Uma was recently spotted in a yacht in Italy a few days. I guess it’s time to start racking up on those vacation points since Uma will be coming to Toronto next month for the Toronto International Film Festival where she will be featured in Ceremony. I cannot wait to see this movie! Enjoy!

Here is the first still from Uma’s Ceremony. The movie will be screened on this years Toronto International Film Festival.

Here is an description of the movie from the TIFF website.

A perpetual adolescent stumbling through his twenties with inflated self-confidence, Sam (Michael Angarano) clings to the naive notions of love and romance that he immortalizes in a series of unpublished children’s books. With his sensitive, sycophantic best friend Marshall (Reece Thompson) in tow, he heads to the Hamptons to make a last-ditch effort to woo the object of his infatuation.

Thirty-something publisher Zoe (Uma Thurman) is about to marry Whit (Lee Pace), a self-important documentary filmmaker who’s an outrageous cross between Jacques Costeau and “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. Sam refuses to accept that anyone else could be the love of Zoe’s life and, dressed to the nines in a crumpled burgundy suit, crashes Zoe and Whit’s wedding reception, determined to prove his point.

Like its lead character, Ceremony is dressed for laughs, clothed in all the finery common to romantic comedies: geeky best friends crashing a party in search of revelatory adventure; an egotistical buffoon as the lead character’s romantic competition; a younger sibling (Paper Heart’s Jake M. Johnson – heartfelt and hilarious in every scene) who’s satisfied being a loser since the role of overachiever has already been taken; and of course, a lovelorn lad who clings to his romantic delusions until they blow up in his face.

Yet the heart of the film is deep, complex and ultimately more serious than its initial trappings may suggest. Showing startling maturity for a first-time writer-director, Max Winkler is less concerned with easy laughs and poppy punchlines than with peeling back the layers of his characters’ insecurities, revealing the damaged heart beating beneath the surface and the wounded ego that struggles to gain attention.

Is Sam searching for true love or for unconditional acceptance from a mother figure? When we engage in the ceremonies of courtship, are we following our hearts or being led astray by our desires? Drawing seamlessly upon these themes while eliciting pitch-perfect performances from a terrific cast, Winkler announces himself as a talented director capable of plumbing the depths of human relationships.

Source: TIFF

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off next month and the organizers have released the impressive list of guests scheduled to attend.

Some of the big names attending include Ryan Phillippe and Malin Akerman for Bang Bang Club; Natalie Portman for Black Swan, Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine, Ryan Reynolds for Buried, Emma Stone and Penn Badgley for Easy A, Will Ferrell for Everything Must Go, Scott Speedman and Jay Baruchel for Good Neighbours, Matt Damon and Clint Eastwood for Hereafter, Emma Roberts and Zach Galifianakis for It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox and Bill Murray for Passion Play, Michael C. Hall, Rainn Wilson and Sarah Silverman for Peep World, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page for Super, and Blake Lively, Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner for The Town.

Here’s a more complete, alphabetical list of the stars set to hit the red carpet between September 9th and 19th.

Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard, Bill Gates, Bill Murray, Blake Lively, Bruce Springsteen, Carey
Mulligan, Clive Owen, Colin Firth, David Suzuki, Dominic Cooper, Edward Norton, Ellen Page, Emma Roberts, Emma Stone, Freida Pinto, Gemma Arterton, Harvey Keitel, Helen Mirren, Hilary Swank, Jackson Rathbone, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Jay Baruchel, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, John Legend, Josh Hartnett, Josh Lucas, Kat Dennings, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Spacey, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Liv Tyler, Malin Akerman, Maria Bello, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Megan Fox, Michael C. Hall, Michael Moore, Michael Sheen, Mickey Rourke, Milla Jovovich, Minnie Driver, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Paul Giamatti, Penn Badgley, Rachel Weisz, Rachelle Lefevre, Rainn Wilson, Rebecca Hall, Robert De Niro, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Phillippe, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Rockwell, Sarah Silverman, Scott Speedman, Uma Thurman, Vera Farmiga, Vincent Cassel, Will Ferrell, William H. Macy, Woody Harrelson, Zach Braff and Zach Galifianakis.

Source: Muchmusic

Uma Thurman was at Macy’s Herald Square in New York City to honor Dora The Explorer’s 10th Anniversary and she snapped this beautiful picture with Dora!

On Sunday, August 15th Nickelodeon will be airing Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure, which can also be purchased by “Dora The Explorer” fans on DVD.

Uma Thurman and Almorah Services, which acquired Brit shingle HandMade, have settled the pending litigation over pic “Eloise in Paris,” and the star will continue to go ahead with the project.

Thurman, who HandMade cast three years ago to play the nanny in a movie version of the ’50s children’s tome “Eloise in Paris,” hired showbiz lawyer Bert Fields in January and instructed him to sue HandMade for �6 million ($9.6 million) as the pic had not lensed and the thesp had missed out on other films she could have made during the period.

The settlement means Thurman will continue to be involved with the project in some capacity, Almorah owner David Francis said Friday.

“We aim to build a long-lasting and mutually beneficial relationship with Uma and are delighted to resolve this matter in a very amicable manner and at a very early stage,” he said.

Thurman added, “I am delighted to begin a fresh relationship with HandMade Films and look forward to helping to bring ‘Eloise’ to the big screen.”

It’s unclear whether Australian tyke Jordana Beatty, who was cast to play 6-year-old Eloise, is still attached.

Now age 12, she has snagged the title role in helmer John Schultz’s family pic “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” for Smokewood Entertainment (Daily Variety, July 21).

Meanwhile, HandMade has been restructured since Almorah paid $3.5 million for it, a tenth of its value, in April.

Francis called it a “significant challenge” involving a change of management, a review of operations, “and a focus on generating stable revenue for the company, whilst respecting the integrity and history of its great assets,” which include “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” among other pics.

Francis is CEO of Horizon Group, one of HandMade’s shareholders. He set up Almorah specifically for the HandMade acquisition, buying the 40% stake in the shingle owned by former co-CEO Patrick Meehan’s family trust Cartier Investments.

Almorah now holds a 100% stake in the company.

HandMade, founded by former Beatle George Harrison in the 1970s, has been having longterm financial difficulties. Its shares were suspended in January for the third time in three years and HandMade is now delisted from the London Stock Exchange.

Source: Variety