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Kathryn Bigelow is directing the thriller Aurora
Kathryn Bigelow is directing the thriller ‘Aurora’. The ‘Zero Dark 30’ director is helming the adaptation of the David Koepp novel, which is due out in June - the man behind the scripts for ‘Jurassic Park’, the original ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie, and ‘Spiderman’ - for Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 70-year-old Academy Award winner is producing the movie with her long standing producing partner Greg Shapiro and Gavin Polone, who has previously worked with the 58-year-old author on other films, such as ‘Stir of Echoes’ and ‘Secret Window’. They also reported that the movie i...
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Jessica Chastain: Awards season is happier without Weinstein
Jessica Chastain says awards season is "a much happier" time without Harvey Weinstein. The 44-year-old Hollywood star believes the disgraced movie mogul - who is currently serving 23 years in jail for sex crimes - was an "instigator" in sparking negativity when a movie was doing well. Opting not to name Weinstein, she said: “Listen, he-who-shall-not-be-named really changed awards season. "I don’t see it nowadays like I saw it when I first came onto the scene. If a film had a lot of attention, there’d be all these negative articles about it, all of a sudden. I believe he-who-shall-not-be-named ...
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Jessica Chastain: Awards season is happier without Weinstein
Jessica Chastain says awards season is "a much happier" time without Harvey Weinstein. The 44-year-old Hollywood star believes the disgraced movie mogul - who is currently serving 23 years in jail for sex crimes - was an "instigator" in sparking negativity when a movie was doing well. Opting not to name Weinstein, she said: “Listen, he-who-shall-not-be-named really changed awards season. "I don’t see it nowadays like I saw it when I first came onto the scene. If a film had a lot of attention, there’d be all these negative articles about it, all of a sudden. I believe he-who-shall-not-be-named ...
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James Cameron still 'very happy' ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow beat him to Best Director Oscar
James Cameron would be "feeling like s***" if he had denied his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow the chance to be the first-ever woman to win a Best Director Academy Award. The pair were married from 1989 to 1991, and they went up against one another for the gong at the 2010 Oscars only for Kathryn to win the prize for helming 'The Hurt Locker'. Cameron was up for the Best Director accolade for 'Avatar', which also lost out to his ex's movie in the Best Picture category that year - but the 67-year-old filmmaker insists he is "very happy" about how things went. He said: "I would submit after the fact th...
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