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Though he wasn't exactly the most likely of choices, Kenneth Branagh managed to turn Marvel's Thor into a fun, blockbuster addition to the Marvel movie canon. His name won't be on Thor 2 when it hits theaters in 2013, but Branagh says that if the timing were right, he'd love to go back to the Marvel universe. In a new interview promoting a number of projects, including the acclaimed new release My Week With Marilyn, which sees him return to the big screen as an actor, Branagh confirms that it was really only timing that kept him from returning to the world of Marvel's God of Thunder. For Branagh, directing Thor was a chance to do something he's never done before in all his years of Shakespeare adaptations and indie films: helm a massive production. "Across 20 years of making films, I hadn't spent a significant amount of time in that community, and I wanted to do that," he says. "Of all the American comics, Thor was the only one I was

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN Movie Review By: RAMA Did RAMA fall in love with Michelle Williams ' performance as Marilyn Monroe ? Make sure to Follow him on Facebook and Twitter . MY WEEK WITH MARILYN is exquisite! Michelle Williams’ portrayal of the legendary Marilyn Monroe is luminous and heartbreaking. It must be challenging to play one of cinema’s all time bombastic bombshells, Williams doesn’t look like Marilyn Monroe but she captures Monroe’s essence, her soft spoken voice and her sultry, teasing, mannerism. The moment Marilyn Monroe walks into a room, everybody drops whatever it is that they’re doing and all eyes behold her, Williams disappears in her character… In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of “ THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL ”, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon wi

The Weinstein Company's upcoming film, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN , will now be released on November 23, 2011. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Brannagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, and Judi Dench . Michelle Williams As Marilyn Monroe On Upcoming Vogue Cover- In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark , just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of " THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL ", the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe, who, whilst shooting, was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller . Nearly 40 years on, his diary account “THE PRINCE, THE SHOWGIRL AND ME” was published, but one week was missing, and this is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of working. When Arthur Miller makes a brief trip to Paris, the coast is cle

We have some new photos of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe from Octobers issue of Vogue . She will be starring in My Week with Marilyn . The film also stars Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper and Emma Watson . Based on two books by Colin Clark, it depicts the making of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl , which starred Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier . The film focuses on the week in which Monroe spent time being escorted around Britain by Clark, after her husband, Arthur Miller, left the country. See the rest of the photos after the Jump... My Week with Marilyn Synopsis: In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, h

Here is a stunning photo of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe from her upcoming film My Week with Marilyn . The film also stars Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper and Emma Watson . Based on two books by Colin Clark, it depicts the making of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, which starred Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier. The film focuses on the week in which Monroe spent time being escorted around Britain by Clark, after her husband, Arthur Miller, left the country. My Week with Marilyn Synopsis : In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl , the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, his diary account “ The Prince, the Showgirl and Me ” was published, but one week was miss

Two Marilyn Monroe Biopics In The Works What is it about Hollywood that no sooner does somebody have a good idea, then it turns out that somebody has had the same brainwave. Now it’s rival Marilyn Monroe biopics. Wild Bunch, the French sales agent has announced here that it’s handling international sales on Blonde , an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginary Marilyn Monroe memoir. Naomi Watts, who arrives in Cannes for Fair Game, will play Marilyn. Director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James) and producer Anthony Bregman of Likely Story (Synecdoche New York) plan to start shooting the $20 million film in January 2011. The Weinstein Company has its own Marilyn project, My Week With Marilyn , due to begin filming in late September. Michelle Williams will play Marilyn. This one’s about the time Monroe spent in England shooting The Prince and the Showgirl opposite Laurence Olivier. Ralph Fiennes was going to play Olivier but dropped out to direct his film version of Cor