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Filming Begins on Never Let Me Go

posted on 16 Apr 2009

Principle photography is now underway in the UK on the dramatic film Never Let Me Go adapted by Alex Garland from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Nathalie Richard and Andrea Riseborough are starring in the film with music video veteran Mark Romanek (director of One Hour Photo) at the helm. DNA Films, Fox Searchlight and Film4 are working together on the project and announced the start of production with a joint press release. In the statement Romanek said of Never Let Me Go: "From the moment I finished the novel, it became my dream to film it. Ishiguro's conception is so daring - so eerie and beautiful. Alex Garland's adaptation is sensitive and precise. The cast is perfect. The crew, superb."

The Official Never Let Me Go Synopsis
As children, Ruth (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.

Keira Knightley: "I hate the internet"

posted on 14 Apr 2009

‘The Duchess' actress is disgusted by social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and can't stand people who are always checking their email.

Keira said: "I hate the internet. I find it dehumanising to constantly check emails or social sites which have become so fashionable."

The 24-year-old actress also refuses to Google herself so she can't get upset by criticism.

The star relies on her actress friend Sienna Miller - who she met on the set of Dylan Thomas biopic 'The Edge of Love' - to stop her searching for her name on the web.

Sienna, 27, recently explained: "We keep ourselves afloat if things happen in the media that are hard to deal with, or the awful temptation to Google yourself comes up, and just being mortified about what people write about you. She'll phone me up and say, 'I'm thinking about doing it,' and I'm like, 'I am too... don't do it, don't do it!' And we'll kind of talk each other out of it. But it's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back."

Keira - who has admitted her guilty pleasures are British TV soap ‘Emmerdale' and US medical drama ‘Nip/Tuck' - has also denied she has any tendencies to act like a diva.

She said: "I am not a celebrity. I don't go home or out with my friends saying, ‘I'm a celebrity, and I don't ask to be treated like a queen. My parents would not like that."

Ray Winstone and Keira Knightley to play lovers

posted on 14 Apr 2009

Ray Winstone and Keira Knightley are set to play unlikely lovers in a new gangster movie. The pair has signed to star alongside Colin Farrell and Anna Friel in London Boulevard, The Departed screenwriter William Monahan's directorial debut.

Winstone will play a criminal who is released from prison and becomes romantically involved with a reclusive actress, played by Knightley.

It's not the first time the British pair has shared the big screen, they were co-stars in 2004 film King Arthur. The new movie will begin shooting in the British capital this summer.

Keira Knightley stars in ad campaign against domestic violence

posted on 03 Apr 2009

Keira Knightley is shown suffering a shocking assault in a new TV and cinema ad campaign about domestic violence for the charity Women's Aid.

Keira Knightley, rarely seen on- or off-screen as anything other than polished and glamorous, is attacked by her partner in the disturbing two-minute commercial, made by Joe Wright, who directed the star in the films Atonement and Pride and Prejudice.

"I wanted to take part in this advert for Women's Aid because while domestic violence exists in every section of society we rarely hear about it," said Knightley. "Domestic violence affects one in four women at some point in their lifetime and kills two women every week."

The extended ad, which will debut on 6 April in 15-plus films in cinemas nationwide, opens with Keira Knightley heading home from a long day of filming. When she gets home she is assaulted, verbally and physically, by her partner, who accuses her of having a relationship with a co-star.

The commercial, made by ad agency Grey London, pans out to show that the scene is in fact occurring on a film set – but with no one else around. The ad ends with Keira Knightley screaming and the strapline: "Isn't it time someone called cut?"

Keira Knightley and Wright, who also directed the actor in a glamorous commercial for Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, have donated their time to make the commercial for free.

The campaign, which also includes poster ads, will run on TV. However, Grey London is still in negotiations with Clearcast, the body that clears ads for broadcast, over editing and any transmission restrictions that will apply to the commercial. Grey London is aiming to keep the graphic images of the beating in the TV campaign, which will break in mid-April, to maintain the impact of the message.

In 2007, the agency created a shocking and much-publicised press and poster campaign for Women's Aid featuring celebrities including Jemma Kidd, Fiona Bruce and Anna Friel made-up to look as if their faces were covered in bruises from domestic violence.

Keira's playing the fame game

posted on 20 Mar 2009

Keira Knightley will soon be plastered across London - on bus shelters, billboards and even on the sides of buses.
Her face will be covered in Kabuki white make-up and she'll be flogging vodka. Another campaign will see her selling perfume.

It's all for a new movie she starts filming this summer, London Boulevard, in which she plays a famous actress who has withdrawn from the public eye after separating from her husband, a peer.
Keira will shoot the photographs for the fake hoardings before William Monahan starts directing the picture, which he also adapted from Ken Bruen's novel.
Keira's character, who is not named (she's just referred to as 'the actress') hides away in a Holland Park mansion with her so-called business manager and drug supplier Jordan.

David Thewlis, who plays Professor Lupin in the Harry Potter movies and was in the much under-rated The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, was in final negotiations last night to play that role.
Colin Farrell has already been cast as Mitchell, an ex-jailbird with a reputation as a hard man, who finds himself in the same orbit as 'the actress' and Jordan.
The novel had a sense of Sunset Boulevard about it, but Monahan's version has more of an echo of Performance. There are certainly a few psychotic gangsters in London Boulevard who get involved in some nasty punch-ups and shootings.
Some of the 'bad' guys include the paparazzi who stalk 'the actress' in the most hideous manner, a situation Keira's not altogether unfamiliar with.
Monahan and the film's backer, Graham King, won Oscars for The Departed.

A tiny update...

posted on 12 Mar 2009

Back in 2007, Mexican magazine Día Siete had Keira Knightley on its cover to promote "Atonement", we now have the scans in our gallery :

EDIT March 14 : This is just a small note to remind you that some scans in our gallery (including the DIA SIETE ones) are scanned EXCLUSIVELY for this site, which means I paid for the magazine and to import it and scan it, or someone scanned it for the site. So it would be nice of you to understand this is also what makes the difference between Keira Knightley Daily and the other sites (I'm not saying we're better, I'm saying we're different and are trying hard to have an original content), so please DO NOT TAKE OUR SCANS and PICTURES TO PUT IT ON YOUR SITES. When things like that happen, it certainly doesn't encourage me to look for more magazines that you haven't seen anywhere else & pay tons of $$$ to import them.

Keira Knightley says never, sparks clone war

posted on 12 Mar 2009

The sci-fi’s the limit for Keira Knightley. The erstwhile English rose is ditching the period garb and going futuristic, signing on to star in the cloning-themed thriller Never Let Me Go.

Per Variety, the would-be blockbuster centers on a trio of British boarding school students who grow up isolated from the rest of the world only to realize they are actually clones whose sole purpose is to have their organs harvested.

At least if there are any hater-generated complaints about a robotic performance this time around, Knightley can blame it on her character.

Still, the film isn’t quite the popcorn-enabled fluff it may seem—the movie is based on the acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Alex Garland (28 Days Later) is adapting the flick; One Hour Photo’s Mark Romanek directs.

Starring alongside Knightley are fellow British thesps Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan. Cameras roll in London and Norfolk next month.

Site Announcements

posted on 04 Mar 2009

Keira Knightley ~~Source~~ Daily is back after a few months without any updates, and the site is actually back with a new name and a new design. Sorry for the currently unavailable pages, we need to work a bit on them but they'll be back online very soon. Please note that in the upcoming days we will also change the design in the gallery, so if things look weird or distorted there, it's normal... or maybe it's not normal but at least it's temporary! ;-)
I need to spend some time going through e-mails and sorting all the contributions, affiliate requests and other things that have been piling up, so if you sent me something, whatever it is, I will try to write you back asap.
That being said, I truly hope you'll enjoy the new design as much as I do, I wanted something simple but classy, and I'm sorry that the forum is gone (and it won't come back) but it wasn't very active anyway. I also got rid of the french version of the site, I blame the lack of French visitors, ahah

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