American Film Market 2009
The 30th American Film Market (AFM) to be held in Santa Monica between Nov. 4-11 will screen 445 films in 27 languages, including 73 world premieres and 311 market premieres, to an expected 8,000-plus film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries.
Films making their world and/or market premieres include Get Low (above, top photo), starring Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall (K5 International); Unthinkable, starring Samuel L. Jackson (Sierra Pictures); Harry Brown, starring Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer (HanWay Films); Within The Whirlwind, directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Emily Watson (Telepool GmbH); Coach, starring Hugh Dancy, Liane Balaban and Mamie Gummer (Lightning Entertainment); [...]
by Anna Robinson | October 14, 2009
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Tags: American Film Market, Annette Bening, Ben Barnes, Bill Murray, Chloe, Colin Firth, Dorian Gray, Get Low, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Los Angeles Screenings, Max Thieriot, Mother and Child, Robert Duvall
Golden Globes 2005
2004 Golden Globes
2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
Best Motion Picture – Drama
* The Aviator
Closer
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
The Phantom of the Opera
Ray
* Sideways
Best Foreign Language Film
Les Choristes / The Chorus (France)
Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries (Brazil / Argentina / US)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement (France)
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Spain / France / Italy)
Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2005
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Tags: Annette Bening, Clint Eastwood, Clive Owen, Film Awards, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2005, Hilary Swank, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Natalie Portman, Sideways, The Aviator
BEING JULIA – Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons
Being Julia (2004)
Direction: István Szabó
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood; from W. Somerset Maugham’s 1937 novel Theatre
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Shaun Evans, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Punch, Michael Gambon, Sheila McCarthy, Leigh Lawson, Rosemary Harris, Rita Tushingham
A LITTLE ABOUT AVICE
In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 Oscar-winning classic All About Eve, Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a major Broadway star who, despite her talent and wit, falls prey to the ambitious wannabe Eve Harrington: sweet, soft-spoken Anne Baxter on the outside, ruthless, poisonous gargoyle on the inside.
More than a decade earlier, in 1937 to be exact, W. Somerset Maugham had written Theatre, a novel about a West End star, the stage diva Julia Lambert (that four years later would [...]
by Andre Soares | December 26, 2004
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Tags: Adorable Julia, Annette Bening, Being Julia, Bruce Greenwood, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, István Szabó, Jeremy Irons, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Ronald Harwood, Shaun Evans, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees, W. Somerset Maugham
Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2004
2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 20, 2004
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church in Sideways
BEST FILM Sideways
Runners-up:
Million Dollar Baby
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kinsey
The Incredibles
Finding Neverland
Ray
The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
Before Sunset
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Maria Full of Grace
Runner-up: A Very Long Engagement
BEST DIRECTOR Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
BEST ACTOR Jamie Foxx, Ray
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening, Being Julia
Runner-up: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Laura Linney, Kinsey
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
Runner-up: [...]
by Andre Soares | December 20, 2004
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Tags: Alexander Payne, Annette Bening, Being Julia, Fahrenheit 9/11, Film Awards, Jamie Foxx, Maria Full of Grace, Sideways, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
National Board of Review Awards 2004
2004 National Board of Review Awards
2004 National Board of Review Awards: Dec. 1, 2004
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet in Finding Neverland
Best Film
Finding Neverland
Top Ten Films
Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda
Best Foreign-Language Film
Mar adentro / The Sea Inside
Top Five Foreign Films
The Sea Inside, La Mala educación / Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, Les Choristes / The Chorus, Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Documentary
Born Into Brothels
Top Five Documentaries
Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Super Size Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel
Best Animated Feature
The Incredibles
Best Director
Michael Mann, Collateral
Best Actor
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Best Acting [...]
by Andre Soares | December 1, 2004
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Tags: Annette Bening, Born into Brothels, Closer, Film Awards, Finding Neverland, Jamie Foxx, Laura Linney, Michael Mann, The Sea Inside, Thomas Haden Church
THE WOMEN Remake in the Works
According to Variety, Clare Boothe Luce’s mordant comedy The Women may be headed for the big screen for the third time in 65 years. With New Line as the potential distributor, the new remake would be the feature-film début (as writer-director) of Diane English, best known as the creator and writer of the TV series Murphy Brown.
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock, and Ashley Judd are currently in negotiations to appear in the film, while Uma Thurman has been mentioned as a possible addition to the stellar cast. (Bening is supposed to take over the old Norma Shearer role, all sweetness and light — which would mean that Meg Ryan would be playing against type, as a scheming husband [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: Annette Bening, Clare Boothe Luce, Classic Movies, Diane English, George Cukor, Joan Crawford, June Allyson, Meg Ryan, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, The Women
San Sebastián Film Festival 2004
This year, the San Sebastián Film Festival will present a retrospective dedicated to Woody Allen, whose Melinda and Melinda (above, with Will Ferrell and Radha Mitchell) will have its world premiere on opening night. American actors Jeff Bridges and Annette Bening, for their part, will be honored with lifetime achievement awards.
The festival, which takes place on Spain’s Basque coast, is currently being used as a launching pad for movies made in Latin America via its fifteen-film sidebar Horizontes Latinos.
The 52nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off on September 17; nine days later, a jury headed by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will give out the Golden Shell to one [...]
by Andre Soares | September 11, 2004
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Tags: Annette Bening, Film Festivals, Jeff Bridges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Melinda and Melinda, Omagh, Radha Mitchell, San Sebastian Film Festival, Will Ferrell, Woody Allen
