28 June 2008
Julia is featured in the July/August 209 issue of More magazine in the US. You can see the scans that Jo did on the all-new undefinitive blog at juliaormondundefinitive.blogspot.com.
18 June 2008
Rodolfo has sent in a link to last night's The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on youtube.
17 June 2008
Here's a TV alert for US viewers. Julia will be a guest on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson tonight. Check your listings!
16 June 2008
Yesterday appeared to be the US premiere of Surveillance.
Rodolfo has sent in a couple of links to premiere videos on youtube. As they say on the BBC, be advised that the footage contains flash photography. See the videos at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGu8v5nLIbM and also at www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUjkkHMDnc.
Lettie tells me that there are photos at getty images. Indeed there are. Here are just a few thumbnails...
28 May 2008
Guess what! Julia is not going to be in Three Rivers!
Also not continuing beyond the pilot stage is Julia Ormond, who played a lead on "Rivers." The show, from CBS TV Studios, is about organ transplants seen through three points of view: the doctors, donors and recipients. In the pilot, Ormond played the head of surgery.
Source:www.hollywoodreporter.com
It seems that UK actors are falling out of favour in the US. Rupert Penry-Jones, Louise Lombard and Richard Coyle all made pilots and are all seeing their characters recast.
24 May 2009
Thanks to Rodolfo for sending in a link to a promo video of Three Rivers featuring some Julia talking clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&v=fZj3EIkQGXY.
23 May 2009
Kimberly sent in a link to an article called "Books That Made a Difference to Julia Ormond" on www.oprah.com.
19 May 2009
Today lots of US sites are reporting on the next season's new TV shows. Among them is Julia's series called Three Rivers about organ transplant doctors. You can read the news at www.hollywoodreporter.com or do a google news search and find lots of other pages with similar stories.
30 April 2009
There's a new Julia interview at uk.reuters.com. Thanks Jo.
24 April 2009
Lettie sent in her comments on Che Part 1.
Last night I went to see the long awaited first part of the Che story. The film begins with Che (Benecio Del Torro) seated in a lighted room preparing to be interviewed by Lisa Howard (Julia Ormond). Che (Del Torro) can be seen but not Howard (Ormond). Howard's voice is heard testing the microphone. Che tells his story in flash backs of how the revolution in Cuba began - prompted with questions from Howard. The film consists of many scenes in which political discussions take place about the revolution itself and about communism. Ormond's character appears in a flash back scene where Che is watching the US news on a 50s TV set. This is the first time we see Lisa Howard (Julia Ormond) on the screen. Che later attends a party at Lisa Howard's (Ormond) house. In this scene we see our lovely Julia in a platinum blonde wig with 60s, heavy, black eyeliner. She looks almost unrecognisable. We see Lisa Howard (Ormond) once again briefly towards the end of the film in the interview scene at the beginning of the film. The film ends abruptly and it is clear that there is more to the story even without knowing that there is a part two. Che Part One is not for light entertainment. It is a film which takes itself seriously and wishes to be taken seriously. The auditorium was filled with students and intellectual looking types. In general it is a good film but the Ormond screen time will be disappointing for her fans. Still it was nice to see her back on the big screen in less than four months since her appearance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
15 April 2009
Lettie sent in her comments on Julia's second episode of CSI NY.
As the fans are aware Julia Ormond is currently appearing in a guest role on the populer USA TV series CSI:NY. She has appeared in two episodes to date, the former for only a few minutes, but in the second Julia had a lot of screen time tackling a subject close to her heart in real life - the sex slave trade. Her character plays a detective trying to find a young woman believed to have been abducted by slave traffikers. Julia's character has empathy with the victims of the sex trade revealed in a very emotionally sensitive scene where she confides to Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) that her niece disappeared a few years ago and is believed to have been abducted by slave traffikers. Julia, as always, plays an intelligent and thoroughly convincing character. It always amazes me when I watch her act how she seems to really become the person she is playing - but I suppose that is what makes her such a fine actress. It is great to see her acting again.'
I believe that Julia's final episode will be shown next Saturday in the UK.
10 April 2009
Just an alert that Julia's second episode of CSI NY will be on channel five tomorrow evening in the UK.
28 March 2009
There is a three page interview with Julia in the new issue of the official CSI NY magazine. Here are scans for your viewing enjoyment:
25 March 2009
www.heraldstandard.com has a story about a a former hospital in Pittsburgh being used as the location for Julia's new pilot Three Rivers.
24 March 2009
Looks like Julia isn't putting her feet up. She's got a new pilot to make for a show called Three Rivers.
"Rivers," from CBS Paramount, is about organ transplants seen through three points of view: those of the doctors, the donors and the recipients. Gersh-repped Ormond will play the head of surgery at Three Rivers Hospital. She co-starred in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and has been recurring on CBS' "CSI: NY."
Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
Thanks to Kim.
20 March 2009
Rodolfo sent in this link to a Benjamin Button interview at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzS29A4p2A
Jo scanned this page on Julia from the March 2009 issue of Sky Movies.
3 March 2009
Thanks to Natalie for telling me about this. A Julia interview appeared in last Friday's London Evening Standard's ES magazine. The article and nice photos can be found online at www.thisislondon.co.uk.
24 February 2009
A couple of things from Lettie.
Firstly there are pictures of Julia at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. You can see some at www.newsgab.com.
Also Che parts 1 and 2 are being screened at the Odeon in Lincoln on 21 and 28 April.
17 February 2009
Tomorrow (18 Feb) the third CSI NY featuring Julia will be shown in the US. Channel 5 in the UK will finally show the first of her episodes on Saturday 28 Feb.
13 February 2009
Here is Lettie's review of Benjamin Button.
It has been 14 years since Julia Ormond last appeared on the big screen in Sabrina with Harrison Ford. I did not think that it would ever happen again but, happily I was wrong. On Friday I saw TCCOBB in which she has a supporting role as the daughter of Cate Blanchett's character Daisy. Daisy is on her death bed in a hospital room and her daughter reads to her from a diary kept by the late Benjamin Button who turns out to be the love of Daisy's life. Ormond's character knows that her mother's life is coming to an end. Ormond plays the emotionally distraught daughter very convincingly - she looks tired, sad and pale. Sometimes it was hard for me to watch the scenes between Blanchett and Ormond having lost my own mother in a hospital room last year - it all felt a little too real at times. Pitt is almost unrecognisable as the old Benjamin Button and reveals, pehaps for the first time, a new dimension to his acting talents. The themes in the film seem to be love and loss and life and death. Ormond has quite alot of screen time and her role is pivotal to the whole story. It was nice to see Ormond back on the big screen. Let us hope she is back to stay.
11 February 2009
Rodolfo has found a listing for Julia's El Escorial movie coming out in all-region Blu-Ray & DVD at the end of the month: www.index-dvd.com.
He has also found a UK trailer for Surveillance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPx_fC6Mjqc Surveillance is due out in UK cinemas on 6 March I believe.
Information on where and when the new TV movie The Wronged Man is to be filmed can be found at www.times-herald.com.
Jo tells me that The Straits Times in Singapore has a Julia interview in today's print edition: www.straitstimes.com.
7 February 2009
Looks like Julia is keeping busy...
Julia Ormond is set to star in "The Wronged Man," a Lifetime Movie Network telefilm slated to premiere in November.
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali also has been cast in the project, from Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures and Sony TV.
Based on a true story, "Man" centers on Janet Gregory (Ormond), a single mother working as a paralegal who is convinced of the innocence of Calvin Willis (Ali), a black husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. She eventually takes his case pro bono and starts a 22-year legal battle that ultimately exonerates an unjustly accused man and sparks a lifelong friendship.
Tom McLoughlin will direct the film from a script by Teena Booth.
Ormond and Ali appear together in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
6 February 2009
It looks like Julia's next episode of CSI:NY is on US TV screens next week.
Human trafficking is brought as the subject of case in the February 11 episode of "CSI: NY". In "She's Not There", a Russian tourist is found stabbed to death and the CSIs come face to face with the frightening realities of human trafficking.
Two separate cases turn into one when one girl turns up dead and another is missing. Solving this case becomes personal when it directly affects a prominent member of the NYPD. Julia Ormond comes back as Deputy Inspector Gillian Whitford who has been cleared.
Source: www.aceshowbiz.com
There's also an embedded preview video and photo of Julia on the above page.
27 January 2009
Here's a couple of photos of Julia at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
And Rodolfo sent in a video of her being interviewed on the red carpet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWz-Ykn0eo
23 January 2009
Two videos for you.
Julia makes a pledge about two-thirds of the way in. Thanks to Jo: celebrity.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=celebrity.impact
Julia Ormond on the Bonnie Hunt Show on January 21. Thanks to Rodolfo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N387io-zj_s
18 January 2009
www.redbookmag.com have an interview with Julia plus Julia Ormond's 6 Fashion Resolutions for Style Ruts containing photos of Julia looking very glam.
Here's a photo of Julia at the Golden Globes last weekend. I understand there are more photos on sites like gettyimages.
16 January 2009
Thanks to "S" for getting in touch with this On Sunday night's telecast of the Golden Globes there was a quick shot of Julia. Anyone else catch this? There was also a 30-minute Benjamin Button program/advertisement on tv from the studio releasing the movie. Several actors from the movie sat around a table and discussed the movie. Again, did anyone else see it?
11 January 2009
Thanks to Kimberly for sending in a link to some Julia CSI NY info.
Also in New York news, Julia Ormond is set to return for two more episodes in February as Mac's new boss, Deputy Inspector Gillian Whitmore. The actress told TV Guide she signed on to do the three episode arc after the producers included a storyline that is close to her heart. Ormond founded the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET), and one of her upcoming episodes deals with human trafficking. "It's fabulous how they wove it in," Ormond explained. "A Russian girl is brought into the forced sex trade... This has a poignant resonance to Gillian."
Source: www.csifiles.com
7 January 2009
The new season of CSI NY starts on channel 5 in the UK on Saturday 10 January. That means Julia's first episode will be on sometime in February.
2 January 2009
(Huh, another year that I've been working on this website. It dates back to 1997 you know.)
Kimberly sent in this link where an astrologer analyzes Julia. Read it at www.elsaelsa.com.
Lots of Button and Che reviews floating around right now as the movies open. For example the new Empire magazine reviews them both. The Empire review for Che Part 1 is at www.empireonline.com.
Happy birthday to Julia. It's on the 4th. I remembered this year for a change.