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Cannes: IFC Lands ‘The Face Of Love’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 5:12am PDTTags: Annette Bening, Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Ed Harris, IFC, The Face Of Love
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: IFC Films acquired U.S. rights to the Arie Posin-directed The Face Of Love, which stars Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler and Amy Brenneman. Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn at Mockingbird Pictures produced the project. The company is planning a September 2013 release. Exclusive Media is handling international rights. The plot: Five years after losing the love her life, Nikki (Bening) falls in love at first sight. Tom (Harris) is an art teacher with a kind heart and a zest for life. Unbeknownst to him, he’s also practically an exact lookalike of her dead husband. “I was incredibly fortunate to have Annette Bening and Ed Harris in front of the camera; their brilliance and unflinching search for the truth was a constant inspiration,” Posin said. IFC’s Arianna Bocco made the deal with WME and CAA repping the filmmakers.

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Hot Trailer: Kristen Wiig’s ‘Girl Most Likely’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 2, 2013 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Annette Bening, Darren Criss, Girl Most Likely, Kristen Wiig

One the splashiest pickups at Toronto last year was the forgettably titled Imogene. The Kristen Wiig-Annette Bening comedy now known as Girl Most Likely is hitting theaters July 19 via Roadside and Lionsgate. The American Splendor duo of Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini directed the … Read More »

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‘Hemingway & Fuentes’ Set To Go With Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia & Annette Bening

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Andy Garcia, Annette Bening, Anthony Hopkins, Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival

The financing is in place and Anthony Hopkins and Annette Bening are on board for Andy Garcia in Hemingway & Fuentes. Hopkins … Read More »

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Amy Brenneman, Jess Weixler Join Annette Bening, Ed Harris And Robin Williams In ‘Look Of Love’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 8:38am PDTTags: Amy Brenneman, Annette Bening, Big Deals Film, Ed Harris, Robin Williams
Mike Fleming

Amy Brenneman and Jess Weixler have joined Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Robin Williams in the Arie Posin-directed romantic drama Look Of Love. Posin wrote the script with Matthew McDuffie. … Read More »

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Disney’s Bob Iger To Chair Academy Film Museum Capital Campaign With Tom Hanks and Annette Bening

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 10:23am PSTTags: Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Annette Bening, Tom Hanks

Beverly Hills, CA – Academy President Tom Sherak announced today that Walt Disney Co. President and CEO Bob Iger will serve as chairman of the capital campaign for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Actress Annette Bening and actor-producer Tom Hanks will join as co-chairs. “With Bob, Annette, and Tom’s leadership, our dream of finally opening a world-class film museum in Los Angeles will become a reality,” Sherak said.

As Academy CEO Dawn Hudson noted, “The momentum has been building for a long time, and with the enthusiasm Bob, Annette, and Tom all bring—and the respect they are accorded throughout the industry—we have marked the beginning of a new chapter for this project.”

Earlier this fall, the Academy and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced their intention to work together in establishing the Academy-run museum in the historic May Co. building, currently known as LACMA West. With permanent and rotating exhibitions, the museum is intended to provide an interactive experience that will explore how motion pictures have evolved and how they continue to change.

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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place … Read More »

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HBO Turning ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Into Series Pilot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Annette Bening, Celine Rattray, HBO, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has made a deal to develop  the Oscar-nominated comedy The Kids Are All Right as an hour-long series. Lisa Cholodenko, who co-wrote and directed the Focus Features release, will write the pilot script. I’m told that it will … Read More »

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Matt Dillon Set For Indie Comedy ‘Imogene’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 9, 2011 @ 7:57am PDTTags: Annette Bening, Brendan Fraser, Celine Rattray, Charlie Matthau, Christian Slater, Crispin Glover, Elmore Leonard, Film Casting, Imogene, Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon, Maven Pictures, Michelle Morgan, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Trudie Styler, William H. Macy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Dillon has been set to co-star in Imogene, joining Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening in the indie comedy that started shooting this week in New York. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are directing, and Trudie Styler and … Read More »

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OSCARS: Tom Sherak Wins Third Term As Academy President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 9:01pm PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Annette Bening, Hawk Koch, John Lasseter, Phil Robinson, Tom Sherak
Mike Fleming

Beverly Hills, CA – Tom Sherak was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight (August 2) by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be his third consecutive one-year term in the office. Sherak is beginning his ninth year as a governor representing the Executives Branch. He had previously also served as treasurer for the Academy. In addition, Producers Branch governor Hawk Koch was elected first vice president; Executives Branch governor Robert Rehme was elected to one vice president post and Writers Branch governor Phil Robinson was re-elected to the other vice president post; Short Films and Feature Animation Branch governor John Lasseter was elected treasurer; and Actors Branch governor Annette Bening was re-elected secretary.

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Annette Bening Joins Kristen Wiig In ‘Imogene’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 11:47am PDTTags: Annette Bening, Celine Rattray, Imogene, Kristen Wiig, Michelle Morgan, Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Steve Golin, Trudie Styler
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening has signed on to star with Kristen Wiig in Imogene for  American Splendor helmers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Shooting starts in late summer. Wiig plays a moderately successful Gotham playwright who stages a fake suicide … Read More »

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Warren Beatty Playing Howard Hughes, Great Cast Circling

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 4:19pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Andrew Garfield, Annette Bening, David Fincher, Evan Rachel Wood, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures, Rooney Mara, Shia la Beouf, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not … Read More »

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MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY SHOCKER! EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENE DETAILS: Indie Queen Dawn Hudson Named CEO; Insider Ric Robertson Passed Over; Board Of Governors Was Deadlocked

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 7, 2011 @ 11:59pm PDTTags: Annette Bening

THURSDAY 11:59 PM BREAKING NEWS… 2ND UPDATE WITH MORE EXCLUSIVE DETAILS… FRIDAY 2 AM WRITETHRU: This is a huge surprise: not just that Film Independent czarina Dawn Hudson was chosen as the new CEO by the uber-establishment Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Board Of Governors. But also that AMPAS insider Ric Robertson, who thought he was a shoo-in for the job to replace retiring executive director Bruce Davis, was passed over and now has to report to someone else again. I’d been hearing for weeks ever since the most recent and wretched Oscars that certain board members wanted an outsider to tranfuse anemic AMPAS with fresh blood in the form of an experienced film executive with new ideas. That’s certainly Hudson “who not only brings tremendous credibility but turned the Spirit Awards from basically nothing to the terrific event it is today,” one insider just told me. “AMPAS almost always promoted from within. But the Board was just so impressed with Dawn.” 

So here’s what happened, according to my insiders: Tonight the Board Of Governors had “the” meeting to vote on a new top executive to run the Academy. The Board last Thursday also met in secret and that was supposed to be the deciding confab. But it wasn’t. The reason is that there were two factions on the Board — one wanting to keep the status quo, the other wanting a clean sweep. 

“There was some feeling to keep Bruce Davis’s deputy Ric Robertson who assumed the job was his. But that would have been a continuation of the old line, etc. And the Academy Board realized they couldn’t do business as usual anymore,” another insider gives me the scoop. “Tom Sherak, Annette Bening, Jim Brooks, Sid Ganis liked Dawn Hudson a lot. She talked about the creative side of movies, her involvement with filmmakers, the academy’s need to shape an updated identity. And that disasterous [Oscar] show helped her because they realized fresh blood was needed.” Read More »

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Hammond At The Oscars & Governors Ball

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday February 28, 2011 @ 1:26pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Winners, Academy Awards, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Annette Bening, Biutiful, David Fincher, David O. Russell, In A Better World, Movies, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, Scott Rudin, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3
Pete Hammond

Before I focus on last night’s 83rd Academy Award winners, let me describe my conversations with the “losers”, only some of whom seemed to take the news in stride. Clearly, The Social Network filmmakers were licking their wounds. To the point that hands-on producer … Read More »

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OSCAR: Annette Bening Q&A

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday February 10, 2011 @ 5:24pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Annette Bening, Annette Bening Q&A, Julianne Moore, Lisa Cholodenko, Movies, Oscar Best Actress Category, Oscars, The Kids Are All Right
Pete Hammond

Few actresses have the chops to alternate between comedy and drama like 52-year-old Annette Bening. Hollywood really took notice of her in The Grifters which resulted in the first of what would be four career Oscar nominations including … Read More »

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Voltage Behind Rob Reiner’s ‘The Third Act’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 10, 2011 @ 10:03am PSTTags: Annette Bening, Morgan Freeman, Movie Deals, Movies, Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures, Voltage Pictures
Mike Fleming

Voltage Pictures  will finance and sell the international rights for director Rob Reiner’s (The Bucket List, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me…) next project, The Third Act. The picture is scheduled to start principal photography in May and stars Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman

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OSCAR: Hammond Polls Academy Voters

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 8:36pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Academy Awards Voters, Annette Bening, Black Swan, David Fincher, Inception, Javier Bardem, Movies, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network
Pete Hammond

With ballots out and not due back until 5 PM on February 22nd, I decided to talk to a sampling of Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences voters directly to see how they’re picking their winners. By doing this very unscientific survey … Read More »

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Oscars Add Best Actress Candidate Annette Bening As Presenter

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 11:24am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Presenters, Academy Awards, Annette Bening, Oscars, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

Beverly Hills, CA – Academy Award®-nominated actress Annette Bening will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

Bening, who is an Academy governor, recently received her fourth Oscar® nomination, for her leading role in “The Kids Are All Right.”

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Golden Globes Winners List: ‘The Social Network,’ Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, David Fincher…

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 7:33pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Boardwalk Empire, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Glee, Golden Globes, Jane Lynch, Jim Parsons, Laura Linney, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Steve Buscemi, The Big Bang Theory, The Big C, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, Trent Reznor

Ricky Gervais Assesses His Golden Globes Performance
Check out Nikki’s live-snarking from the event…
And here are the night’s big winners:

BEST PICTURE, DRAMA
The Social Network

BEST PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
The Kids Are All Right

ACTOR, DRAMA
Colin Firth – … Read More »

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More Films Put On iTunes For SAG Voters

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 14, 2011 @ 12:47pm PSTTags: Annette Bening, Focus Features, iTunes, Mark Ruffalo, SAG Award Voting, SAG Awards, SAG Awards iTunes, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Paramount press release for The Fighter on iTunes below. Right below is Focus’ release, issued after Deadline broke the story.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Focus Features has made a deal with iTunes that will allow SAG members to view its awards season candidate, The Kids Are All Right … Read More »

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