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| | Winona Ryder & Chris Evans: "The Iceman" TIFF Premiere | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Gathering together to premiere their latest movie, the stars of ?The Iceman? were on hand at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night (September 10).
Female lead in the film Winona Ryder looked elegant in a simple black dress with open toe heels while her fellow male co-stars Chris Evans and Michael Shannon looked dapper for their red carpet appearance.
Shannon recently spoke with The Canadian Press about the project saying, "It's different now, for a long time when I did films I was supporting, a player, or cameo and now I've got a couple under my belt where, here I am, the title character, which is nothing I ever anticipated."
Though Michael and director Ariel Vromen knew he would be great for the character, Vromen had other concerns as the actor explained, ?It's funny because when Vromen first started trying to put this movie together, he told me -- he was very candid -- he said, 'I would love for you to play this part but I don't know if I can get the financing with you in the part,' because you know, we all know how that works."
?The Iceman? is the true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. It also stars Ray Liotta and is slated to hit theaters on March 14. Watch the trailer below!
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| | Stars of "The Iceman" Bring Chilling Drama to Venice | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Bringing their project to the beautiful city of Venice, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta and Michael Shannon were on hand for ?The Iceman? premiere at the Palazzo del Cinema on Thursday evening (August 30).
While taking part in the 69th Venice Film Festival, the 40-year-old actress looked lovely in an elegant black gown that displayed her fit physique.
Amidst the star-studded premiere, the trailer for the Ariel Vromen directed film was released, which tells the story of a loving husband and devoted father, played by Shannon, who also happens to have a secret life as a brutal hit man.
Also featuring James Franco and an unrecognizable Chris Evans, the film is set to screen at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
Watch the trailer below!
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| | Winona Ryder Needs To Eat A Few Crackers | | Added 12 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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I remember back in the day when Winona Ryder was hot and for a skinny chick had huge knockers (which is rare). Well, here she is at the 69th Venice Film Festival looking like walking skeleton. I love my women skinny but not when I can use them to dislodge food from my teeth.
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| | Winona Ryder, 40 years old, wears all-black in Venice: lovely & nostalgic? | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some new photos of Winona Ryder in Venice. She?s in town for the film festival, to promote her new film, The Iceman, with Ray Liotta and Michael Shannon. Incidentally, both Ray and Michael are considered to be ?scary? character actors who normally play psychos and crazies? but I would hit it with both of them. I love Ray Liotta so, so much, and Michael Shannon is one of my most secret dirty-crushes. I would go to bed with either of them. Or both. AT THE SAME TIME.
Winona wore black for both the day photo call and the evening red carpet premiere. Winona wore a short, vintage LBD for the photo call, and she wore a long Dolce & Gabbana gown for the premiere. I like both looks, honestly. I can remember a time when Winona was The It Girl and she was the top, top Fashion Girl and everyone wanted to wear what Winona was wearing and look just like Winona. But that time has passed, and you can tell that she still loves fashion, but she?s 40 years old (VAMPIRE!!!) and she doesn?t need to be wearing the ?latest style? at this point. She knows what looks good on her (for the most part), and she looks classic and pretty. The Dolce gown isn?t spectacular or anything? but it?s not a failure either.
I do think Winona looks very uncomfortable, though. In most of the photo call pics where she?s standing alone, her eyes look kind of crazy, like she?s a cornered animal. It?s been a while for her? hopefully, she?ll get the hang of it.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Winona Ryder hitches her star to a James Franco movie | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I can’t help but root for Winona Ryder in her hopeful career resurrection. She gave a very (intentionally) disturbing performance in Black Swan and is a truly talented actress even though, inevitably, she’s “not the ingenue anymore.” Still, I think she can keeping doing the Hollywood thing so long as she steers clear of future mindless projects like The Dilemma, which not only possessed no redeemable value (unless you consider a Kevin James/Vince Vaughn buddy movie to be culturally enriching) but also underperformed at the box office by failing to earn back its budget. In short, the acclaim following Winona’s turn in Black Swan has helped her earn back a few of her former stripes (and seriously, she was punished far too long for one shoplifting incident, whereas Lindsay Lohan keeps getting chances). To maintain this good will, Winona will have to be very careful about what projects within which she participates. For the moment, she’s erroneously selected a James Franco movie:
James Franco will star with Winona Ryder in The Stare, a Jay Anania-directed film that is the first project funded by Waterstone Entertainment, a new producing/financing company formed by producer Jeff Kalligheri and Texas real estate developer and producer Steve Bowen.
Watersone gets started with The Stare, a drama in which a playwright (Ryder) finds her mind beginning to warp as she struggles to launch her next production. She’s plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but can’t decide if she’s at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality. Franco plays one of the performers in the playwright’s production. The film will shoot May 6 in New York. Franco is producing with Jolivette, with Kalligheri exec producing with Steven Garcia, Rich Hill and Eric Amadio. Franco previously starred in Shadows and Lies for the film’s writer-director Anania, a teacher of Franco’s who heads the directing program at the graduate film school at NYU.
[From Deadline]
This can’t turn out well, for Franco himself has abruptly fallen from “critical darling” status to “moody, pouting diva” after he thumbed his nose at the Academy with a lackluster Oscar hosting gig and subsequent social media tantrums. In light of Franco’s recent revelation of his true colors, I think it’s a serious mistake for Winona to star alongside him at this turning point in her career. She needs to back out of this one and hold out for brighter pastures, which (if anything else) do not include Franco’s self-referential, cutesy ways that everyone has had enough of for now except, just maybe, on “General Hospital.”
Photos of Ryder at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards courtesty of Juan Rico/Fame Pictures; Franco photos courtesy of WENN and Franco’s now-defunct Twitter account.
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Eagerly awaiting to find out if she's among the big winners, Winona Ryder was spotted at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday evening (January 30).
The 39-year-old actress looked right at home as she posed for the paparazzi and chatted with fellow attendees at the Shrine Exposition Center venue.
Tonight, Winona is in the running for the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries trophy for her work in ?When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story.?
Miss Ryder is competing against a solid field including "Temple Grandin" stars Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara and Julia Ormond, as well as show co-host Susan Sarandon (You Don't Know Jack).
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Stepping out to promote her new movie ?Black Swan,? Winona Ryder paid a visit to ?Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? last night (January 10).
The ?Reality Bites? babe looked lovely as she playfully chatted with Fallon, eventually confessing a deep-seated fear.
Ryder explained that she doesn?t use the internet and tends to shy away from technology for fear of becoming a terrorist.
?Googling is very terrifying to me because I have this fear that I?m going to be trying to find out what movie is playing at what theater and then I?m going to suddenly be a member of Al Queda.?
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| | Mel Gibson Call Winona Ryder an 'Oven-Dodger' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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If you’re wondering if Mel Gibson has always been the charmer he is today: in a word, ohfuckingyes. Winona Ryder told next month’s GQ magazine:
“I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk. I was with my friend, who’s gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. I’d never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, ‘He’s anti-Semitic and he’s homophobic.’ No one believed me!”
Sorry, but there’s just no such thing as a Holocaust “joke.” Although God knows it’s not for lack of me trying. Genocide jokes don’t elicit laughs. Much like this post, when you stop and think about it.
PHOTO CREDIT: GQ
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| | Winona Ryder in Elle: 'I?m told I?m not the ingenue anymore' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As you probably know by now, Winona Ryder has a smaller, supporting part in Black Swan. Winona plays the principal dancer who is on her way out - Natalie Portman?s character replaces her. Winona is supposed to be very, very good in the film, and she?s benefiting from the good reviews. She?s in the midst of some kind of career comeback, only this one will probably stick. Anyway, Winona has being press in support of the film, and she gave an interview to Elle Magazine, in addition to doing a somewhat creepy black-and-white photo shoot for the mag as well (full interview here, and the slideshow is here). Here are the highlights from the interview:
Elle on Ryder?s performance in Black Swan: Ryder can?t be on-screen for more than 20 minutes?her role lands somewhere between cameo and supporting actress. And yet, as pallid as ever, with impossibly dark eyes that dominate her valentine-shaped face, she manages to make her presence seem big. The movie wouldn?t have the same palpable tension without her. It might be that the metacasting?a real-life former ingenue playing a former ingenue?is simply effective. But there?s a potent alchemy at work that is Ryder?s alone. When she appears in Black Swan, it?s impossible not to be awash in nostalgia for her charmingly twisted, compulsively watchable films (even in Beetle Juice, her all-in-black teen ghost whisperer made Ryder a heroine for legions of goth-positive girls). That, combined with her stirringly executed performance (there?s a scene in which Ryder takes a nail file to those perfectly hollowed out cheeks that will haunt anyone with a heartbeat for days), makes it difficult not to want more of her. Even Aronofsky, who had Ryder on set for less than two weeks, felt the pull of her legacy. ?There?s one scene with her, where I think I did 20 or 30 takes, which is a lot,? he says. ?But the reason I did so many is because I couldn?t believe that was all [the time] I was going to get with Winona Ryder. I really just wanted to keep working with her.?
On her upbringing: Her upbringing undoubtedly shaped her: Her parents, stalwarts of the San Francisco counterculture, hung with Allen Ginsberg and John Lennon. Ryder?s father, Michael Horowitz, is a rare-books dealer and Timothy Leary?s archivist. ?My dad just gave me [Leary?s] watch for my birthday,? she says. ?It?s called the Borel Kaleidoscope; it?s, like, this interesting kind of watch that when you look at it, you can stare at it forever?it moves in this weird way.?
On reading real books: She?s a voracious reader (both Mom and Dad are writers) and begins a lot of her sentences with ?Have you ever read that book?? As an avid collector of first editions, she?s a big believer in ?paper and pen? and writing letters, and has yet to use the iPad Ron Howard recently gave her after wrapping this month?s date movie The Dilemma.
On the Internet: ?I don?t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it,? she says sounding genuinely bewildered. ?I have my e-mail on my BlackBerry, and that?s about it. I?ve never read a blog, ever. I feel like it?s taking away that great anticipation of seeing a movie. It used to be you?d hear, like, Al Pacino was making a movie, and you wouldn?t know anything about it. And nowadays, you know it all, like how much [the actors] are being paid. I would hate to see a picture of me and the caption reads, ?Is she worth it?? ?
On her disappearing act from film for a few years: Ryder sees it as a self-inflicted dry spell. ?If I don?t relate to the [project], even if it?s something that I should do, it?s hard for me to say yes,? she says. ?I?m the type who?d rather not work than work on something I?m not into. I?ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.?
Can she say which films? ?No, but it?s kind of obvious.? She laughs. ?I mean, there?s a couple of times that I did it, for the, you know, paycheck. Even when I was younger?I remember I did this movie that wasn?t good, called 1969. I totally did it ?cause I could get out of school. I can see it in even great actors? performances, when they?re phoning it in.?
Aging as an actress: ?I did relate to Beth [in Black Swan] on a certain level,? she says. ?Just that thing of, you know, when I?m told I?m not the ingenue anymore. And now I?m 39. I remember when I was younger, I couldn?t wait to be older, because I was always the kid on the set, I was always younger than everyone else. And now I?m older than a lot of the people I work with. I?ve been doing this for 25 years, which is so strange. I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and Lucas came on. I was like, Oh my God, I?m an oldie!?
Winona chased the part in Ron Howard?s The Dilemma (with Vince Vaughn): These days, she seems more willing to explore new territory and isn?t afraid to hustle for something she wants. This month, Ryder plays Kevin James? cheating wife, who?s caught in the act by her husband?s best bro Vince Vaughn, in the Ron Howard comedy The Dilemma. ?She definitely chased it,? Howard says. ?She was really willing to come in and read with Vince, to see what it all felt like. And it was great when somebody of her stature volunteers that sort of thing. We pretty much cast her on the spot.?
On meeting men who used to crush on her: ?I remember being at this bar called Tosca in San Francisco, and I met this guy one night. He was really cute, and we were talking, and then, like, he just said something about how he had always had a crush on me. And I was suddenly mistrustful about why he was talking to me. I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It?s like you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It?s why you want to meet somebody who?s in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don?t necessarily want to be with another actor.?
On having babies: Ryder says she?s not seeing anyone seriously now but has thought about what course her career might take when she, ?knock on wood,? has kids. ?I would at least take a couple of years off.? Just don?t expect her to disappear altogether.
A Sean Penn story: ?I remember when I was about 18,? she says, pausing for a moment. ?Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he?s like, ?By the time you?re 30, I will bet you $500 that you?ll be sick of acting.? I?m still waiting to collect, because I?m not.?
[From Elle]
It is kind of amazing to think that Winona was ?punished? by Hollywood for that shoplifting incident, when so many people have done so much worse and still had sizeable careers. Was it just the shoplifting incident, or was there more to it? I?m a fan of that era of gossip (late 1990s/early 2000s), and I seem to remember that Winona?s issues weren?t solely about kleptomania. That being said, she does seem lucid and happy and ?together? now, so more power to her. I?m happy to see her again.
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| | Winona Ryder at 39: humble, less crazy, ready to settle down | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Winona Ryder has a supporting part in Black Swan, and she?s given a surprisingly good interview to USA Today in support of the film. Winona is 39 years old now?she turns 40 in less than a year. Sigh? we?re all getting so OLD. Anyway, Winona sounds really good in this interview. There?s still a hint of the super-cool chick from the early 1990s that could do no wrong, but mostly she?s just kind of humble and reticent and interesting.
In person, she’s all jagged locks and wide brown eyes, her voice soft and dreamy. But on-screen, as a former “little princess” of a prima ballerina put out to pasture in Black Swan, Winona Ryder is all thunderous, seething fury.
The two-time Oscar nominee, who has been mostly under the radar for the last decade, makes the most of her time on-screen as Beth Macintyre, the former wunderkind of a Manhattan ballet company now relegated to toasting her replacement (Natalie Portman).
The similarities to her own career trajectory aren’t lost on Ryder. The actress broke out as a wispy, idiosyncratic child actress who starred in Beetlejuice, followed by Heathers, The Age of Innocence,Reality Bites, Little Women and Girl, Interrupted before hitting a prolonged professional dry spell.
“I had this great run when I was a teen and in my 20s, and then things got harder. That’s why I kind of love the parallel in Black Swan. It’s absurd that these girls have to retire so young. I just turned 39 the other day. And it’s like, ‘Wow, in a year I’ll be 40,’ ” Ryder says with a sigh and a smile.
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky can’t quite grasp that the perennially young Ryder is hitting middle age.
“She’s so youthful-looking,” he says. “I liked the idea of finding someone iconic, and Winona was the first idea to pop into our heads. Here’s an actress with huge chapters ahead of her, but people remember her when she used to be very much like Natalie Portman. I liked the meta-casting idea.”
He says Ryder brought professionalism and years of ingrained knowledge of moviemaking to the low-budget, no-frills shoot.
“She befriended everyone. She seemed very down to earth and aware of where her life and career was. She’s easy to talk to. She has a childlike innocence and purity,” says Aronofsky.
And her career appears to be on the upswing after a series of flops coupled with attention for the wrong reasons. A decade ago, Ryder was arrested on shoplifting charges; she was sentenced to probation and community service after a media circus trial.
It’s not a topic she wants to rehash, preferring to focus on her renewed passion for her day job. In addition to Black Swan, Ryder co-stars in the romantic comedy The Dilemma, out in January and directed by Ron Howard.
“After these movies, which were a real gift to me, work breeds work. There were a few years where the only thing I was getting offered was (slasher movies). I wasn’t offered Saw, but those kinds (of movies), or really stupid comedies,” she says. “Right now, I’m trying to be kind of choosy. There’s a few things on the horizon.”
Ryder is firmly old-school, still reading actual books by Philip Roth.
“I still love something tactile and tangible, turning pages. I got this iPad for my birthday. I can’t imagine reading a book on it. I just can’t imagine looking at a screen and not turning pages. Books are so beautiful to me,” she says.
Indeed, Ryder seems entrenched in the ’90s, back before she could Google herself ? not that she does.
“I don’t have a computer. I don’t go on the Internet. I keep hearing that you can find out anything, which is kind of too bad. Now everyone knows the salaries and the budgets and the troubles. It does take the mystery out,” says Ryder.
She’s content to spend her non-working time in her part-time home base of San Francisco, where she hangs out with artists and musicians.
“There’s a lot of cute writers up there. I gotta bag me a husband!” quips Ryder.
[From USA Today]
She sounds pretty good, doesn?t she? Is Winona still crazy? Is still a klepto? Does she ever sit around wondering if she should have stuck it out with Johnny Depp or Matt Damon? So many questions.
In another interview, Winona talked again about working with Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted. Previously, she?s talked about not being jealous of Angelina, and of how Angelina ?conquered? her beauty. Now Winona says that she was disappointed when Angelina ?kept her distance? while filming: ?I remember thinking, ‘Oh we’re going to turn out to be great friends’. But I think she needed to be able to look at me just as the character Susanna, not as Winona, so in a very respectful way she just kind of kept her distance. I saw her at one of the awards shows but I haven’t really seen her since. I remember in the press junket for Girl, Interrupted she would just be so open about her problems and then I would come in, and everyone would think I was so boring.? Ah, back when Angelina was crazy. Good times.
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