. This is about one third of a 'wide release'. February 6th Another promotional interview with Mother Knightley in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday, and one from today's Glasgow Herald. Bend It... came in at No.3 in the most-watched films on British TV over Christmas, it was announced today. February 5th The Scotsman has an interview with Keira's mum, promoting her new play The Girl With Red Hair, which premieres in Edinburgh on February 18th. Keira's alleged comments are again coming back to haunt her. Reports such as those here, here, here, here, here and here refer to how she has apparently said she wouldn't know what she would do if she wasn't an actress, and commented on her fears about publicity. They were probably jovial remarks thought up on the spur of the moment in answer to a banal question, but the media love to prey on celebrities' insecurities and so the comments flew around the world in seconds, getting changed and embroidered at each point. She will continue to learn what to say and what to avoid, lest it gets misinterpreted, as these perfect examples show. February 3rd Official plotlines for Pirates 2 are out now. Read them at Comingsoon.net. Release dates are also revised: Pirates 2 in the summer of 2006, Pirates 3 in the summer of 2007. Oh, and the subtitle of Pirates 2 *IS* Dead Man's Chest after all. February 2nd The Daily Record now confirms my earlier suspicions (see January 7th news below) that Keira will be part of the BBC's Comic Relief night on March 11th - and not just the report of her visit to Ethiopia last year. Today's Sun newspaper is reporting that Keira has filmed a 'raunchy' scene on a bed for the show, presumably written by Richard Curtis, as he writes most of the sketches. It's not clear if this will be shown in trailers for the show or part of the show itself, but Richard is more than aware of Keira's 'pull' at the moment, from both men and women, so it's understandable she'd get asked to do a funny sketch, and that she'd readily agree to do it. The Sun also exclusively published Richard's Ethiopia report and photographs last year, so presumably they are actively involved in the Comic Relief campaign this year. King Arthur comes to UK pay-per-view television at the end of February, starting with Front Row on the 28th. A new still from The Jacket has sneaked out - see it here. And here's a Sundance interview with Keira from MovieHole. February 1st Press materials for The Jacket are now online. Orlando Bloom is now officially single again. If that's not fuel for the fire of the upcoming Orlando/Keira rumours again while they're off filming, I don't know what is. January 30th BBC World's film review show Talking Movies had a special edition from Sundance this week, with this tidbit of Keira and The Jacket. 800kb. January 29th Sky News had a quick interview with Keira from Sundance and a preview of The Jacket today. 2Mb. Note how Sky avoided the press call and accosted her in the street instead :-) Naomie Harris has now been confirmed as Tia Dalma, the gypsy queen I reported on back on December 29th (scroll down), and Alex Norton is on board as Scottish captain Sam Bellamy. A preliminary cast and crew list is now online below. January 26th In another twist for the Pirates sequels, Comingsoon.net announce that Bootstrap Bill (father of Will Turner) was not sent to Davey Jones' Locker after all. He will be played by Stellan Skarsgard (Cerdic in King Arthur). January 25th First new clip for a while. Here's Keira talking to E! News Live about her 'first Sundance experience'. 500kb January 24th The UK release of The Jacket will be Friday 13th May, making an early May premiere likely. Its superstitious release date will be justified the following week when Lord Vader rises to storm the box office in Star Wars Episode III. There are now mixed reviews about The Jacket, such as this from TimeOut: "...It's also marred by a poor performance from Keira Knightley, who clearly believes she's giving a worthy, down-and-dirty turn as a screwed-up alcoholic...." Scotland is bidding to host the UK premiere of The Jacket, as it was half-filmed there. If it's as successful as my local Birmingham hosting the prem of Lord of the Rings because Tolkien grew up there, then pigs might fly over Glasgow. January 23rd Photos here from The Jacket photocall, and out and about in Park City. January 21st First review of The Jacket from Sundance is very promising: Adrien Brody gives a solid performance in a complex character, but the film’s biggest surprise is an extraordinary performance by a barely recognisable Keira Knightley. Vocally and physically, there is no evidence of the pretty blonde who stole the likes of "Bend it Like Beckham" and "Love, Actually". Encapsulating working class Americana at every turn, Knightley is a revelation here. "The Jacket" is an enthralling and compelling film, both visceral and engaging, daring the viewer to be propelled into an original and unique cinematic world." Tulip Fever author Deborah Moggach gives her thoughts in The Guardian on the tax break removals which has effectively mothballed the project indefinitely. Entitled 'Gordon Brown Killed My Movie' (Gordon Brown is the UK's government money man), it comes almost a year after Tulip Fever's producer Alison Owen wrote an equally damning piece for the SAME newspaper entitled 'The Tax Man Killed My Movie'. Hmm, some more creative headline writers required at The Guardian, methinks. Keira was snapped with Jamie in London recently, which this scan from Thursday's Daily Mirror shows, accompanied by this story in a full-page feature. January 20th Another chat with Geoffrey Rush regarding the Pirates sequels. Keira spent the weekend with her boyfriend's family in Northern Ireland, according to the Belfast Telegraph. Earlier this week they were seen in London's West End watching a performance of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Here are some modelling shots of Jamie. January 16th Better quality, and downloadable, versions of The Jacket trailer are now available from this link or this page. Here are some quick screengrabs I made from the trailer: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 The Sunday Times for Scotland has a rare interview with Keira's mother Sharman Macdonald today. The full interview from the Pirates sequel press conference in Hollywood last week. January 14th The trailer for The Jacket is now online. Thanks to Ulrik for the info. In case you're wondering, yes that IS Keira with an American accent. It's supposedly a Vermont dialect, and she was trained by 'voice coach to the stars' Julie Adams. My partner in crime 'Frankie' has put together a cool wallpaper featuring Keira in scenes from The Jacket. Download your size preference: 1024x768 - 800x600 - 640x480 We've seen Keira on screen and her mum on photos, but what about her actor father Will? Here he is in crime drama Rosemary & Thyme, shown on ITV3 this week. Daddy Knightley played a recovering heart attack victim who was later found dead in the local park. 600kb January 13th The Jacket's first posters are now online at RopeOfSilicon. See Keira's and Adrien's. Spooky. Thanks to Sarah for the info. This week's trashy celeb mag Zoo in the UK has Keira in its 'Rude Archive' section, with pics from Zhivago and The Hole (no prizes for guessing which ones), plus three clothed pics. For completists only. You can still catch the video clips if you scroll down to December 14th news. Thanks to Ashley for the info. IMDB is listing September 23rd for the UK release of Pride and Prejudice. A long way off, and therefore subject to change before then. Here's an interview with Domino co-star Ian Ziering. January 9th Pirates of the Caribbean: <see update below> is a new title that's appeared online for the first sequel. Time will tell whether this is accurate, and if it is it may only be a working title. (January 15th: Subtitle has been removed for legal reasons) January 8th Here's a great studio still from Domino which will no doubt form part of the first photo set in a month or two. This was sent out as an autographed 10x8. Keira's earlier roles continue to get a well-deserved airing on British TV. After Oliver Twist, The Treasure Seekers, The Bill, Love Actually and Bend It Like Beckham, the wonderful Coming Home is on ITV1 next Saturday at 3.10pm. Here's the DVD gallery. Vote for Keira and King Arthur in the Sony Ericksson/Empire Awards. And Keira is up for Best Female Action Movie Star in the People's Choice Awards. January 7th The charity telethon Comic Relief will air on March 11th this year on BBC1. With Richard Curtis the main writer and arranger of content, it's virtually guaranteed that his, Andrew Lincoln's and Keira's visit to Ethiopia last year will be featured prominently. Bend It star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers was arrested last night on charges of assaulting his girlfriend. Story. January 5th Get ready to hear the patter of tiny Keiras. No, she's not pregnant, but Keira's name had a huge rise in popularity among new baby names in 2004. According to figures out today, Keira rose 100 places to No.53. The alternate spelling of Kiera (which Keira NEVER had) was also up 30 places to No.92. Details are out on the premiere of The Jacket at the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah. Screening times and a brief blurb can be found here. More interesting for me is the news that Brian Eno has composed the score! Now I'm really looking forward to this movie. Of Keira's three upcoming films, I think it is The Jacket that is the more likely material to be considered for Golden Globe, and therefore Academy Award, consideration. There's an interview here with Mickey Rourke, in which he talks about working with Keira on Domino. And a set report here from Latino Review, with screen caps from Access Hollywood (the US edition, so I don't have the video. Sorry.). BoxOfficeProphets.com has Domino as their Movie of the Day for today. With the New Year generally a 'slow news day' period, magazines and media appear to have unearthed some old stories about Keira. Some of the old chestnuts currently doing the rounds again include: - Mum lets Keira pierce belly button. Today - Original 17th November 2003 - Keira to be a bricklayer if she quits acting. Today - Original28th March 2004 - Keira's paparazzi terror. Today - Original (top right) September 2004 - Keira denies eating disorder. Today- Original (6th para up) 3rd July 2004 January 4th The UK TV premiere of Bend It Like Beckham on Monday night trounced all other network viewing figures, according to data published today. ITV's new multi-million pound drama Uncle Adolf had 3.5 million viewers, while Parmy, Keira & co. pulled in 7.1 million. Article. The first results of last month's Domino photoshoot are out, with this nicely toned shot of the main cast. An Italian magazine has published a photo of Keira from the set of The Jacket. The decor certainly suggests it is an ex-British health service hospital, as was Bangour Village Hospital, where the asylum scenes were filmed. As I reported on Christmas Eve (scroll down to read), after speaking to Keira's agent that day, I was told of Keira's plans for the holiday period. For privacy reasons I withheld the location, due to the paparazzi's 'no expense spared' attitude to getting exclusive snaps. I'm happy to announce that Keira and her family spent the festive period in the tropical sunshine of Kenya, in East Africa. Kenya's foreign visitors either hit the safari trail in the national parks or stay in the many coastal resorts along the Indian Ocean. Last week's catastrophic tsunami *did* reach the shores of Kenya, causing coastal damage, but only one local resident has been reported killed. I trust Keira and her family had a great time and are safe and well (I'm sure we'd have heard otherwise by now). Thank you to those who clicked-through from the links at the top of this page to donate to the aid relief. The links will stay there for the foreseeable future. Though the headlines will fade, the suffering will remain. Hello! Magazine are once again pitting celebrities against each other in their 2004 poll. You can vote for Keira here. Some of you (especially those who frequent forums) may remember the incredible fuss made over a similar poll last year, when Keira's fans were locked in keyboard combat with those of Aishwarya Rai. It even got to the ridiculous stage of people emailing Keira's agent to intervene in the possibility that the poll was rigged. Well there's the link above, people, and I'll say no more about it! Vote, or don't - in the Grand Scheme of Things, it's hardly important. January 2nd Keira has given her first Domino press interview, conducted in December. About.com have a great FAQ on Domino, featuring interviews with most of the cast. Here's Keira's full appearance (two scenes) as Princess Beatrice in The Treasure Seekers. Keira was 10. January 1st 2005 A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL VISITORS TO KEIRAWEB.COM !!!! The KeiraWeb Review of the Year for Keira's 2004 is now online. Here's Working Title's synopsis for Pride & Prejudice: Pride and Prejudice follows the adventures of the five Bennet sisters, including the strong-willed eldest Lizzie and the youngest Lydia, and their attempts to find husbands. When a wealthy new bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends take up summer residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz with hope that potential suitors wil be in full supply. But once Lizzie meets up with the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr. Darcy, what seemed at first like a match made in Heaven quickly becomes one of the most classic battles of the sexes ever portrayed in literature.

2004   December 31st WIP now have a site for The Jacket, a new US release date of March 4th ( a week earlier than previously slated), and the movie has a tagline, too: Terror Has A New Name. No trailers have appeared online yet, but teasers are now showing before Darkness and Sideways in US theatres. It will be rated R in the US for language, violence and brief nudity (presumably the action before or after this bit). UK release is looking like mid-June, with a rating of 15. Here are some screencaps from the King Arthur alternate ending. December 29th Details of another major new character in the Pirates sequels have emerged: Tia Dalma: Late 20's-late 40's. Gypsy queen with a Jamaican accent has blazing eyes and a deep soul. A clairvoyant force of nature; with tattoos, dreadlocks, piercings and covered in jewelry. Her smile is more frightening than friendly. Role to appear in both Pirates 2 & 3. Lead. That's me out, then. Thanks to Emma for the info. As if Jane Austen fans weren't infuriated enough about Working Title's version of Pride and Prejudice, the screenplay writer Lee Hall, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme yesterday, admitted he had turned the novel into "a bit of a teen flick". If you're quick you can still catch the show online here. It looks at the enduring appeal of the novel and how different writers have adapted it from different viewpoints over the years. Meanwhile the latest press release from the film's distributor UIP still has the movie down for a September release, contrary to the director's hope of a Spring release. Check back on New Year's Day for an interactive look at Keira's 2004 in the 'KeiraWeb Review of the Year'. December 28th Here is 10-year old Keira in The Bill, playing Sheena Rose in a 1995 episode called Swan Song. This was shown over Christmas on the BBC show Before They Were Famous. As it's such a brief clip, the editors have slowed down most of it. 500kb December 24th The third and final Christmas Treasure Hunt is now online - see above. Australian celebrity gossip mag NW has provided the obligatory 'Keira dating leading man' rumour from the filming of Domino. It claims Keira and Mickey Rourke were 'extremely close' while sitting ringside at a boxing match, and that at one point 'he was even holding her arm' (shock horror!). I think NW must stand for Nonsense Weekly. It would appear this will now be the norm for every film Keira makes, so you can get ready for the Keira/Orlando rumours all over again next year. Keira is now enjoying a very special Christmas break - and it's not with Mickey Rourke! More details next week, due to privacy and security reasons. Keira was the fourth most popular name search on the Internet Movie Database in 2004. Considering the database has 51,000 names and 20 million users, that's quite a feat. Interestingly, three of the Top 4 are all cast members of Pirates of the Caribbean - I'm sure that will be music to Jerry Bruckheimer's ears, and Disney's too. After a few weeks' delay, ITV1 in the UK will be showing little Keira in The Treasure Seekers on Sunday January 2nd at 3.30pm. She appears in two scenes. I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all your kind words via email and guestbook entries this year, it makes the maintenance of such a continually-updated web site as this all the more worthwhile. A site doesn't get nearly half a million visitors if it has nothing worth visiting for, or to keep on revisiting. KeiraWeb is a solo effort and still very much a 'spare time' project for me, hence the absence of many sections you would expect to see on a fan site, but keep it bookmarked - they will appear, I promise. Best Wishes, Paul December 22nd 23% of British men would like to kiss Keira under the mistletoe, according to a poll by Sky Movies. That would be a long queue - she wouldn't be finished till August. Mackenzie Crook is the latest actor to confirm his return for the Pirates sequel(s). Pride and Prejudice screenplay writer Lee Hall talks about the production on Front Row, BBC Radio 4's arts programme, next Tuesday 28th at 7.15pm GMT (2.15pm EST). You can listen online here. The first two promotional stills for Pride and Prejudice have been released. See them here. December 20th A few more days in Vegas is all that's left for the Domino cast and crew, according to the local Review Journal today. Great quote from Geoffrey Rush today on his yes/no return to Pirates: "Technically, I'm in the sequel, but I've read more about it in Internet chat rooms than I've heard about it from Disney. That's how I handle my career. I read the fan sites and say, 'Oh, that's what I'm doing.' " December 19th Legendary singer/songwriter Tom Waits has landed a walk-on part in Domino. He will play a 'wandering soothsayer'. Meanwhile, the film's closing scene was recorded at the Stratosphere Tower on Saturday, including an explosion which blew out two windows in the Top of the World restaurant. Pride and Prejudice topped a 'book that changed your life' poll of Woman's Hour listeners on BBC Radio 4. Article. If this week's stories of Chow Yun Fat's casting as Chinese pirate Cheung Po Tsai are true, this poses chronological problems for the Pirates sequels. Google for the legendary pirate's name and half the sites say he lived in the 19th Century (ie. a century after the events of POTC1), and half the sites say he lived in the 15th Century (three centuries before POTC1). Whichever one is correct, it doesn't add up for the continuation of an 18th Century story (at least, the official production notes for POTC1 state it was set in the 18th Century - even though Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692). Either we are to politely ignore the anachronism, or time travel is part of the storyline (please, no!). Don't forget the new Christmas Treasure Hunt (above). If you haven't seen the final scene of Princess of Thieves, you won't have seen Keira sporting possibly the longest neck in the world. I'm sure it's shrunk since then - must have been all that heading the ball in Bend It Like Beckham! December 17th Attention all prospective cast members for the Pirates sequels: Here is an interview with casting director Sande Alessi of Sande Alessi Casting, who held auditions last weekend. It also contains very interesting information on filming and casting. The article is reproduced with kind permission of the author, Diane B. Rooney. The Robert Wyatt photos from The Times earlier this year are reproduced in the January edition of Stuff magazine - certainly worth a second look, plus '20 reasons Keira Knightley is the UK's hottest export' - a collection of quotes and misquotes. See the Magazines page. Here'a a brand new clip, from Sky's behind the scenes show Bonus: The Making of Love Actually. You can see the full programme in the UK at the times listed opposite in the Calendar. This was recorded around October 2003 towards the end of Keira's filming of King Arthur - note the long hair and muscly arms! - 2.8Mb December 16th Filming on Domino is due to wrap next Monday, December 20th. The original plans for an explosion at the top of the Stratosphere now appear to have been changed to a climactic scene in the restaurant at the top of the tower instead. Article. Comingsoon.net reports that Chow Yun Fat will have a role in one of the Pirates sequels, and points to an article confirming the return of Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa. The first of the long-awaited casting calls for the Pirates sequels has been posted here, with all sorts of strange characters being called for. The long filming schedule of February to December would suggest that two sequels are still planned to be recorded back to back. The call for ethnicities from just about every corner of the world gives away not a lot about the possible locations for the films, but Pacific adventures are hinted at. The BBC's annual look at celebrities 'Before They Were Famous' on Christmas Day will feature Keira in this year's show, with footage from The Bill likely to be shown. December 14th A Las Vegas topless dancer will double for Keira in Domino's love scenes, according to this article in the Review Journal newspaper of Las Vegas. Roberta Lorincz - at 28 a full nine years older than Keira - was called in to record the sex scenes at the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Filming took four takes over seven hours, with Lorincz wearing her long hair under a short crop wig, so as to match Keira's short do. Lorincz is lead dancer in the X Girls topless revue at Aladdin's V Theatre in Las Vegas. - Keira has always said recording nudity is fine if it's integral to the story, as it was in Doctor Zhivago and King Arthur. Perhaps this scene is not integral to the story - and therefore decided not to do it. - For the record, a love scene in next year's The Jacket and a mild scene with Clive Owen in this year's King Arthur followed this scene from Doctor Zhivago, recorded when she was 16 and this brief topless scene in The Hole, recorded when she was just 15 (although she was 16 when the movie was released). - A full movie clips gallery will be online soon. Watch this space... Keira was spotted in the Ghost Bar on Saturday night,  located on the 55th floor of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Bend It Like Beckham will now premiere on BBC1 in the UK at 8.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday, January 3rd. Vote for King Arthur as your Film of the Year on the BBC movies page. SITE NEWS: A quick reminder to those linking directly to movie clips and jpegs on KeiraWeb - don't. Hotlinking is disabled and the link will only divert to this page. Please direct your visitors to the relevant page of KeiraWeb or the date from this column in which the clip or pic is posted. Thanks. December 11th Keira has suffered burns while filming Domino in LA. During a scene in which she fires two guns simultaneously, one of the shells ricocheted and hit her. She was treated at the scene and resumed filming shortly afterwards. An insider from the set said: "It was a corker of a burn but she hasn't complained and has just got on with the job." December 10th Following contact with her agency today, I can confirm that Keira WILL be resuming her role of Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates sequels. The following has appeared on the imdb.com message boards: -------------------------------------------- DO YOU WANT TO INTERVIEW THE STARS AT SUNDANCE? "Starstruck!" the TV series is looking for a Kiera Knightly fan who would love the opportunity to interview her at the 2005 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. Because time is running out, if you are interested please EMAIL us your submission ASAP including a photo of yourself, name, age address and phone number. Be sure to also write why you think you should be chosen to interview Kiera at Sundance. Send your email submission to: info@iamstarstruck.com. For more information about "Starstruck!" check out our website at www.iamstarstruck.com. Good Luck! --------------------------------------------- I must assume it's genuine. Let's hope they pick a fan who KNOWS HOW TO SPELL HER NAME CORRECTLY !!!! The BBC appear to have sour grapes over Irish channel RTE1's premiere of Bend It Like Beckham on Christmas Eve, a day before it was due to premiere on BBC1. The Harry Potter movie has now been pulled forward to Christmas Day on BBC1 and BILB has disappeared altogether. Hmmm. But there's still plenty of Keira to catch while you're regretting eating that last mince pie - check the Calendar opposite. December 8th If you've seen the Pride and Prejudice clip below, you might like to compare it with a clip from Oliver Twist in which a 14-year old Keira is also in period costume and also playing the piano! : 1.6Mb wmv This time last year Love Actually was Number 1 in the UK box office, and in quite a few other countries around the world. Here's Keira talking about the film and her role of Juliet: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Good news if you wrote to Keira at one of the two US addresses I gave for the Domino set - Jennifer has emailed to say she got a reply today, consisting of a signed 10x8 photo featuring one of the Domino publicity shots. Although filming has now moved to Las Vegas, you may still get a reply from the LA addresses. UK cinema-goers this festive season may spot a familiar face in the pre-movie commercials. Keira's man Jamie Dornan can be seen in ads for Dolce & Gabbana. US viewers with access to the Sundance Channel can see Keira's memorable and powerful performance in Pure during December. See the TV guide for dates and times. View the DVD gallery. December 6th Here's the first ever clips and behind-the-scenes footage from Pride and Prejudice. Shown on the BBC's movie review show Film2004: 1Mb wmv The original costume drawings for King Arthur are on display at the Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire until December21st. A brief update on the continuing Nevada shoot of Domino, from the Las Vegas Review Journal. December 5th Access Hollywood featured a set report from Domino this week. Read the report here. While it's still uncertain that the UK's syndication of Access Hollywood will return to LivingTV next year, one of America's other staple entertainment shows WILL be crossing the pond in January. Sky One will show Entertainment Tonight from January 3rd next year, as well as producing its own one-hour weekly UK version, focusing on British celebs. That series starts on January 7th at 8pm. Filmed in Hollywood, no prizes for guessing who may pop up quite frequently on those shows. December 1st The Jacket will get its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, between January 20th and 30th, being held in Park City, Utah. November 29th King Arthur is let loose on DVD today in the UK - as tame or as bloody as you like. Both versions are available from the KeiraWeb Store. November 25th Keira came in at No.15 in E!'s countdown of ambitious blondes in Hollywood, and the show featured a nice 1min 50sec profile - 3.5Mb Although it was announced almost nine months ago that Bend It Like Beckham had been bought by the BBC, and I predicted (correctly as it turned out) it would be shown this Christmas, what only became clear today is that the movie is one of BBC1's 'highlights' for the Christmas holidays. The film will premiere on Christmas Day evening at 6.25pm, with the channel's other movie highlight, the first Harry Potter film, showing at 5.40pm on Boxing Day evening. Coincidentally, Sky Movies' Christmas Day highlight at 8pm is Love Actually. November 24th The December issue of Sky Magazine has a four-page feature on Keira as they promote the Christmas day premiere of Love Actually. See the Magazines page for the scans and interview. Disney's premiere of Pirates Of The Caribbean will be on Decmeber 12th at 7pm. BBC1 have confirmed today that Bend It Like Beckham will form part of their Christmas package of premieres and new shows. Festive TV listings are out tomorrow. Sky Movies will premiere Love Actually on Christmas Day from 8pm and showing every 15 minutes thereafter on multiplay. So between now and New Year, us Brits can enjoy Oliver Twist, The Treasure Seekers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually AND Bend It Like Beckham. Have a very Keira Christmas! Check the Calendar opposite for the full list. November 23rd The first set report from Domino was featured on E! News Live today. The full segment is here (5Mb) and the Keira-only clip is here (600kb). November 22nd E!'s 'Ultimate Hollywood Blonde' had a segment on male blondes including David Beckham, with a quick comment from Keira filmed during the US BILB promotions in 2003 - 318kb. Prior to the UK TV premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean this Christmas on Disney, the channel will air a 25-minute behind the scenes programme called Unlocking The Treasure, showing on December 5th at 8.40pm. This may or may not be the same feature as on the DVD, but will bound to be very similar in any case! Keira's wedding dress from Love Actually is currently on display at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills - Article King Arthur is the No.3 highest-grossing UK/Irish-made movie at the UK Box Office in 2004, according to new figures out today. Some pap snaps of Keira and Jamie can be seen here, courtesy lime-light.org. Copy and paste the first link in, then change the jpeg number to see the rest, ie. 2.jpg up to 19.jpg November 21st Here's a taster of Keira as Rose Fleming from the first of three episodes of Oliver Twist, broadcast today in the UK. She's on-screen for about 20 seconds as she's shipped off to Paris - 600kb. In next week's episode (28th, ITV1), she has about two minutes of screen time, but much more in Part 3 (5th December). November 19th Official synopsis for The Jacket from Warner Bros.: "A psychological thriller about a military veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process sends him on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death (but not who did it or how) in four day’s time. Now the only question that matters is: can the woman he meets in the future save him?" November 16th It's gone a bit quiet on Planet Keira. Domino filming continues in LA, and will move on to Las Vegas from the 26th of this month. Some UK TV notes: - Keira's dad Will appears in this Friday's repeat of A Touch Of Frost on ITV1 at 8pm. He plays Barry Hockey in the episode 'Unknown Soldiers'. - Oliver Twist starts this Sunday on ITV1, but Keira is not in it till next Sunday the 28th. - The BBC's disturbing new series Paparazzi follows photographers as they hunt down Keira on a film set (possibly Pride and Prejudice). Catch it on Monday 29th on BBC3. In the US, Doctor Zhivago repeats on PBS on December 19th and 26th. November 12th New Domino pic and brief blurb about the movie from USA Today, er, today. And a less flattering photo of Dame Keira which appeared in the Sunday Mirror last weekend. Blame my mate Iain for the creases (but thanks anyway!). King Arthur is no turkey in Turkey, where it has taken US$1.1m in 11 days, and US$2.5m in China over the same period. Total box office worldwide is now $149.7m, almost three times its US tally. A new entry in the Rumours section today. The Daily Star (probably the least trustworthy of any newspaper anywhere) says there are plans to turn the West End musical Mamma Mia into a movie, with Keira tipped for a major role. Read about Mamma Mia here. November 10th SITE NEWS: DVD Galleries (so far) back in action. And a taster of the Video Clip gallery:- Keira's full appearance on MTV's TRL show in July, promoting King Arthur. Part 1 (9MB) - Part 2 (8MB). Keira stays in Tatler magazine's 'Little Black Book' of eligible men and women in Britain, but is knocked off the top spot she held last year by Jemima Khan. As explained in my blog recently, the Pirates 2 subtitle will not be Treasures of the Lost Abyss. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer makes the denial in a new interview, as well as denying Keith Richards is on board to play Jack's dad (another rumour that's at least 12 months old). A March start date is mentioned, and Keira's confirmation as Elizabeth is also hinted at. Note: IMDb is listing the 'Treasures...' subtitle as fact, thus proving, as I've said many times to many people, the IMDb is not the gospel of movie info that many visitors (and especially IMDb themselves) like to think it is. It is updated by the public and the public get things wrong. Co-owner of Working Title Films Eric Fellner suggests an early Spring 2005 release date for its production of Pride and Prejudice, in this interview from comingsoon.net (scroll to bottom). This would mean Keira would have both The Jacket and Pride in cinemas at the same time. Tony Scott may also still be trying for a spring premiere of Domino, which would make three trips to the cinema for Keira fans in the first half of next year - and three DVDs to buy in the summer! November 9th The Domino cast and crew will move to Las Vegas between Thanksgiving (November 25th) and Christmas, according to this article today. Yet another set of Keira and mum photos have appeared at lime-light.org. Keira seems to be wearing an animal other than her koi carp tattoo transfer around her neck! See them here. November 8th ITV1 will be showing Oliver Twist over three Sundays starting November 21st at 3.55pm. A 14-year old Keira starred as Rose Fleming, but only in Parts 2 and 3, I believe. This includes Keira's first screen kiss! This is the first time ITV have repeated this mini-series although it is available to buy on VHS. E! UK will also be premiering its Ultimate Hollywood Blondes on the 21st at 9pm, in which there's a quick sighting of Keira. November 5th The photo here appeared on the People.com web site earlier this week. Credit: PacificCoastNews. Thanks to Caitlin for submitting it. Distributors for Domino are all but confirmed for selling the movie worldwide, ScreenDaily announces today: "Universal Pictures has bought Latin America and Japan, Paramount Pictures has bought Australia and New Zealand, Entertainment has bought UK and Constantin Film has bought Germany. Producer Samuel Hadida retains French rights for his Metropolitan Filmexport, Aurum took Spain and Nordisk took Scandinavia. New Line has domestic rights." Take a look at some great pics from actress Allie Raye, who plays a wannabe bounty hunter in Domino. She's just finished filming with Keira and Mickey. November 3rd A new collection of pics from the Domino set, courtesy lime-light.org: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 Many appear to be from an official photocall (note the positioning tape on the floor in the last few). TV crews may also have been present - watch your local showbiz news progs for segments. November 1st PA (the Press Association) have issued an article on Keira's filming of Domino today. King Arthur is becoming something of a sleeper hit in China. Opening quite poorly, it is now taking millions of Yuan, according to a release by the Xinhua Press agency today. Details on the 3-disc Pirates DVD, coming out soon. General consensus is: buy it if you didn't buy last year's 2-disc original, otherwise just rent it to see Disc 3's goodies. October 31st Keira won Best International Actress at the IFTAs yesterday, the Irish film and television awards. SITE NEWS: Added Filmography summary. In case any ladies want to rush out and buy Keira's dress she wore to the Hollywood Film Awards, it was by BCBG MaxAzria. October 30th Two more pics from the set of Domino appeared in The Sun today via bigphoto.com, as you can see here and here. In the second pic, is Edgar Ramirez, on the left, who plays Domino's boyfriend Choco, so-called because of his passion for choking people to death (but I'm sure he loves his mother), and Mickey Rourke who plays Domino's boss Ed. Talking of mothers, that's Keira's mum Sharman Macdonald on the left of this photo, in case you were wondering. Keira's body double is on the right. Quick quiz - how many times have we now seen Keira handling firearms? Name the films and the characters! Answers on Monday.   BONUS: As I have some bandwidth to play with before the new month on Monday, I thought I'd put online the scene that gets talked about more than any other scene Keira has ever filmed. It's from The Hole - yes it's THAT scene, and yes, she was 15 when she filmed it - 8.3Mb Warning: Contains strong language and nudity (like that's a deterrent !!!). The new Empire movie magazine has a review of the King Arthur DVD saying the extra 17 minutes explains a lot of the confusion that arises from the edited theatrical release. It also has a short preview of The Jacket, but with no new pics or information - other than a UK release date of July 2005 (even though this page of its web site says November - and they've spelled her name wrong. Come on, guys!). If the March 11th US release date is still true, then July is more likely for the UK. King Arthur took $869,000 in China, BuenaVista International's third-highest Chinese tally ever, after Pirates and Pearl Harbor. Seems there'll always be a welcome for Mr. Bruckheimer in the People's Republic. Global tally for KA is now $143m. King Arthur cinematographer Slawomir Idziak (Black Hawk Down, Proof Of Life) will receive the Outstanding Achievement Award at the CamerImage Film Festival, to be held at Lodz, in his native Poland from November 27th. Here's an interview from 1995. October 28th New blog. October 27th Domino set pics, courtesy lime-light.org. These are freelance photographer's snaps, not official photographs: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5- 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12- 13 - 14 - 15- 16 - 17 - 18 Keira is nominated for Best Female Action Movie Star in the People's Choice Awards - Vote here. The lovely Andy Gotts scan featured in The Times recently is now online. The accompanying profile can be read here. Thanks again to Tamise for providing the photo. October 26th UK: Pirates of the Caribbean will premiere on the Disney Channel in the UK, according to a 'winter season' promotion currently showing, which also includes the premiere of Finding Nemo. Pirates has now finished on Sky Box Office pay-per-view, but it's not clear if the Disney run will be before, after, as well as, or instead of, its run on Sky Movies. The BBC have already bought broadcast rights for its terrestrial premiere in 2005. The trouble with being No1..... Today's Daily Mirror has a go at Keira just for dressing casual in LA in comparison with her being recently voted World's Sexiest Woman. She can't win, can she ? Scan. E! News Live featured Keira again last night in their Fashion Police segment - 500kb October 25th "You're The One That I Want..." No, it's not Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in Grease, it's the first pics of Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey. The one here appeared in The Sun newspaper today, and a larger but black-and-white image appeared in the Daily Mirror, which I have scanned here. October 24th Further to yesterday's good news about ITV1's new Sunday drama slot including Oliver Twist, I can now confirm it will also include The Treasure Seekers. October 23rd UK TV channel ITV1 will be starting a 'classic Sunday afternoon drama' slot from next Sunday, 31st. Between now and Christmas, Oliver Twist will be one of the serials shown. A 14-year-old Keira played Rose Fleming in this retelling of the Dickens novel by playwright Alan Bleasdale. The wonderful companion book to the series is still available. Thanks to Tamise for the heads-up. Barbossa is back! In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, actor Geoffrey Rush has reoprtedly been offered roles in movies taking him through 2005, many of which will have to be declined as he 'will be returning as Captain Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean 2'. Sets are apparently being built behind closed doors under a false project name in Hollywood, a common 'insider' tactic for sequels of blockbuster movies. Things are stepping up a gear now for the Pirates sequels. Expect confirmation of who, what, where and when within a few weeks. Of course, we don't know what, if anything, Keira will be doing between Christmas and the reported filming start of Pirates 2 in March. Tulip Fever, perhaps ? Stay tuned, folks! October 22nd Zap2It reports Pirates 2 pre-production is now underway, although filming won't start until March. Love Actually is being re-released for Christmas on November 8th in the UK. Nothing extra on the DVD from what I can gather, just a Christmassy cover. Urgent scan request: Can anyone provide the pic of Keira as Domino from this Thursday's New York Post ? These were the stories of the day, Keira's photo was apparently in the Page Six supplement. Email me if you can help. Thanks. Two more clips of the Hollywood Film Awards. These are thanks to Richard at Keira Media, whose collection of clips will shortly be online at KeiraWeb. These were recorded through a dying VHS recorder, so please excuse the vibrating voices! Entertainment Tonight - 1.2Mb Access Hollywood - 500Kb And for those allergic to scrolling, here's the first one: E! News Live: 670kb October 19th Keira dazzled at the "Hollywood Awards" ceremony of the 8th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, held at the Beverly Hills Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on Monday night. She was presented with the award for Breakthrough Actress by Bend It Like Beckham co-star Parminder Nagra. Also at the event were Hollywood A-listers including Mel Gibson, Scarlett Johannson, Kate Beckinsale, John Travolta, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Leonardo DiCaprio. Full size pics here - Slideshow Reports: Press Release - Hello! - Evening Standard - Daily Mail Montage of footage from E! News Live: 670kb wmv In other news, The Hole is reissued today on Region 1 (North America) DVD. October 18th King Arthur had a Chinese premiere in Beijing yesterday. None of the cast attended, but Keira's costume, together with Clive's and Ioan's plus a number of props, were on display outside the theatre. This is the first time Hollywood movie props have made the journey to China. Article & photo. October 17th Keira's love interest in Domino is revealed to be little-known Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez, playing a character called Choco. See an updated cast list here. King Arthur opens in China on October 25th, one of only 20 'Western' films allowed to open there per year. TV note: Keira receives her Breakthrough Award at the Hollywood Film Awards tomorrow evening in Beverly Hills. Not sure if this is a TV cameras event, but States-side and UK entertainment shows should have coverage from Tuesday if it is, and photos should be out even sooner than that. New section: A blog! There is also a new poll - it's personal and please only vote once. Just some 'market research' which I've always been curious about. October 16th Costumes from Pride and Prejudice will be on display at one of the film's locations Basildon Park when the movie opens, reports BBC Berkshire. Keira was among a role call of British talent in a pull-out guide in today Times. Her feature was accompanied by a beautiful black and white portrait. Scan please anyone? October 14th Romola Garai comments on the constant comparisons with Keira in this interview. Nothing new here, but it's the first profile of Keira I've seen from China. King Arthur opens there this weekend. October 13th The Sun newspaper has a couple more photos from Pride and Prejudice, this time the final days of filming at Chatsworth House. The new issue of US magazine V Life has a short feature on Domino Harvey, the bounty hunter Keira is currently portraying in Domino, now filming in Los Angeles. Richard-kelly.net has the scan of the feature and probably the first photo anyone has seen of the woman. I don't think I'd get into an argument with her! See it here. Bride and Prejudice opened at No.1 in the UK this week taking £1.7m, only slightly less than director Gurinder Chadha's first blockbuster Bend It Like Beckham, which debuted at No.1 with £2m. October 11th Keira is on the cover of the next Italian Vanity Fair. Photos inside are nothing new, except for a severely airbrushed cover shot. The Cambridge Union have invited Keira to talk on a subject of her choice. No date has yet been confirmed. The CU is the debating society of Cambridge University in England, and its speakers since the Union's formation in 1815 have included Winston Churchill, Stephen Hawking and Michael Moore. October 10th Disney's presidet Bob Iger has confirmed that Pirates 2 is still in the pipeline. Speaking at the Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment Conference in Pasadena, Ca., he said he had high hopes for Disney's future projects including "The Shaggy Dog," "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Today's Sunday Mirror reports that a romance developed on the set of Pride and Prejudice between actress Rosamund Pike and the film's director Joe Wright. King Arthur has now racked up $137m around the world, with Turkey and China still to open. Further to last week's feature on Keira's school boyfriend, a reader writes in today's Letters Page: "I LOVED your story last week about the student who dumped Keira Knightley, who's now been voted the sexiest movie actress in the world. I've done some stupid things in my time, but when I read how dumb MattLeo Dean was, I felt really good for a change."   October 9th The UK King Arthur DVD will be available in both a 'theatrical cut' version (certificate 12) and a 'directors' cut' version (certificate 18). The latter will feature all the gory scenes which were cut for the cinema, an extra 17 minutes in total. Both are released on November 29th.   Fans in North America who always wanted to write to Keira but didn't want to send letters to London can now get in touch with her while she's in the US filming Domino. Don't expect immediate responses and use this guide to ensure you do the right thing, or ask me nicely for tips! Write to Keira at: - Keira Knightley, c/o 'Domino', New Line Cinema, 116 North Robertson Blvd., Ste. 200, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA      or - Keira Knightley, c/o 'Domino', Scott Free Productions, 634 N La Peer Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90069, USA. As these addresses are brand new, they are not 'tried and tested', so please let me know how you get on and I can pass on the info in this column. Don't forget to mention KeiraWeb.com when you write! October 8th Catch-up from the last couple of weeks: SITE NEWS: Video clips and King Arthur page have been removed. Clips will be back shortly. Conflicting reports on the Pirates sequels: A UK radio report stated Keira was out of both sequels, but a TV interview with Jonathan Pryce (Governor Swann) said he and she were both signed and filming would begin in early New Year. Confirmation awaits... The Hollywood Film Festival, which will see Keira presented with the Breakthrough Actress Award on October 18th, couldn't have picked a better movie to showcase her talents. Among the festival's 60 movies being screened from around the world is Pure, by Gillies MacKinnon. Keira played pregnant drug addict Louise Bastable in a movie recorded in early 2002. King Arthur has opened in its final market Italy, debuting at No.2 behind Spider-Man 2 with $2.2m. Its global box office is now $135m. More details on the special-edition Pirates DVD out next month. Filming on Domino has begun. Keira flies out this weekend now Pride and Prejudice has wrapped. New additions to the cast were announced this week. Final scenes for Pride and Prejudice were filmed this week, including  a cliff-top scene for Keira in the Peak District. Sun article - Mirror scan. Scotland's Daily Record has a Top 10 list compiled by an actor's average box office gross, with Keira at No.8 on £98m. Most entries are Star Wars-related. The Sunday Mirror had an interview with Keira's school boyfriend MattLeo Dean. Basically a 'sour grapes' rant about not hanging on to her. More fool him. And there are some factual errors in his quotes, such as Keira having blue eyes and her playing Juliet in the youth theatre production of her mother's play After Juliet (Juliet was dead, hence the title!). Possibly journalistic errors, but still... The spread DID feature some never-before-seen school photos, however. Bend it Like Beckham has its 'last-play' on Sky Movies next Monday 11th at 10.05pm. It will then premiere on BBC1, possibly over Christmas. See if you can Beat The Aunties in this Bend It Like Beckham game. Be warned - it's VERY addictive. I have the No.20 high score. See if you can beat that or knock my friend Leanne off the top spot. September 23rd New video clips! From E!'s 'Extreme Close-Up: Keira Knightley'. As it was Keira-dominated, I've just cut the non-Keira segments and spliced the rest together for convenience. Part three is the longest TV profile of Keira yet broadcast. WMV format, 3 parts. - 6Mb- 7Mb - 8Mb Article from tonight's Yorkshire Post on next week's filming at Chatsworth House. September 22nd Keira is nominated in the category Woman of the Year at the ITV Celebrity Awards, to be held next Tuesday 28th and broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 29th at 8pm. Keira is currently 2nd favourite to win. September 21st SITE NEWS: New section: Keira's Diary. September 20th EXCLUSIVE: After correspondence with Ruby Films, production company of Tulip Fever, I can confirm that the movie *WILL* go ahead. It will shoot next year, and Keira will still be playing Sophia Sandvoort. Filming will likely take place April to June, as originally intended. 12,000 tulip bulbs were planted the previous winter so as to be flowering in time for filming during those months this year. This will likely be the determining factor once more. In a film about tulips, synthetic ones just won't cut it! The involvement of the other actors, notably Jude Law, is still unconfirmed, although Jude has nothing conflicting so far in his schedule, as far as is publicly known. The doubts about the future of this movie were threefold. 1. The sudden closing of a 'tax loophole' by the British government on February 10th meant the promised funding and 'cash-back' incentive of the funding companies was stopped. Producer Alison Owen vented her anger in an article for The Guardian. A new tax break for British movies will be announced by the government tomorrow (September 21st). This may or may not affect the project. If funding has since been sourced elsewhere, it shouldn't. The original $45m budget has now been shaved to $26m. 2. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) have removed all traces of Tulip Fever and its cast and crew's involvement. IMDb is held by many as the 'movie Bible', whereas it is only a publicly-updated database, and therefore can only be as accurate as the information provided by that public. 3. Filming of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel(s) were due to start early next year, thus conflicting with any filming of Tulip Fever, and vice versa. Nothing has been heard for quite a few months about these sequels, other than both stories were definitely being written. After the dismal year Disney have had at the 'domestic' (ie. US) box office, perhaps the big guns are having a rethink. In an interview in today's Daily Telegraph, director Gurinder Chadha has confirmed earlier reports that her Jeannie in the new adaptation of I Dream of Jeannie will be 'a Muslim girl'. This kills stone dead all of the rumours that Keira will star as the genie. Parminder, perhaps ? September 19th Bend It Like Beckham is a surprise hit at the North Korea film festival: "...one of the biggest favorites was Tuesday's showing of the 2002 comedy "Bend It Like Beckham." North Koreans roared at the jokes and gasped at the love scenes— an eye-popping departure from the government-made propaganda flicks that are standard viewing fare in the Hermit Kingdom. "It was incredible," said a stunned filmgoer who has visited the country regularly for the past decade. "The entire crowd responded spontaneously and naturally. That was something I've never seen before." - Article. 'Extreme Close-Up: Keira Knightley' airs on E! Entertainment UK this Wednesday at 6.30pm. It will feature footage and interviews from the set of King Arthur. Film2004 will have a profile and interview with Beckham director Gurinder Chadha as her new movie Bride and Prejudice prepares for release. BBC1, Monday night at 11.50pm. Meanwhile, there are interviews here and here in which she talks about the success of BILB. September 18th The two different versions of the King Arthur DVDs (rated and unrated) will feature different artwork, according to the cover pics on this review site. September 17th A new Korea move: Keira has become one of only a handful of Western actresses to be introduced to the people of North Korea. The world's only remaining closed Communist state held a low-key international film festival last week in its capital Pyongyang. A fiercely competitive sporting nation, one of the films deemed suitable for exhibition was Bend It Like Beckham. The dictator-leader Kim Jong-Il is a massive Hollywood movie fan, even going so far as to kidnap a South Korean filmmaker in 1978, forcing him to make propaganda movies for him. Thankfully, Keira did not attend the film festival. AustenBlog has received information confirming Keira IS still filming P & P, and will be wearing a wig for the rest of the scenes. There's also more details of the supporting cast. September 15th The first major co-star for Domino has been announced. It is to be Ian Ziering, who played Steve Sanders in both Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210. He is to play a reality TV host who gets kidnapped. Filming in Nevada will include shoots in the Valley of Fire State Park and the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas and its famous rooftop tower and thrill ride (which is due to explode in a dramatic finale). The rumour about 90210 cast members being in the film is true, as they will be part of the reality show. A release date of late April 2005 has already been pencilled in. Article (scroll down). Filming in Nevada and LA begins on October 4th. More cast to be announced soon. What goes around comes around. On February 14th this year, it was announced that Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha was planning to remake the classic TV sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Immediately, and perhaps inevitably, rumours circulated that Keira was to be Jeannie, none of which were ever confirmed. Gurinder's plans are again hitting the headlines and the rumours about Keira are again doing the rounds. If Keira really has been considered for the role, she would only be one of a dozen or more actresses on a shortlist, but it will be Keira's name that will persist, purely because of her 'girl of the moment' label and her previous working relationship with Gurinder. Love Actually has made the Top 10 of (yet another) all-time favourite film poll, this time conducted by Diet Coke and Vue Cinemas in the UK. Article. The King Arthur DVD will be released in the UK on November 29th, almost a full month before the North America release of December 21st, and will be priced at £14.99. Details on both region's discs are expected to be the same (see August 31st news below for DVD contents). You can. of course, pre-order either region disc via Amazon from the KeiraWeb Store. September 13th Keira appears to have had her hair cropped short, presumably for her new role of Domino Harvey, which starts filming on October 4th. Most of today's UK tabloids carried the picture, or one similar. See a pic from The Metro newspaper (which I have scanned and left large) here. We must assume that Keira's scenes in Pride and Prejudice have now been completed (although surely she would be in the Pemberley scenes at Chatsworth House from 27th to 29th of this month?). Keira has been nominated in the category Best International Actress at the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA). See voting details here. Jamie was back in his native Northern Ireland last week for an interview with BBC Radio Ulster's 'Saturday Magazine' show, in which he spoke about his own career and his 'fears' for Keira - article. In an interview for Aint-It-Cool-News, Domino writer Richard Kelly says: "Pre-production and casting is underway. Lots of announcements soon about that. We start shooting on October 4th... Can't wait to see Keira sink her teeth into this one..." This site has some interesting character descriptions for the casting call. September 11th UK viewers can catch the Teen Choice Awards on Channel 4 next Saturday at 11.55am. Keira didn't attend, but she and Orlando won Best Liplock and Best Chemistry awards for Elizabeth and Will in Pirates. SITE NEWS: I have disabled hotlinking to this web site for movies. Certain other fan sites and communities were linking directly to my movie clips, thus using my bandwidth without the visitors coming through my site. This will not be allowed. If you want to direct people to my movie clips, please give them the homepage address, http://www.keiraweb.com. A video page will shortly be online, bringing together the clips uploaded so far, plus many many more for which I never previously had the space. This week's New! celebrity magazine has photos of Keira, Jamie and her parents out and about in Stamford. See right. Today's Times (London) has an interview with Brenda Blethyn, who is playing Elizabeth's mum Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. September 9th More articles from Stamford: Keira shopping - Diary of an extra - Filming ends IGN FilmForce have resurrected the rumour about Keira being in Jurassic Park IV. At the moment, the rumour is still false, but I am trying to find out for sure. It was exactly twelve months ago that Keira's agent told me she would not be involved in either the JP4 or next James Bond projects. But times can change, and with Tulip Fever still not confirmed as being definitely on, perhaps she can fit it in after all. Of course, it's always possible that IGN are still clinging on to the old rumour. They wouldn't be the only ones. Watch this space. September 8th More photos from Stamford, courtesy of a local newspaper. And an article. If you haven't seen them tucked away right at the bottom of this column, the DVD captures gallery (so far)  is back online. It was the first thing to go when I was juggling webspace. There's Coming Home, A Village Affair, The Treasure Seekers and Pure. Scroll away. A new article in a Californian magazine. Nothing new. September 7th Filming in Stamford has now ended, and the cast and crew have moved on to Basildon Park, in Berkshire, West of London. The House will become Netherfield, the Bingley family home. The Octoagon Room, dining room, entrance hall and reception rooms will be used, as well as exterior filming. An interview with Mr. Darcy actor Matthew MacFadyen in today's Daily Telegraph. A new batch of P & P set photos have appeared at the Z Review. The location may be Martin Down, as mentioned yesterday (see below). An article on Jane Austen as 'the new Shakespeare'. King Arthur's non-US box office now stands at $118m, including $1.4m in Greece, a live-action movie record for distributor BVI in Greece, beating even Pirates of the Caribbean in the Olympic homeland. Spain is also doing Arthur proud, totalling $11.1m in ticket sales, and $9.2m after three weeks in Germany. It stands at No.31 in the US, No.13 in the UK and No.1 for a second week in Germany. September 6th ER it like Beckham: BILB star Anupam Kher (Jess's dad) will guest star in an episode of US medical drama ER alongside Jess herself, Parminder Nagra. This will be the third time the two have co-starred, following BILB and Second Generation. Pride and Prejudice catch-up: Filming at Groombridge Place in Tunbridge Wells (where all those photos came from) finished on August 22nd, with the company moving to Wilton House in Wiltshire from the 23rd to 25th. The House was used for the majority of Pemberley's interior scenes, notably the drawing room and library scenes. Listen to a BBC Radio Wiltshire interview with the location manager here. Other tranquil Wiltshire settings, including Martin Down and Stourhead Gardens were also used (Wilton House was the location of the famous Colin Firth wet shirt scene in the 1995 BBC adaptation). Filming is now underway at Stamford in Lincolnshire, near to Burghley House where filming took place in July. A street and its shop fronts have been transformed into a period setting. Filming ends here on Tuesday 7th, and will then move to Berkshire, possibly Highclere Castle, before moving on to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire from September 27th to 29th, which will be used for Pemberley's exterior scenes, as well as a couple of rooms for interior scenes. Chatsworth was also used in the 1995 mini-series, and is believed to have been Jane Austen's actual inspiration for Pemberley. September 5th Here's the Empire magazine Public Access Q & A. (Thanks to Sarah for transcription) King Arthur has now grossed $159m worldwide, and is in the all-time box office list at No.357. It's no comparison, of course, but The Phantom Menace is at No.4 and Pirates is at No.21. Here's a quick clip from The Hole (2Mb wmv). Site News: All pages and files should now be back online. Please mail me if anything's still 404. September 4th You're never too famous: Keira & co. have apparently been forced to be booked into hotels in nearby Peterborough rather than Stamford where they are currently filming. This is due to all Stamford hotel rooms being fully booked due to the Burghley Horse Trials taking place at Burghley House, where cast and crew were filming in August. SITE NEWS: Well here we are at our new home, ready for the arduous task of writing the Encyclopedia of Keira Knightley. My good friend Leanne will be designing the pages for me (she's qualified in it to a high standard, I'll have you know!), and I intend to make this site the first Keira fan site that's NOT 99% pretty pictures. She is an actress first, after all, not a model. September 3rd First indications are that Pride and Prejudice will be released twelve months from now, in September 2005. September 1st The first gallery of The Jacket photos has appeared at ropeofsilicon.com. August 31st Keira has been awarded the 'Hollywood Breakthrough Female Performer' Award by the Hollywood Film Festival, and will collect the accolade at a gala ceremony on October 18th at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Pirates of the Caribbean is being reissued on triple-disc DVD on November 2nd. The extra disc features 69 minutes of previously unreleased footage. The other two are as per the original release. The King Arthur DVD is out on December 21st (subject to change) in cut and uncut versions and will feature: - Audio commentary with director Antoine Fuqua - Deleted scenes with optional director commentary - An alternate ending with director commentary - Blood On The Land: Forging King Arthur making-of featurette - Round Table Video Commentary with cast and filmmakers. - Knight Vision pop-up trivia feature - A playable X-Box video game demo - Jerry Bruckheimer's personal photo gallery. The Jacket's limited release will be from March 11th next year. This means 800-1000 screens in the US (instead of the usual 3000-3200 for a wide release) and about 150-200 screens in the UK (instead of about 400 for a wide release). Ye Olde James Bond rumour has surfaced again, after it was killed LAST August. Forget about it. Keira will not be a Bond girl. The $100m non-US box office target for King Arthur has now been passed, and a new target of $150m has now been set as it is still to open in some countries. Keira is now back at Stamford in Lincolnshire for more scenes of Pride and Prejudice. The rushes so far have been seen by the Working Title top brass, according to a business interview in The Times this weekend. The new issue of Star Wars magazine features a Keira interview. On sale 2nd September. Scans gratefully received. The October issue of Empire magazine has the Public Access Q&A to which we all submitted questions last month. The Hole is being reissued for the US market on October 19th. Bend It Like Beckham's long run on Sky Movies appears to be coming to an end this week. BBC1 have bought the terrestrial rights to the film, so it looks like it will be part of their Christmas package. Similarly, Pirates of the Caribbean has now ended its run on pay-per-view TV and should premiere on Sky Movies in October. The BBC have also bought the terrestrial rights to Pirates, but don't expect to see it on the Beeb before Easter. 17 Aug - King Arthur has debuted in the top spot in Spain, Russia, Switzerland, Portugal and Argentina over the last weekend, taking its global total to $71m. 17 Aug - Filming of P & P is now confirmed at Chatsworth House in 'the autumn', according to the House's web site. This would suggest September, as the film is due to wrap on October 1st. 17 Aug - Keira is back up to No.5 in IMDBpro's StarMeter which measures the click-frequency of actors in its database (over 300,000 of them). Keira has been no lower than No.21 since Pirates premiered last July. 15 Aug - Filming of Pride and Prejudice continues at Groombridge until 28th August. Cast and crew then return to Burleigh House near Stamford for a further ten days. 15 Aug - The new issue of FilmReview magazine has a giant fold-out poster of Keira with an interview on the reverse. 15 Aug - Some new photos of Keira from the P & P set here. 15 Aug - Keira and Orlando won Best Liplock and Best Chemistry awards (for Elizabeth and Will in Pirates) at the Teen Choice Awards last week. 15 Aug -A new Poll for you to think about. A simple one to choose. Or is it ? 09 Aug - Another pic of 10-year old Keira in The Bill (episode 'Swan Song', 1995) has appeared, this time in the News of the World magazine yesterday. She's a pre-teen tearaway being apprehended by PC Hollis. Little rascal! Thanks to Chris for the scan. See it here. 09 Aug - King Arthur opened at No.1 in France, taking US$4.5m. It opened at No.2 in Mexico, behind a Mexican-made movie, and fell to No.3 in the UK, with a further $1.3m taking its total in Arthur's homeland to $11.7m. On its third weekend in Keira-obsessed Japan, it has now grossed more than Braveheart, taking $11.1m. 09 Aug - King Arthur distributor BVI are cashing in on its debut at No.1 in the UK with a new 'see the pride of Britain' TV spot (400kb). 09 Aug - Pirates and Prejudice: Although the rumour about Orlando Bloom becoming Mr. Darcy was unfounded, it appears his older sister Samantha Bloom has got a part in P & P opposite Keira. It's rumoured she might be playing Charlotte Lucas. 08 Aug 04 - Want to get Keira on your phone? Click here (check compatibility and small print) 07 Aug 04 - Five more interview clips with Keira from the UK King Arthur premiere, shown on Channel 4's teen segment T4 today: 5.5Mb - 1.6Mb - 2.4Mb - 1.3Mb - 2.8Mb 06 Aug 04 - Arena magazine sneakily left over one photo of Keira from their feature in last month's issue (August, see right). In the new September issue they have published the photograph as part of their Top 150 Arena Women. Keira is at No.3. See the photo here. 06 Aug 04 - Keira signs autographs in the nude - article. 05 Aug 04 - KEIRA VOTED WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CELEB - Keira has come top in a public poll to find the world's most beautiful celebrity. She beat off competition from Halle Berry and Jennifer Aniston to reach No.1 in the poll by NewWoman magazine. She features on the cover of the new issue. (Thanks to Wim for the scan). - NewWoman press release. - View the Top 10. - Reports: Ananova - Evening Standard 05 Aug 04 - Keira hits out at the press and their love rumours in today's Daily Mirror. 05 Aug 04 - Keira's belly ring paid for with child benefit money - report. 05 Aug 04 Yesterday came some of the newest photos of Keira, and now here's one of the earliest, from WID.com. This may be Keira's first professional shot for her agency PFD when she joined at the age of six. She certainly appears to be younger than in her first role, A Royal Celebration, filmed when she was seven. All together, now - aaaaaah...... 04 Aug 04 - Some lovely new Pride & Prejudice set pics: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 Credit: Philip Toscano/Kent News & Pictures, via lime-light.org. 03 Aug 04 - A vigorous promotional campaign has paid off for Disney in the UK, with King Arthur storming to No.1 in the box office, taking £1.9m since opening on Friday and knocking Spider-Man 2 off the top spot. This is despite UK reviews being almost as negative as those in the US, with critics picking up on the lack of Camelot, Avalon and the love triangle in the storyline and with arguments rife regionally over the movie's failure to include its own area (the South West, Walesetc.) in this version of the legend. Of the £1.9m taken across 400 screens, £332,000 of it was in previews before its Friday opening. It also debuted at No.1 in Belgium, Thailand, Denmark and the Netherlands. Non-US box office now stands at $31.9m with several markets still to open, so it should surpass its fairly poor US tally of $48.5m so far. DVD sales, promised to include the uncut version of the movie, will help to recoup Disney's production costs on the movie. 02 Aug 04   NEW MOVIE !!!! - Domino - Keira has signed to play Domino Harvey in a 'dark thriller' based on the life of the US model-turned -bounty hunter. Filming starts in Los Angeles and Las Vegas on October 4th, immediately after Pride and Prejudice wraps on October 1st. - Official press release here. - New Line Pictures press release here. - More info in the Production section here. - Read movie guru Harry Knowles' review of an early script draft here. - More reports: ComingSoon - Zap2It - Reuters - Empire 02 Aug 04 - EXCLUSIVE: In correspondence today, Tulip Fever author Deborah Moggach told me she's still hopeful that her novel will be turned into a movie, and with the original cast, including Keira as Sophia. Discussing Keira's role in Pride and Prejudice (for which Deborah adapted the screenplay) she said "...I was thrilled when Keira was cast as Lizzie Bennet... She'll bring a huge amount of natural charm and liveliness to the role." 02 Aug 04 - 67% of plastic surgery patients wouldn't mind Keira's stomach, according to a new poll. 02 Aug 04 - Keira pictured in a dressing gown in today's Daily Star. 01 Aug 04 - Keira charms the locals - article. 30 Jul 04 - BBC articles on King Arthur accuracy debate and visual effects. 30 Jul 04 - Adrien Brody laughs off Keira romance rumours in today's Independent 30 Jul 04 - Stars turn out for Irish KA premiere - but not Keira. 30 Jul 04 - Keira's popularity on the wane? No-one bids on her toothbrush. Is this the end? I really can't go on. Good grief. 29 Jul 04 - Read UK reviews of King Arthur and post your own. 29 Jul 04 - An extra's memories of working with Guinevere, and hopeful extras queue for Pride auditions. 29 Jul 04 - Article on Pride cast and crew's plans to take over a town in September. 29 Jul 04 - Keira is 'Superbabe of the Week' at The Sun newspaper. 29 Jul 04 - Another Jacket publicity shot has surfaced over at WalkingInDaydreams. 29 Jul 04 - Tongue-in-cheek guide to King Arthur characters from The Guardian. 28 Jul 04 - Three new video clips, from E!'s Behind the Scenes: King Arthur (wmv format): One (2.6Mb) - Two (1.4Mb) - Three (800kb) 28 Jul 04 - New interview in today's Daily Mirror 3am magazine. No new pics. 28 Jul 04 - Keira is in the current issues of Heat and Ice magazines (talk about extremes!). If you can scan them for me, please do. 27 Jul 04 - Nice article on King Arthur's digital effects. 27 Jul 04 - King Arthur world box office figures for last weekend (US$): Sweden $1m; Norway $450,000; Taiwan $450,000; Australia $5.2m; New Zealand $422,000. 26 Jul 04 - I was playing around with Windows Movie Maker for the first time and came up with this (1.2Mb). It needs improving quite a bit but you can see what I was trying to do with it. 'A Potted History Of Keira Knightley', you could say. :-) 26 Jul 04 - UK visitors should take note of the updated Calendar. Lots of stuff coming up. 25 Jul 04 - Keira interview from today's Sunday Mirror magazine. 25 Jul 04 - A request to UK visitors. Keira and King Arthur will be in the press regularly over the next couple of weeks. If you can give me advance warning of any magazines or newspaper supplements, please email me at the link above. Thank you. (If anyone has the scans from Saturday's Daily Express magazine interview, please drop me a line). 24 Jul 04 - Just a bit of a change as the old columns were getting a bit weary. Please remember, this 'news page' is barely 1% of KeiraWeb.com and the full site will be completely different in design to this temporary page. Please use the menu above if you want to jump straight to a particular section (or if you're too idle to scroll down!). If you haven't bookmarked this site, then please do so now. 23 Jul 04 - Keira as Lizzie Bennet (thanks to all who sent me links): ZReview - Sun - Hello! - Rex 23 Jul 04 - Keira appeared live by satellite at the King Arthur press conference in Tokyo. 22 Jul 04 - Keira in motion: Two forms of transport have chosen Keira as their cover girl for their current publications - Virgin Rail and British Airways. Thanks to Iain Yardley for the scans. 22 Jul 04 - Groombridge Place in Tunbridge Wells, Kent will be a major location for the filming of Pride and Prejudice. See Press Release and Official Site. 22 Jul 04 - Irish viewers can see a 25-minute documentary The Making Of King Arthur on RTE Network 2 on Saturday 31st July at 4pm. 22 Jul 04 - Too much of Keira? Satirical article. 21 Jul 04 - New interview in Thursday's Times (London). 20 Jul 04 - Don't forget to pre-order your 2005 Keira Knightley calendars. There'll be a rush on and there might only be a limited stock, so get your order in now. This is the first year Keira has had a calendar, so make it a record-breaker! It's out on August 5th from here. 20 Jul 04 - Keira is on the cover of this month's High Life magazine, the in-flight publication of British Airways. Scans coming soon. 20 Jul 04 - King Arthur falls to No.6 on the US box office, totalling $38m. Spider-Man 2 hits nearly ten times that with only a week head-start. UK adverts are now showing on TV. 19 Jul 04 - SITE NEWS: 200,000 visitors !   <faints> I guess I'd better start writing the rest of the site now, huh ? :-) 19 Jul 04 - Keira started filming her 11th big-screen movie today at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Pride and Prejudice is her second feature for Working Title Films. The House will become Rosings, the home of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by Dame Judi Dench. Filming there ends on Wednesday. Source. 19 Jul 04 - Keira interviewed by ITV at the King Arthur premiere - 3.8Mb wmv 18 Jul 04 - Keira travelled to Ethiopia with Love Actually co-star Andrew Lincoln and director Richard Curtis on behalf of Comic Relief to see how the money raised by the charity is being spent. Story with photos here. 18 Jul 04 - KeiraWeb EXCLUSIVE - Freelance photographer Paul Burgman has provided me with exclusive use of his images of Keira and Jamie photographed in London on Saturday 17th. See column 3. 18 Jul 04 - A perfect example of tabloid journalism twisting the facts. An article in today's Sunday Mirror here tells of Keira's love for Jamie despite the front page screaming 'Keira Exclusive - Knights of Lust' when the article says nothing of the sort. The feature includes one of Paul's photos mentioned above and this photo from last year's Empire Magazine shoot. It makes out that the interview was conducted during this shoot, when in fact Keira may not even have met Jamie when Adrian Green did this shoot more than 12 months ago. 18 Jul 04 - Profiles in today's British press:  The Independent - Daily Telegraph 18 Jul 04 - Clips from 'King Arthur - The Premiere' on ITV2: Keira clips - 500kb - 600kb - 3.8Mb  Clive Owen red carpet chat - 4.9Mb 16 Jul 04 - Premiere reports: BBC- Worldmoviemag - Scotsman - Reuters - BBC Radio 1 - Hello! - Empire - Evening Standard - Sky News - ITV 16 Jul 04 - Article catch-up: Ray Winstone on Keira - Keira's poster boob-job - Interview - Pride & Prejudice filming 16 Jul 04 - Keira is featured in the next issue of Star Wars magazine, on sale 2nd September. 16 Jul 04 - Official King Arthur sites: US - UK - Germany - Switzerland 16 Jul 04 - Keira is on the cover of US Cosmopolitan magazine and featured inside. Scansplease! 15 Jul 04 - Quick clips of Keira at the UK premiere of King Arthur, Leciester Square, London: Sky News (1.2Mb wmv) - ITV London News (500kb wmv)   Pics here and here. 14 Jul 04 - Submit a question to Keira for this week's TRL appearance (Celebrity Mailbox). If I manage to capture it you might see it answered! 14 Jul 04 - A round-up of King Arthur promo clips so far: E! News Live studio - E! News Live studio - E! News Live NY prem - Jay Leno - David Letterman - Access Hollywood NY prem - Access Hollywood studio - Sky News NY prem 14 Jul 04 - Keira's parents to be Brenda Blethyn  and Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice, Dame Judi Dench and Penelope Wilton also to star - press release. Also see right-hand column for updated cast list. 14 Jul 04 - UK official King Arthur site. 14 Jul 04 - Download King Arthur screensaver. 11 Jul 04 - Estimates for US weekend box office puts King Arthur ($15.2m) third behind Spider-Man 2 ($46m) and Anchorman ($28m). King Arthur tally is $23.6m since Wednesday opening. 11 Jul 04 - Celebrity Extra segment from KA premiere - 3.2Mb wmv. 10 Jul 04 - First publicity photograph of Keira as Jackie in The Jacket (pic courtesy Warner Independent Pictures). Click to enlarge. 30 Jun 04 - King Arthur premiere on E! News Live, 30th June - 2.2Mb wmv 30 Jun 04 - Teen People's Top 25 Under 25, Access Hollywood - 1.7Mb wmv 23 Jun 04 - KEIRA ON JAY LENO 21st June 2004: King Arthur promotion (16Mb, 8m 37s). Download codec bundle if needed.