| Tuesday
September 23, 2003 |
| LAURA
LINNEY RETURNS TO COLLEGE FOR NEW FLICK |
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Filming begins in Manhattan on Saturday on Dylan Kidd's first film since he directed last year's much-respected "Roger Dodger".
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The romantic/drama entitled "P.S." stars Laura Linney,
Paul Rudd, Marcia Gay Harden, Gabriel Byrne and Topher
Grace. It's based on a book by Helen Schulman.
The project marks a reunion for Linney with the same
Hart Sharp production company that spearheaded 2000's
"You Can Count on Me", which should have easily won
Linney the 2000 Academy Award for best actress.
(Hart Sharp, as in John Hart and Jeff Sharp, is producing
the film with Anne Chaisson, who produced "Roger Dodger"
for Kidd.)
Most of the film will be shot on the Columbia University
campus with Linney plays a Columbia admissions officer).
The flick is touted as in the same vein as Linney's
'You Can Count on Me', as a character- and story-driven
project.
Other Hart Sharp screen credits include "Boys Don't
Cry" and Colin Farrells upcoming "The Home at the End
of the World".)
Two days after "P.S." begins shooting and two days after
Gwyneth Paltrow's 31st birthday, cameras begin turning
in Chicago, at last, on the long-awaited screen version
of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Awarded "Proof"
by David Auburn, toplining Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins,
Jake Gyllenhaal and Hope Davis.
"Proof" will be directed by John Madden (who guided
Paltrow in her Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love")
and after three weeks in the Windy City, production
moves to London's Elstree studios for six weeks.
Said Hart: "It's very exciting for us to have two different-scale
projects in the works simultaneously, one an independent
feature, the other a big studio property, both with
strong stories with female protagonists played by two
strong actresses." |
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| "Yeah
I know Roberts stole the Oscar from me... what can you
do?" |
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