Month: February 2010

2010 Feb 18

Warner Brothers Infected by Soderberg’s “Contagion”

Written by Annie
Comments are off
Interviews/Articles Personal/Career

Well. That didn’t take very long at all, did it? Who would have thought that a movie directed by Steven Soderberg that will feature Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, and Matt Damon would be acquired so quickly by a big studio?!?

Deadline|Hollywood reports tonight that after a truly heavy bidding war with several different studios including the likes of the Twilight cash-infused Summit Entertainment, Warner Brothers were the one’s who won the cinema prize and they can now proudly call the upcoming film Contagion theirs.

As stated before details concerning the film’s plot aren’t in abundance, but we do know that the story centers on an outbreak of a deadly disease and that the film will have many different plot strings just like Soderberg’s award-winning effort Traffic.

Source: Dread Central

2010 Feb 16

Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’

Written by Annie
Comments are off
Interviews/Articles News Personal/Career

Steven Soderbergh’s virus-outbreak action-thriller Contagion looks to be going from A-list casting to well, more A-list casting.

After the Scott Z. Burns script was recently prioritized over all other Soderbergh projects (Liberace for one), the film is evidently attracting major interest at the European Film Market as “several bidders have offered greenlight commitments.” A $60 million budget is already being mentioned.

Continue reading Gwyneth Paltrow Joins Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’

2010 Feb 15

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Winslet Pal

Written by Annie
Comments are off
Interviews/Articles

Leonardo DiCaprio claims his Titanic and Revolutionary Road co-star Kate Winslet is one of his ”dearest” friends.

Leonardo DiCaprio remains close to Kate Winslet.

The 35-year-old actor, who first worked with Kate on 1997 blockbuster movie Titanic, admitted the film had a profound effect on both of them because of the media attention it heaped on them.

He said: “It wasn’t the era of penetrating internet paparazzi that we have now. But my name wasn’t me anymore. I was sort of this thing.

“Kate felt it too. But a lot of the attention was on me because of the teenage girls who repeatedly went to see the movie. I had the blond hair, and I was Jack Dawson, this heroic figure.”

Despite having to act out a sex scene in their second movie together, Revolutionary Road, in front of Kate’s director husband Sam Mendes, Leonardo said it wasn’t hard to do.

He told Esquire magazine: “Kate Winslet is one of my dearest friends. We have the ultimate trust in each other and the best of intentions for what we want to do. I knew Kate before Sam Mendes even met her.

“So on the outside, it may seem strange to do a sex scene with a woman while her husband is directing. But it didn’t feel that way to me.”

Source: Contactmusic

2010 Feb 14

Winslet to make TV return

Written by Annie
3 Comments   /   Leave a Comment?
Interviews/Articles Personal/Career

Kate Winslet is returning to her television roots – she’s set to appear in a small screen version of James M. Cain’s novel “Mildred Pierce”.
The Titanic star began her acting career on British TV in the 1990s before breaking into Hollywood movies.
Now she’s returning to the small screen in a mini-series of Mildred Pierce, playing a proud single mother in Depression-era Los Angeles.
The Sopranos‘ Ilene Landress will produce the series for U.S. network HBO, while Todd Haynes and Jon Raymond are helming the script.
Joan Crawford starred in the 1945 film adaptation, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Filming on the series is due to start in New York in April (10).

Source: Contactmusic

2010 Feb 14

Penn, Winslet, Cruz to be Oscar presenters

Written by Annie
Comments are off
Interviews/Articles News Personal/Career

Oscar winners Sean Penn, Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz are set to be presenters at the upcoming 82nd Academy Awards show in Los Angeles, producers said.

Penn won the best actor Oscar in 2009 for his work in Milk, Winslet the best actress honor for her performance in The Reader and Cruz the best supporting actress title for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

The late Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded the Oscar for best supporting actor for his turn in The Dark Knight.

The Academy Awards will be presented March 7 in Hollywood, in ceremonies to be televised by ABC.

Source: UPI.com

2010 Feb 09

KWF is networking… ;)

Written by Annie
Comments are off
General News

Now KWF is on Twitter and Facebook – spread the love:

Follow us: http://twitter.com/KWFcom
Become a fan: http://facebook.com/pages/Kate-Winslet-Fan/293711278130

2010 Feb 09

Soderbergh’s “Contagion” Infects Matt Damon, Kate Winslet

Written by Annie
4 Comments   /   Leave a Comment?
Interviews/Articles News Personal/Career

A sneeze launched on the set of The Informant! has forced Stephen Soderbergh to clear his calendar and make way for the resulting Contagion, which has attracted the likes of Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Marion Cotillard.

The four are set to star in Sodergbergh’s new film from a script by Informant screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, in which the “nature of a virus (is) used to deal with ‘issues of sovereignty’ and as a metaphor for the way ‘information and misinformation travel’ in contemporary society,” The Playlist reported last fall.

Continue reading Soderbergh’s “Contagion” Infects Matt Damon, Kate Winslet