In a recent interview, her husband Sean Penn told this: “Robin has a project: to direct a documentary in Tahiti about the local women who try to find a free and independent identity, for example, making surf. I’m sure that it will be an excellent ethnic, politician and authentic work.”
Actress in a Motion Picture Drama: 1. Charlize Theron (North Country) 2. Julianne Moore (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio) 3. Robin Wright Penn (Nine Lives) 4. Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha) 5. Felicity Huffman (Transamerica) 6. Toni Collette (In her Shoes)
And in the section of television “Empire Falls” has receive 3 nominations. Unfortunately there is no one for Robin Wright Penn. “Empire Falls” nominations are: Miniseries, Actor (Ed Harris) and Supporting role (Paul Newman
She is in the category of best supporting female, alongside Amy Adams (Junebug), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Happy Endings), Allison Janney (Our Very Own) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain).
After the screening, the Penns, Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton and others enjoyed a private party at the Cabana Club.
Winners will be awarded at the ceremony on November 30 in New York City. "Nine Lives" has been nominated for Best Ensemble Cast (Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close. Stephen Dillane, Dakota Fanning, William Fichtner, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Jason Isaacs, Joe Mantegna, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Mary Kay Place, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Aidan Quinn, Miguel Sandoval, Amanda Seyfried, Sissy Spacek, Robin Wright Penn)
For
jaded journalists who ridiculed Sean Penn's rescue mission last week
in New Orleans, his wife has a salty message.
"I think it's fucking pathetic to be belittling him," Wright Penn raged - a blond, blue-eyed lioness protecting her mate (who was on hand for Friday's premiere, sitting with his spouse in the back row and well-positioned to gauge the expressions on the faces of a few audience members who walked out of the film early). The 39-year-old actress was responding to news accounts of her husband's trip - to help children stranded by Hurricane Katrina - that said his boat sprang a leak and began sinking under the weight of his huge celebrity entourage (including pop historian Douglas Brinkley), and that the motor wouldn't start and regular citizens taunted him. "Do we have to go to the bowels of infantile behavior?" she demanded. "Here people are dying, and if it wasn't Sean Penn going crazy watching CNN and saying, 'I have to do something' - but instead it was 'Joe Smith from Morgan City' - then those people would be thanking him, not attacking him." God help the gossip columnist who won't say the woman has a point. As for her character in the movie - a needy, manipulative psychopath who hates herself a helluva lot and everyone else even more - Wright Penn giggled and quipped, "Kinda like most women!" Like
all the hundreds of Hollywood types who've come to Canada for the prestigious
10-day festival, Wright Penn was at her ingratiating best - "selling,
selling, selling," she told me - in hopes of snagging a commercial
distributor and maybe even a positive blurb or two.
The movie has been included in Zabaltegi section alongside movies like "Broken Flowers", "Mary" directed by Abel Ferrara or "Match Point" directed by Woody Allen. TCM-Audience Award: The audience will choose a film from among those in the Zabaltegi section already shown at other International Festivals, known as the Festivals' Top section, by awarding points to each one after screening. The importer of the winning film will recieve this award worth 30,000 euros, by way of backing towards its promotion. The aim of this award is to encourage the importation of high quality films.
According to the industry trades, Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment is financing the film, which will then be released and distributed by the two studios in 2007. The film's eclectic and international cast includes Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn, Anthony Hopkins, the immortal Crispin Glover, Angelina Jolie and, in the title role, Ray Winstone. Roger Avary ("Pulp Fiction") and Neil Gaiman ("MirrorMask") are adapting the epic poem, which focuses on a brave hero who protects the Danes against the monstrous Grendel. Glover is playing Grendel, reuniting with his "Back to the Future" director. Jolie plays the beast's mother, a bit like she did in Oliver Stone's "Alexander." "Beowulf" was originally set up at Sony, but that commitment seems to have fallen through with Paramount handling domestic distribution and Warners doing international chores. The film, produced by Zemeckis, along with Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke of ImageMovers, will utilize the next generation of the performance capture technology that Zemeckis utilized on 2004's "The Polar Express.
The
United States film Nine Lives, by Rodrigo Garcia, has won this year's
Golden Leopard for the best film at the Locarno Film Festival.
The film, which features big names such as Glenn Close and Holly Hunter, explores the lives of nine very different women in separate but loosely connected vignettes. Nine Lives also received the best actress award, to be shared among the nine principal actresses in the film. In addition to Close and Hunter, this included Robin Wright Penn and Sissy Spacek. The president of the international competition jury, Vittorio Storaro, praised the film's dramatic and stylistic qualities, adding that Garcia was a director with vision. "Rodrigo Garcia's direction was extraordinary, he really did what a director should be doing, directing," said Storaro. Accepting his Golden Leopard to enthusiastic applause at the award ceremony on Saturday night, Garcia thanked the jury and festival for his prize. He also thanked his producers, the director of photography and finally his cast, "without whom this film couldn't exist". The film gives a 12-minute glimpse into the lives of the nine women, often at emotional turning points which are not always resolved. The characters often reappear in the other snap-shots in secondary roles. Each woman appears to be faced with a dilemma Diana, played by Wright Penn, is confronted with a former lover just as she has got over him. Sonia (Hunter) is embarrassed as her boyfriend reveals the couple's intimate secrets to their close friends. Despite the presence of well-known actresses, the film was made on a small budget and filmed in just 18 days. It had however been considered one the most prominent entries in the international competition, which this year featured 17 films from 12 countries
Robin Wright is currently filming with Jude Law, who confessed to Sienna he had had an affair with his nanny Daisy Wright. The Penns are trying to bring Sienna and Jude together to discuss their split. A friend said: "Sean thought they were a brilliant couple and could go the distance.
Jeff Stanzler's "Sorry, Haters" will have its world premiere at the festival in September. It's the story of an Arab cab driver, played by filmmaker Abdel Kechiche, who develops a relationship with a troubled professional woman played by Robin Wright Penn. Canadian actor Sandra Oh also has a role. The movie will be shown in the section "Discovery". Discovery offers a unique window on contemporary international cinema. A showcase for new and emerging filmmakers, Discovery is your introduction to gifted and innovative new directors who are sure to become a household name.
The driver took an accidental turn down the one-way road in Notting Hill and smashed straight into an oncoming car. The Oscar-winner and his wife were not injured in the accident. Robin Wright Penn is in the British capital filming her new movie Breaking and Entering with Jude Law.
2) Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special : Fred Schepisi 3) Outstanding Writing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special : Richard Russo 4) Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie : Ed Harris 5) Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie : Paul Newman 6) Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie : Philip Seymour Hoffman 7) Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie : Joanne Woodward 8) Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie : Kate Williams 9) Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries, Or Movie : Stuart Wurtzel, John Kasarda, Maria Nay 10) Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special : Avy Kaufman, C.S.A.
Magnolia Pictures will theatrically release the film in September with subsequent DVD and video distribution to be handled by SPHE. Graham Taylor of Endeavor negotiated the deal on behalf of the producers, while Gary Hirsch and Scott Shooman represented SPHE, and Eamonn Bowles represented Magnolia Pictures in the acquisition. "Rodrigo Garcia and his formidable cast have created something truly wonderful and unique in 'Nine Lives,'" said Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles in a statement. "As opposed to being gimmicky, the narrative innovations serve to heighten the incredible emotional complexity of the film." "Rodrigo's unique world vision as demonstrated in 'Nine Lives' is truly entertaining as well as insightful," added Benjamin S. Feingold, SPHE president. "This title will be a very welcome addition to SPHE's library of outstanding releases and we are delighted to be able to represent the film in the home entertainment market." Alejandro Gonzalez Inarratu (director of "21 Grams," "Amores Perros") executive produced the film, while Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures (producer of Rodrigo Garcia's "Fathers and Sons") served as producer. Magnolia is currently releasing two critically acclaimed documentaries: Christopher Browne's "A League of Ordinary Gentlemen," Alex Gibney's "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," and the upcoming J-Horror film "Pulse" by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. SPE is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, (SCA), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, "The Village's" Brendan Gleeson and Ray Winstone are in talks to star in the film based on the Old English poem about a knight who slays a monster and becomes king. The performance capture film would follow the process created by Zemeckis' Polar Express, with actors performing their roles which then get processed through a computerized motion capture animation process. Hopkins will next appear in "Proof" with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robin Wright Penn and Ray Winstone will co-star in 2006's Anthony Minghella-helmed "Breaking and Entering.
Principal
photography is underway in London on BREAKING AND ENTERING written and
directed by Anthony Minghella.
Previously announced cast members Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn and Vera Farmiga are joined by Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone and Mark Benton in the contemporary drama. The film is a co-production between Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company, the interim name of Bob and Harvey Weinstein's new company. BREAKING AND ENTERING is Academy Award-winning director Minghella's first original screenplay since his 1991 feature debut, 'Truly Madly Deeply'. Minghella, Sydney Pollack and Timothy Bricknell are producing for Minghella and Pollack's Mirage Enterprises. Colin Vaines and David Greenbaum are overseeing the production on behalf of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company. A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, BREAKING AND ENTERING follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. When a landscape architect's state of the art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his familiar world. Jude Law previously worked with Anthony Minghella on 'Cold Mountain' and 'The Talented Mr Ripley', receiving an Academy Award nomination for his performances in both films. Juliette Binoche won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the director's 'The English Patient'. Minghella has also previously worked with cast member Ray Winstone ('Cold Mountain'). American cast members are Robin Wright Penn who became a household name with her starring role in 'Forrest Gump' and was recently seen in 'A Home at the End of the World', and Vera Farmiga who appeared in Jonathan Demme's 'The Manchurian Candidate' and will soon be seen in 'Neverwas' with Aaron Eckhart and Ian McKellen. British actor Martin Freeman ('The Office', 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy') will play Jude Law's business partner, Sandy. BREAKING AND ENTERING's behind-the-scenes team includes production designer Alex McDowell ('Fight Club', 'Minority Report') and cinematographer Benoit Delhomme ('The Scent of Green Papaya, 'Merchant of Venice', 'Cyclo'), line producer Anita Overland ('The Claim', 'A Cock and Bull Story') and Minghella's long-time collaborator, 1st AD, Steve Andrews. Music will be composed by Gabriel Yared ('The English Patient', 'The Talented Mr Ripley', 'Cold Mountain') and Rick Smith and Karl Hyde of the group Underworld. Thanks to 'Yannick'.
Rodrigo
Garcia’s Nine Lives will screen as the Centerpiece Premiere on Tuesday,
June 21 at 7:00 pm at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
in Beverly Hills. A reception will follow the screening.
The Centerpiece Premiere screening and reception are sponsored by Target. By depicting nine different characters at emotional crossroads, Nine Lives examines how women so often find themselves captives of relationships, both past and present. The film stars Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane, Dakota Fanning, William Fichtner, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Jason Isaacs, Ian McShane, Joe Montegna, Molly Parker, Mary Kay Place, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Aidan Quinn, Miguel Sandoval, Amanda Seyfried, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is the executive producer, and Julie Lynn is the producer.
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