Both the “Into the Woods” London photocall and premiere albums have been updated with hundreds of additional pictures, with many thanks to Claudia for her contributions. There are also additional making of screencaptures and a wonderful new on-set picture from “Into the Woods”. Screencaptures from the BBC Breakfast interview and the various Golden Globe interviews have been added as well. As always, check the full list below the previews.
Lots of new video clips have been added to the archive, all being released over the past days to promote “Into the Woods” in the United Kingdom. There’s a new promotional interview, tv reports on Lorraine and BBC Breakfast and a new featurette entitled “The Magic of the Woods”. And you gotta love Entertainment Tonight for digging through their archives and screening some vintage interviews with Meryl at various Golden Globe ceremonies. In case you’ve ever wondered if Mary Hart’s remark on Meryl whipping out a flask was true, they got their proof – just watch her interview at the red carpet at the 2000 Golden Globe Awards. For a complete list of newly added videos, check the list below the previews.
Meryl Streep has been announced to present at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards this Sunday. She joins previously announced presenters including Amy Adams, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Robert Downey Jr., Colin Firth and many more. Meryl is also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for “Into the Woods”. Meanwhile – while I think that no nomination equals no news – the BAFTA nominations have been announced today, and while Meryl has not received a nomination, “Into the Woods” has received two nods for Costume Design (Coleen Atwood) and Make-up and Hair (Peter Swords King, J. Roy Helland), so congratulations to them. Thanks to everybody for the heads-up.
The stars have arrived for the London premiere of “Into the Woods”. The first pictures have been added to the image library. Both the premiere and photocall albums will be further updated with additions over the evening, so make sure to refresh those gallery pages. Edit: Lots of additional pictures have been added.
Today, Meryl Streep has attended the London photocall for “Into the Woods”, alongside co-stars Emily Blunt, James Corden and Tracey Ullman. A first batch of pictures has been added to the image library. There’s more to come, as the film’s London premiere takes place tonight, so check back later.
With so many promotional featurettes for “Into the Woods” being published lately, I’ve capped Meryl’s interviews, on-set and film moments from all and combined them in the image library. All featurettes can be found in the video archive, with two new – Costumes of the Woods and Designing the Woods – being added as well.
The video archive has been updated as well, with a bunch of new featurettes on “Into the Woods”, including a new scene and additional television spots. There’s also a video from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in which Meryl reveals her favorite movie as well as her speech at the Kennedy Center Honors. Screencaptures from the Kennedy Center Honors have been added as well, alongside a couple of “Into the Woods” additions.
Magazines scans from December 2014 to February 2015, all covering “Into the Woods”, have been added to the image library, with many thanks to Alvaro for sending them in.
As earlier reported, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anna Kendrick have joined Ellen DeGeneres on her show to promote the theatrical release of “Into the Woods”. As always on Ellen, this has been a funny interview with anecdotes from the film and a round of “Heads-up”. Edit: A great quality video has been added to the video archive with screencaptures being added to the image library.
Here comes a nice interview by the Washington Post. Meryl Streep sings. Her fans know this. Meryl Streep sang in “Postcards From the Edge,” in “Ironweed,” on the children’s album “Philadelphia Chickens” and, of course, in “Mamma Mia,” the movie that improbably, given all the successes in her career, made her a box-office star. That Meryl Streep can sing Sondheim is something that music-theater aficionados are likely to question — until, at least, they’ve heard it. Streep, as film and theater fans are well aware by now, plays the Witch in the new Rob Marshall film of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Like most big Sondheim roles, it requires a certain level of vocal ability. Streep’s singing voice is recognizably her own; it’s also credible and moving, and it allows her, when called for, to chew the scenery in the best musical-theater tradition. “I had to expand my chest and be able to hold a tone longer than I’ve tried to do in 15 years,” Streep said, laughing, sitting at a round, white-draped table in a large empty room at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, which Disney colonized, shortly before Thanksgiving, for its “Into the Woods” media blitz. The complete interview can be read over at the Washington Post. One quote needs a special spotlight, as Meryl confirms and talks about the upcoming “Florence Foster Jenkins” biopic:
If you listen to those recordings, she was almost good, and then there was a point when she was off. And that is what makes it funny. It was almost there. It doesn’t start out badly. It starts out hopefully. I think I’m going to try to be as good as I can, and then — we’ll see.