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Nicole Kidman Buys New York Flat
29 August 2002
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Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has splashed out on an exclusive $7.5 million flat in New York. The leggy Australian star's new pad, in the trendy West Village area, is in a block with a restaurant, gym and 24-hour security. The Birthday Girl's neighbors will include fashion king Calvin Klein, who lives in the penthouse suite. On a clear day, Nicole, should she want to, would be able to make out the flat ex-husband Tom Cruise shares with lover Penelope Cruz in the city.
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Nicole Stars In Advert For Spanish Store
27 July 2002
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Hollywood star Nicole Kidman is to feature in a Christmas advertising campaign for a Spanish department store. Nicole, who last year was divorced from Hollywood star Tom Cruise, will be paid a six-figure sum to star in two television adverts for the chain, called El Corte. The ads will be directed by Alejandro Amenabar, who also directed Nicole in the horror film The Others. But Birthday Girl beauty Nicole is not the first big name Hollywood star to appear in an ad campaign for El Corte. A source says, "The store usually manages to get a big name to front its TV ads and George Clooney and Sharon Stone have appeared in previous ones."
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Ben Chaplin Learns Screen Sex From Bullock And Kidman
23 April 2002
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Up and coming actor Ben Chaplin has learned to love on-screen sex scenes - after getting jiggy with superstars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. The British hunk is grateful he got his romantic starts with two such impressive actresses. He says of his saucy scenes with Kidman in Birthday Girl, "Nicole is great. She's very used to love scenes. In Birthday Girl, probably one-twentieth of the racy stuff we shot made it into the movie. I found I lost my cherry on that one. I came out a veteran of sex scenes. Nicole was absolutely professional, but there was no coyness. She's very free. And if you're free and understand that it's just part of the job then you can actually get creative with the sex scenes." And lucky Chaplin also got down and dirty with co-star Bullock in new thriller Murder By Numbers. He explains, "Sandra gives me this foot job in our movie. It was an interesting scene. I just had to go with it and it was quite fun because Sandy has nice feet. She had a pedicure before the shoot. Sandy doesn't do that many love scenes so I felt honored to receive her foot."
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Light-fingered Kidman Co-star Worked In Bank To For New Role
7 February 2002
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Ben Chaplin took his role opposite Nicole Kidman in new movie Birthday Girl so seriously - he got into character by working in a bank. The British star plays a light-fingered bank-teller John Buckingham in the new movie, whose life radically changes when his mail-order Russian bride, played by Kidman, arrives on his doorstep. But when Chaplin attempted to perfect his characterisation by taking a everyday role in a real bank he unwittingly became the prime suspect in the theft of thousands of pounds (dollars). He laughs, "I was given carte blanche to help them clear out the safe and the next day they were thousands of pounds down. I thought, did I put a bundle in my pocket? I remember instinctively putting my hands in my pockets to see if I had gotten so into character that I stole their money!" However, the actor was relieved to find the cause for the missing money was not due to his thorough acting style. "It was just a counting error," he says.
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Ben Chaplin's Naked Nightmare With Nicole Kidman
6 February 2002
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British actor Ben Chaplin hated the nude scenes he had to do with Nicole Kidman for their new movie Birthday Girl - because he just couldn't shake his embarrassment. While many men would do anything to romp naked with the Australian redhead, Chaplin, 31, says playing Kidman's love interest on film was a nerve-wracking nightmare. He explains, "It's truly awful doing these love scenes, because I'm very prone to getting embarrassed. We were just sitting around for days, sort of naked. Between takes, Nicole and I would look at each other and say the most God- awful, stupid things like, 'Can you believe this weather?' 'Do you think they'll serve the good fish for lunch?' It's almost like being in a doctor's office. You can't wait until it's over, even if it is Nicole Kidman across a bed from you."
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Box Office Down -- But Don't Blame The Super Bowl
5 February 2002
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The reluctance of studios to bring their heavy hitters to the plate at this time of year -- a period of generally poor box-office business -- probably had more to do with last weekend's lackluster ticket sales than the competition from the Super Bowl, analysts suggested Monday. They noted that the total take for the weekend was about equal with last year's for the same weekend -- which was not a Super Bowl weekend. In the case of the two new films that were released, one (Sony's Slackers) received universally withering reviews; the other (Miramax's Birthday Girl) had been gathering dust for three years on the studio's shelves. Neither wound up in the top ten. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Black Hawk Down, Sony, $11,112,555, 6 Wks. ($75,063,935); 2. Snow Dogs, Disney, $10,199,650, 3 Wks. ($51,127,496); 3. A Walk to Remember, Warner Bros. $8,836,201, 2 Wks. ($23,325,402); 4. The Count of Monte Cristo, Disney, $8,772,280, 2 Wks. ($23,371,251); 5. A Beautiful Mind, Universal, $8,403,690, 7 Wks. ($104,502,101); 6. The Mothman Prophecies, Screen Gems, $7,364,011, 2 Wks. ($21,221,640); 7. I Am Sam, New Line, $6,303,148, 6 Wks. ($17,293,331); 8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Line, $5,704,259, 7 Wks. ($266,274,199); 9. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, 20th Century Fox, $3,851,312, 2 Wks. ($12,099,500); 10. Orange County, Paramount, $2,873,842, 4 Wks. ($37,793,336).
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Super Bowl Not So Super For Movies
4 February 2002
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With much of the country staying home over the weekend to prepare for Super Bowl parties and watch the game itself, attendance was sparse in many multiplexes. Black Hawk Down remained the top film for the third week in a row, with an estimated $11.5 million, bringing its total to $75.5 million. Snow Dogs continued to trail in second place, grossing $9.9 million, while the next three films appeared virtually tied. Only $500,000 separated The Count of Monte Cristo, A Walk to Remember and A Beautiful Mind, and the finish order could be altered when final results are released later today (Monday). Two new films fared poorly, the gross-out comedy Slackers earning just $3 million to finish tenth (in a tie), and the long-shelved Birthday Girl , starring Nicole Kidman, failing even to make the top-ten list, earning just $2.5 million. The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. Black Hawk Down, $11.5 million; 2. Snow Dogs, $9.9 million; 3. The Count of Monte Cristo, $9 million; 4. A Walk to Remember, $8.8 million; 5. A Beautiful Mind, $8.5 million; 6. The Mothman Prophecies, $7.5 million; 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, $6.6 million; 8. I Am Sam, $6.5 million; 9. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, $3.8 million; 10. (tie) Orange County, $3 million; 10. (tie) Slackers, $3 million.
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Movie Reviews: The Birthday Girl
1 February 2002
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After having stashed it away on its shelves for three years, Miramax could not have had high expectations for The Birthday Girl, starring Nicole Kidman. Released this weekend in an apparent attempt to capitalize on the attention Kidman has received from critics groups during the awards season for her performances in Moulin Rouge and The Others, the film is actually receiving some fairly decent reviews. "Kidman makes Birthday Girl worth seeing, if only to show off another against-type, off-kilter performance in what is undeniably Kidman's breakout year," writes Loren King in the Boston Globe. Using similar words, Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News comments that the film is "a slight, old-fashioned B movie, the last thing you would expect from an actress coming off a breakout year, but it has a charm and freshness we don't see much these days." Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution dishes out similar praise: "The slight but decidedly likable Birthday Girl gives Nicole Kidman another chance to strut her considerable stuff." And Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times showers unadulterated praise on the film: "In a fierce black farce, Birthday Girl's remixing of traditional genre elements tells you from frame one that a distinctive film sensibility is at work." But Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times is unimpressed. "There is a curious problem with Birthday Girl, hard to put your finger on," he writes. "The movie is kind of sour. It wants to be funny and a little nasty, it wants to surprise us and then console us, but what it mostly does is make us restless." Indeed, like most of the positive reviews, the negative ones appear to echo one another. Comments Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal: "Birthday Girl is a harmless trifle that makes 93 minutes go by as if they were hardly more than an hour and a half."
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