Archive for August, 2008
| All you need is Kate Winslet Friday, August 29th, 2008 Kate Winslet is one of several actresses the artist and celebrated film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood wants to meet on the long and winding road to finding someone to portray John Lennon’s mother in a film about the music legend’s early life. |
| Minghella-Pollack film eyes Oscar run Thursday, August 28th, 2008 After a successful screening in New York of “The Reader,” the Weinstein Co. has decided to release the film for Oscar contention this year. The film stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes and was directed by Stephen Daldry. |
| McAvoy & Blunt to be Gnomeo & Juliet Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 What’s in a name? Well, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are about find out, as they’re in talks to lend their voices to the title roles of Gnomeo and Juliet, a ‘tooned-up version of the Bard’s tragedy from Miramax and Elton John’s Rocket Pictures. Kate Winslet was tapped two years ago to voice Juliet, but she was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. |
| Revolutionary Road: Movie Preview Monday, August 18th, 2008 In fact, Winslet is still reeling from the experience of paving Revolutionary Road with her most intimate relationships, both on camera and off. ‘’It was almost as though we just had a car crash and our car had rolled five times down a hill,'’ she says in one breathless burst, ‘’and then we walked out completely unscathed going, ‘Wow, f— me, we’re alive!”’ |
| An awkward love triangle: Kate, Leo and Sam Mendes Thursday, August 14th, 2008 “We knew that if we were going to do something again, it had to be something big and emotional,” Winslet says. “`Revolutionary Road’ is so painful and beautiful to read, simply because of the brutality of the honesty that Frank and April end up experiencing together” |
| Kate and Leo reunited Friday, August 1st, 2008 There’s a chance of a further nomination for Stephen Daldry’s movie The Reader, but shooting on that picture was completed just a few weeks ago and it may not be ready for release this year. |
