Movie News Archive

Never Let Me Go

January 17th
Never Let Me Go will be one of eight films showing at a British cinema showcase in Dubai until March 15th. Keep an eye on the Diary section on the right for promotions leading up to the Feb 11th UK release.

January 10th
The Daily Telegraph seems to have gone Keira mad lately - in both senses of the word. They have an article on her Vogue shoot, an article on the filming of Never Let Me Go and an interview which puts her in a very bad light. No idea if the journalist or Keira were in a bad mood, possibly both. It purports to show a case of a celebrity's 'smiles always on' attitude during interview sessions having slipped - and the sad fact is Keira already has a growing opinion in some people's minds that she's like this in real life - mostly from people who've only ever read articles like this one (thankfully those interviews are a minority, and are usually derived from the fact that she refuses to talk about personal things such as boyfriends and family, as was the case here). Who knows what went on before or during this interview, but the reader is only left with one possible opinion - the one the journalist wants you to have. Contrast this with Elisabeth Moss's comments of working with Keira on The Children's Hour.

January 9th
Fox's UK entertainment channel FX had the first UK promo of Never Let Me Go yesterday, which I captured and uploaded here (34Mb) or see it on the KeiraWeb Youtube channel.

January 4th 2011
Keira has received a Best Actress nomination on the longlist of the Evening Standard British Film Awards, along with Carey Mulligan, both for their roles in Never Let Me Go. Andrew receives a Best Actor nom, and the film itself is up for Best Film and Best Screenplay. The ceremony is on February 7th in London.

December 29th
The official UK web site for Never Let Me Go is now active, with a confirmation of February 11th for release.

December 18th
I had intended to refrain from posting Keira plaudits for London Boulevard and Never Let Me Go until they were released on both sides of the Atlantic, but as that looks like being six months apart, I've compiled them now. Read the Reviews & Praise.

December 14th
Despite being a strong contender in the 'awards prediction' articles for much of the year, Never Let Me Go has failed to pick up ANY nominations at the first biggie of the year, The Golden Globes. Better luck at the BAFTAs - nominations are out on January 18th. Article.

December 5th
Carey Mulligan has won Best Actress for her role as Kathy in Never Let Me Go at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) in London tonight. Keira did not attend.

December 3rd
Never Let Me Go will be out on DVD in North America BEFORE we in Europe get to see it at the cinema. It will be out on Blu-Ray and DVD Stateside on February 1st, with a 30-minute 'making of' featurette. Article.

November 22nd
Never Let Me Go's European release has been put back again: UK - Feb 11th; France & Belgium - Feb 9th; Italy Feb 25th; Germany - March 31st.

November 6th
Never Let Me Go is now dropping from US cinemas (down to 126 screens this week). Its US gross is now $2.2m.

November 1st
Keira has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ruth in Never Let Me Go at the BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards). The ceremony will be held in London on December 5th. She was last nominated in 2008 for The Duchess and also received the Personality of the Year Award there in 2005 (watch video). The movie has earned six nominations in all:
Best Actress, Carey Mulligan
Best Supporting Actress, Keira Knightley
Best Supporting Actor, Andrew Garfield
Best British Independent Film
Best Screenplay, Alex Garland
Best Director, Mark Romanek  -  Full list & article

October 18th
Never Let Me Go has now amassed $1.66m at US cinemas, across 232 screens. It is showing at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this week, and Tokyo FF from the 28th. UK release is still set for January 21st (hopefully wide), and most of Europe throughout February.

October 14th
More videos from the premiere, captured by me, with possibly more to come:
- Keira & co. are interviewed live at the after-show party for BBC Film2010 - Youtube | Download (30Mb)
- A third interview, from BBC Breakfast, in which the cast talk about the movie and the impending closure of the UK Film Council. Studio guest Robert Lindsay also recalls working with a young Keira on Alan Bleasdale's adaptation of Oliver Twist in 1999 - Youtube | Download (19Mb)
- Lots of UK press for the premiere and the outfits today. See the Newswire link above for them all, but here's a selection: Mirror - Mail - Elle - BBC
- A very interesting raw video from the press line can be seen here, showing just how much repitition of Q&A she has to go through from the world's press, and listen out for a gracious snub of the Mail On Sunday at 2:50. Hilarious!
- The BFI has an official red carpet vid here, ITN here and there's one from DigitalSpy here.

October 13th
- Cast and crew of Never Let Me Go gave a press conference and photocall at London's Vue Cinema today, as part of the launch of this year's BFI London Film Festival. Keira wore Rodarte. Pics & video - Pics - More pics.
- This evening Keira was in Leicester Square for the European premiere of the movie. Keira wore Chanel, of course. BBC London Tonight were live on the red carpet - see my recording on Youtube on the right (or onsite here), or as a 20Mb download (Rapidshare). Pics - Article - More pics.

October 10th
- Never Let Me Go has now expanded to 43 theatres across America, taking $800,000 up to Thursday. See here for the new cities. Bookmark that page for future expansions.
- And here's an interview with director Mark Romanek.
- Vanity Fair has a 12-minute interview with Carey here. Choose it from the meu.
- Don't forget the European premiere is on Wednesday 13th in London. Keira will attend, and Carey and Andrew are also expected, says the official press release.

October 8th
AP is reporting that Keira and Eva Mendes will both attend the gala premiere of Last Night at the Rome Film Festival on October 28th. The movie will launch this year's festival.

October 1st
Whether or not last week's Daily Mail article was true about Fox being angry about Chanel's new ad keeping Keira in Paris and away from US Never Let Me Go promotions, she seems to have made up for it this week with satellite interviews from London:
- Fox Boston has an interview, and KTLA has another.
- The CBS Early Show video interview is now online.
- Parade magazine has a Keira interview today.
- And ET Canada has an interview too.

September 29th
Never Let Me Go director Mark Romanek will give a talk at the London Film Festival on October 14th. Book tickets now at this link. The movie has already been shortlisted for Best Film at the LFF's Awards.

There's an article on the Early Show site ahead of the video interview being posted.

September 27th
British TV presenter Amanda Holden has interviewed Keira for The Early Show on CBS, to be shown on the 29th and on Amanda's web site shortly afterwards. Article.

September 19th
Never Let Me Go has now taken $165,000 on just four screens in five days, according to figures out tonight, that's $33,000 per day.

September 18th
As mentioned on the 7th, TIME's in-depth feature on Never Let Me Go is now online.

September 17th
Keira & co. pick their favourite passages from Never Let Me Go. And there's a TV preview here with a Keira interview. The movie has taken $44,000 in two days at just four official theatres, an impressive $11,000 per screen so far.

September 14th
Here's another NLMG interview from TIFF, this time with Kazuo. Apple has a great featurette, too. The movie opens at selected cinemas across North America tomorrow the 15th, getting a wider release every week, so check your local press. Check out the reviews as they come in at the pink box above. And the soundtrack CD is out today.

September 12th
Here is the UK trailer for Never Let Me Go. And Keira talks in-depth about her approach to playing Ruth in two great interviews, here and here. Director Mark Romanek discusses casting and filming in this interview from TIFF.

September 9th
Keira's first interview of Never Let Me Go has appeared !! The cast, director and screenwriter talk about the novel, and the author talks about the film of his work. More exclusive clips are also featured. Several more clips were distributed to movie sites today, all linked from this article. There's also Part 1 of an in-depth interview with Mark Romanek at FirstShowing.net. - Still more: Carey & Andrew interview - Mark interview - NYC Q&A with Carey & Mark next week.
Edit: Here's my HD upload of Carey on Leno talking about NLMG, plus a clip. Putting it on Youtube would guarantee the channel being suspended so it's on Rapidshare or Sendspace (27Mb).

September 7th
Never Let Me Go promotions round-up:
- Got a question about the novel for its author? Ask Ishiguro
- 3-page feature in Time Magazine, Sept 13th (not yet online)
- Director Mark Romanek interview in FilmIndependent
- Andrew Garfield interview at THR
- Carey Mulligan interview and photoshoot in Vogue US. Video.

September 5th
Never Let Me Go has received mainly positive reviews from critics at the Telluride Festival. See the newswire or this collection.
Thanks Danielle

Some provisional release news: The Seattle Times mentions an October 8th date for Never Let Me Go (possibly a wider release after its September 15th opening). And the UK calendar has pushed the film back a week to January 21st.

September 2nd
Never Let Me Go will screen at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado this Friday, reports THR. That's tomorrow! It was announced on June 28th according to their site. Kazuo Ishiguro will be there signing copies of the novel too.

The score for Never Let Me Go by Rachel Portman is available now at iTunes.

August 31st
MTV has an exclusive clip from Never Let Me Go.

August 26th
Keira will not be at the Toronto Film Festival, her agent told me today. She will, however, be attending the Never Let Me Go European premiere at the opening of the London Film Festival on October 13th.
Thanks UA

August 25th
- The official Never Let Me Go site is now fully online. Wait for the Flash screen to load then click Open Menu at bottom left.
- A set of character posters have been released to promote Never Let Me Go.
- And the first TV promo is in: Carey Mulligan will be a guest of Jay Leno on September 6th.

August 24th
Details are out now of screening times at Toronto of Never Let Me Go (September 11th, 13th, 18th) and Last Night (September 18th). Keira is not on the expected attendees list, although she is expected for the London premiere in October.

August 15th
An article concerning Keira's private life was published today, which KeiraWeb never republishes in this column (although it'll be on the automatic Newswire at the link above). At the end of it was the interesting tidbit that Keira is to tour the world promoting Never Let Me Go! Presumably 'the world' means UK, Canada and US where it will get premieres.

August 13th
The soundtrack CD for Never Let Me Go will be released in the US on September 14th, and Mark Romanek has tweeted to say it will include the titular song. And tv.com is asking for your review of the movie - before it comes out...

August 6th
Despite its October 13th premiere, AP reports Never Let Me Go will not be released until January 14th in the UK. However, this is still two weeks earlier than the date announced last week. Meanwhile, there's lots of press on the movie being the launch film at the LFF, and the Telegraph provides a very good review.

August 5th
Never Let Me Go will get its European premiere on October 13th as the launch movie of the 2010 London Film Festival. With London Boulevard still set for an October 15th UK release, it's currently looking like two premieres in a week for Keira. Article - Official Site

July 29th
Never Let Me Go has now appeared on the UK cinema release calendar with a date of January 28th. It's no coincidence, surely, that this is just three days after the Oscar nominations are announced.

July 27th
Never Let Me Go will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it was announced today. The fest runs September 9th to 19th. Article.

July 26th
The official poster for Never Let Me Go is online at the LA Times. Click on it for full size. Much will be made of the fact that Keira is absent in all but name, and I'm not sure it really 'sells' the film, to be honest. No tagline either - I wonder if this is the finished product? The clues are there: the 'sliced' lettering, the characters running, suggestive of a race against time. But you'd only make that connection if you've read the book.

July 14th
The Oscar buzz is hotting up for Never Let Me Go, with both RopeOfSilicon and Variety having articles. And this page has been cited as its official site, although it doesn't look like one. Fox owns neverletmegomovie.com which currently redirects to the above, so this is likely to be the official site nearer the time of release.

July 3rd
There's a great screening review of Never Let Me Go in today's Daily Mail.

July 1st
The release date for Never Let Me Go in the US has provisionally been pulled forward to September 15th, possibly to tie in with a screening at the Toronto Film Festival ?

June 15th
The trailer for Never Let Me Go is online now at apple.com/trailers and foxsearchlight.com. I won't upload it to Youtube for copyright reasons, but you can download it from here (13Mb).

May 25th
Never Let Me Go's director Mark Romanek has Tweeted info on the movie's release, stating a limited US release on October 1st, with a trailer coming soon. How refreshing for the people who matter to share info with us fans.

March 12th
IndieWire is the latest movie site to mull Never Let Me Go as a big awards contender for 2010.

March 3rd
The new issue of Empire Magazine has the 'first official still' from Never Let Me Go, according to this blog post.

February 26th
There's a still from Never Let Me Go in this article about Rachel Portman's score for the movie.

January 3rd
The Times' preview of 2010's movies to look out for include Never Let Me Go, and states a November release. So, gathering together interview snippets etc., we could be looking at Last Night in March, London Boulevard in April and Never Let Me Go in November.

October 12th
The Times has Never Let Me Go as one of its Top 10 British Films To Watch Out For in 2010.

October 2nd
Beware spoilers - There's a positive review of a test screening of Never Let Me Go over at AICN.

June 3rd
Never Let Me Go is now in post-production, according to IMDb (although reports are they are still recording the early school scenes). The status of London Boulevard has also changed to 'Filming' - the appearance of pics will soon confirm that, no doubt.

May 8th
Keira has returned to Norfolk for filming this week, close to Holkham. She filmed scenes for The Duchess at Holkham Hall. Article.

April 23rd
BBC Bristol has a footage-only clip of Keira & co filming Never Let Me Go on Clevedon beach today. And here's my high-res rip of a proper report from tonight's news programme: 22Mb.

April 22nd
Keira and co will be filming Never Let Me Go in Somerset this week (Clevedon and Weston), according to local press. Send us your pics if you're going for a snoop! These will be the scenes where Rod and Chrissie think they've seen Ruth's 'original' in town and they go to try to find her again.

April 16th
There's pap snaps already from the set of Never Let Me Go. I never read the novel but I read the script today, and enjoyed it.

April 15th
Charlotte Rampling will reunite with Keira in Never Let Me Go, filming now in London. Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Richard and Andrea Riseborough have also been added to the cast, says Variety.

April 9th
Newsy bits:
- Keira is due to begin filming Never Let Me Go next week, in London and Norfolk, the first return to a film set since Last Night wrapped in early December (except for Cut, which was filmed in January). Keira will play Ruth, with Carey Mulligan as Kathy.

March 5th
Baz's Friday column in The Daily Mail has more on Never Let Me Go, notably that filming starts on April 13th and that Carey Mulligan will play Kathy, so Keira's character is Ruth.

March 4th
The Beautiful & The Damned looks like it may swap places with Never Let Me Go in Keira's schedule, as location company Screen East have been contracted to find Norfolk locations ready for filming of Never at the end of this month. The fact that the lead actor for Damned has yet to be announced suggests its planned March date will not now happen. Article.

March 2nd

NEW MOVIE !!!
A new month and a new movie is announced for Keira. She will star in Never Let Me Go, adapted from the highly-acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Variety reports an April start, and it will be directed by Mark Romanek with co-stars Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan (Kitty in Pride & Prejudice). Despite a title that sounds like a romance, it is a return to sci-fi for Keira, and it's likely she will play the character of Kathy. Storyline details below (possible spoilers):
Wikipedia - Times Review - IMDb - Buy the book: Amazon UK - US

So Keira's filming schedule is tight, and now looks like this (subject to change):
March - The Beautiful & The Damned
April - Never Let Me Go
May - London Boulevard