John Landis made his first dent in Hollywood with this hilarious parody of Z-grade monster movies, and it was big enough to launch a film career. The kudos go to Landis’ comic monkey-man performance, wearing a Schockthropus ape suit by the 20 year-old self taught makeup whiz Rick Baker. Only monster movie fans will understand, but they’ll be charmed. This foreign edition is stacked with schlock-thropic extras.
Schlock
Blu-ray + DVD
Turbine Media Group
1973 / Color / Region Free / 1:78 widescreen (Blu-ray); 1:37 Academy (Ntsc DVD) / 79 min. / Available from Rakete Shop (De) / Street Date April 27, 2018 / Euros 29.99
Starring: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Eliza Garrett, Joseph Piantadosi, Enrica Blankey (Harriet Medin), Forrest J. Ackerman, Jack H. Harris, Donald F. Glut, John Chambers, Ivan Lepper.
Cinematography: Robert E. Collins
Film Editor: George Folsey Jr.
Makeup Artist: Rick Baker
Original Music: David Gibson
Produced by George Folsey Jr., Jack H. Harris, James C. O’Rourke
Written and...
Schlock
Blu-ray + DVD
Turbine Media Group
1973 / Color / Region Free / 1:78 widescreen (Blu-ray); 1:37 Academy (Ntsc DVD) / 79 min. / Available from Rakete Shop (De) / Street Date April 27, 2018 / Euros 29.99
Starring: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Eliza Garrett, Joseph Piantadosi, Enrica Blankey (Harriet Medin), Forrest J. Ackerman, Jack H. Harris, Donald F. Glut, John Chambers, Ivan Lepper.
Cinematography: Robert E. Collins
Film Editor: George Folsey Jr.
Makeup Artist: Rick Baker
Original Music: David Gibson
Produced by George Folsey Jr., Jack H. Harris, James C. O’Rourke
Written and...
- 5/3/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
From the first gee-whiz smile at her press conference to the soaring shots of her plane clipping clouds over lush plains, Amelia is the Great American Red-eye. You want to get on the flight, but sleeping through it is the primary expectation, because you know as soon as it's over, you get to wake up fresh and with a purpose—like never seeing Amelia again.
Alas, I stayed awake, if only through sheer determination, something the film wants to express with the title character but mistake it with bullheadedness. When the film is not being annoying, it's little more than good background noise as I count the petals on my couch's floral patterns. I got to 62 before cabin fever set in.
Even the framing of the film is an unimaginative bore. Amelia Earhart (Hillary Swank) and her trusty navigator (Christopher Eccleston) takes off on a round-the-globe flight, and while they do this,...
Alas, I stayed awake, if only through sheer determination, something the film wants to express with the title character but mistake it with bullheadedness. When the film is not being annoying, it's little more than good background noise as I count the petals on my couch's floral patterns. I got to 62 before cabin fever set in.
Even the framing of the film is an unimaginative bore. Amelia Earhart (Hillary Swank) and her trusty navigator (Christopher Eccleston) takes off on a round-the-globe flight, and while they do this,...
- 2/13/2010
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
Amelia would appear to be, on the surface at least, another biopic destined for award buzz. It isn’t. Instead, this aviation movie from director Mira Nair, based on the book East To The Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler, is a shockingly boring and sadly conventional film. I’d use the cliché “paint-by-numbers,” but the word “paint” may lead to “vivid colors” leading into creativity and passion for which Amelia has none.
While movies should appear within the framework of historical accuracy, they shouldn’t be beholden to them, which Amelia clearly is. Unlike Scorsese’s The Aviator, Amelia is a stuffy throwback that may have come straight out of 1950’s Hollywood –an unusual move for the usually neon Nair. Unfortunately, a History Channel special on the American Industrial Revolution has more flare.
Famed pilot and social pioneer, Amelia Earhart is purported to be a larger...
While movies should appear within the framework of historical accuracy, they shouldn’t be beholden to them, which Amelia clearly is. Unlike Scorsese’s The Aviator, Amelia is a stuffy throwback that may have come straight out of 1950’s Hollywood –an unusual move for the usually neon Nair. Unfortunately, a History Channel special on the American Industrial Revolution has more flare.
Famed pilot and social pioneer, Amelia Earhart is purported to be a larger...
- 2/12/2010
- by Erik Buckman
- ReelLoop.com
Chicago – It seems downright sad that “Amelia,” a movie that was so widely predicted to be a part of the 2009 awards season, would be released on Blu-ray and DVD on the same day as the Oscar announcements. On paper, “Amelia” seemed like Oscar bait through and through with important subject matter headlined by one of the few women to have more than one Oscar. On Blu-ray, it’s easy to see why this cinematic plane crashed and burned.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
“Amelia” is one of those well-intentioned dramas that doesn’t necessarily do that much wrong that it’s worth getting fired up about but it’s so shockingly forgettable and sleep-inducing. Sure, it looks good, the performances are reasonably interesting, and it features an intriguing true story, but it’s so old-fashioned that it crosses into by-the-numbers, generic cinema that they don’t really make that often any more for a reason.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
“Amelia” is one of those well-intentioned dramas that doesn’t necessarily do that much wrong that it’s worth getting fired up about but it’s so shockingly forgettable and sleep-inducing. Sure, it looks good, the performances are reasonably interesting, and it features an intriguing true story, but it’s so old-fashioned that it crosses into by-the-numbers, generic cinema that they don’t really make that often any more for a reason.
- 2/8/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
"Amelia" is currently available on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def.
The story of Amelia Earhart, which flew into theaters in fall 2009, was released on home formats on February 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The new styles allow for even more insights into the groundbreaking modern day historical figure with plentiful special features about the back story of the film and the eponymous character.
Hilary Swank stars as Earhart, the aspiring aviatrix who made headlines in the 1930s for her record-setting flights around the globe, which began with a transatlantic publicity venture that resulted in her becoming the first woman to fly from America to Europe by airplane. The story follows her ambitions in further pioneering the field of aeronautics, with the help of publishing magnate George Putnam (Richard Gere), her benefactor and eventual husband. The film's storyline is framed around Earhart's final flight, an attempted journey around the world, the...
The story of Amelia Earhart, which flew into theaters in fall 2009, was released on home formats on February 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The new styles allow for even more insights into the groundbreaking modern day historical figure with plentiful special features about the back story of the film and the eponymous character.
Hilary Swank stars as Earhart, the aspiring aviatrix who made headlines in the 1930s for her record-setting flights around the globe, which began with a transatlantic publicity venture that resulted in her becoming the first woman to fly from America to Europe by airplane. The story follows her ambitions in further pioneering the field of aeronautics, with the help of publishing magnate George Putnam (Richard Gere), her benefactor and eventual husband. The film's storyline is framed around Earhart's final flight, an attempted journey around the world, the...
- 2/3/2010
- icelebz.com
Zombieland
Jesse Eisenberg teams up with Woody Harrelson to survive the zombie apocalypse, as the latter sets out to find the last Twinkie on Earth. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin enter the fray, and, well, as William Goss wrote in his review: "It's a constantly clever comedy whose characters have amusingly direct motives (i.e. Tallahassee wants a Twinkie above all else) that disguise some genuine losses, and most of the gags stem from their relationships -- coward vs. cowboy, gals undermining guys -- above general (albeit welcome) irreverence." Buy it.
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Amelia
Hilary Swank's Amelia Earhart biopic is now hitting the shelves, detailing her love of George Putnam (Richard Gere), and the advances of one Mr. Gene Vidal (Gore Vidal's dad, played by Ewan McGregor). Jette Kernion wrote that the film: "succeeds in portraying the famous aviatrix in a whole new...
Jesse Eisenberg teams up with Woody Harrelson to survive the zombie apocalypse, as the latter sets out to find the last Twinkie on Earth. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin enter the fray, and, well, as William Goss wrote in his review: "It's a constantly clever comedy whose characters have amusingly direct motives (i.e. Tallahassee wants a Twinkie above all else) that disguise some genuine losses, and most of the gags stem from their relationships -- coward vs. cowboy, gals undermining guys -- above general (albeit welcome) irreverence." Buy it.
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Amelia
Hilary Swank's Amelia Earhart biopic is now hitting the shelves, detailing her love of George Putnam (Richard Gere), and the advances of one Mr. Gene Vidal (Gore Vidal's dad, played by Ewan McGregor). Jette Kernion wrote that the film: "succeeds in portraying the famous aviatrix in a whole new...
- 2/2/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Despite the differences in nationality and era, the main character and the director of the Fox Searchlight biopic "Amelia" share many traits. Indian-born director Mira Nair and world-famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart grew up in rural areas and achieved international fame. Before Earhart mysteriously disappeared on a flight over the Pacific, she captured the imagination of a Depression-ridden world by becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo. Nair is one of the few female directors to maintain a steady international career, with such diverse films as "Salaam Bombay!," "Monsoon Wedding," "Vanity Fair," and "The Namesake."Nair thought Hilary Swank, who won Oscars for her performances in gender-defying roles in "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby," would be ideal for the role of Earhart. "Hilary is an intuitive daredevil," observes Nair. "She loves the roller coaster of life. She would happily jump out in a parachute and come down just like Amelia,...
- 12/8/2009
- backstage.com
Amelia Earhart, the great pioneer aviatrix, has been impersonated on screen by numerous actresses, among them Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Diane Keaton and Amy Adams. But never as convincingly as she is by Hilary Swank in this immensely enjoyably biopic from the Indian director who made her name with Salaam Bombay!. With the right short haircut, some orthodontic effects and sporting her regular radiant smile, Swank bears an uncanny resemblance to Earhart and the film borrows the device Billy Wilder used in his Lindbergh film, Spirit of St Louis, of telling her story in flashbacks from an epic flight. In her case, it's the doomed round-the-world trip she embarked on in 1937 in her 40th year, accompanied by ace celestial navigator Fred Noonan.
The film chronicles her early fascination with flight, her companionate marriage to publisher and publicist George Putnam (Richard Gere at his most charming), her two record-breaking transatlantic flights,...
The film chronicles her early fascination with flight, her companionate marriage to publisher and publicist George Putnam (Richard Gere at his most charming), her two record-breaking transatlantic flights,...
- 11/15/2009
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Joe Anderson
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
- 10/26/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Joe Anderson
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- - -
It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
- 10/26/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Joe Anderson
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- - -
It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- - -
It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
- 10/26/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Joe Anderson
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- - -
It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
Director: Mira Nair
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Running Time: 111 min
MPAA Rating: PG
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- - -
It was precisely the social issues that are quite prominent in India that director Mira Nair tries to infuse elements of her own Indian tradition into this embalmed Hollywood biopic. What should have been a fairly easy transition for Nair turns into an unfulfilling film that makes a mockery out of one of the most honorable female characters the twentieth century has seen, female pilot Amelia Earhart. With her desires and ambitions to become "important" in a world dominated by men, there seems to be a converging of ideas relative to Nair's previous films which happen to plunge headfirst into human experience and relying on emotions and conflict rather than Hollywood hoopla and foolish sentiment.
Had Nair's talent and conscience...
- 10/26/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Apple have released a brand new featurette which gives us a behind the scenes look at the movie based on the amazing woman who made an attempt to be the first person, male or female to fly solo across the world. This featurette focuses on how they achieved some of the aerial shots.
Amelia stars Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart with Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston with direction coming from Mira Nair. Check out the featurette which I’ve embedded below or head over to Apple to view in HD.
Amelia is out in cinemas 13th November.
Amelia stars two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix and enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit, who was guided by a profound curiosity for everything life had to offer. Earhart’s early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled along by her...
Amelia stars Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart with Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston with direction coming from Mira Nair. Check out the featurette which I’ve embedded below or head over to Apple to view in HD.
Amelia is out in cinemas 13th November.
Amelia stars two-time Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix and enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit, who was guided by a profound curiosity for everything life had to offer. Earhart’s early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled along by her...
- 10/25/2009
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Amelia" movie showed a good depiction of the flying legend, Amelia Earhart,as far as I can tell,anyways. It was well before my time. This movie by Fox Searchlight pictures stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Mia Wasikowska. I thought Hilary Swank did an excellent job,especially with the voice and accent of Amelia Earhart. The movie showed how Amelia first hooked up with her promoter, George Putnam so that she could become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. It also showed how she later went on to fly across the Atlantic Ocean for a 2nd time,on a solo flight. It showed how Amelia became an instant celebrity after she made her first trip across the Atlantic Ocean,and inspired more women flyers. She also ended up marrying George Putnam,and it showed her affair with pilot Gene Vidal.
- 10/25/2009
- by Andre@ontheflix
- OnTheFlix
Amelia is the much anticipated film of the pioneering aviatrix, Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This new, historical biopic from director Mira Nair (The Namesake, Vanity Fair), stars two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the legendary pilot (she also serves as executive producer), Richard Gere as her husband and agent/publisher, George Putnam, and Ewan McGregor as Twa founder and Earhart’s lover, Gene Vidal (Gore Vidal’s father). From a screenplay by Ronald Bass (Academy Award winner for Rain Man) and Anna Hamilton Phelan, based on the books “East to the Dawn” by Susan Butler and “The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell,” Amelia chronicles the life of Earhart from her early life in Kansas, the first flight across the Atlantic, and Putnam’s attempt to make her a female Lindbergh through product placement. The film also covers her...
- 10/23/2009
- by Michelle
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Academy Award–nominated director Mira Nair is at a tiny airport in Essex County, New Jersey, sitting in traffic, an hour and a half away from her home in Manhattan, and she is having a good day. The Ninety Nines, a female aviation club that was partially founded by Amelia Earhart, have just presented her with a gift: a first edition of Earhart’s book 20 Hrs., 40 Min. signed by the flying ace herself. The day Earhart autographed that book, she could never have possibly imagined that, 80 years later, it would wind up in the hands of the woman entrusted with bringing her story to 21st-century audiences. Nair is hoping her next few weeks get even better. Amelia (opening today) is obvious Oscar bait, and the director seems optimistic about her chances. Just as her on-screen subject imposed herself in the field of aviation, Nair has no trepidation about breaking into...
- 10/23/2009
- Vanity Fair
"I want to be free -- to be a vagabond of the air," Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) tells her future husband, George Putnam (Richard Gere), when he proposes marriage early on in Mira Nair's Amelia. Yet there she is, shackled to Earth in this stilted, corny biopic, a movie so generic that, were it not for Earhart's name and history, it could have been about anyone. Nair is such a distinctive director, whose work is so personal and full of passion, that it's hard not to count her as a victim of this misadventure. Watching Amelia is like sitting through an endless series of story conferences, in which the life is slowly sifted out of the material. What you end up with is a tale told in broad strokes, akin to the kind of denatured film biographies the studios produced in the 1940s...
- 10/23/2009
- by Marshall Fine
- Huffington Post
Amelia
Directed by: Mira Nair
Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Plot: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart (Swank), who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Who’S It For? Women pilots, and maybe other pilots who have already decided there is nothing more beautiful than flight. Yes, I realize that’s a very limited group. Conspiracy theorists need not bother.
Expectations: I can’t say I’m a fan of Swank, but she continues to impress. Plus, I’m a sucker for getting my history in the form of a bio-pic.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart: The very first second she speaks on screen I got extremely nervous. Somehow she talks with her teeth, not her mouth. Yes, the accent gets a little better,...
Directed by: Mira Nair
Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Running Time: 1 hr 51 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Plot: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart (Swank), who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Who’S It For? Women pilots, and maybe other pilots who have already decided there is nothing more beautiful than flight. Yes, I realize that’s a very limited group. Conspiracy theorists need not bother.
Expectations: I can’t say I’m a fan of Swank, but she continues to impress. Plus, I’m a sucker for getting my history in the form of a bio-pic.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart: The very first second she speaks on screen I got extremely nervous. Somehow she talks with her teeth, not her mouth. Yes, the accent gets a little better,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and Christopher Eccleston in Amelia
Photo: Fox Searchlight Mira Nair's Amelia is no more a story of the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart as it is a standard by-the-book fourth grade telling of her life. Starting from the end and then giving us the Cliff's Notes on how she got there, Nair's film never once attempts to dig into what makes Earhart's story a story worth telling and instead just boils down to a woman that flew planes and got married. She's inspirational because we're told so and she's quite poetic when it comes to describing her time in the air as Hilary Swank's banal voice over reminds us every five minutes.
Swank stars in the title role, a role assumed to be a likely third Oscar nomination for the two-time winner as soon as it was announced, but now she may be struggling to...
Photo: Fox Searchlight Mira Nair's Amelia is no more a story of the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart as it is a standard by-the-book fourth grade telling of her life. Starting from the end and then giving us the Cliff's Notes on how she got there, Nair's film never once attempts to dig into what makes Earhart's story a story worth telling and instead just boils down to a woman that flew planes and got married. She's inspirational because we're told so and she's quite poetic when it comes to describing her time in the air as Hilary Swank's banal voice over reminds us every five minutes.
Swank stars in the title role, a role assumed to be a likely third Oscar nomination for the two-time winner as soon as it was announced, but now she may be struggling to...
- 10/23/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Still, why not be a little happy that we can still get an adult-oriented movie like this, well and sometimes lovingly crafted and splendidly shot (by Stuart Dryburgh), with fine performances by Hilary Swank as the spunky, expert flier Amelia, Richard Gere as her media-savvy publisher/husband George Putnam, Ewan McGregor as her fellow pilot/aviation teacher/lover Gene Vidal, Christopher Eccleston as her hard drinking navigator Fred Noonan, Cherry Jones as New Deal first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (too brief, too brief), and most of the rest of a glittering cast, in the same week when the studios also give us another bash-’em, slash-’em horror franchise bloodbath (Saw VI) and another teen vampire movie (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant).
- 10/23/2009
- Movie City News
I had a great time meeting Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair. Both were very passionate about their film and its subject, the legendary Amelia Earhart.
So here are my interviews and have fun!
Hilary Swank
In this interview, we talked about:
*** Her involvement with the film
*** How she prepared for the role
*** What interested her in making Amelia
*** What she wants viewers to get from watching "Amelia"
(Click on the picture to access the interview)
Director Mira Nair
We talked about:
*** Her involvement with the film
*** Her inspiration for the movie "Amelia"
*** Working with Hilary Swank and Richard Gere
*** What she hoped for the audience to get watching "Amelia"
(Click on the picture to access the interview)
Here's more info about "Amelia" from Yahoo:
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light,...
So here are my interviews and have fun!
Hilary Swank
In this interview, we talked about:
*** Her involvement with the film
*** How she prepared for the role
*** What interested her in making Amelia
*** What she wants viewers to get from watching "Amelia"
(Click on the picture to access the interview)
Director Mira Nair
We talked about:
*** Her involvement with the film
*** Her inspiration for the movie "Amelia"
*** Working with Hilary Swank and Richard Gere
*** What she hoped for the audience to get watching "Amelia"
(Click on the picture to access the interview)
Here's more info about "Amelia" from Yahoo:
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Amelia
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor
Directed by Mira Nair
Rated PG
Memorable only for the opportunity it has missed, Amelia manages to tell us everything about Amelia Earhart except what we might want to know. A great film can take the unvarnished details of an ordinary life and make them fascinating, so how can a movie about a woman so intersting and influential be so damn boring?
The film never goes deeper than the things you understand before you buy your ticket: It's the story of Amelia Earhart, who died trying to become the first person to fly around the world. Hilary Swank looks a lot like the character she's portraying.
The shame is that Swank is twice an Oscar winner, and was fantastic on both occasions (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby). Almost without exception, though, Swank has been only passable or worse in her other films.
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor
Directed by Mira Nair
Rated PG
Memorable only for the opportunity it has missed, Amelia manages to tell us everything about Amelia Earhart except what we might want to know. A great film can take the unvarnished details of an ordinary life and make them fascinating, so how can a movie about a woman so intersting and influential be so damn boring?
The film never goes deeper than the things you understand before you buy your ticket: It's the story of Amelia Earhart, who died trying to become the first person to fly around the world. Hilary Swank looks a lot like the character she's portraying.
The shame is that Swank is twice an Oscar winner, and was fantastic on both occasions (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby). Almost without exception, though, Swank has been only passable or worse in her other films.
- 10/23/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Review in a Hurry: Hilary Swank dons more than just a pilot's cap to become Amelia Earhart, legendary '30s aviator and folk hero. But in this careful and bland biopic, the two-time Oscar winner gets—like her latest doomed subject—lost the clouds. The Bigger Picture: With Amelia, director Mira Nair gives us a version of the world-famous pilot's life that adds up to little more than a ho-hum love story—with some admittedly breathtaking aerial sequences. In 1928, Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic—although as a passenger not a pilot. It was all a PR stunt concocted by book publisher and publicist George Putnam (Richard Gere), and a few years later, Amelia (married...
- 10/23/2009
- E! Online
After a series of quickly forgotten films released in the past few years, Mira Nair is back with a film that has rewards bait written all over it, the Amelia Earhart biopic “Amelia.” The film, told in flashback from the infamously last flight of the most famous female aviator, focuses on Earhart’s (Hilary Swank) relationship with her husband, the publishing mogul George Putnam (Richard Gere) and her friend and possibly illicit …...
- 10/22/2009
- Indiewire
Amelia is a tame, neutral glide through the acts of a woman who was neither, fueled by none of the passion or wonder that drove her to new heights.
The story begins and ends with the fateful flight in July 1937 when Amelia Earhart attempted to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Then a vacant look and a cloud wipe take us back to fond memories that lead up to this perilous adventure.
Earhart’s childhood motivation for flying is glossed over in seconds, skipping to the chapters where her accomplishments begin. She stares off into the sunset and wishes aloud to be truly free and without boundaries. “No borders, just horizons.” It’s a shame the creative team doesn’t share the same sentiments.
Hilary Swank makes due with the script’s grandiloquent dialogue and grandiose narrations while gripping to a Kansas accent and forcing a smile for the flashbulbs.
The story begins and ends with the fateful flight in July 1937 when Amelia Earhart attempted to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Then a vacant look and a cloud wipe take us back to fond memories that lead up to this perilous adventure.
Earhart’s childhood motivation for flying is glossed over in seconds, skipping to the chapters where her accomplishments begin. She stares off into the sunset and wishes aloud to be truly free and without boundaries. “No borders, just horizons.” It’s a shame the creative team doesn’t share the same sentiments.
Hilary Swank makes due with the script’s grandiloquent dialogue and grandiose narrations while gripping to a Kansas accent and forcing a smile for the flashbulbs.
- 10/22/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
What can you say about a woman who vanishes in proverbial thin air? The mysteries about the remarkable Amelia Earhart and her disappearance in 1937 with her navigator Fred Noonan (Christopher Eggleston) over the Pacific Ocean persist and make ideal fodder for biographies and biopics. In Amelia, the new movie directed by Mira Nair, Hilary Swank stars sporting a boyish haircut that reminds us of her Oscar winning role in Boys Don't Cry. Earhart was the ideal and most idealized woman of her time, a role model for young aviatrixes, and women everywhere. When asked for advice, she says, Don't let anyone turn you around, a great message for anyone gifted with her passion. Aside from flying, she also has a knack for finding wonderful, enabling men: her husband George Putnam (Richard Gere, still a heartthrob with silver hair) and...
- 10/21/2009
- by Regina Weinreich
- Huffington Post
'She had a writer's soul,' Richard Gere says of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart.
By Jocelyn Vena
Ewan McGregor
Photo: MTV News
New York — Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere all stepped out on Tuesday night to celebrate the New York premiere of "Amelia," their lavish biopic about legendary pilot Amelia Earhart.
"Well, I think Amelia was one of those women who made no apologies for living her life the way she wanted," Swank told the press on the red carpet. "She certainly was ahead of her time, but even if she were living today, it's a great lesson in how to live your life and certainly a reminder to me."
Gere also gushed about Earhart's contributions to history and pop culture, noting that the pilot, who disappeared in 1937 while crossing the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to fly around the world, left a mark on the life of his character,...
By Jocelyn Vena
Ewan McGregor
Photo: MTV News
New York — Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere all stepped out on Tuesday night to celebrate the New York premiere of "Amelia," their lavish biopic about legendary pilot Amelia Earhart.
"Well, I think Amelia was one of those women who made no apologies for living her life the way she wanted," Swank told the press on the red carpet. "She certainly was ahead of her time, but even if she were living today, it's a great lesson in how to live your life and certainly a reminder to me."
Gere also gushed about Earhart's contributions to history and pop culture, noting that the pilot, who disappeared in 1937 while crossing the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to fly around the world, left a mark on the life of his character,...
- 10/21/2009
- MTV Movie News
From left, Hilary Swank in Amelia and the actual Amelia Earhart in 1928.
Photo: New York Times Update: I have now been informed Seattle will have an earlier screening on Wednesday morning. So I will have a chance to see it before Thursday night, which will certainly help in putting together a more thoughtful review.
Last week I got my last second invite to see Amelia this Thursday, one day before it hits theaters. Considering it's a film many are looking at as an easy choice for Oscar with Hilary Swank in the lead role as aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, the fact Fox Searchlight has only held a couple of screenings to this point and is showing it to critics so late in the game typically doesn't bode well. However, there are a few in the tank for the film sight-unseen and the first reviews arrived just today.
In the worst...
Photo: New York Times Update: I have now been informed Seattle will have an earlier screening on Wednesday morning. So I will have a chance to see it before Thursday night, which will certainly help in putting together a more thoughtful review.
Last week I got my last second invite to see Amelia this Thursday, one day before it hits theaters. Considering it's a film many are looking at as an easy choice for Oscar with Hilary Swank in the lead role as aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, the fact Fox Searchlight has only held a couple of screenings to this point and is showing it to critics so late in the game typically doesn't bode well. However, there are a few in the tank for the film sight-unseen and the first reviews arrived just today.
In the worst...
- 10/19/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This week finds early awards season contenders lining up alongside a queer cinema double bill, a troupe of unorthodox vampires and a horror movie franchise that's become torturous in more ways than one.
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"Amelia"
Awards season takes flight with celebrated director Mira Nair's biopic charting the early life and rise to prominence of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank produced and stars as the elusive Kansas-born pilot as she perilously navigates the skies, the trappings of fame and her romances with publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska join the heavyweight cast in this pic whose Oscar-friendly subject matter may allow it to fly under the Academy's expanded Best Picture tent.
Opens in limited release.
"Antichrist"
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"Amelia"
Awards season takes flight with celebrated director Mira Nair's biopic charting the early life and rise to prominence of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank produced and stars as the elusive Kansas-born pilot as she perilously navigates the skies, the trappings of fame and her romances with publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska join the heavyweight cast in this pic whose Oscar-friendly subject matter may allow it to fly under the Academy's expanded Best Picture tent.
Opens in limited release.
"Antichrist"
Controversial from the word go, Danish...
- 10/19/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
In a hangar in Fairfield, New Jersey’s Essex County Airport, two-time Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair (The Namesake; Monsoon Wedding) recently joined historical authors Elgen Long and Susan Butler and the President of the 99s, a women’s aviation organization, to discuss the making of Amelia, a biopic about Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and who pioneered the way for other women to break into aviation and aeronautics.
Aboard her Lockheed Electra airplane (reproduction from the film pictured above) Earhart disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Her body was never recovered.
Amelia is already garnering attention as a Best Actress frontrunner for Swank’s performance. Swank dedicated weeks to refining Earhart’s speech pattern and spent months gaining a better understanding of the freckle-faced, gung-ho adventurer and legendary international icon.
Richard Gere plays George Putnam,...
Aboard her Lockheed Electra airplane (reproduction from the film pictured above) Earhart disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Her body was never recovered.
Amelia is already garnering attention as a Best Actress frontrunner for Swank’s performance. Swank dedicated weeks to refining Earhart’s speech pattern and spent months gaining a better understanding of the freckle-faced, gung-ho adventurer and legendary international icon.
Richard Gere plays George Putnam,...
- 10/19/2009
- CinemaSpy
New interview clips are in from Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Amelia" which opens on October 23rd. Interviews include with Hilary Swank (Amelia Earhart), Richard Gere (George Putnam), Ewan McGRegor (Gene Vidal), Christopher Eccleston (Fred Noonan), Mia Wasikowska (Elinor Swmith) as well as director Mira Nair and producers Lydia Dean Pilcher and Kevin Hyman. Also, see a behind-the-scenes clip from the Ron Bass-written adventure drama. After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband...
- 10/16/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
I know Mira Nair.s Amelia is all the rage when it comes to award season buzz but .yawn.. Amelia Earhart.s story is inspiration and Hilary Swank is an incredible actress but for some reason I can.t help but to roll my eyes every time I see the trailer. Therefore, I.m just as unenthused with the new photos from the film posted by Fox Searchlight. They give you a look at the film.s main characters; Amelia Earhart (Swank), of course, her husband George Putnam (Richard Gere), Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) with whom Earhart had a brief affair and Elinor Smith (Mia Wasikowska), another female aviator. In the last picture we see Earhart with Bill Stultz (Joe Anderson) and Slim Gordon (Aaron Abrams) with whom she flew from Newfoundland to Wales becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic I.m sure I.ll be kicking...
- 10/7/2009
- cinemablend.com
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Oh man, am I looking foward to this one. Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston? I’d be flying, too: Fox Searchlight tells us about the flick: Amelia stars two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, the legendary aviatrix and enigmatic symbol of the American free spirit, who was guided by a profound curiosity for everything life had to offer. Earhart’s early aviation triumphs and meteoric rise to fame and fortune were propelled along by her tempestuous partnership and eventual marriage to publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere). Bound by mutal ambition, admiration and, ultimately, a great love, their bond could not be broken even with her brief passionate affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor).
- 9/30/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank is set to embark on a journey with no point of return in the upcoming biographical film "Amelia."
Based on the life of aviation pioneer Amelia Earheart, the film chronicles her rise to fame amid the time's gender prejudice and her rocky relationship with her husband George Putnam.
Amelia was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross award for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She attempted to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, but she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2 of the same year. She was declared dead in 1939.
Swank stars as the title character, while Richard Gere stars as Putnam. Also in the cast are Virginia Madsen, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor.
Based on the life of aviation pioneer Amelia Earheart, the film chronicles her rise to fame amid the time's gender prejudice and her rocky relationship with her husband George Putnam.
Amelia was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross award for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She attempted to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, but she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2 of the same year. She was declared dead in 1939.
Swank stars as the title character, while Richard Gere stars as Putnam. Also in the cast are Virginia Madsen, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor.
- 9/8/2009
- icelebz.com
It's seems like an age ago that Hilary Swank was hoovering up Oscars like some kind of thespianic Dyson, but Amelia, the Swank-starring biopic of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, could be just the kind of Academy bait to see her back at the Kodak Theatre next year for a crack at her third gold statute.Here she is as Earhart in full flying garb - minus the floppy-eared hat and goggles - on the movie's new promo poster. It's all elegantly understated, although at first glance it does look like the aviation pioneer is attempting to circumnavigate the globe in an Airfix model (although that could be just us).Co-starring with Swank in Amelia are Ewan McGregor (as Earhart's great love and dad of Gore, Gene Vidal) and Christopher Eccleston, as well as Richard Gere as Earhart's husband and promoter, George Putnam. Amelia is out in the UK on November...
- 8/14/2009
- EmpireOnline
Today we have many new posters for the upcoming Amelia Earhart biopic, entitled "Amelia" and starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen and Ewan McGregor. Check them out by clicking on the link below. "Amelia" is a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Story chronicles her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal. The new movie is directed by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) and is scheduled to appear in theaters on October 23rd. Click here to read more about "Amelia."...
- 8/13/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
The trailer for the upcoming Amelia Earhart biopic, entitled "Amelia" and starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen and Ewan McGregor, has been released. Check it out by clicking on the link below. "Amelia" is a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world. Story chronicles her rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal. The new movie is directed by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) and is scheduled to appear in theaters on October 23rd. Click here to read more about "Amelia."...
- 6/26/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
The first trailer for Amelia – the Amelia Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank – is online and you can see it below. Looking like it wants to be considered pure Oscar bait, the biopic of the legendary female pilot – whose bold plan to fly around the world ended in her vanishing, never to be seen again – is being brought to life by Mira Nair. Swank plays the idealistic and spirited airwoman, with Richard Gere as George Putnam, the man who loved her. While it’s definitely got some interesting imagery,...
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- 6/26/2009
- by James White
- TotalFilm
Ladies and gentlemen, the first official trailer for Mira Nair's upcoming Amelia Earhart biopic has landed on the Web. Please feel free to check it out after the jump.
The story of Ameila Earhart is an intriguing one, and the footage in this trailer looks grand. As someone who enjoys flying, I'm obviously quite excited to see the film.
"Amelia" chronicles the life of the famous American pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic by herself. In 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
Hilary Swank stars as the title character, with Richard Gere playing publisher George Putnam. Also on-board as Gene Vidal (a man Amelia had an affair with) is Ewan McGregor.
"Amelia" is scheduled to land in theaters Oct. 23, 2009. No delays on this one please. It looks really good.
The story of Ameila Earhart is an intriguing one, and the footage in this trailer looks grand. As someone who enjoys flying, I'm obviously quite excited to see the film.
"Amelia" chronicles the life of the famous American pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic by herself. In 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
Hilary Swank stars as the title character, with Richard Gere playing publisher George Putnam. Also on-board as Gene Vidal (a man Amelia had an affair with) is Ewan McGregor.
"Amelia" is scheduled to land in theaters Oct. 23, 2009. No delays on this one please. It looks really good.
- 6/26/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
The trailer for the Ontario and Nova Scotia-filmed Amelia Earhart biopic, Amelia, has arrived online, and you can watch it by clicking on the Trailer tab above. You can also watch it in a variety of HD sizes over at Yahoo! Movies.
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen and Ewan McGregor, Amelia is a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
The story chronicles Earhart's rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal.
Amelia is directed by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) and is scheduled to arrive in theaters on October 23.
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen and Ewan McGregor, Amelia is a look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
The story chronicles Earhart's rise to fame, marriage to publisher George Putnam (Gere) and passionate affair with Gene Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal.
Amelia is directed by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair) and is scheduled to arrive in theaters on October 23.
- 6/26/2009
- CinemaSpy
George Putnam, who anchored top-rated television news shows in Los Angeles for a quarter-century, has died. He was 94.
Putnam died Friday at a Chino hospital, according to Crn Digital Radio, where he hosted the "Talk Back" show until his death.
Putnam began his broadcasting career in radio but switched to TV. From the 1950s until 1975 he anchored the news on Kttv, Kcop, Ktla and Khj, which is now Kcal.
It is said that Ted Knight patterned his character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" after Putnam's classic style. For his contribution to the television industry, Putnam received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He later went back to radio and wrote a weekly Web column for Newsmax.com.
Putnam was known for his conservative views, but in recent years he opposed the Iraq War. Putnam also appeared for 50 years as a horse rider in the Rose Parade.
Putnam died Friday at a Chino hospital, according to Crn Digital Radio, where he hosted the "Talk Back" show until his death.
Putnam began his broadcasting career in radio but switched to TV. From the 1950s until 1975 he anchored the news on Kttv, Kcop, Ktla and Khj, which is now Kcal.
It is said that Ted Knight patterned his character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" after Putnam's classic style. For his contribution to the television industry, Putnam received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He later went back to radio and wrote a weekly Web column for Newsmax.com.
Putnam was known for his conservative views, but in recent years he opposed the Iraq War. Putnam also appeared for 50 years as a horse rider in the Rose Parade.
- 9/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- In 2004, Virginia Madsen's career was flipped 'Sideways' and has been headed in a pretty good direction ever since. The Oscar-nominated role marked a move for the actress from heroines in telefilms to leading ladies opposite some of Hollywood's most respected actors. Projects that followed include Firewall opposite Harrison Ford, A Prairie Home Companion, The Astronaut Farmer with Billy Bob Thorton and The Number 23 opposite Jim Carrey. Madsen also recently starred in the short Cutlass alongside Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell, which marked Kate Hudson's directorial premier. Variety reports that the blonde beauty has signed on to co-star in Amelia, the Amelia Earhart biopic directed by Mira Nair and starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. Swank, who is also exec producing, will be flying high as the aviatress herself, with Gere as her publisher-promoter husband George Putnam. Madsen will be playing Putnam's first wife, Dorothy Binney.
- 4/22/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Richard Gere has signed up to join Hilary Swank in the much-delayed Amelia Earhart biopic.
Aussie director Philip Noyce quit the project at Christmas, due to ongoing filming delays and has been replaced by Mira Nair.
Now, with Gere on board, the flying film, titled Amelia, will take off later this month, when shooting begins in Canada and South Africa.
Double Oscar winner Swank will play the fabled aviator and Gere will portray her publisher husband George Putnam.
Aussie director Philip Noyce quit the project at Christmas, due to ongoing filming delays and has been replaced by Mira Nair.
Now, with Gere on board, the flying film, titled Amelia, will take off later this month, when shooting begins in Canada and South Africa.
Double Oscar winner Swank will play the fabled aviator and Gere will portray her publisher husband George Putnam.
- 4/16/2008
- WENN
- At nearly sixty, Richard Gere is still making the 'pretty women' swoon, despite his most recent gig as Clifford Irving in The Hoax complete with blackened hair and a fake nose and as a 'Bob Dylan as Billy The Kid' with I'm Not There complete with worn out hats and giraffes. Gere's career is on the rise again after receiving rave reviews for his role as the huckster Irving who became famous after writing an authorized biography of the reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes without ever meeting him. Variety has announced that the handsome, Buddhist activist has signed on to star in two upcoming features; a biopic about a famous aviator and a cop drama. Gere is on board to give them the ol' razzle dazzle opposite Hilary Swank in Amelia, written by Ron Bass. Swank, who is also exec producing, will be playing the lead in the Amelia Earhart
- 4/16/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- With Shantaram on hold, Mira Nair's take on Amelia Earhart is definitely taking flight - Variety reports that Hilary Swank and her femine/masculin chiseled features will fit just perfectly with what the records show as a gutsy female pilot. Amelia is currently not attached to any studio (expect a sale probably while filming). The project tells her story in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam, a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event. Production begins this April and the project is financed by Ted Waitt - he will produce alongside Kevin Hyman and Lydia Dean Pilcher; the latter is Nair's producing partner.
- 2/8/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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