Meryl Streep’s ‘Osage County’ and Nicole Kidman’s ‘Grace’ move dates
“Saturday Night Live” alumnus Will Forte stops off at the Cinefamily Theatre in Los Angeles as he promotes his new movie, “Nebraska,” with with Bruce Dern.
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)Hugh Hefner, who founded Playboy in 1953 and turned it into a multimedia empire, remains the magazine’s editor in chief.
(Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times)Actor Vin Diesel is the producer and star of the sci-fi thriller “Riddick.”
(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)Director Guillermo del Toro, in the mixing studio at Warner Bros. in Burbank, has a new movie coming out called “Pacific Rim,” a shot of which is on in the background, about an alien attack threatening the Earth’s existence. Giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace.
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)It may be only the start of summer, but the jockeying for position in Hollywood’s end-of-year awards derby is already well under way.
The Weinstein Co. has moved the release dates of two of its hopefuls. “August: Osage County” is being pushed back to Christmas Day from its previous date of Nov. 7, while “Grace of Monaco,” starring Nicole Kidman as actress-turned-royalty Grace Kelly, will come forward from Dec. 27 to Nov. 27.
Directed by John Wells, “August” is adapted by Tracey Letts from his own play and features a heavyweight, hardware-hungry cast of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper and Benedict Cumberbatch. The original Broadway production of the family drama picked up a Pulitzer Prize as well as a raft of Tony and Drama Desk awards.
“Grace” is directed by French filmmaker Olivier Dahan, who helmed Marion Cottilard to an Oscar as Edith Piaf in ‘La Vie en Rose” but stumbled with his little-seen follow up, the Rene Zellweger-starring “My Own Love Song.”
Here’s the trailer for “August: Osage County.”
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Poster and Trailer with Shailene Woodley in ‘The Spectacular Now’\
‘The Bling Ring’ and the new American Dream
‘The Spectacular Now’ director James Ponsoldt to adapt ‘Pippin’
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