Category: News

2011 Dec 15

Kate Winslet gets double Golden Globe nominations!

Kate has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in Carnage and also for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in Mildred Pierce, which was also nominated for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.

Also, Kate’s Carnage co-star Jodie Foster is nominated in the same category as Kate.

And last but not least, Kate’s Mildred Pierce co-stars Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel wood were also nominated!

Double congratulations to Kate! And congratulations to Jodie, Guy and Evan as well! :D

2011 Nov 27

Kate Winslet to move in with new beau

Kate Winslet, who presently shares a $2.2 million New York apartment with ex-husband Sam Mendes, now looks forward for a live-in relationship with new beau Ned Rocknroll.

The pair has been inseparable since their meeting on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island this summer.

“Kate and Ned have barely spent a day apart since they met,” the Daily Mail quoted a friend as saying.

“They have been traveling together recently but are hoping to find a base that they can call home.”

“Sam isn’t keen on them moving into the New York place, which they own jointly, so Kate is looking for something else, either in the States or Britain,” the friend added.

Source: Hindustan Times

2011 Nov 09

Kate Winslet waxwork joins Madame Tussauds

The Titanic star is a new addition to Madame Tussauds and has been placed with other British acting talents such as Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench.

Model-makers spent months perfecting the figure of Winslet, 36, who won an Emmy for her title role in miniseries Mildred Pierce earlier this year.

The wax replica has been draped in the red cap-sleeve Elie Saab dress which she wore to collect her prize at the ceremony.

Recent additions have included Rihanna and Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas.

Rihanna’s figure features one of her many tattoos, which starts on the right side of her stomach and extends so it is parallel with her bum cheek.

It took four months to complete and cost £150,000 to create.

The model stands alongside Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and the late Amy Winehouse in the museum’s music section.

A sexy Kylie Minogue wax model caused controversy when it was unveiled in 2002.

The singer was posed on all fours, dressed in a red silk basque and thigh-length leather boots, in racy underwear.

The skirt on the figure reportedly had to be lengthened after fans kept lifting it up to look at her famous bottom.

Source: The Telegraph

2011 Oct 28

Yasmina Reza and Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” will get December release in NY and LA

Carnage, the screen adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning comedy God Of Carnage, starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly, will be released in New York and Los Angeles December 16.

The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival September 1, and received its U.S. debut as part of the New York Film Festival later that month. It will be screened in limited release in New York and Los Angeles beginning December 16. Additional nationwide dates will follow.

Reza (Art, Life (x) 3) and director Roman Polanski collaborated on the film, which is set in Park Slope, Brooklyn, but was filmed in Paris. God Of Carnage centers on two sets of upper-middle class parents who attempt and fail to resolve a playground dispute between their children. A discussion over coffee and clafoutis turns into an animalistic battle of the sexes.

Continue reading Yasmina Reza and Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” will get December release in NY and LA

2011 Sep 25

Inside Kate Winslet’s “sexy” fling with Richard Branson’s nephew

Rocknroll new romance for Kate Winslet!

The Oscar winning actress, 35, is dating Richard Branson’s nephew Ned Abel Smith — a.k.a. Ned Rocknroll — a source confirms to Us Weekly.

The duo arrived together at last Tuesday’s memorial service for Ted Branson (Richard Branson’s father) at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The Daily Mail reports that Ned, 33, legally changed his name to “Ned Rocknroll” several years back, and recently separated from his wife Eliza, the daughter of a British viscount.

“Ned is really happy with Kate,” the source tells Us, adding that the couple are currently spending a romantic weekend in the English countryside. Mildred Pierce star Winslet is “mature and has it all together,” the source explains. “[Ned] feels he can learn so much from her. It’s sexy — a boy toy situation!”

An old friend of the Branson family, Winslet was famously a guest on Richard Branson’s private Necker Island in late August when the house she was staying in caught fire; Winslet ended up carrying Eve, Branson’s elderly mother, out of the burning building.

Winslet wasn’t a solo visitor during her momentous Necker Island stay. In addition to her kids Mia, 10, and Joe, 7, the star’s fellow guest was Louis Dowler, her on-and-off model beau.

No word yet on exactly when Winslet and Dowler parted ways.

Source: UsMagazine.com

2011 Sep 23

The Golden Hat Foundation news!

Some news concerning the Golden Hat Foundation, the association which Kate created to help autistic children. First of all, here is exclusively the coverage of the book which will unite the photographs of numerous stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Meryl Streep, Christina Aguilera, Angelina Jolie, Ellen Page, Naomi Watts, Julianne Moore, Jude Law, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and many others. The launch of the book is due April 2012.

I also added screen captures of Kate’s interview in which she speaks about her foundation and about the support of Lancôme (which will take out a special range of making-up some time in November 2011, which benefits will go to the Golden Hat Foundation). Video is available in the sidebar.


GALLERY LINKS:
• Miscellaneous: The Golden Hat Foundation
• Miscellaneous: The Golden Hat Foundation interview – Screen Captures

Many thanks to Eternal-Kate.net!

2011 Sep 11

Paramount picks up Jason Reitman’s “Labor Day” with Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin

It’s official: movie number five for Jason Reitman will be Labor Day, and it will be produced through Paramount Pictures. This romantic drama, which sounds like quite a departure, finds a single mother who takes in a mysterious drifter with a dangerous past. Things get heated, erupting in a passionate affair over the titular holiday. While this seems like the type of thing we’d love with Shelley Winters and Robert Mitchum from the pen of Tennessee Williams, instead this is from the book by Joyce Maynard, with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as the illicit couple. Eh, not a huge downgrade.

Production on the film starts next June for a summer shoot, making this Reitman’s fourth collaboration with Paramount — Juno emerged via Fox Searchlight. It’s definitely a stretch for Reitman, who didn’t know a single moment of sincerity he couldn’t spike with air quotes, but we’d love to see what sort of chemistry exists between Brolin and Winslet.

Reitman’s latest, Young Adult, hits December 9th. The word seems uncertain as to the film’s status as an Oscar player, but Reitman’s last two films, Juno and Up In The Air, were pretty big contenders with a certain subset of voters. Paramount locking in Labor Day suggests a certain amount of confidence in Young Adult. In other words, this is a pretty cushy arrangement. Hey Jason, if you’re reading, can we borrow some money?

Source: The Playlist