Tom Hooper

Date of Birth

1972-10-05

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

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Nineteen Steps: The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper to direct Netflix’s WWII film starring Millie Bobby Brown

Posted 1 month ago

Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper is getting behind the camera for Millie Bobby Brown's WWII film Nineteen Steps.

Cats VFX artist describes work on film as almost slavery

Posted 6 years ago

I hate to kick a film when it's down but 2019's CATS has pretty much been the disaster that keeps on giving. From the reaction to its polarizing first trailer to its scathing reviews to its poor box office to...

VFX society chastises Oscars for cheap Cats joke

Posted 6 years ago

So at this point I think we are all fully aware that the Academy Awards doesn't necessarily award the "best" films of the year. That's not to say that it doesn't occasionally happen, but I lost most of my faith...

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Cats/Rise of Skywalker music mashup is puuuurfect

Posted 7 years ago

December 20th is quickly approaching and movie fans across the globe know what that means: director Tom Hooper's musical CATS will finally be released! If memory serves I believe there might be a space opera film releasing that day as...

TV Review: His Dark Materials

Posted 7 years ago

Plot: The series follows Lyra, a seemingly ordinary but brave young woman from another world. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and becomes a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. Review:...

Idris Elba will play a dashing cat in Tom Hooper’s Cats adaptation

Posted 8 years ago

One of the oddest projects in pre-production right now is the movie version of the Broadway musical CATS, which is set to be directed by Tom Hooper (THE KING’S SPEECH, LES MISERABLES) and starring Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson...

Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift & more join Tom Hooper’s Cats adaptation

Posted 8 years ago

Broadway musicals like CHICAGO and LES MISERABLES have had success being translated for the screen, and now one of the biggest ever is getting its own major movie adaptation – CATS. Working Title and Universal have big plans for the...

James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson & Clarke Peters join His Dark Materials TV series

Posted 8 years ago

There are quite a number of fantasy franchises out there which made the leap to the big-screen only to find themselves stalled after just one film, but occasionally, the material is resurrected and given a second chance. THE GOLDEN COMPASS,...

Tom Hooper to direct His Dark Materials series starring Logan’s Dafne Keen

Posted 8 years ago

Tom Hooper to direct film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats

Posted 10 years ago

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is heading to the big screen. The word from Variety is that Tom Hooper (LES MISERABLES, THE DANISH GIRL) has been set to direct and produce a film adaptation of the long-running musical for Universal and...

Review: The Danish Girl (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) who was born Einar Wegener and became one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery. REVIEW: THE DANISH GIRL is nothing if not timely. With the transgender issue dominating headlines...

Eddie Redmayne is transgender in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl trailer

Posted 11 years ago

In the 1920s, Danish artist Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander) painted her own husband, Einar (Eddie Redmayne), as a lady. When the painting gained popularity, Einar started to change his/her appearance into a female and named himself/herself Lili Elbe. Lili and...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: James Bond, Rapunzel, The Walking Dead, Wolverine

Posted 13 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

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