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If You are in California around July 28th, don't miss ''Still Crazy'' at the Santa Monica Mods & Rockers Festival 2006. Bill Nighy plans to be there for a screening. More infos at the Los Angeles Times and at the festival's site.

Seven Emmy nominations for ''the Girl In the Cafe''! Alas no nomination for Bill himself, which is a shame, but one for Kelly MacDonald as best supporting actress. (supporting?) The awards take place on August 27th in los Angeles. See all nominations here.

06-07-2006 ☼ Today's Pirates reviews come from:

Fort Worth Weekly, Milford Daily News, Bloom and Knightley talk about working with Bill in Future Movies, Gore Verbinski about Bill and the CGI on CanMag, and a very good article with lots of Bill quotes and how he freaked out his beloved ones comes from MTV.com.

And a funny little bit at the end: Bill's sympathy for squid on PR-inside.

05-07-2006 ☼ Once more I ransacked through oodles of reviews on ''Pirates'' to find the relevant ones for You. Here's the outcome:

Whittier Daily News and Mercury News have some reviews with ineresting good remarks on Bill.

The Sidney Morning Herald's author feels cheated that comic (???) actor Bill Nighy is unrecognizable. Well, she should feel cheated by the fact that she's obviously only knowing one other film out of Bill's rich filmography. Miss Hall, please feel invited to watch loads of non-comic films containing Bill Nighy. This man is way more than only a face.

At last USA Today finally is putting Bill himself in the centre and is talking about a choice of his films.

And, last but surely not least: comingsoon.net has an exclusive interview with Bill on offer.

04-07-2006 ☼ Premiere photos, photos, photos at wireimage (type in ''Nighy'' ), Filmmagic and Getty Images - some together with Diana Quick, who was accompanying him.

BBC News was among the first to report from the London premiere and they do quote Bill near the end.

The Sun offers a Quicktime movie about the London premiere. You can watch or download it from here and watch it if You've got the right Quicktime version or iTunes.

Empire has a report and some very good photos on the plate.

"I don't know why, when they were looking for a half-squid, half-crab man my name came to mind. I'm going to choose to take it as a compliment otherwise I would have to kill myself." (Bill Nighy at the premiere of ''Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'')

03-07-2006 ☼ Update 20:32: First image of Bill's arriving at Getty Images.

03-07-2006 ☼ At the moment London's Odeon at Leicester Square is hosting the European premiere for ''Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', with our man, Bill Nighy, among the guests.

The Daily Mail has an OK ''Pirates'' review today, and I'd like to share one amusing quote with You:

''My only gripe here is that Nighy is very good at sneering, but because his face is covered in the independently moving tentacles you don't get the spectacle and Nighy in full sneer mode.''

A medium review does come from Variety.com, but even they see Bill's performance shine a little above the rest: ''Best of all is Davy himself, whose remarkable visage is festooned with a beard of moving octopus tentacles and whose strength as a singular villain is heightened by Nighy's wily performance.''

Here is what comingsoon.net is saying: ''... it's hard not to be fascinated by Bill Nighy's Davy Jones, an amazing achievement of CGI that allows Nighy's distinctive personality to shine through the bizarre amalgam of man and sea-creature.''

02-07-2006 ☼ The Long Beach Press telegram stands for lots of online magazines offering an interesting article (Really interesting... ''Piercing, beady eyes''???) on covering Bill CGI-technically. When You've read it You'll find out what an achievement it is to still recognize Bill behind all of that. Bravo, Bill!

The Boston Globe has an article about director Gore Verbinski. On page 2 You'll find some paragraphs about Bill, and some remarks from our man.

30-06-2006 ☼ Peter Howell from the Toronto Star did a good interview with Bill Nighy. Bill's talking about looking like Devo's Dad (hands up who remembers Devo?), being a character actor and the tragic side of Davy Jones.

29-06-2006 ☼ Movieweb has a clip from ''Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' on offer. Choose the one that shows a picture of Davy Jones. Oh, and... Try to get used to the noises Davy's making. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Not exactly Bill news, but worth mentioning for sure: Richard Curtis has won the HUMANITAS prize that honours work which serves to "liberate, enrich and unify society yesterday in Los Angeles for ''The Girl In the Cafe''. That film was made accompanying the ''Make Poverty History'' campaign around the G8 summit in 2005 (and is - as we know - known as one of Bill's best performances to date.

28-06-2006 ☼ Support Robin's Peru Trek! Bill Nighy is amongst the celeb supporters of the brave undertaking of Robin Miller to trek Peru to raise money for Cancer Research UK. You can help, too. Find the details on Robin's webjournal. More to come. (found via ICRenfrewshire.co.uk)

The Rolling Stone did a very good review of ''Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' with some mentionable words about Bill's performance. Since this is not the first praise - Looks like the critics already have found their favourite villain of this summer.

27-06-2006 ☼ Big news first: Bill is going to play theatre again! It will be the end of 2006, it will be in New York. The play is written by David Hare and is called ''The Vertical Hour''. Find this and more on the interview Bill did with Dark Horizons on ''Pirates''.

26-06-2006 ☼ Gore Verbinski, director of ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' did an interview with comingsoon.net and made some remarks about Bill Nighy and his character, Davy Jones.

25-06-2006 ☼ Disneyland, Anaheim saw the premiere of ''Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' yesterday 24-06-2006, and there's of course a lot of footage, alas mostly Depp-centered. Bill arrived around 8p.m. local time. "It's a nice feeling. It's a nice vibe," he said to the Orange County Register. "They dig the movie and there's a warm feeling for it." Here's what to know:

Filmforce at IGN.com has interviewed Bill Nighy, Johnny Depp and others about their work on the film. Find excerpts here.

Wireimage (type in ''Nighy'') and Getty Images

AND: msn.com did a live webcast of the prermiere. About 30 minutes into the report Bill is appearing, and the MSN lady is doing a 2 minutes interview with him! Watch the recording here.

BTW: As E! Online is reporting, Bill is lending his voice to Disneyworld's Pirates Of The Caribbean ride. So if You happen to be in Anaheim, don't miss it.

''Moriarty'' did a review on ''Pirates Of the Caribbean'' on aintitcool.com. When You scroll about halfway down, You'll find some fine remarks on Bill'sperformance as Davy Jones.

23-06-2006 ☼ The Telegraph's Cassandra Jardine is one of those journalists having the talent of making actors give insight. Today You can find an interview of her with our man. Bill's talking about jumping up and down on hotel beds, bringing home hotel soap bars, Christmas singing, pirates, junior spies... and life. A fantastic interview - find it at The Daily Telegraph's website.

22-06-2006 ☼ Please let me give You the correct link to the news from yesterday. You can purchase tickets here: www.epilepsynse.org.uk/onlineshop. Jack Mundy from the NSE also provided two photos from last year's fundraising ball. Thank You.

21-06-2006 ☼ Mr. Jack Mundy, PR officer of the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) forwarded this letter from Bill Nighy to me and asked me to publish it on the Experience:

* * * * *

Dear Sir,

 I’ve always been a fan of the Rolling Stones and would like to alert your readers/visitors who may also be fans of the band to an unmissable opportunity which will also benefit one of my favourite charities, the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE).

 NSE is raffling the 1969 original ‘Let It Bleed’ Rolling Stones album signed by Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Mick Taylor.  The album comes in a presentation frame and is authenticated.

 Tickets, costing £1 each or £5 for a book   are available form NSE’s fundraising department on 01494 601410 or online at www.epilepsynse.org.uk/fundraising.  The draw takes place on August 23 2006.  All the money raised will go to NSE’s Seahorse Appeal raising funds for epilepsy – a condition which affects almost half a million people in the UK.

Bill Nighy,

Celebrity Ambassador,

National Society for Epilepsy,

Chesham Lane,

Chalfont St Peter, Bucks

* * * * *

21-06-2006 ☼ Wireimage has hidden some very nice publicity photos from the Gideon's Daughter press conference in Beverly Hills until now. You can view them here. (type in ''Nighy'' to search)

20-06-2006 ☼ Time Out London today has a very interesting interview with Bill Nighy. Our man is talking about the compliment of being chosen as a squiddish monster, people  having effects on his career and future projects, including the new film ''Warm Blue Day''.

18-06-2006 ☼ Bill Nighy will be attending the official world premiere of ''Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, USA at 24-06-2006. You can also see all the other huge stars of the film live, such like Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, to name a few. You can read the official press release at PR Newswire or Micky News.

14-06-2006 ☼ Another interview with Bill Nighy about his tentaculous character Davy Jones You can find on IGN.

12-06-2006 ☼ While Bill has returned to America to do part 3 of ''Pirates Of the Caribbean'', comingsoon.net and The Movie Reporter have interviews with our man on offer.

09-06-2006 ☼ More Bill on BBC Radio 7. In an adaption of Sara Paretsky's ''Killing Orders'', a VI Warshawski crime story You can listen to him from Tuesday 13th, at 9 a.m. Or use the Listen Again option from the next day on for a whole week.

08-06-2006 ☼ The Beverly Hills Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) has the mission of collecting TV and radio programmes making those available for public. June, 6th the MT&R presented, together with the BBC ''Gideon's Daughter''. Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt (who played the daughter) attended that event. See photos of the arrival and the presentation on wireimage (type in ''Nighy'' to find) and filmmagic.

Movieweb did an interview with Bill Nighy about his appearances in ''Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', ''Flushed Away'' (where he'll do some singing once more!) and ''Hot Fuzz''.

03-06-2006 ☼ News about Bill's new project ''Easy Virtue'' after a play by Noel Coward. The film starring Renee Zellweger (Bill will be playing her father-in-law) is topic of the Daily Mail's article. Filming will start in September as imdb is reporting.

BBC Radio 7 has Bill on programme once more. the drama ''Death In the Parish'' from the series ''Medical Detectives'' is about the Soho cholera epidemic in 1854. Catch Bill on 05-06-2006 1 p.m. - 1.45 p.m., or go to the Listen Again section where - as usual - You can listen to the programme for a whole week.

28-05-2006 ☼ You owe Davy Jones Your time! Go to the newly updated official site of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and play the game. Collect items to charm Bill Nighy's character Davy Jones, listen to Jack Sparrow's and the others' advice and be rewarded with some fine stuff plus a priceless devilish laugh by our favourite sea ghoul. (Don't forget to prick Davy's belly more than once. He has to say several things)

21-05-2006 ☼ May 19th the annual BAFTA Television Craft Awards were held at the London Dorchester hotel. This is the award where the work behind the cameras is honored. One mentionable award went to ''The Girl In the Cafe'' for photography & lighting fiction, namely to Chris Seager, one nomination for the original music of the film. Bill Nighy attended the event as a presenter along with celebrities like Kim Catrall, Charles Dance or Julian Rhind-Tutt (who grew his hair obviously to not longer being asked all the time if he's related to Bill). Take a look at the BAFTA's press release (pdf file) and the photos of Bill arriving on wireimage and GettyImages.

12-05-2006 ☼ The London Theatre Museum at Covent Garden is about to close its doors forever. Next Tuesday Vanessa Redgrave will be gathering stage actors for a reception on this matter. Along with celebrities like Joanna Lumley or Alan Rickman our own Bill Nighy is on the list of guests to save  the museum from closure. Read the news on the bottom of this article on thisislondon.com.

11-05-2006 ☼ As comingsoon.net reports, quoting from Variety, Bill Nighy signed for the remake of ''Easy Virtue'', after a play by Noel Coward, first turned into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1928. comingsoon describes the story as the following: ''Easy Virtue is a stylish romantic comedy about a young Englishman who gets married to an American divorcee on the spur of the moment in the South of France and then must return home to face his family.'' (I assume we can't expect Bill to play the young man) It's said that the film will be presented at the Cannes festival.
 

06-05-2006 ☼ Bill kills in 18 different ways. Or at least his character in ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' does. Find out about this and more in a short interview Los Angeles Times' calendarlive.com did with Bill Nighy.

02-05-2006 ☼ comingsoon.net detected the new trailer for ''Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest''. It offers a lot of Davy Jones, Bill's character in his most tentaculous performance to date. Watch it and find a lot of Bill in that CGI creature.

April 27 Bill Nighy attended the opening of ''Look At Me'' - the retrospective of famous photographer Lorenzo Agius at the Getty Images Gallery in London. Getty Images offers some photos of Bill at the venue. Lorenzo Agius by the way did that great photo of the ''Love Actually'' cast and also did the photos of the famous ''Trainspotting'' film poster.  

29-04-2006 ☼ Details about the DebrA UK hat auction (see news from 20-04-2006). You can find the auction via their website by clicking on auctions or follow directly this link. (The auction for Bill's hat isn't up there yet, but keep watching). This is the hat plus the signed photo the winning bidder will get.  

Further news is that Bill Nighy will finally be on radio again. BBC Radio 7 will offer the radio play ''The Bookcase''  on May 11, repeated on May 12. Don't panic if You miss it, as there's the always reliable Listen Again section on BBCs homepage.

24-04-2006 ☼ Martin Freeman revealed first plot details concerning Bill's role in Simon Pegg's ''Hot Fuzz'' at UK comedy site funny.co.uk. Wow, this really sounds like a big role for our man. The boss of the boss of the boss of Simon Pegg's character. Ahem.... Read the article here.  

23-04-2006 ☼ September 10th, 2006. BBC radio star and former Poete Laureatus (1972-1984) John Bentjeman would've been 100 years old this year. This will be celebrated with a gala at London's Prince Of Wales Theatre. Amongst the performers being announced is not only Bill Nighy, but illustruous names like Dame Judi Dench, Richard E. Grant and our man's wife, the great Diana Quick (names not confirmed yet). The show will be compered by Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna. Find more details on the event at today's edition of The Independent Online and johnbentjeman.com.  

20-04-2006 ☼ I hope I'll have a guest  like that on my 80th birthday, too. Bill was among the guests on BBC's Broadcasting House, where celebrations for queen Elisabeth's 80th birthday took place. Getty Images offers two pictures, Rex Features got two different ones, and the BBC itself added a comment to one of them in their news (fourth photo in the row). And here is the news (without a mention of Bill, alas).

Charity organisation DebrA UK will put up celebrities' hats for auction on Ebay starting by April 27th. One of those hats is donated by Bill Nighy. The proceeds will go to the benefit of persons suffering from the  genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). I hope to provide You with some more details within the next days.

13-04-2006 ☼ As many online magazines now are reporting, Bill's role in ''Hot Fuzz'' will only be another cameo appearance. (As will be Martin Freeman's) What a pity.

 Rapper and actor Asher D., who will be with Bill Nighy in 'Stormbreaker'', talked about working with Bill on the set to The Voice online.  

05-04-2006 ☼ Wireimage offers location photos of Bill on the set of ''Hot Fuzz''. For more informations on the film see also the news from 20-03-2006. For updates and news on the film You can also visit the site of Working Title.

03-04-2006 ☼ March the 24th Bill was attending the annual Chocolate Ball at the Dorchester in London. This charity event raises money for CLICK Sargent, an organization supporting children and young people diagnosed by cancer or leukaemia in the UK, and their families. Photos can be looked at wireimage and London Features International.

28-03-2006 ☼ ''Underworld: Evolution'' will be released in the USA for Playstation Portable 24-05-2006 and on  special edition DVDs on 06-06-06 (If you look at the date properly You will see that this date will mean the releasement of the beast, too. Yeees...). Containing the fullscreen or the widescreen version the DVDs will also offer a bunch of featurettes, which will hopefully contain enough of our favourite vampire Viktor and his lovely impersonator, Bill Nighy.  

20-03-2006 ☼ cinescape.com is reporting a new film called ''Hot Fuzz''. The film is announced as an action comedy written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the winning team of ''Shaun Of The Dead''. The film's cast will - of course - have our man, Bill Nighy. The rest of the cast does sound very promising: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Steve Coogan, Martin Freeman and Bill Bailey! The film is scheduled for release February  2007.  

19-03-2006 ☼ Some days before the first airing of ''Gideon's Daughter'' on US TV the New York Times is offering an article with interviews bits from Bill Nighy. Read it here.  

10-03-2006 ☼ aintitcool.com now offers a look at the new Davy Jones standee. Look, it nearly looks like Davy still has Bill's chin!  

09-03-2006 ☼ The US release of ''The Magic Roundabout'' as ''Doogal'' alas didn't offer any Bill to the US fans. But there's one positive aspect about it. Finally there's a soundtrack CD. Aaaand it contains ''You Really Got Me'', the song that Dylan and Ermintrude sang together. Aaaand it's the version with Bill's lovely voice! You can order it at the usual places, just search for ''Doogal soundtrack''.  

08-03-2006 ☼ See the first picture of the upcoming Davey Jones 3 3/4'' action figure from ''Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' at the site of NECA. Figures.com also offers a high def photo with more details. Click on the images to get the pictures maximized. Ok, doesn't look very much like Bill, but we knew that before, didn't we?  

07-03-2006 ☼ The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in London will - like last year - have Bill Nighy as its spokesman. The festival will take place from July 29th to August 4th 2006 at the Vue cinema at London's Leicester Square. Find out more at the festival's homepage.  

06-03-2006 ☼ Bill talks about his favourite tunes of the Sixties at The Times.  

05-03-2006 ☼ Premiere dates  for ''Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'': USA: June 24th, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA. UK: July 6th, London (venue yet unknown) Please regard that these dates don't automatically mean Bill will be attending the premieres.  

24-02-2006 ☼ Wednesdays do offer something new for UK Bill Nighy fans. BBC 2 is showing ''The Armstrongs'', 10.00-10-30 p.m. It's a Docusoap about a double-glazing firm, with a voice-over by Bill. It was described as a real-life version of ''The Office''.

23-02-2006 ☼ ''The Constant Gardener'' will be out March 13th on DVD for UK viewers.  

23-02-2006 ☼ Catch a short preview on ''Gideon's Daughter'' on the BBC's site of the film. Also a video interview with Bill. (You'll need Real Player to watch)  

22-02-2006 ☼ Missed 2005's season of the radio play ''No Commitments''? BBC Radio 4 is offering You the chance to catch up. Listen to episode 1 here, and to the following 5 episodes Tuesdays at 6.30 p.m. (GMT) with episode 2 at 28-02-2006.

19-02-2006 ☼ The Independent did a wonderful interview with Bill Nighy. Read about his forthcoming film ''Gideon's Daughter'', the Rolling Stones, awards and the way Bill's unaffected by fame.

13-02-2006 ☼ US residents, watch out: Airing date for ''Gideon's Daughter'' on BBC America will be 25-03-2006, 8 p.m. ET.  

11-02-2006 ☼ Bill on radio finally again! Catch him on Wednesday 15-02-06, 12.45 p.m. (GMT) on BBC Radio 7 reading ''Lunch'', which is ep. 3 of William Boyd's ''Fascination''. Catch this or the reruns at 18.45, 00.45 or at the Listen Again section after.  

11-02-2006 ☼ For all of You UK residents being keen on Bill's new TV film ''Gideon's Daughter''. BBC 1 will show it Sunday, 26 February at 9:00 p.m. The USA will have to wait till March, the rest of us will patiently wait for the European DVD edition to be out 27-02-06.

07-02-2006 ☼ First impressions of ''Flushed Away''! The animated film from the makers of ''Wallace & Gromit'' and the writers of ''Still Crazy'' can now be experienced in a first Sneak Peak on the official site. Before: This is a picture of the character Bill is voicing (the one on the left, seriously, the one on the left).  

02-02-2006 ☼ Not exactly news but a good proof that Bill Nighy is better than anything else can be found on fametracker.com. Like we wouldn't know...  

27-01-2006 ☼ Back from my forced internet abstinence by moving. Thank God Bill is well-behaved and obviously wouldn't do anything important I could've missed to note down for You, dear visiters. ;o) So, what's new? ''Underworld: Evolution'' started 20-01 in the UK and the USA, topping the US box office in the first week. Still, reviews are rather cautious. The official site for ''Underworld: Evolution'' has updated. Find information on the character, a small gallery, a gorgeous wallpaper and an IM icon of Viktor by chosing his name from the character bloodline. Also a small scene from the first Underworld film when the camera symbol appears beneath his picture. You'll need Flashplayer for that.   

14-01-2006 ☼ New video interview with actors and makers about ''Underworld: Evolution'' on hollywood.com. Some new impressions of Bill and a short interview sequence towards the end. And here at movies.com there's the first little scene from the scene. Choose ''What Is Thy Will'' from the list on the right.  

And a little more Bill interview on UHM.

10-01-2006 ☼ ''Meerkat Manor'' will be returning to TV channel Animal Planet. As acquainted by C21media.net a second season of the docu-soap, narrated by Bill Nighy, will premiere later in 2006.  

08-01-2006 ☼ First detailed high resolution photo (screen cap from the teaser trailer) of Davey Jones, Bill's character at ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' at CHUD! It's definitely Bill's eyes, but apart from that... And while we're talking about that film. Here's a quote from the Seattle Times: ''Two words: Johnny Depp. Five more words: Bill Nighy as Davey Jones. Two last words: I'm there.''   

05-01-2006 ☼ The first news in  2006. On the menu there's a delicious press release on ''Gideon's Daughter'' by the BBC. It includes an essay, a synopsis, very interesting interviews with all the actors and Stephen Poliakoff.

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