The International Press Academy (IPA) announced its nominations for the 14th Annual Satellite Awards a while back and good news is that ‘Nine‘ scored 10 nominations, including one for Marion – Congratulations!

Best Actress (Comedy Or Musical): Sandra Bullock, “The Proposal,” 
Marion Cotillard, “Nine,” 
Zooey Deschanel, “(500) Days of Summer,” 
Katherine Heigl, “The Ugly Truth,” 
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

The 2009 14th Annual Satellite Awards will take place on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.

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!

Marion Cotillard together with other French actors has participated in a spot asking people to sign the petition L’ultimatum climatique. The petition mainly addresses the French president, that he should take a stand for the environment during the upcoming conference in Copenhagen in December. But it also asks the French citizens to support any measures to save our planet and to show their readiness to do so by signing the petition. More information in the Press Release as well as on the official website Copenhague-2009.

Participants in the spot: Charles Berling, Marion Cotillard, Stéphane Debac, Agathe de La Fontaine, Marc Jolivet, Mélanie Laurent, Bernard Lavilliers, Emmanuel Petit, Lea Seydoux, Daniel Bravo & Guizmo De Tryo, Christophe Willem & Zazie.

People who have already signed the petition include Jane Birkin, Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Coureau, Vanessa Paradis, Sylvie Testud and many more.

Gallery: 010 Charity & Causes > L’Ultimatum Climatique (2009)
Video: 001 Other > L’Ultimatum Climatique

Not only do ‘Nine‘ and ‘Le dernier vol‘ open in US or French cinemas in December, also the second ‘Lady Dior‘ video is scheduled to hit the internet that month and now news has just come in that ‘Public Enemies‘ will be released on DVD (single and 2-disc edition) and Blu-Ray on December 8, 2009. A busy month for Marion Cotillard!

Here the Special Features:

- Larger Than Life: Adversaries
- Feature Commentary with Director Michael Mann
- Michael Mann: Making Public Enemies (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- Last of the Legendary Outlaws (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- On Dillinger’s Trail: The Real Locations (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- Criminal Technology (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- Digital Copy (Two-disc and Blu-ray only)
- U Control – Interactive Timeline (Blu-ray only)
- U Control – Picture in Picture (Blu-ray only)
- Gangster Movie Challenge (Blu-ray only)
- Feature Commentary with Director Michael Mann (Blu-ray only)
- BD Live – Gangster Movie Challenge (Blu-ray only)
- BD Live – My Chat (Blu-ray only)
- BD Live – My Movie Commentary (Blu-ray only)
- BD Live – My Scenes Sharing (Blu-ray only)
- D-Box (Blu-ray only)
- IPhone APP (Blu-ray only)
• Source: ReelLoop

Pre-Order from Amazon.com:

This year’s American Film Market will take place November 4 – 11, 2009 in Santa Monica, California, US. During that time a total of 445 films will be screened, many of which world premieres. Among those is Marion’s much awaited first leading role and her first French film since ‘La Vie en Rose‘ in ‘The Last Flight‘ (‘Le dernier vol’). It will be screened at the AMC Loews Broadway #3 cinema on the following days:

The American Film Market (AFM) is a marketplace where producers and sales companies license films to distributors. The AFM is not a festival. As far as I was able to see from their website the event is not open to the general public. As Marion will likely be stationed in that part of the world at the time to film ‘Inception‘ I’m wondering if she’ll attend?

In any case, the info page for ‘The Last Flight‘ tells us that the movie has a runtime of 98 minutes and provides us (finally) with an official English synopsis:

Marie, an obstinate, adventuresome, young pilot, sets out to track down her lover, who has vanished in the Sahara during a record flight attempt from London to Cape Town. Her unexpected arrival turns life upside down for a remote French Camel Corps troop that is already preoccupied with the stirrings of a Tuareg uprising.

Antoine, a captain in conflict with his superior officers, decides to help Marie with her desperate quest across a grandiose and hostile sea of sand.

In the oppressive heat, their desire to survive slowly binds them in a disturbing and unexpected love story.

Let’s hope all goes well for ‘The Last Flight‘ and some US distributor picks it up so that it will find its way to US theatres soon!

According to PurePeople Marion Cotillard will attend the following event:

Silent Gathering to support Peace Nobel Prize Aung San Suu Kyi
Tuesday October 6 – From 9 to 11pm on the Square of Paris’ Town Hall

On Jane Birkin’s initiative and with most of the artists who signed the petition launched last July for the trial among which Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling… With the support of Info Birmanie, FIDH, Amnesty International, SOS Aung San Suu Kyi, Ligue des droits de l’homme, Human Rights Watch

Join us to show your support! Come with a candle…

Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial, Nobel Prize Laureat, started on May 18, 2009, at the Insein Prison in Rangoon. She was charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by letting an American citizen stay at her place for two nights. Yet, Aung San Suu Kyi was the unwilling host of an irrational individual convinced that God sent him to her house.

Her house arrest was to officially end on May 27. John Yettaw’s intrusion in Suu Kyi’s residence therefore constituted a dreamed opportunity for the generals to extend her detention. For the junta, all this is about eliminate any opposition before the elections planned for 2010. These elections are supposed to foster the establishment of a ‘prosperous and controlled’ democracy … ruled by the generals.

On August 11, Aung San Suu Kyi was thereby sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour. The sentence was quickly commuted to 18 months under house detention by Burma’s Senior General Than Shwe in an attempt to give an impression of leniency. The generals reached their goal: to prevent Aung San Suu Kyi from influencing the next year elections’ results and from taking part in the political process.

To dodge the international community, the Court of Rangoon accepted the appeal launched by her lawyers at the beginning of September. The courts will hear the appeal on September 18. However there is no hope to see the Nobel Price Laureate released. The Burmese junta did not invest so many political resources condemning Aung San Suu Kyi to finally free her a few weeks later.

Papers from all over the world have already forgotten this summer events. And the generals only hope for one thing: that we no longer talk about Aung San Suu Kyi. This is the reason why it is urgent that we speak up.
Source: JaneBirkin.net

Additional information: “As expected the court rejected her appeal against her 18 month sentence on October 2. A day later, on Saturday she was escorted into surprise talks with Aung Kyi, the ruling military junta’s relations minister. The meeting lasted 45 minutes and was the first since January 2008.”

Marion Cotillard has talked about her strong feelings for Aung San Suu Kyi and her case in a number of interviews.

Empire Magazine, who picked up the news about Inception‘s IMAX release, spoke to Marion Cotillard in order to get more information about ‘Inception‘ this week. Of course the film is still as much of a secret as before but at least we know more about Marion’s filming schedule:

“I’ve only had one day [filming] in Paris. I’m doing a movie right now with Guillaume Canet, and when I’ve finished that I’m going to go to LA for the shoot. Can I tell you anything about Lisa? Um… noooo!”

While she’s busy filming ‘Les petits mouchoirs‘ in Cap Ferret both the ‘Beds are burning‘ Launch and the Dior Fashion Show in Paris had to do without her presence.

It has been announced today, that ‘Inception‘ – directed by Chris Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine – will be released in IMAX theatres as well as in traditional theatres on July 16, 2010:

“Chris Nolan and IMAX have proven to be ideally suited to each other, and we’re very excited to bring them back together again for Inception,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Picture’s president of domestic distribution. “With the rapidly growing IMAX network, our IMAX audience base for this release will be significantly larger than it was for The Dark Knight, which will add to the film’s event status.”

Read more enthusiastic quotes about this news from people representing Warner Bros. and IMAX here.

Mark your calendars: Rob Marshall’s musical ‘Nine‘ will have its premiere in London at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on November 4, 2009. Hopefully, the full cast, incl. Marion will be attending! Thank you TheProjectNine for the heads up.

Marion Cotillard turns 34 today! I wish her a lovely day, hopefully she can spend time with her friends and family.