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Friday
Sep112015

3 in One - Pfeiffer, Blanchett , Mara

 Here's Murtada with just released pictures of 3 upcoming projects.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff
Quick turnaround from the casting announcement, they have already started filming The Wizard of Lies and released the first picture. New cast members have been added to the HBO project including Nathan Darrow (famous for House of Cards' menage a trois with Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey) who will play the Madoff’s younger son Andrew.

Pfeiffer is completely transformed as Ruth Madoff. More...

Kudos to the makeup artists who managed to dim her shining beauty. This is dedication, people. Complete immersion in role. Still Ruth Madoff must be flattered and pleased to be played by Pfeiffer. Let’s hope they use Ruth’s 60 Minutes interview as a framing device so we can get maximum Pfeiffer.

Oh and Robert De Niro is in the picture too.

Cate Blanchett and Elisabeth Moss in Truth

This picture shows us some of the supporting cast Moss, Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace in addition to Blanchett. The “scuttlebutt’’ is that Blanchett might go supporting awards-wise in her headlining part in Carol because of this film. However she hasn’t mentioned Truth in her recent cover interview with New York Times Magazine even though it’s opening more than a month before Carol while being effusive about Todd Haynes. She’s not attending the film’s TIFF premiere tomorrow because she’s on stage in Sydney. Rumour has it that Carol skipped TIFF because of Blanchett’s theater commitments. Robert Redford so far has done the bulk of the promotion for Truth. The just released first clip focuses mostly on his Dan Rather. It could be because he’s playing Rather who’s much better known than his producer Mary Mapes (played by Blanchett). The movie though is based on Mapes’ book Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power implyig Mapes is front and center.

Has Spotlight hogged all the attention for stories about investigative journalism or is there space for more than one movie this fall? The truth about Truth will be unveiled very soon.

 Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn in Blackbird

Acclaimed theater director Benedict Andrews is making his directorial debut with an adaptation of the play Blackbird. Andrews won critical kudos with his productions of Gross und Klein with Blanchett in Sydney and A Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Anderson in London (that production is coming to Brooklyn in 2016). Blackbird tells the story of the devastating consequences of an illicit affair between a 15 year old girl and a middle aged man as she tracks him years later. Sounds like complex emotional issues that will give both Mara and Mendelsohn lots to play with. The play has been staged all over the world including a 2007 New York staging that starred Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill.

The movie is being presented to exhibitors at TIFF so expect distribution news soon.

Have these pictures done their job in selling their respective movies? 

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Reader Comments (12)

I dunno, still looks like Pfeiffer with just a wig and glasses slapped on.

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRyan

Who wore it better: Michelle Pfeiffer or Blythe Danner? :)

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDavid

It looks more like Diane Keaton to me.

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMareko

loving the Truth clip and can't wait to watch the movie; hoping it'll crash the expectations party this year, especially when you consider we'd seen or heard nothing until today :) I love surprises

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterYavor

Is there going to be a "Yes, No, Maybe?" For Carol?

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterInfamous

Infamous-

Why would it be anything other than YES? lol

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDavid

Ryan ... quite agree....

September 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterrick

Infamous - Nathaniel is busy at TIFF but I hope he finds the time for YNMS for Carol. It will obvs be a yes but a distilling of the trailer would still be fun to read of course.

September 11, 2015 | Registered CommenterMurtada Elfadl

The Truth clip!!! Blanchett is so different from Carol. And with the Weinstein Carol trailer, I find it hard to believe that Blanchett is going supporting

Yavor: Totally agree! I hope Truth just smashes

Our Brand is Crisis is in a bit of crisis. Mixed reviews. Solid Bullock they said

September 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterManuel

i object to giving kudos to anyone who dims Pfeiffer's beauty! #DEATHTODEGLAM

September 12, 2015 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

@ Nathaniel, you watching Truth today, I hope?

September 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterYavor

Kelly Ripa in glasses.

September 13, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPHIL
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