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Robin Wright Penn starrer "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" goes to Screen Media Films

7 July 2009 2:06 AM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Screen Media Films will distribute "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" starring Robin Wright Penn, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. Rebecca Miller directed the film based on a script she adapted from her own novel. The film had its world premiere at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Penn stars as the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher (Alan Arkin) who is forced to move to a Connecticut retirement...

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Screen Media Films to Distribute The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

6 July 2009 6:20 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

In a story from Variety Screen Media Films will be distributing The Private Lives of Pippa Lee starring Robin Wright Penn. The film will come out theatrically in October.

Directed by Rebecca Miller the film first bowed at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Miller adapted the screenplay from the novel she wrote.

Penn plays the wife of an accomplished publisher (Alan Arkin), who finds herself challenged when her husband makes them move to a Connecticut retirement community.

Also starring in the film are Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.

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Screen Media Makes Rebecca Miller's 'Private Lives' Public

6 July 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- I sort of lost track of Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee, a semi-biographical, ensemble film featuring Robin Wright Penn in the lead role/Miller's former shoes. I thought it would end up showing at Sundance, but it ended up going to Berlin the month after and the reviews from two of the three major trades were less kindly than they were for Miller's previous pair of The Ballad of Jack and Rose and Personal Velocity. Variety said it had "cardboard characters and severe problems of tone" and The Hollywood Reporter mentioned it's "the kind of film that most critics desperately want to like." We'll be able to test both theories as Screen Daily reports that Screen Media has picked up the rights to the pic and plans are to unveil it in October. Below you can find the off-putting trailer. There are the ensemble pics that work,

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Two SNLers Line Up Projects

5 July 2009 9:42 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Current Saturday Night Live cast member Jason Sudeikis has signed on to star in New Line’s romantic comedy Going the Distance, and former SNLer Tim Meadows has joined the cast of Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups. In Distance, Sudeikis joins Drew Barreymore and Justin Long who star as a couple in a long-distance relationship who ultimately come to the realization that they would be happier dating someone closer to home. Sudeikis will play Box, a friend of Long’s who counsels him against trying to maintain his long-distance relationship with Barrymore's character. Charlie Day and Christina Applegate also were recently cast. Nanette Burstein (American Teen) is directing from a script written by Geoff Latulippe. Grown Ups is proving to be the ultimate SNL reunion. Medows joins former colleagues Adam Sandler, Maya Rudolph, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Chris Rock, Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn in the cast of the ensemble

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[Movie Review] Downloading Nancy

3 July 2009 4:59 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Downloading Nancy is not, just so you know, a movie about the Internet. The online world itself plays little part in the story, save for it being the tool that connects Nancy (Maria Bello) to an intimate stranger named Louis (Jason Patrick), behind the back of her distanced husband Albert (Rufus Sewell). If anything, writers Lee Ross and Pamela Cuming, as well as director Johan Renck—all first-timers—use the term more for its allegorical quality. Nancy's marriage is so devoid of happiness that she's gotten used to cutting, masturbating and chatting online to find moments of short bliss. From that last one she meets Louis, a man she asks to kill her.

It's not as depressing as it sounds, but it is discomforting. Maybe more to some than others, which limits its audience (and apparently the critical appreciation too, as some reviews coming out of its Sundance premiere earlier

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Good news Kristen Stewart fans, 'The Yellow Handkerchief' is a go for distribution (video)

2 July 2009 9:25 PM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news

Many Kristen Stewart fans know that one of her films from 2008, The Yellow Handkerchief, has been a sort of mystery for the past few months. Starring Stewart, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Eddie Redmayne, and Emmanuel Cohn, this film is one that many have wanted to see for a while. According to one of my colleagues, It seemed that The Yellow Handkerchief, director Udayan Prasad's indie road flick set and shot throughout the Louisiana countryside, was dead in the water. After debuting in early 2008 at Sundance to lukewarm reviews, the picture made the festival rounds. Despite starring Oscar-winner William Hurt, it failed to generate even a modest buzz and was passed on by studio after studio. A recent article by Variety, though, indicates that the film will indeed be making its way through the commercial marketplace. According to Variety, Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Contrary to what some might say, Kristen Stewart's popularity will transcend Twilight

26 June 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | From Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news

Kristen Stewart, lead actress in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and, now, The Runaways, has a lot of good cinematic material under her belt. Back in 2007, Kate Bosworth predicted that the star was certain to make it big, and she's worked alongside actors such as Meg Ryan, Dakota Fanning, James Gandolfini, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Virginia Madsen, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Dylan McDermott, Tim Robbins, Diane Lane, Jodie Foster, Donald Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney, Elizabeth Perkins, Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff, Juliette Lewis, and Glenn Close (to name a few)...

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Great 'Vengeance' and not so Furious Anger for Thurman

25 June 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- Uma Thurman is replacing Maria Bello and is thus set to star along her Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill co-star Samuel L. Jackson in a role that will call on the actress to play beaten and bruised, which we at Ioncinema.com prefer over her gigs in comedies - especially the rom com kind. In Vengeance: A Love Story, which unfortunately no longer goes by the thought provoking Joyce Carol Oates novella's title Rape: A Love Story, we are witness to an act of unbelievable brutality that twists the lives of three generations of women and sets a man of the law on his own course of justice. On the Fourth of July, Niagara Falls Police Officer John Dromoor (Jackson) is flagged down by 12-year-old Bethie Maguire (Abigail Breslin). Her mother, Teena Maguire (Thurman), has been brutally raped and left for dead. Moving at a relentless, compelling pace, the story

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Four Clips from "Downloading Nancy"

7 June 2009 2:27 PM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Here's four clips from Strand Releasing's "Downloading Nancy", directed by Johan Renck and featuring Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell and Amy Brenneman, When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only thing that can liberate her from the pain in...

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Downloading Nancy - Movie Review

7 June 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

A film that may be too heavy for its own good. Christopher Doyle fans will love it while tolerating the harshness of the story Enter the creepy and impersonal world of the Internet, where spirits leap out of screens and enter into the souls of the emotionally unprotected. Nancy (Maria Bello--.The Cooler,. .A History of Violence.) is like that. She is missing something in the self-image department. In fact, she is missing the entire self-image department. Her best image is that of her profile on the emotional wasteland of the web. Her male counterpart is Louis (Jason Patric..The Lost Boys.) a man who is both rescuing white knight and psychopathic killer. His lack of moral anchor or social resolution

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Four Clips from Downloading Nancy

5 June 2009 5:11 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

What better way to start off a weekend than by downloading and sampling a bit on Nancy's psycho-thriller goodness! That's right, folks! Lock up the kids, bolt the doors, and dim the lights! It's time to see what kind of hazards can come from a not-so-innocent cyber affair!

Official Synopsis

When Albert Stockwell (Rufus Sewell, Dark City, Illuminata) comes home from work one day, he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy (Maria Bello, A History of Violence, Thank You for Smoking), saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley (Jason Patric, The Lost Boys, Rush). Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters. Nancy has finally found the one and only

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New To Theatres This Weekend: Land of the Lost, The Hangover, Away We Go

5 June 2009 5:58 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Two big comedies will battle it out this weekend at the box office, with Will Ferrell and his family-friendly adventure Land of the Lost having the distinct advantage over the underdog The Hangover. Can word of mouth and strong reviews (81% on Rotten Tomatoes [1]) give it the boost it needs? Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame also returns to the big screen this weekend with romantic comedy My Life in Ruins, while Sam Mendes's new dramedy Away We Go opens on just a handful of screens. Also in select theatres: the Maria Bello thriller Downloading Nancy, and Tennessee starring Mariah Carey! What will you be checking out? The Hangover [2] Land of the Lost [3] My Life in Ruins [4] Away We Go [5] (limited) Downloading Nancy [6] (limited) Seraphine [7] (limited) Tennessee [8] (limited) Unmistakable Child [9] (limited) [1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010667-hangover/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/ [3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457400/ [4] http://www.

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'Downloading Nancy': Please Kill Me, By Kurt Loder

5 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news

Maria Bello and Jason Patric in a world of pain.

Maria Bello in "Downloading Nancy"

Photo: Strand Releasing

Nancy (Maria Bello) wants to die. Louis (Jason Patric), an S&M creep she met on the Internet, wants to be of service. Albert (Rufus Sewell), Nancy's worm husband, can't figure out what to make of this movie. No, wait — that's us.

"Downloading Nancy," a film about self-mutilation, sexual sadism and dismal fluorescent lighting, features a world-class performance by Bello and an intriguingly spare one by Patric. But the story is so irritatingly jumbled that even the squalid enticements of voyeurism — the wretched Bdsm games involving mousetraps, cigarette burns and jagged glass — are insufficient compensation for the movie's narrative confusion.

Nancy has been married to Albert, a heavily-repressed neat freak, for 15 years, and she's miserable. Because of the violent sexual abuse she suffered as a child, the closest she can come to

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Downloading Nancy

4 June 2009 9:29 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Maria Bello stars as one of those, "Hi, I like to cut myself" women in "Downloading Nancy," an icky S&M thriller.

The plot could be fully told in about five scenes, but the film keeps slowing things down with long, irrelevant flashbacks about the woman's psychotherapy sessions, in which she talks about her habit of slicing herself up and her death wish. There are also endlessly repeated takes on the lameness of her husband (Rufus Sewell) and his obsession with golf.

Gradually we get around to the crux of the story,

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Movie Review: Downloading Nancy

4 June 2009 9:16 PM, PDT | From MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news

Jun 05, 2009 Downloading Nancy is an amazing example of talented actors doing their best to make something genuine of a complex concept but being betrayed by writers and a director who seem afraid to really let the film connect. Maria Bello, Jason Patric, and Rufus Sewell are absolutely fearless in what they deliver as experts in their craft. It's just the way in which that delivery is used that fails to register. Downloading Nancy is a film about raw, emotional issues that is handled like a clinical exam. It's almost worth seeing just because the disparity ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com

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Film: Review: Downloading Nancy

4 June 2009 12:05 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

The worst kind of exploitation film is the kind that doesn’t know it’s an exploitation film, but instead pretends to say something profound about the human condition. Johan Renck’s directorial debut, Downloading Nancy (written by Pamela Cuming and Lee Ross), stars Maria Bello as a deeply unhappy woman who escapes her loveless marriage and her memories of child abuse by cutting and burning herself, and by having creepy encounters with men she meets on the Internet. Jason Patric plays one of those men, a sadist who agrees to torture and kill Bello over a long weekend. Downloading ...

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Building a Card House: Johan Renck on “Downloading Nancy”

4 June 2009 7:20 AM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Editors Note: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Johan Renck’s feature film directorial debut, “Downloading Nancy,” follows the titular character (played by Maria Bello), as she leaves her husband Albert (Rufus Sewell) in search of her online soulmate, Louis (Jason Patric).  The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and is being released in theaters this weekend through Strand Releasing.  …

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5 Questions With: Maria Bello

4 June 2009 4:00 AM, PDT | From Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news

For years, Maria Bello has been building up one of the most eclectic resumes in Hollywood -- with roles ranging from sassy bar owner ('Coyote Ugly') to loving wife ('A History of Violence') to ass-kicking action star ('The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor').

With the inspired-by-a-true-story drama 'Downloading Nancy' (in select theaters June 5), she takes on her riskiest part yet, playing a suicidal sexual abuse victim whose only source of happiness is cutting herself. And, while 'Nancy' is clearly not the feel-good movie of the year, it just may be Bello's finest work to date.

We chatted with the gregarious actress from the set of her new Adam Sandler comedy 'Grown Ups' to find out how 'Nancy' helped Bello exorcise her own demons, why Kevin James always gets the gorgeous gals, and why she's (almost) always up for getting naked.Filed under: Celebrity

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Indie Roundup: Kristen Stewart's 'Handkerchief,' Philly 'Pressure,' Fest News

3 June 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Rewinding the past seven days of the wonderful world of independent films:

Deals. Twilight fans will have the opportunity to see Kristen Stewart in a different type of role later this year. In Udayan Prasad's The Yellow Handkerchief, based on a story by Pete Hamill, Stewart jumps into a stranger's car. She and the driver (Eddie Redmayne) are soon joined by a newly-released convict (William Hurt) as they travel through rural Louisiana toward a hoped-for reunion with the ex-con's beloved (Maria Bello). Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights and is planning a theatrical release, according to indieWIRE.

Hans-Christian Schmid's legal thriller Storm will also hit theaters later this year, indieWIRE says, courtesy of Film Movement. Kerry Fox stars as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague; she must convince a witness (Anamaria Marinca from 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) to

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Disconnected: Johan Renck’s “Downloading Nancy”

2 June 2009 6:33 AM, PDT | From IndieWIRE - Movies | See recent indieWIRE - Movies news

The opening of “Downloading Nancy,” which features on the soundtrack Nancy (Maria Bello) detailing to therapist Carol (Amy Brenneman) the liberation she expects to feel upon dying, compounded by cryptic exchanges with stranger Louis (Jason Patric) in a bus terminal, makes clear fairly quickly where Johan Renck’s misleadingly titled film is heading. Giving itself away so early on, “Downloading Nancy”—which shifts between past and present—faces a difficult task: to provide a …

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