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The Orange British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 12 February at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
Hosted by Stephen Fry, the ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One at 9.00pm that evening. For the fifth year, a special red carpet show will be broadcast on BBC Three at 7.30pm, hosted by Edith Bowman.

Nominees confirmed to date include (in alphabetical order): Adam Deacon, Bérénice Bejo, Brad Pitt, Chris Hemsworth, Eddie Redmayne, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Jessica Chastain, Jim Broadbent, Jonah Hill, Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Kristen Wiig, Lynne Ramsay, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Michel Hazanavicius, Michelle Williams, Octavia Spencer, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swindon, Tom Hiddleston, Tomas Alfredson and Viola Davis.

Martin Scorsese, recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship, and John Hurt, recipient of the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, will also be in attendance.

Presenters and other attendees confirmed to date include (in alphabetical order): Anil Kapoor, Bérénice Marlohe, Billy Bob Thornton, Chris O’Dowd, Christina Hendricks, Christina Ricci, Colin Firth, Cuba Gooding Jr, Daniel Radcliffe, Gillian Anderson, Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Holliday Grainger, Jeremy Irvine, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jon Hamm, Naomie Harris, Noomi Rapace, Paul Bettany and Penélope Cruz. Presenting an Award together at the ceremony will be Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

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Curzon Cinemas and BAFTA are delighted to welcome award-winning actor Jon Hamm to share insights into his favourite moments from arguably one of the best television drama series ever made. Set in 1960’s New York, Mad Men chronicles the lives of a bunch of sharp-suited, savvy-minded Madison Avenue ad men and their colleagues, wives, girlfriends and mistresses. After four stunning seasons, the BAFTA and multi-award winning drama from Matthew Weiner (The Sopranos) prepares to enter its highly anticipated fifth on Sky Atlantic HD this March. Critically acclaimed for its consistently outstanding performances and intelligent scripting, season four saw fledging ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce struggle to stay afloat. Newly divorced creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm) became an increasingly solitary figure, drinking heavily as he battled with his inner demons. Meanwhile, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Don’s bond tightened, and Joan (Christina Hendricks) and Roger (John Slattery) reignited their affair, with married Joan falling pregnant. As Jon Hamm makes his directorial debut in series five, join us to explore how the craft of his work continues to evolve as well as the secrets behind Mad Men’s success. Alongside clips from past seasons, Jon will be talking through key moments in the series and will chat about the upcoming season. Co-hosted by Sky Atlantic HD.

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Wednesday 15 February 6.30pm – DURATION: 75 mins

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“Mad Men’s” Matt Weiner, along with FremantleMedia’s Cecile Frot-Coutaz, RCN TV in Colombia’s Fernando Gaitan and Fox TV Stations’ Dennis Swanson were fetted at the NATPE based awards.

“Dear world. We get it. You like giving Matt [Weiner] awards,” Jon Hamm quipped in a video tribute to his Mad Men showrunner, who was being honored with a Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award in Miami Beach Tuesday.

“Enjoy it. Take your Legacy Award and your 100 Emmys, put them all over your head… it’s still not going to be this,” he concluded, pointing to his own face as the crowd gathered to toast Weiner and the three other honorees — FremantleMedia’s Cecile Frot-Coutaz, RCN TV in Colombia’s Fernando Gaitan and Fox TV Stations’ Dennis Swanson — roared with laughter.

Hamm, along with his cast, crew and corporate bosses, was one of many to deliver a message of pride, humor and genuine appreciation at the 9th annual Legacy Awards, bestowed in honor of broadcasting legend Brandon Tartikoff at the NATPE conference. Among the evening’s speakers on hand to celebrate this year’s television visionaries was Tartikoff’s widow Lilly, who days earlier had announced she was donated a vast collection of Tartikoff’s industry correspondences to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

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PBS kids series Martha Speaks will kick off its fourth season with some Hollywood star power.

Jon Hamm (Mad Men) and his real-life girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeldt, guest-star alongside their German Shepherd mix, Cora, in a two-part episode premiering Feb. 20 on PBS Kids! (check local listings).

Martha Speaks is based on the best-selling books by Susan Meddaugh and follows the adventures of Martha, a lovable dog whose appetite for alphabet soup gives her the ability to speak. For two episodes, she gets to romp in animation with Hamm, Westfeldt and their dog.

“Cora is incredibly special to us — and a total original,” says Hamm in the announcement. Westfeldt adds, “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to share her with kids all over the country.”

In the episodes, Westfeldt voices Kit Luntanne, who is upset that she has had to leave her pooch, Cora, at home while she travels with her acting troupe. Martha tries to help by visiting Kit at the theater to give her dog support.

Backstage, Martha meets Ham Johnson (Jon Hamm), an actor who wants to become a businessman. He admires Kit and wants to impress her. Together, Martha and Jon hatch a plan to reunite Kit with Cora.

USA Today

Jon Hamm learned an important lesson after letting slip on the “Doug Loves Movies” podcast that Mad Men will return March 25: Best let creator and executive producer Matt Weiner do the talking. And so at the show’s cocktail party for the Television Association’s press tour this weekend, Hamm only agreed to talk season five after Weiner himself offered up this nugget: A theme of the season is “Every man for himself.” When we relayed this to Hamm, he said, “Good to know. Yeah, I guess I can get onboard with that as a theme for the show. Why don’t I get these awesome quotes? The funny thing about Matt is that he’s a very good keeper of secrets, until he opens his mouth.”

Weiner wouldn’t elaborate on what’s next for Hamm’s Don Draper, but he did comment on the backlash to Don Draper’s season-four proposal to his comely young secretary, Megan: “The immediate reaction was a big shock to the audience and then everyone was like, ‘Oh, right.’ Megan was saying to him, ‘I don’t care who you are, you can be anyone you want to be.’ She’s 25 years old and he gets to go back to being married to a person who sees him as he wants to be.”

Hamm also spoke to Vulture about directing the season’s second episode. “Part of the fun or the wonder of it for me was pulling back the curtain and seeing a different part of television production I hadn’t been privy to. To see the insane amount of work done by the 250 people who work on the crew and were setting up shots and sets that haven’t been built yet — and then in two days, the magical elves have come in and there’s a room, and it’s wallpapered and decorated and beautiful and it’s astounding. To see the inner workings of that was impressive and exciting and enervating.”

Just like watching the episode will be for the rest of us: By the time it airs, we’ll have waited 532 days for it.

NY Mag

Roadside Attractions have now announced a March 9th, 2012 release for the film, which makes it a packed weekeend at the movies. We have the wide releases of John Carter, Playing the Field, The Raven and Think Like a Man hitting multiplexes, as well as limited releases of The Bully Project, Footnote, Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. I’d imagine Friends with Kids would have a moderate-sized release, as it could bring in a lot of the Bridesmaids crowds, depending how they decide to market it. This is definitely for a slightly older crowd, but still offers some smart comedy to go along.

Source: The Film Stage

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Jon Hamm is developing somewhat of a reputation for being the friend who always wins: Last week, Adam Scott told Conan O’Brien that Hamm annihilated him in 150 games of racquetball; Paul Rudd recently recalled losing Trivial Pursuit to him as a teenager. So when we caught up with Hamm and girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt at the New York Stage and Film gala at the Plaza Hotel last night, we asked the couple which games Jon tends to win between the two of them. “Nothing,” he said. “That’s not true,” Westfeldt responded. “Tennis,” he admitted. “That’s about it. But I’m a boy, what are you gonna do?” Westfeldt dominates in the more cerebral smartphone game Words With Friends, which Westfeldt said she and Hamm play “every day.” They also like Hanging With Friends, she said. Or “anything with ‘friends,’” Hamm joked — including movie titles.

Source: NY Mag