May
31, 2004
Christina Ricci is one of the five young stars featured in Louis Vuitton’s
fall-winter ad campaign.
WWD.Com (Women's Wear Daily)
Vuitton Campaign Channels Hollywood
By
Miles Socha
PARIS — Marc Jacobs is fast becoming a savvy casting director —
thanks to Louis Vuitton’s new penchant for celebrity advertising.
..........
One
of the most dramatic moments of the shoot came afterward, when Ricci agreed
to do additional poses for campaign stylist Katie Grand, who is also editor
in chief of Pop magazine and will feature Ricci in an upcoming issue.
For that shoot, Ricci played three different characters, and for a “Dangerous
Liaisons” type, suddenly burst into tears, smearing her makeup dramatically.
“They
were all such good models, we almost forgot these people are actors,”
Jacobs said. “[Ricci] put on this performance, which was just so
compelling.”
Read the entire article:
http://www.wwd.com/
Michael
Rosenbaum talks 'Cursed' version 2:
Rosenbaum
revealed that Craven contacted him through his manager. "My manager
sent me a letter from Wes," he said. "It just said, 'Michael,
I enjoy your work. I hope you'll be interested in playing this role.'
And I said, 'I'll do it.' My manager said, 'Would you like to read the
script?' I said, 'No. Wes Craven just asked me to do a role. I'm going
to do it.' It was great. He's great."
Craven, the actor said, enjoyed his many impressions of famous actors
so much that he wanted to hear them at surprising times. "Everyone
always asks me to do Chris Walken and John Malkovich impressions, and
I like doing them, because I'm a ham," Rosenbaum added. "That's
all there is to it. But we were doing a serious scene, and I'm looking
at Christina Ricci, and I'm very intense. I say, 'Come on, we need to
get out of here.' And Wes goes, 'Now do it as Christopher Walken doing
the role.' So I go [in spot-on Walken voice], 'Come on, we need to get
out of here.' Everybody started laughing. It was fun. It keeps the set
light." Cursed will be unleashed on Oct. 1.
"Cursed"
no longer a slasher film !!!???
Greer—who is currently on view as Jennifer Garner's best friend
in the fantasy comedy film 13 Going on 30—added that the revised
werewolf-themed Cursed now has more heart than it did before. "The
first version had a lot more blood in it or a lot more action, but the
second version seems like it's more of a fable, like more of a [fairy]
tale," Greer said. "It seems to come from a more real place."
Greer said that each change seemed to push the film further away from
its original idea and eventually altered not only the shooting schedule,
but also the characters. "Everything kept getting changed, and it
got to the point where the movie was completely different," she said.
"In the first version, I played Scott Baio's assistant, and I was
in love with him. In the second version, I'm Scott Baio's publicist, and
I'm all business."
Greer said that a number of cast members' schedules simply could not be
accommodated, and they were eventually excised from the final film. "Because
they were having a hard time with the ending, they decided to take a little
break shooting the movie for a couple of weeks, and in that time a lot
of the actors—myself included—became unavailable." Greer
eventually wound up in the movie, but the actors who dropped out included
Omar Epps and Skeet Ulrich, who was replaced by Joshua Jackson.
Source
: http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/osborn/cursed2.htm
Terrorists
put the kibosh on "Adrenalynn"
Christina
Ricci told SCI FI Wire (right sidebar article) that her comic-book movie
'Adrenalynn' was backburnered out of concern that its terrorist-themed
plot was inappropriate in light of the Sept. 11 attacks, but that the
movie might be revived at a later date. "It's just a matter of revisiting
it, but I've been very busy and the other people involved have moved on,"
Ricci said in an interview.
Source : http://www.comics2film.com/FanFrame.php?f_id=4611
April
21, 2004
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. It's the 2004 MTV Movie Awards Nominees!
MTV Movie Awards Airs on June 10th at 9PM (ET/PT).
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company.
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NEW
YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- MTV: Music Television today announced
the nominees for the 2004 MTV MOVIE AWARDS. Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl tops this year's nominee list with six
nominations, 50 First Dates and X2: X-Men United are tied with four
nominations each. The star-studded thirteenth annual awards ceremony
will air on June 10th at 9PM (ET/PT). The winners will be revealed at
the 2004 MTV MOVIE AWARDS, which will be taped on June 5th at Sony Picture
Studios in Culver City, CA.
"Only at the MTV Movie Awards, will you see a category that pits
a veterinarian vs. a samurai vs. a swashbuckling pirate," said
Van Toffler, President, MTV/MTV2 and MTV Films. "In its thirteenth
year, all of our
nominees reflect the diverse taste of the MTV audience and this year's
show will be no exception with funny films and moments."
The nominees for the 2004 MTV MOVIE AWARDS are chosen through a national
poll of MTV and MTV2 viewers. The winners will be determined by MTV
and MTV2 viewers, and only Virgin Mobile USA customers will be able
to vote from the "MTV" area on their phone screens, found
under "VirginXtras." In addition, votes can be cast from April
21 through May 19 online by visiting MTV.com or by telephone at 900-868-1100
at 99 cents per call (must be 18 years or older to call).
Below
are the nominations for the 2004 MTV MOVIE AWARDS Best Kiss category :
BEST
KISS
Jim Carrey
& Jennifer Aniston - Bruce Almighty (Universal Pictures)
Keanu Reeves & Monica Bellucci - The Matrix: Reloaded (Warner Bros.)
Charlize Theron & Christina Ricci - Monster (Newmarket Film
Group)
Owen Wilson & Carmen Electra & Amy Smart - Starsky & Hutch
(Warner Bros.)
Shawn Ashmore & Anna Paquin - X2: X-Men United (20th Century Fox)
Read
much more at :
http://www.prnewswire.com/
http://www.eonline.com/News/
http://www.mtv.com/
April
15, 2004
Outfest Names Their Idols
Newmarket's Monster and HBO's Angels in America dominate this year's Outfest
Screen Idol Awards.
By Mark Umbach
FilmStew.com
http://www.filmstew.com/
Los
Angeles' Outfest, one of the largest gay and lesbian film festivals
in the world and the largest film festival in Southern California, announced
the winners of the Fourth annual Screen Idol Awards honoring the best
performances in gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered feature films
and made-for-television movies or miniseries. Each year Outfest hands
out four Screen Idol Awards - one each for Best Actor, Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Charlize
Theron won the accolades as Best Actress for her role in Monster. Theron
received numerous kudos for her performance in the film chronicling
the life of Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Her role won her an
Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and Independent Spirit Award,
as well as honors from several film festivals, among many others.
In the
supporting categories, Jeffrey Wright picked up the honor of Best Supporting
Actor for his work in Angels in America, while Christina Ricci
was recognized as Best Supporting Actress for her work opposite Theron
in Monster. Wright won the Golden Globe for his performance
in Angels and also earned a SAG Award nomination. This is the
first honor for Ricci for her role in Monster.
Read the entire article:
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Theron Wins for Screen Idol 'Monster' - Charlize Theron has done it
again.
LOS
ANGELES (Zap2it.com) / Wed, Apr 14, 2004, 09:04 AM PT
ZAP2it
http://www.zap2it.com/
The stunning South
African actress won Outfest's Screen Idol Award for best actress in
a leading role for her portrayal of true-life convicted serial killer
Aileen Wuornos in "Monster."
Also honored
for the best supporting actress is Theron's "Monster" co-star
Christina Ricci who played Selby, the impressionable runaway who depended
on Wuornos and became her lover.
Read
the entire article:
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---21211,00.html
April
14, 2004
Monster and Angels in America stars win Outfest's Screen Idol Awards
Advocate.com © 2004 by LPI Media Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.advocate.com/index.asp
The
stars of Monster and Angels in America were honored at the Screen Idol
Awards presented by Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
This year marks the fourth annual presentation of these awards for Best
Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress
in a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered role in a feature or made-for-television
film. Charlize Theron won for her leading role in Monster while her
costar, Christina Ricci, received the supporting actress award. Actors
in Angels in America garnered the other two awards, with Justin Kirk
and Jeffery Wright honored as lead and supporting actors, respectively.
Outfest members determined the nominations of actors and actresses during
the 2003 calendar year. The general public then chose the winners
by voting at Advocate.com.
Source:
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=12044&sd=04/14/04
March
31, 2004
WorldNetDaily
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
http://worldnetdaily.com/
The audience of a Hollywood awards show demonstrated their opinion of
President Bush when boos rang out in the hall each time his name was
mentioned during the ceremony.
Filling
the Kodak Theatre with sounds of disapproval turned into a game among
the participants of the 15th annual GLADD Awards on Saturday. The ceremony
is sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Many of
the celebrities in attendance relished the chance to slam Bush on the
issue of the day for the homosexual movement: same-sex marriage.
Arriving at the ceremony, Christina Ricci told USA Today she finds it
"offensive and disgusting" that homosexuals' desire to marry
has become politicized. She said she and her boyfriend, Adam Goldberg,
will "vote even more Democratic than we usually vote" this year.
Ricci co-starred as Oscar-winner Charlize Theron's lesbian lover in "Monster."
Source:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37819
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Film fest debuts sequel downtow
Screen performances focus of weeklong method acting
event, which kicks off Friday at local theaters.
Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/
DOWNTOWN
BURBANK — The film festival dedicated to the art of acting returns
to the city for its second year as big names and unknown faces will
show off their make-believe chops on the silver screen.
The
sixth annual Method Fest Independent Film Festival will run Friday through
April 9 at the AMC Media Center 8 Theatres. Organizers and city officials
anticipate more than 12,000 people will come to downtown Burbank to
watch 26 feature films and 47 shorts.
"Method
Fest is the only major festival that pays homage to actors," said
Don Franken, the festival's executive producer. "We do so because
we feel that great acting with strong stories makes memorable cinema."
The
festival is named for Konstantin Stanislavski's method acting —
a style that brings realism to the craft by having the actors immerse
themselves in their character at all times during filming. Such famous
actors as Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando and James Dean have used method
acting in their work.
Along
with the screenings, attendees will have access to workshops for adults
and children, panel discussions with actors and filmmakers, live music,
parties and award ceremonies.
The
festival attracted nearly 9,000 moviegoers last year, and attendance
for all festival events was about 12,500, according to a Burbank Redevelopment
Agency report. Of the festival's budget of more than $100,000, the city
has contributed $25,000 for such promotions as signs and special events.
"[City
officials] are excited about attracting new people to downtown Burbank
with events like this," said Gail Stewart, the agency's downtown
manager.
Film
submissions have nearly doubled this year, from about 300 to more than
500. In addition to independent films with unknown actors, a few of
the accepted films feature performances by such stars as Ian McKellen,
Christina Ricci and John Savage.
Rob
O'Malley, a Burbank resident who submitted the short "On the Run,"
said he is thrilled to screen his short in the "heart of where
movies are made."
"I
like this film fest for the sheer fact that it might help my career
out," said O'Malley, who produced, directed, wrote and starred
in the movie along with his 6-year-old son, Tyler. "No one in [the
film industry] will watch my movie if it plays at a festival in a faraway
place like Kansas City."
Source:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/burbank/news/la-blr-fest31mar31,1,2458490.story?coll=la-tcn-burbank-news
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ANYONE who
watched Footballers' Wives last week would have yet again had the chance
to bore their friends with the phrase - "Uh, that was filmed at
Canary Wharf".
Thanks
to scores of Hollywood films, prime time TV shows and top music videos,
it has become a familiar refrain. And
thanks the The Wharf, our readers are always the first to hear about
it.
Everything
from the thrilling opening sequence to Tomorrow Never Dies to the latest
sensation - Batman - have all been exclusively revealed in these pages.
Since
Bond, the Wharf has become a top film location as crews clamour to film
around the area.
.......
Hollywood starlet Christina Ricci steered clear of the actual fish market
- preferring instead to film in the fresher air of the neighbouring
car park for the film Miranda in April 2001.....
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Monster DVD (Region 1) Release Date and Details
DVDANSWERS
http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3651&n=1&burl=r%3D0%26s%3D1
Title: Monster
Starring: Charlize Theron
Released: 1st June 2004
SRP: $26.96
Further
Details :
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment have announced the region one release
of Monster which stars Charlize Theron in her first Oscar winning performance.
The disc will be available to own from the 1st June this year, and should
set you back around $26.96. The film itself will receive a 1.85:1 anamorphic
widescreen presentation along with both English DTS 5.1 and English
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. Surprisingly, the only extras for
this one will be a behind the scenes featurette, an interview with Patty
Jenkins and BT and the films theatrical trailer. You may also be interested
to learn that the 2002 documentary Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial
Killer will also be available from the 1st June, priced at around $19.95.
March
29, 2004
Hidden Depths
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
Christina
Ricci has been in films and therapy all her life. But - surprise,surprise
- at 24 she's a cool, clever and accomplished actress. Gaby Wood talks
to her about existentialism, Dostoevsky and making out with Charlize
Theron
Sunday
March 28, 2004
The Observer
A
sunny day in California; a famous movie star climbs out of a swimming
pool. She dries herself off, comes over and says hello; at which point
it becomes clear that Christina Ricci is far too wayward for Baywatch
- or even, really, for California. The sardonic death stare that has
been burning up movie screens for the past 14 years is even more arresting
in the flesh. The unusual dimensions of her face - a long forehead in
a heartshaped head - and the stark harmonies of her features - dark,
slicked-back hair, moon-pale skin, enormous brown eyes - lend Christina
Ricci an innocent, eerie charm.
She goes inside to get changed, returns in a vest and lived-in Earl
Jeans, and wonders if it's OK to smoke her friend's last cigarette.
What I know about Ricci so far is this: she has confessed to a 'dark
temper' and a certain amount of paranoia, she doesn't like crowds, and
for years she couldn't bear to look at herself, so she covered up all
the mirrors in her house. She has been anorexic, she has cut herself,
she has had recurring dreams of being eaten alive. She is given to glum
existential comments, such as 'fate is bored', and has been known to
get into bed accompanied by a doublepronged stun gun.
So,
how should we proceed? 'I'm actually not afraid of dying,' she says,
blowing smoke into the air. 'Apparently - according to everyone else
- that makes me incredibly naive. And stupid. But I'm just not afraid
to die. I mean, I try to be afraid to die,' she says this in a girlish,
almost pleading tone, 'because first I had older friends and everybody
told me, "It's because you're too young, and when you get older,
you'll understand the fear of death." And then I watched a lot
of Woody Allen movies and he basically feels that if you're not afraid
of death you're an idiot. And my boyfriend right now, I think, feels
like I might be kind of stupid, because I'm not afraid of dying, but
I'm really just Not Afraid To Die. And there's nothing I can do about
it. I'm afraid of being in pain - I don't want to, like, burn to death.
I don't want to be scared before I die. But I'm not afraid of not existing
- which is what everyone seems to be afraid of with death: the not-existing
part.'
'Hmm,'
I say. 'Did you talk to Woody Allen about this?'
'No.
Cos he certainly would've been like, "You're a moron."'
If
Christina Ricci didn't exist,Woody Allen would have had to invent her.
And as it happens, he sort of did anyway. In Allen's latest film, Anything
Else, Ricci plays Amanda, a beautiful actress on whose 'offbeat sexual
quality' the plot turns. 'She's crazy,' Woody Allen's character says
of Amanda. 'The Pentagon should use her hormones for chemical warfare.'
Although
it's far from being Allen's best movie, Anything Else shows fairly impressively
what Ricci's new maturity can do for her. She has been acting since
the age of eight, when a film critic 'discovered' her at a school pageant,
in which she gave a sarcastic running commentary on the Twelve Days
of Christmas. She made her film debut in Richard Benjamin's Mermaids
as a child who thinks one of the three kings brought Jesus 'Frankenstein'
as a gift, and not long afterwards she was given the seminal role of
Wednesday in The Addams Family, a character who is perhaps best summed
up by the outfit she chooses for Halloween. 'This is my costume,' Wednesday
says on being asked why she is wearing her normal clothes. 'I'm a homicidal
maniac - they look just like everyone else.'
Ricci
managed to escape the sorry fate of many young actors once her childhood
ended, a stroke of luck she has attributed to the fact that she was
never cute. Her haunted look and ease with irony ensured her a spate
of major success in the late Nineties, when - in The Ice Storm, Buffalo
'66 and The Opposite of Sex - she gave adolescence more nuanced inflections
than the most tormented teenager knew it had. But the past few years
have seen her on an uncertain footing. She was slated to direct The
Speed Queen as her debut, and that plan has been scrapped. Two recent
films, Prozac Nation and a thriller called The Gathering, remain unreleased,
and Pumpkin, her first film as star and producer, had a lukewarm reception.
This
is a situation Ricci describes as 'a little detour - a lot of random
movies'. She now feels like her life is beginning to shape up. She has
just finished shooting the new Kevin Williamson/Wes Craven horror flick,
Cursed; she stars in I Love Your Work, a new film by her boyfriend,
Adam Goldberg, about a celebrity who stalks a fan; and British audiences
are about to see her in Monster, the gutwrenching movie that won her
co-star, Charlize Theron, an Oscar. Ricci says she took on the part
of the serial killer's lesbian lover because everything the character
does 'goes completely against who I am'. She ultimately turns in Theron's
character, but along the way Ricci gives the relationship a sweetness
and an energy that make the film not only harrowing, but very sad. 'It
was certainly dark and depressing and after a while I just wanted it
to be over,' she says of the shoot. 'But the way we dealt with the weight
of the material was, we laughed our asses off all of the time. You wouldn't
believe how much we made lewd jokes and giggled.'
How
did she get on kissing Theron with her fake teeth? 'I didn't notice!'
she says. 'She was always apologising, whenever we made out. And I was
like, "Honestly? I'd have to kiss you without them, sometime, to,
like, compare?" I mean, I made out with kids in high school who
had braces, so it can't be any worse than that.'
Ricci
has a childlike voice, which retains the questioning inflections of
a teenager. At first you are too gripped by her worldly, enveloping
gaze to notice it - because her eyes seem to say they've seen it all,
the innocence of her voice temporarily passes you by. But there is something
in this combination of things that may be key to Ricci's screen alchemy.
It's what Tim Burton, who directed her in Sleepy Hollow, described as
her 'ambiguous quality - she looks at you and you get a definite feeling,
but you're not quite sure what that feeling is'.
She
has, for instance, three very visible tattoos, which on closer inspection
turn out to be of rather demure subjects: an Edward Gorey creature,
the Lion from The Chronicles of Narnia and some large sweet peas across
her back, whose significance Ricci professes, unconvincingly, not to
know. She can sound babyish but speaks about Nabokov. One of her favourite
films is The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a brightly coloured French musical
about absence, loss and the violence of war. She continually refers
to the perception that she is 'naive' or 'stunted', yet everything she
says is knowing, and the general feeling she exudes is one of being
exceptionally grounded. She has an impeccably wry demeanour: from time
to time one side of her mouth will edge upwards, and her voice will
croak a little, as if there were a smile at the back of her throat.
'The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me,' she drawls wearily,
contradicting herself as she speaks.
Perhaps
the growing up happened too early to be easily recognisable. Ricci learnt
to read by the age of three, and since she was at school has written
fiction in black-and-white Mead notebooks. When I ask her to elaborate
on its subject matter, she sniffs: 'I write what pleases me.' She will
allow, however, that 'as you get older, it gets lamer'. She got into
Columbia University some years ago and would have studied creative writing,
but then decided she didn't want to go to college, on the grounds that
actors only did that because they didn't want people to think they were
stupid. She once wrote a screenplay called Asylum, about 'a group of
youths who feel dead because they're unable to make the transition to
adulthood'. And she recently wrote an adaptation of a book to which
she didn't have the rights, simply for the 'sense of accomplishment'.
When I ask her about her literary influences she says: 'I know it sounds
very high school-ish, but, um, Dostoevsky?'
Ricci
is the youngest of four children.Her mother was once a model with the
Ford agency and her father - who she says she looks more like - is a
psychiatrist who treated his patients using primal scream therapy. 'All
I knew was that it was called primal scream therapy and that it happened
in our basement,' Ricci says. 'We didn't really even talk about it,
till one day I was, like, "And Mom, what the hell was that?"
And then me and my sister started imitating the screaming people, and
we all died laughing. My mom thought that was hysterical, that we could
remember it. She was, like, "I thought you guys were asleep."
With the screaming, in the basement? No.'
Ricci's
parents divorced when she was 12, by which time she had made five films
and seen the break-up coming. She no longer speaks to her father, a
subject about which she is naturally reticent - 'It's not something
I think about really,' she says. But even as a child she thought her
mother was 'the most fun person to be around on earth'.
'Her
whole thing was, you ate steak and you drank Scotch, and that's how
you stayed thin. Twiggy was the ultimate beauty, and there were certain
things women never did. She'd do very silly things when we were little
girls, like point to people's noses and say, "You can thank your
father and I that you don't have that nose." You know, she was
very silly, very vain and thought she was this starving socialite, in
a way.'
Ricci
says she was proud that her mother was pretty and had been on the cover
of Seventeen, but doesn't feel that those looks put undue pressure on
her. Her much-publicised eating disorder, she claims, came from watching
TV. 'At the time that I was starting to diet and stuff, I saw this TV
movie, and I thought, "Ooh - anorexia. I could probably do that."
And so I attempted. And I succeeded!'
After
years of therapy - 'I've been to therapists my whole life' - Ricci says
she's fine. 'I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier
I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed
with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's
obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.'
What
was it like hitting puberty in public? 'I think I would have hated myself
just as much had I not been in the public eye,' Ricci says. 'But I think
I chose to rebel very strongly against the fact that people were going
to take note of my behaviour. I think I probably said and did things
with a lot more fervour than I would have.' She says she can't think
of any particular examples, but it would seem that with a Sixties mother
and an alternative-therapist father, Ricci rebelled against the only
norm available: the regularity of a Hollywood career. You might say
that the public was her parent-figure, and now she's made her peace.
Ricci
says she loves to work, but life creeps into the lulls in between projects,
and she finds life 'very stressful': 'The day-to-day aspects of life.
Just simple things, you know - getting to appointments, driving, traffic,
getting out of parking lots. That stuff is stressful to me.' When she
goes abroad, she takes her own duvet and bedding, and her favourite
kind of candles. As soon as she arrives in a hotel, she rearranges the
furniture and goes out and buys a particular sort of bath mat and towels.
'I like to set things up my own way,' she says.
In
which case, life is currently dealing her a stress marathon, in the
form of a transcontinental shift. She is leaving Los Angeles for good,
and moving into a place she has bought with her boyfriend in New York.
(Adam Goldberg has directed two films, but is better known as an actor
- he was the Jewish soldier in Saving Private Ryan, and Matthew McConaughey's
best friend in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. He and Ricci have been
together for more than a year.)
When
I ask her how her life has matched up to the fantasies she had as a
kid, she says it's 'slowly turning out. I guess I couldn't really imagine
the middle part. But now, it looks like it's turning out to be the end
part. If that makes any sense.' She refuses to tell me what the 'end
part' consists of, but a guess wouldn't be all that hard to hazard:
she has said in the past that she hoped to be married at 20 and have
children at 23; Ricci turned 24 last month. 'I'm really looking forward
to it,' she says, of the move back to the place where she grew up. 'It'll
be really nice to sort of, put down roots.'
I
ask her what her self-image is like now. 'I think it's good,' she says,
then she catches herself sounding unswervingly optimistic. 'I mean,
I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much. All these people
with great self-esteem, they can go straight to hell as far as I'm concerned.'
Source:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1177782,00.html
March
28, 2004
Inside the skin of a psychopath
Scotland on Sunday
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/
"When
the film begins, Wournos is on the brink of suicide. Looking back over
a life of bitterness and disappointment, she considers there is no reason
to go on living. Heavy irony underlines her declaration that she had
always wanted to be in the movies and longed to be discovered, like
Marilyn Monroe. Dishevelled and despairing, she stumbles into a gay
bar where she meets Selby (Christina Ricci) - a shy, awkward young lesbian
said to be a fictionalised version of Wournos’s real life lover
Tyria Moore".
Read
the entire article:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/thereview.cfm?id=355052004
March
23, 2004
MDP's "Monster" Reports Weekend Box Office Results
Press Release - Source: MDP WORLDWIDE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
MONTREAL,
March 16 /CNW Telbec/ - MDP Worldwide Entertainment, Inc. (symbols:
MDP.A and MDP.B), a leading Canadian film entertainment company, announced
today that its film "Monster" continued to hold strong at
the North American box office over the weekend, as the media attention
surrounding Charlize Theron's Best Actress Academy Award win continued
to keep audience interest in the film steady. For the weekend ended
Sunday, March 14, "Monster" grossed an additional CDN $1.8
million (US $1.4 million), according to Daily Variety. Through twelve
weekends of release, "Monster" has grossed nearly CDN $43
million (US $32.1 million) cumulatively to date. The film is being released
theatrically in the U.S. by Newmarket Films, and is being theatrically
released throughout Canada by Remstar/Alliance Atlantis.
"'Monster' continues to be a success story at the North American
box office," stated Sammy Lee, Vice Chairman of the Board for MDP.
"Now as 'Monster' begins to open theatrically in overseas markets,
we expect it to perform equally strongly," further added Lee.
'Monster'
will open theatrically in four major European markets in April, including
the UK on April 2, and France, Germany, and Italy on April 14. To date,
"Monster" has already grossed an additional CDN $5.1 million
(US $3.8 million) internationally through its theatrical release in
14 other overseas markets.
MDP Worldwide
Entertainment, Inc. is a leading Canadian film entertainment company
engaged in the financing, development, production and worldwide distribution
of theatrical feature films. The company has offices in Montreal and
Los Angeles and its shares of common stock are publicly traded on the
Toronto Stock Exchange (symbols: MDP.A and MDP.B).
For further
information
:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/orgDisplay.cgi?okey=4699
March
15, 2004
The success of 'Passion' gives majors, indies pause at SXSW
By ERIC HARRISON
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
"The
nine-day film festival kicks off each year with the Austin Film Society
conducting a Hall of Fame ceremony. This year, native Texans Ethan Hawke,
Forest Whitaker, Judith Ivey and screenwriter Edwin "Bud"
Shrake were inducted, and the "honorary Texan" award went
to Duvall, a Virginia boy who spends more time here than many natives.
Among other familiar faces and names in town for the festivities are
actors Christina Ricci and Adam Goldberg and
directors Jonathan Demme, Gary Ross and Jim Jarmusch, not to mention
Austin-based Richard Linklater.
SXSW is one of the premiere festivals for independent film. One hot
topic of discussion this year was the phenomenal success of Mel Gibson's
The Passion of the Christ."
Read more at:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/2449107
http://www.sxsw.com/
March
11, 2004
Legal firm cooks name
Lawyer reps talent such as Reeves, Sonnenfeld, Rudin
Variety.com : http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117901613?categoryid=18&cs=1
By JANET SHPRINTZ
Top
dealmaker Melanie Cook will become the first female name partner at
legal powerhouse Ziffren, Brittenham et al. The firm's new name will
be Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman &
Cook.
Cook has been at Ziffren Brittenham for just over a year.
Cook left her previous firm, Bloom, Hergott & Diemer, where she
was also a name partner, last January. The most prominent female dealmaker
in Hollywood, Cook has a vast client list that includes Keanu Reeves,
Barry Sonnenfeld, Scott Rudin, Sam Mendes, Christina
Ricci, Tim Burton, Mimi Leder, Julie Taymor, Paul
Attanasio and Nancy Meyers. She recently began repping Robin Wright
Penn.
Cook's arrival at Ziffren Brittenham, which represents many corporate
clients and indie companies, provided a major boost to the firm's talent
representation, which already included Eddie Murphy and Harrison Ford,
who are repped by Skip Brittenham.
In the past year, Cook did Tim Burton's deal on "Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory," the Warner Bros. adaptation of the Roald Dahl
classic; did Keanu Reeves' deal for Warner Bros.' "Constantine";
and completed Sam Mendes' overall deal at DreamWorks.
Cook has spent her career in entertainment law. After working at two
boutique firms, she joined the Bloom firm in 1987 and became a name
partner there in 1992. In 1997, she became the first woman to be named
entertainment lawyer of the year by the Beverly Hills Bar Assn.
March
5, 2004
Charlize's Funny Ricci Kiss
TeenHollywood.com : http://www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=61909&cat=1027
Charlize Theron couldn't stop giggling when she had to kiss Christina
Ricci in the film 'Monster' - because her fake teeth kept getting in
the way.
The Oscar-winning
actress underwent a spectacular transformation to play lesbian murderer
Aileen Wuornos, including having a special dental plate fitted.
But the
teeth caused problems when she had to kiss sexy Christina, who plays
her girlfriend, Selby Wall.
Charlize
revealed: "She was really great at kissing, but it was quite difficult
with fake teeth. Nothing could help us keep a straight face. At one
point I looked at Christina and said, 'This is a slumber party gone
so wrong.' That was one of the funniest days we had on the set of that
movie."
March
1st, 2004
Charlize Theron wins Best Actress
Digytal spy : http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds13666.html
Charlize Theron has picked up the prestigious Best Actress award.
The Monster star triumphed over fellow nominees Keisha Castle-Hughes
(Whale Rider), Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give), Samantha Morton
(In America) and Naomi Watts (21 Grams).
"This has been such an incredible year, I can't believe this,"
said Theron as she accepted her award. "I have to thank my incredible
director Patty Jenkins, all of our producers, everybody at Media 8 and
everybody at New Market.
"My
incredible leading lady, Christina Ricci, you are truly the unsung hero
of this film. I have to thank the entire crew, every single
person who worked on this film. I couldn't have done it without you
guys."
Once
again Digital Spy readers were right on the money, with 36% of voters
predicting Theron's success.
Feb.
24, 2004
New York Press
New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and
Opinion
"This week’s Overblown New York Ego nomination goes to Christina
Ricci. We learn in the latest issue of Details that she and her boyfriend,
actor Adam Goldberg, have bought a duplex in Chelsea because "the
food is better" and "Adam’s like, the mayor of New York."
Webmaster's
note : it seems that "New York Press" don't like Christina's
reason of bought a duplex in Chelsea.... If you wanna know what they
thought, here goes the link :
http://www.nypress.com/17/8/pagetwo/pagetwo4.cfm
Feb.
22, 2004
Charlize Theron pay homage to Christina Ricci at the 10th Annual Screen
Actors Guild Awards
Los Angeles, Calif.
http://www.filmstew.com/Content/DailyNews/Details.asp?ContentID=7992&Pg=1
http://charlizeonline.com/charnews/news.php
At the podium, an emotional Theron praised her co-stars in the film,
" my incredible, incredible, beautiful, talented leading lady,
Christina Ricci, who… [applause] I share this with."
Feb.
18, 2004
Birmingham Screen Festival
(UK)
By Tony Collins, Evening Mail.
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk
The Birmingham Screen Festival (UK) which hits the city from March 4
to 11, jointly organised by the people behind the Cambridge Film Festival
and the Picturehouse cinema chain, will boast a second UK premiere with
Woody Allen’s new film Anything Else, starring Christina Ricci
and Jason Biggs.
Feb.
17, 2004
Red dresses put focus on healthy hearts
By Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04048/273880.stm
Efforts to focus women's attention on heart disease (the No. 1 killer)
are gaining momentum as more and more organizations are taking up the
cause. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Red Dress campaign,
first launched last year by the fashion industry -- yes, paper-thin,
20-something models can be on the path to heart disease -- is now being
championed by a new flock of female celebs, including the first lady
Laura Bush.
Glamour magazine has brought together singers Shania Twain and Paula
Abdul, actresses Cybill Shepherd, Laura Linney, Christina Ricci,
Julianna Margulies and Jennifer Love Hewitt, to name a few, in a red-dress
spread that aims to play catch-up to the strong advocacy efforts that
have put breast cancer at center stage in most women's minds. In reality,
one in three women die of heart disease: that's 366,000 deaths a year
in the United States vs. 42,000 for breast cancer
Jan.
22, 2004
Anniston, Duhamel, Ferguson, Ricci, Sarandon, Stefani and Wood Set as
Presenters at Golden Globe Awards
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE)
http://www.businesswire.com/
"The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards" Will Be Telecast Live
On NBC Sunday, January 25
Jennifer
Anniston, Josh Duhamel, Sarah Ferguson (The Duchess of York), Christina
Ricci, Susan Sarandon, Gwen Stefani and Elijah Wood will join
previously-announced Antonio Banderas, Jim Belushi, Ellen Burstyn, Jim
Carrey, Kim Cattrall, Chris Cooper, Kristin Davis, Ellen DeGeneres,
Richard Gere, Melanie Griffith, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Justin
Kirk, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Mendes, Jack
Nicholson, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Keanu Reeves, Meryl
Streep, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams and Renee Zellweger as presenters
at the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards to be telecast live on NBC Sunday,
January 25 (8 - 11:00 p.m. EST) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Danny
DeVito and Sharon Stone will present Michael Douglas with this year's
Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field."
The
Golden Globe Awards will be seen in more than 150 countries worldwide
and is one of the few awards ceremonies that span both television and
motion picture achievements. The event's rating growth has exceeded
500% since it became an annual event on NBC eight years ago. Last January's
telecast was one of 2003's top three highest-rated awards telecasts.
The
special will be produced by dick clark productions in association with
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Lorenzo Soria is President
of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Dick Clark and Barry Adelman
are executive producers. Al Schwartz is consulting producer. Ken Shapiro
is producer. Ron Weed is co-producer. Moet is the official champagne
of the Golden Globe Awards.
Jan.
21, 2004
Lesbo scenes 'the real deal': Ricci
http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/2004/01/21/story130536.html
Lovely Christina
Ricci says her lesbian love scenes with Charlize Theron in their new
film Monster were the real deal.
The former child
star first told reporters that the scenes had made her so uncomfortable
she’d laughed her ass off to relieve the tension. But later, after
a journalist commented how authentic the scenes looked, Christina purred:
