Helen Mirren Articles
European Film Awards: Little Oscar Influence
Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in Stephen Frears‘ The Queen The European Film Awards usually don’t have much of an influence on the Academy Awards. Part of the reason is that many of the European Academy’s nominated movies aren’t eligible for the Hollywood Academy’s awards, whether because they were in the running earlier in the year or because they won’t have their qualifying Los Angeles run [...]
Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese: DGA Honors Presenters
Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, and Martin Scorsese will be presenters at the eighth Directors Guild of America Honors, to be held at the DGA Theater in New York City on Thursday, October 13. Actor and talk-show host Richard Belzer will serve as Master of Ceremonies. [Photo: Alice Guy Blaché.] Meryl Streep will present the DGA Honor to her Julie & Julia director-writer Nora Ephron. Helen [...]
Box Office: Helen Mirren-Sam Worthington’s THE DEBT, Other New Entries Still Short of $20 Million
Helen Mirren, The Debt The Help was once again the no. 1 movie at the US/Canada box office on Tuesday, Sept. 7, grossing $1.34 million according to Box Office Mojo. The Help cast features Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, Chris Lowell, and Mike Vogel. Writer-director Tate Taylor adapted Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling [...]
Sam Worthington-Helen Mirren’s THE DEBT Opens Modestly; APOLLO 18, SHARK NIGHT 3D Tank: Box Office
Sam Worthington, The Debt Tate Taylor-Emma Stone-Viola Davis’ THE HELP Box Office: First Consecutive Three-Day Weekend at the Top Since Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION Starring Avatar’s Sam Worthington, Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, The Help and The Tree of Life’s Jessica Chastain, two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Marton Csokas, and Jesper Christensen, the Focus Features/Miramax espionage thriller The Debt earned a relatively modest [...]