‘Cinderella’ is one of the featured films during the D23 Expo in Brazil and someone shared a picture (probably a promotional one) of Lily as Cinderella and her co-star Richard Madden as Prince Charming. Make sure to take a look, enjoy! (thanks for the heads-up and credit goes to the rightful owner).

DEADLINE – The six-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic War And Peace is beginning to cast up. I hear that Downton Abbey’s Lily James and Prisoners’ Paul Dano have offers for lead roles and are seriously circling. The mini hails from BBC Worldwide, The Weinstein Co and Ripper Street‘s Look Out Point. Described as one of the most ambitious event series ever made for the BBC, it will be produced by BBC Cymru Wales and scripted by Andrew Davies. James would play Natasha Rostova, one of the novel’s central characters who ultimately falls in love with Pierre Bezukhov, the awkward illegitimate son who rises in society but leads a tumultuous life as he seeks to overcome his emotions. Dano would play Pierre. In King Vidor’s 1956 feature adaptation, the roles were played by Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda.

The notoriously expansive novel begins in 1805 Russia and centers on five aristocratic families set against the backdrop of the reign of Alexander I, the lingering effects of his grandmother Catherine The Great’s rule and the events surrounding Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. Executive producers on the mini are BBC Cymru Wales drama chief Faith Penhale, BBC Wales’ George Ormond, Davies, Look Out Point’s Simon Vaughn and Harvey Weinstein.

The miniseries is due for air in the UK in 2015 and was a first sign of The Weinstein Co’s ambitions to forge into the European TV arena when it was announced last October. The company subsequently teamed with the BBC and Look Out on upcoming TV movie Stan And Ollie which is being scripted by Philomena’s Jeff Pope. TWC also acquired U.S. TV and VOD rights for the first three seasons of BBC Two’s Peaky Blinders.

James, who plays Lady Rose on Downton, will next be seen in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella. She is repped by Tavistock Wood Management in the UK and by UTA. Dano, who was in Oscar winner 12 Years A Slave last year, is playing Brian Wilson in Beach Boys biopic Love & Mercy which is screening in Toronto, and stars in Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino’s next film, The Early Years. He’s repped by WME.

Watch below a great interview with Cinderella‘s director Kenneth Branagh. Enjoy!

TV GUIDE – Last year, Downton Abbey went through a transitional season dealing with major loss but also laying the groundwork for what could be a very intriguing fifth season.

Before the series returns stateside on Sunday, Jan. 4 on PBS’ Masterpiece, the cast — Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech along with executive producer Gareth Neame — attended the Television Critics Association fall previews on Tuesday to present select clips from the upcoming season. Here’s what we can expect:

Only six months have passed, so that places the new season around 1924. We see the family and servants gathered around a radio to hear the king. Carson (Jim Carter) is not impressed.

Rose (Lily James) She has a hunky new man in her life, and it appears that she may not be using him this time! Maybe.

Mary Crawley (Dockery) Meet the new Lady Mary! Dockery said that she’s pushed past her grief and is embracing her new life, which means that she’s “got a bit of her bite back.” She also continues to be torn between her two suitors, and Lord Blake (Julian Ovenden) observes that she’s far more clever than Lord Gillingham (Tom Cullen).. There’s also talk of the difference between sex and love. Scandalous!

Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) Well, well, well, it appears that the Dowager Countess runs deep. In one teaser clip, we are introduced to Prince Kuragin (guest star Rade Sherbedgia) and then suddenly hear Mary exclaim, “Granny has a past.” Go, Granny!
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Lily and ‘Downton Abbey’ co-star Laura Carmichael are featured in the July 15, 2014 issue of Grazia UK magazine. They talk about their time together at the Glastonbury Music Festival. (Thanks to FSR)

According to the Daily Mail, Lily has joined the cast of ‘Adam Jones’ alongside Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. We do not have more information about it, her name is just mentioned but it could be the new project Lily talked about in her interview for Glamour.

DAILY MAIL – Yum, yum! Culinary fever has hit the movies. Ovens are hot!

Sienna Miller will play a sous chef in the new Bradley Cooper film Adam Jones.
Cooper plays the title character: a genius cook who returns to London after a period away from the kitchen, detoxifying.

Now he wants a third Michelin star, and assembles an A-list line-up to help him.

Many of the actors spent a day with Marcus Wareing at his two Michelin-starred Marcus restaurant at the Berkeley in Knightsbridge, to prepare for their roles.

Sienna practised her chopping skills, and watched how Wareing and his colleagues worked their magic with food. (The actress has been busy: she’s been shooting another film, Black Mass, with Johnny Depp, in which she has to age from 28 to 76.)

Adam Jones, which has a script by Steven Knight, will start filming soon, in and around London.

Director John Wells and his casting team, with help no doubt from producer Harvey Weinstein, have gathered a cast that includes Emma Thompson, Daniel Bruhl, Riccardo Scamarcio (Italy’s answer to Brad Pitt), Lily James, Jamie Dornan and Alicia Vikander.

Cooper told me about Adam Jones (then titled Chef) two years ago. In the meantime, Jon Favreau made his own foodie movie, also called Chef, which has developed a cult following.

Then there’s The 100-Foot Journey, an enormously charming tale of rival restaurateurs in France, starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, which will open on September 5 (it also features Manish Dayal and Charlotte LeBon).

Why are these movies so popular? Oscar-winning Helen summed it up succinctly. ‘We all like to eat.

RADIO TIMES – Downton Abbey has been nominated for 12 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy awards, including nods for outstanding drama series and directing.

We’re sure the inhabitants of the grand country pile – both upstairs and down – would be very pleased.

Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary, was nominated for leading actress, while Maggie Smith and Joanne Froggatt, who play Violet Crawley and Anna Bates respectively, are vying for the supporting actress gong.

When it comes to the boys, Jim Carter, who plays Mr Carson, is up for outstanding supporting actor and Paul Giamatti, who starred in the Christmas episode as Cora’s brother Harold Levinson, has been recognised in the outstanding guest actor in a drama series category.

The hit period drama, which is written by Julian Fellowes, has also received nominations in art direction, costume, hairstyling, music composition and sound mixing.

Downton, which has 10 Emmy wins under its belt so far, was nominated in the same number of categories last year, but picked up only music composition.

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards take place on 25 August 2014.

Lily and ‘Downton Abbey’ co-star Laura Carmichael attend the mens singles final between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer during the Wimbledon Championships on July 6, 2014 in London.