2010 Mar 13

More “Mildred Pierce” cast details

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HBO’s miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce has added several actors, including True Blood‘s Evan Rachel Wood, Guy Pearce and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo.

Brian F. O’Byrne (FlashForward) and James LeGros have also joined the project, which will star Kate Winslet. The adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel follows the title character (Winslet) as she attempts to make a better life for herself and win the love of her ungrateful daughter in Depression-era Los Angeles.

Wood, who next stars in the Robert Redford-directed The Conspirator, will play Mildred’s daughter Veda — which will require her to play younger, Winslet to play older, or both, as in real life Wood is only 12 years younger than Winslet.

Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker) will play Mildred’s wealthy lover, while Leo (Frozen River, Treme) will play her close friend. O’Byrne will be the husband Mildred leaves behind, and LeGros (Mercy) will play Pearce‘s business partner.

Todd Haynes (I’m Not There, Far from Heaven) will direct the miniseries and is co-writing it with Jon Raymond. Filming is set to start in the spring.

Source: Zap2it

2010 Mar 13

Out and about in the West Village

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Kate Winslet speaks to a friend in New York City’s West Village before walking to her kids’ school to pick them up on Thursday. The 34-year-old actress chatted on her cell phone as she headed to pick up her little ones!

GALLERY LINKS:
• Candids: Out and about in the West Village – March 11

2010 Mar 12

HBO has confirmed the cast for “Mildred Pierce”

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Today, HBO announced their cast for the network’s five-hour miniseries, Mildred Pierce, which will begin filming in April. Kate Winslet will play the title character, Guy Pearce will star as Monty Beragon, and Evan Rachel Wood will play Veda Pierce. Melissa Leo, James Le Gros, Brian F. O’Byrne, and Morgan Turner round out the cast.

The miniseries, which follows a single mother and her daughter during the Great Depression, is based on the novel by the same name by James M. Cain.

2010 Mar 12

2009 and 2010 Oscars pics!

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Some more pics from this and last year’s Oscars. At the 2009 Oscars pics, Kate is seem talking with husband Sam Mendes and fellow nominee Angelina Jolie and posing with Best Actor winner Sean Penn and past winner actresses Halle Berry and Marion Cotillard.


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• Award Ceremonies: 81st Annual Academy Awards
• Award Ceremonies: 82nd Annual Academy Awards

2010 Mar 12

James Cameron confirms Titanic 3D date

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Titanic 3D Talking to USA Today, director James Cameron confirmed the target date for a 3D version of his record-breaking epic Titanic.

“We’re targeting spring of 2012 for the release, which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing of the ship.”

Titanic is a 1997 American disaster/romantic/drama film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters are based on historical figures.

Source: TLTnews.net

2010 Mar 12

Open casting call information for “Mildred Pierce” in Peekskill, NY

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There is an open casting call for a new HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, in Peekskill, NY on March 27th.

Grant Wilfley Casting is seeking SAG and NON-SAG men and women who have a 1930s, classic look. Women must have hair that is shoulder length or shorter and natural colored (no highlights). Men must be willing to have their hair cut in a 1930s period style.

The movie will be filming in the Peekskill area mid-late April and they are hoping to cast as many locals as possible. Here are the details:

Paramount Center for the Arts
1008 Brown Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
Saturday March 27, 2010
11am – 2pm

You can also e-mail headshot and information to: mildredpierce@gwcnyc.com

Flyer for casting call for Mildred Pierce

The miniseries, based on the book from 1941 by James M. Cain, tells the story of Mildred Pierce Beragon, a single mother of two daughters in the Great Depression trying to make ends meet, financially and emotionally. It will be directed by Todd Haynes, also a co-writer, who directed I’m Not There and Far from Heaven.

A feature film version of the book was produced in 1945 and starred Joan Crawford, who won an Oscar for best actress for her role as the main character.

2010 Mar 11

Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” plot details revealed

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I’d like to tell you that I was running through an alley with my IESB cohorts after uncovering a Golden Ticket in a Wonka Bar and we were stopped by Slugworth who gave us a classified file containing plot details from the Scott Z. Burns penned script Contagion. That isn’t what happened, but we’ll go with that to establish some street cred for IESB.

To referesh your memory, Contagion is about a killer virus outbreak that spans the globe. If you remember this script was one of the hottest topics in the screenwriting world in February, before WB ended up with distribution and is now co-financing the project with Participant Media on a budget of 60 million.

The Scott Z. Burns penned script already has Steven Soderbergh attached to direct along with an all star cast including: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Laurence Fishburne, and Jude Law. Law just recently came out and discussed his character with Coming Soon, “I play a kind of unbridled blogger who’s a sort of scaremonger,” IESB can confirm that the character’s name is “Krumweide” and he has quite an obsession with conspiracy theories.

We have been told by our good friend “Slugworth” that the story throws you right into the very early stages of this killer virus. Here is his breakdown that he wrote for us on the back of my Wonka’s Whipple Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight wrapper.

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