Random Winona Tidbits...

[CHRIS B]

Claire Danes talks about "Little Women" and Winona on The Jon Stewart show back in 1994.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/O0lhMz6fuz8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/O0lhMz6fuz8</a>

[CHRIS B]

A real for one was "A Doll's House" starring Winona in the female lead and Sidney Lumet directing - I would murder for this to come true....

SF Film Festival - Peter J. Olsen Award 2000

But we can all guess which event brought this 2001 movie to a halt....

  Shame what a dumb mistake can do to a career . That would've been a wonderful role for her to play... and with Sidney Lumet directing... ahhhhh that one just kills me! Too bad....

[CHRIS B]

Perhaps Stillman’s next film, The Last Days of Disco, which he has set in the late ’70s and is writing with Winona Ryder in mind, will shed some light on the longterm creative ramifications for independent filmmakers who work, even peripherally, with Hollywood.

http://www.filmmakermagaz....com/summer1994/spain.php

[eagle-rare]

 Regarding the production of Ibsen's "A  Doll's House", the article which mentioned Lumet's  production was written over a year and a half prior to Winona's arrest. The filming was supposed to begin in January of 2001, almost one year prior to Winona's arrest. Are we sure it was the Sax thing that killed this project? It may have been just one of those things.

[vulcannonibird]

@eagle-rare

you might well be right....it's a shame anywhere....

but hopefully we'll learn of new projects soon...

[vulcannonibird]

Winona will be among guest writers for the upcomming book "The Art of Tim Burton"

Planned to be released this fall.

Source

[CHRIS B]

That should be pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!

[vulcannonibird]

Winona announced to visit Italy this saturday attending the Giffoni Film Festival.

I found this some time ago but feared it would be hoax as the "Winona attending San Remo Festival" a few years ago. But now as Christina Ricci as shown up as announced I think it might be genuine...

Giffoni website

[oinone]

I remember one event in particular, for John Waters' Cry-Baby, in which then-rising star Johnny Depp brought his not yet widely known girlfriend, so breathtakingly lovely that photographers kept crowding closer to take picture after picture until she burst into tears from all the attention. It was Winona Ryder.

http://www.baltimoresun.c...la26jul26,0,6311217.story

[CHRIS B]

Fox, Sony TV look to revive 'Heathers'
Mark Rizzo, Jenny Bicks to adapt 1989 film

Dear Diary: Fox is developing a contemporary take on the 1989 Christian Slater/Winona Ryder feature "Heathers."
Dark comedy will be adapted for TV by scribe Mark Rizzo, with an assist from "Sex and the City" alum Jenny Bicks. Sony Pictures TV, where Bicks is based, will produce, along with Lakeshore Entertainment, which holds the rights to "Heathers."

Rizzo is still kicking around ideas on how to update "Heathers" 20 years after the film became a favorite among the underground set. But the characters from the movie are all expected to be there -- Veronica Sawyer (played in the movie by Ryder), J.D. (Slater) and the "Heathers."

The original movie revolved around Veronica as she navigates a clique of mean girls -- all named Heather -- and rebels after meeting J.D., the new guy at school. Soon, the Heathers start "accidentally" dying at the hands of Veronica and J.D., who cover up the deaths by faking them as suicides. Ryder's character chronicles her teen angst and the rising body count with regular diary entries.

The idea for a "Heathers" revival came from inside UTA, where reps for Rizzo and Bicks decided the title was ripe for revival and contacted Lakeshore about potentially dusting off the franchise.

For Lakeshore, the project, which is in the script stage at Fox, reps its introduction to the world of TV.

"We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake at times," said Lakeshore prexy Gary Lucchesi. "But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea."

Rizzo is onboard to write and exec produce, while Bicks is a nonwriting exec producer. Lucchesi and Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg will also exec produce.

Rizzo's credits include the pilot "Zip," which was developed twice at NBC, while Bicks is also known for "Men in Trees" and "Leap of Faith" and has also been adapting "Washingtonienne" for HBO.

The original "Heathers" pic was directed by Michael Lehmann and penned by Daniel Waters. Other stars included Shannen Doherty.

http://www.variety.com/ar...ml?categoryId=14&cs=1

[Gary]

"We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake at times," said Lakeshore prexy Gary Lucchesi. "But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea."

Doing a remake on TV is what qualifies for fresh and original today? Heathers was fresh and original 20 years ago. This is not fresh or original.

How the hell can you do a TV show about a story that clearly has to have a conclusion? I'm interested in hearing more about this, but I'm not optimistic. I think a sequel sounds like a better idea and I think that idea sucks.

[CHRIS B]

The new company producing resurrects "Delivering Gen"


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Brian Oliver ("Twilight") Founded a new production company, Cross Creek Pictures. Its aim is to implement three films a year.

The first draft of the new company will be "Delivering Gen" screenplay by Kurt Sutter, Who also directed the whole. The film we wrote in 2003. Then in the cast were: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne and Jason Statham. The project, however, not fired. Now, pictures have to start in January. Production budget is 13 million dollars.


Hero "Delivering Gen" a Parisian gangster who decides to break with the past. Moved to New York where he intends to devote himself to family life - just had his child. Unfortunately, the past does not give up, and his daughter's life is threatened.

I stayed two projects Cross Creek Pictures for 2010 are:

Comedy "Bathing Suits" screenplay by Buck Henry and Charles Webb, author "Graduate". The implementation of the movie aside 6 million U.S. dollars.

Comedy The Hellfire Club " screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher ("The Duchess") Adventures of an American President Benjamin Franklin in a nightclub. The budget of this production will be 18 million U.S. dollars.

http://www.filmweb.pl/Now...ring+Gen%22,News,id=54066

[vulcannonibird]

And another failed project from the past....except I didn't even knoe about this one....

But surely in the new version of the movie Noni most likely won't be in it....

[CHRIS B]

Singer Kylie Minogue’s ex-boyfriend James Gooding is now dating actress Winona Ryder.

The model James, 35, who admitted to cheating on Minogue several times, has now re-emerged with a new woman – Winona Ryder, 37.

Friends of Winona’s told British Grazia magazine: “In the last few years, Winona has had some real lows.

“James has made her feel happy again – and he’s even moved into her Hollywood home.”

The couple, who reportedly met at a party in LA, have managed to keep their three-month relationship under wraps until recently.

 http://www.celebritynewsn...ing-actress-winona-ryder/

[vulcannonibird]

New York Fashion Week starts tomorrow - hopefully we're lucky...