Independent.ie
A-listers in last-ditch plea to stop actors’ strike

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Wednesday December 17 2008

Dozens of the film industry’s biggest stars, including George Clooney and Cameron Diaz, have joined a last-ditch effort to prevent an actors’ strike from crippling the Hollywood awards season for the second consecutive year.

They are among 130 A-list celebrities who signed a letter urging the Screen Actors Guild, a trade union involved in a long-running dispute with major film studios, to call off a strike ballot scheduled for next month.

“We support our union and we support the issues we’re fighting for, but we do not believe now is the time to be putting people out of work,” said the letter, adding that a strike would create “economic hardship” for workers at every level of the movie business.

The letter bore the names of a staggering array of leading actors, including Glenn Close, Eva Longoria Parker, Tobey Maguire, Tom Hanks, Heather Graham, Kevin Spacey, Charlize Theron, Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Irons and Helen Mirren.

It was written by Rhea Perlman, wife of Danny DeVito, and sent on Monday to board members of the guild, which has spent most of the year deadlocked in negotiations with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers over a new employment contract for its 120,000 members.

The guild’s failure to agree a deal has caused it to fall out with rival unions, and seen Hollywood spend recent months on “virtual strike”.

Mounting hostility towards the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild spilled over on Monday, when its president, Alan Rosenberg, spoke to members in New York who have been critical of the decision to ballot over strike action.

Actor Alec Baldwin called for Mr Rosenberg and other negotiators to resign. “I’m curious why three other major unions came to terms with the [studios] and we haven’t. They have failed as negotiators.”

The Screen Actors Guild, meanwhile, has managed to get 31 high-profile members, including Mel Gibson and Martin Sheen, to put their names to a rival letter endorsing the strike bid. (© Independent News Service)

– Guy Adams in Los Angeles

December 17, 2008
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

SFFF Daily News Sights Celebrity Green Room

Awards Ceremony @ Santa Fe Film Festival

Giancarlos Esposito, Joan Allen, James Cromwell, Howard Shore, Ken Seng, Vilmos Zisgmond, Alan Arkin, Jeremy Irons, Bob Balaban, Robert Knott and Ali McGraw relaxing in Santa Fe Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony green room @ Scottish Rite Temple.

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from http://www.santafenewmexican.com

A number of movies made in New Mexico — including a darkly humorous homage to spaghetti westerns and a drama about an investment broker who decided to start over again in Taos — picked up awards at the 9th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival’s Milagro Awards Ceremony at the Scottish Rite Center on Saturday night. Actors Alan Arkin and Ali MacGraw (both Santa Feans) hosted the roughly two-hour event, which played to a capacity crowd.

That said, an unexpected highlight was the appearance of actors Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen, who are in town shooting the made-for-television movie Georgia O’Keeffe. The two jointly presented James Cromwell with his award.

December 8, 2008
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Mason, De Shields, Weiss, Lazar and More Join Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism

By Andrew Gans
December 3, 2008
from Playbill.com

Additional casting has been announced for the world premiere of Michael Jacobs’ Impressionism, which is scheduled to begin previews Feb. 28, 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

Joining the previously announced Tony Award winners Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen will be Marsha Mason (Steel Magnolias, Night of the Iguana), André De Shields (The Full Monty, Ain’t Misbehavin’), Michael T. Weiss (TV’s “The Pretender”), Aaron Lazar (Les Misérables, Tale of Two Cities) and Margarita Levieva, according to The New York Times.

Tony winner Jack O’Brien will direct the production, which will officially open March 12.

The Schoenfeld, located at 236 West 45th Street, is currently the home of the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, which will end its limited engagement Jan. 11, 2009.

Ostar Productions will produce Impressionism, which, press notes state, “is the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.”

Playwright Jacobs is also the author of Cheaters, which was produced on Broadway in 1978 at the Biltmore Theatre; and Getting Along Famously, which was produced Off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre. His 15 television series have won the Emmy, People’s Choice, Parent’s Choice and Environmental Media Awards, among others.

Joan Allen won a Tony Award for her performance in Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, and she was also Tony-nominated for her work in The Heidi Chronicles. Allen has been nominated for three Academy Awards: for “The Contender,” “The Crucible” and “Nixon.”

Jeremy Irons won a Tony Award for his performance in the original Broadway production of The Real Thing. The English actor also won Academy and Golden Globe awards for his work in the 1990 film “Reversal of Fortune.” Irons was also Golden-Globe nominated for “The Mission” and “Brideshead Revisited.” Among his London stage credits are Embers and The Rover.

December 3, 2008
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Warner Lassoes Appaloosa for Blu-ray: Full Details and Cover Art
December 02, 2008

New Line and Warner Home Video will open the corral and let the new Western Appaloosa, starring Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons, run loose on Blu-ray Disc January 13.

The day-and-date with DVD release will be presented in widescreen 2.4:1 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD lossless audio.

A respectable number of bonus features will be included on the BD-25 disc, one of which will be presented in high definition. The complete list is as follows.

* Commentary by Director Ed Harris and Screenwriter/Producer Robert Knott
* Additional Scenes with Selectable Ed Harris/Robert Knott Commentary (HD)
* Bringing the Characters of Appaloosa to Life featurette
* Historic Accuracy of Appaloosa featurette
* The Town of Appaloosa featurette
* Dean Semlers Return to the Western featurette

Appaloosa on Blu-ray Disc has a retail price of $35.99.

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Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Appaloosa on 13th January 2009 priced at $28.98 SRP. Ed Harris (who also directs, produces and co-scripts) and Viggo Mortensen star as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in this character-driven Western based on Robert B. Parkers novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renée Zellweger adds feelings – those things that can get you killed – to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) to justice. Blood will spill in the town called Appaloosa.

Features include:

* Anamorphic Widescreen
* English DD5.1 Surround
* English and Spanish subtitles
* Commentary by Director Ed Harris and Screenwriter/Producer Robert Knott
* Additional Scenes with Selectable Ed Harris/Robert Knott Commentary
* Corral of 4 Insightful Featurettes:
o Bringing the Characters of Appaloosa to Life
o Historic Accuracy of Appaloosa
o The Town of Appaloosa
o Dean Semlers Return to the Western

December 3, 2008
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December 1, 2008
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Also, watch Jeremy in the Student and Teacher reunion episode:

Find more information HERE.

December 1, 2008
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from Independent.ie

By Declan Lynch

Sunday November 30 2008

…SO I should draw attention to a few people who are engaged in good work on our behalf. Two programmes in a row, in fact, on TG4, showed all the signs of work that was not just well done, but that needed to be done.

Then TG4 showed Faoi Lan Cheoil, which performed the important public service of bringing us inside the castle of Jeremy Irons in West Cork, to see him playing the fiddle. Or at least learning how to play it, in the diddley- aye style.

Irons was giving access-all-areas to his teacher, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh, and he came across as a most engaging fellow. But while a trip to Miltown Malbay to the Willie Clancy Summer School was fair enough in the making of a traditional Irish music celebrity reality show, some would question the validity of a trip to New Mexico in that context.

O’Raghallaigh went there, to visit Irons on the set of the major motion picture Appaloosa. Yes, it might raise eyebrows in the offices of the Comptroller and Auditor General to see the words “New Mexico” on that itinerary, but it was justified on the grounds that it was actually very interesting to see Jeremy Irons relaxing in his trailer out there in the desert. In fact, I can’t recall ever seeing a movie star relaxing in his trailer before.

And even though he was making a movie, crucially, he was still learning how to play the fiddle. He was nearing the end of the journey which would enable him to stand up at the Fiddle Fair Festival in Baltimore (Co Cork) with Martin Hayes and friends and play a few tunes. Money well spent there.

December 1, 2008
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Sony pictures has moved up the release of “Pink Panther 2” by one week to Feb. 6, the same frame where “Pink Panther” debuted. The New York City premiere of the film will be February 3, 2009. No official word on whether Jeremy will attend the premiere, though he will be in New York City, in rehearsals for “Impressionism” at the time.

View the trailer here:

Check out the official website here.

November 28, 2008
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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons’s ambition is to perform the fiddle in public for the first time as part of the highly acclaimed Fiddle Fair Festival in Baltimore, County Cork – where Jeremy lives. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh takes Jeremy to the Willie Clancy Summer School and Bantry House where we capture performances from the likes of Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Breanndán Ó Beaglaíoch, Mick O’Brien, Dermie Diamond and many more.

Wednesday – 26/11 @ 10.30pm

November 25, 2008
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