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2010 Apr 01

“Contagion” characters have been named!

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The casting for the much anticipated Contagion has finally been revealed!

Jude Law will play blogger Alan Krumwiede, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow will play husband and wife, Beth and Thomas Emhoff. Beth is one of the first to catch the virus, while her husband Thomas, seems mysteriously immunized against it. Meanwhile, Marion Cotillard will be based in the skin of Dr. Leonora Orantes. Finally, Kate will play Dr. Erin Mears, the colleague of Dr. Ellis Cheever, played by Laurence Fishburne.

For more information, click on the link below:

The Playlist: Details on Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion virus film, including who plays who

2010 Mar 29

Kate Winslet wants to move out

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Kate Winslet wants to move out of the New York apartment she shared with estranged husband Sam Mendes.

The 34-year-old actress is reportedly desperate to leave the $6 million property in the Chelsea district of the city because of all the memories it holds. Since Kate and Sam announced they were splitting after almost seven years of marriage, the director has been living in the same converted warehouse building as his office is based there.

“Kate really wants to leave the apartment,” a source told the New York Post newspaper. “She sees it as a house of horrors because of the fights she and Sam had there. She feels it is tainted.”

However, Kate looks set to spend several more months living in the apartment because she is due to begin filming new TV mini-series Mildred Pierce, which is based on a novel by James M. Cain in New York.

It has been claimed Kate and Sam are keen to avoid a high-profile court battle to agree on custody arrangements for the two children they raise together — six-year-old son Joe and Mia Honey, Kate’s daughter with ex-husband Jim Threapleton — and to split their shared fortune, worth an estimated $45 million.

Kate and Sam married in May 2003 on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. After announcing the split earlier this month, it emerged they had parted ways earlier in the year and had reportedly grown apart following a series of arguments.

Source: Stuff.co.nz

2010 Mar 29

Kate Winslet is inspired by Jodie Foster

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Kate and Jodie The Oscar-winning actress was deeply affected by Jodie’s 1988 movie The Accused, in which she portrays a woman who is raped.

Jodie won a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Sarah Tobias, and Kate says the film was what made her want to become an actress.

“The Accused just completely shattered me,” she explained. “I remember watching that film and thinking, ‘Now I understand what acting is.’ I realized that acting does not really exist because you don’t act. What you do is just be. And I feel like Jodie taught me that through her work.”

Kate and Jodie first met at the 1996 Golden Globe Awards, when Kate introduced herself to Jodie. Since then, they have always made time for each other at such ceremonies, and have become friends.

Jodie respects Kate greatly, admitting she thinks she thoroughly deserved her 2008 Oscar for The Reader. “Since we first met we’ve had a couple of minutes backstage at events where we’re all dressed up and trying to get our girdles in line,” Jodie told the British edition of InStyle magazine. “But I have to say, Kate’s performance in The Reader really touched me. There was so much beauty to the character, but she also had a coarseness. As a director, I love seeing somebody on screen where I feel like I’m behind her eyes and that’s how I felt watching it.”

Source: Musicrooms.net

2010 Mar 28

Hundreds try out in Peekskill for Winslet miniseries

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Acting hopefuls lined up Saturday hoping to be seen on the street with actress Kate Winslet — in the 1930s.

Next month she is coming here to film an HBO miniseries remake of Mildred Pierce that is set in that period.

While many donned period clothes, the sight of the casting location, the Paramount Center for the Arts, got professionals and amateurs in the mood.

The theater opened June 26, 1930, and shines from renovations.

From just after 8 a.m. to nearly 2 p.m. Saturday those wanting to be extras in the April 26-30 filming waited for a chance to smile briefly for a casting director.

“We’re coming to shoot in Peekskill,” said Grant Wilfley of Grant Wilfley Casting Inc. “There is wonderful architecture here … and we will need a lot of people for street scenes.”

He will need about 200 actors, though 640 men, women and children showed up. The pay is $88 a day for one or two days. Hairstylists might trim women’s hair to shoulder length and crop men’s hair to fit the style of the times, Wilfley warned. And women of that era did not have highlighted hair, so those with that current style might have to wear a hat or consent to a new color.

Some people already looked as if they had popped in from the 1930s, or thereabouts. Young boys wore knicker-length pants, women in red lipstick donned waist-hugging dresses, and men slicked back their hair and sported narrow ties and classic hats.

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2010 Mar 27

Kate Winslet movie parts draws hundreds to Peekskill

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Would-be actors lined up along Brown Street winding around Division Street this morning hoping to be chosen as an “extra” in the upcoming HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet in the role that won Joan Crawford a Best Actress Oscar. The story is based on the 1941 novel by James Cain.

The story takes place in the 1930s, casting director Grant Wilfley told the candidates who came to the Paramount Center for the Arts, where the casting call was held.

The movie makers expect to film in Peekskill April 26-30 and today were looking to find people to be in street scenes.

Michael Santosuso, 43, from Thornwood, was first on line. He arrived at 8:30 a.m. for the 11 a.m. start time.

“I’ve always been interested in acting, films and the arts so I thought I would try,” said the technology manager who was out of work. He said he has done some commercials and small projects. Today, he added a little extra gel to his short hair so help him look a bit more 1930-ish.

Read more about this casting call in Peekskill tomorrow in The Journal News/Lohud.com

Source: LoHud.com | The Journal News

2010 Mar 23

Kate Winslet: “I’ve had my heart broken”

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She’s currently dealing with the somber fact that her marriage has fallen apart, and Kate Winslet fittingly spoke with press prior to the divorce announcement about dealing with heartbreak.

“I’m no stranger to heartbreak or rejection,” she told OK! magazine. “I’ve always been quite emotional, but when something like that happens, you have to find a way to move on.”

Splitting from Sam Mendes, her husband of seven years, Miss Winslet continued, “I went through that as a teenager. I was always falling for the wrong guy, or I was the girl who never got the guy.”

Meanwhile, insiders tell that Kate and Sam used to fight about their career paths, with a source dishing, “Sam told friends Kate would talk about the film the moment they woke up, and it was overbearing. They went stir-crazy and argued more than ever. Kate told Sam, ‘Your career is not more important than mine.'”

Source: GossipCenter.com

2010 Mar 19

New film project: “Which Brings Me to You”

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Apparently Kate has signed to play the role of Jane in Which Brings Me To You, the new project from director Susanne Bier! The beautiful English actress will be accompanied by Bradley Cooper in the role of Will, and the talented Natalie Portman. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name.

Summary: two romantic burnouts meet at a wedding and almost consummate their lust before putting the brakes on. They agree to exchange candid confessions about their pasts on the off chance that this might be the real thing.