x Public Events: “Oz the Great and Powerful” – London Premiere

x Public Events: “Oz the Great and Powerful” – Moscow Photo Call
x Public Events: “Oz the Great and Powerful” – Moscow Press Conference
x Public Events: “Oz the Great and Powerful” – Moscow Premiere

x Public Events: “Oz the Great and Powerful” – L.A. Premiere

How great is it to step on set and literally be a fairy-tale figure for a bunch of kids?
Michelle Williams: It’s the best. There’s nothing better than making kids happy and seeing little girls’ faces light up just at the sight of me.

Are you going to keep the tiara?
MW: I think that tiara has a price tag that I couldn’t afford!

How much inspiration did you get from the original Glinda?
MW: We talked about her a lot. But Sam [Raimi] wanted to shy away from anything that referenced her too heavily. He wanted our very own Glinda. So there’s little nods in a few costumes and a couple of lines. But she’s a starting-off point. I just think of her as where Glinda started. When you meet Glinda in the original Wizard of Oz, she is omniscient, she has a kind of calm. But we like to think that that’s where she wound up and this is kind of more where she began.

What’s the chemistry like on set with you and James [Franco], and Mila [Kunis]? What’s the relationship like?
MW: The chemistry? The sexual chemistry? [Laughs] Let me tell you. What’s the chemistry like? It’s a ball.

This film is quite different from your other recent movies, like Meek’s Cutoff and Take This Waltz.
MW: There have been a lot of first times for me on this movie. The imaginary world. You see a big blue screen, but of course you won’t see a big blue screen. You’re going to see things flying, and you’re going to see a sun setting, and you’re going to see flowers turning. You’re going to see things! But often you’re not really able to have the real thing there when you do it. Most of the movies that I make tend to be smaller, and sort of more intimate. It’s just a smaller crew. And I like things feeling like a family, so I’ve just tried to make this feel like a really big family. But it’s a happy one because Sam’s the dad, and it all comes down from there.

Source: BuzzSugar

x In Style Photoshoot: Behind the Scenes
x In Style: March 2013
x Oz the Great and Powerful: Poster

Hollywood actors and entertainers have joined forces for Demand a Plan, a grassroots effort to curb gun violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

The effort is spearheaded by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign, launched in July after the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting. Since then, a petition demanding gun reforms has gathered more than 700,000 signatures.

Among the stars in the 90-second PSA: Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michelle Williams, Jon Hamm and Conan O’Brien.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Michelle Williams is in talks to star in the romantic thriller “The Double Hour,” a person with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.

Nicola Giuliano and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee are producing the English-language remake of the 2009 Italian hit “La Doppia Ora” for Fox Searchlight.

Joshua Marston (“Maria Full of Grace”) is directing the film from his own script.

The original film, directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It centered on an ex-cop and a hotel maid who fall in love after meeting at a speed-dating event.

After they retreat to the ex-cop’s employer’s house for a romantic evening, they are ambushed by a gang that the maid later appears to be involved with.

The original film starred Ksenia Rappoport and Filippo Timi. Rappoport won the best actress award in Venice for the film.

John Middleton and Giulio Marantonio are the executive producers of the remake. Giuliano was a producer on the original film, which was released in the U.S. by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 2011 with the title “The Double Hour.”

Williams was most recently seen in “My Week with Marilyn,” in which she played Marilyn Monroe; next up is the role of Glinda in the Matrch 2013 “Oz: The Great and Powerful.” She is repped by CAA.

Source: The Wrap

San Diego Film Critics
Best Actress
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz
Naomi Watts, The Impossible

Detroit Film Critics
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Greta Gerwig, “Damsels in Distress”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
Michelle Williams, “Take This Waltz”