Lifetime Networks Upfront Press Luncheon
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 21: Actor Jeremy Irons of the Lifetime Original Movie Georgia O’Keeffe attend Lifetime Networks’ 2009 Upfront Press Luncheon April 21, 2009 at Hearst Tower in New York City. (Photos by Thos Robinson/Getty Images)
Breaking news from Lifetime Original Movies:
Lifetime Television, the leading basic cable network for original movies among women, has assembled a diverse slate of contemporary films. The Network’s 2009-10 longform schedule remains top-notch.
Upcoming Lifetime Original Movies include September 19th’sGeorgia O’Keeffe, starring three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominee Joan Allen (The Contender) and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune).
The Georgia O’Keeffe biopic starring Joan Allen in the title role with Jeremy Irons as O’Keefe’s long-time lover, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, premieres Sept. 19.
Allen and Irons were in attendance at the upfront. Allen is also the executive producer on the project, which was originally optioned by HBO. The pay cabler relinquished the rights and Allen brought the project to Lifetime. She said she was grateful to HBO for giving her the rights back and to Lifetime for a quick turn-around.
“It’s a tough market for making movies,” said Allen. “It’s a tough market for making movie about women of a certain stature.”
Georgia O’Keeffe gave the production permission to film at Ghost Ranch, her former home in New Mexico. O’Keeffe also “endorsed us as being historically accurate,” said Allen, “which means a great deal to all of us.”
Irons quipped: “Despite my disappointment at not being involved in Project Runway, I am very happy to be involved in this.”
These photos of the exterior of the theatre and the signage were taken on April 18th and 19th, 2009.
The opening night of ‘Mary Stuart’ at the Broadhurst on Sunday night brought out some of New York’s acting royalty to watch Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter play Queens Elizabeth of England and Mary of Scotland.
Liam Neeson came with friend Ralph Fiennes and flashed a big thumbs up to photographers (seen below), Sarah Jessica Parker came with husband Matthew Broderick, and Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Jeremy Irons and more all turned out on the red carpet to show their support.
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TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2009
Tony Award-winner Jeremy Irons on why the play “Impressionism” lured him back to Broadway for the first time since “The Real Thing” in 1984.
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BROADWAY MAGAZINE – With a show that boasts Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen and director Jack O’Brien, the new play Impressionism faced high expectations out of the gate. Though the opening night critics were not positive toward the production, a new article by Jeremy Gerard in Bloomberg suggests that the show is faring at least as well as some of the other more positively reviewed plays currently running on Broadway. In his article, Mr. Gerard dissects production costs of mounting a Broadway play, as well as looks at a bit of the reasoning behind producing Impressionism without an out-of-town workshop. For the record, Impressionism actually out-grossed Jane Fonda in 33 Variations last week by over $22,000.
JEREMY IRONS AT A”TIMES TALK” ON MONDAY APRIL 13
The actor has given his backing to a campaign group which seeks to protect old pubs and hotels in west Dorset.
One of the properties is the long derelict Three Cups Hotel, a Grade II-listed Georgian building in Lyme Regis, Dorset, which featured in the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman. The film has a shot of Irons looking out of the first floor bow window of the hotel.
In a message to the campaign group, Irons said: “It seems to me that owners leaving a building abandoned for a long period of time, when that building is part of the local community, should be prosecuted for vandalism to our built heritage.
“I cannot believe that the local authorities do not have the power of compulsory purchase in such a case and I hope they may be prompted into using such power on behalf of the people of Lyme Regis and all of us who value our irreplaceable architectural heritage.”
JRR Tolkein stayed at the Three Cups on several occasions and he wrote part of TheLord of the Rings in the hotel. GK Chesterton was also a guest at the hotel which has been unoccupied for nearly 20 years.
John Grantham, the leader of the campaign group, Community Alert on Pubs, said he approached Irons for support and was surprised to receive a reply.
Mr Grantham said the hotel was suffering from general decay.
He said: “Clearly many pubs these days need to close because of low customer demand in places, but where you have an iconic hotel in the centre of a town with great heritage they should surely be very well preserved and used if possible.
“One suggestion from the Lyme Regis Development Trust is that the Three Cups could become a Jurassic study centre, attracting visitors from all over the country and the world. It is currently a blot on the town and there is a substantial loss of income to the town from the building being unused.”
The Three Cups is owned by the brewers JC and RH Palmer who said they had been unable to do anything with the building until the area behind it had been stabilized, following some land slippage.
This had now been done as part of the Lyme Regis coastal protection scheme.
Palmers said it was unable to proceed further, however, in the current economic climate.
Daryl Turner, who represents Lyme Regis on West Dorset district council, said: “I have raised the question of compulsory purchase (of the hotel) on several occasions. But there is a limited budget for this type of action.”
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