[©NW2005 FirstLook] Angeleno Magazine Dec 2012

Featured on the cover of the Dec 2012 issue of the Angeleno magazine, Naomi as photographed by Warwick Saint is all flowery and illuminating with her red lips and fair skin - the force of nature. First & exclusive as always for our fans. More images all without watermarks and with credit to their photographer Warwick Saint.

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Angelina Jolie celebrates The Impossible (Full Story)

By Wendy Mitchell, ScreenDaily

Angelina Jolie came out in strong support of her old pal Ewan McGregor by hosting a London screening Sunday night of JA Bayona’s tsunami drama The Impossible.

The film, which premiered in Toronto, is already a record-setting box office hit in Spain and gets its UK premiere this week via eOne.

[Magazine Alert] Naomi on Delta Sky Dec 2012

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From her breakthrough role in Mulholland Drive to her upcoming Oscar-buzzworthy performance in The Impossible, Naomi Watts talks about the big screen in December's Delta Sky Magazine.

[The Article]

Yes, she's beautiful. But it's Naomi Watts' trademark intensity that has made her a star.

by DEBORAH CAULFIELD RYBAK

Naomi Watts has personally experienced a hurricane (Sandy, 2012) and a major earthquake (Los Angeles, 1994), but this month moviegoers will associate her with a much different natural disaster: She stars in The Impossible, based on the true story of a Spanish family's harrowing experience in the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

"When I heard about another film being made about the tsunami, it didn't grab me right away,"she says of her initial skepticism about the movie. "Disaster films can often be a lot of running and screaming. But after reading the first five or 10 pages, I could tell that this story felt real and true. Yes, it was about this disastrous event that took place, but inside of that story was something very intimate about the family, and that really interested me.”

The tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people in 14 countries, and it was the fifth deadliest natural disaster in recorded history. Among the victims in Thailand was a Spanish family, the Belons, who became separated after gigantic waves washed over their hotel. Dr. Maria Belon was seriously injured and struggled to protect one of her sons while looking for her husband and two other sons. After hearing Belon tell her story on a Spanish radio station, director Juan Antonio Bayona decided to make Impossible, looking to Watts and Ewan McGregor for the lead roles when the main characters were changed from a Spanish to a British family.

[Article] Meeting w/Naomi Watts - French Grazia

An English translation of the article in French published in the recent French Grazia magazine can now be read on the [nw2005] forum.

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Edward Norton's special screening of "The Impossible" honoring Naomi on Nov 28, 2012

Naomi is joined by Edward Norton at a screening honoring her he hosted of her new film The Impossible on Wed (Nov 28) at the Dolby 24 Screening Room in New York City.



This is following Angelina Jolie & Brat Pitt's holding of a private special screening of the film and Mark Ruffalo's beautiful write-up for Naomi for the SAG Voting Preview, all indicating that Naomi's fellow actors and peers are and will be coming out in support of her at this year upcoming awards season. This is very encouraging inded.

"The Passion of Naomi Watts"

A beautiful write-up by R Kurt Osenlund:

Oscar Prospects: The Impossible

by R. Kurt Osenlund on Nov 28, 2012
The House next Door, Slant Magazine


[Editor's Note: Oscar Prospects is your weekly analysis of an awards contender and how it's likely to fare come Oscar nomination morning. The column is comprehensive, so beware of spoilers.]

If there's a film this season that's poised to nab Oscar's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close vote, joining a generously wide Best Picture field for its cloying take on a recent tragedy, it's definitely J.A. Bayona's The Impossible, a markedly odd prestige picture with enough capital-A acting and capital-I issues to distract from its dire mix of sentiment and insensitivity. Charting one family's struggle to survive amid the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, this epic, fact-based tearjerker is already raking in critical acclaim, despite its pedestrian retooling of the disaster-movie formula. On this site alone, venom has been spat regarding the central family's ethnicity, which was changed from Spanish to British in a move that reeks of commercial compromise. The contentious racial topic may well miff some Academy members of color (and the astute ballot-casters who love them), but likely not enough to quell the movie's apparent wave of supporters. (Get it?) One should hope that savvier voters will simply dismiss the film for reasons more foundational than whitewashing, for The Impossible is essentially a topical twist on a Roland Emmerich deathfest, wherein viewers are subjected to endless weather-fueled carnage, with the salvation of the core cast serving as self-satisfied consolation. Indeed, this is all inspired by a true story (as an emboldened pre-film title card is sure to hammer home), but, true or not, the strength of a story is in the telling, and what's peddled here is the convenient eminence of folks to whom, in comparison, all other survivors pale.

The premiere of "Beware of Mr. Baker" - Nov 27, 2012

Liev & Naomi shown up at the NYC premiere of "Beware of Mr. Baker", a documentary directed by Jay Bulger yesterday Nov 7, 2012. Usually casual, Naomi was seen wearing a pair of white sneakers to co-ordinate her upper body seasonal outfit in dark colors.













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Naomi & Bayona filmed Christmas Ad for El Corte Ingles in Spain

Naomi Watts and Juan Antonio Bayona, together again in an advertising campaign

Tue 27/11/2012


Naomi Watts and Juan Antonio Bayona managed 'the impossible' in Spanish theaters, until another couple film, composed by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, broke his record. However, British actress and Spanish filmmaker remain the duo of fashion in our country, at least for El Corte Ingles. The chain has entrusted to the winning tandem its Christmas campaign.

If last year was the late Tony LeBlanc, this year the blonde who took to the big screen the story of Maria Belon has become to put under the orders of Bayonne to roll the announcement of department stores. She who abandoned United Kingdom to wander through the enigmatic Mulholland Drive (2001) seems to have come to Spain to stay. Because although safely returns home by Christmas to spend with her husband and two sons, the protagonist of 21 grams has left us some screenshots of gift.

Wrapped in the 'glitter' halo that give the sequins and an outstanding career in Hollywood, Watts walks around the facilities of El Corte Ingles loaded with bags, boxes and even a teddy bear. At the moment, and despite some leaks, not is known much more about the last footage of Bayonne who will soon arrive at the television.

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Naomi goes shopping with her 2 face-making sons on Nov 26, 2012

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Mark Ruffalo on Naomi Watts in 'The Impossible'

 
Nov 26, 2012

Mark Ruffalo on Naomi Watts in 'The Impossible'
SAG Preview: Actors on Actors - Ruffalo on Watts


By Mark Ruffalo
Variety, The Vote

Naomi shows us once again how beautifully and honestly she can render tragedy into heroism. In the character of Maria, she shows us a woman who is both struggling with sacrificing a career for her three young sons and a longing for greater meaning.



There is a Christmas morning scene that feels devoid of family or the togetherness and becomes a free-for-all to open presents. The family is staying at a top resort surrounded by beauty and material wealth. All of these things experienced through the filter of Maria's quiet emptiness and soul sickness. Naomi masterfully imparts Maria's longing for something that not even she is able to articulate. Naomi does this in a look or a simple few words about her husband always being on his cell phone. She then turns her disappointment into a light-hearted laugh to cover her longing, to cast off any heaviness or discomfort. These things are subtle and nearly imperceptible to any other audience member, but to an actor they are admirable in their restraint, poise and intention.

What happens next is an epiphany through suffering. The scene with Naomi and her son (a fantastic Tom Holland) trying to survive in the torrents of the 2004 Thailand tsunami are heartbreaking, and we are swept up into the emotional honesty of a woman coming to terms with the loss of her children and family.

This is great and nearly impossible acting. Naomi takes us through this woman's journey from modern malaise to the deepest and most meaningful parts of being human: our relationships to others in the world around us.

Naomi fills every moment onscreen with honesty and intention -- one eye on the story and the other on credibility, and she is deeply in service to them both. She never backs away from what is difficult and she is never gratuitous or vain, which is incredibly refreshing and admirable. Naomi Watts is one of our acting treasures.

Russian poster of "Movie 43"

A Russian movie poster for the upcoming Naomi's comedy "Movie 43" has been posted on the internet and can be viewed on the Movieweb site via the following link. Note: we cannot identify or verify the originality and/or the authenticity of this poster. So viewing or anything to do with this material is at your own risk.


http://www.movieweb.com/news/movie-43-russian-poster

Interview w/Monsieurhollywood on "The Impossible" (video)

Earlier and before she went to Angola to shoot the landmines scene of "Diana", Naomi did a 3-part interview with Monsieurhollywwood.com on "The Impossible" and below is the footage in 3 parts for your first view.

[Part 1 of 3]


[Part 2 of 3]


[Part 3 of 3]

 
*video credit: Monsieurhollywood.com