It’s been a little bit of time since we’ve seen Naomi Watts in a major blockbuster film. However, that doesn’t mean the actress hasn’t been working.
09.02.2022 - 21:49 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is set to star in The Friend, based on Sigrid Nunez’s hit book about a woman’s bond with her Great Dane.
Nunez’s 2018 novel, which won the U.S.’s National Book Award For Fiction, charts the story of a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The story covers love, friendship, grief and healing. Watts will star with Great Dane Bing, pictured above.
The project marks the debut film on the slate of Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox’s newly rebranded foreign sales banner, The Veterans, which is handling international sales at the virtual EFM. CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners are co-represent domestic rights.
On speaking to buyers in the early days of the market, this is one of the projects we’ve heard good buzz for.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel (Montana Story) will direct from their screenplay. Longtime Working Title exec Liza Chasin, who previously collaborated with Watts on the Showtime limited series The Loudest Voice, is producing under her 3dot Productions banner. McGehee and Siegel are also producing through their Big Creek Projects company.
Upcoming for The Impossible and Birdman star Watts are Netflix horror The Watcher, Amazon remake Goodnight Mommy and drama Infinite Storm. Upcoming for Les Miserables and Baby Driver exec producer Chasin are Paramount’s The Lost City and Netflix’s Anatomy Of A Scandal.
Watts is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. McGehee and Siegel are represented by ICM Partners. 3dot Productions is represented by Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
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It’s been a little bit of time since we’ve seen Naomi Watts in a major blockbuster film. However, that doesn’t mean the actress hasn’t been working.
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Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup have made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. On Sunday, the two actors, who have reportedly been dating since 2017, walked the red carpet in matching all-black ensembles.
Gypsy, which Netflix canceled after one season due after being poorly received by critics. On Gypsy, Watts played a psychologist who secretly infiltrated the lives of her patients, and Crudup played her husband. Watts started dating Crudup after her split from long-term partner Liev Shreiber, with whom she has two children.
Naomi Watts, 53, and Billy Crudup, 53, are no longer keeping their romance private. After nearly five years of dating, the couple made their red carpet debut at the SAG Awards on February 27. Naomi wrapped her arms around Billy as the pair posed for photos while dressed in matching black outfits. The British actress stunned in a glittery dress, while her famous beau looked so handsome in a black tuxedo.
Billy Crudup and Naomi Watts made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night. actor and the Australian-born actress walked the carpet arm-in-arm as they stunned in all-black looks.Crudup wore a black tuxedo with a black shirt and tie while Watts went for a sleeveless, sequined black dress, complete with a high-neck and cap-sleeve details. Watts styled her blonde bob straight, pairing her sleek look with long, diamond earrings and a ring to match.The pair, who typically keep their relationship private, were first spotted together in March 2017 and have been dating ever since.Crudup has an 18-year-old son, William, from a previous relationship with actress Mary Louise Parker. He also dated Claire Danes.For her part, Watts and actor Liev Schreiber got divorced in 2016.
Naomi Watts links her arm with Billy Crudup‘s on the silver carpet while arriving for the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday (February 27) at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
Santa was in the Tardis — a blue police box that’s bigger on the inside and can travel through time and space! One that I had seen on TV! And that had been on incredible imaginative journeys to other worlds inhabited by amazing aliens! Some of which try to kill you! Honestly, it was fantastic.Make the jump to lightspeed into 2022, and now I’m going into the “Star Wars” universe aboard a Galactic Starcruiser called the Halcyon. She will take guests on a cruise through the outer rim during a fully immersive three-day, two-night, all-inclusive stay, featuring space pod cabins, themed entertainment and experiences and, yes, stars flying past the windows.
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Jo Joyner is all over our TV screens at the moment – she’s come a long way since finding fame in nursing drama No Angels back in 2004. Now, millions watch her as nosy Luella in BBC One’s hit drama Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators. Returning for its fourth series, she stars alongside Mark Benton’s bumbling Frank Hathaway as the hilarious pair lurch from one case to the next.
Four people, including 22-year-old skateboarder and YouTube star Josh Neuman, were killed in a plane crash in Iceland. Their bodies were discovered in Lake Thingvallavatn on Feb. 6, three days after Josh and his fellow passengers were declared missing, according to CNN. He was on the plane to create content for Belgian fashion brand Suspicious Antwerp. Also killed in the crash was Tim Alings, 27, Suspicious Antwerp’s social media manager; Nicole Bellavia, 33, a skydiver and social media influencer; and pilot Haraldur Diego, 49.