Moviefone's Blu-ray of the Week "Cloud Atlas" What's it about? Cloud Atlas delves into how the consequences of one's actions can travel farther than we know – through time and space, impacting lives even in the distant future. Why we're In: Aside from its its all-star cast and dynamic action, Cloud Atlas has a plot that will put your brain through the wringer. Moviefone's New Release of the Week "Back to 1942" What's it about? Starring Adrian Brody, this film portrays the Henan Province famine of 1942 against the backdrop of a war-torn China at a time when the country was partially occupied by Japan. Why we're In: Filmmaker Feng Xiaogang is considered to be one of the greats, which is enough to get our attention, but Best Actor Oscar Award winner Adrian Brody gives this dark epic extra appeal. New on DVD & Blu-ray "Frankie Go Boom" What's it about? A promisingly hilarious...
- 5/13/2013
- by Natasha Young
- Moviefone
Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Christina Hendricks, best known for her 3-time Emmy-nominated role on the AMC series Mad Men. She has been making a lot of headway in features as well. She recently starred in the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed Drive, I Don’t Know How She Does It, Life As We Know It, Detachment and Struck By Lightning. Hendricks was most recently seen in the Sally Potter-directed Ginger And Rosa, which premiered at Toronto, and she’ll next be seen opposite Emily Mortimer in Leonie, which opens this weekend. When Mad Men wraps in April, she will play the female lead of Drive co-star Ryan Gosling’s directing debut, How To Catch A Monster, and she’s attached to star in the John Slattery-directed God’s Pocket opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. She continues to be managed by Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Nilon Entertainment.
- 3/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Christina Hendricks, best known for her 3-time Emmy nominated role on the AMC series Mad Men. She has been making a lot of headway in features as well. She has recently starred in the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed Drive, I Don’t Know How She Does It, Life As We Know It, Detachment and Struck By Lightning. Hendricks was most recently seen in the Sally Potter-directed Ginger And Rosa, which premiered at Toronto, and she’ll next be seen opposite Emily Mortimer in Leonie, which opens this weekend. When Mad Men wraps in April, she will play the female lead of Drive co-star Ryan Gosling’s directing debut, How To Catch A Monster and she’s attached to star in the John Slattery-directed God’s Pocket, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. She continues to be managed by Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Nilon Entertainment.
- 3/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Monterey Media has acquired all U.S. rights to “Leonie,” from director Hisako Matsui. The company plans a winter theatrical release. Emily Mortimer, Christina Hendricks and Shidô Nakamura star in the real-life-based story of journalist-educator Leonie Gilmour and Japanese poet Yone Noguchi, who fall in love and bear a son who becomes famous artist and architect Isamu Noguchi. The film began a festival run in 2010. Read More: Monterey Media To Release "I Kissed a Vampire" iTunes Web Series Theatrically Matsui, who adapted the screenplay with David Wiener from Masayo Duus’ biography, produced the movie with Ashok Amritraj, Masao Nagai, Yuuki Itoh, Patrick Aiello, Joyce Jun, Shuichi Fukatsu and Manu Gargi. ICM Partners, which reps Mortimer, negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. Monterey recently released “Road to Nowhere” and “Take Me Home.” “Bringing Up Bobby” comes out later...
- 9/4/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Monterey Media has acquired U.S. rights to the independent film "Leonie," from director Hisako Matsui. Emily Mortimer stars in the film with Christina Hendricks and Shidô Nakamura. Mortimer plays the American journalist, educator and editor Leonie Gilmour, who falls in love with the famous Japanese poet Yone Noguchi (Shidô Nakamura) and gives birth to a son, the artist and architect Isamu Noguchi. The film is based on a true story. Matsui was inspired to make the project after reading Masayo Duus' "The Life of Isamu Noguchi." Matsui also co-wrote the script and served...
- 8/31/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
Hisako Matsui (Yukie and Oriume) brought her latest film Leonie to Japan Cuts last Friday for its U.S. premiere. Leonie is a biopic on Leonie Gimour (Emily Mortimer) an American journalist who falls in love with Japanese poet Yone Noguchi, and gives birth to their son, Isamu Noguchi, who grows up to become the world famous architect and sculptor. Our correspondent The Lady Miz Diva sat down with Matsui to discuss the long journey of bringing Leonie's life to the big screen. This interview is being crossed-published at Diva's website The Diva Review. The Lady Miz Diva: How do you feel to be screening your film before the New York Japan Cuts audience? Hisako Matsui: For Isamu and Leonie, this is sort of their hometown, so...
- 7/31/2012
- Screen Anarchy
- Drive just got juicier with Mad Men fixture Christina Hendricks set to join Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaacs and Albert Brooks in the Nicolas Winding Refn film, which shifts into gear at the end of this month. Hendrick's role is unidentified, though The Playlist suggests, following a perusal of the "terrific, noirish script," that she must be the female associate of bank-robber-Mulligan's-boyfriend (presumably played by Isaacs). This would be a small role for Hendricks, and while she also has a supporting part in Life As We Know It with Katherine Heigl, Leonie (with Emily Mortimer, to be released sometime this year, based on the life of journalist Leonie Gilmour) and Detachment (with Adrien Brody, slated for 2011, a drama centered around ...
- 9/10/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
We’ll soon be seeing a lot more of Christina Hendricks — and, even if that prospect doesn’t send your mind straight into the gutter, it’s bound to be a good thing, right? Hot off her recent Emmy nomination, the va-va-voomy Mad Men star has a growing pile of big-screen projects coming down the pike, starting with next month’s Katherine Heigl-Josh Duhamel romantic comedy Life as We Know It — and now Variety reports she’ll be joining Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in a crime thriller called Drive. Hendricks also has two other film dramas in the works: Leonie,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Josh Rottenberg
- EW.com - PopWatch
Mortimer's Raw Dinner Scare
Emily Mortimer was terrified she'd jeopardised her pregnancy after dining on raw chicken in Japan - to impress her colleagues.
The British actress and her husband Alessandro Nivola welcomed daughter May last month - but Mortimer feared she'd harmed the baby during her pregnancy after a particularly traumatic evening in a Japanese restaurant.
Mortimer was so desperate to impress her Leonie co-star Shido Nakamura and the film's director and producer, she gulped down what was put in front of her.
She recalls, "I was trying so hard to be charming and have them think I was cool, and they were all so impressed by me because I ate some sort of weird Japanese spinach."
The star then opted to try a piece of sushi: "I took a bite and it was raw chicken! I kid you not. It was raw chicken dipped in raw egg, which was apparently some delicacy. And the weirdest thing, instead of stopping there I kept eating it. Then I got home and cried on the phone to Alessandro, 'I've killed our baby!'"...
The British actress and her husband Alessandro Nivola welcomed daughter May last month - but Mortimer feared she'd harmed the baby during her pregnancy after a particularly traumatic evening in a Japanese restaurant.
Mortimer was so desperate to impress her Leonie co-star Shido Nakamura and the film's director and producer, she gulped down what was put in front of her.
She recalls, "I was trying so hard to be charming and have them think I was cool, and they were all so impressed by me because I ate some sort of weird Japanese spinach."
The star then opted to try a piece of sushi: "I took a bite and it was raw chicken! I kid you not. It was raw chicken dipped in raw egg, which was apparently some delicacy. And the weirdest thing, instead of stopping there I kept eating it. Then I got home and cried on the phone to Alessandro, 'I've killed our baby!'"...
- 2/20/2010
- WENN
Emily Mortimer's worked with Woody Allen and Stephen Fry, next up it's Martin Scorsese, but she's still not convinced she's a professional actress. She talks about motherhood, movies and jealousy
Emily Mortimer enters the Brooklyn bar like a snowstorm: surrounded by a gust of frozen air and bundled up against the cold in a big white woolly coat that may once have been related to a yeti. She is moving rather slowly: she is just days away from giving birth to her second child. "I feel so enormous," she says, laughing at herself. "Even my doctor told me: 'God, you're really past your glory days, aren't you?'" Once we are ensconced at a corner table, the undisguisable fact of her inhabited belly leads us down intense and intimate avenues straightaway: her fears for her six-year-old son Sam; her mourning of her father, the writer and national hero John Mortimer...
Emily Mortimer enters the Brooklyn bar like a snowstorm: surrounded by a gust of frozen air and bundled up against the cold in a big white woolly coat that may once have been related to a yeti. She is moving rather slowly: she is just days away from giving birth to her second child. "I feel so enormous," she says, laughing at herself. "Even my doctor told me: 'God, you're really past your glory days, aren't you?'" Once we are ensconced at a corner table, the undisguisable fact of her inhabited belly leads us down intense and intimate avenues straightaway: her fears for her six-year-old son Sam; her mourning of her father, the writer and national hero John Mortimer...
- 2/8/2010
- by Gaby Wood
- The Guardian - Film News
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