Possible Amy appearance tonight!

Project Angel Food is holding their annual Angel Awards tonight (August 21st) and I just received word that Amy is supposedly scheduled to present Paramount Pictures with an award. I can find no official confirmation on the site or in any Google news alerts so this may just be a rumor. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it isn’t and that I’ll have some new Amy photos to post very soon.

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‘Pennies’ coming to R2 DVD

I just received notice that a DVD is being released in the UK on August 16th called Love and Distrust. The DVD is a compilation of five short films including Amy’s 2006 short Pennies. While we already have low quality screencaptures of this project in our gallery, I would love to get DVD quality versions. If you are planning on buying and/or renting this movie and have the capability of capping it for us, please email me.

Featuring a host of Hollywood A-listers, including Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga, Remember Me), Sam Worthington (Avatar, Clash of the Titans), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes) and Amy Adams (Sunshine Cleaning, Enchanted), Love & Distrust is a heartfelt tale of the passions and perils of love in all its forms. Split into five stories that focus on the lives of a group of beautiful yet troubled twenty-somethings, Love & Distrust explores the dark heart of romance, the secrets we can never tell and the heartache it can cause. Battling temptation and the pull of seduction, the fight for love can never be easy.

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Amy joins ‘On the Road’

Breaking news Amy fans! According to this source, Amy will be joining Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in On the Road, an adaption of the Jack Kerouac novel. Filming is scheduled to begin this month so we’ll hopefully get to see some on the set pics soon.

She will play Jane, the emotionally damaged junkie mother of two children and the wife of Old Bull Lee. Mortensen is going to play Lee.

Keep checking back for more information as it becomes available.

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‘The Fighter’ trailer – coming soon!

Contactmusic.com posted a short article about Mark Wahlberg where he talks about The Fighter being his “baby” as he’s worked for such a long time to make it happen. In the article, he mentions that a trailer will be coming soon.

The Oscar-nominated star also said a trailer for the film – which also stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams – would be released soon.

He told Collider.com: “You’ll see a trailer fairly soon. We’re going to a marketing meeting at the end of this month. I’ve already seen one cut of a trailer and everybody is just super excited about the movie. It’s coming out on 10 December. So, we’re excited.”

Even though I’m pretty sure the trailer won’t likely feature much Amy, I’m very excited to see it.

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Official: Amy signed to play Janis Joplin

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that they have confirmation from Amy’s reps that she has agreed to play Janis Joplin in Get it While You Can. They then go on to talk about the difficulties this project still faces – including what I posted a couple days ago about the music rights. A quick blurb from the article is below and you can read it in its entirety here.

As for the Adams/Meirelles project, which is called Get it While You Can, the script from musician-turned-writer Ron Terry had been owned by Fox Searchlight for the last few years. In fact, around three years ago, Catherine Hardwicke and Reese Witherspoon was a possible director/star combination being discussed. That didn’t come together, and the project lay dormant until Temple Hill found a common vision with Brazilian filmmaker Meirelles. In an ideal world, sources say Meirelles would begin filming the biopic at the end of the year — if his other project, 360, can’t come together.

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Netflix deal includes ‘The Fighter’

While not exactly Amy news, it does give us an idea of when to expect her movie The Fighter to come to DVD (and now Netflix streaming).

Netflix, Inc. and Relativity Media, LLC today announced a long term agreement through which major theatrically released films owned by Relativity will be licensed directly and exclusively to Netflix for streaming to its subscribers during the “pay TV window.” Traditionally, these films have flowed through Relativity’s studio releasing partners to output deals with premium TV channels.

The deal marks a continued shift in the distribution of major motion pictures in the U.S. Under the agreement, an increasing amount of popular contemporary movies previously encumbered by pay TV agreements with premium channels such as HBO, Showtime and Starz will become available to be streamed from Netflix months – and not years – after their release on DVD. It will be the first time that studio quality theatrical feature films will be streamed via subscription by Netflix instead of being broadcast by the traditional pay providers, and it opens up a new revenue stream for such movies.

Among the first wave of films covered under the Netflix-Relativity deal are The Fighter, starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and Skyline, co-directed by the Brothers Strause and released by Rogue Pictures and Universal Studios. Both films are scheduled for theatrical release later this year and to be available at Netflix in early 2011. Also on tap for Netflix are Rogue Pictures’ Nicolas Cage action/thriller Season of the Witch and Movie 43, written and directed by Peter Farley. Both are set to hit theaters this year as well.

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Release date change for ‘The Fighter’

I just received an email from Paramount letting me know that they’ve changed the theatrical release date for The Fighter.  It will now open on December 10th. Mark your calenders!

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Release date for ‘The Fighter’

Amy news is still extremely slow.  I do check at least twice a day for any new happenings but I’m sure that she will be keeping a low profile for at least a couple more months.  She was spotted out and about and you can view those candids at various sites around the web but we of course won’t be posting them here.

In The Fighter news, a release date of November 26, 2010 has been set.  I don’t know about you all but I am really looking forward to seeing this.  Early buzz is saying another Oscar nomination and with the lack of any really quality performances this year so far, I think they may be right. Any thoughts?

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Mike Nichols AFI Salute Official Press Release

Another press release for the upcoming AFI Life Achievement Award to Mike Nichols has been released. From this latest one, it looks like Amy will not be in attendance after all. I will check my sources the day of the taping just in case though. A new Amy event would be awesome!

NEW YORK, June 1 /PRNewswire/ — The American Film Institute and TV Land announced today that many of Hollywood’s finest will be on hand to salute acclaimed and beloved film, television and stage director Mike Nichols when he receives the 38th AFI Life Achievement Award on June 10, 2010 on the historic Stage 15 at the Sony Pictures Studios. Warren Beatty (“The Fortune”) and Annette Bening (“Postcards from the Edge”), Candice Bergen (“Carnal Knowledge”), Nora Ephron (“Heartburn”), Calista Flockhart (“The Birdcage”), Harrison Ford (“Working Girl”), Dustin Hoffman (“The Graduate”), Eric Idle (“Spamalot”), Shirley MacLaine (“Postcards from the Edge”), Elaine May (“An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May”), Mary Louise Parker (“Angels in America”), Natalie Portman (“Closer”), Kevin Spacey (“Heartburn”), Emma Thompson (“Angels in America”), and Robin Williams (“The Birdcage”) join previously announced Cher, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep to celebrate Nichols’ storied career. “TV Land Presents The AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mike Nichols” premieres on TV Land on Saturday, June 26th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Many of these luminaries participating in this gala event to honor their friend and colleague are also part of the AFI Benefit Committee for the tribute. Other members of the committee include Amy Adams, Whoopi Goldberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Martin, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Taylor and Sigourney Weaver.

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What’s in a name?

When a pregnant Amy Adams told UsMagazine in January that she tended “to be more attracted to traditional names,” it led us to expect something as straightforward as Amy or fiance’s name Darren Le Gallo. But when her daughter arrived on May 15, she was given an anything but traditional name.

Aviana Olea is, in fact, a pair of names not to be found in any list of conventional monikers. Aviana, which might be seen as a ultra-feminine, or feminissima, elaboration of the mega-popular Ava, now No. 5 on the recently released Social Security Administration list of most popular girls’ names. Given to more than 15,000 babies last year, its starting syllable is related to the Latin word for bird, avis.

In addition to the countless celebs who have chosen Ava for their daughters — from Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe to Hugh Jackman to Paz Vega — others have chosen names from the same family. Gossip Girl’s Matthew Settle has an Aven, Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn have a daughter named Avery — which is rapidly growing in popularity — and Daniel Baldwin stuck to the original Avis.

Soundwise, Aviana is also a cousin to a whole clan of currently trendy names, including Ariana/Arianna, Adriana, Audriana, Aliana/Eliana and Viviana.

Middle name Olea is an equally intriguing choice. Following through on the Latin theme, it is the name of the genus of evergreen trees that includes the olive. It is also an occasionally used Norwegian and Danish girls’ name and is said to be an Old Hebrew word for night or moon.

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