Benedict Cumberbatch News

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH resents reports suggesting he simply lent his voice to play the dragon Smaug in the forthcoming THE HOBBIT sequel because he had to put in hours of work with motion-capture technology to bring the character to life.

He appears at the Crucible in the revival of Alan Bennett's play about youngsters from a Sheffield grammar school cramming for university entrance exams and the teachers who work with them.

After an explosive re-emergence into popular culture, the Star Trek franchise is again revolutionizing science fiction and making it sexy.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange did not want "Star Trek Into Darkness" actor Benedict Cumberbatch to play him in upcoming film adaptation "The Fifth Estate." Cumberbatch told New York Magazine Assange asked him to pass on the role.

So glad he decided to dye his hair black! Not that we don't love Benedict with any color hair, but this whole dark, brooding thing he's got going on in Sherlock and Star Trek Into Darkness sets my soul on fire .

British star Benedict Cumberbatch resents reports suggesting he simply lent his voice to play the dragon Smaug in the forthcoming The Hobbit sequel because he had to put in hours of work with motion-capture technology to bring the character to life.

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Our columnist is excited to discover that she has a lot in common with the Star Trek and Sherlock star who admits 'knowing stuff' rocks his boat I went to the cinema last week, to see the new Star Trek movie, in which Chris Pine - that's "Chris Pine" - plays the legend that is Captain James Tiberius Kirk, and, um, some stuff happens in space.

Fans of the British television series "Sherlock," based on the Sherlock Holmes books, are well aquatinted with the show's star, Benedict Cumberbatch, a tall, British actor with a baritone voice.

Benedict Cumberbatch is the mysterious John Harrison, in an image from director J.J. Abrams' 'Star Trek: into Darkness.' LOS ANGELES -- " Star Trek Into Darkness " has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.

Ever since the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan , was released, fans have been negatively comparing every single one even tenuously similar to it.

Now that you've seen it, what did you think? Beyond the darkness, lies greatness.

He's the Old Harrovian who prides himself on doing things properly. Well-dressed, well-mannered, perfect in his diction and precise and immaculate on screen, Benedict Cumberbatch likes to stay firmly in control.

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I think just about any actor would love to pick the brain of Meryl Streep , who is widely recognized as one of the best actresses of all time.

The latest installment in the Star Trek series, Star Trek: Into Darkness could be the biggest movie of the summer to hit theaters.

It seems like only 11 days ago I wrote a review of Iron Man 3 because I did, so shut up and let my hatred of going out in public talk for a minute.

The stars of the hit BBC show were seen filming at Cardiff University's Glamorgan Building in the city centre Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have been spotted filming the latest series of the hit TV show in Cardiff City Centre.

There is so much cool stuff in director J.J. Abrams' second film based on Gene Roddenberry's beloved science-fiction series, and information that should not be divulged, that a moviegoer should go in cold, if such a thing were possible in the age of Internet spoilers.

Don't read any further or you might see that the latest villain in Star Trek Into Darkness is Khan Noonian Singh.