‘Sleepwalking’ will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. The festival runs from January 17 – January 27 in Park City, Utah. For more information and to purchase tickets to the festival, please visit sundance.org/festival.

Oscar-winning actresses Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron are to play mother and daughter in a new film, according to an industry report.
The pair will star in The Burning Plain, Hollywood publication Variety has said.
Shooting on the directorial debut from Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga will begin in Mexico early next month.
Theron won best actress for her role in Monster, while Basinger’s supporting actress Oscar was for LA Confidential.
Common ground
Basinger, 53, will play Gina, who is seen through the childhood eyes of Theron’s character, Sylvia.
As an adult, Gina tries to find common ground with her parents.
The film is scheduled to be released in 2009.
South African-born Theron, 32, was nominated for a best actress Academy Award in 2005 …

Actress Charlize Theron would rather you forget that she is statuesque and beautiful and instead focus on her passion … acting. That passion earned the talented beauty an Academy Award for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s MONSTER. Theron was almost unrecognizable, gaining 30 pounds, wearing unflattering clothes, a bad haircut and little makeup for the part.
In fact, in many of her films she is physically toned down for authenticity purposes. I mean, c’mon, have you seen the real Wuornos? They are hardly two peas in a pod. And because of her God given good looks Theron had to fight to get that part. But fighting is something Theron has no problem …

That Paul Haggis (call him London, Ontario’s favourite son) is a veritable Oscar machine. He crested the horizon for a Best Picture win for Million Dollar Baby, then one for Crash, which he wrote/directed, then a screenwriting nom for Letters From Iwo Jima, and now his latest, In the Valley of Elah, should be good for bagging a coupla big ones. Consider a scene early in the film, in which Tommy Lee Jones, a bereaved father, tells a runty kid, whose single mom is Charlize Theron, the story of David and Goliath. The Bible says the fight supposedly takes place in the valley of Elah. You can almost hear that Best Pic trophy factory working …

Charlize Theron has heaped praise on her “incredible” boyfriend Stuart Townsend after watching him toil over his first movie script. The Oscar-winning actress reveals Townsend wrote the screenplay for Battle in Seattle at the home the couple shares in Los Angeles – and suffered the rejections and nerves as her partner attempted to shop his script around Hollywood. She says, “The amount of passion, of time and effort that he committed to writing that script really blew me away. “When you love somebody and you’re that close somebody, we always expect the worst because he had never written a script before, but we’re very good at kind of separating our work from our relationship so, …

Paul Haggis, the co-writer and director of the volatile Crash, essays the toll of the Iraq war in In the Valley of Elah.
That premise suggests horrific combat scenes and explosive emotions among a range of characters, all caught with the intense close-ups and jerky editing rhythms that propelled Crash.
Yet Haggis’ new film, which is set almost entirely stateside, is slow, somber and discreetly framed. It takes its cue from its central character, a retired Army sergeant who served in the military police and for whom ironclad control is first nature.
Tommy Lee Jones pours his underspoken authority into the painful role of Hank Deerfield, an unapologetic patriot who will interrupt an important errand to see that …

On December 10, 2006, singer-actor André Benjamin of Outkast fame donned a cardboard turtle suit and joined a group of fellow “protesters” on the streets of Seattle. Seven years before, tens of thousands of real demonstrators had descended upon the Seattle Convention Center and surrounding hotels to protest the actions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The turtle-clad demonstrators — whose costumes highlighted the plight of turtles killed by shrimp nets — joined other anti-globalization vocalists and rallied against the leaders of the WTO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in sometimes violent clashes with police. Benjamin’s participation in the re-enactment of the events of November 30, 1999, was for Battle in Seattle, …

Charlize Theron plays another put upon working woman in In the Valley of Elah. The only female detective in a police precinct, her character, Det. Sanders, faces sexism and resistance from her colleagues and superiors. She colors her hair dark and wears long sleeves and pants to cover her fabulous curves, but it’s not about how she looks.
“Paul [Haggis] and I talked a little bit when we started to talk about Sanders. I said to Paul, ‘People make such a big deal about it. The irony of it is when it comes to finding a character for me, it’s just about the facts.’ You look at this woman, so it’s not about how can …

ThinkFilm has won the battle for “Battle in Seattle,” acquiring all U.S. rights for about $2 million.
“Battle,” which sports an all-star ensemble led by Charlize Theron, had its world premiere Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival and marks Stuart Townsend’s directorial debut. The film is set amid the protests and riots that surrounded the World Trade Organization’s 1999 meeting in Seattle.
The deal was ThinkFilm’s second buy at Toronto this year. It scored the biggest sale of the fest’s opening days when it picked up “Then She Found Me,” Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, taking U.S. distribution rights for slightly less than $2 million.

Photos of Charlize and Stuart at the ‘In the Valley of Elah’ premiere are now available in the gallery. Enjoy!