Rachel Weisz Makes Directorial Debut at T.O. Festival

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Source: CTV Toronto North America’s largest short film festival, the Canada Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, will feature the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress, Rachel Weisz. New films from directors Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Neil LaBute are also on this year’s lineup, which runs from May 31 to June 5, and includes 275 shorts from 36 countries. A-listers such as Colin Firth, Anthony Hopkins, Keira Knightley and Jeremy Irons are also among [...]

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz Secretly Wed

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Source: People After a short, quiet courtship, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have pulled off a near-impossibility in Hollywood: A secret wedding! A rep for Weisz confirms to PEOPLE that the actress has wed the James Bond actor. As the Daily Mail first reported, the couple married in front of just four people in New York last Wednesday. The lucky guests? Daniel’s daughter Ella, 18, and Weisz’s son Henry, 4, and two friends, the Mail [...]

The Whistleblower release date

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THE WHISTLEBLOWER will be released August 5th, 2011. Plot: Kathryn Bolkovac is a Nebraska cop who is thrust into the gravelly snake pit of UN regulated Bosnia. She works as part of a private corporate army, training Bosnian police to restore order to the war-torn country. As she begins to get the lay of the land in her new environment, she starts to see signs of a terrible underground industry whose patrons are not only [...]

Hollywood outsider calls the shots

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald … What is more, Malick has supposedly already finished shooting his next project, tentatively entitled The Burial, with Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Javier Bardem in key roles. At his current work rate we can expect to feast our eyes on that one some time about 2017. Partly because of his devotion to a meticulous, artisanal approach to filmmaking, and partly because of the sheer secrecy that shrouds his [...]

Six get Tribeca Sloan grants

Source: Variety A slate of six science-centric, in-the-works pics have been selected to receive grants from the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund, including one produced by Darren Aronofsky and Rachel Weisz. The grant program from TFI, the nonprofit affiliated with the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation hands out coin to narrative film projects that dramatize science or tech issues, or feature scientists in central roles. Aronofsky, Weisz and fellow producer [...]

Jude Law to star in new Meirelles movie 360

Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca Hollywood star Jude Law is in the Austrian capital to shoot scenes for a new movie titled 360, directed by Fernando Meirelles. The English actor, looking tanned and dressed in a dark shirt and light cap, posed for a pack of reporters at a hotel Tuesday alongside some of his co-stars, including German actor Moritz Bleibtreu and Austria’s Johannes Krisch. Screenwriter Peter Morgan said 360 encompasses a “chain reaction of events” which start [...]

Tons Of Details From Terrence Malick’s Next

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Source: Cinema Blend Best known as the director of The Thin Red Line and more recently The New World, Terrence Malick generally keeps to himself and keeps information about his movies with him. The long time director recently wrapped up production on his next film, tentatively titled The Burial, and The Wrap has got rare details about the film’s plot. And when I say details, I mean some serious details. It’s not often that you [...]

Filming The Deep Blue Sea

Source: JustJared Rachel Weisz wears a bright red trench coat as she films scenes for her new movie, The Deep Blue Sea, on Tuesday (November 23) in London, England. The 40-year-old actress filmed scenes with co-star Tom Hiddleston in front of a residential building. The Deep Blue Sea is about the love affair between a Royal Air Force pilot and the wife of a British judge – and the destruction that comes with their adultery.

Newly single actress Rachel Weisz puts some comedy back in her life with a cameo on The Simpsons

Source: Dailymail.co.uk What better way to jazz up a serious acting career than to appear on an episode of The Simpsons. British born actress Rachel Weisz appeared on last night’s new episode of the show playing the role of a quirky and slightly deranged family therapist. The 40-year-old who rose to fame alongside Brandon Fraizer in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, recently split from her director partner of nine years Darren Aronofsky. In the [...]

Rachel Weisz takes a jump in ‘The Deep Blue Sea’

Source: Hollywoodreporter Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale also are starring in the story of a privileged housewife in 1950s London society who leaves her husband for a young ex-RAF pilot. Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Olivier Award-winning actor Simon Russell Bealeare plunging into Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea. The movie, being sold at AFM by Protagonist Pictures, is scheduled to shoot in and around London for five weeks starting this month. An adaptation by Davies [...]