The Weinstein Company and Trademark Films have released the first official photo of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. The actress plays the blond bombshell in the film, My Week With Marilyn. A couple weeks ago we learned that Harry Potter star Emma Watson had signed on for a small supporting role in the movie that’s directed by Simon Curtis. Take a look at the full photo of Williams below along with a comparison shot of the real Monroe. Is she a carbon copy? You be the judge…
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:24PM - By Krystal Clark
Emma Watson is wasting no time with her post-Harry Potter career. The 20 year old is currently enrolled in Brown University and is still acting on the side. The latest film to catch her eye is entitled My Week with Marilyn. It’s directed by Simon Curtis, and is a period piece that centers on, you guessed it Marilyn Monroe. But this isn’t a biopic, it’s an ensemble that has a lot more to offer than its title star.
Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:02PM - By Ben McCarthy
After his long awaited Oscar win 3 years ago, Martin Scorsese is back behind the camera in his fourth collaboration with his muse Leonardo DiCaprio with Shutter Island. The film was moved back from its original October 2009 release date, due to various marketing strategies and Leo not being able to do any press tours as he was filming Christopher Nolan’s new filmInception. Is this latest collaboration between the two going to match up to Gangs Of New York, The Aviator and the Oscar-Winning The Departed?
When everyone told me that Blue Valentinewas “great but depressing” I automatically expected someone to be raped, murdered, tortured, something… I never expected to see such a simple and yet honest portrayal of a broken relationship. Whether you’re a man or a woman, if you have ever loved and lost, you won’t make it out of this film unscathed. Both Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams take on two extremely layered and vulnerable characters and give two phenomenal performances of one of the best scripts at Sundance.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have a thing for one another. This is their fourth film together, and this time Michelle Williams and Mark Ruffalo will be joining the duo for a new type of Scorsese film. As you can tell from the shot below, this is a much more warmly lit set set then what we’re used to from the Director.
Mark Ruffalo, who plays a US marshal said, “This could be one of [Scorsese's] great films. He gets to do everything he loves about film: noir, dream sequences, suspense, tough urban stuff. It’s absolute madness, twist upon twist.”
Sounds interesting. There’s got to be some blood hidden somewhere though.
Check out Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Michelle Williams in the full photo below…
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 2:00PM - By Mali Elfman
Although, Heath Ledgerhasn’t won the Oscar yet, I think it’s pretty clear from every other award show, audience reactions, and his performance, that he will be receiving an Oscar this Sunday. The question originally was who should accept his award, but the bigger question is, who gets to keep it?
“It’s complicated, because there are two different questions that have to be answered,” said Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy. “First, we have to decide who gets the job of accepting the award onstage on the night of the ceremony. And then there’s the question of the eventual disposition of the posthumous statuette, which may not stay with the person who accepts it.”
It would be natural for it to go to Ledger next of kin. But he divorced his wife Michelle Williams and his daughter Matilda is only 3-years-old and Davis has stated that “From our point of view, somebody has to sign the winner’s agreement, and a 3-year-old can’t do that… Nor can a parent sign any kind of legal document that obligates a child to do something once they turn 18. I didn’t know that before we looked into it, but it’s a good law.”
So who should get to keep the award? Vote for your pick below… Continue Reading
Even before The Dark Knight hit theaters last summer, the Oscar buzz surrounding Heath Ledger’s take on the maniacal Joker was deafening. Fast forwarding to 2009, Ledger has not only received his Academy Award nomination, but has dominated the Best Supporting Actor category as a whole. The actor has already posthumously won the Golden Globe and SAG award for his performance, and the Oscar is in arm’s reach. Ledger is the favorite to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at this year’s ceremony, but a big mystery still remains. If he wins, who will accept the award on his behalf?
There is no doubting that Kelly Reichardt is a director on the up. Her 2006 sophomore feature Old Joy captivated those within the independent milieu and, despite some minor flaws, her latest effort Wendy and Lucy continues to heap praise on what looks to be a bright directorial future, in the American-indie genre.
Wendy and Lucy is the story of a mammoth road trip from Indiana to Alaska, whereby Wendy (Michelle Williams) has only her dependable dog Lucy for company, as she chases the promise of a summer job in a fish cannery.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:00AM - By Mali Elfman
Charlie Kaufman, the visual genius behind the brilliant scripts “Being John Malkovich”, “Adaptation”, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” has created another amazing film starring none other that Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, and Tom Noonan. The only problem… no one seems to be able to pronounce the title… SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK.
