On January 16, Marion attended the 2012 Chaumet’s Cocktail Party and Dinner for Cesar’s Revelations in Paris.

Source: Gettyimages

‘‘Rust and Bone‘ aka ‘Un gout de rouille et d’os‘ will be released in France on 24 October 2012. There are strong rumours the film will premiere at Cannes Film Festival, which is no surprise given the reception of Un Prophete, Audiard’s last film.

The Playlist also confirms the already posted news that Alexandre Desplat will be doing the score for the film.

Sources: IMDB and The Playlist

It took a while, but ‘Little White Lies‘ will finally be released in U.S in the First Quarter of 2012. MPI Media Group  (hoping to ride the wave of Jean Dujardin’s performance in ‘The Artist‘) acquired the rights to the film with a VOD/DVD roll-out to follow.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter and MPI Media Group

Warner Bros released last month the trailer for ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ which gives us our first glimpse of Marion in the role. The film will be released on 20 July 2012.

Source: Official Site

Awards season is in full swing and Marion has two potential films in contention this year ‘Midnight in Paris‘ and ‘Contagion‘. ‘Midnight in Paris‘ has a strong chance to pick up some nominations come Oscar time. So far the film has picked up some Critics nominations and is nominated for the following awards.

• Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards – Best Picture, Best Comedy Movie (3 nominations)
• Directors’ Guild of America (USA)  – Woody Allen
• Golden Globes – Best Motion Picture – Comedy / Musical (4 nominations)
• Independent Spirit Awards
• Producers’ Guild of America
• Screen Actors Guild – Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
• Writers’ Guild of America

The longlist for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced last week Marion Cotillard is on it for her supporting performance in ‘Midnight in Paris‘. The film grabbed 13 longlist nominations. Congratulations! The full nominations will will be announced on Tuesday, January 17.

Supporting Actress
Alexandra Roach (Young Margaret Thatcher) – The Iron Lady
Bryce Dallas Howard (Hilly Holbrook) – The Help*
Carey Mulligan (Irene) – Drive
Emily Watson (Rosie Narracott) – War Horse
Evan Rachel Wood (Molly Steams) – The Ides of March
Jessica Chastain (Celia Foote) – The Help*
Judi Dench (Dame Sybil Thorndike) – My Week with Marilyn*
Kathy Bates (Gertrude Stein) – Midnight in Paris
Kathy Burke (Connie Sachs) – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Marion Cotillard (Adriana) – Midnight in Paris
Melissa McCarthy (Megan) – Bridesmaids*
Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson) – The Help*
Olivia Colman (Carol Thatcher) – The Iron Lady
Shailene Woodley (Alexandra King) – The Descendants
Zoe Wanamaker (Paula Strasberg) – My Week with Marilyn*

* Denotes Chapter selection from Round One

‘Little White Lies‘ also made the longlist in the Film Not in the English Language category.

• Source: Bafta.org

In recent times I have not found as much joy in maintaining websites as I used to. Also I have many other important things I don’t want to neglect in real life. So after careful & long consideration I realized that saying goodbye to the world of fansites is the only way forward. Sadly, this means that I will also say goodbye to this website here. However, I am still a great admirer of Marion Cotillard. She’s an exceptional actress and I love her career and her choices. It’s really rare that you get talents, beauty and humanity all in one person – and that the person then also gets the opportunity to showcase this to the world like Marion. This together with the fact that I’ve invested a lot of time and energy into Magnifique Marion Cotillard means that I’d hate to see it deleted, merged or continued in a different spirit.

So I’m happy to tell you that Jess is the new owner of the site and while she too is very busy she’ll make sure that the site stays active and that the important news regarding Marion Cotillard’s career will be posted – as she has done already this month. In addition, Luise who has looked after the site in the past when I was away will also help out from time to time with posting the important news.

And once I have some more free time – but hopefully not in the too distant future – I will add the missing portrait sessions & magazine scans.

While the release of the US ‘Midnight in Paris‘ Blu-ray is still more than a week away the French one has been available since October. Finally, I added some gorgeous Blu-ray screencaptures to the gallery. Enjoy!

500 Midnight in Paris (2011) > Blu-ray Screencaptures

A while ago, on October 23, Marion Cotillard attended a premiere screening and photocall in Paris for ‘Contagion‘. Here are some pictures:

040 Events in 2011 > ‘Contagion’ Premiere – Paris

Over the last few weeks as well as today I added some scans and interview transcripts with Marion Cotillard from recent 2011 publications. I also added proper scans of the feature in last May’s L’Express Styles – many thanks melfan from Jemima West Fan for sending me the magazine! Here’s an overview:

• Beautiful Muse, Delta Sky Magazine, June
• La fille en Rose, Eurostar Metropolitan Magazine, June
• Shooting ‘Contagion’ while pregnant ‘affected me’, USA Today, September 9
• Portrait : Marion Cotillard, the directors’ muse, French Cinema London, October 6
• L.A. Confidentiel, Madame Figaro, November 5

007 L’Express Styles (France) – May 11
005 Delta Sky (US) – June
008 Eurostar Metropolitan (UK/France) – June
007 Madame Figaro (France) – November 5

Kindly do not redistribute the magazine scans at another Marion Cotillard fan site as they were scanned exclusively for ‘Magnifique Marion Cotillard’. Thank you.