Titanic‘s Rose and Hollywood’s Kate has fond memories of the iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen who committed suicide on the fateful day of 11th February, 2010. In fact, her wardrobe shall vouch for that.
Kate Winslet is now happily married to director Sam Mendes but the stunner had tied the knot in 1998 with her 1st husband Jim Threapleton. And it was McQueen who had been entrusted the responsibility of draping her beautiful frame with her 1st wedding gown. Though, the matrimonial alliance eventually ended with a divorce, it did bear some fruits in the form of a baby girl, Mia. And the Oscar winning actress cherishes the memories of the day she adorned herself with her 1st bridal outfit.
Category: Personal/Career
2010 Feb 22
Winslet treasures McQueen wedding dress
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
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 14
Winslet to make TV return
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
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
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
2009 Sep 17
Kate Winslet to narrate documentary on autism
Brit actress Kate Winslet is all set to narrate a new documentary about an Icelandic mother trying to come to terms with her son’s autism.
Winslet, 33, was compelled to agree to do the narration for director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s The Sunshine Boy after she watched footage that he had sent her. The film chronicles film producer Margret Dagmar Ericsdottir as she struggles to understand her severely autistic son Keli.
“I am delighted and honoured that Kate agreed to do the narration,†Contactmusic quoted her as saying. “Her contribution plays an instrumental role in increasing awareness for autism, which many claim is the world’s fastest-growing epidemic,†she added.
The Sunshine Boy is expected to receive rave reviews when it debuts as part of the Real to Reel section of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12. The flick will feature musical contributions from Icelandic stars Björk and Sigur Ros.
