It was time for a change since the dark look was just abit too dark. The images used on the layout are from the Parade Magazine photoshoot.
You can read the article Rachel Weisz, Ready To Try Anything at the Parade site.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
She sounds like any other working mother who takes her Oscar-winning self around the globe with her toddler to film movies.
Rachel Weisz — mom to toddler Henry Chance Aronofsky — says that making “The Brothers Bloom” wasn’t just a film experience for her.
It was also a major life moment.
“We filmed in Prague and Romania like a traveling circus moving from country to country,” Weisz says. “My son was with me and he was tiny. Just nine months. One day we woke up and he decided to learn to walk in Belgrade.”
That was an expensive long-distance call home to Dad.
“He’s a seasoned travelers now with international memories in his baby book,” Weisz says with a laugh.
How is it to roam Europe with someone entering his terrible twos? “It was definitely ambitious,” Weisz says. “But you know what? My baby is a seasoned traveler now. Anyway, I think kids are fine as long as their moms or dads are there.”
The 36-year-old lives in New York City with director Darren Aronofsky when she’s not filming movies. “The Brothers Bloom,” now in its opening weekend, stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as the best con men in the world. They swindle millionaires with complex scenarios. Now they have one last job, which is showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress love, romance and adventure … for a price.
Weisz plays poor little rich girl Penelope, who has been raised in an isolated way, meets the Brothers Bloom and falls in love. Continue Reading.
Source: Variety
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson will star in the period drama “Unbound Captives,” with Madeleine Stowe making her directorial debut from a script she wrote.Gil Netter and Grant Hill will produce with Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment. They are eyeing a year-end production start.
Though Stowe’s a newcomer behind the camera, getting the job and landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars for the script in 1993. Under pseudonym O.C. Humphrey, Stowe teamed with her husband, actor Brian Benben, to write “Unbound Captives” as a star vehicle for herself.
She would have played a woman (now to be played by Weisz) whose husband is killed and her two children kidnapped by a Comanche war party in 1859. She is rescued by a frontiersman, to be played by Jackman. Pattinson will play the son.
Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star. She turned down what was among the highest sums offered a first-time scribe because there was no promise she would be anything more than screenwriter.
Stowe, who has never publicly spoken about her decision, said she can still remember the surreal moment of turning down all that money over the phone while staring in disbelief at her husband.
“There was never a moment’s hesitation on my part, but it felt unreal, and I can remember my husband putting a finger across his neck to signal not to take the offer,” Stowe said. “There are moments in life where you need to follow your heart. The script remained my singular focus, but directing it myself wasn’t something I ever dreamed of.”
The idea came from Netter as she spent years honing the script and visualizing every scene.
“Gil made me realize it when he said there isn’t anyone who’s going to make the movie you want to make,” said Stowe, who then faced the painful task of finding an actress for a role that was once worth $5 million to her.
“I saw three actresses, and knew after meeting with Rachel that she was the person I wanted to hand this role to,” she said. “Robert said yes last fall, before everything broke with ‘Twilight.’ Hugh said yes a couple of weeks ago.”
Amritraj sparked to the idea of Stowe directing; she’ll be helped by an experienced cinematographer in John Toll, who shot epics “Braveheart” and “The Last Samurai.”
Hyde Park Intl. will sell offshore territories at Cannes, and Endeavor Independent, which packaged the pic, will sell North American distribution rights.
Jackman, fresh from “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” is formulating a sequel to that film for Fox. Weisz next stars in the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lovely Bones” for Paramount, and Pattinson is reprising his role as Edward in the “Twilight” sequel “New Moon” for Summit.
In: Project News
13 May 20091. I have added new promotional images and trailer screencaptures to the gallery, just click on the images below for the full set of photos.
2. Websites for the film has been launched at: www.agoralapelicula.com and www.agorathemovie.com, remember to drop by for updates.
3. Last but not least the teaser trailer for the film:
In: Alerts| Rachel Weisz News
13 May 2009
Rachel graces the cover of May 2009 issue of The Black Book Magazine. The magazine can be found at your local newstands and as soon as I get my hands on an issue I will be adding scans to the gallery.
I have added new appearance photos to the gallery, just click on the links below for the full set of photos.
In: Project News
13 May 2009Source: Rope of Silicon
The Hollywood Reporter brings the first word of casting out of Cannes saying Rachel Weisz is “loosely” attached to play MGM icon Hedy Lamarr in Amy Redford’s indie feature Face Value.
THR’s Steven Zeitchik says the film centers on the Austrian-American actress who garnered fame in the 1940s for her luminous screen presence, most famously for playing Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. The film will focus on Lamarr’s eccentric life, particularly her less-publicized second career as a scientist.
As a scientist, Lamarr helped create a method of changing frequencies — known as frequency-hopping — that became a forerunner to modern wireless communications. That pursuit will be the primary subject of Redford’s film, which was written by Jose Rivera and Gretchen Somerfeld.
The notion Weisz is loosely attached and the note in Zeitchik’s article saying Charlize Theron’s name was at one time in connection with the part, leads me to believe this isn’t a done deal of any sort.
Weisz will be seen in limited theaters this week in Summit’s The Brothers Bloom and will be seen for the first time in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora at Cannes, a film in which she plays the legendary astronomer Hypatia, trapped in the legendary Library of Alexandria, and her fight to save the old world’s wisdom from the religious riots sweeping the streets of Alexandria.
She will also be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and was recently cast in The Whistleblower for Larysa Kondracki. That film is based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, who traveled to Bosnia in 1999 as a U.N. peacekeeper. The story chronicles the trials of a female cop (Weisz) from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal. Weisz will obviously be playing the female cop.
In: Project News
8 Mar 2009Source: Variety
The AFI Dallas Film Festival has set Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom,” starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi, as its opening-night feature on March 26.
Fest’s centerpiece presentations are “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly, David Morse and Guy Pearce, and “The Burning Plain,” directed by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger.
The eight-day festival is in its third year.
Event’s Dallas Star Award will go to Bigelow, Brody and Robert Towne. Rita Hayworth will be honored posthumously. Hayworth’s award will be presented to her daughter, Princess Yasmine Aga Khan, prior to a screening of “Gilda,” while Towne will be feted at a presentation for the 35th anniversary of “Chinatown.”
The festival’s also celebrating director Henry Selick with the Texas Avery Animation Award, which honors lifetime achievement in animation.
The Lovely Bones 2009
Rachel: Abigail Salmon
Released: December 11
Information: Official
Agora 2009
Rachel: Hypatia
Released: December 19
Information: Official
Dirt Music 2009
Rachel: Georgie Jutland
Status: pre-production
Face Value 2010
Rachel: Hedy Lamarr
Status: Announced
Unbound Captives 2010
Rachel: Unknown
Status: Announced
The Colossus 0000
Rachel: Olive Schreiner
Status: pre-production