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Much Ado About Nothing (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Trademark: [Kenneth Branagh] Frequent Branagh composer Patrick Doyle is cast as Balthasar.
  
  
• Much of the singing was not re-recorded.
  
  
• Set in Messina (Sicily) but filmed in Chianti (Toscana, central Italy).
  
  
• Kate Beckinsale shot this film during her summer break from studying Russian and French at New College, Oxford.
  
  
• The entire final scene showing the whole cast singing and dancing to "Hey Nonny Nonny" is a single shot.
  
  
• Judi Dench was offered the role of Ursula.
  
  
• During the Oscar season in early 1994 The Samuel Goldwyn company spent $10 million campaigning the film to garner the film Oscar nominations. They sent bulky packets to all members of the academy and played up the film in hopes of getting their film on the final ballot. The effort was all for naught; the film, though highly acclaimed and (unusually for Shakespeare) a box-office hit, received no Oscar nominations whatsoever.
  
  
• Like the 1966 film, this film casts a real-life (at the time) married couple in the leads. In the earlier film, it was Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith. In this film, it is Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.
  
  
• Three "Harry Potter" professors have roles in this movie. Kenneth Branagh was Gilderoy Lockhart, 'Emma Thompson' was Sybil Trelawney, and Imelda Staunton was Dolores Unbridge.
  
  
• First cinema film of Kate Beckinsale.
  
  

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