I don't think we ever reported on it at the time, but back in March Andy Garcia was talking up a film called Hemingway and Fuentes, about the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and his fishing partner and longtime friend Gregorio Fuentes. At the time, Anthony Hopkins was loosely attached to play Hemingway. That casting has now firmed up, and the film will move forward with Annette Bening also aboard...
It was March that I wrote about Anthony Hopkins playing Ernest Hemingway in one of the couple of films about the great writer, and the news today is that he's definitely on the along project along with Annette Bening, and with Andy Garcia producing and directing from a script he co-wrote with Hilary Hemingway, Ernest;s granddaughter. The film is called Hemingway & Fuentes and follows Hemingway...
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Tourist Trap: Johnny Depp is taking a look at the title role in The Tourist , playing an American who gets wrapped up with an Interpol agent, played by Angelina Jolie , on the hunt for her ex-lover. Depp would replace Sam Worthington, who dropped out over creative differences. Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has also left the film, with Alfonso Cuaron in talks to take over. [ Variety ] Weight...
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they've picked up the TIFF hit Mother and Child starring Annette Bening , Naomi Watts, Samuel L Jackson and Kerry Washington. The Rodrigo García adoption drama prompted more than one pundit to declare that The Bening would most definitely be back in the Best Actress Oscar race. But the press release makes no promises about when SPC would be showing...
Sony Classics' deal to acquire Rodrigo Garcia's Mother and Child "came together shortly after Toronto but took some time to close," reports Indiewire's Peter Knegt. The plan is to open it sometime next year so Annette Bening's Best Actress nomination is of course out the window. I remain persuaded that Bening gives the best performance of her career in this film. My initial TIFF gush review...
Film News: Studio nabs rights to Rodrigo Garcia's drama -- Sony Pictures Classics has picked up U.S. rights to Rodrigo Garcia's "Mother and Child," starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.
[All photos by WILL RAGGOZINO for PMc]. Paul McCartney served as Co-Chair a concert to benefit The Actors Fund, held at the Minksoff Theatre last night. Annette Bening and John Stamos were among the many stars who performed in honor of the composer’s centennial. • More photo and story below… • The event, called “Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser“,...
Entertainer Kristin Chenoweth’s unmistakable voice and positive spirit will be on stage when the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts celebrates the grand reopening of the Virginia G. Piper Theater on October 24. The Tony and Emmy-winning singer/actress will headline a benefit that will unveil the new theater and help fund the arts center and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art . Chenoweth...
I saw Medea, the Euripides play from 431 BC, performed at UCLA starring Annette Bening this weekend. The set and staging were a bizarre mix of Los Angeles skid row and Euro-trash techno, but Annette Bening stood above all that...
President Obama speaks tonight at a fundraising banquet for the gay-left Human Rights Campaign , the same group Ted Kennedy joked before last year about Jesse Helms being in Hell . The dinner will also feature entertainment by pop star Lady Gaga and the cast of the Fox prime-time show "Glee," made by infamously raunchy gay producer Ryan Murphy . The dinner and Sunday's National Equality...
Oscar-winning screenwriter Alan Ball . Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening . Tony-winning actor Matthew Broderick . Tony winner Cherry Jones . Academy Award-winner Norman Jewison . Cult-film director and arbiter of good taste John Waters . These are among the dozens of artists, scholars, and film lovers who will be attending this year's Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. Virginia Film Festival...
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