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Thursday, September 18
Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley laces up hercorset for another English period piece this week in The Duchess,based on the true story of Georgiana, the scandal-plagued Duchess ofDevonshire. Is this lush historical drama, which also stars Ralph Fiennes andHayley Atwell, more than just an extravagant chick flick? Check out our reviewof The Duchess to find out.
Posted 9/18/2008 by reelz
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Monday, September 15
In The Duchess, Keira Knightley plays "the Empress of Fashion" -- Georgiana Spencer, the great-great-great-great aunt of Princess Diana who married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, in 1774. While many are drawing parallels between the two Spencer girls and their troubled marriages to men with pubic mistresses, Knightley didn't try for any parallels in her performance. "I think Georgina, on her own, is interesting enough to warrant one film, if not many films," she says. Find out more in our interview with Keira Knightley.
Posted 9/15/2008 by reelz
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Monday, July 30
Variety is veritably teeming with casting announcements this post-Comic-con Monday.
Cameron Diaz will be starring in My Sister's Keeper, which was adapted from Jodi Picoult's 2005 novel by Jeremy Leven (The Notebook). The drama, about a lawyer who must defend herself and her husband from the emancipation petition by their 13-year-old daughter who was conceived as a genetic match to save her sister from cancer, will be directed by Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, John Q).
Keira Knightley will be putting on the corset and hoop skirts again for The Duchess, an 18th century costume drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling 2001 biography, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. Described as the "Princess Diana of her time," Georgiana lived a rather wild life. Sounds a little like the formula used to make Marie Antoinette to us.
And finally, Johnny Depp is going back to the Hunter S. Thompson well for The Rum Diary, an adaptation of the "gonzo" journalist's autobiograhical novel that he wrote in 1959, but wasn't published until 1998. In it, Depp will play Thompson's alter ego, Paul Kemp, a freelancer for a rundown Puerto Rican newspaper who finds himself surrounded by self-destructive ex-pats.
The Rum Diary will be written and directed by Bruce Robinson (Jennifer Eight, The Killing Fields).
Posted 7/30/2007 by reelz
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