Colin Firth Signs Up For New Vampire Movie
Just when you thought the latest wave of vampire movies and TV series had reached saturation point there comes another movie to add to the list. It’s called “Stoker” and it will be the first American film for “Oldboy” Korean director Park Chan-Wook. So far the film has a very promising cast, it has been reported that Oscar winner Colin Firth has signed up to the film. So has fellow Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska has also been added to the cast.
Not too much has been revealed about the project at this stage and it won’t necessarily be a typical vampire story. The title “Stoker” does relate to Bram Stokers classic vampire story “Dracula” but in this movie it is the surname of two of the main characters, mother and daughter, played by Kidman and Wasikowska.
The script has been written by “Prison Break” star Wentworth Miller. Miller has been quoted after speaking with Yahoo! about the script;
“It’s got a lot of elements of the Dracula mythology in its story… It’s not a vampire story. It’s not about vampires at least with the teeth and the desire to suck your blood but it is a thriller and it is about an individual who preys on the innocent.”
Let’s hope the resulting film is as intriguing as it sounds so far.
Nicole Kidman Opens up on 60 Minutes
February 26, 2011 by Trend PK
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Nicole Kidman gave an interview to the Australian version of “60 Minutes”, she spoke candidly about motherhood and openly about her fertility issues. It was only very recently that she and Keith Urban announced that they are now parents for the second time.
Their new daughter Faith was born via a gestational carrier; this means that Faith is their biological daughter but she was carried by another woman. Both Nicole and Keith were present at the birth.
“It was so deeply emotional and moving, and having given birth and then being on the place of seeing my child being born this way. The love I felt for our gestational carrier…She was the most wonderful woman to do this for us,”
Nicole opened up and tearfully discussed her long struggle with fertility issues and about how grateful she is to the woman who carried their daughter Faith. And in case you’re curious, Conner and Bella, her children from her previous marriage to Tom Cruise have met their new sister.
A Minute With Nicole Kidman working on "Rabbit Hole"
December 24, 2010 by Trend PK
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LOS ANGELES: Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman has scored positive reviews, and a Golden Globe nomination, for her role as a mother dealing with the death of her child in the independent film “Rabbit Hole.”
The film was released last week in major US theaters and expands around the country starting on Christmas day.
“Rabbit Hole” is based on the Pulitzer prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Kidman stars alongside Aaron Eckhart as grieving couple Becca and Howie. Kidman also produced the film, marking it the inaugural project from her company, Blossom Films.
Kidman, who lives in Nashville with her country star husband Keith Urban and their daughter Sunday Rose, spoke about the film, her family and being a mother.
Q: How did you come across the play?
A: “I read the review of ”Rabbit Hole” in the New York Times. Living in Nashville, I get the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. That”s my contact with the city because that”s where I used to live and I”m a theater buff. When I read the review, I thought, ”Gosh, that sounds like rich material.””
Q: As a mother, you felt for Becca”s pain?
A: “When we first optioned the play, I wasn”t pregnant. This has been years in the making, so there wasn”t a thought of being pregnant. I thought I”d never get pregnant. But I get what she goes through. I get her relationship with her mother, her sister, God. I get the way in which she is so angry.”
Q: How did you prepare to play a woman who goes through something no parent should ever have to face?
A: “I read stuff. I tried to go to a grief group but I was told ”No, you”re not allowed. You can only step into these rooms if you lost a child.” I totally get it, yet for whatever reason, that rawness was available to me. Maybe it was from giving birth (to daughter Sunday Rose) 11 months prior.”
Q: The subject must have made for a difficult shoot.
A: “It was more like there was a big thrust to honor the people who are going through this right now. There”s almost something lifting you up, going ”Come on, if someone can actually be living this, I can be living this.””
Q: How has motherhood impacted your career?
A: “Time is the most precious thing. I”m very particular about how I spend it. I”m more reluctant to leave my family. Keith and I are very tight, and we”re never separated. If we are, it”s no more than three days.”
Q: How is motherhood today different than it was when you were raising Connor and Isabella (with ex-husband Tom Cruise)?
A: “I raised two kids when I was in my 20s, but that was a different thing. I was a kid and still so young mentally and emotionally — a totally different mom.”
Q: And now?
A: “There is something about mothering late in life. A lot of it is I want to stay alive for Sunday. There is plenty of deep fear and emotion. Sunday has healed an enormous amount in me. It”s a very private thing, but she just has.”
Q: What”s Sunday like now?
A: “She”s two and a half and in what we call ”the raccoon” stage because she”s into everything. She”s into this, she”s into that. She”s just really hard to wrangle at this stage.”
Q: Were you like that as a kid?
A: “I don”t think so. I was more placid. But Keith rode BMX bikes and grew up in a pretty rambunctious family. Sunday”s got a lot of her dad”s face and a lot of his DNA.”
Q: You and Keith were both raised in Australia and you”re now living the country life in the United States. Does Sunday have any of your Aussie roots in her?
A: “Our daughter is a Tennessee girl, but she still says ”G”day mate.” She says both ”Hi y”all” and ”G”day mate.””
Q: Any plans on expanding the family?
A: “We”re hoping for another one!”
Joey and Rory on Fremont in Las Vegas
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In The News that Joye and Rory are newly married couples. They made musical partnership Sunday Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. They have this song the duo after eight years.
There have been many couples, established artists before they join together on stage. Johnny and June Carter Cash comes to mind. And George Jones and Tammy Wynette, naturally. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw continues to create sparks when they meet on stage together, too.
Darius Rucker performs at ACM Awards
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The news that appears near the most favorable and musical award of ACM Awards shows that most celebrities are rendered in that price, and one of them is Darius Rucker.
The Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker and Miranda Lambert are among the latest stars set to perform at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, organizers announced Thursday.
Kindle Sean music writer Cindy Watts is in Las Vegas, covering the events leading up to the show. Follow her celebrity sightings. And check back here for full coverage of events that led to Sunday night’s ACM Awards, which airs at 7 pm on CBS.
Chicago ST Patrick s day parade 2010
The Taoiseach has begun a five-day official visit to the US. The visit will culminate with a St Patrick’s Day meeting in the Oval Office at the White House with US President Barack Obama.
Yesterday evening, Brian Cowen arrived in Chicago where he attended the Irish Fellowship annual St Patrick’s dinner.
Today, he will be one of the main guests at Chicago’s St Patrick’s Day parade, traditionally one of the biggest held in the US.
Naomi Watts Pics
Naomi Watts Born in England, raised in Australia and — after 15 years of hard work — an “overnight” Hollywood success, this actress is as brilliant as she is gorgeous. Watts began studying acting Down Under and befriended Nicole Kidman at a commercial audition when the two were just teens.
In their twenties they both appeared in the boarding-school drama Flirting, but Kidman’s star rose much more quickly than Watts’. Throughout the ’90s, Watts languished in supporting parts that failed to showcase her incredible versatility and knack for accents. Yet, with a lot of encouragement from Kidman, she stuck it out and finally got her big break in 2001’s Mulholland Dr. Originally conceived as a TV series, this offbeat chronicle of an L.A. starlet was released as a movie that featured Watts in two powerhouse parts. Audiences and critics immediately took notice of her talent, and the next year she finally hit the big time with the horror flick The Ring and made the tabloids because of her romance with hunk Heath Ledger, 10 years her junior.
Watts continued her hot streak with an Oscar-nominated turn in 2003’s 21 Grams and soon signed on to play an ape’s best gal in the remake of King Kong. After her relationship with Ledger ended in 2004, she found new love in the arms of the more mature Liev Schreiber, her costar in The Painted Veil. Source ( hollywood.com )
Joyce Maynard
Latest news updates Jd Salinger, Joyce Maynard Jd Salinger, Margaret Salinger, Elaine Joyce Joyce Maynard: is gaining plenty of attention today in light of J.D. Salinger’s death at 91.
Maynard’s memoir “At Home In The World” in 1998 detailed her eight-month affair with Salinger in the 1970s, when she was 18 and he was 53.
Salinger retired from public life for many years. He made his last public appearance when he wrote a letter to Maynard, responding to concerns about a recent piece she wrote for the New York Times and discussing the dangers of publicity.
Maynard, an author like Salinger, started her writing career when she was 14. She has written two memoirs, as well as novels including To Die For (made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman) and The Usual Rules.
Joyce Maynard was first posted on January 29, 2010 at 2:48 pm.
Ricky Gervais Golden Globes
Latest news updates about Ricky Gervais Golden Globes :- Moments after the last Golden Globe was handed out and the final acceptance speech was made, an army of famous faces spilled out into the Beverly Hilton lobby, selecting their partying options for the evening. One of the most popular was the annual Weinstein Company bash, where the guest of honor was a brand-new “little basterd.”
“Everyone knew from the beginning that there was something special about that performance,” recalled “Inglourious Basterds” star Omar Doom, speaking with us moments before Christoph Waltz walked into the party holding his Best Supporting Actor statue. “I knew [he'd win] from the table read. Everyone, all the actors in ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ had a small murmur afterwards, going, ‘Oh my God! He was so amazing! He was so scary!’ And all he was doing was reading it off the pages.”
“It was my first time at the Golden Globe Awards, and I can see why everyone’s drunk,” laughed another “Basterds” star, Eli Roth. “They don’t really feed you — it’s just champagne. Everyone’s drinking it all night. It’s incredible. You look around, and there’s Fergie and Mariah Carey and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman.”
As the Weinstein Company spent a rainy evening celebrating not only “Basterds,” but also “Nine” and “A Single Man,” stars like Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Fergie, Julianne Moore and The Edge partied — and reflected on a fun evening.
Ricky Gervais Golden Globes was first posted on January 18, 2010 at 7:08 pm.
Flounder, Flounder fish
Flounder, Flounder fish, Flounder is an ocean dwelling flatfish species that is located off the Canadian and U.S. east coast of the Northern Atlantic, and the Pacific Ocean, in coastal lagoons and estuaries.
Flounder, Flounder fish was first posted on August 20, 2009 at 9:20 am.
