Eddie Redmayne announces today’s AFI Movie Club selection: REDS.

The film appears on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list of the greatest love stories of all time and was also included on AFI’s 10 TOP 10 list of the greatest epic films of all time in 2008. REDS features the star power of three AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD recipients - Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson - and production designer Richard Sylbert received an honorary master’s degree from AFI!

REDS was Beatty’s debut as a solo director. His success with HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) - which he co-directed with Buck Henry - encouraged Paramount to finance REDS. In this exclusive AFI Archive video, Diane Keaton talks about REDS at the awards ceremony for AFI Life Achievement honoree Warren Beatty.

AFI Movie Club is a newly launched free program to raise the nation’s spirits by bringing artists and audiences together - even while we are apart. AFI shines a spotlight on an iconic movie each day, with special guests announcing select AFI Movies of the Day in short videos posted on AFI.com and social media platforms. Audiences can “gather” at AFI.com/MovieClub to find out how to watch the featured movie of the day with the use of their preexisting streaming service credentials. The daily film selections are supported by fun facts, family discussion points and exclusive material from the AFI Archive to enrich the viewing experience. [Source]

Taika Waititi leads an all-star cast in episode 3 of ‘James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends’, with Cate Blanchett playing Centipede, Eddie Redmayne voicing Miss Ladybird, Kumail Nanjiani as Miss Spider, Ruth Wilson playing the Earthworm and Sarah Paulson as Old-Green-Grasshopper.

An inspirational conversation between Oscar winners Colleen Atwood and Eddie Redmayne. The pair discussed Colleen’s remarkable career as a Costume Designer, touching on her life, inspirations and practice. Colleen has won four Academy Awards for her work in costume and has designed for films such as Edward Scissorhands, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Chicago, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Silence of the Lambs.

The fascinating discussion touched on Colleen’s beginnings in the industry and her early aspirations as a painter. She also talked through her design process, her relationship with directors such as Tim Burton and Rob Marshall, and dissected the intricacies of creating clothing for a character for film. Colleen explained “it’s not about 50 costume changes…It’s about creating an iconic image for a character”. [Source]

Eddie Redmayne’s brilliant Children In Need sketch saw Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi, Simon Cowell, Mary Berry and many several unhelpful stars join forces to try and find Pudsey.

The sketch was recorded on the set of Eddie’s new film, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and will saw the much-loved actor doing his bit to raise money on the Appeal Show.

Redmayne blasted Bake Off stars, Mel and Sue, as ‘incompetent’ as they attempted to put him through to the missing mascot.