The Oscar race just got more interesting.
The Weinstein Co. will release the Scott Rudin-produced postwar tale The Reader this year after all, resolving a long-brewing drama between two of the prestige world’s most well-known figures and giving a longtime awards player like Harvey Weinstein a potential buzz candidate.
In a joint statement on Sunday, Rudin and Weinstein said that Stephen Daldry’s period love story told against the backdrop of a war-crimes trial would come out on Dec. 12, in keeping with the plan that for months Weinstein had supported and Rudin had resisted.
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2008 Sep 29
“Reader” release is set
2008 Sep 15
Kate Winslet to play a sex fantasist!
Titanic star Kate Winslet has emerged as the favourite to play protagonist Isadora Wing of a 1973 bestseller.
Directed by Diane English, the movie is an adaptation of Erica Jong’s controversial novel “Fear of Flying” (1973).
English revealed that Winslet is the only actress currently reading the script for the movie.
“I would love to see Kate Winslet in that role,” she said.
Jong hit the headlines with the novel because it chronicles a married woman’s attempts to live out her sexual fantasies.
Source: IANS
2008 Aug 29
Kate to play Lennon’s mother?
Kate Winslet is apparently in the pipeline to play John Lennon’s mother.
The Titanic star is on a list of actresses director Sam Taylor-Wood is looking to approach for the part, according to The Daily Mail.
The film, called Nowhere Boy, will tell the story of the Beatle’s childhood, growing up with his mother and his aunt. The screenplay has been written by Matt Greenhalgh – who won a Bafta for Control, his biopic about Joy Division’s Ian Curtis – and is based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by John’s sister Julia Baird.
Continue reading Kate to play Lennon’s mother?
Let’s assume that Kate Winslet gets nominated for the Oscars again next year, a safe bet considering she usually makes the cut whenever she’s in a worthy film.
Even though she’s only 32 years old, she’s already been nominated and lost five times — that’s a record tally for someone her age. Voters adore her so much that she often gets nominated even when her equally compelling costars don’t: Leo DiCaprio (Titanic) and Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
However, if Winslet gets nommed and is defeated again, she’ll tie another record — Oscar’s biggest loser among actresses — a dubious title currently shared by Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter.
This upcoming year Winslet has two shots at new bids. One is opposite DiCaprio as lover again, this time in Revolutionary Road, director Sam Mendes’ drama about a disillusioned suburban couple faking a happy life. The last time Mendes — who is wed to Winslet in real life — had a film with a similar theme in the derby, it won five Oscars, including best picture of 1999 (American Beauty). It almost won best actress too, but Annette Bening was eclipsed in the home stretch by Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) after Bening won the equivalent kudo at SAG.
Winslet will also be considered for her lead role in The Reader as a mysterious German woman whose secret complicity in the Holocaust gets exposed. The latter comes from the creative team that gave us the overhyped The Hours (director Stephen Daltry, scripter David Hare), which nonetheless swept up kudos galore in 2002, including lead actress Oscar and Golden Globe and BAFTA trophies for Nicole Kidman.
Winslet may be partially to blame for her tragic Oscar fate so far, considering she might have won in 1998 if she hadn’t turned down a role that earned an Academy Award for Gwyneth Paltrow: Shakespeare in Love.
Source: The Envelope
2008 May 18
“Anglo Saxon Attitudes” DVD Release
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (mini-series) — Daniel Craig and Kate Winslet appear in the Andrew Davies-written U.K. Mini-Series
Available in North America on July 1st
| Posted by David Lambert | 5/18/2008 |
The classic British story Anglo Saxon Attitudes, a novel by Angus Wilson, was adapted into a mini-series for U.K. television in 1992 by master storyteller Andrew Davies. The 3-episode production stars Richard Johnson and Tara Fitzgerald, and you can spot both Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) and Kate Winslet (Titanic, Finding Neverland) in one of her first roles.
On July 1st Acorn Media will release a 2-DVD set running 229 minutes, that includes the a Biography of screenwriter Andrew Davies, Program Previews, and Cast Filmographies among the extras. Cost is $39.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$49.99 SRP in Canada. Here is the studio description of this release, followed by the box art:
A darkly comic, take-no-prisoners satire, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes skewers British social and academic hypocrisy to the very core. Richard Johnson (The Camomile Lawn) stars as Gerald Middleton, a distinguished, retired historian coming to terms with his life’s folly.As a student, Middleton witnessed the unearthing of the Melpham idol, a pagan fertility figure that electrified modern medieval scholarship by turning up in the grave of a 7th-century bishop. He also began an affair with Dollie (Tara Fitzgerald) — the fiancée of his best friend, the man who had privately confessed to planting the idol as a hoax. While trying to reveal the truth, Middleton wrestles with his monstrously overbearing wife and their three emotionally dysfunctional children.
Based on the novel by Angus Wilson, the story teems with outlandish characters engaged in all manner of deceit, especially the most damning of all: self-deception.
Source: TVShowsOnDVD.com
2008 Apr 24
News on “The Reader”
A German radio station said that Kate hasn’t finished shooting “The Reader” in Germany yet. They said that she will come back in June to shoot some other scenes in “Kirnitzschtal” (“sächsische Schweiz”), from the 23rd until the 26th June.
Source: Abacho.de
Thanks to Ani for giving this info to us!
2008 Apr 23
Filming: Kate Winslet in Saxony
British actress Kate Winslet visits Saxony, to be exact the nice Saxon Switzerland. But not for holidays but to be in front of the camera to shoot Bernhard Schlink’s bestseller “The Reader”. Kate Winslet came to Saxony again. There are planned several shooting days with the 32-year old star on the footpath in Kirnitzschtal in Saxon Switzerland for the end of June. In March, Winslet already shot several days in Goerlitz.
The Hollywood production “The Reader” took the British for the female leading role as a former concentration camp guard. Originally they provided Nicole Kidman as the leading role. She renounced because of her pregnancy.
The male leading role is played by Ralph Fiennes (“The English Patient”). Direction leads Stephen Daldry (“Billy Elliot”)
Filming already started in fall last year in Berlin.
Source: Die Zeit online
Thanks to Katerina for translating it.
