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Tom Cruise rejected Interview with the Vampire sequel

In a retrospective lookback at 'Interview with the Vampire' to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary, director Neil Jordan revealed Tom Cruise refused to reprise his role as Lestat de Lioncourt for a sequel.

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30 years on, Interview with the Vampire director says casting Tom Cruise as Lestat was a big risk, but he was won over from their first meeting

Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan talks to SFX about bringing Anne Rice's modern vampire classic to the screen, 30 years on

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Interview With the Vampire director says backlash against Tom Cruise casting was ‘wrong’

Tom Cruise was offered the lead role in the horror fantasy after Daniel Day-Lewis turned it down

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Neil Jordan claims ex-taoiseach told him of money-for-endorsement agreement

Irish director says Garret FitzGerald said he was expecting payment from Warner Bros for endorsing Michael Collins biopic – which son refutes

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‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost

Warring with Harvey Weinstein, marvelling at Tom Cruise, realising Mona Lisa and many other films were about himself … the great Irish director looks back on his astonishing career

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Cillian Murphy Sweeps Irish Film And TV Academy Awards 2024

Cillian Murphy wins top acting prize at the 21st Irish Film and TV Academy Awards for 'Oppenheimer,' with a star-studded guest list and diverse range of wi...

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Interview With the Vampire review – Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt’s brilliant bloodsucking bromance

Neil Jordan’s horror-comedy features Cruise in scene-chewing form in a film that outrageously explores the vampire’s actually rather complex lived experience

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David Leland obituary

British director and screenwriter who enjoyed huge success with his 1987 hit film Wish You Were Here

The Guardian - UK

My friend David Leland’s films always cheered for the underdog

From Wish You Were Here to Mona Lisa and The Big Man, he was determined to shine a light on those marginalised in society albeit using his quirky sense of humour

The Guardian - UK

Wish You Were Here director David Leland dies aged 82

The British film-maker also wrote the landmark TV play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth, and won an Emmy award for Band of Brothers

The Guardian - UK

The Well of Saint Nobody by Neil Jordan review – the film-maker’s new novel is full of marvels

This tale of a once successful concert pianist who finds love and rejuvenation before mystical forces intervene is a reminder of Jordan’s gifts as a writer

The Guardian - UK

‘She trembled with the truths she had to tell’: Sinéad O’Connor by friends, fans and collaborators

Neil Jordan, Róisín Murphy, MC Lyte, Anne Enright and more share their memories of a uniquely talented, uncompromising artist, mother and ‘Celtic warrior’

The Guardian - UK

Marlowe: The real crime isn’t the dead body in this soft-focus stab at a familiar genre

Marlowe is set in 1930s Hollywood, where deceptions are a dime a dozen and dark corners hold secrets. But the real crime's the film itself.

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Liam Neeson on his 100th film, Marlowe on Sky: ‘where have the years gone? I’ve been blessed’

The Irish actor is appearing in Sky’s new hardboiled detective film, Marlowe , based on the work of Raymond Chandler

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TV Tonight: a detective moves to Dublin to investigate her own daughter’s death

Paula Malcomson leads brilliant six-parter Redemption. Plus, Comic Relief 2023. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Liam Neeson tells how he's determined to keep fighting into his 70s

The Hollywood legend was in Dublin as his 100th movie premiered

Irish Mirror

Oscar winner Neil Jordan says mocking the Irish at the Oscars was 'unfair'

Host Jimmy Kimmel faced backlash from numerous Irish celebs after he poked fun at our Oscar nominated stars

Irish Mirror

Liam Neeson reveals he wants to keep 'fighting' well into his 70s

The Hollywood legend has no plans of slowing down

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‘Turning into a wolf was fantastic’: how we made The Company of Wolves

‘Our budget was tiny. The forest was 12 trees on rollers – and for long shots we used bonsai. The crew had worked on Star Wars and thought we were absurd’

Irish Mirror

Liam Neeson confirmed as first guest for RTE Late Late Show St Patrick's Day special

The Taken star will chat to Ryan on the show which falls on St Patrick's Day

Irish Mirror

First look at Liam Neeson's latest movie as Antrim native hits a major milestone in his career

The Taken actor stars in Neil Jordan's Marlowe, which will be released on Sky Cinema on St Patrick's Day

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Marlowe’: Liam Neeson suitably world-weary as the tough private eye

Following in the gumshoe footsteps of Bogart, Mitchum and other greats, Irish actor leads outstanding cast in convoluted but enjoyable film noir.

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‘A real subversive, sprightly granny’: working with Angela Lansbury by director Neil Jordan

Film-maker Neil Jordan cast Angela Lansbury in his exotic horror folk-tale The Company of Wolves, released in 1984. Here he remembers working with an actor who ‘always understood’

AFP

'Marlowe' closes San Sebastian film festival

San Sebastian (Spain) (AFP) - Spain's prestigious San Sebastian film festival wrapped up on Saturday with the international premiere of "Marlowe" starring Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson.

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The most memorable moments in film, as picked by readers in 2000

The shower scene in Psycho featured on the Observer readers’ list, but only in second place. By Chris Hall

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