Welcome to Magnifique Marion Cotillard - your English online resource for everything about the Oscar winning French actress. She's best known for her award winning performance in La Vie en Rose - but you might also recognize her from movies such as Love Me If You Dare, Big Fish or A Very Long Engagement. Following her Oscar win she starred in Public Enemies, Nine, Inception and the French Little White Lies. In 2011 she became a mother and was seen in Midnight in Paris and Contagion on the big screen while she filmed scenes for The Dark Knight Rises and for Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone. In 2012 she will play a Polish immigrant in the period drama Low Life. Not stopping at movies, Marion Cotillard is also exploring her musical talents as a member of the French rock band Yodelice. All the while, she is never too busy to lend her time and name to causes she believes in! Enjoy your visit keep checking back for all the latest news!
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I may not be updating the main page every single but I’ve been updating the gallery whenever I found anything new concerning Marion and Nine that weren’t paps shots.
My name is Mariana and some of you might know me from EvaGreenWeb.com, for example. I’ll be helping with Magnifique Marion Cotillard while Mia is away on vacation.
In this first update of mine, I’ve added 14 new photos from the ‘Pippa Lee’ Premiere that Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz attended together last Sunday. The following day our busy Marion attended the ‘Nine’ Luncheon, still in New York. You can find 2 photos in the gallery. After her New York commitments, she’s now back in Los Angeles.
Before I leave for my vacation I uploaded a HQ version of Marion’s portrait for the Tck Tck Tck Time for Climate Change Campaign. We previously only had a very small version of it.
While I’m gone my dear friend Mariana will look after the site seeing as Marion is so busy right now.
The new trailer for ‘Nine‘ to air on TV November 22 debuted today (November 16, US time) exclusively on Yahoo! It is set to Kate Hudson’s Cinema Italiano and unfortunately doesn’t feature many scenes with Marion Cotillard – more glimpses. But I’m sure you’ll enjoy the HQ captures I added to the gallery.
The earlier announced ‘Nine’ micro-website on ABC.com has gone online and offers a sweepstakes to the New York premiere of ‘Nine‘ – which will take place after December 3 when the sweepstake ends. The Making Of is not yet online but a gallery. Be also sure to check out Yahoo!’s ‘Nine’ site to watch the new trailer in HD!
Many thanks to Nadine I added the promo for Wednesday’s Oprah episode as well as screencaps from it to the site! Don’t forget to tune in to watch! If you’re unsure when it is airing go to Locate TV.
Marion Cotillard and Penélope Cruz together with ‘Nine‘ co-star Daniel Day-Lewis attended the premiere screening of ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee‘ (directed by Rebecca Miller, Daniel’s wife) yesterday. Marion straightened her hair similar to her look at the 4th Annual Oscar Wilde Awards and I love her dress. The two of them looked absolutely stunning. Judge for yourself by looking at the first batch of pictures from the event:
Last Saturday, Marion Cotillard together with Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench attended the press conference for ‘Nine‘ at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. I’ve added some pictures to the gallery.
Read an interview with composer-lyricist Maury Yeston about his work on ‘Nine‘ on Playbill.com. Some quotes about Marion’s song Take It All (presently available on YouTube):
The wife’s 11 o’clock number, “Be on Your Own,” sung as she hits the exit for good. The closing lines of it — “You’ll take with you all you own / From A to Z / . . . And all of me” — inspired, at Marshall’s suggestion, a new number: “Take It All.”
“‘Be On Your Own’ is a song that made me very proud when I wrote it the first time,” Yeston admitted. “It always had a wonderful and scathing effect on stage, but, as I have said, you need action in a film. Film is far more literal and far more specific than a stage show. No matter how detailed the set of a stage show is, it could never be as detailed as actually being in an actual place in a movie. You see the details of every room, you see the props, you see the lights. You are meant to accept this as literally the real world, whereas in theatre we give you a white tile set or a unit set in the abstract and we ask you to use your imagination. Because film is more literal, you really do have to go farther out on a limb to become theatrical.”
Yet another Oscar winner, Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”), weighed in on that number. He did the final polish on Michael Tolkin’s screenplay, finishing it just days before his death, and it was his suggestion that the number be shared with Kidman and Cruz. “Three women are leaving Guido at the same time, but only one of them devoted her life to him. Only one of them has been married to him for 20 years. Only one of them is giving up everything in her body and soul. Once we explored it, it did not make any sense for three women to share and participate in the depth of despair and anger that only one of them had really earned. So we restored it to a solo.
“I saw Marion Cotillard’s movie three times, and ‘Take It All’ is as much inspired by Marion Cotillard as ‘Folies Bergeres’ was inspired by Liliane Montevecchi. I think that’s, sometimes, when you do your best work because you realize ‘Nothing that I write makes any sense if I don’t have a brilliant actor to put it across the footlights to the audience.’ Here, I knew I was writing for the specific gifts of a brilliant actress.
To promote ‘Nine‘ The Weinstein Company have made a huge promotion deal with Disney. According to Variety we can expect the following:
• A new 2-minute trailer will debut on ABC on November 22 during the “American Music Awards”. It’ll also be shown on Lifetime, ABC Family, SoapNet, A&E and Bio.
• Tomorrow’s episode of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” will feature a dance number set to the ‘Nine‘ song “Be Italian”. Dancers will also wear outfits from the movie.
• Throughout December ‘Nine‘ will be written into episodes of “All My Children,” “One Life to Live” and “General Hospital.”
• ABC.com will feature a micro-site dedicated to ‘Nine‘, including a sweepstakes, streaming of the movie trailer and – how exciting – a half-hour “Making of ‘Nine‘” special.
• Late night programmes and ABC’s owned stations will also be involved as well as ABC’s Times Square supersign.
Wow! This sounds like great news! In the meantime I added 3 new ‘Nine‘ stills to the gallery, 2 of which in HQ thanks to Red Rose.
More details of the previously announced appearance on Oprah have come in: The ‘Nine‘ promotional episode, which was taped yesterday (Friday) featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Kate Hudson, will air Wednesday, November 18, 2009! More details on TV Guide. Thanks everyone for the heads up.
‘Le dernier vol‘ will be shown as the closing gala at the 30th European Film Festival in Belgium this Saturday, November 14. More information
It is highly unlikely that Marion will be able to attend as she’s expected to be at the taping of the Oprah show with the ‘Nine‘ gang. Also she’s due to attend the press junket of the movie on the weekend as well as the Variety screening and Q&A on the 16th. Thanks Nadine for the heads up!
Blood Ties (2012) Character: Monica Director: Guillaume Canet Filming since April 30, 2012 in NYC Info •
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Low Life (2012) Character: Sonya Cybulski Director: James Gray Filming wrapped mid March 2012 Info •
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De Rouille et d'Os (2012) Rust & Bone Character: Stéphanie Director: Jacques Audiard In theatres May 17, 2012 (France) Info •
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Character: Miranda Tate Director: Christopher Nolan In Post-Production In theatres July 20, 2012 (US) Info •
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Contagion (2011) Character: Leonora Orantes Director: Steven Soderbergh On DVD & Blu-ray January 3, 2012 (US) Info •
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Midnight in Paris (2011) Character: Adriana Director: Woody Allen On DVD & Blu-ray December 20, 2011 (US) Info •
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Les petits mouchoirs (2010) Little White Lies Character: Marie Director: Guillaume Canet Available on DVD & Blu-ray Info •
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In development / Rumoured
- une (R)évolution (info)
- Jeanne au bûcher (info)
- Vivre c'est mieux que mourir (info)
- Arthur And Lancelot (info)
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Lady Dior - L.A.dy Dior (since 2008) Print Campaign: Steven Klein Short Movie: John Cameron Mitchell Released in December 2011 Info •
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Yodelice (since 2010) Pseudonym: Simone Album: Cardioid Joining the 2010/11 Tour sporadically Info •
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