Tag: titanic

2007 Apr 24

Kathy Bates joins “Titanic” castmates in drama

Kathy Bates has signed on to re-team with her Titanic co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the 1950s drama Revolutionary Road.

The film revolves around a suburban Connecticut couple whose relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations. Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, will direct the DreamWorks project from an adaptation of Richard Yates’ acclaimed 1961 novel.

Bates will play Mrs. Givings, who sells the couple their home and introduces them to the town. David Harbour will play Shep Campbell, a neighbor. Michael Shannon will play the son of Bates’ character. And Zoe Kazan will play Maureen, secretary of DiCaprio’s character, with whom she embarks on an affair.

Shooting begins outside New York in June.

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2007 Mar 25

Contest answers!

Today I was to give the answers to the contest questions and announce the winner. But there was no winner! :P

I think I was too hard on the questions as I mentioned on the forums, so I’m going to give you the answers and create another contest with new questions, that I’ll post later on. :)

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2007 Mar 23

Kate and Leo together again

A decade after Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio starred as doomed young lovers in the Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic, they are reuniting to make a new film together, this time about the slow disintegration of a marriage.I can reveal that, in a landmark piece of casting, the two actors will play the troubled married couple in a big screen version of Richard Yates’s wrenching novel Revolutionary Road, which Sam Mendes, Kate’s Oscar-winning husband, will direct on America’s East Coast this summer.

Titanic remains the Number One top money-making film of all time, with $1.8 billion in world-wide ticket sales.

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2007 Mar 23

DiCaprio, Winslet to star in ‘Road’

Duo together again for Revolutionary

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are teaming for the first time since Titanic to star in DreamWorks’ Revolutionary Road.

Sam Mendes will direct the pic, based on the acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates about post-war disillusionment.

John N. Hart, Scott Rudin, Bobby Cohen and Mendes, who’s married to Winslet, will produce in association with BBC Films.

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2007 Feb 01

New Little Children online interview

She could have been stuck in the Titanic forever, but Kate Winslet managed to escape and hence the rut that so many actresses of that One Big Role have so often found themselves in. Speaking in a posh English accent (and even a Brooklyn one), the British actress and three-time Oscar nominee tells us more about her latest flick, Little Children, where she stars as Sarah Pierce, a bored housewife who has a steamy affair…

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2007 Jan 08

Kate Winslet vanishes into her roles

Sarah Pierce, the central figure in Little Children is a mess. It goes beyond her uncombed hair, baggy overalls and rat’s-nest purse. She’s a smart woman who has somehow ended up in a dumb life that doesn’t feel like it belongs to her. In this she seems very different from the famously grounded Kate Winslet, who plays her in the Todd Field film of Tom Perrotta’s story of suburbia and its discontents.

Ms. Winslet, whose finely wrought performance has already won her a Golden Globe nomination and could well land her on this year’s Oscar ballot, deliberately rejected a dumb life after Titanic made her a worldwide celebrity at 22. She refused to become a Hollywood cliché, embarking instead on a decade of playing chewy, interesting parts in a series of films ranging from offbeat indies like Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke to prestige projects like Iris and Quills She was the flaky, bewitching Clementine in Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and the teary, overwrought Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. She has mastered the role of glamorous yet gracious luminary, dolling up for the red carpet and dishing on the talk shows with what appears to be genuine relish.

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