Michelle Williams

Oz the Great and Powerful

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  • Title: Oz the Great and Powerful
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Oz the Great and PowerfulThere’s no Scarecrow, Tin Man, or Cowardly Lion, but by the end of Oz the Great and Powerful the stage will be set for a young girl from Kansas to make her own journey to Frank L. Baum’s magical land of Oz. This completely original script by screenwriters Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire offers us the origins of the great and powerful Wizard of Oz (James Franco), who, as the film opens (in black and white), is nothing more than a traveling carnival magician and con man on the dusty plains of Kansas.

The first quarter of our story is centered around presenting Oz in his own world before whisking him away to the magical land of Oz via the most likely transport: a tornado. Franco is well cast as the smarmy, selfish, womanizing, con man wishing for greatness (but too lazy to work for it), with an unquestionable greed for fame and fortune and an uncomfortable relationship with the truth. Oz’s myriad of failings leads to a hasty escape from the carnival that traps the magician’s hot air balloon in the middle of a Kansas twister leading to a journey somewhere over the rainbow.

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Michelle Williams Tells GQ Some Like Her Hot

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Michelle WilliamsIn promoting her Oscar nominated role as Marilyn Monroe in My Weekend with Marilyn (one of my favorite films of 2011) Michelle Williams talked with GQ about her early acting career, growing up in Montana, working with Sam Raimi on Oz the Great and Powerful, being emancipated at 15 years-old, sexuality, Brokeback Mountain, Dostoevsky, her role as Marilyn Monroe, her daughter Matilda, Heath Ledger, living a sinful artistic career, Dawson’s Creek, returning to film with Blue Valentine, her parents seeing her on stage for the first time in New York, and the idea of being “rich in loss.” She also took the time to do a cover spread for the magazine. You can find the pics after the jump.

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My Week with Marilyn

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  • Title: My Week with Marilyn
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my-week-with-marilyn-posterIt’s almost as shame Michelle Williams is so good as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn because her performance could easily overshadow what is one of the year’s best films.

There have been plenty of films I’ve enjoyed and appreciated in 2011, but I’ve waited a 11-and-a-half months to walk out of a theater and say I love a film. That streak is now over.

My Week with Marilyn based on Colin Clark’s memoir, recounts the young man’s first experience working on a film as the third assistant director of The Prince and the Showgirl directed and starring renown British actor Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and American sensation Marilyn Monroe (Williams).

My Week with Marilyn isn’t only a love story to the troubled actress, but also this age of filmmaking and celebrity when one of England’s greatest actors took a chance on an increasingly hard to work with actress who the camera loved. The experiment went so well Olivier would essentially give up directing and return to the stage.

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Michele Williams Gives Good Face

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Actress Michele Williams took some time to sit down with Vogue’s Adam Green and discuss the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, turning 30, nudity in films, her daughter, the heroes of her youth, her love of acting, music, the death of Heath Ledger, living life with the paparazzi, the thrill from making a child laugh, and the obstacles and difficulties in playing Marilyn Monroe in her latest project My Week with Marilyn (which opens in theaters on November 4th). She also took time to pose for a few pics in character which you can find after the jump.

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