Friday, October 26

• Palm Springs Film Festival to honor Penn, Hirsch, Blonsky and Cotillard

  The powers that be in Palm Springs are announcing this year's honorees. Sean Penn will receive the Director of the Year award for his work on Into the Wild. Previous director honorees include Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Ang Lee, which means that acknowledgement of this sort heavily favors Penn for getting a Best Director nod come Oscar time.

  Marion Cotillard will be receiving the Breakthrough Performance Award for La Vie en Rose, and Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) and Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) will be receiving the Rising Star awards.

  The 19th annual Palm Springs Film Festival will take place from Jan. 3-14, 2008. The awards will be given out at a gala on January 5.

  
  
  

  Into the Wild trailer

  Sean Penn directs this true life adventure.

  Posted 10/26/2007 by Heather

  Related: Marion Cotillard | Sean Penn | Emile Hirsch | Nikki Blonsky | Into the Wild

Tuesday, August 21

• Beautiful ladies joining Nine and Death Race

  Today is deal day for Hollywood's beauties.

  Director Rob Marshall and producer Harvey Weinstein are in talks with Penelope Cruz (Volver, Vanilla Sky), Marion Cotillard (A Good Year, La Vie en Rose), Sophia Loren (Grumpier Old Men) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, No Reservations) to star in Nine, the film adaptation of the musical based on Fellini's 8 1/2.

  Javier Bardem (Collateral) will be playing the lead, a man named Guido Contini who has trouble balancing all the women in his life, says Variety. Cruz will play his mistress and Cotillard his wife. Marshall and Weinstein are trying to convince Zeta-Jones to play his nurse and Loren the ghost of his mother.

  And model Natalie Martinez is in talks to star opposite Jason Statham (War, Crank) in the upcoming remake of Death Race. It will be the former model's first feature film, says The Hollywood Reporter.

  
  

  Posted 08/21/2007 by Heather

  Related: Marion Cotillard | Penelope Cruz | Nine | Death Race 3000