Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp are beginning to look like the only big names not cast in "Thor," the next big Marvel Comics adaptation to be headed for the big screen.

"Thor" for summer 2011 -- by Odin's beard! By Odin's beard! May 20, 2011, is the date set for Thor , the big screen adaptation of the Stan Lee - Jack Kirby -created Marvel comic about the Norse god of thunder and his earthbound alter ego, Dr.

What a piece of work is Rand! Photo by Tim Fennell. Let's not lie, maybe some of us went to see that four-hour, unabridged Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet back when we were in grade six, then wore out our VHS copies of the perhaps over-the-top film, to-be-or-not-to-be-ing along with Ken.

Kenneth Branagh will not be at the Huddle of Hamlets. It started as a simple 140-character request on Twitter back in October.

D ISMISSING Pirate Radio as a bad film made by bad people is shirking responsibility.

Carl Eric Rinsch's big screen directorial debut will be Keanu Reeves' samurai epic, 47 Ronin .

There's no secret behind Kenneth Branagh's career shift. He followed up his early ambition, as the screen's premiere interpreter of the Bard, to settle in as a character actor.

Pirate Radio a Film Review by Lisa Miller Directed Richard Curtis, Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Rhys Darby, Ralph Brown, Tom Brooke, Chris O'Dowd, Tom Wisdom, Ike Hamilton, Emma Thompson, Talulah Riley, January Jones, Katherine Parkinson - Focus Features/Rated R/Comedy/115 ...

For those who rock, "Pirate Radio" salutes you. And if you listened to KXOK past bedtime with your transistor radio's earphones in place, this movie is a marvelous dance down memory lane.

Mary Z. Maher once lived upstairs in the home of Jocelyn Herbert, the English set and costume designer.

British comedy is a funny thing. It's famous for being smart, sharp and nuanceda 'unlike Yank humour, which is supposed to be dumb, crude and obvious.A Or at least that's the cliche.

Usually movies that have limited sets tend to become staid and repetitive, but Richard Curtis's "Pirate Radio," set mostly aboard a rogue rock 'n' roll ship, never loses steam.

Tom Sturridge, background left, who plays Carl, the anchor character of "Pirate Radio," watches Rhys Ifans as disc jockey Gavin in the film.

Boys will be boys and at often top volume in a oePirate Radio,a Richard Curtis a s fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters who, in the mid-1960s, blasted British airwaves and eardrums with the Stones, the Kinks and the Who, among other youth-quaking greats of the era.

FOCUS FEARTURES Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Frost star in "Pirate Radio," a film about the ships that illegally broadcast rock music in the U.K. in the 1960s.

New Zealand director Richard Curtis figured out how to make an American frat comedy set in the United Kingdom.

Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER Richard Curtis, best known for his work on hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," got the idea to make a movie about pop music about 10 years ago.

Home : Features : Movies : Anthony Hopkins will star in latest Marvel Studios production Anthony Hopkins will star in latest Marvel Studios production 30-Oct-2009 Written by: Sari N. Kent Sir Anthony Hopkins is set to grace the silver screen in the Paramount Pictures/Marvel Studios release entitled 'Thor,' which will be directed by Academy Award ...

Sir Anthony Hopkins has joined the cast of Thor, Kenneth Branagh's film version of the Marvel comic book, according to industry paper Variety.