Why the Venice Film Fest Matters More to Oscar (Sorry, Toronto)

Why the Venice Film Fest Matters More to Oscar (Sorry, Toronto)

The past few years, while Toronto bickered with Telluride over which festival could screen which premiere when and where, Venice — after some decidedly lackluster editions — took the high road and worked on improving. The result? It’s back on top after a scorecard that saw successful Oscar wins for Venice premieres three years in a row: Gravity, Birdman and, last year, Spotlight. Hollywood has taken notice. The festival is filled with studio titles this year, which means the red carpet will be filled with A-list talent. The four premieres that already are garnering awards buzz:

Focus Features’ $20 Million Gamble

Last year, Focus Features paid a reported $20 million for Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s sophomore directorial effort.

Now, Focus is planning on betting a big chunk of their Oscar-campaign money on the dark romance based on Austin Wright’s novel Tony and Susan and starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. Adams plays an art gallery owner who receives her ex-husband’s violent manuscript in the mail, which she interprets as a threatening tale of revenge and regret. It plays out as a story within a story as Isla Fisher plays Adams in novel form.

Could the L.A.-set noir finally deliver Amy Adams and/or Jake Gyllenhaal their long-awaited Oscars? Focus hopes so, with many more categories to push for. “The film will be one of the highlights of Venice,” says Barbera. “Both Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal could start an Oscar campaign from Venice, definitely.”

(THR)

Kerry Washington, J.Lo, Amy Adams, Lea Michele, and More Unite for a Splendid Girls’ Day at Annual L.A. Shopping Party

Isla attended this fashion event in LA recently; unfortunately there are no official photos from it, but here’s an article about it:

Kerry Washington, J.Lo, Amy Adams, Lea Michele, and More Unite for a Splendid Girls’ Day at Annual L.A. Shopping Party

August 15th 2016

Producer Jennifer Klein’s star-studded 18th annual Day of Indulgence Party, held at her Los Angeles home Sunday afternoon, was nothing short of a decadence-filled soiree with an indulgent element at every turn.

Lucky attendees at the all-girls event, like InStyle’s September cover girl Kerry Washington (in Hatch), Jennifer Lopez, Amy Adams (in Thakoon), Isla Fisher (in BCBG), Anna Faris (in Perse and Isabel Marant), Constance Zimmer (in Madewell), Leslie Mann (in Stella McCartney), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (in Marc Jacobs), and Olivia Munn, among others, were treated to a day filled with luxe spa treatments, shopping, and delicious eats all over the home.

“It’s so much fun,” Lopez, who last attended the event in 2014, told InStyle. “Such a girls’ day.” The Shades of Blue star headed to the backyard for some retail therapy, where brands like Giorgio Armani Beauty, Alexis Bittar, Henri Bendel, and Atelier Cologne provided pop-up shops. While Lopez scooped up a red Lip Maestro hue from Armani, Isla Fisher and Amy Adams (below, with Rashida Jones) took home the Ultimate Nourishing Honey Mask from Fresh’s “Mask Menu” table, and Lea Michele swooned over the cruelty-free M.O.T.D. cosmetic brushes at Anthropologie’s booth, and the bralettes and Thinstincts at the Spanx station.

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New interview with The Metro

Isla chats about Marge In Charge, Grimsby, females in comedy and more with London newspaper The Metro:

ISLA in the SUN

Actress Isla Fisher’s career has taken some inspired new turns. Claire Allfree catches up with her as she releases her new children’s book

YOU hear Isla Fisher before you see her. That throaty Australian drawl, that big, booming laugh. And then that flash of bright auburn hair that’s a frequent fixture on the red carpet thanks to Fisher’s film career, and that of her notorious husband, Sacha Baron Cohen (but which, for readers over a certain age, will be forever associated with anorexic Shannon from the Aussie soap Home And Away).

She clearly knows the man who runs the in-house café at her local Waterstones as she orders a latte but no one else in this manicured part of north London, no doubt well used to celebrities traipsing up and down the high street, bats an eyelid.

Warm, immediately friendly and sporting impressive long turquoise nails, Fisher is here to talk about her first children’s story, Marge In Charge, a comic caper aimed at seven-year-olds, featuring Marge, babysitter extraordinare to Jemima and her younger brother, Jakeypants, and an anarchic cross between Mary Poppins and Pippi Longstocking, with a dash of Dame Edna Everage thrown in.

‘Marge subverts all the rules,’ says Fisher of her fictional creation, who creates mayhem each time she comes to stay. ‘The kids end up babysitting their babysitter. I live vicariously through Marge because, being a mother myself, these days I have to be sensible.’


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Isla Fisher interviewed by child about her first kids’ book

Isla Fisher interviewed by child about her first kids’ book

Isla Fisher is an actor, mother of three – and now a children’s author.

Her first book is about a chaotic babysitter called Marge.

Six-year-old Ottilie has read it and met Isla to discuss the book’s finer details.

(BBC)





Marge In Charge audiobook available now

Marge In Charge is also available as an audiobook now and you can purchase it on Amazon and Bolinda – each of them have a different excerpt from the book read by Isla herself!

The follow-up to Marge In Charge – Marge And The Pirate Baby – is scheduled to be released on January 12th 2017.