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‘My Week With Marilyn’ Moving To Thanksgiving Weekend

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 5:23pm PDTTags: Against the Wall Pilot, Eddie Redmayne, Film Release Date, George Clooney, Harvey Weinstein, Kenneth Branagh, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis, Sir Laurence Olivier
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EXCLUSIVE: Emboldened by the critical reaction that the Simon Curtis-directed My Week With Marilyn received in its New York Film Festival debut, The Weinstein Company has moved the film from November 4 to November 23, placing it smack into the Thanksgiving holiday fray. The film received strong reviews, particularly for Michelle Williams’ portrayal of Marilyn Monroe, Kenneth Branagh’s turn as Sir Laurence Olivier, Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller, and Eddie Redmayne’s performance as the production assistant who gets Monroe to drop her suffocating star persona as he shows her a good time in Britain. TWC’s hope is that the film will be commercial enough to play through the year’s end and build momentum into Golden Globes and beyond. Just as Fox Searchlight is expected to have two contributions to the Best Actor category with Shame‘s Michael Fassbender and The Descendants’ George Clooney, Harvey Weinstein seems poised to have dual aspirants for Best Actress with Williams and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, a film we’ve yet to see.

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More Festival Intrigue: ‘My Week With Marilyn’ Added To Hamptons Film Festival

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 8:42am PDTTags: Dougray Scott, Eddie Redmayne, Harvey Weinstein, Kenneth Branagh, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Sir Laurence Olivier
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a rousing response to the New York Film Festival premiere of My Week with Marilyn last Sunday, The Weinstein Company has added the film to this weekend’s Hamptons International Film Festival. My Week With Marilyn will screen … Read More »

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