Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has beaten Lindsay Lohan to the lead role in a big-screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde play A Woman Of No Importance. Mean Girls star Lohan was first linked to the part in 2006, but she appears to have lost out to Seyfried, who will step back in time for the upper-class dark comedy, set in Britain's Victorian era.
She will star opposite Sean Bean, who will portray womaniser Lord Illingworth, and Annette Bening will play his mother, according to Variety.
She will star opposite Sean Bean, who will portray womaniser Lord Illingworth, and Annette Bening will play his mother, according to Variety.
- 1/29/2009
- WENN
Now we know we promised you, waay back in 2006, that Lindsay Lohan was going to be the unimportant woman - and oh what a self fulfilling prophecy that turned out to be - but now there's another Mean Girl ready to step into her Victorian shoes for A Woman No Importance.Amanda Seyfried will play the love interest to the womanizing Lord Illingworth played by Sean Bean, at an awfully posh upper-class party at the family's pile in the English countryside - until his mother, played by Annette Bening reveals a secret, which threatens to scupper his plans.With Driving Miss Daisy director Bruce Beresford at the helm, this could have promised to be a gentle ride were it not for Wilde's searing and snappy dialogue, which has been adapted by Howard Himelstein.Seyfried, part of the one film assault on the ears of the world last year in Mamma Mia!
- 1/29/2009
- EmpireOnline
Amanda Seyfried has joined the cast of "A Woman of No Importance," the Oscar Wilde adaptation that Bruce Beresford is directing for Myriad Pictures.
Seyfried will star opposite Annette Bening in the class comedy, playing a young woman who falls victim to the mischievous games of a group of upper-crust members of British society.
The actress broke out as the daughter with an unknown father in the 2008 musical hit "Mamma Mia!" and is set to star in the romantic drama "Dear John" for Relativity and the Diablo Cody-penned "Jennifer's Body" for Fox Atomic.
Additionally, Myriad has signed director Ernie Barbarash to direct "Hybrid," its comic-book actioner involving college students haunted by a deep-sea monster. The project grew out of a first-look deal with Studio 407.
Seyfried will star opposite Annette Bening in the class comedy, playing a young woman who falls victim to the mischievous games of a group of upper-crust members of British society.
The actress broke out as the daughter with an unknown father in the 2008 musical hit "Mamma Mia!" and is set to star in the romantic drama "Dear John" for Relativity and the Diablo Cody-penned "Jennifer's Body" for Fox Atomic.
Additionally, Myriad has signed director Ernie Barbarash to direct "Hybrid," its comic-book actioner involving college students haunted by a deep-sea monster. The project grew out of a first-look deal with Studio 407.
- 1/28/2009
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- In the first pickup from the Hamptons International Film Festival slate, ThinkFilm has nabbed North American rights to Thursday's world premiere My Sexiest Year.
Writer-director Howard Himelstein's autobiographical coming-of-age story follows Jack Stein (Frankie Muniz), a 17-year-old aspiring writer who lives with his mother (Frances Fisher) in Brooklyn. When her health declines, she sends him to live with his horse-racing handicapper father (Harvey Keitel) in Miami.
Jack soon becomes distracted by new friendships with a rich druggie (Dan Levy) and his sister (Haylie Duff) and the famous model (Amber Valletta) Jack falls for. Ryan Cabrera plays Jack's high school nemesis. Christopher McDonald and Karolina Kurkova also star.
The pickup reunites ThinkFilm with producers Michael Cerenzie and Paul Parmar, part of the team behind its upcoming Sidney Lumet thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Himelstein directed Power of Attorney and scripted Myriad Pictures' upcoming Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman of No Importance.
Cerenzie and Christine Forsyth-Peters' of CP Prods. will produce Russell Mulcahy's Zen and the Art of Slaying Vampires.
ThinkFilm U.S.
Writer-director Howard Himelstein's autobiographical coming-of-age story follows Jack Stein (Frankie Muniz), a 17-year-old aspiring writer who lives with his mother (Frances Fisher) in Brooklyn. When her health declines, she sends him to live with his horse-racing handicapper father (Harvey Keitel) in Miami.
Jack soon becomes distracted by new friendships with a rich druggie (Dan Levy) and his sister (Haylie Duff) and the famous model (Amber Valletta) Jack falls for. Ryan Cabrera plays Jack's high school nemesis. Christopher McDonald and Karolina Kurkova also star.
The pickup reunites ThinkFilm with producers Michael Cerenzie and Paul Parmar, part of the team behind its upcoming Sidney Lumet thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Himelstein directed Power of Attorney and scripted Myriad Pictures' upcoming Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman of No Importance.
Cerenzie and Christine Forsyth-Peters' of CP Prods. will produce Russell Mulcahy's Zen and the Art of Slaying Vampires.
ThinkFilm U.S.
- 10/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Sienna Miller is set to star in A Woman of No Importance, Sarah Polley, Paddy Considine, Debra Messing and Scott Speedman will star in Cry of the Owl, and Lena Headey will star in Six Bullets From Now, all part of Myriad Films' Festival de Cannes presales lineup.
In the Oscar Wilde adaptation Importance, Miller plays a 19-year-old American who finds herself falling in love with the womanizing Lord Illingworth (Sean Bean) in the English countryside until his mother (Annette Bening) throws a wrench in his plans. Bruce Beresford is directing Howard Himelstein's screen version of Wilde's comedy, set to begin shooting in September.
In Owl, an adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Polley plays a woman who falls for her stalker (Considine). Things take an ugly turn when her jilted ex (Speedman) plans revenge. Messing plays the ex-wife of Speedman's character in Jamie Thraves' upcoming thriller.
Bullets, loosely based on a true story, features Headey as the good-hearted girlfriend of a thief (Josh Lucas) who plans a heist at New York's Pierre Hotel in 1971.
In the Oscar Wilde adaptation Importance, Miller plays a 19-year-old American who finds herself falling in love with the womanizing Lord Illingworth (Sean Bean) in the English countryside until his mother (Annette Bening) throws a wrench in his plans. Bruce Beresford is directing Howard Himelstein's screen version of Wilde's comedy, set to begin shooting in September.
In Owl, an adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Polley plays a woman who falls for her stalker (Considine). Things take an ugly turn when her jilted ex (Speedman) plans revenge. Messing plays the ex-wife of Speedman's character in Jamie Thraves' upcoming thriller.
Bullets, loosely based on a true story, features Headey as the good-hearted girlfriend of a thief (Josh Lucas) who plans a heist at New York's Pierre Hotel in 1971.
- 5/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lindsay Lohan has pulled out of a new movie she was scheduled to shoot with Annette Bening, so she can take some time to relax after her current rehab stint. The actress checked into Los Angeles' Wonderland treatment centre last month in an effort to seek help for escalating personal issues, but she has continued to work while attending counseling classes. Her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, now confirms the Mean Girls star will be taking a much-needed rest after completing her current slate of film and promotional work - and Bening's movie A Woman Of No Importance will be scratched from her schedule. In a statement to website Tmz.com, Zelnick says, "(She has) decided not to push herself." This marks the second time the two actresses were supposed to work together - Bening was originally cast as Lohan's mother in Freaky Friday, but a scheduling problem forced the Being Julia star to pull out. Jamie Lee Curtis eventually landed the role.
- 2/2/2007
- WENN
MADRID -- Spanish distribution house Notro Films said Monday it has picked up Spanish rights to eight movies, including Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, Sarah Polley's Away from Her and the final episode in the Japanese terror saga One Missed Call: Final.
The hefty shopping bag, which Notro takes home following this year's American Film Market, shows the ambition for the Barcelona-based distributor, which presently has Copying Beethoven in Spanish theaters.
"It coincided that Notro is growing and that we found a lot of films at AFM that were in keeping with the very clearly defined line of films that Notro handles," said Notro acquisitions' chief Raquel Luque. "If we're growing, it's clear we need to add to our slate."
Other titles picked up include Bruce Beresford's A Woman of No Importance, starring Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening and Lindsay Lohan, Terry Gilliam's Tideland, and the odd comedy Special, in which Michael Rapaport plays a man who acquires new powers after taking medication.
Also from Japan, Notro bought Yoji Yamada's Love and Honor and Takeshi Furusawa Ghost Train.
The hefty shopping bag, which Notro takes home following this year's American Film Market, shows the ambition for the Barcelona-based distributor, which presently has Copying Beethoven in Spanish theaters.
"It coincided that Notro is growing and that we found a lot of films at AFM that were in keeping with the very clearly defined line of films that Notro handles," said Notro acquisitions' chief Raquel Luque. "If we're growing, it's clear we need to add to our slate."
Other titles picked up include Bruce Beresford's A Woman of No Importance, starring Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening and Lindsay Lohan, Terry Gilliam's Tideland, and the odd comedy Special, in which Michael Rapaport plays a man who acquires new powers after taking medication.
Also from Japan, Notro bought Yoji Yamada's Love and Honor and Takeshi Furusawa Ghost Train.
- 11/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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