Golden Satellite nominations

Edward Norton and Jenna Elfman have received Golden Satellite nominations for their work in Keeping the Faith (best actor/best actress in a leading role- Musical or Comedy). The awards will be presented by the International Press Academy at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 14. EN has already won a Golden Satellite award. He was awarded best actor for American History X. [Thanks to jacinda for the info!]

Common Ground Awards

Edward Norton will receive a Common Ground award for Keeping the Faith tomorrow night (Thur) from Search for Common Ground, the world's largest non-governmental organization involved in conflict resolution. Among the other honorees is EN's grandmother, Libby Rouse, who will be receiving a lifetime award for her work with the organization. Click here for more info. [Thanks to Joanne for the news!].

SAG and runaway production

Monday, EN was one of the actors that spoke at a meeting between the SAG/AFTRA actor unions and the studio and network executives about industry concerns. EN spoke about runaway production (where studios choose to film in Canada and other countries rather than the U.S. due to tax incentives and cash rebates) and problems that were experienced on The Score, which filmed in Canada. For the story, click here. For more info on the Screen Actor Guild's position on runaway production, click here.

EN on The Simpson

The Simpsons episode with EN will air December 10th! [Thanks to Joanne for the info!] There are 27 video clips of interviews done on EN's visit to Japan. Click here for the clips

Common Ground Awards

Small things: filming on Frida Kahlo (EN has a cameo role) will start in March, Entertainment Weekly this week (Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson on the cover) has a pic and talks about EN in the News and Notes section (about the shifting of stars with the strike looming). The book "Vanity Fair's Hollywood" has a pic of EN and Keeping the Faith will start showing on pay-per-view on Dec 15 [Thanks to Joanne for the info!].

Smoochy filming, Stage Blue

Death to Smoochy will start filming in February in Toronto [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. Yale University's Stage Blue, a benefit that celebrated Yale alumni (including EN) in the entertainment field, was held last night simultaneously in New York City and Los Angeles. Get the story from the Yale Daily News. This week's US magazine includes a high school pic of EN playing baseball. Angela Bassett (EN's co-star in The Score) is scheduled for interviews this week on Later (Wed night/Thurs morning) and Entertainers (check your local listings) [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. Will she talk about The Score? I don't know, but I'm going to give it a look.

Fight Club interviews, KTF screenplay wins Fest

Sunday night (tonight) Fight Club is premiering on Cinemax at 10 PM (check TV listings) with clips of interviews with the actors and the stunt coordinator both before the movie and after [Thanks to Joanne for the info!] Cinemax's website has video clips of interviews also. Screenwriter Stuart Blumberg is coming home from the Tokyo International Film Festival with the award for best screenplay for Keeping the Faith. I have posted some additional pictures from the festival from the Japanese press. Click here for the pictures [Thanks to ednet for the info and the articles!]

Tokyo Film Festival Q & A

EN and screenwriter Stuart Blumberg were present for a Q & A session after the screening of Keeping the Faith today at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Click here to read about the Q & A session. I've posted pictures of EN in Japan promoting KTF- Click here for the photos. A special treat- there is a video clip of EN answering questions from the press in Japanese. EN used to live in Osaka and is fairly proficient in Japanese. Click here for the clip! [Thanks to ednet and dekoyabai for letting me know about the clip! Thanks also to dekoyabai for translating EN's Japanese!]

KTF at Tokyo Fest

Keeping the Faith was screened in competition today at the Tokyo Film Festival with Edward Norton in attendance. The Festival's official website has not yet posted any pictures or info on the screening. However, pictures taken of EN have been posted on the On Japan website. Even if you can't read Japanese, the pictures are nice to see [Thanks to ednet for the info!]. Also, the Japanese Keeping the Faith website has also posted pictures and more info on EN's appearance. There is another screening of KTF on Nov 4 (tickets are sold out). The festival website indicates that there will be a stage appearance (with Edward Norton) and a "teach in" which I believe is a question and answer session to accompany the film

Palahniuk appearance in U.K.

If you are in the U.K., Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk will be making an appearance (and reading from his book Invisible Monsters) at the Waterstone Books at 91 Deansgate Manchester on Thursday 9th November at 7pm. Go to Waterstone's Online (branches and events section) for more info.

EN in Death to Smoochy

NEW EDWARD NORTON PROJECT ANNOUNCED!!- Just in time for Halloween, EN has chosen his next project. EN will star in the comedy Death to Smoochy opposite Robin Williams and Catherine Keener with Danny DeVito directing. Williams will play the host of a kiddie show who was fired and replaced by EN's Smoochy (a Barney-like blue rhino). Smoochy (well, the guy in the suit) also starts dating Williams former lover (Keener) and Williams plots to kill him. Click here for more info!.

Saint-Ex, Frida filming

Entertainment Weekly 11/5/00 edition Reel World column has two items relating to EN. EN isn't the only one in the running for the biopic on Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Saint-Ex. Others up for the role include his Fight Club co-star Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, and Jude Law. The deals are supposed to be arranged within the next month. It also mentions that Salma Hayek's biopic on Frida Kahlo is expected to start filming in January. EN will have cameo appearance as Nelson Rockefeller in the film [Thanks to JANEI3 for the info!].

Clinton B-day/Fundraiser

EN performed last night in New York. He participated in "The Show", which was described as "a production of music and comedy skits directed by James Naughton" and that also included Cher, Al Green, Ben Affleck, Cameron Diaz, Jon Stewart, Nathan Lane, Chris Parnell, Denis Leary, Molly Shannon, and Will Ferrell. This was part of a happy birthday party/fundraiser for Hilary Clinton. Click here for the article. Keeping the Faith will be shown in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival on Nov 2 and 4. EN is listed among the guests attending the film festival. Unfortunately, it also mentions that tickets are sold out. Click here for the festival website [Thanks to Joanne for the announcement!]

Casting rumor, KTF on DVD

POSSIBLE PROJECT FOR EN?- The French press has reported that EN may portray Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous writer ("The Little Prince") and aviator, in the film Saint-Ex for director Régis Wargnier (East West, Indochine) based on the book Saint Exupéry: A Biography by Stacy Schiff. Thanks to dogstyle and mdelsol for the information! There have been a number of possible projects mentioned in the past weeks, hopefully soon we will find out some more info. Please check the VCR/Magazine alert page for several new international magazines featuring EN. Keeping the Faith is now available on DVD. Fight Club will start showing on the cable channel Cinemax [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]

Hart's War casting

Today's Variety has some info on the casting of Hart's War after the departure of Edward Norton. Click here if you're curious

EN visits Africa, Smoochy 

Today's Variety talks about Robin Williams probably taking the lead role in the comedy Death to Smoochy. They also mention that they are trying to get EN as the guy in who wears the blue rhinoceros suit of Smoochy, who Williams tries to kill after he was fired. However, they can't reach EN for a while since he is vacationing in Africa. Read the article

Stage Blue, Simpsons' episode info

EN is one of the Los Angeles chairmen for Stage Blue, a celebration to be held simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles on November 13, 2000. The gala will showcase the theatre, film, and TV accomplishments of Yale Alumni. The proceeds of this event will go to support facilities for theater at Yale and to fund endowments for the Yale Dramatic Association and the School of Drama. For more information on Stage Blue, click here!. More info from Evergreen Terrace on the The Simpson's episode ("The Great Money Caper") featuring EN, courtesy of Joanne (see right below). CineBobine, a French website devoted to providing entertainment news, features EN as one of its "Stars du Mois" (Stars of the Month) for October. Click here to see the feature.

From Evergreen Terrace- "The Great Money Caper" (CABF03) Airdate: ??/??/?? After an evening at the Magic Castle night club, a fish drops out of a Russian spacecraft damaging the Simpson's car, leaving Homer strapped for cash. After thumbing through "A Child's Garden of Cons," Homer and Bart go on a con man's spree. With Grampa's help, they con the retirement home residents out of their money, until they get nailed by an FBI undercover agent. Edward Norton guest stars. (flatbroke's note: EN is supposed to voice multiple roles in this episode)

EN leaves Hart's War

NO HART'S WAR FOR EN- The Hollywood Reporter (9/27/00) announced that Edward Norton has dropped out of Hart's War. "[MGM] attributed the parting to 'creative differences.' Norton has no other projects lined up, and sources said he is not expected to make any decisions on his next film for at least a month." There is a good interview with EN by lineone.net called Ed the Confessor [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]

Frida Kahlo announced

CAMEO APPEARANCE FOR EN- Today's Variety talks about Julie Taymor ("The Lion King") directing Frida Kahlo, a project that Salma Hayek has long been developing. It is a biography on the Mexican painter Kahlo with EN set to make a cameo appearance as Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller "had Rivera [Kahlo's husband] paint a mural in Rockefeller Center, only to remove it when Rivera refused to change an image of Lenin, which Rockefeller felt went against the capitalist designs of the facility." More on the project [Thanks to Joanne for the lightning fast info!]

The Actor

The Actor- Edward Norton talks a little more about possibly doing a film with writer/director Conor McPherson ("The Weir") in an Irish Times (9/16/00) article. Read the whole article [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]

"I'd love to do it, but there's all that usual stuff about getting the studio to do it the right way...It's tentatively called The Actor and it's a wonderful kind of a farce, almost like Tootsie, about a young, not very good actor, who works as a dresser for an older, famous hasbeen actor in his regional company, touring Shakespeare. He's playing sword-carrier number two roles and trying to decide if he's cut out for a life in the theatre. It involves him being able to play all these different characters brilliantly in real life, but he's never able to translate it into his work on the stage."

Score filming

Filming on The Score is scheduled to continue until the end of the month. A few more interesting details on the production can be found in an article on director Frank Oz Oz busts out of Muppet mold with The Score

Interview from Deauville Festival

More from Deauville: an Edward Norton interview [Thanks to eross for the info!]

New Project, Deauville Festival, Painted Veil

POSSIBLE EDWARD NORTON PROJECT?- The last few days have seen a lot of activity- new articles and EN's appearance at the Deauville Film Festival. One of the articles (GMTV Q & A with Edward Norton ) includes EN mentioning that he is "hoping to do a film with Irish writer Conor McPherson('The Weir')... It's one of the funniest screenplays I ever read and I really hope it comes off in the spring." [Thanks to storm for the article!] Plus I've accumulated all of the info I have on the Deauville Film Fest (most of which came from Joanne) onto one page- Deauville Film Festival page. Along with the new articles comes the uncertainty of another Edward Norton project- The Painted Veil. The Painted Veil was supposed to start filming in the fall (Variety 2/25/00). In the most recent articles, The Painted Veil is never mentioned. EN instead brings up another upcoming project - Hart's War (which is supposed to start filming in Prague in January)- and taking time off beforehand. Unfortunately, my efforts to find out the status of The Painted Veil and his other upcoming film projects have been unsuccessful. For UK RESIDENTS, there is a Keeping the Faith competition where you can win a KTF soundtrack or KTF T-shirt.

KTF in Deauville 

Edward Norton and Salma Hayek arrived at the Deauville Film Festival [Thanks to Joanne for the pictures!]. Keeping the Faith was scheduled to be shown at the festival at 2:30 pm with a press conference scheduled for 5:10.

KTF press

The U.K. Newspaper The Guardian has an interview with Edward Norton in The Friday Review section to coincide with the Sept 12 U.K. release date for Keeping the Faith.  Orson Welles, James Stewart... Edward Norton? [Thanks to heather for the info!!]

Simpsons' episode info

An update on EN lending his voice to an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. TV Guide.com (section on returning TV shows) reports that EN will voice multiple roles in "an episode where Homer and Bart become father-son grifters". Plus the UK magazine Total Film (Oct issue) has an interview with EN [Thanks to joedobbie for the info!]. Total Film article