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Cannes Unveils Poster For 66th Edition Featuring Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday March 22, 2013 @ 3:58am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman

The Cannes Film Festival takes great pride in unveiling the official poster each year and has increasingly relied on iconic images to set the tone for the event. For 2012′s 65th edition, Marilyn Monroe blew out a candle on a birthday cake; the year before it was Faye Dunaway shot by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970 when they made Puzzle Of A Downfall Child, and in 2009 Monica Vitti was spotted from behind in a scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura. This year, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman — “a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other” — grace the affiche officielle. The shot was taken in 1963 during the filming of Melville Shavelson’s A New Kind Of Love. “It is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favored co-star,” the festival said. Both Woodward and Newman were in Cannes in 1958, the year they got married, for the official competition selection of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. Newman’s directorial efforts in which Woodward starred, The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (1973) and The Glass Menagerie (1987), were also both in competition. Paris-based The Bronx agency is responsible for all the graphics of the 2013 festival which runs May 15-26.

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Toni Collette Filming Paul Newman’s Final Pic ‘Lucky Them’

By JEN YAMATO | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 10:04am PSTTags: Joanne Woodward, Lucky Them, Paul Newman, Toni Collette

Toni Collette Lucky ThemOliver Platt, 90210‘s Ryan Eggold and The Help‘s Ahna O’Reilly have joined Toni Collette in Lucky Them, the film that Paul Newman was working on when he passed away in 2008. The “un-romantic comedy” about a female rock journalist on assignment to hunt down her musician ex-boyfriend began filming in Seattle last weekend on Newman’s birthday — January 26th. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward signed on to executive produce the picture last year to help its cause. Thomas Haden Church plays the elusive ex, with Platt, Eggold and O’Reilly rounding out the supporting cast.
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‘Mud’: Did Cannes Save One Of The Best For Last? McConaughey, Witherspoon Speak Up

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday May 26, 2012 @ 7:16am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cannes Film Festival, Matthew McConaughey, Mud, Paul Newman, Reese Witherspoon
Pete Hammond

Judging from the bad buzz that has haunted it since a 2PM buyers screening on May 16, the first day of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, you might have thought FilmNation’s and Everest Entertainment’s  Mud was as appealing at its … Read More »

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Joanne Woodward Presses On With Paul Newman’s Final Film Project ‘Lucky Them’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 1:20pm PSTTags: Paul Newman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Joanne Woodward has become executive producer on Lucky Them, a film that was begun by her late husband, movie immortal Paul Newman, before he passed away in 2008. Woodward has Marisa Tomei, Thomas Haden Church and Allison Janney attached to star. Scripted by Huck Botko and Emily Wachtel and to be directed by Botko (he co-wrote The Last Exorcism and co-directed The Virginity Hit), the film is about a fortysomething rock journalist who gets an assignment to find her ex-boyfriend. It’s a late bloomers coming-of-age quirky romantic comedy, and a semi-autobiographical tale about the writer’s life in NYC, dating musicians and finding herself when most of her friends have settled down. Read More »

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‘Warrior’ Co-Writer Lands Book Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 8:42am PSTTags: Anthony Tambakis, Gavin O'Connor, Jackie Gleason, Paul Newman, Renee Zellweger, Tom Hardy, Walter Tevis, Warrior
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Tambakis, who teamed with Gavin O’Connor and Cliff Dorfman to write the underrated film Warrior, has sold his novel Swimming With Bridgeport Girls to Simon & Schuster for spring 2013 publication. This comes at a time when Tambakis … Read More »

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Warner Bros, Joel Silver Revive Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer Novel Series With ‘The Galton Case’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 9:54am PDTTags: Alex Heineman, Andrew Rona, Joel Silver, Paul Newman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros acquired rights to the Ross Macdonald mystery series about private detective Lew Archer. The studio will launch a franchise, starting with the 1959 novel The Galton Case, which was the eighth book in the series. Paul Newman … Read More »

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‘Warrior’ Director Gavin O’Connor Takes On ‘The Samurai’ And Stage Version Of ‘The Hustler’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 11:11am PDTTags: Jackie Gleason, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Paul Newman, Renee Zellweger, Tom Hardy, Walter Tevis
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: In a high-six-figure deal, Warner Bros has acquired The Samurai, a spec script that will be the next film directed by Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor. The intention is to get it into production quickly, because O’Connor is also working … Read More »

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