Hey everyone!  I know I haven’t been updating the site much at all lately but that will be changing soon.  I will be having some screencaptures and other things/news to update with so keep checking back!

Good news for all American fans! Emma will be on both Good Morning America and The View this coming Monday, Nov 11th. She will be in NY on the occasion of being honoured by UN Journalists for her work against human trafficking. Congratulations, Emma!

For those in the UK, remember that An Education is now showing at the cinemas now everywhere, so make sure you catch Emma’s short but memorable performance. The film was celebrated at this year’s London Filmfestival where it had its UK premiere. Emma attended at looked wonderful! Pictures will follow asap.

Furthermore, Emma is said to write a book about the second installment of the Nanny McPhee series. Both the film and her book are set for a March 2010 release.

Sorry for the late update, I was busy starting a new job and looking for a new place to stay.

The trailer for Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang has been released this week, watch it below:

Today I’m bringing you screencaptures of the 1989 production Look Back In Anger, the televised play directed by Dame Judi Dench. View them all in the gallery.

This will be my last post for a while… I’m moving house and don’t know when I’ll have internet again. In the meantime, please visit our forums for all things Emma.

On Thursday Emma attended the London premiere of Morris: A Life With Bells On, quirky as ever. I finally managed to get my hands on some HQ photos of the event, view them all at the gallery. For more information on this “mockumentary” go here, both Emma’s sister, Sophie Thompson, and Emma’s husband, Greg Wise, are part of this comedy.

I just added screencaptures of the 1995 film Carrington. Sadly there weren’t any DVD extras. View the captures here.

Please note that both the gallery and the forums are now at a new home, gallery.emma-thompson.org and forums.emma-thompson.org respectively. So feel free to change your bookmarks, but don’t worry, the old links will still redirect you to the right place!

New round of screencaps, everyone – Howards End this time. Screencaptures of the film and the making of can now be found in the gallery.

Last Saturday Emma attended a screening of Fatal Promises in New York, a documentary about human trafficking, and I added the few available photos to the gallery.

The documentary features a speech by Emma, as well as interviews with her about human trafficking and her Journey installation.

What are the plans for the installation of Journey in New York City and America?
The plan is that we bring Journey over to New York on November the 9th until November 16th. I’m not entirely sure where it will be yet, because we haven’t yet chosen our site. But it means that it will be sitting there open to the public all of that time and I will be there, and Helen (Helen Bamber Foundation) will be there, and Michael Korzinski, the other director of the foundation, will be there. It [Journey] is immensely expensive to travel, so we’re hoping that we can get help from Homeland Security to take it to Washington next. That’s what we’re hoping for.

For more information and links, visit our forums.

I finally got my hands on a Brideshead Revisited DVD and made some screencaptures of Emma’s short but impressive performance, as well as the DVD extras. View them all here.

Actresses Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are teaming up to launch a festival of dramas written and directed by women.

The event, which will comprise of seven short films, is being held to address the perceived lack of opportunities for women working in the industry, both on and off the screen.

Although still in its infancy, Wilson told The Stage that the festival of films will be made for broadcast on either television or at cinemas and will draw on British talent.

The actress said modern writing does not traditionally have “great female roles”, particularly for older women, and said the idea of the festival would be to bring to attention an issue that “still exists” and which has “gone slightly backwards” because of the UK’s obsession with youth and image.

She called this “scary and a bit sad” and added: “Women don’t seem to have a place later on. For some reason we are not writing about them or exploring them in later years.”

Wilson explained that Thompson would front the campaign, but added that it was likely to take some time before all the details were finalised.

The actress, who is about to star in the BBC’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Small Island, revealed she herself was particularly concerned about the lack of roles for older women and added: “I do worry about it. I think it’s horrific and I think it’s actually got worse.”

However, she said it was a “constant cycle” that people have to “keep pushing” and added: “Emancipation did not happen that long ago and where we have come in that amount of time is huge. We have come a long way and have a long way to go. It will take time but you have to keep fighting those corners.”

source:  thestage.co.uk