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Gillian Anderson Will Marry Ernest Hemingway
Published 7/1/2008 at Cinema Blend News
Gillian Anderson Will Marry Ernest Hemingway Gillian Anderson has kind of let a lot of us forget about her since The X-Files ended, despite standout roles in movies like The Last King of Scotland and the Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Bleak House . But with the second X-Files movie coming out this summer, Anderson seems ready to get back into making movies in a major way, as both a producer and a star. Variety reports that Anderson and her Fiddlehead Prods. have acquired the rights to the biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life , about the famed female war ...

SAG and Sleepers. Trade Roughage 07/01/08
Published 7/1/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
The Screen Actors Guild are currently without a contract. The AMPTP offered a “final offer” late yesterday in hopes of nailing the union down before their previous contract expired at midnight, but SAG insisted on giving the “deeply flawed” proposal the once-over before meeting with the studios on Wednesday. They’re probably just stalling until AFTRA votes on their tentative deal with the AMPTP next week. Variety takes note of the summer’s box office sleepers thus far, including The Strangers, which has quietly crossed $50 million, and What Happens in Vegas, an ...

Gillian Anderson Goes to War…in Martha Gellhorn Biopic
Published 7/1/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
Gillian Anderson, doing her part for X-Files 2 publicity.   Martha Gellhorn may not be a familiar name to many of you, and in some ways that’s surprising, because she led an adventurous life. As a war correspondent, she covered the Spanis Civil War, World War II, and even Vietnam. Somewhere along the way she managed to squeeze in a stint as Mrs. Ernest Hemingway (as wife #3, the marriage lasted five years, and to be honest, neither seemed to enjoy it very much). I’m lucky to be familiar with her story only because I read about her while research a number of  World War II projects. Well, now Variety ...

Gillian Anderson to star in Martha Gellhorn biopic
Published 7/1/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
... According to Variety, Anderson is also set to produce and star in a biopic of renowned journalist Martha Gellhorn, a female war correspondent who covered major world conflicts, including the Spanish Civil War and Vietnam. She was also married to Ernest Hemingway. ...

Gillian Anderson Takes Non-X-Files Role as Martha Gellhorn
Published 7/1/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
Just as we're all gearing up to catch Scully Gillian Anderson on the big screen in the upcoming X-Files movie, Anderson is preparing to produce and star in a biopic about Martha Gellhorn. Anderson's production company acquired the rights to Caroline Moorehead's biography of Gellhorn, who is described as "a trailblazing female war correspondent who covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and weathered strife in personal relationships that included a failed marriage to Ernest Hemingway." According to Anderson, "Martha Gellhorn was one of the most respected journalists of this ...