Ben Whishaw News

November 28, 2011
Ben Whishaw Is Bond's New Q
The British actor joins the cast of Sam Mendes' "Skyfall." More...

October 7, 2011
Bond 23 Gets Its Girl
Berenice Marlohe joins the cast as Bond's next flame; Ben Whishaw and Helen McCrory sign on as well. More...

May 11, 2011
Wachowskis' Cloud Atlas Adds Cast
Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, and Ben Whishaw have joined the cast of the Wachowski brothers' "Cloud Atlas." More...

May 15, 2009
Cannes 2009: The Tomato Report ? Thirst?s Vampires Descend on the Croisette
Park Chan-wook is best known for his exceptional Vengeance Trilogy -- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance -- three blood-soaked, expertly drawn films that seemed to challenge all that had come before. When he announced plans to explore vampire mythology, he set genre hearts aflutter and the result of those plans is Thirst, which screened yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival.Korean mainstay Song Kang-ho plays Father Sang-hyun, a man conflicted by carnal feelings for his friend's wife and sent to Africa to participate in a medical experiment designed to eradicate a virus which causes painful boils on the skin and, eventually, death by blood loss. The antidote they're developing is ineffective; he dies and is brought back to life symptom-free. More...