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Post by tim on Dec 10, 2010 6:02:15 GMT -5
www.showbiz411.com/2010/12/08/pierce-brosnan-kelsey-grammer-will-join-sarah-jessica-parker-filmExclusive: Sarah Jessica Parker‘s next feature film is shaping up nicely. SJP starts shooting “I Don’t Know How She Does It” in mid January, with Douglas McGrath directing. McGrath is the congenial man behind the “other” Truman Capote movie, called “Infamous” (well worth renting), “Nicholas Nickelby,” and “Emma” with Gwyneth Paltrow. Now I’m told that Pierce Brosnan has signed on to the Weinstein Company feature as SJP’s love interest. Also being made an offer this week–and likely to accept–Kelsey Grammer. Kelsey is wrapping up a long run on Broadway in “La Cage Aux Folles,” and ready for a new challenge. I’m told that TWC’s Donna Gigliotti ran into him in the last few days and literally told him he was coming to work. She wants him! For Parker, this film will set the tone for her post- “Sex and the City” career. Her past tries–”Family Stone,” “Failure to Launch”– fell a little short, But there’s no reason why she’s not a movie star of smart romantic comedies.
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Post by Ace on Dec 17, 2010 21:20:22 GMT -5
latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/12/pierce-brosnan-olivia-munn-sarah-jessica-parker-christina-hendricks.htmlWith new role, Christina Hendricks looks to go from Madison Avenue to Wall Street December 17, 2010 | 5:44 pm EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Jessica Parker's movie version of "I Don't Know How She Does It," which book readers will know as Allison Pearson's British literary phenomenon, is rounding out an intriguing cast with a trio of actors television made popular. Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn and SNL's Seth Meyers are poised to join the film, according to a person close to the production. The movie is based on Pearson's first-person comic tale of a high-powered finance type (Parker) who's also the mother of two young children and trying to balance the many competing elements in her life. Hendricks, who is in final negotiations for the part and will play a friend of Parker's character, is best known for her role as office-manager Joan Holloway on "Mad Men." the actress perhaps most often referred to as voluptuous also had a supporting part in the recent romantic comedy "Life as We Know It." Munn, who'll play a colleague of Parker's character, is the colorful media personality from G4's "Attack of the Show" and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" who's been making a move into film acting (she had a role in the recent "Iron Man 2"). She's also a huge Twitter sensation. Meyers is, well, you know who Seth Meyers is. The casting of Hendricks and Munn, both extremely popular with men, broadens the film's target audience beyond the traditional romantic-comedy base. Earlier reports that Pierce Brosnan and Kelsey Grammer are joining the film also have now been confirmed; both have closed their deals, according to the person close to the production. A Weinstein Co. rep could not immediately be reached for comment. The Weinstein Co. film, which is being directed by Doug McGrath (the Truman Capote movie "Infamous") is set to start shooting in January. -- Steven Zeitchik
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Post by Ace on Dec 18, 2010 16:10:22 GMT -5
Synopsis of novel Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kate’s life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. She lies to her own mother about how much time she spends with her kids; practices pelvic floor squeezes in the boardroom; applies tips from Toddler Taming to soothe her irascible boss; uses her cell phone in the office bathroom to procure a hamster for her daughter’s birthday (“Any working mother who says she doesn’t bribe her kids can add Liar to her résumé”); and cries into the laundry hamper when she misses her children’s bedtime. www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-How-She-Does/dp/0375713751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292706473&sr=8-1Amazon.com Review Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics: The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is. There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer -- From Publishers Weekly This scintillating first novel has already taken its author's native England by storm, and in the tradition of Bridget Jones, to which it is likely to be compared, will almost certainly do the same here. The Bridget comparison has only limited validity, however: both books have a winning female protagonist speaking in a diary-like first person, and both have quirkily formulaic chapter endings. But Kate is notably brighter, wittier and capable of infinitely deeper shadings of feeling than the flighty Bridget, and her book cuts deeper. She is the mother of a five-year-old girl and a year-old boy, living in a trendy North London house with her lower-earning architect husband, and is a star at her work in an aggressive City of London brokerage firm. She is intoxicated by her jet-setting, high-profile job, but also is desperately aware of what it takes out of her life as a mother and wife, and scrutinizes, with high intelligence and humor, just how far women have really come in the work world. If that makes the book sound polemical, it is anything but. It is delightfully fast moving and breathlessly readable, with dozens of laugh-aloud moments and many tenderly touching ones-and, for once in a book of this kind, there are some admirable men as well as plenty of bounders. Toward the end-to which a reader is reluctant to come-it becomes a little plot-bound, and everything is rounded off a shade too neatly. But as a hilarious and sometimes poignant update on contemporary women in the workplace, it's the book to beat. --- Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Post by Ace on Jan 2, 2011 15:45:48 GMT -5
According to the casting calls, the shooting schedule for “I Don’t Know How She Does It” is 1/17/11 thru 3/31/11. N.Y.C.
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Post by formermi6agent on Jan 10, 2011 11:59:54 GMT -5
I hope this movie is good enough to get Oscar nominations.
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 16, 2011 4:51:22 GMT -5
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Post by formermi6agent on Jan 16, 2011 13:32:01 GMT -5
How big would this movie be?
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Post by Ace on Jan 18, 2011 17:16:16 GMT -5
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 21, 2011 14:14:32 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Jan 21, 2011 15:39:43 GMT -5
Hmmm, I wonder who Pierce is playing? The role of the stay at home husband didn't sound like a part for him but I haven't read the book so I don't know the main players. www.movieweb.com/news/greg-kinnear-and-jane-curtin-join-i-dont-know-how-she-does-itGreg Kinnear and Jane Curtin Join I Don't Know How She Does It Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin have been added to the cast of The Weinstein Company's I Don't Know How She Does It, starring previously announced Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan. In this comedy of a working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job, Kinnear will play Parker's husband and Curtin will be Kinnear's mother, Parker's mother-in-law. Currently filming in New York, I Don't Know How She Does It is directed by Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous), produced by Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare in Love, Let Me In) and executive produced by Scott Ferguson and Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada), who is also the screenwriter. I Don't Know How She Does It is based on the best-selling novel by Allison Pearson, which received rave reviews upon its publication by Alfred A. Knopf in 2002. The New York Times described it as "fast, funny, and heartbreaking," and Oprah Winfrey called it "the national anthem for working mothers." "I'm so pleased with the wonderful cast that's been assembled," says Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company. "They will bring to life Allison Pearson's funny, honest and moving characters." I Don't Know How She Does It is being readied by The Weinstein Company for release in Spring 2012. I Don't Know How She Does It comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Jane Curtin. The film is directed by Douglas McGrath.
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 21, 2011 15:45:54 GMT -5
ive been wondering the same... Any ideas when hes due on set?
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Post by Ace on Jan 21, 2011 15:51:13 GMT -5
He and Kinnear will probably be in Sundance this week promoting their films. That was probably built into the schedule so no sooner than the week after that.
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 21, 2011 16:05:33 GMT -5
Thanks ace, thats great! cant wait for salavation boulevard also!
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Post by formermi6agent on Jan 21, 2011 17:12:17 GMT -5
Thanks ace, thats great! cant wait for salavation boulevard also! Let's hope both this and I Don't Know How She Does It get attention from the Oscars. It would be an insult and a crime if none of Pierce's upcoming works doesn't get nominated by the Oscars.
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 21, 2011 18:26:48 GMT -5
The best actors never get recognition, He should of been up in every "supporting actor" Category this year, for "the ghost writer" It was critically acclaimed yet although he has had a few awards nominations, The globes and baftas were just plain silly, and I'd love for an Oscar nom next week.. But as I say the best actors seem to get left aside.
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Post by steeleicycalm on Jan 22, 2011 16:46:17 GMT -5
Pierce has been spotted in manhattan today and at in Whitney museum of American art, according to various posts from people on twitter... I thought id post it here as "i dont know how she does it" is being filmed in manhattan...
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Post by formermi6agent on Jan 22, 2011 17:29:33 GMT -5
The best actors never get recognition, He should of been up in every "supporting actor" Category this year, for "the ghost writer" It was critically acclaimed yet although he has had a few awards nominations, The globes and baftas were just plain silly, and I'd love for an Oscar nom next week.. But as I say the best actors seem to get left aside. None of Pierce works got nominated by the Oscars since 1998's The Quest For Camelot, which was for Best Song. Like I said, it's not only unfair and injustice but also an insult and a crime just to leave it like this. After Bond, Pierce has proven himself to be the one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, and he should get the recognition from the Academy.
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Post by sandy1 on Jan 23, 2011 3:50:18 GMT -5
It seems that PB really likes doing movies with Greg Kinnear --- or maybe they have the same agent so they are often offered parts in the same projects. Also, this is the second time with SJP and Hendricks (if you count that Bond Visa commercial back in the 90's).
Hopefully, it will be successful. SJP didn't do that well with her last rom-com (the one with Hugh Grant). I wonder which part PB will play.
That Michelle Pfeiffer project sounds promising, but it seems that it's dead in the water(?).
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Post by formermi6agent on Jan 23, 2011 12:21:07 GMT -5
It seems that PB really likes doing movies with Greg Kinnear --- or maybe they have the same agent so they are often offered parts in the same projects. Also, this is the second time with SJP and Hendricks (if you count that Bond Visa commercial back in the 90's). Hopefully, it will be successful. SJP didn't do that well with her last rom-com (the one with Hugh Grant). I wonder which part PB will play. That Michelle Pfeiffer project sounds promising, but it seems that it's dead in the water(?). I hope Pierce plays the leading role, and I hope this movie is good enough to get Oscar nominations. The Academy really needs to recognize Pierce's work from now on.
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Post by Ace on Jan 23, 2011 16:49:24 GMT -5
Hmm, interesting about Pierce being at the Whitney - I'd have thought he was at Sundance but the Premiere isn't until tomorrow so he still has time fly out.
Sadly, How To Make Love Like An Englishman was supposed to start filming this January but looks have been put on hold by the ll too early death of the director Hickenlooper. This film looks like what he filled his schedule with instead.
It's based on Chick Lit, SJP is the lead character and it's not the kind of film that's Oscar bait for anyone even if it is a Weinstein production..
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