Fair Game was #2 best selling book with DVD released yesterday

The book: "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House", authored by Valerie Plame Wilson, was the #2 best seller at Borders last week fitting well with the release of the DVD of its movie starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn and directed by Doug Liman yesterday March 29, 2011.

Congratulations!

Fair Game - new TV spot [w/DVD (Mar 29) promo]

*credit: Summit Entertainment

Watts the story

James Mottram, Herald Scotland
Mar 07, 2011

Interview: Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts shivers, wrapping a shawl over her slim shoulders. “It’s a little chilly in the shade,” she says. We’re sitting in a beachside restaurant on the French Riviera, although her gaze is directed towards the sunlit Mediterranean waters across the way. “It’s nice outside,” she murmurs, as if she’d rather be strolling on the sands than promoting two new movies (which, secretly, is probably the case). But then Watts is no ungrateful diva, one who begrudges the attention an international film career brings. More than most, she knows exactly what it’s like to strive for success – and be thwarted at every turn.

While it must feel like a lifetime, it’s been a decade since the Australian actor’s lead role in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive rescued her from the hand-to-mouth existence that most actors must endure. “It became a career after that moment,” she reflects. “Before, I was an actor for hire. It was work here and there. It was always a struggle.” Even Mulholland Drive threatened to implode; originally filmed as a TV pilot, it was rejected by network bosses only for Lynch to regroup his actors, shoot extra footage and turn it into what critics later proclaimed as the film of the decade.

Watts the story...

New mum Naomi Watts talks to Will Lawrence about her admiration for the heroine of her latest film, coping with sleep deprivation and pushing herself to the limits for a role

-  Will Lawrence, Independent IE, 
 Mar 04 2011


The life of a working mother is never easy, so just imagine the complications thrown up when that mother works as a covert operative for the CIA.

The forthcoming thriller Fair Game, which reveals the real-life scandal that unfolded over the exposure of American spy Valerie Plame in 2003, and the subsequent indictment of White House aide Scooter Libby, reveals the enormity of this challenge.

Directed by Doug Liman, who kick-started the Jason Bourne franchise with 2002's Bourne Identity, the film stars Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts in the leading role, the British-born Australian delivering a typically nuanced turn as a woman whose life is turned upside-down, and then shaken about, and then poured all over the pavement.

Naomi Watts would be secure in movie history IF.......

...she had only done Mulholland Drive. 

She deserves a lot of camera time.

- by David Thomson, The Guardian UK, Feb 24, 2011 

Who ever heard a bad word about Naomi Watts? And don't expect to read one here. Still, her latest film, Fair Game, where she plays the outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, with Sean Penn as her husband, made too little impression on all of us who like her. It seemed promising: attractive married people plus international intrigue, along with the suspicion of there being more to the case than we ever heard. Directed by Doug Liman, the movie turns out rather dull. Is playing opposite Sean Penn anti-chemical (this was the third time Watts had tried)? Or did the drama need to be shifted towards comedy? Being married to a "spy" may play best as a version of "Can you trust your wife?"

[Newscast] Naomi Watts named Best Actress (Fair Game) by The People's Alternative Awards 2010

"The People’s Alternative Academy Awards: 2010 PROGIE AWARDS FOR BEST PROGRESSIVE FILMS & ARTISTS

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: The Progie Award for BEST ACTRESS in a film portraying women in a progressive picture is named for Karen Morley, co-star of 1932’s “Scarface” and 1934’s “Our Daily Bread.” Morley was driven out of Hollywood in the 1930s for her leftist views, but maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for New York’s Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.

Winner: Naomi Watts, Fair Game

Congratulation!

Naomi Watts: How the actress became a Hollywood power player

By Martyn Palmer, UK DailyMail, 13 Feb, 2011

Naomi Watts has been shedding the Hollywood glamour to toughen up for her latest film role as real-life undercover agent Valerie Plame. Taking on a new identity and concealing your own? It’s a lot like being an actress, she tells Martyn Palmer

[Watts: "I went from being an actor for hire to an actor that directors wanted to cast."]

With her slender frame and skyscraper heels, Naomi Watts looks like a strong wind would knock her sideways, but the fragile appearance is deceptive. There’s a determination inside the petite actress that stood her in good stead for her role as a tough-as-nails CIA operative in her latest film, Fair Game.

Her son Samuel was still only a few months old when she found herself being drilled at a government-run ‘boot camp’ in Virginia, in preparation for playing real-life agent Valerie Plame, who was thrust into a political storm in 2003 when her identity was leaked, apparently by White House officials. Naomi had to go through the kind of training a real spy would face – learning how to use a gun, handle herself in a fight and generally acquire the physical skills to make her performance believable.

"Fair Game" script won WGA Prize West’s 2011 Paul Selvin Award

Butterworths Win WGA Prize For 'Fair Game' Script

By MIKE FLEMING, Thursday February 3, 2011

LOS ANGELES – Screenwriters Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth have been named recipients of the Writers Guild of America, West’s 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for Fair Game. The award recognizes written work which embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties. The Butterworth brothers, along with other Guild honorees, will be recognized at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony this Saturday, February 5, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel-Grand Ballroom.

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[Repost] For Your Oscar Consideration-Best Actress Naomi Watts

For Your Oscar Consideration-Best Actress
Posted on Jan 20, 2011 by mpassantino

The Best Actress category seems pretty lined up already-Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence and Michelle Williams. Michelle Williams remains vulnerable and could be bumped if the Academy places Hailee Steinfeld in Lead (which she is) instead of supporting (which she is not, but that’s where young actors are sent). My hope is that come nomination morning we have a huge surprise by a terrific actress who was unfairly overlooked the entire awards season. Naomi Watts delivers a commanding performance in Fair Game, where she plays real life CIA operative Valerie Plame who was outed by members of the Bush Administration. Below I have included a clip of Watts’ fine work where her character finds out that her true identity has been revealed. It is a great piece of acting, deserving of an Oscar nomination.

http://mpassantino.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/for-your-oscar-consideration-best-actress/

"Fair Game" - DVD to be released on Mar 29, 2011

The DVD, in both regular and Blu-ray format, of "Fair Game" will be released on Mar 29, 2011, and we have here first and exclusive for our members the cover design(s) . To view the artwork in full HQ please click [here] to go to our [nw2005] forum.

Pre-order of the DVD will be available on Feb 1, 2011.

On the left is a preview which I think is terrific and even better than the poster!

Watt a doll

Fair Game's Naomi Watts may be a huge star - but she's also the nicest woman in Hollywood

by Genevieve Loh, TodayOnoline
Jan 14, 2011

NAOMI Watts may be a bona fide Cannes Film Festival darling, walking the red carpet for her breakthrough role in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive in 2001, as well as for Doug Liman's Fair Game and Woody Allen's You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger last year.

The British-born Australian beauty may also be an Oscar nominee (21 Grams) and blockbuster box-office draw (The Ring and King Kong).

But the 42-year-old mother of two boys is undoubtedly still one of the most genuine and down-to-earth stars a journo could meet.

"Oh, let them take a photo or two first ... no problem at all!" she said to the harried PR folk fussing around her after our interview along the Croisette in Cannes, where Fair Game was in competition for the Palme d'or.

Naomi Watts, as per Vanessa Chong

Vanessa Chong meets Naomi Watts
By Noorsila Abd Majid

Vanessa Chong has each reason to be upon cloud nine.

Her engagement to Pop Shuvit rocker Mootsaside, a Malaysian reality star additionally enjoys extra five-minute of celebrity upon a ultimate Hollywood spy thriller, Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts as well as Sean Pean.

"It's so cold to act to one side Naomi Watts in a opening scene," enthuses Vanessa. "I'm a cabinet member who greets her as well as takes her up a lift."In Fair Game, Naomi is expel as CIA agent, Valerie Plame - whose temperament was suggested by White House officials allegedly out to disprove her father after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece observant that a Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass drop to clear a advance of Iraq.

Vanessa Chong as well as Naomi Watts set upon a poise upon a film set and it may be tough to believe, though Naomi, according to Vanessa, is a really bashful person."Naomi is really nice, though a little bashful actually," she says.Vanessa was in awe with a blonde Australian beauty, who has starred in a dozen of hits like King Kong as well as The Ring.

"I immediately took a picture with Naomi after our stage was over," she says with a laugh.

"Mother & Child" & "Fair Game" honored by the Women Film Critics Circle Awards 2010...

...in 4 different categories respectively as follows:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Mother And Child

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: *TIE
Another Year
Fair Game

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
Fair Game

WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE
Mother And Child

"Fair Game" is amongst the "Top 10: Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post"

Top 10: Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post

1. The Social Network
2. 127 Hours
3. The Tillman Story
4. I Am Love
5. Please Give
6. Inception
7. No One Knows About Persian Cats
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. The Ghost Writer
10. Fair Game (“Doug Liman’s concentrated, well-calibrated revisiting of the story of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson avoided axe-grinding in favor of a taut drama that reminded viewers that even the most cynically stage-managed political theater possesses unseen human stakes.”)

Naomi nominated for Best Actress by the St. Louis Film Critics

The St. Louis Film Critics have announced their nominations for 2010 and Naomi is amongst the 5 nominees for best actress. Congratulations!

BEST ACTRESS

Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Naomi Watts, Fair Game

Australian Jetstar airline Magazine - Dec 2010

Naomi is featured on the cover of the Australian Jetstar Magazine with an old photo channeling sexiness of the Marilyn Monroe style and of course, one of her upcoming new projects will be the biopic of the classical sex symbol. Here below are a thumnail of the exclusive scans of the cover and inside pages with nice photos and an interview with Jessica Finn on her current film "Fair Game" which can be seen on the forum via the link below the image, and following which, the text of the interview.

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Twice the Talent

She's one of Australia's favourite daughters who has become Hollywood's darling complete with an Oscar nomination, but behind the camera, Naomi Watts is a down-to-earth, doting mother of two

- by Jessica Finn

Even though she has left the men in her life behind — partner and actor Liev Schreiber, and their two children Alexander, three, and 21-month-old Samuel Kai — to meet with Jetstar Magazine at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, Naomi Watts appears every bit the devoted mother.

After breezing into the room for our appointment to talk about her new movie Fair Game, the conversation soon drifts to her off-screen joy. “Things have changed now that I have children,” shares the 42-year-old Australian, English-born actress. “I don’t put in the same blood, sweat and tears anymore.

“I’ve always thought of myself as someone with a great work ethic, and that I’m very committed to what I do. But I don’t work as often as I used to now. I used to take my work home and stay up all night deliberating on it.

[Awards] "Fair Game" is NBR Freedom of Expression Award winner (shared)

The full list of 2010 awards given by the National Board of Review today:

* Best Film: The Social Network
* Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network
* Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
* Best Actress: Lesley Manville, Another Year
* Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
* Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
* Best Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
* Best Documentary: Waiting for “Superman”
* Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
* Best Ensemble Cast: The Town
* Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
* Debut Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
* Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati, The Illusionist
* Best Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling, Buried
* Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
* Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing, and    producing Somewhere
* William K. Everson Film History Award: Leonard Maltin
* NBR Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl
* Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti, Shutter Island

[Interview] Naomi Totally Driven : An Interview with MovieLine

Naomi Watts on Fair Game, Short Attention Spans and How You Get to Know a Spy

by S.T. VanAirsdale, The Movieline Interview, Nov 2010

Naomi Watts freely admits she had a hard time getting to know Valerie Plame, the ex-CIA agent notoriously outed by a Bush Administration henchman in 2003. But it wasn’t because of what Plame couldn’t tell the actress in preparation for Fair Game, the new film starring Watts as the newly exposed covert operative. It’s because of the intimate yet necessary details of a marriage that, as a result of the scandal, nearly became some of the Iraq War’s most infamous collateral damage.

Watts and Plame finally sorted that out, of course. What emerged is director Doug Liman’s two-pronged tale of Plame’s struggle to protect her nuclear counterproliferation missions in the Middle East, all the while battling to save her marriage to the outraged former ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), whose critical New York Times editorial mobilized the White House against Plame in the first place. It’s a tricky balance Watts manages with typical aplomb — not that it didn’t take a while, the Oscar-nominee told Movieline during a chat last month in New York.

[Newscast] 3 nominations for "Fair Game" at The Golden Satellites Awards

Following The Independent Spirit Awards, the Golden Satellites (International Press Academy) have also announced their nominations for the year. For "Fair Game", Naomi is nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama. In addition, Sean Penn is nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth are nominated in the Best Screenplay, adapted category. "Fair Game" has received 3 nominations in total.

Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
NICOLE KIDMAN, RABBIT HOLE
JENNIFER LAWRENCE, WINTER’S BONE
HELEN MIRREN, THE TEMPEST
NATALIE PORTMAN, BLACK SWAN
NOOMI RAPACE, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
TILDA SWINTON, I AM LOVE
NAOMI WATTS, FAIR GAME
MICHELLE WILLIAMS, BLUE VALENTINE

[Article] Doug Liman on Naomi Watts & Sean Penn

Doug Liman: Sean Penn Has the Movie Star Role But Naomi Watts’ Steely Performance May Be Her Finest Yet

by Doug Liman

I’ve just seen Naomi for the first time since my arrival at Cannes. I’ve been quoted talking about Naomi, saying that I think this may be her finest performance yet. I think the reason I feel that way is because her role in this film as Valerie Plame is a truly challenging role because NOCs (Non-official cover – government intelligence operatives who assume covert roles in organizations without official ties to their government) are wallflowers by nature and are usually understated and quiet. They want be the least interesting person in the room and want to learn about you without you learning about them.