Juno Temple: production on Venom 3 is back
1 December, 2023
Good news, symbiote fans! Tom Hardy has revealed that production on Venom 3 is back at it. Production on the third film in the franchise has started back up again thanks to the resolution of the 118-day actors strike.
Venom 3 will find Hardy’s Eddie Brock/Venom mixing it up with some new friends, including Juno Temple and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Nothing has come through the grapevine about whether or not characters from the previous two movies will make an appearance, such as the enigmatic detective Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham) or Brock’s ex-girlfriend Anne Weying (Michelle Williams).
The film was initially slated for a July 12, 2024, release date, but the dual strikes pushed it back, so now you can expect it on November 8, 2024
Michelle Williams – Thomas Kail expecting
20 September, 2023
Michelle Williams , 39, is married to the Tony Award-winning director of Hamilton, Thomas Kail. The two are also expecting their second child together. Kail directed Williams in the drama Fosse/Verdon,
[January 21 2020 Fosse/Verdon: Michelle Williams named for Fosse/Verdon at SAG Awards ]
Michelle Williams was named best female actor in a TV movie or miniseries for her role in Fosse/Verdon at the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
[January 7 2020 accepts The Golden Globe ]
“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making,” she continued, “not just a series of events that happened to me but one that I can stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved with my own hand. And I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose.” The progression—from artistry to agency to electoral urgency—was as beautifully angled as a Bob Fosse pose. Our political could take notes on fusing the personal and the political.
[December 11 2019 SAG, Golden Globes 2020: nominations ]
Screen Actors Guild Nominees For 2020
Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
Golden Globes 2020: nominations
Best limited series or TV film Fosse/Verdon
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon
[September 22 2019 lit the world? ]
[June 6 2019]
Michelle Williams is expected to receive an Emmy nomination for Fosse/Verdon when they are announced next month. It would be her first. The show, though, hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire the way Murphy’s shows are pop culture centerpieces, and it lags behind “Fargo” in critical acclaim, standing at a serviceable 68 on Metacritic. But “Fosse/Verdon” did have its best episode of the season with the seventh hour, which focused on Bob Fosse (Rockwell) and Gwen Verdon‘s (Williams) original production of “Chicago” and featured a dynamite turn from Williams. Yahoo Entertainment/Goldderby.com
*5/31/19 update: The series came to a natural conclusion so it’s clear that there won’t be a second season of Fosse/Verdon.
4/9/2019 01-01 0.13[18-49 demo] 0.614[Viewers(mil) ]
4/16/2019 01-02 0.10[18-49 Demo] -23.08% 0.425[mil] -30.78%[%mil change]
4/23/2019 01-03 0.13 30.00% 0.453 6.59%
4/30/2019 01-04 0.13 0.00% 0.429 -5.30%
5/7/2019 01-05 0.07 -46.15% 0.312 -27.27%
5/14/2019 01-06 0.12 71.43% 0.364 16.67%
5/21/2019 01-07 0.07 -41.67% 0.367 0.82%
5/28/2019 01-08 0.11 57.14% 0.495 34.88%
Actress Michelle Williams, now starring in FX’s ‘Fosse/Verdon,’ has separated from musician Phil Elverum, her husband of less than a year. The news of their split follows rumors of trouble after Williams went sans wedding band at two recent public outings
Michelle Williams in Showing Up
17 March, 2023
Showing Up is a 2022 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Kelly Reichardt, in her fourth collaboration with actress Michelle Williams. The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered on May 27. The film is scheduled to be released on April 7, 2023, by A24.
[January 2 2022 Venom2: $430m ]
” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” had an eight-weekend theatrical window before getting a home release. It stands with “Free Guy” as a top-grossing title that not only delayed PVOD but also was available only in theaters when first released. This late-breaking PVOD strategy will continue to raise its revenues, as 80 percent of the PVOD price (less carrier charges) goes straight to Sony, even as the film closes in on a half billion in worldwide box office.
[November 13 2021 ]
Worldwide, Venom 2 will be well north of $430M by EOD tomorrow. This weekend, Venom 2 is on track to make $3.7M in its 7th weekend, landing at $202.4M by the end of Sunday.
[November 4 2021 397m ]
WORLDWIDE
$397,032,011
[October 18 2021 $283m ]
Sony’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” loomed large at the international box office this weekend, sinking its prodigious chompers into $62.3 million. That pushes the superhero adventure’s global haul to a muscular $283.7 million. “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” expanded to 44 international markets over the weekend, including such major markets as the U.K., Italy, Spain, South Korea and India. The coming days will see the “Venom” sequel bow in France and Germany, with Australia on tap for November and an opening in Japan planned for December.
[October 3 2021 $90m ]
, Sony’s supervillain sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, shattered all previous pandemic-era benchmarks with a massive $90.1 million bow in North America,
t’s rare for a sequel to outperform the original, but Venom: Let There Be Carnage does so in every possible way. It’s funnier by a mile, the action is much improved and the overall story is considerably more compelling. Plus this movie actually finishes the origin story framework started in the first film, with our main character finally deciding to be the “the lethal protector” anti-hero Venom. If you liked the first movie, you’re going to love this sequel
VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE, (aka VENOM 2),
‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Screams $11.6M On Thursday; 2nd Best Preview Night Of The Pandemic
Sequel: “Williams understandably sleepwalks through the few scenes she has,”
[February 18 2020 ]
Venom
Venom 2 is slated to arrive in theaters on October 2, 2020. Now filming
Michelle Williams is returning for “Venom 2”
While it’s not been officially confirmed yet, it seems fairly likely that the Venom sequel will be released on October 2nd 2020.
Sony has bookmarked that slot for an “untitled Sony/Marvel sequel,” and given that the first film came out in October to great success there’s no reason to suspect the studio would try and fix something that already worked.
[August 28 2019]
Given the blockbuster success of “Venom” with $856 million worldwide, it stands that Hardy and Williams will earn bigger paychecks for returning in the sequel. Robert Richardson, the three-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer who is coming off of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has signed on to shoot Venom 2.
Andy Serkis was tapped last week to helm the sequel to Sony’s 2018 hit, and the move now reunites him with the director of photography of his directorial debut, the 2017 drama Breathe. Richardson’s boarding also shows how fast the studio is moving on the project. Sony hopes to shoot the follow-up to “Venom” in the fall. “Venom 2” is likely to be released in October 2020.
After the Wedding https://wp.me/pEe9-1Q
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $1,526,944
Domestic SummaryWidest Release: 428 theaters
In Release: 42 days / 6 weeksTotal Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $1,003,349
Domestic SummaryIn Release: 25 days / 3.6 weeks
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $348,647
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $50,264Widest Release: 81 theaters
In Release: 17 days / 2.4 weeksAfter the Wedding (2019)
Stars: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $159,378
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $50,264
(#38 rank, 5 theaters, $10,053 average)
% of Total Gross: 31.5%
Widest Release: 26 theaters
In Release: 10 days / 1.4 weeks
47%
TOMATOMETER[October 23 2019]
Michelle Williams, Eddie’s love interest and attorney, Anne Weying, who becomes She-Venom in the comics
Off a phenomenal China performance, Sony’s Venom continued to course this frame and has now crossed $800M worldwide. At $822.5M, it is the 2nd highest grossing superhero origin movie ever globally, behind Black Panther. Of $610.8M at the international box office, $242.9M is from the Middle Kingdom.
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $211,807,482 25.7%
+ Foreign: $611,228,468 74.3%
= Worldwide: $823,035,950as of Nov. 27, 2018:
[ October 23 ]
In China, “Venom” scored $87.2 million, a drop of just 14% from its opening weekend. Its 10-day cumulative score is $187 million. “Venom” carried the global box office this weekend, thanks to its massive $111 million debut in China.
That ranks as the second biggest opening ever for a superhero film in that territory, behind just “Avengers: Infinity War.” Its performance in the Middle Kingdom powered “Venom” to $673.5 million worldwide, including $467 million internationally. Though its impressive run in the U.S. is largely coming to a close, audience reaction overseas could propel the antihero film past $700 million globally.
[ October 23 2018 ]
Venom is still a record holder after Halloween gave the symbiote a bit of a fright this weekend. Halloween enjoyed an impressive $76.2M opening weekend but fell short of the October record Venom set a couple weeks ago with $80.3M. To date, Venom has earned $171.1M domestic and $461.8M worldwide.With the mid-budget Hollywood programmer mostly dead, a supporting role in a comic book flick is the best shot at a major studio payday for most working actors. – Scott Mendelson, Forbes
Venom dropped just 55% in its second weekend. Venom held on even better than expected, delivering a second weekend at #1.
[October 9 2018 If you have to wager on a lady, now would be the time to do it.]
“buddy flick/romcom vibe” Scott Mendelson
With an estimated $80 million, Sony’s release of Venom into 4,250 locations not only topped the weekend box office, but it topped the previous October opening weekend record of $55.7 million set by Gravity in 2013 by over $20 million. It’s benefiting from being the shiny new superhero movie in a while. While Sony contends that the production cost was net $100M before P&A, it’s said to be around $116M with Georgia tax credits. Either way, it’s still cheap enough. If Venom had launched to $150M-plus globally –that’s even if the film had broken down stateside with a $55M-$60M opening–Venom would have still been safe. Internationally, Venom delivered $125.2 million from 58 markets for a record October global opening over $205 million. We’re told that a $450M global take ultimately gets Venom to break-even during its theatrical release. China’s Tencent is reportedly covering around a third of the production cost, however, a China release for Venom has yet to be announced. “If Venom is a big hit, maybe it’ll make it easier for a filmmaker like Kelly Reichardt to get her movie made. “
[October 3 2018]
Anne, who is played by Michelle Williams with no distinguishing characteristics apart from her short tartan skirt and long blonde wig.
Several months after she secretly married indie musician Phil Elverum, Michelle Williams, 38, is finally showing off her wedding ring to the world.
[January 22 2011]
Michelle Williams, Golden Globes
In order to be nominated, a film or actor doesn’t need to be considered “good” by everybody, but instead “the best” by a few: academy members are essentially voting for one movie; each member’s ballot is counted towards one film, their number one vote. If that film receives the fewest amount of number one votes, then it’s the second pick that counts, and so on down the ballot so that the ballot is attributed to exactly one movie or performance.
This year, Blue Valentine and Michelle Williams could benefit from this rule. The film itself hasn’t had a huge box-office take, but those who have seen it are rapturous in their praise, particularly for the gutting performances by Gosling and Williams.
Buzz Buzz
For the fifth spot? Ms. Bening’s co-star Julianne Moore? Michelle Williams for “Blue Valentine”? Lesley Manville for Mike Leigh’s “Another Year”? Fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, a long shot for “True Grit”?
I’d say Williams is in by virtue of her campaign presence and Weinstein’s wiles;
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine (it just got bluer) Falling off the list somehow
Williams being in a tough-to-watch indie …each of them seems equally vulnerable–
I’m thinking that Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) have Oscar nominations in their future.
Nominees luncheon. The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel will be held Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood
[Januaty 30 2022]
Pundits were put out by the nod for Michelle Williams, who some felt was taking a slot in the leading actress race when her character in the Fabelmans was arguably a supporting role.
[January 24 2023\
Some thought she had outsmarted herself by submitting her performance for Best Actress. But Michelle Williams got the last laugh, as Michelle Williams often does.
[January 22 2023]
there are secretly machinations to nominate her pivotal mother role to the Supporting category whether she likes it or not.
What about The Fabelmans’ Michelle Williams? While she was snubbed by both SAG and BAFTA, I’m still predicting she gets nominated … just in the Supporting Actress category, where voters will slot her despite her campaign as a lead. A reverse Reader!
[January 21 2023]
Michelle Williams surprisingly missed out on a SAG nomination, but expect the academy (which has nominated Williams four times before) to remedy that.
[January 20 2023]
Bravo to Williams for insisting on a Best Actress push, even if her chances at the gold hardware might have been better in the other category. As of now, about a week away from the Oscar nominations announcement, she is not considered a lock to be nominated. She missed out on a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a key precursor. But her decision marks a refreshing, wonderful resurrection of common sense in Oscar campaigning. If Williams is not nominated next week, she deserves even more credit.
[January 19 2023]
British Academy snubs Michelle Williams,missing out on a BAFTA nomination days after she missed a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.
[January 15 2023]
Williams, 42, received a nomination at this year’s Golden Globes show for best actress in a drama for her role as Mitzi Fabelman in the Steven Spielberg-directed film The Fabelmans, and also for the same role at Critic’s Choice.
[December 18 2011 Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh get SAG, Golden Globe Nods ]
Golden Globe Nominees
Nominations for the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Leading Actress
Michelle Williams, ‘My Week With Marilyn’
Best Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, ‘My Week With Marilyn’
Golden Globes
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
MICHELLE WILLIAMS MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
KENNETH BRANAGH MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
Film about Michelle Williams and Heath Ledger?
19 December, 2022
‘It’s been 14 years since Heath Ledger tragically died at age 28 following an overdose. .Hollywood is now battling over which Hollywood director will turn the iconic actor’s life into a blockbuster film.
However, sources close to Michelle Williams, 42, insist ‘movie execs are trying to pull together a film about the love of her life.but she would want full control over Heath’s story.
Michelle Williams 2022: Michelle Williams was basically the frontrunner to win the Supporting Actress Oscar as it was, and still is, a very weak field of contenders this year. Then Universal decided to campaign her as a Lead Actress. A misguided decision if you ask me. Universal essentially threw away a locked Oscar win.
Trevor Fi Carlo 2008: Two days after attending the film’s premiere in New York last week, Di Carlo appeared to be very relaxed when he answered the door to Williams’s home wearing only a pair of khaki shorts. He refused to comment on their relationship, saying ‘No, sorry’, then shut the door. One neighbour said: ‘I don’t see them go out often. When they do go out, I see them at a small pizza restaurant
Trevor 2022: And the fact that the founding of Moon Lvnding happened during the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic didn’t make growth any easier, since the world was shutdown and there was no concerts, and festivals happening. It was hard gaining the trust of top tier artist managers and record labels as well since we were so new and small. But with time, will, perseverance, hard work, and a ton of emails. We’ve been able to establish Moon Lvnding as it is today.
[July 21 1008 Dark Knight’s Heath Ledger’s Pal
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Trevor Di Carlo, who grew up with Dark Knight’s Heath Ledger in Perth, has been comforting Michelle Williams six months after the star died.
Harvey Weinstein, Shawn Burkley and the Milk Duds
4 March, 2022
D. Shawn Burkley, an associate attorney to Mark Werksman, Werksman Jackson & Quinn LLP, apparently slipped Harvey Weinstein some Milk Duds.
[January 18 2022 Gary Kavulich for Harvey Weinstein v Abelson ]
Weinstein sued Abelson Herron Halpern and lawyer Michael Abelson on Jan. 3 in New York County Supreme Court.
The suit says Weinstein hired the firm to secure insurance coverage for charges being brought against him. His lawsuit says when one of his criminal charges was dropped, his insurance coverage was terminated – something the Abelson firm should have known would happen. He now wants that firm to pay $1 million plus interest as compensation. Weinstein is represented by Gary Kavulich of Kavulich & Associates.
May 5 2021
Harvey Weinstein is suing to recover $1 million in legal fees he paid a criminal defense attorney who dropped him as a client after six months.
Harvey Weinstein wants his money back.
The convicted rapist is suing his one-time lawyer, Jose Baez, for breach of contract and seeking the return of $1 million in legal fees he says he paid the high-profile attorney for a short stint on his legal team. Weinstein alleges Baez was regularly preoccupied with other matters, pawned off important work on other lawyers, was often unavailable to speak with him about his New York City rape case and later provided fraudulent billing records.
[December 16 2020 Mike thrilled and honored to work with Harvey [
Michelle Williams on Daily Show
Michelle Williams on Charley Rose
SANTA MONICA and LOS ANGELES (December 16, 2010) –Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) today announced an agreement to create sequels to some of Miramax’s best- known properties and to partner on potential new television shows and special edition home entertainment products. Mike Lang, CEO of Miramax, stated: “We are thrilled and honored to work with Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
Rooney Mara in “Nightmare Alley.”
8 February, 2022
[December 20 2021]
The $3 million gross since its release late December 16 2021 was good enough to take No. 5 at the weekend box office, but still a rough start for a a film with a $60 million budget, which is the most money Searchlight Pictures has ever spent on a film,
[November 4 2019]
They’ve been dating for three years and confirmed their engagement in July,, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara
A traveling carnival hires Bradley Cooper’s character, ushering him into a world of show biz and grifting. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of “Nightmare Alley.” A mentalist teams with a psychologist in order to swindle the rich. He is out-hustled by the woman.” Shooting starts in March.
[June 29 2019 Mary Magdalene, former TWC: U.S. gross = $124K ]
Rooney & Jacquin
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $124,741 1.1%
+ Foreign: $11,585,369 98.9%
= Worldwide: $11,710,110
Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $46,646
(#42 rank, 62 theaters, $752 average)
% of Total Gross: 37.4%
> View All 3 Weekends
Widest Release: 62 theaters
[March 24 2019: Rooney Mara still no U.S. Mary Magdalene release, former TWC ]
Mary Magdalene Original Soundtrack
by HILDUR & JOHANN JOHANNSSON GUONADOTTIR | 2018
U.K. film release: Guardian “What we’re left with is a platonic apostlemance.”
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: n/a 0.0%
+ Foreign: $11,585,369 100.0%
= Worldwide: $11,585,369
Two-time Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara has sold her celeb-pedigreed mid-century residence above L.A.’s Bronson Canyon for almost $3.6 million, a notable bit above its final asking price of $3.45 million. JUNE 12, 2018
Rooney Mara, Los Angeles, March 4, 2019
[December 2 2019 The Girl in the Spider’s Web: critic misses Rooney ]
Domestic Total as of Nov. 29, 2018: Production Budget: $43 million
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: $14,578,647 46.4%
+ Foreign: $16,844,522 53.6%
= Worldwide: $31,423,169
now, your friendly neighborhood “Spider” pan.
A disappointing follow-up to 2011’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” is a slow trudge devoid of suspense and adrenaline.
Without Oscar-nominated star Rooney Mara and director David Fincher of “Dragon,” the new movie doesn’t feel like a sequel, but rather a reboot that nobody asked for.
[ October 1 2018 Lisbeth is Claire Foy ]
Claire Foy
The English-language remake of the Swedish film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo starred Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig. For fans of the 2011 film, Mara was the perfect Lisbeth — so the announcement in 2017 that the series would be recast with The Crown’s Claire Foy was met with some puzzlement. The Girl in the Spider’s Web, based on the 2015 novel by David Lagercrantz that continued the series after Larsson died. The new film has an entirely new team, which also meant recasting the leads. The Girl in the Spider’s Web/Release date November 9, 2018 USA
MY WISHFUL-THINKING NOMINEE LIST 2018
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Best Actress
Cynthia Nixon, “A Quiet Passion”
Haley Lu Richardson, “Columbus”
Rooney Mara, “A Ghost Story”
Kim Min-hee, “On the Beach at Night Alone”
Daniela Vega, “A Fantastic Woman”
[ February 13 2018 Mary Magdalene stars Rooney Mara but TWC U.S. release in limbo ]
Mary Magdalene Distributor: Weinstein Company Release Date: TBD
Genre: Drama Runtime: 2 hrs. 0 min.
MPAA Rating: Not Yet Rated Production Budget: N/A
Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic: n/a 0.0%
+ Foreign: $11,576,194 100.0%
= Worldwide: $11,576,194
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival will see two-time Oscar-nominee Rooney Mara (Best Actress for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Best Supporting Actress for Carol) in Dublin to walk the red-carpet for her new movie, Mary Magdalene, opening there February 28. The Weinstein Company is now in the process of being sold — rival bidders are already debating what to do with the company and its assets — so it remains to be seen what Mary Magdalene’s North American fate will be.
[July 26 2017 Rooney Mara in GoPro “Song to Song” ]
Malick is employing the same audiovisual vocabulary as in his previous three films (with a few refinements, including the widespread use of tiny GoPro cameras), and he’s dealing with a lot of tried-and-true Malickian themes and situations. [Ebert]
[June 4 ‘Una” gets U.S. distribution ]
https://youtu.be/PGPJr3TzIGk
Rooney Mara-Ben Mendelsohn Pic ‘Una’ Lands At Swen As Company Launches U.S. Arm
20 January 2017 7:51 AM, PST | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Swen, already an established distributor in Latin America, is launching its U.S. arm in a big way, snagging rights to Una, the drama that stars Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed based on David Harrower’s provocative Olivier-winning play Blackbird.
[October 16 2016 “Una” screened October 9 at London FF]
Rooney Mara-Ben Mendelsohn Pic ‘Una’ Lands At Swen As Company Launches U.S. Arm
20 January 2017 7:51 AM, PST | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Swen, already an established distributor in Latin America, is launching its U.S. arm in a big way, snagging rights to Una, the drama that stars Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed based on David Harrower’s provocative Olivier-winning play Blackbird.
Though it may push boundaries too far for some audiences, it boldly ventures into unexplored territory to address uncomfortable topics and reveal a complexity of character not often attempted on the big screen.
Una does not have a UK release date yet.
September 12 “Una,” Rooney Mara, Canadian Premiere ]
Rooney Mara in Una
‘Una’ Review: Mara and Mendelsohn Are Captivating in Sexual Abuse Drama | TIFF 2016
BY MATT GOLDBERG While the film doesn’t always succeed in playing against expectations (especially near the end as the story seems as lost as Una with how to proceed), it forces the audience to sit with tough questions even when we think we already know the answers.
Rating: B+
Una does not currently have a U.S. release date.
[September 8]
UNA, starring Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara (Carol) and Ben Mendelsohn (upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) will be premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival as a Special Presentation.on September 11, 2016.
Directed by multi-award winning stage director Benedict Andrews, UNA is the cinematic adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play ‘Blackbird’ (staged in Broadway early 2016), written by David Harrower, who also adapted the script with Benedict Andrews.
This official still of the film features Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn. The film also stars Riz Ahmed (Jason Bourne).
When a young woman (Mara) unexpectedly arrives at an older man’s workplace (Mendelsohn), looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel the new life he has created for himself. Their confrontation will uncover buried memories and unspeakable desires. It will shake them both to the core.
The film’s crew includes The Lobster DoP Thimios Bakatakis, Macbeth composer Jed Kurzel, Macbeth production designer Fiona Crombie, The Selfish Giant editor Nick Fenton as well as costume designer Steven Noble and hair and make¬up designer Jan Sewell, who both worked on The Theory of Everything.
The film is produced by Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly alongside WestEnd Films. It is backed by Creative Scotland, Film4 and WestEnd Films, which is also handling world sales.
Robbie Allen, Senior Screen Executive at Creative Scotland, said: “We’re really pleased that Una will premier at Toronto. It provides the ideal platform to launch the international screenwriting career of David Harrower, one of Scotland’s most celebrated playwrights. We’re proud to support David with this film adaptation of his award-winning and acclaimed stage-play, Blackbird.’
[June 13 Blackbird/Una: Michelle Williams and Rooney Mara choose the same rôle ]
http://www.westendfilms.com/films/current/una-aka-blackbird
Lead actress in a play: Jessica Lange, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”. Lange beat out Laurie Metcalf in Misery, Lupita Nyong’o in Eclipsed, Sophie Okonedo in The Crucible, and Michelle Williams in Blackbird.
[April 25 ]
Grosses – Week Ending 4/24/2016
Show BLACKBIRD This Week Gross $371,241 Last Week Gross $414,556 Diff $ $-43,315
Potential Gross $892,260 Gross % Potential 41.6% This Week 64.0% Last Week 62.4%
[March 24]
Blackbird is bringing in less than half of its gross potential each week. In the last reported week of box office figures, the week ending March 13, 2016, Blackbird brought in $411,984, which represents 46.55% of its gross potential. With a top ticket price of $248.00, the average paid admission was $63.20, and the audience was filled up to an average of 80.4%. Ben Brantley from The New York Times was lukewarm in his response to Blackbird, declaring that the work itself is immensely powerful but that this production only occasionally reaches its full potential. He called the production “fitful” and compared to acting to an earthquake “seismometer,” calling the satisfaction level of watching the performances “low.”
[March 16 ]
Rooney Mara gets second nomination for Best Actress Oscar
Mochelle & Jeff
Watching Williams work is like seeing a figure from a documentary perform a fictional reënactment of her own life. She shifts between the two realities—what’s true in the world and what’s true onstage—without ever losing sight of her partner. She has control and, even more interesting, no control over where the role carries her. –New Yorker
Review: Michelle Williams soars with Jeff Daniels in Broadway’s disturbing ‘Blackbird’ –NY Daily News
As played with devastating rawness by Williams, she is alternately viperish, vengeful, sarcastic, bizarre, and desperate to reconnect. …Williams’s transparency is such that you take in both images, and many others, as a kind of flickering of the soul: terrifying, hard to square, but inarguably true. –Vulture
Williams is more stylized in her delivery, but there’s no doubt that she is fully experiencing her character’s anguish. Her performance calls attention to itself, but never in a gratuitous way. –LATimes
Her performance as Una is mannered to the point of distraction. It’s as if the sexual abuse her character suffered 15 years ago has caused not only a speech impediment but uncontrollable physical spasms that now affect her walk, gestures, and facial expressions.
As a film actress, Williams can be subtle and nuanced. On stage, she’s the opposite: showy and contrived. The result is an imbalance in performances that seriously undermines the drama between an unrepentant offender and his lost victim. -The Wrap
Williams has been nominated for Academy Awards three times, including one for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in My Weekend With Marilyn [Won Golden Globe]
[February 10]
Blackbird, David Harrower’s hard-hitting two-hander, began previews in Blackbird on February 5, with two shows at the Belasco. The wrenching drama may prove a hard sell to Broadway audiences, but it also stars two bonafide film stars in Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, who will probably aid its fortunes. It performed well out of the gate, filling 91 percent of the seats and taking in 66 percent of its potential box office. Average ticket price was $84.14.
[January 15]
Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams will play Una in David Harrower’s scorching play ‘Blackbird’ about an encounter between Ray, a male business executive, and Una, the woman he seduced 15 years earlier, when she was 12 years old, opening on Broadway in the spring.
Jeff Daniels will re-create the role he played in the 2007 Manhattan Theatre Club presentation of the 90-minute drama. Also revisiting the play is director Joe Mantello, who staged the earlier production. Michelle Williams recently appeared on Broadway opposite Alan Cumming in Cabaret.
Blackbird will play an 18-week limited engagement at the Belasco Theatre beginning February 5, with opening set for March 10.
Spring also has been mentioned as the release date for the Benedict Andrews-helmed film of the play, also adapted by Harrower and starring Rooney Mara (Carol) and Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline). The film is being produced by Jean Doumanian, a frequent Rudin co-producer. Eager to keep the critical momentum from Carol trucking along – for which she won the coveted actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in May – Rooney Mara’s next picture is for Benedict Andrews’ “intense, unflinching” love drama, Una. Previously titled Blackbird up until a recent switcheroo, the film marks the directorial debut for Andrews, who has carved out a career working on stage drama up until this point.
In the film, Mara – known for eye-catching turns in David Fincher’s The Social Network and English-language Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – stars opposite Ben Mendelsohn as a young, wide-eyed woman. Attracting the attention of Mendelsohn’s Ray, Mara’s humble protagonist shows up into his life unannounced, digging up past memories that he believed to have been long buried in the sand. What follows is a passionate, yet illicit affair, one which leaves Ray in jail and Mara’s Una on the search for answers.
[March 10 Michelle Williams’s Suite Francaise opens in U.K.[
handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper.
Entertainment One releases “Suite francaise”in the U.K on March 13; 2015 in the U.S
[November 7 2014 Is Michelle Williams’s Suite Francaise coming out this year?]
Michelle Williams’ World War II romance “Suite Francaise” had a “world premiere” at the American Film Market along with 90 other movies, November 5-11.
[August 28]
Posted on: July 22nd, 2014 by Roundabout
We are pleased to announce that 3-time Academy Award nominee & Golden Globe winner, Michelle Williams has extended her acclaimed run as “Sally Bowles” in Cabaret on Broadway through November 9, 2014.
Posted on: August 20th, 2014 by Roundabout
We are thrilled to announce celebrated film star & Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning Cabaret and make her Broadway debut starring as “Sally Bowles” from November 11, 2014 through February 1, 2015.
May 19, 2013 The Weinstein Company has pre-bought the U.S. rights to the Michelle Williams-starrer Suite Francaise, which starts shooting in June. 27 June, 2013 TF1, Entertainment One, the Weinstein Company and BBC Films have announced the start of principal photography on $20m (€15m) feature Suite Française, which is being shot in Brussels and Paris.
July 23, 2014 I also hear that Suite Française with Michelle Williams [a fictional account of the German occupation of France] will not be boarding a vaporetto. There’s been speculation surrounding Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong project. The director has a long track record in Venice with The Queen and Philomena big hits, but it looks like it’s not ready. Was Suite Francaise one of the films that was confirmed as being moved to 2015 or is that still us speculating? The Weinstein Company has settled on release dates for a number of their films going into the fall. Saul Dibb’s “Suite Francaise” is likely out of the running for 2014. August 7, 2014 Do we even know if Michelle Williams’s Suite Francaise is coming out this year? There’s been absolutely zero talk about that film. It may be a dud.
The Berlin Film Festival, will be held from Feb. 5 through 15, 2015.
[June 22 Shia LaBeouf had to be put in a face mask because he kept spitting at the show Cabaret]
Shia LaBeouf was charged by police with criminal trespass and two counts of disorderly conduct, and apparently threatened police and other guests at the show Cabaret during intermission. He allegedly told police officers at the Midtown precinct, “Fuck you. I’ll fuck you up.” Police also apparently had to put him in a face mask because he kept spitting.
LaBeouf in a ripped shirt a block away from the theater, was chasing after a man who appeared to be homeless. LaBeouf was stumbling inside the theater in the bar, and feeding a woman a strawberry from her own plate. Shia LaBeouf is an American actor and director who has a net worth of $25 million. The show is an in place, right?
[June 11]
CABARET
(STUDIO 54) 06/08/2014
This Week’s Gross $762,132
Last Week’s $765,328
GrossDiff $-3,196
$Potential Gross $984,920
% of Potential 77.38%
CABARET
(STUDIO 54)
Gross week of May 11: $783,761
Gross last week $628,491
Difference $155,270
Gross potential $977,240
Difference 80.20%
[April 25]
Only after her death in 1973 was Isherwood prepared to reveal that the inspiration for Sally came from Jean Ross, who in 1931 as a nineteen year old nightclub singer, who shared a lodging house with him.
NYT The most conspicuous difference in this production is the bright blond actress portraying Sally, a role imperishably created for the Roundabout by Natasha Richardson. The promiscuous, hard-partying Sally is now embodied by a very brave Michelle Williams, who doesn’t look all that happy to be there. I’m assuming that’s more a matter of character interpretation than of personal discomfort, but it does put sort of a damper on the festivities.
Since Ms. Williams’s Broadway debut is the biggest news in this revival of Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s oft-reprised 1966 musical, let’s linger on her. As you probably know, she’s a fine screen actress, and very good onstage, too, as I can testify, having seen her in productions of “The Cherry Orchard” and Mike Leigh’s “Smelling a Rat.”
Given that she played Marilyn Monroe in the 2011 film “My Week With Marilyn,” for which she received an Oscar nomination, Ms. Williams obviously knows about wrestling with the ghosts of sexy performances past. But for some reason, she has chosen to tamp down any evidence of spontaneous sensuality.
With a lockjaw Mayfair accent that sometimes has her talking literally out of the side of her mouth and a sustained air of high tension, Ms. Williams’s Sally brings to mind more an anxiously slumming heiress out of Evelyn Waugh than the exuberantly hedonistic Sally of Christopher Isherwood’s “The Berlin Stories,” on which “Cabaret” is based (along with John Van Druten’s play “I Am a Camera”). Mr. Mendes sees Sally as a quicksilver upper-middle-class Chelsea girl, happily escaping her past below Though never previously known as a singer or dancer, Ms. Williams does just fine with her musical chores here. (And don’t forget that even though she was played by a top-form Liza Minnelli in the 1972 screen version of “Cabaret,” Sally was never meant to be very talented.)
Leading the Kit Kat girls in nightclub production numbers like “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Mein Herr” with a shiny, metallic vibrato, Ms. Williams comes closer to evoking the musical style of the Depression than any Sally I’ve seen. And for her climactic performance of the show’s title song, she has the shouty power and shell-shocked stare of someone who’s seen the future and knows that it’s terrifying.
But this Cassandra-like aspect is implicit in her performance from the beginning. That means that it’s harder than usual to credit her seduction of the cautious, bisexual Clifford Bradshaw (Bill Heck), who falls for her and the town of Berlin because they’re so much damned fun.
Lee Radziwill & daughter-in-law Carole. Lee’s son Tony married journalist Carole in 1994 and he died of a rare form of cancer five years later
[March 29]
http://youtu.be/nx3F3YfsWHA
Mendes then
Mr. Mendes sees Sally as a quicksilver upper-middle-class Chelsea girl, happily escaping her past, not the madcap, belt-it-all-out American that Ms. Minnelli brought to life. ”I wanted somebody English, I wanted somebody mercurial, and fair, and effervescent,” said Mr. Mendes, who is co-directing the show with the American choreographer Rob Marshall. ”She believes in her potted dreams of stardom but, most important, she is not a successful singing star. She cannot control her voice. It always seemed odd to me that Liza should be singing in a little dive. She’s a Broadway star.”
Mendes now
http://youtu.be/ACvHYt9LRsA
[March 25]
Preview Date: March 21, 2014
Alan Cumming reprises his Tony Award-winning turn as the Emcee in this new staging of Sam Mendes’ revival of Kander and Ebb’s musical, featuring. three-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (‘My Week with Marilyn,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain’), making her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles. Based on Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories, ‘Cabaret’ takes audiences to Germany in 1929, to the decadent world of the Kit Kat Klub, where an American writer meets the free-spirited English cabaret singer, as the Nazi movement is on the rise around them.Venue: Studio 54
Cast: Alan Cumming as the Emcee, Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles, Linda Emond as Fraulein Schneider, Danny Burstein as Herr Schultz, Bill Heck as Cliff, Aaron Krohn as Ernst, Gayle Rankin as Fraulein Kost, Benjamin Eakeley as Herman, Leeds Hill as Bobby, Dylan Paul as Victor, Evan D. Siegel as Hans, Kaleigh Cronin as Lulu, Andrea Goss as Frenchie, Kristin Olness as Helga, Jessica Pariseau as Texas and Jane Pfitsch as Rosie; Also Will Carlyon, Caleb Damschroder, Kelly Paredes and Stacey Sipowicz
[September 10 2013]
Starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Schoenaerts, “Suite Francaise” tells the story of a romance that blooms between a French villager and a German soldier during the German occupation in France in the 1940s.
The film was directed and written by Saul Dibb, best known for his work on “The Duchess,” and also stars Kristen Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Ruyth Wilson, Margot Robbie, Alexandra Maria Lara and Eileen Atkins. Alexandre Desplat wrote the score, while Xavier Marchand produced the movie on behalf of eOne alongside Romain Brémond from TF1 DA. Michael Kuhn and Andrea Cornwell also served as producers from Qwerty Films, while Harvey Weinstein served as an executive producer alongside BBC Films’ Christine Langan.
Only after her death in 1973 was Isherwood prepared to reveal that the inspiration for Sally came from Jean Ross, who in 1931 as a nineteen year old nightclub singer, who shared a lodging house with him.
Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) and Rob Marshall’s (Nine and Chicago, the films) Tony-winning production of Cabaret. Three-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Brokeback Mountain, , 33. September 9, 2013 ) will be making her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles.
The venue was the last home of the show, which ran for more than 2,000 performances from 1998 to 2004. It won the Tony Award in 1998 for best musical revival.
Weinstein: California in April?
11 December, 2020
Weinstein appeared via video from prison before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case, who, because of the worsening pandemic, agreed to postpone Weinstein’s extradition hearing until April 9.
[August 10 2010 Piranha3D remake ]
Michelle Williams filming Take This Waltz
Yes, this is a remake. But it is a remake of a film that has not only already been remade (in the ’90s for Showtime starring Punky Brewster and the Greatest American Hero), but was, itself, originally just a Jaws knockoff. Better yet, a Jaws knockoff produced by reigning king of camp Roger Corman, written by none other than John Sayles, and directed by Joe Dante. It is a classic to be sure, but a camp classic that nobody minds being remade. In fact, it is exactly the type of film many critics appreciate being remade. It is spectacle. Cheap, wonderful, lizard-brained spectacle. The Weinstein Co. screened a little over 10 minutes of unfinished footage from the forthcoming 3D remake of Roger Corman’s 1978 cult classic. Piranha 3D opens August 20.
Weinstein sued by 2006 “Project Runway” production assistant
30 October, 2020
Miriam Haley brought the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, seeking unspecified damages for sexual attacks. Haley, a former “Project Runway” production assistant, said in the lawsuit that she repeatedly told Weinstein “no” when he forcibly attacked her inside his apartment in July 2006.
[November 4 2010 David Hutkin Vivian Tarn will be hustling finance for Weinstein Company ]
The Weinstein Company is close to signing film finance veteran David Hutkin to join the company and oversee a new division called Strategic Initiatives, Investments & Banking Group. Hutkin will come aboard as executive vice president, and will bring with him longtime colleague Vivian Tarn. Hutkin has spent 15 years working in senior structured and corporate debt underwriting within the entertainment industry at numerous banks. Most recently, he has been head of entertainment finance for the First California Bank, and before that worked for Bank of America, ICB Entertainment Finance and The Lewis Horwitz Organization. Hutkin has worked on financing for hundreds of films that include My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Monster, The Illusionist and Showtime’s The Tudors.
Weinstein: wrongful termination claim to arbitration?
22 August, 2020
“Newly discovered information and facts, gleaned during the course of investigation and discovery in collateral matters, have yielded evidence that corroborates the wrongful termination claim that is subject of the arbitration,” Weinstein attorney Julia Klein wrote asking the judge who is presiding over The Weinstein Co. bankruptcy to lift the automatic stay that halts outside legal proceedings involving Chapter 11 debtors, so he can pursue the arbitration case he filed in 2017..
[March 1 2018 The Weinstein Co. will declare bankruptcy? ]
“We have received disappointing information about the viability of completing this transaction,” Contreras-Sweet said in a statement Tuesday, March 6. “As a result, we have decided to terminate this transaction.”
The Weinstein Co. announced Sunday February 25 that it will declare bankruptcy after a $500 million deal with Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies etc. to sell the company collapsed.
[ February 17 David Glasser fired by TWC ]
“The board of The Weinstein Company has unanimously voted to terminate David Glasser for cause,” a TWC statement said.
David Glasser
The New York AG’s office in recent days has been in “intense conversations” with Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies, which is backing the purchase.
“Burkle tried to be in the background, with Contreras-Sweet the front person, even though she has no Hollywood experience. But in reality, they are setting it up so one of Harvey’s enablers, one of the people who failed to hold Harvey accountable, would be the CEO of the new company, He is the exact wrong person to be taking control of this company.
[November 8 2010 Weinstein Co. is hiring Bladimiar A. Norman ]
Michelle Williams & Harvey Weinstein
The Weinstein Co. is hiring Bladimiar A. Norman as vice president marketing for TWC and Dimension pictures, reporting to David Glasser and the brothers.
Hue and Cri 