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25 August 2008 9:04 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

A production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Cate Blanchett will run for two months in the U.S. after debuting in the actress' native Australia this autumn.

The Tennessee Williams play, directed by Liv Ullmann, will open in Sydney on 1 September and run to 10 October, before taking off for American soil.

Blanchett will unveil her portrayal of Blanche DuBois to U.S. audiences at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on 29 October. It will play there until 21 November, before then transferring to New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it will run from 27 November to 20 December.

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24 August 2008 4:07 AM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Oscar Bait

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Who's in it: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton

Why you'll see it: Director David Fincher's last film, "Zodiac," was one of the most criminally overlooked masterpieces in recent years. The presence of Brad Pitt should guarantee more eyeballs for his latest project. Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Benjamin Button" is about a man who ages backwards.

By SARA STEWART and REED TUCKER

20 August 2008 9:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Cate Blanchett's playwright husband Andrew Upton enjoys encounters with photographers - because he is pleased with the attention his wife receives as a Hollywood star.

Upton, Blanchett's co-artistic director at Australia's Sydney Theatre Company, gladly accepts paparazzi shadowing his partner, and insists their presence is recognition of her talent.

He says, "I quite enjoy it, actually. I'm never followed but Cate is. Her public identity is very associated with her work, which I think is good, right and proper because she's bloody good at it.

"When her work is coming into focus, people want to see a photo of her carrying shopping bags. I can understand it - people are interested and I'm glad they're interested otherwise they wouldn't come to see it (her movies)."

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19 August 2008 12:10 AM, PDT | From ReelSuave.com | See recent Reel Suave news

Here is a clip that i got from slashfilm.com. But it is surely going to create even more curiosity for this epic film that is dubbed the Time Traveller for the new generation. The film is directed by David Fincher and it seems to be his departure from his gruesome crime thrillers. It stars the talented Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton in the main roles. Anne Thompson has this to say after a viewing of the film “The early word on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: again, David Fincher has handed in a movie to Paramount that is quite long. That hurt his last pic for Paramount, Zodiac.”...

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John

12 August 2008 9:30 AM, PDT | From Filmonic.com | See recent Filmonic news

Paramount have announced that they will release Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 14th.

For those who haven't seen it, the movie stars Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone and Shia Labeouf, and has made $776.2 million worldwide. You can pre-order yours by clicking the links below! Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Single Disc) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [Blu-ray]

Liam

12 August 2008 9:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Mary-Louise Parker is heading to Broadway in a revival of Henrik Ibsen's famous play Hedda Gabler.

The Weeds actress will start her run at the American Airlines Theater in January 2009 - her first New York stage appearance since 2004's Reckless and eight years after she won a Tony Award for her performance in Proof.

Parker is following in impressive footsteps by taking on the role of the play's eponymous heroine.

Hedda Gabler was last played in New York by Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2006.

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9 August 2008 11:20 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

The Inside Reel recorded a really nice interview with the late Heath Ledger on his role in the Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There” by director Todd Haynes and starring Christian Bale from “The Dark Knight” , Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw, Kris Kristofferson and Heath Ledger as Robbie. Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes’s unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don’t Look Back era incarnation; Heath Ledger, as an actor playing one of the fictional Dylan’s in a movie within the movie; Christian Bale, [...]

Brian Corder

8 August 2008 10:26 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is to make his West End debut as a director by taking charge of a new production written by Cate Blanchett's writer husband Andrew Upton.

Hoffman will direct Riflemind, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of a rock band reuniting after two decades.

The Mummy star John Hannah will star in the show, which is set to open next month at London's Trafalgar Studios.

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30 July 2008 9:05 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Paramount Pictures has just made available new pictures from four of their five upcoming Fall/Holiday features with David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button being the only film not getting a visual accompaniment. However, we have new images from The Soloist, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Ghost Town as well as a gallery for Eagle Eye made up of images that were already released. Titles, release dates, cast and the synopsis for each film are listed below as well as the brand new trailer for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which just debuted on Moviefone. Note: Instead of clicking on the gallery links throughout the article you can click on any one of the thumbnails at the end of the article to check out all of the new images in one gallery. Ghost Town September 19 Photo: DreamWorks Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment Click Here To Browse The Picture Gallery Cast: Ricky Gervais,

Brad Brevet

15 July 2008 4:59 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week finds the U.S. Army bringing war games to a whole other level, a '60s sex icon getting an exposé, Ron Perlman returning as the defender of small fluffy kittens everywhere and Eddie Murphy taking cinema egotism to new heights.

"August"

After the warm reception his first feature "Xx/Xy" received at Sundance in 2002, director Austin Chick returned to the snowy slopes of Park City to debut his sophomore effort, which seemed to impress our own Matt Singer when he saw it in January. Assembling an noteworthy ensemble that includes the likes of Robin Tunney, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn and David Bowie, Chick follows Tom and Josh Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott, respectively), two brothers desperately trying to right the sinking ship of their failing dot-com company in the weeks leading up to the devastating September 11th attacks.

Opens in New York.

"Days

Neil Pedley

30 June 2008 8:15 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

It's hard to say whether it's been the stifling heat or former Warner Independent chief Mark Gill's much-talked about "the sky really is falling" speech (published in full at indieWire here) that gave attendees of this year's Los Angeles Film Festival a sense of their own mortality. Then again, it could just be the way in which the effects of life-altering events have been examined in several of the festival's films, particularly in the narrative section.

When Gill, now heading up the indie shingle The Film Department, spoke at the adjoining film financing conference on the first Saturday of the festival, he decried the indie film marketplace as standing on the brink of oblivion, saying, "if you decide to make a movie budgeted under $10 million on your own tomorrow, you have a 99.9% chance of failure." On that basis, it's possible that "Winged Creatures," an ensemble drama

Stephen Saito

20 June 2008 10:52 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Next year's Academy Awards will be a little different. Earlier this week, Ampas changed a longstanding rule about Best Original Song nominees, limiting the number of songs eligible from one film.

In the past two years, two films have dominated the field of nominees - Dreamgirls in 2007 and Enchanted this year - only to go home with nothing. This past year, "Falling Slowly" from Once deservedly beat three songs from Enchanted, "Happy Working Song," "So Close," and "That's How You Know."

The rule will state that only two songs from any movie are eligible, which doesn't exactly address the issue appropriately enough. I mean, if you're going to limit it, limit it to one song per film. This way, you get more films in the category. I would suppose that's the logic.

Of course, on the other hand, both Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham were nominated for Best Actor in Amadeus,

Colin Boyd

18 June 2008 6:09 AM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

You may have already have seen it in theaters or on limited Web sites, but the first trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming mystery drama “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has now officially debuted over at Apple. Finally, it’s here!

The film stars Brad Pitt in the role of Benjamin Button, a man who’s born under unusual circumstances and starts aging backwards. Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton and Julia Ormond also star.

The first teaser is fantastic, summing up the basic story in almost two minutes of fabulous cinematic beauty. David Fincher is a dab hand at making movies that look astonishingly great, but this quite simply looks like a stunning work of art. Be sure to pay attention to that very last shot in the trailer; doesn’t that just look beautiful?

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” debuts in theaters Dec. 19, 2008. You can watch the trailer

Franck Tabouring

11 June 2008 12:07 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Cate Blanchett's kids were thrilled when Steven Spielberg gave them the chance to step behind the camera and direct their mother in the new Indiana Jones movie.

Blanchett stars in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull alongside Harrison Ford and often brought her children Dashiell, seven, and Roman, four, onto the set.

And director Spielberg was so happy to have to the young family there, he let the kids take on his job and direct a scene featuring their mum.

Blanchett tells Britain's Ok! magazine, "My kids were so welcome on set. In fact, Steven Spielberg even let them direct me one day - they would call 'Action!' and they were highly critical.

"Steve was so welcoming to my family. And that was really special."

Blanchett gave birth to her third child with husband Andrew Upton, Ignatius, in April.

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6 June 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Australian police have dropped an obscenity investigation into a controversial photography exhibition after actress Cate Blanchett urged Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd not to censor the show.

Police in Sydney, Australia, shut down an exhibition of photographs by respected artist Bill Henson last month because the pictures showed images of naked children.

The move sparked a heated debate in the country over the line between art and pornography.

Now, police have dropped the investigation after being advised there would be no reasonable prospect of convicting Henson.

Law enforcement officials were also pressured by native Australian Blanchett and other leading art figures who said an investigation would damage the country's cultural reputation.

In an open letter sent days after the exhibition was closed, Blanchett insisted Rudd should not block Henson's work.

She wrote, "We wish to make absolutely clear that none of us endorses, in any way, the abuse of children. Henson's work has nothing to do with child pornography and, according to the judgment of some of the most respected curators and critics in the world, it is certainly art."

However, Rudd insists he stills stands against the exhibition, condemning it as "revolting".

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28 May 2008 12:13 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Cate Blanchett has signed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - urging him not to censor a controversial photography exhibition.

Police in Sydney, Australia, shut down an exhibition of photographs by respected artist Bill Henson last week (beg19May08) because the show featured naked pictures of 12 and 13-year-old children.

The move has sparked a heated debate in the country over the line between art and pornography.

And Blanchett has come to the defence of the exhibition, insisting Rudd should not block Henson's work.

The letter reads: "We should remember that an important index of social freedom, in earlier times or in repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, is how artists and art are treated by the state.

"We wish to make absolutely clear that none of us endorses, in any way, the abuse of children. Henson's work has nothing to do with child pornography and, according to the judgment of some of the most respected curators and critics in the world, it is certainly art."

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27 May 2008 12:52 PM, PDT | From MovieMaker.com | See recent Movie Maker news

Indiana Jones proved he's still got what it takes—at least in box office clout—as the latest film in the George Lucas-Steven Spielberg franchise, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, whipped the competition, with a box office total on track to be the second biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever. The film, which brings Harrison Ford back in the titular role alongside Cate Blanchett and Shia Labeouf, brought in just over $125 million for the holiday weekend, putting it just behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which had a Friday-through-Monday total of $139.8 million in 2007.

27 May 2008 9:06 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Cate Blanchett wanted to follow fellow Academy Award winner Emma Thompson's lead and place her 2004 Oscar statuette in the bathroom - but was too proud to hide her award away.

The Australian star picked up the Best Supporting Actress gong for The Aviator at 2004's Academy Awards, and wanted to be modest about her win by displaying the prize in the lavatory.

But the star eventually decided to go against her humble plans, and ended up placing her award centre-stage - on top of her grand piano.

She says, "I thought about sticking it in the loo (toilet). I was going to be very witty and Emma Thompson about it.

"But I'm actually very proud of it so I ended up putting it on the grand piano because all my friends want to pick it up and pose with it."

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24 May 2008 6:51 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Members of Russia's Communist party are outraged about the group's portrayal in new movie Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - and are calling for the film to be banned in the country.

The action blockbuster sees Cate Blanchett play the leader of a Russian communist organisation running amok in the U.S. in 1957 - and the picture has angered members of Russia's present day Communist party, who insist the movie provides an inaccurate portrayal of the political party in the 1950s.

Members of the party have spoken out against the film - insisting it will give young people a warped view of history - and called for the movie to be banned to prevent "ideological sabotage".

Communist party chief Sergei Malinkovich says, "Our movie-goers are teenagers who are completely unaware of what happened in 1957.

"They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war. It's rubbish.

"In 1957 the Communist party did not run with crystal skulls throughout the U.S. Why should we agree to that sort of lie and let the West trick our youth?"

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23 May 2008 4:21 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Communist party members in St. Petersburg are seeking to ban the new Indiana Jones film, saying it is "anti-Soviet propaganda". Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull revolves around Harrison Ford's archaeologist and a group of Kgb agents, led by Cate Blanchett, racing to return a mystical skull to a Mayan temple. Viktor Perov, a member of the Russian Communist party, said: "What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids (more)

Simon Reynolds

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