The Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley announced today that international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will be a keynote speaker at the Conference on Feb. 23, 2018 at the San Jose Convention Center.
With more than 6500 attendees, the Conference is the largest event of its kind on the West Coast. Additional keynote speakers will be announced in coming weeks.
Clooney practices at Doughty Street Chambers in London, where she specializes in international law and human rights. She is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School. Her clients have ranged from political prisoners and ousted heads of state to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Republic of Armenia. She has appeared before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights and various courts in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Oxford-educated lawyer is a frequent adviser to governments on international law and...
With more than 6500 attendees, the Conference is the largest event of its kind on the West Coast. Additional keynote speakers will be announced in coming weeks.
Clooney practices at Doughty Street Chambers in London, where she specializes in international law and human rights. She is also a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School. Her clients have ranged from political prisoners and ousted heads of state to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Republic of Armenia. She has appeared before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights and various courts in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Oxford-educated lawyer is a frequent adviser to governments on international law and...
- 9/1/2017
- Look to the Stars
In 341 robberies, the Pink Panther gang have stolen jewels worth £276m. But who are they? Havana Marking meets them
Hidden cameras on the walls of the exclusive Wafi shopping mall in Dubai captured, in 2007, two Audi S8s smashing through its glass doors. The first – white with silver wheels – crashes through in reverse, while the second – a black car with a woman at the wheel – drives head on. The white car pauses briefly as a man in a black bodysuit and balaclava jumps out before the driver hits the gas again. You have to imagine the screeching of tyres as they speed on through the public atrium and reverse the car into the door of the Graff jewellery store.
The man in black runs into the shop and another joins him; both are carrying revolvers in one hand and small pickaxes in the other, and have pouches attached to their bodies.
Hidden cameras on the walls of the exclusive Wafi shopping mall in Dubai captured, in 2007, two Audi S8s smashing through its glass doors. The first – white with silver wheels – crashes through in reverse, while the second – a black car with a woman at the wheel – drives head on. The white car pauses briefly as a man in a black bodysuit and balaclava jumps out before the driver hits the gas again. You have to imagine the screeching of tyres as they speed on through the public atrium and reverse the car into the door of the Graff jewellery store.
The man in black runs into the shop and another joins him; both are carrying revolvers in one hand and small pickaxes in the other, and have pouches attached to their bodies.
- 9/22/2013
- by Havana Marking
- The Guardian - Film News
A wise man once said, "It's easy to make a good German joke, but hard to make a great German joke."
Okay, that wise man was me.
"Alternative History of the German Invasion" provided many good German jokes, but no great German joke (and, incidentally, one great Slobodan Milosevic joke), but really, the episode seemed to be a meta-statement on the show's changes this season.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that techno music and punctuality are not hilarious. That's because I'm not in the business of being a liar. Jeff in particular got in a few great Community quotes, zinging the men from the land of Fahrvergnugen (great, now I'm doing it).
But Carl and co., the German exchange students who occupied Group Study Room F on tonight's episode, were lazily crafted characters. They did, however, deliver their lines with a freshness and vitality that...
Okay, that wise man was me.
"Alternative History of the German Invasion" provided many good German jokes, but no great German joke (and, incidentally, one great Slobodan Milosevic joke), but really, the episode seemed to be a meta-statement on the show's changes this season.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that techno music and punctuality are not hilarious. That's because I'm not in the business of being a liar. Jeff in particular got in a few great Community quotes, zinging the men from the land of Fahrvergnugen (great, now I'm doing it).
But Carl and co., the German exchange students who occupied Group Study Room F on tonight's episode, were lazily crafted characters. They did, however, deliver their lines with a freshness and vitality that...
- 3/1/2013
- by gabrielle.moss@gmail.com (Gabrielle Moss)
- TVfanatic
It's Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "I Babysat the Moonrise Kingdom Kid," by Margaret Barra (TheAtlantic.com): Jared Gilman's onetime baby-sitter writes about "The Moms" on set, the danger of filming near poison ivy, and her former charge's budding movie career. "Kenneth Lonergan’s Thwarted Masterpiece," by Joel Lovell (The New York Times Magazine): The long, pretty sad story of why practically no one saw Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan's apparently excellent followup to You Can Count on Me. "Nick Slaughter for President," by Soraya Roberts (Slate): How Rob Stewart's character in Canadian detective series Sweating Bullets — all ponytail, Hawaiian shirts, and chest hair — became a Serbian phenomenon and brought down Slobodan Milosevic."The Difference Between Me and Ann Beattie,...
- 6/24/2012
- by Caroline Bankoff,Andre Tartar
- Vulture
Sacha Baron Cohen's film joins Team America and The Producers in depicting despots as one-dimensional buffoons. But why are we obsessed with satirising tyrants – and is it right to find them funny?
Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over Ryan Seacrest's tux outside the Oscars, the world has had to deal with some pretty awkward questions.
What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Was Aristotle correct when he suggested that the right genre for dramatising bad men is comedy not tragedy, or should it be beneath us to find power-crazed nutjobs funny? Why can't Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Aladeen (slogan: "Death To The West!") in the upcoming movie The Dictator, find some tougher targets? If it was wrong of the Sun to mock Roy Hodgson for his inability to pronounce rs,...
Ever since His Excellency Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, self-styled beloved oppressor and chief ophthalmologist of the People's Republic of Wadiya, inadvertently spilled Kim Jong-il's ashes over Ryan Seacrest's tux outside the Oscars, the world has had to deal with some pretty awkward questions.
What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Was Aristotle correct when he suggested that the right genre for dramatising bad men is comedy not tragedy, or should it be beneath us to find power-crazed nutjobs funny? Why can't Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Aladeen (slogan: "Death To The West!") in the upcoming movie The Dictator, find some tougher targets? If it was wrong of the Sun to mock Roy Hodgson for his inability to pronounce rs,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
When the first word about Brad Silberling’s dark indie drama An Ordinary Man first broke back in 2010, it had Liam Neeson circling the lead. Well, Neeson is no longer attached, but Silberling has found a more than adequate replacement, with Brendan Gleeson signing on.Gleeson will co-star alongside Abbie Cornish in the tale of a relationship between a wanted war criminal hiding from prosecution and his maid, who becomes his only real form of human contact.The criminal at the centre of the story is loosely based on Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 in his prison cell at the Hague.Gleeson seems like a solid choice for the role, as he’s proved able to bring deeply unlikeable characters to life in the past while still digging up some humanity to layer on top of the loathsome behaviour.Silberling hasn’t made a movie since 2009’s critically...
- 5/7/2012
- EmpireOnline
"An Ordinary Man" directed by Brad Silberling....does it sound vaguely familiar? Well, if you have a good memory, you might remember this project came up on the radar two years ago but it now looks like things are ready to press forward.
Radiant Films International has announced they have obtained the international sales rights on the thriller that now has Abbie Cornish and Brendan Gleeson set to star. The picture, set to be written and directed by Silberling, will be a nice shift in gears for the helmer who is probably best known for "Moonlight Mile" and "City Of Angels." The story will center on the unexpected relationship between a fictitious war criminal in hiding, and his only human contact -- his maid. Back when the project was initially brewing, Liam Neeson was eyeing the lead role, said to be partially based on former Serbian leader and convicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.
Radiant Films International has announced they have obtained the international sales rights on the thriller that now has Abbie Cornish and Brendan Gleeson set to star. The picture, set to be written and directed by Silberling, will be a nice shift in gears for the helmer who is probably best known for "Moonlight Mile" and "City Of Angels." The story will center on the unexpected relationship between a fictitious war criminal in hiding, and his only human contact -- his maid. Back when the project was initially brewing, Liam Neeson was eyeing the lead role, said to be partially based on former Serbian leader and convicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic.
- 5/7/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Jill Dando was assassinated by a Serbian hitman, it has been alleged. Historian Branka Prpa, whose journalist husband was shot dead just days before Dando's murder, has claimed that dictator Slobodan Milosevic ordered the BBC host's execution after she fronted an appeal on behalf of Kosovan-Albanian refugees, warning of a humanitarian disaster caused by the Serbian regime. Slavko Curuvija, a critic of the Serbian regime, was shot dead outside the Belgrade home he shared with Prpa on April 11, 1999, 15 days before Dando was killed in almost identical circumstances in West London. Both were high-profile journalists who had publicly discussed the Serbian regime and both were approached from behind, forced to the ground and shot at close range in the head, dying instantly. These are regarded as signs of a professional hitman, The Mirror reports. "I think there is a link (more)...
- 3/3/2012
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
Although you’ve probably never heard of him, writer and professor Gene Sharp is one of the foremost scholars on grassroots, non-violent protest movements. The son of an itinerant preacher, the Ohio-born octogenarian, whose writings have informed the tactics of protest movement leaders from Serbia to Iran and the Ukraine to Syria, teaches at UMass Dartmouth. He lives a life of relative quiet and solitude, at least when revolutionaries from around the globe aren’t clamoring for his advice. In Ruaridh Arrow’s documentary How to Start a Revolution we get up close and personal with Sharp, who has drawn the direct ire of dictators and plutocrats on the far left and far right, from Hugo Chavez to the late Slobodan Milosevic.
Arrow’s film takes us from the quaint Boston offices that Sharp maintains with his assistant, Jamila Raqib, to various conflict points across the globe, where Arrow profiles...
Arrow’s film takes us from the quaint Boston offices that Sharp maintains with his assistant, Jamila Raqib, to various conflict points across the globe, where Arrow profiles...
- 2/23/2012
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When his beloved daughter shot herself with his favorite gun, Serbian General Ratko Mladic lost his mind, drenching the Balkans in blood. His capture last week may finally bring justice for his victims. In this week's Newsweek, veteran war reporter Janine di Giovanni dissects the man behind the genocide and marks the importance of his arrest.
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
For years, during the grim and seemingly endless Balkan wars of the 1990s, Ratko Mladic appeared a mysterious, almost mythic figure, a stout and red-faced general in combat fatigues, who was rarely seen by anyone but his most trusted men. To many Serbs, he was a hero, a defender of national pride and values. To the families of his victims, he was a coldblooded killer who led his soldiers not into battle, but into a state of carnage during the disintegration of Yugoslavia. While all sides-Muslim, Croats, and Serbs-were guilty of heinous crimes, it...
- 5/30/2011
- by Janine di Giovanni
- The Daily Beast
After 16 years evading justice, Serbian war-crimes fugitive Ratko Mladaic was hauled into a Belgrade court today, but remained defaint. Plus, new details on his life in hideout.
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
- 5/26/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
The grisly shots of bin Laden's corpse are now available to U.S. senators to look at if they wish, the CIA told two committees today. Plus, more updates below and full coverage of Osama bin Laden.
CIA: Raid Intelligece Yields New Lead Every Hour
Related story on The Daily Beast: Pakistan's Spy Agency and Terrorism
The CIA said Tuesday that they have been able to glean new leads every hour from the massive cache of intelligence snatched from Osama bin Laden's compound during the raid that killed him. A U.S. official said the Seal team spent "at least half" of the 40 minutes spent on the ground at bin Laden's compound gathering intelligence, since the target was killed "relatively early" in the operation. A task force ahs been working around-the-clock analyzing the data-videos and over 220 million pages of text-and has found leads on everything from other terrorist leaders to...
CIA: Raid Intelligece Yields New Lead Every Hour
Related story on The Daily Beast: Pakistan's Spy Agency and Terrorism
The CIA said Tuesday that they have been able to glean new leads every hour from the massive cache of intelligence snatched from Osama bin Laden's compound during the raid that killed him. A U.S. official said the Seal team spent "at least half" of the 40 minutes spent on the ground at bin Laden's compound gathering intelligence, since the target was killed "relatively early" in the operation. A task force ahs been working around-the-clock analyzing the data-videos and over 220 million pages of text-and has found leads on everything from other terrorist leaders to...
- 5/10/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
A smart new book by Tina Rosenberg says social cures can solve the world's problems. In this week's Newsweek, Abraham Verghese calls the book, which touts the values of peer pressure, "brilliant," and "fully realized."
We are such creatures of habit that often nothing will sway us from a bad or even a self-destructive one. Or, as Tina Rosenberg says in her new book, Join the Club, "No amount of information can budge us when we refuse to be budged. The catalog of justifications for destructive behaviors is a tribute to human ingenuity." Stodgy public-health campaigns with proscriptive logos ( "Say no to drugs," for example) don't work. Instead, what worked in South Africa was a campaign modeled on the relaunch of the soft drink Sprite. Sprite brought its brand into the communities: it made sure its name was associated with basketball, fun activities, and concerts. By recruiting cool kids to...
We are such creatures of habit that often nothing will sway us from a bad or even a self-destructive one. Or, as Tina Rosenberg says in her new book, Join the Club, "No amount of information can budge us when we refuse to be budged. The catalog of justifications for destructive behaviors is a tribute to human ingenuity." Stodgy public-health campaigns with proscriptive logos ( "Say no to drugs," for example) don't work. Instead, what worked in South Africa was a campaign modeled on the relaunch of the soft drink Sprite. Sprite brought its brand into the communities: it made sure its name was associated with basketball, fun activities, and concerts. By recruiting cool kids to...
- 3/7/2011
- by Dr. Abraham Verghese
- The Daily Beast
Earlier today, I posted about the Homeaway.com Super Bowl commercial that featured a baby being catapulted against a window and then sliding down that window cartoon style. Shortly after that, I discovered that you can go to the Homeaway.com website and insert whatever face you went to be window smushed. I now present to you GIFs of five people who are more deserving of being face smushed than a baby or even a test baby (in the commercial, they say the smushed baby is a “test baby.” Okay.) Spoiler Alert: Two of these people are in the Black Eyed Peas. Click on the images to make the GIFs play. 1.) Will.I.Am: Because he participated in the Super Bowl Half Time Show 2.) Fergie: Because she was helped Will.I.Am participate in the Super Bowl Half Time Show. 3.) Willow Smith: Because that song is really really nothing.
- 2/7/2011
- by Noah Garfinkel
- BestWeekEver
This weekend: sisters take over their family's alligator park in Swamplandia!, Allison Pearson visits the cruel fates of adolescent fandom, and the haunting novels of Albania's Ismail Kadare.
Into the Swamp
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Swamplandia!, the talented short-story writer Karen Russell's debut novel, gives us two more of those precocious children who overcrowd the last 60 years of American fiction. From J.D. Salinger's Glass children to William Gaddis' Jr to Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell, our literature has clamored with intellectually overdeveloped but socially stunted children. Through their eyes, we're traditionally afforded fresh perspectives-often poignant or satirical-on modern society. Swamplandia!'s unique twist is to present two youths who at first seem to be Everglades savants, but turn out to be just regular kids in swampy circumstances.
The children in question are 13-year-old Ava Bigtree and her older brother Kiwi,...
Into the Swamp
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Swamplandia!, the talented short-story writer Karen Russell's debut novel, gives us two more of those precocious children who overcrowd the last 60 years of American fiction. From J.D. Salinger's Glass children to William Gaddis' Jr to Jonathan Safran Foer's Oskar Schell, our literature has clamored with intellectually overdeveloped but socially stunted children. Through their eyes, we're traditionally afforded fresh perspectives-often poignant or satirical-on modern society. Swamplandia!'s unique twist is to present two youths who at first seem to be Everglades savants, but turn out to be just regular kids in swampy circumstances.
The children in question are 13-year-old Ava Bigtree and her older brother Kiwi,...
- 2/5/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
The Committee To Create Softballed 90s Leno Jokes (the CCS9LJ) sponsored a dinner last night finally bringing together Bill Clinton and Cameron Diaz, with highly captionable results: Let’s channel our inner 90s monologuists and try to come up with some dated jokes for the easy punchline this story could have been 12 years ago: - President Clinton had dinner with Cameron Diaz last night [Audience OOOHs] Yeah, yeah this is true. Afterwards, Clinton was heard telling her “By the way, I know an excellent dry cleaner…” - I don’t know if you heard, but Bill Clinton and Cameron Diaz had dinner last night. When he first heard about it, Slobodan Milosevic said “What? And I can’t even have lunch with Kato Kaelin and Elian Gonzalez!” - President Clinton f***ed Cameron Diaz last night. We have a great show for you tonight… That’s all I got. (pic via...
- 1/21/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
From Donald Rumsfeld's memoir to David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, here are the 21 books that you won't want to miss in 2011.
The mistletoe has been put away, the presents unwrapped, the New Year's Champagne uncorked, and you still haven't quite finished Franzen's Freedom. But new books on how to run the world, turn around Starbucks, deal with a famous father, and even join a club are all coming out in the next few months. So get ready for the new literary season.
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Here is The Daily Beast's picks of the most controversial, intriguing, and just best reads for the first few months of 2011.
January
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next RenaissanceBy Parag Khanna
From the author of Second World comes a guide to the future of international relations in an increasingly chaotic and fractured world.
The mistletoe has been put away, the presents unwrapped, the New Year's Champagne uncorked, and you still haven't quite finished Franzen's Freedom. But new books on how to run the world, turn around Starbucks, deal with a famous father, and even join a club are all coming out in the next few months. So get ready for the new literary season.
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
Here is The Daily Beast's picks of the most controversial, intriguing, and just best reads for the first few months of 2011.
January
How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next RenaissanceBy Parag Khanna
From the author of Second World comes a guide to the future of international relations in an increasingly chaotic and fractured world.
- 1/3/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Richard Holbrooke was a larger-than-life figure on the U.S. political landscape who shaped his times. Jonathan Alter reflects on his impact on Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Foggy Bottom.
The tributes to Richard Holbrooke now pouring in are out of proportion to the various positions he held over the years as an assistant secretary and ambassador. They are more befitting a head of state than a "special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan," arguably the most grueling and thankless job in the whole government.
And yet Holbrooke belongs to a tiny group of diplomats-men like George Kennan and Chip Bohlen-who shaped their times as much as any secretary of state.
With the WikiLeaks revelations casting a harsh light on the work of diplomats, Holbrooke's career is a useful reminder that we depend on indefatigable men and women working killer hours with killer travel to keep us all from getting killed by war or terrorism.
The tributes to Richard Holbrooke now pouring in are out of proportion to the various positions he held over the years as an assistant secretary and ambassador. They are more befitting a head of state than a "special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan," arguably the most grueling and thankless job in the whole government.
And yet Holbrooke belongs to a tiny group of diplomats-men like George Kennan and Chip Bohlen-who shaped their times as much as any secretary of state.
With the WikiLeaks revelations casting a harsh light on the work of diplomats, Holbrooke's career is a useful reminder that we depend on indefatigable men and women working killer hours with killer travel to keep us all from getting killed by war or terrorism.
- 12/14/2010
- by Jonathan Alter
- The Daily Beast
Richard Holbrooke pushed harder and cared more than other American foreign-policy players. Peter Beinart on Holbrooke's special blend of superpower swagger and moral passion.
There will probably never be another American diplomat like Richard Holbrooke. The reason is partly personal. Most diplomats are careful, reserved, discreet... diplomatic. Holbrooke was the opposite. He didn't merely court reporters; he stalked them. And when they didn't write enough about him, he wrote about himself. He did not do subtle. When he bore down on people, he had about as much respect for personal space as Lyndon Johnson in a men's room. As Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman once put it, "he's not entirely housebroken."
Related story on The Daily Beast: An American in Full
In all these ways, Holbrooke was part of the sociology of 20th-century American Jewry. He entered the Foreign Service in the 1960s, when it was still something of a Wasp club.
There will probably never be another American diplomat like Richard Holbrooke. The reason is partly personal. Most diplomats are careful, reserved, discreet... diplomatic. Holbrooke was the opposite. He didn't merely court reporters; he stalked them. And when they didn't write enough about him, he wrote about himself. He did not do subtle. When he bore down on people, he had about as much respect for personal space as Lyndon Johnson in a men's room. As Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman once put it, "he's not entirely housebroken."
Related story on The Daily Beast: An American in Full
In all these ways, Holbrooke was part of the sociology of 20th-century American Jewry. He entered the Foreign Service in the 1960s, when it was still something of a Wasp club.
- 12/14/2010
- by Peter Beinart
- The Daily Beast
Read more at Liam Neeson's profile Hey, it pays the rent! Irish actor Liam Neeson's dance card will be full in the next two years. The actor has revealed he'll star in two more new projects. First Neeson is committed to a role in Last Stand, a contemporary western from whacked out action movie director Ji-woon Kim (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) and then he'll star in another indie action flcik called An Ordinary Man from Land of the Lost director Brad Silberling. Last Stand will see Neeson playing a sheriff on the border between the United States and Mexico, and since it's a Ji-woon Kim folk, you can expect some astonishing action sequences. On the other end of the law, An Ordinary Man will see Neeson playing a fugitive war criminal who's being hidden by his supporters, with his character based on the odious former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
- 12/1/2010
- IrishCentral
We haven’t done a a full casting couch in awhile, so I am taking the time get everyone up to speed where some of our favorite stars like Liam Neeson, Mark Wahlberg and others are ending up.
A new Variety story is out on actor Liam Neeson, who reveals that he is circling a new project entitled An Ordinary Man. This adds to a slew of projects he is attached to. Not much is known about the project, which director Brad Silberling is trying to set up as a low-budget indie. Neeson would play a fugitive war criminal in the movie, who is said to be loosely based on Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
The article says he would likely take on the role after he shoots the sequel Wrath of the Titans, as well as Last Stand for Ji-woon Kim, where he will play a sheriff in a Us/Mexican border town.
A new Variety story is out on actor Liam Neeson, who reveals that he is circling a new project entitled An Ordinary Man. This adds to a slew of projects he is attached to. Not much is known about the project, which director Brad Silberling is trying to set up as a low-budget indie. Neeson would play a fugitive war criminal in the movie, who is said to be loosely based on Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
The article says he would likely take on the role after he shoots the sequel Wrath of the Titans, as well as Last Stand for Ji-woon Kim, where he will play a sheriff in a Us/Mexican border town.
- 11/30/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Liam Neeson has added another film project to his already busy schedule. He is currently looking to take on the lead role in a low-budget indie film project being directed by Brad Silberling (Land of the Lost) called An Ordinary Man. The role would take Neeson to the dark side, as he would play a fugitive war criminal modelled on former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic who's being hidden by his supporters.
This sounds like a really interesting role for Neeson. The guy is an incredible actor and can pretty much do whatever he wants.
As for the other projects he has lined up, he once again voices Aslan in The Chronicles of Naria: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader later this month, and has a role in the upcoming thriller Unknown coming out in February. He also has small roles in The Hangover Part II, Peter Berg's Battleship, and...
This sounds like a really interesting role for Neeson. The guy is an incredible actor and can pretty much do whatever he wants.
As for the other projects he has lined up, he once again voices Aslan in The Chronicles of Naria: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader later this month, and has a role in the upcoming thriller Unknown coming out in February. He also has small roles in The Hangover Part II, Peter Berg's Battleship, and...
- 11/30/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Liam Neeson is attached to the dark indie drama "An Ordinary Man" which Brad Silberling ("Land of the Lost," "Lemony Snicket") will direct reports Variety.
Neeson would play a fugitive war criminal based loosely on Slobodan Milosevic, who is in hiding and protected by his supporters in order to avoid being arrested and put on trial for war crimes.
When production would kick off is unsure as Neeson is attached to numerous projects including Joe Carnahan’s "The Grey", Ji-Woon Kim’s "Last Stand" and Warners epic sequel "Wrath of the Titans".
Neeson would play a fugitive war criminal based loosely on Slobodan Milosevic, who is in hiding and protected by his supporters in order to avoid being arrested and put on trial for war crimes.
When production would kick off is unsure as Neeson is attached to numerous projects including Joe Carnahan’s "The Grey", Ji-Woon Kim’s "Last Stand" and Warners epic sequel "Wrath of the Titans".
- 11/30/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After the long holiday weekend, it seems like Hollywood is back in full swing. Monday we had announcements of new projects for Mark Wahlberg [1], Halle Berry [2] and Kevin Smith [3] and Tuesday is more of the same. Though previously rumored [4], Tom Hanks has now been confirmed to star in Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up [5] to her Oscar-winning work in The Hurt Locker called Triple Frontier (or possibly Sleeping Dogs), Liam Neeson will star in An Ordinary Man from director Brad Silberling, Kirsten Dunst will hit the road with Hit Girl with the coming of age drama Hick and Mary J. Blige is in talks to star in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages. Read about each of these after the jump. First up is Hanks, who is currently finishing up his sophomore directorial [6] effort Larry Crowne for July release. He's going to top line Triple Frontier (which might...
- 11/30/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
Liam Neeson tells Variety he's added another project to his busy schedule: He's hoping to take the lead in a low-budget indie project that director Brad Silberling is trying to set up, "An Ordinary Man." The role would be a rare departure to the dark side, a fugitive war criminal modelled on former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic who's being hidden by his supporters. . Neeson can currently be seen in a cameo role in The Next Three Days . He again voices Aslan in The Chronicles of Naria: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader later this month and also has the thriller Unknown coming out in February. He has small roles in The Hangover Part II and Battleship , and he'll return for Clash of the Titans 2 as well. In January, Neeson will start shooting Joe...
- 11/30/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Liam Neeson is a busy man. We know this because A) his name is cropping up as rumoured for or attached to loads of movies at the moment and B) Variety decided to do an article all about his To Do list being crammed. In amongst the projects we’d already heard about, there was one notable new addition, a dark indie drama called An Ordinary Man that Neeson is hoping to find time to do with director Brad Silberling.Silberling, of course, is looking to bounce back after the critical and box office mauling handed to Land Of The Lost (unfairly, in the minds of some at Empire) and appears to be trying to put together something small and under the radar.An Ordinary Man would be something different for Neeson, as he’s not often seen playing truly dark characters. In this case, he’d be a fugitive...
- 11/30/2010
- EmpireOnline
For the second consecutive year, my hometown of Grand Rapids Mi is hosting ArtPrize, a citywide art festival that will end this coming weekend with the award of $449,000 in cash prizes, including a cool quarter-million to the overall winner. ArtPrize has come up with a hybrid of Facebook-style “liking” and American Idol’s popularity contest to determine the winners, and with votes cast by a wide cross-section of the general public, it’s not surprising that some of the artists who are serious about becoming finalists base their appeal to the masses more on kitsch and cleverness than on refined artistic techniques or challenging thematic statements. Last year, one of the big money winners was a guy who made large portraits of attractive women using red, yellow, blue, black and white push-pins as his pixels. Anyone who’s ever worked with the most rudimentary digital paint program could see what he was up to,...
- 10/4/2010
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
For more video of Graydon Carter's talk with Tony Blair, go here. There is no obvious parallel among American political figures to Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister from 1997 to 2007. He was four days shy of his 44th birthday when he was elected, on a wave of youthful optimism, by an electorate eager to turn the page on a Conservative era that had been defined by Margaret Thatcher and then dragged out by John Major. Like his American counterpart, Bill Clinton, Blair favored innovative solutions over rigorous ideology, and he counted among his successes a revived economy, a reasonably sturdy peace in Northern Ireland, and a successful military campaign against Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo. But if Blair began as the U.K.'s answer to Bill Clinton, he wound up being branded as "Bush's poodle," owing to his decision to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush in the invasion of Iraq.
- 6/24/2009
- Vanity Fair
- You'll never hear a first-grader claim he/she wants to be a lawyer when they grow up - but there are some determining factors in a youngsters' life that may push them towards the trade. In this case, a young Jacques Vergès, perhaps involuntarily found out early on in life his reason for being. This is a captivating, talking heads doc about a fascinating individual - agree to disagree or hate the man. What he does is almost noble. A suivre.... Today, Magnolia Pictures releases a documentary film that explores one man's mindset and life's work. Via the sophisticated hand of Barbet Schroeder, this Cannes-selected, Un Certain Regard, French production aims at giving viewers everything but an easy, open and shut portrait. Today, Ioncinema.com brings you an exclusive clip (early contacts with Mao) from Terror's Advocate - to view it skip on over the film's synopsis below. This is about Jacques Vergès,
- 10/12/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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