The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for “The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards” this morning which you can view below. The awards will take place Sunday, January 11, 2009, at The Beverly Hilton with a live telecast airing on NBC at 8 PM (EST).

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Javier Bardem - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrell - In Bruges
James Franco - Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman - Last Chance Harvey

Congrats to Javier once more!

Penlope Cruz, Rebecca Hall and the film itself also got some nominations.

Javier Bardem will star in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Biutiful, the Mexican helmer’s first project after his much-publicized bust-up with former screenwriting partner Guillermo Arriaga.

Spanish-language urban thriller, which Gonzalez Inarritu wrote, shoots on location in Barcelona next week.

Rodrigo Prieto boards pic as director of photography while two-time Oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla will compose soundtrack. Argentina’s Maricel Alvarez and Spanish thesp Ruben Ochandiano play opposite Bardem.

Pic is about a man embroiled in shady dealings who is confronted by a childhood friend, now a policeman.

Arriaga and Gonzalez Inarritu were Mexico’s most successful filmmaking duo, starting with their breakout hit “Amores perros” in 2000 and the subsequent leap into Hollywood with English-language pics “21 Grams” and “Babel” that formed a trilogy.

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Belen Rueda and Edurne Ormazabal will be hosting the opening gala of the 56th San Sebastian Film Festival on Thursday. The gala, that will start at 20.00 in the Kursaal, will take place on a constantly changing stage that will be including some surprises during the show.

The team that made Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Woody Allen, Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall, will also be at the opening gala.

Source: eitb24

Please join us for the screening of Javier Bardem’s new documentary, “Invisibles,” which shines a light on five of the world’s most underreported crises.

Mr. Bardem will join a panel discussion on one of the film’s subjects: extreme violence against women in the Congo. The Enough Project will also unveil its forthcoming campaign, RAISE Hope for Congo: Protect and Empower Congo’s Women.

Featured Speakers:
Javier Bardem, Academy Award-Winning Actor (”No Country for Old Men,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”) and Producer of “Invisibles”
Rebecca Feeley, Enough Project Field Researcher
Dayle Haddon, Author and UNICEF Ambassador
Candice Knezevic, Enough Project Congo Campaign Manager
Dr. Roger Luhiriri, Panzi Hospital
John Prendergast, Enough Project Co-chair

Reception 6:15 pm; Panel discussion 7 pm; Film Screening 7:45 pm

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Barcelona Lovers Javier Bardem and Rebecca Hall
The stars of ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ steam up the screen when they’re not channeling Woody Allen’s tragicomic neuroses.

Woody Allen’s latest outing, the sensually sun-drenched Vicky Cristina Barcelona, charmed critics at Cannes with its return to what Woody does best — typically neurotic, upwardly mobile protagonists caught between what they want and what they think they want.

Vicky (Rebecca Hall) has her life all mapped out, down to her impending nuptials with the nebbishy Doug (Chris Messina). Her best friend Cristina, on the other hand, is a restless and nubile wanna-be boho only certain of what she doesn’t want. When the two jet off to Barcelona for their last summer of freedom, they expect to spend a few months resting and enjoying the art of Barcelona. But when the dashing painted Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) makes them an offer they can’t refuse (no matter how much Vicky might want to), their lives become much more complicated indeed. When Juan’s ex-wife, Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz), shows up on his doorstep fresh from a suicide attempt, things get even more confusing, volatile, and sexy.

Fresh off his Oscar-winning turn in No Country For Old Men, Javier Bardem chats exclusively with Premiere.com about working with Woody, why he is nothing like his sexually direct playboy character, and why you won’t see him as Pablo Escobar any time soon. British stage and TV actress Rebecca Hall, who recently had heads turning for her role opposite Christian Bale in The Prestige, talks about acting opposite Hollywood’s sexiest leading man, why her character fears unleashing her passion, and her upcoming role in Ron Howard’s Oscar-bait Frost/Nixon.

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Javier Bardem remembers the time from his childhood when he realised he was a performer.

“I was playing make-believe like any other kid,” the 39-year-old actor recalled in a phone conversation from his Madrid home. “And there was a moment when something clicked inside that made me aware of myself, that allowed me to watch myself playing from the outside. Up to then play had been unconscious.

“The difference between an actor and anyone else is that awareness of the playing.”

He has been playing ever since, immersing himself in roles so disparate that a casual observer might not realise they’re all done by the same man.

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I would like to make a plug for a friend’s wonderful new site for Javier’s co-star and great friend Penelope Cruz, the site is Captivating Cruz located at http://penelope-cruz.org/ and is a news/media site about all things Penelope!

Vicky Cristina Barcelona was released last friday, here are the box office results!

Opening in just under 700 theaters, Woody Allen’s romantic comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM/Weinstein), starring Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, rounded out the Top 10 with $3.7 million, becoming Allen’s biggest opening movie since 2000’s Small Time Crooks as well as the second-biggest opening of his 35-year career.

1. Tropic Thunder
2. The Dark Knight
3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
4. Mirrors
5. Pineapple Express
6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
7. Mamma Mia!
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
9. Step Brothers
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The film is now up to $4,699,842 in it’s entire days of release.

Source: ComingSoon.net

“Thank you, though I don’t know what you mean by unique. It could be a unique horrible voice or a unique beautiful voice. My voice comes from my big neck. No, I don’t sing. I was close to singing in this movie, but I’m a nice boy, and I didn’t want people to suffer.”

Was it exciting or frightening to work with Woody Allen? Pranav Prasad, HONG KONG

Both. There’s excitement because I think he’s a genius, but there’s also the fear of making his work look bad. The excitement also comes from knowing that you have brilliant dialogue coming out of your mouth like jewels.

Are there any actors you’re dying to work with? Kathryn Coulter ALEXANDRIA, VA.

I always say, “I don’t believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino”–and that’s true. If I ever get a phone call saying “Would you like to work with Pacino?” I would go crazy.

Are you ever worried about being typecast? Dan Ostrowski NEW YORK CITY

I’m not worried. I always try different things. My dream would be, when I’m old, to put all of my characters in a room and realize that they can’t talk to each other because they don’t have anything to share. … Read the full story »

Liam Neeson and Orlando Bloom will star in an untitled pic based on Bill Carter’s book “Fools Rush In”.

Javier Bardem is in talks for a supporting role.

Brazilian helmer Andrucha Waddington (”Me You Them”) will direct.

Carter wrote the book about the period of time when he lived and worked as an aid worker in Sarajevo during the bitter Balkans war siege that lasted 43 months.

Elliott Lewitt (”At Close Range”) and Julie Kirkham are slated to produce. Bloom will also co-produce.

“I read the script, and the very human story and the very core of this film spoke to me very clearly,” Bloom told reporters in Sarajevo. “This is a departure from the very big Hollywood productions.”

Aim is to lense in Sarajevo at the end of the year, with the mayor of Sarajevo backing the project.

Carter previously helmed “Miss Sarajevo”, a 1995 doc produced by U2 singer Bono and late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Source: Variety