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NEWS ABOUT: Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts stories: 9 news summaries

 Hollywood's Most 
 Profitable Actresses 

Naomi Watts delivers big hits for relatively little pay

Oct 6, 09 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Straitened studio heads unwilling to give $10 million to divas and hope for a hit should call Naomi Watts' agent right now. The Australian star of Mulholland Drive and The Ring is the most bankable actress in Hollywood, Forbes calculates. Her films earned an average of $44 for every dollar... More »

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Hollywood • Halle Berry • Jennifer Aniston • Cate Blanchett • Meryl Streep • Natalie Portman • Rachel McAdams • actor • Naomi Watts • Anne Hathaway • actress • return on investment • Jennifer Connelly • Hilary Swank

 Schreiber 'Giddy' in Drag 

Actor finds cross-dressing 'exhilaratingly humiliating'

Aug 26, 09 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Acting is all about challenging yourself—just ask Liev Schreiber, who had to get a full body wax, sport a dress and master walking in high heels for his role as a transvestite in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, People reports. “It was exhilaratingly humiliating," Schreiber said of... More »

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fashion • Ang Lee • cross dressing • Naomi Watts • high heels • Liev Schreiber • transvestite • Taking Woodstock

 Slumdog's 
 Pinto Joins 
 Woody Flick 

Naomi Watts takes part in forthcoming Allen picture

Feb 24, 09 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Slumdog Millionaire’s leading lady is set to be Woody Allen’s next muse in his next project, Variety reports. Oscar sweetheart Freida Pinto will play an ingénue in the untitled picture, which will also feature Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, and Anthony Hopkins; it will be the first post-Slumdog... More »

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Academy Awards • film • Woody Allen • Naomi Watts • Slumdog Millionaire • Oscars • Freida Pinto

PROFILE

 Clive Owen+Stubble=Everyman 


Feb 16, 09 4:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Clive Owen may be good-looking, but his success in recent years depends squarely on his ability to inhabit scruffy Everyman characters that connect with audiences, New York reports. His new film, The International, heightens the illusion, as Owen’s everyday character is thrust into the middle of a... More »

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thriller • Clive Owen • actor • character • Naomi Watts • acting • Tom Tykwer • Everyman

movie review

 The International: 
 Good Timing, Bad Film 

'Boilerplate' lines make 'chatty' flick less than memorable

Feb 13, 09 12:37 PM CST
(Newser) - A thriller about evil banks, The International got its timing right. Too bad, then, that it’s not a better film. The film “almost seems like a Monty Python spoof on spy-game thrillers in which the phrase ‘secret agent’ is constantly replaced by 'banker,'" writes Joe Neumaier... More »

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film • movie review • Clive Owen • Naomi Watts

 Naomi, Liev Welcome Son No. 2 

Couple has not settled on a name

Dec 15, 08 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s second child was born Saturday, E! Online reports. A rep for the couple confirmed they welcomed an as-yet-unnamed baby boy into their family. The livin'-in-sin couple, together since 2005, had first son Alexander Pete in 2007. Just last week, Schreiber said “I can't... More »

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celebrity • Naomi Watts • celebrity parents • Liev Schreiber • celebrity baby

 Naomi Watts
 Pregnant Again 

Second child in a year with Liev Schreiber

Jul 3, 08 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hollywood stars Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are expecting their second child around year's end. Watts, who gave birth to the couple’s son Alexander Pete 10 months ago, is four months along in her second pregnancy, the Daily Mail reports. Best pal Nicole Kidman awaits the birth of her... More »

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Naomi Watts • celebrity pregnancy • celebrity parents • Liev Schreiber

 Funny Games Not Much Fun

This take on a terrorized family isn't easy to watch

Mar 14, 08 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Director Michael Haneke uses Funny Games to toy with his audience—and that can make the "mockingly sadistic and terrifying watch-the-middle-class-writhe-like-stuck-pigs thriller" tough viewing, Owen Leiberman writes in Entertainment Weekly. Critics are split on the merits of Haneke's remake of his disturbing 1997 German-language original—about a vacationing family... More »

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movie review • Michael Pitt • Naomi Watts • movie remakes


Ledger's Kin Bid Farewell in LA

Memorial service held in Los Angeles

Jan 28, 08 3:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Actor Heath Ledger's family and friends held a private memorial in Los Angeles Saturday before his body was flown to his native Australia for funeral services. Mourners included his parents, sister Kate, ex-girlfriend actress Michelle Williams—mother of his toddler daughter, Matilda—and another former lover, Naomi Watts, reports the... More »

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prescription drugs • Cate Blanchett • Heath Ledger • Brokeback Mountain • funeral • Michelle Williams • Soho • memorial service • Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary • Beverly Hills Hotel • Shrine Auditorium. • Naomi Watts

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