RACHEL WEISZ

Rachel Hannah Weisz ( born 7 March 1970) is an Academy Award-winning English actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2001, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit About a Boy and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2006) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards. (via Wikipedia)

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Official Poster Debuts for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones

via firstshowing.net ( 45 Days ago )
Paramount has debuted the first official (teaser?) poster for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones on Yahoo. This highly anticipated adaptation stars Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, and Stanley Tucci. Now this is a beautiful poster! But then again, I wouldn't expect anything less from Peter Jackson. I love the beautiful pastel colors, the lack of floating [...]

Rachel Weisz Says Farewell To Streetcar

via buzznet.com ( 49 Days ago )
Rachel Weisz leaves the Donmar Warehouse Theatre after her final performance in the play A Streetcar Named Desire on Saturday (October 3) in London, England. Is anyone else devastated that they won’t be able to see Rachel on the London stage? Like Jude Law in Hamlet, they need to bring Weisz to Broadway with Streetcar! Rachel’s new movie The Lovely Bones [...]

Rachel Weisz is the Subject of Karyn Kusama's 'Body Horror'

via firstshowing.net ( 67 Days ago )
Karyn Kusama, director of the upcoming Megan Fox horror vehicle Jennifer's Body, chatted some with io9 about what's lined up next in her directorial pipeline. And, apparently, she'll be holding fast to the horror genre - but this as yet unnamed script is a "psychological horror in the David Cronenberg tradition." Okay, Kusama. I'll bite. "[The script] definitely does fall into sort [...]

'Jennifer's Body' Director Karyn Kusama Eyes Rachel Weisz, Body Horror For Her Next Project

via mtv.com ( 68 Days ago )
I'll admit, I feel a little bit bad for Karyn Kusama. Between star Megan Fox and Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, the "Jennifer's Body" director has kind of been overshadowed by the super-team she's assembled. Still, the comedy/horror flick which hits theaters this Friday is looking very entertaining, and Kusama has a lot to do with that. I'm excited then to hear talk of her [...]

Karyn Kasuma Wants to Subject Rachel Weisz to Some Cronenbergian Body Horror

via slashfilm.com ( 69 Days ago )
As Jennifer’s Body revs up to roll out this weekend, Karyn Kusama is hitting the town and giving plenty of promotional interviews. When asked about potential follow up pictures in the horror genre - an inevitable question, really - Kusama has let slip some tidbits about a rather interesting sounding project that she has herself co-written. And how is this for a pair of selling [...]

TIFF Review: Agora

via cinematical.com ( 69 Days ago )
"If you choose to do nothing, though, you will continue to do the same thing over and over again." Hypatia (Rachel Weisz), Agora To some, the name Alejandro Amenábar sparks instant interest. But if it does not, let me refresh your memory. In 1997, he wrote (with Mateo Gil) and directed the Spanish film Open Your Eyes -- which North American audiences know better by its [...]

Agora Movie Trailer

via slashfilm.com ( 86 Days ago )
Five years after The Sea Inside, Alejandro Amenábar travels back to an ancient civilization with his latest film, Agora. We ran a teaser for this a couple months back, but there’s a full-length domestic trailer available now, which encapsulates the story of Hypatia of Alexandria (Rachel Weisz) during the onset of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The film features some impressive [...]

Agora Trailer

via latinoreview.com ( 86 Days ago )
The new trailer for Alejandro Amenábar's epic "Agora" is now online. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans and Homayoun Ershadi."Agora" is set to hit theatres soon.The film is set in 4th century A.D. Egypt under the Roman Empire... Violent religious upheavel in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city's [...]

Must Watch: Full-Length Trailer for Agora with Rachel Weisz

via firstshowing.net ( 87 Days ago )
We just discovered the full-length trailer on the beautiful official website for Alejandro Amenábar's Agora (thanks to reader Emurion) that played at the Cannes Film Festival (read my review) and is also showing up in Toronto next month. I'm still amazed that this film hasn't been picked up by a distributor, as it's a shoo-in for a production design Oscar, or at least worthy of [...]

Featurette For The Lovely Bones

via latinoreview.com ( 106 Days ago )
DreamWorks Pictures has released a featurette for Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, and Saoirse Ronan. Film is due out on December 11, 2009. Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar® winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, “The [...]