With less than two months to Kate’s 35th birthday, Kate Winslet Fan has now launched a way for you to express your admiration for your favorite actress. You may submit simple birthday wishes, links to a video inspired by Kate, poems, drawings or whatever you want.
To pay tribute to the wonderful Kate Winslet and to celebrate her 35th birthday and the success of 2009 films Revolutionary Road and The Reader and the upcoming The Catch, Contagion and, of course, the HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce, Kate Winslet Fan decided to launch a Birthday Page in honor of one of the best actresses of her generation.
Be sure to click on the image above to reach the 2010 Kate Winslet Birthday Project and submit your birthday message for our Kate!
The Television Critics Association HBO Executive Session was held yesterday. HBO Co-President Richard Plepler and Programming President Michael Lombardo answered questions regarding the upcoming HBO programming, including Mildred Pierce. A clip was also screened for the press and it sounds like the material was impressive.
From HitFix.com:
Mildred Pierce looks handsome and like the winner of many, many Emmys.
Lombardo tells us that Mildred Pierce has finished shooting. Todd Haynes has been on a two-week break and will begin editing now. HBO is eying March/April of next spring for a premiere. Lombardo says that it’s a “relevant look at a woman struggling to survive in a period of economic distress,” that the Cain novel feels “remarkably modern.” His own memories of the film are of it being campy and dated. He says that the miniseries will *not* be noir-ish in the way the film is.
Also, check out this newly released HBO press release, courtesy of The Futon Critic. It states that Mildred Pierce will be released in March 2011.
2011 will see an impressive roster of award-winning talent come to HBO as HBO Films and HBO Miniseries present two new films and a much anticipated miniseries, and production starts in February on a period biopic in San Francisco. Among their illustrious awards, the actors and filmmakers associated with these projects have garnered four Oscars(R) and 28 Oscar(R) nominations, eight Golden Globes and 38 Golden Globe nominations, and 13 Emmys(R) and 49 Emmy(R) nominations, not to mention recognition from such guilds as SAG, DGA, PGA and WGA.
“We are particularly proud of the filmmakers who have come together around Mildred Pierce,” says Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries. “Todd Haynes, Kate Winslet and the rest of the team are creating a miniseries in five parts that is at once lush, appealing and searingly resonant in the current American economic landscape.”
Kate Winslet, Aishwarya Rai and Lin Chi-ling were pictured filming a new commercial for Longines Watches Dolce Vita collection in Rome, Italy on July 20. Longines is one of the most reputed watch brands in the world. As I’m sure most of you figured this out just seeing the photo above, this shoot is based on the Fellini masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960).
Kate is the latest to join the bandwagon of celebrities endorsing Longines after celebs like Aishwraya herself, US athletes Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, and Taiwanese actress Lin Chi-ling.
The ladies were spotted running through the streets of Rome together with posh cars around and the lovely weather complementing their lovely looks and attire.
According to The Guardian (sourcing Daily Express), director Bernd Eichinger is eyeing Kate Winslet to star in a film about Natascha Kampusch. I thought I’d post this piece of news even though I’d rather take it with a grain of salt.
Kate Winslet today finds herself targeted by a German film-maker with a dark tale to tell. Director Bernd Eichinger is all set to make a film about the Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch – and he wants Winslet to star.
According to the Daily Express newspaper, the Oscar-winning actor is Eichinger’s first choice to take the role of Kampusch, who was 10 years old when she was abducted on her way to school. For the optimistic Eichinger, age is clearly just a number, and nationality but a label: English-born Winslet turned 34 last birthday.
From On Location Vacations:
Mildred Pierce, starring Kate Winslet, is filming around Myrtle Ave between 68th and 70th Sts in Glendale, Queens. (Thanks Jerry)
The Catch
