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  • In 1994, Sam Mendes plays Himself in the production of Allari Police.

  • In 1993, Sam Mendes plays the part of Himself in the production of Attendre le navire.

  • He stars as Himself in the 1948 production of Blanche Fury.

  • For the 2005 video Dippin' Chocolate 2, he takes the role of Himself.

  • In 2007, Sam Mendes is cast in the role of Himself in the video Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island.

  • He takes the role of Himself in the 1933 production of The Good Companions.

  • For the 1961 production of Guantes de oro, he plays Himself.

  • Kate Winslet To Return To UK?

    
    The 'Revolutionary Road' actress - who split from film director husband Sam Mendes earlier this year - is now planning to move home to her native Britain from her current residence in New York. A source told the Mail Online website: "Kate doesn't know qui
    on 2010-03-19 04:50:03

  • Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes 'Just Grew Apart'

    
    The actress tried to keep the relationship together for the children, says a source
    on 2010-03-18 04:46:35

  • Kate Winslet saw Sam Mendes ?more like a brother at the end?

    
    Kate Winslet was sunning herself on holiday in Mexico yesterday while the secrets surrounding her split with husband Sam Mendes emerged.
    on 2010-03-17 04:49:54

  • Kate Winslet: Divorce Details

    
    On Monday, it was announced that after seven years of marriage Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have called it quits. “She felt bored,” a friend of the couple told the NY Daily News. “When Sam isn’t working, he’d just as soon stay
    on 2010-03-17 04:49:46

  • Scoop: Why Winslet?s split was such a shock

    
    Actress and husband weren't the kind to broadcast their personal business, so when things went sour, they were able to keep the troubles to themselves. Business - Sam Mendes - Kate Winslet - Reader - Marriage
    on 2010-03-17 04:46:39

  • Actress Kate Winslet, director Sam Mendes break up (AP)

    
    AP - British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.
    on 2010-03-16 04:45:06

  • British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband (AP)

    
    AP - British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.
    on 2010-03-16 04:45:13

  • Kate Winslet and Husband Sam Mendes Have Split

    
    ET has the latest... Kate Winslet and her director husband Sam Mendes are calling it quits. The British law firm Shillings said in a statement that the pair, who've been married since 2003, split earlier this year and that the break-up was "entirely
    on 2010-03-16 04:47:53

  • Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes split

    
    Actress Kate Winslet and her film director husband Sam Mendes have split up, their lawyers announce.
    on 2010-03-16 04:48:02

  • Kate Winslet splits with husband

    
    OSCAR-winning couple - actress Kate Winslet and director Sam Mendes - have separated after almost seven years of marriage. Photo special
    on 2010-03-16 04:48:48

  • Kate Winslet splits from director Sam Mendes

    
    Hollywood power couple Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes today announced they had ended their six-and-a-half-year marriage by ?mutual agreement?.
    on 2010-03-16 04:51:37

  • Kate Winslet and husband separate

    
    Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes have separated after nearly seven years of marriage.
    on 2010-03-16 04:51:55

  • British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband

    
    British movie star Kate Winslet has split from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their ...
    on 2010-03-16 04:52:36

  • Press reviews: Sam Mendes' production of The Tempest

    
    Critics have their say on Sam Mendes production of The Tempest at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
    on 2010-02-27 04:47:51

  • The Tempest

    
    Legit Reviews: Eloquently conjured by Sam Mendes and his design team.
    on 2010-02-26 04:46:53

  • Shakespeare's shipwreck tale as we like it

    
    Bam's transatlantic Bridge Project got off to a shaky start last month, when director Sam Mendes sucked all the playfulness out of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," and the American actors paled next to their British colleagues. I can't say I was looking f
    on 2010-02-26 04:48:05

  • As You Like It

    
    Legit Reviews: Director Sam Mendes establishes a mood of gloom with his laborious staging.
    on 2010-01-27 04:48:08

  • Sam Mendes To Direct Bond?

    
    Sam Mendes may direct the next James Bond film.The British-born director - who is married to 'Titanic' star Kate Winslet - is rumoured to be the front-runner to take charge of the next instalment of the spy franchise.A source said: "Sam is one of the best
    on 2010-01-07 04:48:43

  • Sam Mendes in talks to direct next Bond movie (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - It's Mendes. Sam Mendes. The British director is in talks to direct the 23rd film in the venerable James Bond spy movie franchise. Production could begin as early as June with an eye toward a 2011 release date.
    on 2010-01-06 04:45:19

  • Sam Mendes to direct next Bond picture (Reuters)

    
    Reuters - It's Mendes. Sam Mendes. The British director is in negotiations to direct the 23rd installment of the venerable James Bond franchise.
    on 2010-01-06 04:45:15

  • Sam Mendes in talks to direct next Bond movie

    
    Sam Mendes is engaged in discussions to become the next Bond maestro, potentially making him the first Oscar winner ever to direct England's suavest spy.
    on 2010-01-06 04:49:49

  • Sam Mendes in talks to direct next Bond movie

    
    Sam Mendes is engaged in discussions to become the next Bond maestro, potentially making him the first Oscar winner ever to direct England's suavest spy.
    on 2010-01-06 04:50:28

  • Will Sam Mendes direct Bond?

    
    Film News: MGM has yet to confirm reports -- The long-running drama surrounding MGM's future took an odd turn Tuesday with rumors sweeping through the town about Sam Mendes directing next James Bond film.
    on 2010-01-06 04:46:43

  • Sam Mendes to Take Willy Wonka to the Stage

    
    Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes is bringing children's classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory to the stage.Roald Dahl's beloved book has already been turned into two successful Hollywood movies, convincing Mendes the story could be a hit musical on B
    on 2009-10-12 04:47:09

  • Mendes 'planning Wonka musical'

    
    British director Sam Mendes is developing a stage musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, according to reports.
    on 2009-10-03 04:47:27

  • Mendes Feels Effects of Recession

    
    Sam Mendes insists Hollywood movies are now "almost impossible to make" as a result of the global financial crisis. The director admits the economic downturn means leading film studios will struggle to finance "serious" movies like his 2008 hit Revolution
    on 2009-09-20 04:46:57

  • Mendes: recession hits movies

    
    Film director Sam Mendes says that Hollywood dramas and period movies are now "almost impossible to make" due to the recession.
    on 2009-09-18 04:49:59

  • Kate Winslet: Tennis Chick

    
    Enjoying a beautiful afternoon of great weather and sport, Kate Winslet was spotted at Day Nine of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships yesterday (July 1). The “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” actress looked to be having a marvelo
    on 2009-07-03 04:50:07

  • Mendes brings 'Away' to Edinburgh

    
    VPage: Helmer hails festival for repping new talnet -- Sam Mendes hailed the role of the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival in shining a light on new talent.
    on 2009-06-20 04:49:57

  • Director's U-turn

    
    Sam Mendes swaps melodrama for a comedy road movie
    on 2009-06-19 04:50:29
  • http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-10/ Mendes May Quit to Raise Kids British director Sam Mendes has hinted he may quit Hollywood to look after his two kids with Kate Winslet when they start school. The American Beauty moviemaker loves spending time with his children - Joe and Mia - while Winslet is away shooting a movie, but he confesses that life on the road is difficult when they are both working. He says, "Once (my kids) hit school age, it will get tricky. There's no way I'm going to put my kids through years of being gypsies. It's not fair."
  • http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=25505697&p=z55x58x4&n=2 5505904 Mendes defends similarities in Jarhead 07/01/2006 - 09:22:10 Director Sam Mendes has defended his latest movie Jarhead against accusations that it copies other war films such as Full Metal Jacket, insisting the resemblance can't be helped. Mendes, whose new film is based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, says similarities between his and other war films are inevitable because they are about the same thing. He tells Empire magazine: "Look, astonishing as it may seem, Stanley Kubrick did not invent basic training. I mean, I walked into boot camp and it was: 'Well, there's nothing I can do about this.' "That white room is printed on the collective memory. It just looks like that: a white room and a yellow line and racks on either side. I thought: 'We'll just have to confront it head on, really, let it be what it is.' "In fact I thought that was one of the fascinating things, the recycling of old war movies by the military. "Actually it's very difficult to get away from other war movies because war is a very limited environment. You get trained in barracks, get taught how to fire the same type of guns; it's the same rite of passage now as it was then."
  • On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 7:23:15 -0500, Rick in Oz wrote (in message ): > http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-04/ > understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - because they expect > war films to be one-sided. The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's > Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses > on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels > Americans don't grasp. Mendes says, "I feel they've understood in Europe. In > America, it's like talking about a different movie. "Fundamentally, Jarhead > disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of > American movies right now which demand on some level to tell us which side > they're on. "In Europe, there's a sense this film comes from the tradition > of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. "It has more in > common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. "In > America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that > I'd failed." > Something tells me your average Kuwaiti doesn't believe the Gulf War was "frivolous" as Mendes asserts. If not for US (and others) intervention in Kuwait, Saddam and his goons would have systematically murdered that entire nation.
  • http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article336638.ece Jake Gyllenhaal: Mountains of talent Jake Gyllenhaal is making waves with his latest role as a gay cowboy in 'Brokeback Mountain'. But he had to grow up to do justice to the part, he tells Phil Hoad Published: 05 January 2006 These days, it's a bad idea trying to tell Jake Gyllenhaal you've got him pegged. The 25-year-old shifts in his seat when I repeat his past comments, about his two new films, Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead, being "liberating" experiences. To the effect that, far from pegging him down, they avoided putting him into the "boxes" previous directors had shoehorned his curio screen persona into. But no: "I have no agenda in myself for how I want to appear with other people," he explains in a suite at London's Dorchester Hotel. "My agenda is to tell stories that I care about and that move me. And those were two stories that moved me. I didn't go, 'Oh, if I do Brokeback Mountain, it's not gonna put me in a box.' I'm crying after I finished the and I'm, like, 'I will do anything to do this movie.'" Despite graduating through fabulously dishevelled indie hits such as the fiendish Donnie Darko, you get the impression that, now, Gyllenhaal is a man not easily knocked off his ramrod agenda. Eighteen months ago, when he was promoting climate-change blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, he declared, "This is the last teenage role I will ever play in my life." And was he ready to become a star? "I've been ready my whole life." The start of 2006 sees Gyllenhaal as poster-boy for the New Gravity, the programme of serious films - Munich, Syriana et al - currently rinsing down SFX-daubed Hollywood. No longer a teen star, he's grown up. Jarhead sees him going to war, while he plays a graduate mathematician opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the long-delayed drama Proof. And, first, he ages from 20 to 40 in Ang Lee's adaptation of E Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain. Gyllenhaal plays Jack Twist, a jobbing Wyoming cowboy who falls in love with his co-worker Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger), and the pair conduct a two-decade-long affair. When he was 16, he first talked to Gus Van Sant, then attached to direct, about the "gay cowboy " doing the rounds. The actor says: "It wasn't really a delightful subject for me at the time. So I backed away from it." Gyllenhaal evidently matured enough to take on the role. Brokeback Mountain runs with the quintessential Ang Lee theme - repressed sensibility - and, as Jack and Ennis pick up wives, children and regrets down the years, masterfully crafts both a classic love story, and a modern fable of permissiveness and tolerance. What it isn't is a gay-rights movie; it's universal enough to avoid categorisations. Which, naturally, pleased Gyllenhaal. "That, to me, is what this movie hopefully tries to destroy. Your idea of what love is and what sexuality is, can be whatever you want it to be," he says. The kissing-Heath-Ledger question, then, feels a bit trite. (For posterity, it was "exfoliating" [Empire], it "hurt" (New York Times) and, says Ledger, was "just like kissing a person" [Entertainment Weekly].) Gyllenhaal also resents distortions in the American press that he first interpreted the characters as straight men who happen to fall in love with each other. This, he says, is an over-simplification. "I think the two of them had no real concept of what 'gay' was... I think Ennis did more than Jack does." He means the fact that Heath Ledger's taciturn farmhand, vitally, appreciates what their love means in the conservative Midwest. Wouldn't Jack, had he been born 20 years later, be the more likely of the two to have decamped for the coasts to live the "gay lifestyle"? "Of the two characters, he's definitely the more 'gay'. I definitely think he's had more experiences than Ennis has. The most difficult thing for me when I was playing it was knowing that I was going to have to guide him and show him the ropes and be convincing in that." Gyllenhaal - initially coltish and passionate, later broken and sour - pulls it off, though the film rests finally on Ledger's gruff gaze and mountainous silences. Jarhead, on the other hand, is most definitely all Gyllenhaal's. Another literary adaptation, this time of Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoirs, it's less successful than Brokeback Mountain. Resting on a risky cinematic premise (we all know war is hell, but did you know it's boring too?) it demands an inventive , which is conspicuously absent. Lucky then, that the photography is acrid and apocalyptic, and as sardonic Marine recruit "Swoff", Gyllenhaal keeps this tone ringing loud and clear. Originally, director Sam Mendes thought of his lead actor in the fey indie-boy mould, until he saw him on stage in 2002's West End hit This Is Our Youth and was surprised by his physical clout. Mendes still doubted, though, that Gyllenhaal could display the necessary "ugly" emotions for the role and the audition was not convincing. "I did a really bad job. And then I got ugly. Then I got really upset," says Gyllenhaal. "I didn't punch him in the face or anything, but I would have if he hadn't given me the part." He's still unsure how he managed to convince Mendes. "Ultimately, it was just my passion for it - calling him up in the middle of the night and telling him that and letting him know." Asked about his own opinion on recent US activity (and probably mindful of the flak his sister Maggie received for her comments about America's responsibility for 9/11), Gyllenhaal sounds like a geopolitical agnostic. "Just as a young person, all you have is questions. I don't really have a stance as of yet. But the questions were never answered. Because of that, slowly I have become more and more unhappy with the situation. Just like a parent, if a child asks you a question and you don't have an answer or you lie to them, it's not good parenting. And I feel the same about the President." After his stint with Sergeant-Major Mendes though, he does praise the "extraordinary" work done by the armed forces in Iraq. Gyllenhaal has friends currently stationed there, but is from precisely the kind of background least likely to pack their kids off into the military. He's the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal (Losing Isaiah, Homegrown) and screenwriter Naomi Foner (Running on Empty, Bee Season). He grew up in swanky Hancock Park, Los Angeles; his mum's best friend is Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Newman taught him how to drive. Gyllenhaal has inherited the leftie proclivities - Future Forests and the American Civil Liberties Union are two societies he backs - but is striking out for himself. His performances in Jarhead and Brokeback Mountain are almost as off-kilter as his first ones, but now they're set at the centre of far more mainstream films. But his choice of roles suggests that he's still keen to avoid off-the-peg parts, as he did when he was starting out. "For me, growing up as a teenager was more like struggling with, y'know, identity in general, just who I was. I could very easily in the way I was feeling be talking to a big rabbit [as in Donnie Darko] and maybe I could be having an affair with an older woman [The Good Girl]. Those topics were more realistic." His next film is Zodiac, about a San Francisco serial killer of the late Sixties. Gyllenhaal is playing Robert Graysmith, the ex-illustrator for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author who obsessively investigates the killings. Gyllenhaal's starting to get a little forensic himself; he's been recently videotaping Graysmith. What's he like? "Extraordinary. He's a bulldog and at the same time, full of an innocence I could never equate with a bulldog. He cares about doing the right thing in a world that seems so perverse, it seems impossible to do the right thing in." The actor's probably got a filing cabinet full of notes already. "I've noticed that playing a real person, you can interpret it how you wanna interpret it, but sometimes the personality is the key to making the story work." Does his need to go the extra yard come from having to suffer a little to compensate for his bourgeois upbringing? "We all suffer. There's no need to do it any more than we need to. I don't know, I..." He brightens. "No! That idea's old now. Again. For a long time, I think I thought acting was suffering and I feel very differently right now."
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:i6Puf.12$381.632@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-04/ > understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - Oh, whine, whine. Americans DID understand that it was a boring film made from a GREAT book. Didn't Mendes get his oscar for "American Beauty", one of those shallow films like "Forrest Gump" that WAS highly entertaining but didn't stand the test of time? Kris
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:i6Puf.12$381.632@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au... > http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-04/ > understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - because they > expect > war films to be one-sided. Oh boo hoo. Big deal. We believe in good versus bad. Pardon us if we don't sit around clucking like a gaggle of nervous chickens. I'm so tired of the snotty, weeniefied Eurotrash being held up as some marvelous example to follow. The continent has known nothing but despots, dictators, invasions, revolutions, surrender and appeasement. Europe's got nothing to say that we need to hear. Nor Canada. ------------------------------------- Icebreaker "If you're not wearing briefs... and you're not wearing boxers... than that means.... NO!!" "That's right Jerry. I'm out there baby and I'm lovvvvin every minute of it! I feel like a naked, innocent boy roaming the country side!"
  • Rick in Oz wrote: > http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-04/ > understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - because they expect > war films to be one-sided. The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's > Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses > on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels > Americans don't grasp. Mendes says, "I feel they've understood in Europe. In > America, it's like talking about a different movie. "Fundamentally, Jarhead > disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of > American movies right now which demand on some level to tell us which side > they're on. "In Europe, there's a sense this film comes from the tradition > of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. "It has more in > common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. "In > America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that > I'd failed." No, Sam; they just plain ignored you and your absurdist war film. Move on now.
  • http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-04/ Mendes: "Americans Don't Get 'Jarhead'" Oscar-winning film director Sam Mendes claims American viewers don't understand his new movie Jarhead as well as Europeans - because they expect war films to be one-sided. The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels Americans don't grasp. Mendes says, "I feel they've understood in Europe. In America, it's like talking about a different movie. "Fundamentally, Jarhead disobeys all the laws of American movies, and not just the political laws of American movies right now which demand on some level to tell us which side they're on. "In Europe, there's a sense this film comes from the tradition of absurdist war movies about the futility of conflict. "It has more in common with Beckett, Sartre and Banuel than it does with Oliver Stone. "In America, they assumed I was trying to make an Oliver Stone movie and that I'd failed."
  • http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9283 Potter Returns With Cash to Save the Box Office Weekend Box Office Wrap-Up for November 18-20, 2005 By John Hamann November 20, 2005 Top Ten for Weekend of November 18-20, 2005 Rank Film Number of Sites Percentage Drop Estimated Gross ($) Cumulative Gross ($) 1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 3,858 New $101.4 $101.4 2 Walk the Line 2,961 New $22.4 $22.4 3 Chicken Little 3,514 -53% $14.8 $99.2 4 Derailed 2,447 -47% $6.5 $21.8 5 Zathura 3,232 -62% $5.1 $20.3 6 Jarhead 2,413 -59% $4.8 $54.3 7 Get Rich or Die Tryin' 1,666 -64% $4.4 $24.5 8 Saw II 2,257 -57% $3.9 $79.9 9 The Legend of Zorro 2,150 -64% $2.3 $42.8 10 Pride and Prejudice 221 -26% $2.1 $6.0 With a weekend gross that almost beat last weekend's entire top ten, Harry Potter has single-handedly saved the box office, at least for a couple of weeks. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire grossed a huge $101.4 million this weekend, and second place finisher Walk The Line didn't do too shabbily either. The rest of the top ten was ravaged this weekend, as its comparisons to the last frame were heightened due to last Friday being the Veteran's Day Holiday. Let's start with a Harry Potter history lesson. The first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone opened on Friday, November 16, 2001 and started what's become one of the most lucrative franchises of all time. The first book translated its big-time buzz into an opening of $90.3 million (over $96 million in today's dollars) from 3,672 venues. It was at $187 million after ten days, and finished with a domestic total of $317.6 million, which is about $339 million in today's dollars. It had an opening to total multiplier of 3.52. A year later, over the same weekend, Warner Bros released Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This one opened to $88.4 million from 3,682 venues, after finding $29.6 million on its first Friday. The opening adjusted for inflation equals $91.9 million. Chamber of Secrets finished with $262 million ($272.4 in today's dollars) and had an opening-to-total multiplier of 2.97. Maybe trying to shake things up a bit, WB released Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in June of 2004. It got 3,855 venues and grossed $93.7 million over its first three days. Its total came in at $249.5 million, and carried a smaller multiplier of 2.66, mostly due to the summer release date. A good guess for the opening of Harry Potter 4 would be somewhere between $88 and $95 million, as so far, Harry's been somewhat predictable over opening weekend. With expectations remaining below $100 million, it's a pleasant surprise this morning that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire opened to $101.4 million from 3,858 venues. It had a venue average of $26,289 and a weekend multiplier of 2.85 using a $35.6 million Friday figure. That's the fourth biggest opening of all-time, and the biggest debut ever for the month of November - a true coup for the folks at Warner Bros. Why the increase over the previous Potter films? The marketing for Goblet of Fire was carried out very well. Fire breathing dragons and teen superheroes are easy to market, and WB was thankful to get a ton of free media coverage as well. In addition, the release of the last book was a huge event, bigger than any of the other books in the series. The popularity of the series is obviously still growing, despite the fact that its original target is now in their late teens or early 20s. Instead of that target audience outgrowing the series, they still embrace it, which means the Harry Potter Army will only grow and grow and grow. Good reviews were another huge factor in this opening, and the reviews of its predecessors. This is a series of films that has never stumbled critically, and leaves its audience always wanting more. Of the 141 reviews Goblet of Fire got at RottenTomatoes, only 18 were of the negative variety, giving the Mike Newell film a very fresh rating of 87%. The huge opening still may translate into lower total box office overall, but even with an opening-to-total multiplier of 2.6 (less or equal to that of its predecessors) this entry into the Potter series would see a domestic total of $263.7 million. That would make it the biggest Potter film since the first, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Second place is another surprise to the upside this weekend, as the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line debuted with a very strong $22.4 million. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon turned fantastic reviews and more big media coverage into a great opening, as the flick was even able to best last year's Ray, which opened to $20 million from 2,006 venues. Walk the Line opened at 2,961 venues and had an average of $7,565, well below Ray's $9,990 due to the venue discrepancy. Another similarity that Walk the Line has with Ray is reviews. Ray had 34 bad reviews out of a possible 182 for a 81% fresh rating. Walk the Line had 21 negative reviews out of a possible 117 for an 82% fresh rating. Ray had an opening-to-total multiplier of 3.57, so if Walk the Line finds the same, it could end up with $80 million at the domestic box office, most likely about twice its production budget. As expected, Chicken Little nosedived into third this weekend, but you can't blame it all on Harry Potter. After two weekends at number one, Chicken Little slid hard this weekend, grossing only $14.8 million, down a nasty 53%. Don't forget that last Friday was a holiday, and it artificially boosted the numbers for kids flicks and family films. Chicken Little now sits with $99.2 million in the kitty, and will finish with at least $160 million via domestic box office. It will have another strong weekend over Thanksgiving, but after that, this Chicken is a turkey. Derailed continues to surprise as it finishes fourth, down only one spot from last weekend. The Jennifer Aniston/Clive Owen flick grossed another $6.5 million in its second weekend, down 47% from its opening frame, which is the second-lowest drop in the top ten behind limited release Pride and Prejudice. Derailed has nicely flown under the radar, and after two weekends has earned back its production budget of about $20 million. Derailed, the first release from the Weinstein Company, now sits with $21.8 million so far. Zathura is another film thrown for a loop this weekend versus Potter and Veteran's Day. Zathura, from Columbia Pictures, grossed only $5.1 million in its second weekend, down a huge 62% from last weekend. All of a sudden, the $65 million production is now in serious trouble, as it sits with only $20.3 million at the domestic box office. Finishing sixth this weekend is Jarhead, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. After a fantastic opening frame, Jarhead has slid fairly hard despite fair reviews. In its third weekend, the $27.7 million opener grossed $4.8 million, down a tough 59% from last weekend. The Sam Mendes flick from Universal Pictures has a total now of $54.3 million against a budget of about $80 million. Seventh goes to Get Rich or Die Tryin', starring Fitty Cent. Get Rich didn't make distributor Paramount too happy or too rich, as the film earned $4.4 million in its second weekend, down a nasty 64%. Get Rich now sits with $24.5 million and looks like it will have a tough time reaching $35 million, which is bad news for a film with a production cost around $40 million. Saw II continues to cut into the competition even after four weekends of release. The Lions Gate release turned in $3.9 million worth of receipts this weekend, down 57% from the previous frame. The $4 million production has now earned $79.9 million, and looks to finish just shy of $100 million. The Legend of Zorro manages to hold onto a top ten spot this weekend, as the Sony film finishes ninth in its third weekend. Zorro grossed $2.3 million this weekend, down an embarrassing 64% from the previous frame. The unnecessary sequel now has a domestic total of $42.8 million. Tenth goes to Pride and Prejudice from Focus Features. Out to only 221 venues, the period piece grossed $2.1 million, down only 26% from last weekend. Not including Pride, the average drop this weekend was 58%, so you can see how positive this weekend's score is for Keira Knightley flick. Pride now sits with a domestic total of $6 million, and has already earned over $40 million overseas. Not bad for a film that cost its studio only $28 million to make. Overall this weekend, the box office finally gets ahead of last year's totals, thanks mostly to Harry Potter and Johnny Cash. The top ten films at the box office this weekend earned a hearty $168 million, well ahead of last year's top ten, which earned about $139 million.
  • http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-11-04/ Gyllenhaal Attacked Co-Star Actor Jake Gyllenhaal attacked a co-star after injuring himself when a stunt when wrong on new Gulf War movie Jarhead. Gyllenhaal chipped a tooth after whacking himself in the mouth with a rifle during a scene in which he puts a gun muzzle in a co-star's mouth. He was so incensed he then began showering punches on the unsuspecting, unnamed actor. Gyllenhaal tells gossip site The Scoop, "For some reason. I just got so angry that I had chipped my tooth and just started hitting him and we didn't talk for a month after that." Director Sam Mendes explains the incident, "It's 115 degrees, you're away from trees, cars, everything. You can't hear anything because the wind's blowing. You don't have your clothes, your car, your girlfriend, anything. And I really think Jake forgot he was acting a lot of times."
  • http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article319546.ece Daniel Craig's mother blows the new James Bond's cover By Geneviève Roberts Published: 14 October 2005 Amid speculation and rumours over who will replace Pierce Brosnan as the world's most enigmatic spy, the biggest film industry secret was broken yesterday, by Daniel Craig's mother. "Obviously we are thrilled to bits," Carol Olivia said. "It has come at a very good time in his career. He has worked extremely hard all his life and this would be his biggest populist role. I think he could bring something very interesting to the part. It will be life-changing," she told the Liverpool Daily Post. The new 007 has been a favourite of the producer Barbara Broccoli since she began the search for Pierce Brosnan's replacement earlier this year. And while both Sony or Craig's agent would not confirm the news, it seems certain he will starring in the 21st Bond film, Casino Royale, which returns to the start of the spy's career. The bookmaker William Hill refused to take any more money on Craig, and filming is expected to start in January. Clive Owen, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were also named as possible contenders for the role. An official announcement confirming Craig will be the new Bond is expected today. He will be the sixth James Bond but the first blond actor to play the part, and, in contrast, to the Etonian background described by Ian Fleming in his novels (though his education was curtailed by an incident with a female teacher), Craig left secondary school at 16 and left the Wirral for London. He joined the National Youth Theatre and then Guildhall Drama College, where he studied alongside Ralph Fiennes and Ewan McGregor. His film career began with The Power of One in 1992, and he later gained recognition with the hit TV series Our Friends in the North in 1996. He rose to prominence in Hollywood in the 2002 Sam Mendes movie Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks, Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Enduring Love with Rhys Ifans. He also played opposite Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raiders. He is said have had a relationship with Kate Moss and, last week, was linked to Sienna Miller. Antonia Quirke has described him as "easily the best, if not the only, actor of his type in the country" in The Independent. Popcorn Magazine said he was "One of Britain's finest and committed actors" and Gaby Wood in The Observer said "his film roles show off an extraordinary range, and an exceptional grasp of rawness and complication." Casino Royale, an adaptation of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, will be directed by GoldenEye film-maker Martin Campbell. In the book, the spy is introduced as a more youthful and ruthless character than the films. Screenwriter Paul Haggis has already said that the new Bond will be reinvented as a younger character with no gadgets. Brosnan, who appeared in four Bond films, is now 52. Craig joins a Bond dynasty of Brosnan, Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore, George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton. There was also an unofficial spoof of Casino Royale featured David Niven as Bond in 1967. It also seems likely that the life of Fleming will be made into a film after Warner Bros have agreed to back a by Damian Stevenson. Fleming, a journalist and a banker, drew his inspiration for the debonair, vodka-martini-sipping spy from working with Naval Intelligence during the Second World War. Previous 007s * SEAN CONNERY: 1962-1971 * GEORGE LAZENBY: 1969 * ROGER MOORE: 1973-1985 * TIMOTHY DALTON: 1987-1989 * PIERCE BROSNAN: 1995-2005
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  • http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-09-12/ Winslet and Mendes Move Into Fairytale Mansion Titanic actress Kate Winslet and her director husband Sam Mendes are finally settling down in the $5.9 million English country mansion they bought three years ago. Westcote Manor, hidden in the tiny village of Church Westcote in a secluded part of the Cotswolds, boasts eight bedrooms and 22 acres of ground. A local builder estimates the couple will have doubled their $2.1 million budget to renovate the mansion, which comprises of two buildings and a 1950s extension. The couple had to squeeze into a tiny stone cottage next door while the lengthy work was completed on their home.
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