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Weisz brilliantly succeeds in a role that was originated by Jessica Tandy on Broadway in 1947 and played in 1949 in the West End by Vivien Leigh, who went on to win her second Oscar for the Elia Kazan movie version opposite Marlon Brando.

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Rachel Weisz gives a ‘mesmerising’ performance as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.