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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and producer Francesca Moody (Fleabag) are launching The Theatre Community Fund, which will provide grants to UK theatre professionals who have been struggling economically during the coronavirus pandemic.

Donors will contribute through initial lump sums and, innovatively, through fixed, confidential percentages of their incomes over the next two years. The fund will be separated into two priority strands giving grants of up to £3,000:

To help freelancers survive the present by providing hardship grants to those in immediate need.

To ensure a healthy future for the industry by providing innovation and creation grants for artists to produce work.

Among first donors to the fund, which has amassed £1M to date, are Tom Hiddleston, Gillian Anderson, Danny Boyle, Emilia Clarke, Richard Curtis, Kit Harrington, Ian McKellen, Daisy Ridley, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz. Scroll down for the list in full.

The group explained that the fund “reflects its donors’ recognition that they have benefitted a great deal personally from the health of the UK theatre, and is a statement of their belief that UK theatre – nationally for all audiences and voices and down its grass roots – is vital to the strength of our nation.”

Waller-Bridge, Colman and Moody conceived the fund as a longer-term supplement to other schemes already in existence. It will be dispersed and monitored by The Royal Theatrical Fund (RTF) in partnership with the Fleabag Support Fund (FSF), which has been raising money to help theatre professionals during the pandemic. In May 2020, FSF disseminated its first wave of grants of around £83,000.

The founders of the fund said they “will continue to appeal to all performers, artists, producers and executives – anyone who believes in the theatrical arts and has benefited from them – to contribute to the fund, if in a position to do so.”

Sam Mendes recently set up the Theatre Artists Fund, which launched at the start of July with a £500,000 donation from Netflix. It received 4,000 applications in less than a month and provides one-off grants of £1,000. The fund has raised more than £1.6M to date with contributors including Michaela Coel, Armando Iannucci and Imelda Staunton. £85,000 was raised from the public.

Thousands of theatrical freelancers are currently sidelined due to the shutdown of theaters and prospect of re-opening remain uncertain.

The Theatre Community Fund, Founding Donors:

Gillian Anderson Jesse Armstrong Tim Bevan Hugh Bonneville Stephen Boxer Danny Boyle Jim Carter Emilia Clarke James Cordon Stephen Daldry Arthur Darvill Shaun Dooley Anne-Marie Duff Jane Featherstone Eric Fellner Tania Franks Emma Freud and Richard Curtis Romola Garai Rebecca Hall David Hare David Harewood Kit Harrington Jonathan Harvey Keeley Hawes Tom Hiddleston Tom Hollander Tony Hopkirk Suranne Jones Katherine Kelly Robert Lindsay Lucy Lumsden Gugu Mbatha-Raw James McAvoy Matthew McFadyen Ian McKellen, Sean Mathias and ATG Productions from funds raised by Ian McKellen On Stage David Morrissey Josh O’Connor Al Petrie Daniel Radcliffe Daisy Ridley Andrew Scott Imelda Staunton Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar Russell T Davies Emma Thompson Harriet Walter Rachel Weisz Jodie Whittaker and Christian Contreras David Yates

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Martin Phipps: Keeping Score with Martin Phipps (The Crown Season 3) | Sony Soundtracks

Published Jul 31, 2020

Martin Phipps is the featured guest on our Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media’s Max Horowitz. Phipps reveals to us how he captured the emotions of the characters in the score in order to allow the audience to lean more into the drama. Hear his influence in creating the third season of The Crown and his experience working alongside Peter Morgan and his team of directors.

*Congratulations to Martin Phipps for his Emmy nomination! Looking forward to season 4!

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A Peek into Barbara Stanwyck’s Country Life By Kim Luperi

You’ve heard of Barbara Stanwyck the movie star. But what about Barbara Stanwyck, the horse breeder? Though the city girl only spent three years in the country, the endeavor provided a peaceful respite from Stanwyck’s busy career. (Fun fact: Her home still stands, and I toured it in 2018! More on that later.)

Following the dissolution of Stanwyck’s rocky marriage to actor Frank Fay in the mid-1930s, the actress and her young son Anthony Dion needed a new beginning. Stanwyck’s agent Zeppo Marx and his wife Marion, two of her closest friends, owned property in Northridge, California, and they discussed the prospect of buying land together. As Stanwyck recounted in a 1937 Picturegoer article: “[Marion] and I just started talking about ranches. The next thing we knew, we were deciding where good ranch properties were located.” Though initially tentative about moving 30 miles outside of Hollywood, Stanwyck realized it would be beneficial for Dion, and it would provide her an opportunity to relax and heal following her divorce.

So, Stanwyck and the Marxes purchased roughly 130 acres of land in Northridge, dubbed the “Horse Capital of the West.” As Victoria Wilson explored in A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, they spared no expense in their efforts to emulate the best breeding facilities in Kentucky: we’re talking a half-mile track and a full-time veterinary surgeon on staff, among many other features. The ranch, branded Marwyck, was formally incorporated in early 1937 and housed horses used for racing, breeding and leisure. (The racehorses ran alongside the country’s best animals at famed tracks such as Del Mar and Santa Anita.)

Construction on Stanwyck’s Tudor-style manor concluded that summer. She worked closely on the design with renowned Black architect Paul R. Williams, and the result was a 6,500 square foot brown-gray stone house with eight bedrooms, four fireplaces, one playroom, a three-car garage, a tennis court and a pool. Despite the size, the star’s residence was described as unassuming and relaxed, with one indulgence: a marble tub in Stanwyck’s bathroom. Not long after moving in, she told writer Dixie Willson that “everyone’s home, whatever and where it is, means to them exactly what my home means to me… A place where, if you demand, there can be peace.” The tranquility and magnitude of her estate, the first home she owned by herself, was not lost on the hardworking actress, and she frequently marveled at the land with contentment.

Stanwyck’s life and career during this time were anything but serene. In the midst of Marwyck’s incorporation, the star received the final divorce decree from her marriage to Fay, though their contentious custody battle lasted until 1938. While she vowed not to marry again, Stanwyck began dating actor Robert Taylor, who built his own home up the road from Marwyck, and they tied the knot in May 1939.

Marwyck aside, 1937 proved a landmark year for Stanwyck’s career, too, as her heartbreaking performance in STELLA DALLAS earned the actress her first Academy Award nomination. In his book Barbara Stanwyck, Al DiOrio explained that the star became more selective with her parts following such a monumental role. She rejected enough scripts from RKO and 20th Century-Fox, where she was under non-exclusive contracts, that Stanwyck was soon suspended from both. (During her suspension one of Marwyck’s horses won at Santa Anita, prompting her to quip, “I’m glad someone in the family is working.”) Within no time, though, Stanwyck was back in action. Her star continued to rise over the next few years in classics like THE MAD MISS MANTON (’38), UNION PACIFIC (’39), GOLDEN BOY (’39), REMEMBER THE NIGHT (’40), THE LADY EVE (’41), MEET JOHN DOE (’41) and BALL OF FIRE (’41), three of which air today as TCM launches its 2020 Summer Under The Stars lineup with the spotlight on Stanwyck.

By the end of 1939, Stanwyck and Taylor moved back to the city, and her home sold in 1941 to actor Jack Oakie, who named the estate Oakridge. In 1990, the house was designated a City Historic-Cultural Monument, and in 2001, Oakie’s widow Victoria donated Oakridge to the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Most recently, the Department of Recreation and Parks approved the purchase of the home and over nine acres by the City of Los Angeles in 2009 with the intent to preserve it and create a community recreational site.

In 2018, I toured Stanwyck’s former home, which stood out in a bustling residential area as a landmark from an era long gone. Though most of the empty house, including any remodeling, belonged to the Oakies, it was still awe-inspiring to wander the same halls and property both stars inhabited all those years ago. Please enjoy a few snapshots from my visit, including Stanwyck’s tiny marble tub!

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Helena Bonham Carter has discussed shooting one particularly tragic scene in The Crown opposite Olivia Colman.

Ahead of tonight’s (July 31) virtual Virgin Media BAFTA Television Awards, where she’s nominated for Best Supporting Actress, the Princess Margaret performer regaled Digital Spy and other media with the story of how her co-star was forced to wear sound blockers to maintain Queen Elizabeth II’s authenticity.

“So there I am, I had to tell this whole story of a really horrendous tragedy, of Aberfan,” she explained.

“And Olivia is extraordinary. She’s about the most empathetic individual I know. Lakes of tears inside her. She can’t not cry.

"So she couldn’t listen to me making the speech without crying and the whole point is that she’s playing the Queen, who finds it difficult to express emotion. So they thought, ‘Oh God, what are we going to do?’”

Just wait for the solution they came up with.

“So they stuck these little earplugs in her. So she wasn’t acting with me at all. She’d just look at me whenever I stopped speaking and she’d be like, 'Huh?’” continued Helena.

“This is what it’s like working with the great Colman. It was hilarious.”

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Congratulations to The Crown 13 Nominations for the 72nd Emmy Awards!

Olivia Colman (as Queen Elizabeth II) - Lead Actress in a Drama Series

The Crown - Outstanding Drama Series

Helena Bonham Carter (as Princess Margaret) - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Martin Childs (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Period Or Fantasy Program (One Hour Or More)

Nina Gold, Robert Sterne - Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series

Adriano Goldman (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour)

Amy Roberts (episode Cri de Coeur) - Outstanding Period Costumes

Benjamin Caron (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series

Jessica Hobbs (episode Cri de Coeur) - Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series

Cate Hall and team (episode Cri de Coeur) - Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling

Martin Phipps (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)

Lee Walpole and team (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)

Peter Morgan (episode Aberfan) - Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series

*The members of the TV Academy will begin final-round voting beginning August 21 and running through August 31. The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, September 20!

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Congratulations, your Majesties - 13 Emmy nominations 2020! (equalling S2’s haul!)

The Crown | Outstanding Drama Series

Olivia Colman | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama

Helena Bonham Carter | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama

Peter Morgan | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: “Aberfan”

TWO Directing nominations!

Jessica Hobbs | Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: “Cri de Coeur”

Benjamin Caron | Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: “Aberfan”

Martin Childs | Outstanding Production Design: “Aberfan”

Nina Gold & Robert Sterne | Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series

Adriano Goldman | Outstanding Cinematography: “Aberfan”

Martin Phipps | Outstanding Music Composition: “Aberfan”

Lee Walpole & Team | Outstanding Sound Editing: “Aberfan”

Cate Hall & Team | Outstanding Period Hairstyling: “Cri de Coeur”

Amy Roberts & Team | Outstanding Period Costumes: “Cri de Coeur”

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The Crown Emmy nominations

Outstanding Drama Series

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret

Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Peter Morgan, Written by

Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Benjamin Caron, Directed by

The Crown • Cri de Coeur • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Jessica Hobbs, Directed by

Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Period Or Fantasy Program

(One Hour Or More)

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Martin Childs, Production Designer

Mark Raggett, Art Director

Alison Harvey, Set Decorator

Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series

The Crown • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Nina Gold, Casting by

Robert Sterne, Casting by

Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (One Hour)

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Adriano Goldman, ASC, BSC, ABC, Director of Photography

Outstanding Period Costumes

The Crown • Cri De Coeur • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Amy Roberts, Costume Designer

Sidonie Roberts, Assistant Costume Designer

Sarah Moore, Costume Supervisor

Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling

The Crown • Cri De Coeur • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Cate Hall, Department Head Hairstylist

Louise Coles, Assistant Department Head Hairstylist

Sarah Nuth, Hairstylist

Suzanne David, Hairstylist

Emilie Yong, Assistant Department Head Hairstylist

Catriona Johnstone, Hairstylist

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Martin Phipps, Composer

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (One Hour)

The Crown • Aberfan • Netflix • Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television

Lee Walpole, Supervising Sound Editor

Andy Kennedy, Sound Designer

Saoirse Christopherson, Sound Effects Editor

Juraj Mravec, Sound Effects Editor

Tom Williams, Dialogue Editor

Steve Little, ADR Editor

Tom Stewart, Foley Editor

Anna Wright, Foley Artist

Catherine Thomas, Foley Artist

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13 Emmy Nominations! THE CROWN continues to rule!

Photo: The Crown Netflix Instastory

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English actress Vanessa Kirby got a double dose of love from the Venice Film Festival. She stars in two films picked for this year’s Venice competition lineup, which organizers unveiled Tuesday morning.

Best known for portraying Princess Margaret alongside Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth in the first two seasons of Netflix hit drama The Crown, a role for which she earned a BAFTA best supporting actress TV award and an Emmy nomination, Kirby has become one of the U.K.’s top emerging stars.

Major Hollywood appearances have included Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in which she played a deadly arms dealer alongside Tom Cruise, and last year’s Fast & Furious spin-off Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, in which she portrayed an MI6 agent. She is due to reprise her Mission: Impossible role in the seventh installment, which had been shooting in Europe prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic and is now set for release in November 2021.

Kirby’s Venice movies are director Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come and Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman.

The World to Come, which also stars Casey Affleck, Katherine Waterston and Christopher Abbott, is about two neighboring couples battling the hardship of life on the frontier in 19th century America.

Pieces of a Woman is the story of a woman embarks on an emotional journey after the loss of her baby. The film also stars Shia LaBeouf and Ellen Burstyn.

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‘The Crown’ Season 5 Will Not Premiere Until 2022

Deadline reports that filming on Season 5, set to star Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, will not begin until June 2021.

Meanwhile, Season 4 will premiere later this year, covering events up to 1990 when Margaret Thatcher (played by Gillian Anderson) was ousted as Prime Minister. The series will also introduce Princess Diana (played by Emma Corrin), who married Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) in 1981.

There was a similar pause between Seasons 2 and 3 of ‘The Crown’, which were separated by a two-year gap as Olivia Colman took over from Claire Foy.

Images: Fiona Hanson/PA | Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty

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“The Crown” won eight Emmys out of 26 nominations over the course of its first two seasons, and it’s a two-time contender for Best Drama Series, but in a way season three wipes the slate clean. Inspired by the life and reign of the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II, the Netflix drama replaced its core cast as their characters aged into a new stage of their lives. Will this new era resonate with voters as much as the last one did? Scroll down to see the show’s 27 entries on this year’s ballots ranging from Best Drama to Best Special Visual Effects.

Claire Foy played Elizabeth in seasons one and two, winning Best Drama Actress in 2018. Stepping in to fill her shoes this year is Olivia Colman, and this isn’t her first time as an awards contender for playing a British queen. She won an Oscar for Best Actress as Queen Anne in the offbeat comedy “The Favourite,” and she won a Golden Globe for “The Crown” earlier this year. She’s one of 10 actors on this year’s ballot for the show, including Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret, BAFTA nominee Josh O’Connor as Prince Charles and Emmy nominee Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten.

The series is an expensive, ambitious undertaking, which always makes it a force to be reckoned with in craft categories. And the show is betting big on the episode “Aberfan” in those Creative Arts races. “Aberfan” recreated the horrific collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the title Welsh village in 1966, which killed 144 people, more than 100 of whom were children. That emotionally and technically demanding episode has been entered for consideration for its writing, directing, cinematography, music composition, picture editing, production design, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects.

That’s nine categories for that one episode alone, and it should be noted that the all-time record for the most honored single episode of all time is six. The “Boardwalk Empire” pilot and the “Game of Thrones” episode “Battle of the Bastards” currently share that distinction, and “Aberfan” has the potential to eclipse that total. Of course, before it can win that many awards, it has to be nominated. How many of the below submissions do you think will result in noms and wins?

Best Drama Series

Best Actress (Drama) Olivia Colman

Best Actor (Drama) Tobias Menzies

Best Supporting Actress (Drama) Helena Bonham Carter Erin Doherty

Best Supporting Actor (Drama) Josh O’Connor Jason Watkins

Best Guest Actress (Drama) Emerald Fennell, “Dangling Man” Jane Lapotaire, “Bubbikins”

Best Guest Actor (Drama) Charles Dance, “Coup” Mark Lewis Jones, “Tywysog Cymru”

Best Directing (Drama) Benjamin Caron, “Aberfan” Jessica Hobbs, “Cri De Coeur”

Best Writing (Drama) “Aberfan” “Coup D’Etat”

Best Casting (Drama)

Best Cinematography (Single-Camera Series, One Hour) “Aberfan”

Best Costumes (Period) “Cri De Coeur”

Best Hairstyling (Period/Character) “Cri De Coeur”

Best Music Composition (Series) “Aberfan”

Best Music Supervision “Margaretology”

Best Picture Editing (Single-Camera Drama Series) “Aberfan” “Cri De Coeur”

Best Production Design (Narrative Period/Fantasy, One Hour or More) “Aberfan”

Best Sound Editing (One-Hour Series) “Aberfan”

Best Sound Mixing (One-Hour Series) “Aberfan”

Best Special Visual Effects “Aberfan”

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Last year marked a decade since Vanessa Kirby graduated from University of Exeter and turned down a place at LAMDA in favour of a three-play stint at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre. In that time, she has successfully juggled both stage and screen, from A Streetcar Named Desire at London’s Young Vic and playing Princess Margaret in Netflix series The Crown, to Uncle Vanya at the Almeida Theatre and the latest Mission Impossible film.

“At the beginning, I found it strange and difficult,” she says of her life under lockdown. “But I have gradually come to accept it as the days go on. The imagination actually grows the most in silence and stillness, and I don’t think I truly knew that until now. I live with my sister and two friends, so we’ve had a community feel, which is lucky. We’ve found that sticking to a routine is key.”

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Jane Lapotaire as Princess Alice in The Crown ‘Bubbikins

Sister Alice, an elderly, deaf nun, is Mother Superior of her convent and mother-in-law to the Queen of England. When a military coup breaks out in her adoptive hometown of Athens, she’s forced to take up residence with her son, Prince Philip, despite their past strained relationship.

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Mark Lewis Jones as Edward Millward (‘Tedi’) in The Crown ‘Tywysog Cymru’

Welsh Nationalist and Aberystwyth University language professor Edward Millward struggles with his conscience when he tutors Prince Charles ahead of his investiture. But Millward sees the possibility of publicity for the Welsh language and so embarks on his role with trepidation. An unlikely bond forms between teacher and student.

*Netlix The Crown Emmys submission for Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

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interviewer: bedelia is such an interesting and complex character! how did u go about playing her?

gillian anderson: i literally had no fucking clue what was happening or what i was even saying half the time

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Coronavirus at a Glance

A new coronavirus, first identified in China in December 2019, has caused an outbreak of respiratory illness that the World Health Organization named COVID-19 in February 2020.

Infographic by Johns Hopkins Medicine

More information about COVID-19 from Johns Hopkins Medicine can be found here: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information and Updates

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