'Iron Man' soars May 2, 2008
This is no "Shakespeare in Love" showcase for her talents. Nor for Terrence Howard as the inside Air Force brass man to Downey's Iron Man. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Costume cavernWhat goes on in the world's biggest dressing up box? Apr 22, 2008
They include Omar Sharif's coat from Dr Zhivago, Peter Seller's Pink Panther hat, Christopher Lee's Dracula cloak, and Gwyneth Paltrow's dress from Shakespeare in Love. But it's Obi-Wan Kenobi's cloak, from the 1977 Star Wars film, that is missed most by Jeremy. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Producer launches online 'studio' Apr 22, 2008
Other judges on its panel include playwright Neil LaBute, Shakespeare in Love director John Madden and US actor Bill Pullman. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Shakespeare for Everyone Apr 19, 2008
Was he the devil-may-care wastrel of Shakespeare in Love, who sent his manuscripts off to the playhouse and then fell to wenching. Or, as a highly influential group of textual scholars have argued, did he care enough about his work as literature to carefully revise some of his most famous works. (Slate)
Paltrow suffered depression Apr 18, 2008
The Shakespeare in Love actress married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin didnt even realize she had the condition, often referred to as postnatal depression. Paltrow told Vogue magazine, "I didnt know I had it until after it was over. I just didnt know what was wrong with me. I felt really out of my body. I felt really disconnected. I felt really down. I felt pessimistic.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Paltrow suffered postpartum depression Apr 17, 2008
You know, I had postnatal depression after Moses, the Shakespeare in Love actress confessed. I didnt know I had it until after it was over. (MSNBC -- News)
Jackie Chan: The reluctant Hollywood hero Apr 15, 2008
Producer Casey Silver -- a Hollywood veteran whose gut instincts have been proven right over and over again with movies like Schindlers List, Erin Brockovich, Shakespeare in Love and The Mummy -- is convinced that Forbidden Kingdom will strike international gold. The only person who seems to need convincing about that is Jackie Chan. (Canada.com)
New DVD from Fox is all about Bette Mar 30, 2008
Like another, later Elizabeth, Judi Dench in "Shakespeare in Love," Davis owns the film without possessing much of its real estate. "Charlotte" is also a sequel of sorts, with Davis returning to the Southern Grand Guignol of her earlier collaboration with director Robert Aldrich, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Davis was initially scheduled to play the demented, possibly murderous Charlotte opposite Joan Crawford, her famously combative "Baby Jane" costar, but de Havilland stepped in after... (Boston Globe)
Osher tapped digital biz leader at SPE Mar 17, 2008
Before joining Sony, Osher was co-president of production at Miramax Films for more than six years, where he oversaw the production of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" and served as executive producer of films including "Cold Mountain." ... Before joining Sony, Osher was co-president of production at Miramax Films for more than six years, where he oversaw the production of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" and served as executive producer of films including "Cold Mountain.". (Hollywood Reporter)
Osher Named President of Digital Production Division of Sony Pictures Entertainment Mar 16, 2008
Osher previously served as co-president of production at Miramax Films for more than six years, where he oversaw the production of the Academy Award(R) Best Picture winners Shakespeare in Love and Chicago and served as Executive Producer of several films, including Cold Mountain. He also was involved in overseeing an animated television series for Miramax. (PR Newswire)
VIDEO from Medialink and Siemens: Spaceship Earth Re-Launches into the Future at Epcot Mar 8, 2008
The new narration is delivered by English actress Dame Judi Dench, who earned an Oscar as best supporting actress in 1999 for her role in the motion picture 'Shakespeare in Love. While Dench delivers the ride vehicle narration in English, guests can also choose five other languages for their vehicle, a Disney 'first' -- French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Master of French satire put to the love test Mar 4, 2008
THE English created a fun, fictionalised account of the Bard's life in Shakespeare In Love. Now the French have followed suit with a lighthearted film about Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the playwright better known as Moliere. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Other Boleyn Girl': It's a bust Mar 2, 2008
He was adorable in Shakespeare in Love and made one heck of a Walsingham. She can be reached at gcarbone@seacoastonline. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The Other Boleyn Girl Mar 1, 2008
Your browsers security settings are preventing some features from appearing. The clever casting alone had promise: the role reversal of the va-va-voomy Scarlett Johansson playing sweet country girl Mary Boleyn and the pixieish Natalie Portman playing her scheming vixen of an older sister, Anne. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Soapy 'Boleyn Girl' captures grit and glamour of 16th century England Feb 29, 2008
Instead, The Other Boleyn Girl too often comes off as an unintentionally campy, highbrow soap opera albeit one with elaborate production design and richly textured costumes (the work of Sandy Powell, an Oscar winner for Shakespeare in Love and The Aviator ). Director Justin Chadwick s film, based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory, looks great, the high-definition heightening both the grit and glamour of 16th-century England. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
2008 Oscars Snub Comedy: Juno Feb 26, 2008
The next comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar would be Billy Wilder s The Apartment in 1960, followed by Woody Allen s Annie Hall in 1977, Forrest Gump in 94 and Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ... And, in a victory that will always be debated, Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan to take the Best Picture Oscar. (Suite101.com)
Oscar predictions improve, drama lessens Feb 26, 2008
A win by Juno would have likely gone down in Oscar lore along with famous surprises like Shakespeare In Love defeating Saving Private Ryan in 1999. Other memorable upsets include: An American in Paris besting A Streetcar Named Desire in 1952, Rocky knocking out All the Presidents Men, Network and Taxi Driver in 1977, Marisa Tomei winning best supporting actress in 1993, and Adrian Brody winning over Jack Nicholson in 2003. (MSNBC -- News)
All Academy Award winners Feb 26, 2008
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz were up for the three trophies this year; three of Henry Kriegers songs from "Dreamgirls were nominated last year. Irglova, in a true Oscar rarity, was allowed to return to the stage to deliver an acceptance speech after being cut off as the kudocast went to commercial break following Hansgards comments. While "No Country" certainly becomes the most talked-about film in America, it has a ways to catch up with "The Departed," at the box office. Its cume is... (Variety)
What's so funny? Feb 26, 2008
A year before, Shakespeare in Love, arguably as funny as it is romantic and historically loopy, took the best-picture award in an upset over Saving Private Ryan. That was two in a row. (Winnipeg Sun)
The Oscars: A dark view on dark times Feb 25, 2008
A decade ago, with the country in a more buoyant mood, the best picture Oscars went to movies with more uplift -- notably such films as "Forrest Gump," "Titanic" and "Shakespeare in Love." For much of the 1990s, Oscar winners looked backward, the vast majority of them safely set in distant places, including Shakespearean England, the American West of "Dances With Wolves" and "Unforgiven," the gilded age of "Titanic," the prewar and World War II-era "The English Patient" and "Schindler's List.".... (Los Angeles Times)
Oscar night in real time: 'Welcome to the make-up sex' Feb 25, 2008
" It's too bad this is playing after 10 p.m. when a lot of people are already asleep. "Once" the movie is good but "Once" the soundtrack is gorgeous. Please please please buy it. I'm not even an investor. 10:22 p.m.Jack Nicholson, looking back on the 79 previous Best Picture winners. I may be the only one, but I'm glad "Shakespeare in Love" won over "Saving Private Ryan. " "Ryan" had some classic, amazing, important scenes in an overall imperfect film. "Shakespeare" was flawless from start to... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Sarah Polley's write of passage Feb 24, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008. PHOTO SUPPLIED Sarah Polley says she may have been "the least-prepared person who has ever been nominated" for an Oscar. (Toronto Star)
Top red carpet moments Feb 24, 2008
Parker was awash in a pink cotton dress that resembled what uppity Gwyneth Paltrow wore when she won best actress for Shakespeare in Love. The scene stealer, however, was Mr. Stone, who bared his bearded belly in a knockoff of Jennifer Lopez overly revealing greenish gown that featured a plunging neckline that never quit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Lohan Like Olde Times Feb 23, 2008
IGN: Lohan Likes Olde Times. Lohan Likes Olde Times. (IGN FilmForce)
The Nielsen Company's 2008 Guide to the Academy Awards Feb 22, 2008
Table 11: Average Cost Per 30-Second Commercial Academy Award Average Cost Per Year 30-Second Commercial Best Picture Winner 2007 $1,665,800 The Departed 2006 $1,646,800 Crash 2005 $1,503,000 Million Dollar Baby 2004 $1,503,100 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003 $1,345,800 Chicago 2002 $1,290,000 A Beautiful Mind 2001 $1,450,000 Gladiator 2000 $1,305,000 American Beauty 1999 $1,000,000 Shakespeare in Love 1998 $950,000 Titanic 1997 $850,000 The English Patient 1996 $795,000 Braveheart... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'American Gangster' Only Got One Nomination, So Why Should You See It?: Oscar Honor Roll Feb 22, 2008
Unquestionably, such interest will continue for decades to come, as your kids and grandkids rent flicks like "Titanic," "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" and "Shakespeare in Love," eager to see if these big Oscar winners are as good as Grandma and Grandpa's generation believed. But what will you say when they ask you about "Monster," "The Last King of Scotland" or "American Gangster". (VHI.com -- Music News)
No laughing allowed Feb 21, 2008
Looking back through the past 30 years, you'll find among the winners only two pure comedies: Annie Hall in '77 and Shakespeare in Love in '98. However, each had a built-in name value - Woody Allen in one, the Bard in the other - that lent the light choice a measure of intellectual ballast. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Oscar History Says Bet On Cate Blanchett, Steer Clear Of 'There Will Be Blood' Feb 21, 2008
If she wins for her role in she'll have the record for lowest total screen time of any winner in history, ahead of Judi Dench's eight minutes onscreen in "Shakespeare in Love." Dee is only on camera for approximately five minutes in the film. Marion Cotillard: Great performance. (VHI.com -- Music News)
What's Ailing Oscar? Feb 20, 2008
Only recently did the Academy begin making a habit of selecting Best Picture winners that clearly aimed at more limited, selective, sophisticated audiences, as did The English Patient (1996), Shakespeare in Love (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2000), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005) ... Only recently did the Academy begin making a habit of selecting Best Picture winners that clearly aimed at more limited, selective, sophisticated audiences, as did The... (Townhall.com)
The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla Feb 15, 2008
Harvey Weinstein was so expert at campaigning when he and his brother Bob ran Miramax Films that, the prevailing wisdom has it, he cajoled his way to a Best Picture prize for the modest Shakespeare in Love over Steven Spielberg's odds-on favorite, Saving Private Ryan. Since the great majority of the voters live or work in the Los Angeles area, there is little motive to reward foreign-language films. (Time.com)
Can critics' faves also make money? Feb 14, 2008
The Weinsteins have had huge success: Their Oscar campaign for "Shakespeare in Love" is widely believed to have helped win that film best picture over "Saving Private Ryan.". Sayles remembers getting the Miramax treatment for his 1992 film "Passion Fish.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Paltrow wants to adopt Feb 13, 2008
The 'Shakespeare In Love' actress says she and husband Chris Martin are considering giving a home to an underprivileged child from her home city of New York. The couple already have a daughter Apple, 3, and a 22-month-old son Moses. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Gwyneth considering adoption Feb 12, 2008
Following the lead of the couple's friend Madonna, the 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar winner has said she'd like to adopt an orphan from her hometown of New York. "We might get one from Brooklyn," Paltrow told New York Daily News. (iAfrica.com)
Has Cate lost her shine? Feb 11, 2008
In a shock for critics Gwyneth Paltrow took home the award for Shakespeare in Love. Share this article. (Daily Telegraph)
Whose line is it? Test your movie quote knowledge Feb 10, 2008
A. Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love (1998). B. Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Madonna, Ritchie to renew vows Feb 5, 2008
Madonna, Guy Ritchie to renew wedding vows. SEARCH MOVIE LISTINGS: lect. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Julie Christie, your Oscar statuette is calling Feb 1, 2008
Its Blanchetts turn in 1998s Elizabeth that resonates strongly, although perhaps this new nomination is the Academys way of apologizing for slighting her for Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love. In the meantime, Blanchett did manage to take home an Oscar for her portrayal of Kate Hepburn in The Aviator. (MSNBC -- News)
Day-Lewis heads UK Oscars charge Jan 24, 2008
Wilkinson came to Hollywood's attention in Shakespeare in Love, The Full Monty, The Patriot and Rush Hour, and earned an Oscar nomination in 2002 for In the Bedroom. And Swinton, who played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia, has previously appeared in Vanilla Sky, The Beach and 1992's Virginia Woolf adaptation Orlando. (Yahoo News -- Academy Awards)
Recent Oscar Winners and Nominees Jan 22, 2008
Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress in 1998 for eight minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor in 1991 for sixteen minutes of screen time in The Silence of the Lambs. (Suite101.com)
Martin tackles photog Jan 21, 2008
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Third child for Gwyneth? Jan 18, 2008
Now the New York Daily News is claiming that the 'Shakespeare in Love' actress was taken to the hospital by the Coldplay singer because she's pregnant. The publication cites a source who saw the couple in the hospital's maternity wing. (iAfrica.com)
Paltrow hospitalized Jan 17, 2008
In the evening of her stay, a brown paper bag filled with products from New York organic health food store and addressed to "Gwyneth Martin," was delivered to the 'Shakespeare in Love' star. Paltrow used to follow a vegan diet but now has a more varied eating plan which includes white meat and fish. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Report: Gwyneth Paltrow Hospitalized Jan 16, 2008
She is most notable for her role in the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love," for which she won an Oscar. Top Video. (Fox News)
Update: Paltrow treated at New York hospital Jan 16, 2008
The Shakespeare In Love star spent Monday night at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, where she underwent treatment for an unknown ailment. But the New York Daily News claims Paltrow was taken to the hospital by her husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin, because she is pregnant. (FOX23.com, OK)
Spring fling Jan 13, 2008
"Shakespeare in Love," Claudia Anderson, flute, with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2, GBPAC, Cedar Falls, 273-4849, or GPBAC box office. "Unfinished Dreams," Waterloo Community Playhouse, Feb. 8 to 16, Hope Martin Theatre, Waterloo Center for the Arts, 291-4494. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Double-dippers and other trivia Jan 12, 2008
1998: Shakespeare in Love ... 1998: Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'National Treasure' still box office gold Jan 1, 2008
Oscar campaigner Harvey Weinstein, who delivered such best-picture winners as "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" while at Miramax, said he hoped his feel-good drama "The Great Debaters" would stand out for awards consideration among all the blood-soaked fare. The Weinstein Co. release, distributed by MGM, took in $6. (CNN -- Showbiz)
5Top: Memorable Tom Hanks films Dec 22, 2007
The fact that Shakespeare in Love defeated Ryan for Oscars best picture still irks me to this day. 2007 MSNBC Interactive. (MSNBC -- News)
Compass points to controversy Dec 17, 2007
Rush revealed that the cast of Shakespeare in Love had prepared for the possibility that producers would not allow the bard's name to appear in the title and had concocted alternatives such as Good Will Humping and The Full Montague. Stoppard has been taking in some local culture, attending a performance of Michael Gow's Toy Symphony, which he described as "a really good play". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Writers, Producers Bicker As Talks Stall Dec 8, 2007
"Yesterday, things were looking positive. Today, things are looking negative," said Marc Norman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter ("Shakespeare in Love") and member of the guild's bargaining committee. "We're taking it a day at a time," Norman said Friday. (Click2Houston, TX)
Awards Season is finally here Dec 7, 2007
The best-pic winners of the last decade resist easy classification, running the gamut from "Lord of the Rings" to "Shakespeare in Love." Past nominees included "The Fugitive," "The Full Monty," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "The Sixth Sense" and "Chocolat." None of them is "noble," and none fits into the pattern of a "typical" awards film. "Here's how the race is shaping up so far ...". (Variety)
Big casts make for major challenges Nov 30, 2007
In five of the 12 years it has been awarded, the SAG Award for ensemble cast of a film has predicted the picture award at the Oscars ("Crash," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," "Chicago," "American Beauty" and "Shakespeare in Love"). Even if it doesn't lead to Oscar's top prize, a SAG win in the cast category can create Oscar heat, as it did for last year's winner, "Little Miss Sunshine," which went on to win for original screenplay and for Alan Arkin's supporting turn. (Variety)
Thanks for the ceremonies Nov 26, 2007
It was Harvey Weinstein who really shook the awards world, aggressively lobbying for his Miramax films such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love as if they were presidential candidates. As a teenager, Weinstein worked in Bobby Kennedy's campaign office and he clearly learnt the power of posters, publicity, speeches and public appearances. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Its time for Ruby Dee to win an Oscar Nov 20, 2007
"Universal PicturesMost popular Most Viewed Top Rated Most E-mailedCOMMENTARYBy Miki TurnerMSNBC contributorupdated 6:08 p.m. ET Nov. 19, 2007Ruby Dee keeps a list of the awards that she and her late husband, Ossie Davis, have won on a sheet a paper. Part of the reason she does that is so she can keep track of them. And part of it is because after more than 60 years in the business shes still humbled by the honors big and small.Yet despite all the accolades shes received... (MSNBC -- News)
Review: 'Next' tells the story of those who write the stories Nov 20, 2007
Being a screenwriter himself (having co-written the Oscar-winning script for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love"), Marc Norman is rewriting history and casting his compatriots as the protagonists. "What Happens Next" is less a history of screenwriting than a history of American film in which the camera pans away from its presumptive stars and searches out the ink-stained wretches huddled over typewriters. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Outrage as first parish church set to charge for admission Nov 18, 2007
The artist William Hogarth was baptised in the 15th-century font 310 years ago and it was used as a location in the hit films Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love ... It is also the place where director John Madden chose to film Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in a key romantic scene in Shakespeare in Love. (Guardian Unlimited)
Greatest Hits of Viral Video Nov 12, 2007
The film combines and spoofs both Star Wars and Shakespeare in Love. It's pretty "inside Hollywood" stuff (Nussbaum used it as his demo tape for the studios), but despite that, it has proved to be a huge hit on viral video sites like YouTube. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Power to reign supreme Nov 11, 2007
Director Shekhar Kapur knew he wanted Cornish all but unknown outside Australia to join Blanchett and Rush and British actor Clive Owen (Sir Walter Raleigh) in his sequel to his 1998 box-office smash, Elizabeth, which earned Blanchett an Oscar Best Actress nomination, with the award controversially going to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love. In the much-anticipated sequel, Cornish is the Queen's young and attractive lady-in-waiting, Elizabeth "Bess" Throckmorton. (Courier Mail)
BIG PICTURE: Hollywood contempt for writers?; Oct 30, 2007
As it happens, Marc Norman, who won an Oscar for writing "Shakespeare in Love," has written an engaging new book about many of these very struggles. "What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting" offers a fascinating portrait of Hollywood history, with a special focus on the contentious relationship between writers and the studio establishment. (Los Angeles Times)
Tarnished crownWhy did The Golden Age fail to shine at the US box office? Oct 26, 2007
" Whether or not US critics view the picture as boisterous melodrama, Kapur believes there is substance to his film - and he finds Queen Elizabeth I deeply compelling. Clive Owen plays explorer Sir Walter Raleigh "She created the foundations of the great British Empire - and absolutely consistently, refused to give power or even a semblance of that power, over to a man," he says. The film's poor box office takings inthe US will not necessarily scupper Blanchett's chances of earning an Oscar... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Elizabeth fatigue Oct 25, 2007
" Elizabeth's greatness often rubs off on her imitators. Judi Dench won a best supporting actress Oscar for playing Elizabeth for just eight minutes in Shakespeare in Love. As long as actresses need a character to get their teeth into, Elizabeth will be re-invented. Bookmark with: MAGAZINE REGULARS RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites MOST E-MAILED Human species 'may split in two' A380 makes first passenger flight Cadbury salmonella scare... (BBC News -- UK)
HBO acquires 100 Disney films Oct 25, 2007
Other films in the deal include Touchstone's Armageddon and Enemy of the State, Miramax's Shakespeare in Love and Disney's George of the Jungle and The Mighty Ducks. Though the date for each title becoming available varies, the the rights to the first title kicks off in January 2009. (Indiantelevision.com)
HBO makes library deal with Disney Oct 23, 2007
Other titles in the Disney-HBO deal include "Pulp Fiction," "Shakespeare in Love," the three "Scream" movies, "George of the Jungle" and "The Mighty Ducks.". Date in print: Tue. (Variety)
Oscar hopefuls holding off Oct 21, 2007
"Traffic," "Shakespeare in Love" and "Monster's Ball" were also late-breaking films fresh in Oscar voters' minds when they filled out their ballots. But waiting it out can be a risky gambit. (Variety)
A regal lot, from silent to scary Oct 13, 2007
Judi Dench also collected an Oscar for her brief appearance as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1999, commenting afterwards: "People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.". Trading in the velour track pants and hoop earrings that were Fiona Gallagher's staple wardrobe in the TV series Shameless, Anne-Marie Duff donned neck ruffs and white make-up to play Elizabeth in the four-part BBC drama Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
