George Clooney, Michael McKean, Richard Roeper Remember Tom Wilkinson, Who “Made Every Actor Better”
George Clooney, Michael McKean and Richard Roeper are among the stars remembering acclaimed British actor Tom Wilkinson, who died “suddenly” on Saturday at the age of 75.
Wilkinson, known for his BAFTA-winning role in The Full Monty and Oscar-nominated turns in Michael Clayton and In the Bedroom, died at home, according to a statement from the actor’s family, who were with him when he died as was his wife.
For his role in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton, the 2007 drama that starred George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance, Wilkinson received a best supporting actor nod.
“Tom made every project better, made every actor better,” Clooney said of Wilkinson in a statement. “He was the epitome of elegance, and he will be dearly missed by all of us.”
McKean posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) that Wilkinson was a “great actor,...
Wilkinson, known for his BAFTA-winning role in The Full Monty and Oscar-nominated turns in Michael Clayton and In the Bedroom, died at home, according to a statement from the actor’s family, who were with him when he died as was his wife.
For his role in Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton, the 2007 drama that starred George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for her performance, Wilkinson received a best supporting actor nod.
“Tom made every project better, made every actor better,” Clooney said of Wilkinson in a statement. “He was the epitome of elegance, and he will be dearly missed by all of us.”
McKean posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) that Wilkinson was a “great actor,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for his BAFTA-winning role in The Full Monty and Oscar-nominated turns in Michael Clayton and In the Bedroom, died Saturday. He was 75.
Wilkinson died “suddenly” at home, according to a statement from the actor’s family, who were with him when he died as was his wife.
“The family asks for privacy at this time,” the statement continued.
Wilkinson was nominated for six BAFTA awards over the course of his career, winning best performance by an actor in a supporting role in 1998 for The Full Monty. His other nods included recognition for Michael Clayton, In the Bedroom and Shakespeare in Love.
In The Full Monty, he played Gerald, a former steel mill foreman who joins his fellow unemployed workers in staging a strip show.
Speaking about getting the part to The Guardian in 2011, Wilkinson recalled how he had been offered both a starring role in a...
Wilkinson died “suddenly” at home, according to a statement from the actor’s family, who were with him when he died as was his wife.
“The family asks for privacy at this time,” the statement continued.
Wilkinson was nominated for six BAFTA awards over the course of his career, winning best performance by an actor in a supporting role in 1998 for The Full Monty. His other nods included recognition for Michael Clayton, In the Bedroom and Shakespeare in Love.
In The Full Monty, he played Gerald, a former steel mill foreman who joins his fellow unemployed workers in staging a strip show.
Speaking about getting the part to The Guardian in 2011, Wilkinson recalled how he had been offered both a starring role in a...
- 12/30/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thursday’s parole board hearing marks the latest twist in the saga of O.J. Simpson‘s fall from grace, which began in 1994 with the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.
Prior to the killings, Simpson, now 70, was an American hero, his former prowess on the football field matched by his charm as a celebrity pitchman and actor. But after the slayings, in which Simpson quickly became the suspect, details about rage-filled fights with his ex-wife that were fueled by jealousy began to emerge.
In 1995, after the “Trial of the Century,” Simpson was famously acquitted of double murder,...
Prior to the killings, Simpson, now 70, was an American hero, his former prowess on the football field matched by his charm as a celebrity pitchman and actor. But after the slayings, in which Simpson quickly became the suspect, details about rage-filled fights with his ex-wife that were fueled by jealousy began to emerge.
In 1995, after the “Trial of the Century,” Simpson was famously acquitted of double murder,...
- 7/20/2017
- by Susan Schindehette
- PEOPLE.com
Forget the tacky tie or the new golf clubs, the best gift you can give dad this Father’s Day is to listen to what he has to say. Here are some great bits of advice from our favorite movie dads. Jim Baker in Sixteen Candles “That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.” When her "sweet 16th" birthday becomes anything but, movie dad Jim Baker (Paul Dooley) tenderly reminds his daughter Sam...
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- 6/16/2017
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
When director Kimble Rendall takes to the stage with the Hoodoo Gurus in Perth on Sunday, it won.t just be the first time the band.s founders have performed together since 1982.
Rendall and producer/DoP Helen Barrow will shoot fly-on-the-wall scenes at the concert for a trailer which they hope will lead to a feature-length docu on the durable rock group.
Screen West is funding the shoot at the Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre, which will feature all past and current members of the band.
.The docu will look at the band over the course of 30 years and what happened to each of us,. Rendall, who played rhythm guitar, tells If.
The producers intend to work with Leap Frog Films. David Doepel to release the film via cinema-on-demand platform Tugg.
In addition to that project, Rendall plans to write and direct a sequel to his 2012 hit Bait 3D, which has the working title Nest.
Rendall and producer/DoP Helen Barrow will shoot fly-on-the-wall scenes at the concert for a trailer which they hope will lead to a feature-length docu on the durable rock group.
Screen West is funding the shoot at the Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre, which will feature all past and current members of the band.
.The docu will look at the band over the course of 30 years and what happened to each of us,. Rendall, who played rhythm guitar, tells If.
The producers intend to work with Leap Frog Films. David Doepel to release the film via cinema-on-demand platform Tugg.
In addition to that project, Rendall plans to write and direct a sequel to his 2012 hit Bait 3D, which has the working title Nest.
- 11/28/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Whether it’s the modern Middle East or post-apocalyptic ape-vs.-human civil war, what typically derails meaningful peace talks isn’t the opposition but the extreme factions of your own party. In the final trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, there are two moderate leaders willing to negotiate with each other: Caesar (an ape) and Jason Clarke’s “good man,” characters who want to protect their families from an ugly war. But on their extreme flanks are Koba, the militant scar-faced ape who hunts bears and accuses Caesar of loving humans more than his own kind, and Gary Oldman’s ape-hating fear-monger,...
- 6/19/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes will make a rare appearance on CNN on June 15, when the network premieres 41ON41, a profile of President George H.W. Bush. The gimmick is that 41 people will be seen on screen, talking about Bush – including Ailes, who was a campaign advisor. And yes, the two-hour film, weaving first-person accounts of the policy decisions and personal life experiences that shaped Bush’s life and presidency, is premiering on Father’s Day — and three days after Bush celebrates his 90th birthday. The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation funded the film, which is executive produced by Bush’s former White House speechwriter Mary Kate Cary and Rick Kaplan, formerly of CNN and ABC News. The film team also includes Nancy Stern Winters and Lisa Lax at Lookalike Productions who produced and directed the film. In addition to former First Lady Barbara Bush, the film’s 41 storytellers include:...
- 6/2/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
The revolving door continues to swing: Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will help the asset management firm invest in global technology, media, and telecom companies, The Carlyle Group announced today. The firm, founded in 1987, has invested more than $18B in tech, media and telecom companies including Nielsen, AMC Entertainment, and Insight Communications. Genachowski will help it to “generate premium returns for our investors,” says Allan Holt, Co-Head of the U.S. Buyout team. Genachowski, who ended his four-year FCC tenure in May, says that he’s “grateful to have been part of developments around tech, media and telecom for many years, working with some of the best in the business, and I’m looking forward to joining my new and superbly talented Carlyle colleagues to help find and build businesses.” Carlyle is a favorite landing spot for the well-connected in Washington. Former FCC Chairman William Kennard worked there after he...
- 1/6/2014
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
Chicago – What did you do during the 1970s, Daddy? After this Father’s Day, many adult kids might be asking that question after seeing “The Source Family.” This documentary is about a commune that began in California (naturally) in the 1970s, even after the infamous Manson Family.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The documentary, produced by Isis Aquarian – a former member of the “family,” – explores chronologically the development of the commune, which includes its charismatic leader Father Yod (Aka Jim Baker). It’s fascinating because it is so separated from our post techno society. People were searching for a different way of life post the revolution of the 1960s, and a wealthy restauranteur with a strange past was able to convince a large number of men and women to come into his realm. As in many situations, it’s ‘coveting thy neighbor’s wife’ that exposes the flaw in the utopia, but it does...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The documentary, produced by Isis Aquarian – a former member of the “family,” – explores chronologically the development of the commune, which includes its charismatic leader Father Yod (Aka Jim Baker). It’s fascinating because it is so separated from our post techno society. People were searching for a different way of life post the revolution of the 1960s, and a wealthy restauranteur with a strange past was able to convince a large number of men and women to come into his realm. As in many situations, it’s ‘coveting thy neighbor’s wife’ that exposes the flaw in the utopia, but it does...
- 6/17/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Over 30 minutes of the historical/ musical/ spiritual documentary "The Source Family" pass before anybody uses the word "cult." There's no need to say it aloud. From the opening credits -- a lingering close-up of a black-and-white photograph of a bearded fellow with long white hair while a singer croons "You are Jesus" -- well, we figure it out.
For the followers of a guy who went by the names Jim Baker, Father Yod and YaHoWha, "cult" seems a given.
But "The Source Family" isn't your typical film about cults. Baker was a decorated World War II vet, a muscular health food buff who killed a couple of men with his bare hands before finding his way into Eastern Mysticism along with some of his Beat Generation peers.
The film captures, in more detail than is probably necessary, Baker's journey from mystic traveler to cult leader. And of all the long,...
For the followers of a guy who went by the names Jim Baker, Father Yod and YaHoWha, "cult" seems a given.
But "The Source Family" isn't your typical film about cults. Baker was a decorated World War II vet, a muscular health food buff who killed a couple of men with his bare hands before finding his way into Eastern Mysticism along with some of his Beat Generation peers.
The film captures, in more detail than is probably necessary, Baker's journey from mystic traveler to cult leader. And of all the long,...
- 5/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Editor’s note: The Source Family is now in limited release, so go ahead and get hip to Kate’s SXSW review of the film, originally published on March 14, 2012. While some people might chuckle at being informed that they are a part of a group of “specially chosen people,” there will always be a few that perk up with such words, whose eyes go wide, and who are eager to get on board with like-minded people. You know, like cult members. Co-directors Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos chronicle just such a cult and just such a people in The Source Family, a documentary about the group of people known as the Source Family who, thanks to their leader Jim Baker, “transformed sex, drugs, and rock n roll” into a genuine movement (at least in their eyes). The film documents Baker and the Source’s rise to (relative) power and prominence in seventies-era Los Angeles. Baker...
- 5/4/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Say what you will about Jim Baker, also known as Yod, Yahowha, Father, and then just plain God to his tribe of hippie acolytes in Los Angeles's so-called Source Family, but the man had the hair for the job. Zeus himself might envy the pillowy, platinum coils that Baker grew out in the late 1960s while reinventing himself as a spiritual cult leader with a sideline in the restaurant business. It wasn't just the hair that drew in the kids, as we learn in The Source Family, Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille's largely sympathetic history of the Baker-led phenomenon. Baker knew his market so well that he advertised meditation classes for "all the confused, lost children of the new age" in the local paper. Offering himself as a father, protector, and—if you were a teenage girl&mdas...
- 5/3/2013
- Village Voice
If you had an inside connection to a true-life tale in which sex, drugs, and rock & roll were part of the path to spiritual salvation for a ‘70s L.A. hippie cult group, wouldn’t you want to make a movie about it? Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos’s documentary, The Source Family, offers up an intimate history of the group led by Father Yod, A.K.A. Jim Baker. A successful, charismatic businessman, Baker had a late-1960s spiritual awakening leading to his establishment of a religious commune whose initial hub was his popular Sunset Strip health-food restaurant, The Source. After adopting his newly …...
- 4/30/2013
- by Jim Allen
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Winkler Films has optioned rights to the novel The Empty Glass, written by J. I. Baker, who will also adapt the screenplay. Irwin Winkler and David Winkler are producing a film that weaves together historical events with infamous conspiracy theories regarding Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death. The paranoid thriller is narrated by the young coroner who is among the first on the scene at Monroe’s bungalow when the actress is reported dead, and how his quest for the truth about her death puts his own life at risk. “The Empty Glass reads like a Billy Wilder screenplay,” said David Winkler. “It’s got suspense, action and dramatic plot turns that will appeal to great directors, and rich dialogue that will attract great actors. We knew immediately that nobody could adapt the book better than the author himself, Jim Baker.” “When I was writing The Empty Glass, I very much had Goodfellas in mind structurally,...
- 9/27/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
As I mentioned when rounding up the Narrative Feature Competition, wrapping SXSW 2012 could take a while. That batch opened with comments from one of the jurors, J Hoberman, and this one will as well. First, though, let's mention that we already have roundups going on the award-winners, Beware of Mr Baker and Bay of All Saints.
So the Guardian's Catherine Shoard, jury member, found Jeffrey Kimball's The Central Park Effect to be "a sweet study of the birders who flock to Manhattan's thick strip of parkland each spring. It was pretty gentle, generic, even, but felt from a different planet from the rest in that it wasn't wholly human-focused. Sure, the warblers and the robins are red herrings, and it's really all about the cast of eccentrics who eyeball them – including celeb twitcher Jonathan Franzen, who pitches in with some unusually self-deprecating soundbites."
Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles...
So the Guardian's Catherine Shoard, jury member, found Jeffrey Kimball's The Central Park Effect to be "a sweet study of the birders who flock to Manhattan's thick strip of parkland each spring. It was pretty gentle, generic, even, but felt from a different planet from the rest in that it wasn't wholly human-focused. Sure, the warblers and the robins are red herrings, and it's really all about the cast of eccentrics who eyeball them – including celeb twitcher Jonathan Franzen, who pitches in with some unusually self-deprecating soundbites."
Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles...
- 3/27/2012
- MUBI
The local wildlife is on message at SXSW, with a core sample of modern concerns – birdwatching, music, cults, death, the Middle East and poverty – covered in the documentary film wing
In Austin, even the birds are plugged into the grid. Walk round the city, and everywhere you go, from kerb to lamp-post, verge to perch, your journey is soundtracked by the whirr and thrum of tech connection. Not inside: in the convention centre, the cinemas and the bars, the thousands of iPhones and iPads and BlackBerrys tapping away are largely silent. But on the street, it sounds like 2004.
The white noise comes courtesy of the common grackle, a scrappy-looking flapper, all trampled tailfeathers and evil tufts, which Wikipedia praises it for its impersonation skills. These beasties continually hack out a chorus of mad crackling and wonky modems, a ghosty throwback to delegates of years past. Sure, they're a little out of date in their hardware,...
In Austin, even the birds are plugged into the grid. Walk round the city, and everywhere you go, from kerb to lamp-post, verge to perch, your journey is soundtracked by the whirr and thrum of tech connection. Not inside: in the convention centre, the cinemas and the bars, the thousands of iPhones and iPads and BlackBerrys tapping away are largely silent. But on the street, it sounds like 2004.
The white noise comes courtesy of the common grackle, a scrappy-looking flapper, all trampled tailfeathers and evil tufts, which Wikipedia praises it for its impersonation skills. These beasties continually hack out a chorus of mad crackling and wonky modems, a ghosty throwback to delegates of years past. Sure, they're a little out of date in their hardware,...
- 3/13/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage. At today’s TCA panel on HBO’s movie Game Change, director/executive producer Jay Roach said he tried to get Sarah Palin’s cooperation in preparing a script about the 2008 presidential election, which was based on the book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. “I got a very quick e-mail back from her attorney saying: ‘I checked. She declined.’ I took that as her final answer,” said Roach, also the director of HBO’s Recount, about the 2000 presidential race. Still, Game Change writer Danny Strong (who also penned Recount) said he was able to interview 25 people connected with the 2008 campaign. He did not get John McCain or his speechwriter Mark Salter but said, “I got everybody else, including people who are not portrayed in the film.” Strong called Game Change nonpartisan and added that Republican politicians were very receptive to...
- 1/13/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Better This World, The Tiniest Place and the other nominations for the 2011 Ida Awards have been announced. The 27th Annual Ida Awards (documentary awards) are presented by the International Documentary Association (Ida) “a non-profit organization promoting documentary film, video and new media, to support the efforts of documentary filmmaking and video production makers around the world and to increase public appreciation and demand for the art of the documentary…the Ida has approximately 2,800 members in 53 countries, providing a forum for supporters and suppliers of documentary film making.”
This years presentation will see “the 2011 Career Achievement Award [awarded] to legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank. He will be presented his award by Werner Herzog. Director Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) will receive the 2011 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.”
The full listing of the 2011 Ida Awards nominations is below.
Best Feature Award
Better This World
Directors/Producers/Writers: Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega...
This years presentation will see “the 2011 Career Achievement Award [awarded] to legendary documentary filmmaker Les Blank. He will be presented his award by Werner Herzog. Director Danfung Dennis (Hell and Back Again) will receive the 2011 Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.”
The full listing of the 2011 Ida Awards nominations is below.
Best Feature Award
Better This World
Directors/Producers/Writers: Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega...
- 10/28/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
Check out this one-minute traditionally animated Superman video by Robb Pratt. It is a cool new take on the Superman character that draws from classic elements, like Mischa Bakaleinikoff’s music from the live-action serial.
Pratt is a Disney veteran who's worked on Tarzan and Pocahontas and series like Kick Buttowski and Kim Possible.
Check it out below and share your thoughts!
Credits
Produced and Directed by Robb Pratt
Starring John Newton and Jennifer Newton
Storyboard by Robb Pratt
Layout/BGs by Brian Woods, James P. Alles, Andy Ice, Robb Pratt
Animation by Robb Pratt, Steven Pierre Gordon, James Baker
Sound Design/Audio Mix by Carlos Sanches
Music from the Superman Serials by Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Superman Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster...
Pratt is a Disney veteran who's worked on Tarzan and Pocahontas and series like Kick Buttowski and Kim Possible.
Check it out below and share your thoughts!
Credits
Produced and Directed by Robb Pratt
Starring John Newton and Jennifer Newton
Storyboard by Robb Pratt
Layout/BGs by Brian Woods, James P. Alles, Andy Ice, Robb Pratt
Animation by Robb Pratt, Steven Pierre Gordon, James Baker
Sound Design/Audio Mix by Carlos Sanches
Music from the Superman Serials by Mischa Bakaleinikoff
Superman Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster...
- 2/7/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Eugene Jarecki's documentary Reagan-debuting Monday on HBO-tries to illuminate the popular president. Lloyd Grove on whether there is anything left to say-or is Reagan just impossible to really know.
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Natalee's Father Find Her?
But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
Ronald Reagan was plainspoken and sunny in public-a Great Communicator to hundreds of millions around the world. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he famously exhorted at the Brandenburg Gate-the battle cry of the Cold War that prefigured the collapse of the Berlin Wall and, in turn, Soviet Communism.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Natalee's Father Find Her?
But, at his private core, America's much-celebrated 40th president was unknowable and unreachable, even to his official biographer. After spending hours with the man, Edmund Morris was so perplexed by the impenetrability of his subject's inner life that felt forced to invent a fictional Reagan confidant in Dutch, his authorized biography, in a rash attempt to explain it. Morris...
- 2/6/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
As horror archetypes go, the “demonic possession” subgenre is one that didn’t really hit its stride until the 1973 release of the William Friedkin production of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling novel The Exorcist. Before that there were sporadic cinematic mentions of demons taking over the bodies of the living, but it was The Exorcist and the cultural phenomena it created that set the tone from then on.
After reports of people literally throwing up in theaters, passing out in their seats, and – most importantly – record box office numbers being tallied, the list of films that wanted a piece of the demonic action came fast and furious with titles such as Ovidio G. Assonitis and Robert Barrett’s Beyond The Door, aka The Devil Within Her (1974); the great Mario Bava’s La Casa Dell’Esorcismo, aka House of Exorcism, aka Lisa and the Devil (1974); and on through the years until...
After reports of people literally throwing up in theaters, passing out in their seats, and – most importantly – record box office numbers being tallied, the list of films that wanted a piece of the demonic action came fast and furious with titles such as Ovidio G. Assonitis and Robert Barrett’s Beyond The Door, aka The Devil Within Her (1974); the great Mario Bava’s La Casa Dell’Esorcismo, aka House of Exorcism, aka Lisa and the Devil (1974); and on through the years until...
- 12/21/2010
- by Carnell
- DreadCentral.com
Photograph by Olaf Blecker
An Information Hound: Mullen grabs a few minutes to read the newspaper in his Pentagon office. | Photo: Olaf Blecker
Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.
On the evening of January 6, Admiral Mike Mullen got into his armored SUV and girded himself for the last meeting of his day. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had been up since well before dawn -- he'd gone to the gym at 4:30 that morning. A bad cold was making him feel as if his head were stuffed with gauze. And his aides? Slave drivers! He'd wanted to cancel his appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, but he had done that once before, and they thought it would be bad form to back out again.
An Information Hound: Mullen grabs a few minutes to read the newspaper in his Pentagon office. | Photo: Olaf Blecker
Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.
On the evening of January 6, Admiral Mike Mullen got into his armored SUV and girded himself for the last meeting of his day. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had been up since well before dawn -- he'd gone to the gym at 4:30 that morning. A bad cold was making him feel as if his head were stuffed with gauze. And his aides? Slave drivers! He'd wanted to cancel his appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, but he had done that once before, and they thought it would be bad form to back out again.
- 4/16/2010
- by Jeff Chu
- Fast Company
Actor Johnny Depp and director Emir Kusturica will be learning Spanish for an upcoming biopic titled Wild Roses, Tender Roses, of the Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, the filmmaker told Screen Daily. Kusturica — a Serbian director will begin shooting this project also starring Salma Hayek in 2011. “Believe it or not... Johnny and myself have to learn Spanish,” said Kusturica, who previously worked with the American actor on the 1993 film Arizona Dream. The film will be an adaptation of James Baker’s 1996 book The Friends of Pancho Villa. ...
- 2/8/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
Britain's Prince Edward had "a bit of slap and tickle" with Ulrika Jonsson. The UK TV presenter - who was photographed with the prince in 1989 - has previously refused to reveal any details about their relationship, but has now confirmed they enjoyed several dates together. She said: "I did not sleep with Prince Edward. There were a few dates, a bit of a slap and tickle." Ulrika first met the prince when she attended a garden party with James Baker, a presenter on breakfast TV show 'TV-am' where Ulrika worked as a secretary. The meeting passed without incident, but Ulrika's second meeting with Edward was to prove more important. She told Piers Morgan's 'Life Stories' television program: "James Baker...
- 3/30/2009
- Monsters and Critics
London -- Al Gore's Current TV has hired former Sky programming chief James Baker to run its U.K. operations.
The channel, launched in 2007, primarly features user-generated reporting and program pods from around the world.
Baker, was head of Sky One and led its Web, mobile and interactive operations during an eight-year tenure at the satcaster.
He joins Current TV from investment fund Fleming Media, where he focused on developing new IP opportunities across multiple platforms.
The channel, launched in 2007, primarly features user-generated reporting and program pods from around the world.
Baker, was head of Sky One and led its Web, mobile and interactive operations during an eight-year tenure at the satcaster.
He joins Current TV from investment fund Fleming Media, where he focused on developing new IP opportunities across multiple platforms.
- 1/26/2009
- by By Mimi Turner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ralph Fiennes Bernard and Doris -- Anyone who knew only Ralph Fiennes' brooding, explosive Hamlet on Broadway or his evil Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films might be forgiven for wondering if the role of the gay, alcoholic, severely repressed Irish butler to controversial tobacco heiress Doris Duke would really be the best fit. But in Bernard and Doris, Fiennes proves he is as at home with detail as he is with size. What could have been just another dashingly romantic heterosexual leading man trying to prove his range in a gay character part is instead a finely nuanced job of character acting. Bernard Lafferty arrives at Duke's door fresh out of rehab and without a penny to his name. Duke is a filthy rich, notoriously hard-to-please employer with a penchant for humiliating and firing the help. But starting from that unenviable position, Lafferty rises to the point at...
- 1/15/2009
- backstage.com
• Tom Wilkinson won a Golden Globe to match the Emmy Award he won for this supporting role as Benjamin Franklin in "John Adams" last fall. He is also nominated this evening as lead actor in a telefilm or miniseries for playing a modern day political advisor, James Baker, in "Recount." • Laura Dern has a long history with the Golden Globes, including being Miss Golden Globe back in 1982. However, despite one lead actress movie nod ("Rambling Rose," 1991) and two leading actress telefilm noms ("Afterburn" in 1992 and "The Baby Dance" in 1998), she was winless until tonight. Unlike fellow supporting winner Wilkinson, Dern did not win an Emmy Award for her work...
- 1/12/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Returning favorites seem all the rage in the TV categories for this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards. 30 Rock is the comedy front-runner, and Mad Men might coast on its wins at the Emmys and Golden Globes to take home SAG statues for its second season. But don't count out the newcomers. Back Stage spoke with TV critics Robert Bianco of USA Today, Ray Richmond of The Hollywood Reporter, and Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly to get their takes on the upcoming nominations. Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series "This is a fairly thin category," Richmond says, "because comedies are not in a growth spurt right now." So we'll probably see return visits from previous nominees. Last year's winner, Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock, is the clear favorite among the critics, especially after the show's triumph at the Emmys. Earlier nominees Steve Carell of The Office, Charlie Sheen...
- 11/20/2008
- by David Sheward
- backstage.com
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) might become vice president of the United States of America before he becomes a member of the exclusive Chevy Chase Club in suburban Washington, DC.
Bayh - one of three men on Barack Obama's short list of potential running mates - has been trying for years to become a full-fledged member of the blue-blooded country club, joining the likes of Sandra Day O'Connor, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan and James Baker.
But, as Page Six reported...
Bayh - one of three men on Barack Obama's short list of potential running mates - has been trying for years to become a full-fledged member of the blue-blooded country club, joining the likes of Sandra Day O'Connor, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan and James Baker.
But, as Page Six reported...
- 8/20/2008
- NYPost.com
By Stephen Saito
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
Last year, "Young@Heart" caused ripples when it sold to Fox Searchlight to become the first distribution deal to emerge from the L.A. Film Festival, so perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the festival put documentaries front and center this year, even in a city where there's no shortage of name actors that most other festivals would deploy to lure audiences. Instead, one of the more anticipated star attractions in Los Angeles was a talk with HBO documentary czar Sheila Nevins, who participated in a wide-ranging conversation with L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein about her career of mixing high class projects like the recent doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" with, well, "Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal," which premiered at the festival hours after Nevins finished up. (The latest from "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,...
- 7/2/2008
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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