Movie News Archive

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.
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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