Kim Basinger News - Ottobre 2001

1 ottobre - "L.A. Confidential" trasmesso ieri sera da Rai 3, ha avuto un ascolto pari a 2.805.000 spettatori (share: 10,57 %).

3 ottobre - Oggi SUPER-notizia! Kim è in trattative per il nuovo film di Curtis Hanson, ecco la notizia da "Yahoo News": "LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Academy Award winner Kim Basinger is in negotiations to star in Universal Pictures' "The Untitled Detroit Project" for director Curtis Hanson and Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer. Shooting begins Oct. 18 in Detroit and stars multiplatinum recording artist Eminem (news - web sites) in his first feature acting debut. The project reteams Basinger with Hanson, both of whom worked on 1998's "L.A. Confidential," for which Basinger won a supporting actress Oscar and Hanson earned an Oscar for adapted screenplay. Hanson also directed and produced the film. "Detroit" is described as an honest but provocative fictional examination of a critical month in the life of a young man named Jimmy (Eminem) as he searches for identity and a sense of purpose. Against the familiar backdrop of indifference and community decay, he learns to express his anger, fears and frustration as he struggles to transcend his bleak circumstances. Basinger will play Jimmy's mother. Eugene Byrd ("Dead Man") has also been cast in the project to play a black rapper named Wink, who on the surface seems to be Jimmy's friend. Giovanni Ribisi was previously being eyed to play the role, originally written as a Caucasian character , but the role has since been reconfigured, and Byrd is firmly on board to play him. Mekhi Phifer and Brittany Murphy round out the cast as Jimmy's best friend and girlfriend, respectively. Scott Silver wrote the screenplay for "Detroit," which is being produced by Grazer, Hanson and Interscope Records' Jimmy Iovine. Eminem will collaborate with Dr. Dre on music for the film, which will feature a soundtrack from Interscope. Basinger, repped by CAA, next stars opposite Al Pacino in the indie feature "People I Know." Her recent credits include "Bless the Child" and "I Dreamed of Africa." Byrd is repped by the Gersh Agency and Creative Management Group's Edie Robb. He next stars in the WB Network series "For Your Love," slated for midseason, and the indie feature "Lift," which Showtime recently picked up for distribution".

5 ottobre - Altre news sul film "Fight Song" con Kim Basinger ed Eminem:

IMDB News : "Kim Basinger is taking on the role of Eminem's mother in the forthcoming film based loosely around the rap star's life. The part in The Untitled Detroit Project will see beautiful Basinger team up again with filmmaker Curtis Hanson, the man who directed her in 1997's L.A. Confidential, for which she picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Filming will begin in Detroit later this month. The much-anticipated project will be the movie debut of Eminem, real name Marshal Mathers III, and is described as "as an honest but provocative fictional examination of a critical month in the life of a young man named Jimmy as he searches for identity and a sense of purpose". It is unclear how closely Eminem's fictional relationship with Basinger will mirror his feuding relationship with his own mother Debbie Mathers".

Mr Showbiz : "It's been a tough four years for Kim Basinger, who's gone from an Oscar-winning turn opposite Russell Crowe in 1997's L.A. Confidential to box-office duds like I Dreamed of Africa and Bless the Child to — are we reading this right? — a role as bad-boy rapper Eminem's mom. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Curtis Hanson, who directed Basinger to her Oscar in L.A. Confidential, is bravely helming the feature-film debut of the Detroit-bred, foul-mouthed rapper, and wants Basinger to play Slim Shady's mother. Call us crazy, but this doesn't seem like the way to a second Oscar to us. The Untitled Detroit Project, as it's being called for now, stars Eminem as "Jimmy," an apparently fictionalized version of his own bad-boy self. The Grammy-winning rapper will collaborate with Dr. Dre on the music for the film, which will feature a soundtrack from Interscope. Eugene Byrd (Dead Man), Mekhi Phifer (O), and Brittany Murphy (Don't Say a Word) round out the cast. Basinger's film prospects aren't all bleak however: she'll also be seen in the already-wrapped Al Pacino film People I Know".

11 ottobre - "TV Sorrisi e Canzoni" di questa settimana, riporta nell'angolo delle star la notizia relativa al nuovo film di Kim: "L'attrice sarà la mamma di Eminem in un film sulla vita del rapper bianco diretto da Curtis Hanson. Le riprese iniziano a metà ottobre a Detroit, città natale del re dell'hip hop, che interpreta se stesso".

12 ottobre - Da "ABC News", la notizia relativa al fatto che Alec Baldwin vive ancora a New York, mentre Kim a Los Angeles: "Alec Baldwin reported for work in Los Angeles this week, but his heart is still in New York. According to the New York Daily News' Mitchell Fink, the politically minded actor said: "I don't want to leave. I feel like now is one of the greatest times to be in New York, because we're going to see all these great ideas flowing about how we're going to change the way we live here.". Added the actor, who played avenging aviator Col. Jimmy Doolittle in Pearl Harbor: "And then there's that weird part of me that thinks if New York got bombed again, I want to be here. I'd rather die getting bombed in a New York bombing than live some kind of shallow life somewhere else.". Baldwin is in Los Angeles for the next 10 weeks to make the HBO movie Path to War, which is not about current events, but about Lyndon B. Johnson's administration during the Vietnam War. Baldwin plays former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Although the actor makes his home in New York, his ex-wife, Kim Basinger, and their 7-year-old daughter Ireland are ensconced on the West Coast".

13 ottobre - Dalla rivista "Grazia", sezione "La pagella della settimana": "7 a Kim Basinger, ha accettato di essere la madre di Eminem nel film (semiautobiografico) che il "rapper più cattivo del mondo" sta per girare. Scelta coraggiosa, perché il ruolo è quello di una donna segnata dalla vita e senza la minima traccia di glamour. Una scelta da attrice, non da diva".

27 ottobre - Trasmesso domenica scorsa (21/10/2001) da Rete 4, "Getaway" ha ottenuto un ascolto pari a 2.723.000 telespettatori (share: 10,36 %). Ricordo che il prossimo 20 novembre è prevista l'uscita del DVD del film "La mossa del diavolo", riporto la descrizione di "DVD World": "Presagi e concetti sul bene e il male non trovano posto nell’universo pratico e ben ordinato di Maggie O’Connor. Tutto ruota intorno al suo lavoro di infermiera fino a quando nella sua vita non entra una bambina speciale di nome Cody. Formato video 2.35:1 anamorfico, colonna sonora italiano e inglese Dolby Digital 5.1, sottotitoli inglesi e italiani per non udenti. Inserti speciali: backstage, trailer originale, trailer italiano, intervista ai protagonisti ed al regista, 28 selezioni scena, filmografie e note biografiche (cast artistico e tecnico)". Nel frattempo, lo scorso 18 ottobre, sono iniziate a Detroit le riprese del nuovo film con Kim ed Eminem "Fight Song".