Tag: Amy Adams

  • Amy Adams ‘excited’ for Henry Cavill’s Superman return, hasn’t been approached to reprise Lois role 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actor Amy Adams says she is “thrilled” about her ‘Man of Steel’ co-star Henry Cavill donning the Superman cape once again but she doesn’t know if she will be back as Lois Lane.

    Following his cameo in the Dwayne Johnson-starrer ‘Black Adam’ last month, Cavill confirmed his return as the superhero in a new Warner Bros-DC movie on social media.

    Asked about Cavill reprising his Superman role, Adams told Variety: “Isn’t it exciting?”

    The actor, who played the firebrand journalist and love interest Lois Lane to Cavill’s protagonist in the 2013 movie ‘Man of Steel,’ was speaking at the Wednesday premiere of her latest film ‘Disenchanted.’

    “I’m thrilled for (Cavill). He’s such a wonderful Superman so I’m very excited for him,” she added.

    The six-time Oscar nominee also weighed in on her return as Lois.

    “They haven’t spoken to me about it. If it’s me, great. If it’s somebody else, the role of Lois has been filled by so many wonderful actresses in the past so I’ll support whatever direction they go,” Adams noted.

    She previously reprised the role of Lois in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ (2016), ‘Justice League’ (2017), and ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ (2021).

    LOS ANGELES: Actor Amy Adams says she is “thrilled” about her ‘Man of Steel’ co-star Henry Cavill donning the Superman cape once again but she doesn’t know if she will be back as Lois Lane.

    Following his cameo in the Dwayne Johnson-starrer ‘Black Adam’ last month, Cavill confirmed his return as the superhero in a new Warner Bros-DC movie on social media.

    Asked about Cavill reprising his Superman role, Adams told Variety: “Isn’t it exciting?”

    The actor, who played the firebrand journalist and love interest Lois Lane to Cavill’s protagonist in the 2013 movie ‘Man of Steel,’ was speaking at the Wednesday premiere of her latest film ‘Disenchanted.’

    “I’m thrilled for (Cavill). He’s such a wonderful Superman so I’m very excited for him,” she added.

    The six-time Oscar nominee also weighed in on her return as Lois.

    “They haven’t spoken to me about it. If it’s me, great. If it’s somebody else, the role of Lois has been filled by so many wonderful actresses in the past so I’ll support whatever direction they go,” Adams noted.

    She previously reprised the role of Lois in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ (2016), ‘Justice League’ (2017), and ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ (2021).

  • Author Julie Powell, food writer of ‘Julie & Julia’, dies at 49

    By Associated Press

    NEW YORK: Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, has died. She was 49.

    Powell died of cardiac arrest on October 26 at her home in upstate New York, The New York Times reported. Her death was confirmed by Judy Clain, Powell’s email and editor-in-chief of Little, Brown.

    “She was a brilliant writer and a daring, original person and she will not be forgotten,” Clain said in a statement. ”We are sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Julie, whether personally or through the deep connections she forged with readers of her memoirs.”

    Powell’s 2005 book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” became the hit, Nora Ephron-directed film “Julie & Julia,” with the author portrayed in the movie by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Child.

    Her sophomore and last effort — titled “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession” — was a bit jarring in its honesty. Powell revealed she had an affair, the pain of loving two men at once, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing sex with a stranger.

    “People coming from the movie ‘Julie & Julia’ and picking up ‘Cleaving’ are going to be in for some emotional whiplash,” she told The Associated Press in 2009. “I don’t believe it’s going to be a Nora Ephron movie.”

    Powell began her affair in 2004 as she was putting the finishing touches on her first book, a time she writes when she was “starry-eyed and vaguely discontented and had too much time on my hands.”

    By 2006, she had landed an apprenticeship at a butcher shop two hours north of New York City, which offered an escape from her crumbling marriage and a place to explore her childhood curiosity with butchers.

    “The way they held a knife in their hand was like an extension of themselves,” she said. “I’m a very clumsy person. I don’t play sports. That kind of physical skill is really foreign to me, and I’m really envious of that.”

    The book explores the link between butchering and her own tortured romantic life. At one point, while cutting the connective tissue on a pig’s leg, she writes: “It’s sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.”

    Her book tapped into the growing interest in old-school butchery and her experience slicing meat actually resulted in her eating less of it. She was an advocate for humanely raised and slaughtered animals.

    “People want to get their hands dirty. People want to participate in the process. People want to know where their food is coming from,” Powell said. “People don’t want the mystery anymore.”

    She is survived by her husband, Eric.

    NEW YORK: Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” leading to a book deal and a film adaptation, has died. She was 49.

    Powell died of cardiac arrest on October 26 at her home in upstate New York, The New York Times reported. Her death was confirmed by Judy Clain, Powell’s email and editor-in-chief of Little, Brown.

    “She was a brilliant writer and a daring, original person and she will not be forgotten,” Clain said in a statement. ”We are sending our deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Julie, whether personally or through the deep connections she forged with readers of her memoirs.”

    Powell’s 2005 book “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” became the hit, Nora Ephron-directed film “Julie & Julia,” with the author portrayed in the movie by Amy Adams and Meryl Streep as Child.

    Her sophomore and last effort — titled “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession” — was a bit jarring in its honesty. Powell revealed she had an affair, the pain of loving two men at once, of her fondness for sadomasochism and even a bout of self-punishing sex with a stranger.

    “People coming from the movie ‘Julie & Julia’ and picking up ‘Cleaving’ are going to be in for some emotional whiplash,” she told The Associated Press in 2009. “I don’t believe it’s going to be a Nora Ephron movie.”

    Powell began her affair in 2004 as she was putting the finishing touches on her first book, a time she writes when she was “starry-eyed and vaguely discontented and had too much time on my hands.”

    By 2006, she had landed an apprenticeship at a butcher shop two hours north of New York City, which offered an escape from her crumbling marriage and a place to explore her childhood curiosity with butchers.

    “The way they held a knife in their hand was like an extension of themselves,” she said. “I’m a very clumsy person. I don’t play sports. That kind of physical skill is really foreign to me, and I’m really envious of that.”

    The book explores the link between butchering and her own tortured romantic life. At one point, while cutting the connective tissue on a pig’s leg, she writes: “It’s sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.”

    Her book tapped into the growing interest in old-school butchery and her experience slicing meat actually resulted in her eating less of it. She was an advocate for humanely raised and slaughtered animals.

    “People want to get their hands dirty. People want to participate in the process. People want to know where their food is coming from,” Powell said. “People don’t want the mystery anymore.”

    She is survived by her husband, Eric.

  • Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal back ‘Finding the Mother Tree’

    By Express News Service
    Actors Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal are joining hands teaming up to produce the feature adaptation of Suzanne Simard’s recently published autobiography Finding the Mother Tree. Adams will back the film via her Bond Group Entertainment and Gyllenhaal through his Nine Stories. 

    Their banners won the rights to the book in competitive bidding. In addition to serving as producer, Adams will play Simard, a world-renowned scientist and ecologist who first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi. 

    In the book, which was released by Knopf on Tuesday, Simard documents her unique journey as a mother, a former logger, and an iconoclastic scientist and reveals how trees, living side-by-side for hundreds of years, evolve and communicate. Notably, Adams and Gyllenhaal previously co-starred in the 2016 American neo-noir psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals directed by Tom Ford.

  • ‘Enchanted’ sequel ‘Disenchanted’ adds three names

    By Express News Service
    The sequel of Enchanted, titled Disenchanted, has cast Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown and Jayma Mays. The actors will join the star cast that includes Amy Adams, Idina Menzel, and James Marsden.

    2007’s Enchanted was a satire on Disney animated princess musicals, a fish-out-of-water tale about a cartoon princess who is submerged in modern-day New York City.

    The film grossed over $340 million worldwide and was also nominated for three Oscars in the Best Song category for Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz’s tunes Happy Working Song, So Close and That’s How You Know.

    The sequel was announced at Disney Investor Day back in December by Sean Bailey, the President of Production at Disney Studios. According to Deadline, Rudolph, Brown and Mays will play evil characters with Rudolph playing the main antagonist.

    The sequel will also bring back music composer Alan Menken, with Adams, Menzel and Marsden also reprising their original roles.