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Jamie Dornan steps out for an in discussion panel at the Variety Studio presented by Canada Goose with Kenneth Branagh during the 2021 Toronto Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on Sunday afternoon (September 12).

The 39-year-old actor stars in Kenneth‘s upcoming Belfast, and the two were seen at the premiere of the movie the same day.

Jamie described his character to the Belfast Telegraph as “a very honest, humble man who is just trying to do the right thing”, adding that despite the challenges of the time they lead a “quite glamorous lifestyle for a working-class North Belfast family”.

He also spoke about how he aims to tell more positive and inspiring stories about Northern Ireland than in the past.

“Often characters portrayed in that part of the world, there’s this sort of bleakness. It gets a bit ‘poverty porn’,” he shared. “Going forward, with the stories I want to tell coming out of that part of the country, I want to get away from that idea that everything’s doom and gloom at home. That’s not how I remember home to be.”

Jamie added, “It’s that thing of trying to elevate stories from the north of Ireland through a slightly different lens. Tell stories that people aren’t expecting from that part of the world.”

Belfast is set to open in theaters in November.

Jamie Dornan is ready to debut his latest project!

The 39-year-old actor hit the red carpet at the premiere of Belfast during the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday (September 12) at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario.

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Jamie posed alongside writer and director Kenneth Branagh at the event.

The drama follows a young boy and his working class family’s experience during the tumultuous late 1960s. Watch the trailer!

Caitriona Balfe and Judi Dench also star in the film, as well as Ciarán Hinds.

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Jamie Dornan has officially hit the festival circuit with his new movie!

The 39-year-old actor stepped out for the premiere of his movie Belfast during the 2021 Telluride Film Festival on Thursday (September 2) in Telluride, Colorado.

Jamie made two appearances during the day, including one with the film’s writer and director, Kenneth Branagh.

The first trailer for the film was released online at around the same time the premiere began in Colorado. The first review for the movie is up on Deadline and they said that Jamie did a “superb” job in the movie.

Belfast will have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 12. The movie is “a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.”

Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe both took to social media this week to celebrate some exciting news!

The two actors will be starring in the upcoming movie Belfast, a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. It was just announced that the movie has been acquired by Focus Features for a worldwide release.

Belfast is about “a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital,” according to Deadline. Jamie and Caitriona will “play a glamorous working-class couple caught up in the mayhem” with Judi Dench and Ciarin Hinds as the grandparents.

Jamie posted the news story on his Instagram Stories and said, “Thanks Focus Features.”

Caitriona posted to her Instagram feed and wrote, “So excited that our film Belfast has found a home @focusfeatures … So proud of this film and can’t wait to share it with you all.”

Kenneth said in a statement, “Belfast is my most personal film. It’s about coming home – a dramatic journey of excitement, emotion and humour. To be embraced by filmmakers and distributors of such proven imagination and talent as Focus is fantastic. We are honoured to partner with Peter Kujawski and his amazing team. With the incredible support of Northern Ireland Screen also in the mix, we are very excited for the future of Belfast in cinemas around the world in 2021.”

Jamie recently revealed his favorite film as a child.

Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe will be starring in an upcoming movie that Kenneth Branagh is directing!

The film, which is reportedly titled Belfast, is a semi-autobiographical feature inspired by Branagh‘s childhood in Northern Ireland during the 1960s.

Jamie and Caitriona will be playing the parents of the Branagh character and Judi Dench and Ciaran Hinds have been cast as the grandparents, according to the Daily Mail‘s Baz Bamigboye.

Caitriona confirmed the casting news on Twitter and said, “I guess the cat is out of the bag!!! So delighted to be working on this special project with this amazing cast and the wonderful Kenneth Branagh. Exciting stuff!”

After the news was confirmed, Caitriona‘s Outlander co-star Sam Heughan reacted and tweeted, “What. A. CAST!!!!!!”

Last week, Caitriona had more exciting career news to share!

We’re just days away from Christopher Nolan‘s highly anticipated movie Tenet being released in areas across the globe and the first reviews have been released!

A select group of critics were given the chance to see the movie before the rest of the world and the Rotten Tomatoes score at the time of this posting is a strong 82% fresh rating.

Even though the film currently has a high score, there are only 38 reviews and the number could change when more reviews are posted. Most of the reviews out there right now seem to be mixed. The website’s critics consensus says, “A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production.”

TheWrap‘s Nicholas Barber said, “In the end, Tenet isn’t one of Nolan‘s most satisfying films. But after I’ve seen it four or five more times, maybe I’ll change my mind.”

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Leslie Felperin said, “Altogether, it makes for a chilly, cerebral film – easy to admire, especially since it’s so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity.”

The Guardian‘s Catherine Shoard said, “The world is more than ready for a fabulous blockbuster… It’s a real shame Tenet isn’t it.”

Tenet will hit select theaters in the U.S. on September 3.

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Kenneth Branagh is back as Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot in the sequel to 2017′s Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile!

Here’s a synopsis: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement.

The movie also stars Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.

Right now, the film is scheduled for release on October 23, 2020.