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2010 Mar 12

James Cameron confirms Titanic 3D date

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 11

Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion” plot details revealed

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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2010 Feb 27

Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood join HBO’s “Mildred Pierce”

HBO’s planned five-hour miniseries remake of the classic film Mildred Pierce is off to a grand start. First, Kate Winslet signed on to star as the title character, taking over the role owned by Joan Crawford in the original 1945 picture, itself based on James M. Cain’s novel of the same name published in 1941. To direct, the network secured I’m Not There maker Todd Haynes. And now, the sure-to-be-Emmy-gold project has two more stars on board: the not-cast-enough Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker) and Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler).

There’s no word yet as to which roles the two of them will play; the announcement came from Production Weekly’s Twitter yesterday. Chances are, Pearce will play Winslet’s unemployed husband, and Wood her go-getting oldest daughter Veda. The production will take place in New York from April to June.

Source: reelloop

2010 Feb 26

Mildred Pierce: the cast gets bigger!

Kate poses with Guy Pearce at the 2010 BAFTAs After Party The shooting for the Mildred Pierce HBO mini-series will begin on April 12 and end on June 1. In addition, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce are now officially part of the cast! Evan Rachel Wood will probably play Mildred’s youngest daughter. Chloë Sevigny is in talks to play Vera, the eldest daughter.

Source: Eternal-Kate.net

2009 Feb 19

TIME Cover: Best Actress – Why It’s Kate Winslet

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Best Actress – Why it’s Kate Winslet
By Mark Harris

It’s 11 days before the Academy Awards, and Kate Winslet is giving her third best performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City’s Oak Room at which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it’s designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It’s also intended to defuse complaints that the movie’s treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend — oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail! — a bris.

But above all, this midday fete is engineered to give the movie’s star one final turn in the spotlight. By the time Winslet arrives, she has already participated in several hours of diligent self-exposure that day, illuminating for both Larry King and the women of The View the complexities of pretending to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in the bleak marital drama Revolutionary Road while the film’s director, Sam Mendes — her husband — watched.

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2008 Nov 11

Kate Winslet’s dual Best Actress nomination Oscar dilemma

British actress Kate Winslet has placed herself in a dilemma after two of her major movies were slotted for release at the same time.

The movies could get Winslet, who has been nominated for an Academy Award five times, another nomination for Best Actress, which is impossible as the Academy does not allow for two nominations.

According to Fox news, the only solution to the problem would be that Winslet could be touted for Best Actress in Revolutionary Road, directed by husband Sam Mendes, and for Best Supporting Actress in The Reader, from director Stephen Daldry.

Two different studios are handling the movies, Paramount for Revolutionary Road, and Weinstein Company for The Reader.

Source: Newstrack India

2008 Nov 05

Kate Winslet: Not airbrushed this time

A day after Kate Winslet said in a Vanity Fair interview she still feels like the “fat kid,” critics in Britain, her home country, are lining up to claim she still is, People magazine reports.

But the svelte five-time Oscar nominee isn’t having it: “Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed,” her rep told People.

The closest scrutiny comes from the Daily Mail, which engaged an airbrush artist to perform an autopsy on Winslet, who was shot wearing heels, black stockings and nothing else.

“She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots,” her rep added.

In 2003 Britain’s GQ magazine – a stablemate of Vanity Fair – ran digitally “slimmed” photos of Winslet that drew much criticism. Within days Winslet apologized. “I just didn’t want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I’d suddenly lost 30 pounds or whatever,” she said then. “So I just came out and said, ‘Look, I don’t look like that.'”

Source: Newsday.com