Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson on the Oscars' Red Carpet Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson at the Academy Awards Eli Wallach and wife Anne Jackson are seen above arriving at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, Feb. 27, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The 95-year-old Wallach had received an Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November 2010. See also: "Doris Day Inexplicably Snubbed by Academy," "Maureen O'Hara Honorary Oscar," "Honorary Oscars: Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo Among Rare Women Recipients," and "Hayao Miyazaki Getting Honorary Oscar." Delayed film debut The Actors Studio-trained Eli Wallach was to have made his film debut in Fred Zinnemann's Academy Award-winning 1953 blockbuster From Here to Eternity. Ultimately, however, Frank Sinatra – then a has-been following a string of box office duds – was cast for a pittance, getting beaten to a pulp by a pre-stardom Ernest Borgnine. For his bloodied efforts, Sinatra went on...
- 4/24/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Exclusive: New Zealand producer, who worked with See-Saw on Slow West [pictured], to “supercharge” Australian office.
New Zealand producer Rachel Gardner will move to Australia to join the Sydney office of See-Saw Films from July 1, increasing the British/Australian outfit’s in-house film and television capability and capacity.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for me to work with producers of the calibre of Emile (Sherman) and Iain (Canning) and the associated talent they attract,” she told Screendaily.
“See-Saw is one of the most successful independent production companies worldwide and it has an impressive track record of quality films, achieved in a short space of time, and I’m thrilled to be joining them.”
Gardner has been running great Southern Television in Auckland with business partner Philip Smith. Her feature credits are Apron Strings and Show of Hands.
“We wanted someone we would enjoy working with and who has the energy and drive to do the number of projects...
New Zealand producer Rachel Gardner will move to Australia to join the Sydney office of See-Saw Films from July 1, increasing the British/Australian outfit’s in-house film and television capability and capacity.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for me to work with producers of the calibre of Emile (Sherman) and Iain (Canning) and the associated talent they attract,” she told Screendaily.
“See-Saw is one of the most successful independent production companies worldwide and it has an impressive track record of quality films, achieved in a short space of time, and I’m thrilled to be joining them.”
Gardner has been running great Southern Television in Auckland with business partner Philip Smith. Her feature credits are Apron Strings and Show of Hands.
“We wanted someone we would enjoy working with and who has the energy and drive to do the number of projects...
- 5/13/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
• Sandra Bullock is circling the role of Brownie Wise in an untitled pic about the rise of Tupperware. Wise was the saleswoman who helped the airtight containers succeed in the ’50s thanks to her innovative “party plan” marketing scheme. The Help’s Tate Taylor is attached to direct the movie, which will be based on Bob Kealing’s non-fiction book Tupperware Unsealed. [THR]
• Eddie Redmayne is set to re-team with his Les Misérables director Tom Hooper for The Danish Girl, about the painter Einar Wegener — the first man to have a sex-change operation. The script, penned by Lucinda Coxon, will be...
• Eddie Redmayne is set to re-team with his Les Misérables director Tom Hooper for The Danish Girl, about the painter Einar Wegener — the first man to have a sex-change operation. The script, penned by Lucinda Coxon, will be...
- 4/30/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Robert De Niro Tribute: De Niro movies at the American Cinematheque in Santa Monica A Robert De Niro Tribute is being held this week at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. In the next two days, four Robert De Niro movies will be presented as two double bills: Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Mean Streets on Feb. 5, and Penny Marshall’s Awakenings and Scorsese’s Cape Fear on Feb. 6. Both double-feature programs start at 7:30 p.m. (Photo: Mental patient Robert De Niro in Awakenings, with doctor Robin Williams.) De Niro himself was on hand at the Aero on Monday afternoon to chat about David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, a comedy-drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, and which earned De Niro his seventh Academy Award nomination. Note: De Niro is not expected to attend either of the two double-feature screenings. Taxi Driver:...
- 2/5/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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