Christopher Plummer

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Born: 12/13/1927

Biography: From his 1950 debut onward, Christopher Plummer has been regarded as one of the most brilliant Canadian actors of his generation. His portrayal of Hamlet was a major ratings coup when telecast over the CBC in the early '60s. Following his first Broadway appearance in 1954 (a …

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9 [Movie] as 1

2009

Up: in Disney Digital 3-D [Movie] as Charles Muntz

2009

Up [Movie] as Charles Muntz

2009

My Dog Tulip [Movie]

2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Caesar and Cleopatra [Movie]

2009

The Last Station [Movie] as Leo Tolstoy

2009

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10 Most Clever Bank Robberies in Movies

07/01/09 Before seeing Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Michael Mann's new crime film Public Enemies , we decided to check out an earlier portrayal of the infamous bank robber, Lawrence Tierney in Dillinger . | SpoutBlog
Meet Stitchpunk Characters from ?9?

06/30/09 Focus Features sent me all the images and character descriptions for the movie 9 . | Screenhead
Dukakis, Fricker set for 'Cloudburst'

06/30/09 Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in road-trip comedy "Cloudburst" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, with Thom Fitzgerald directing from his own script. | Variety
October UK release for Parnassus

06/29/09 Heath Ledger's last film, Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, has been given a UK cinema release date. | BBC Radio 1
EXCLUSIVE: Check Out A New Poster From Elijah Wood?s Post-Apocalyptic Epic ?9?

06/25/09 It's one of our most highly-anticipated movies, and now we've got another first look for the gloomy animated flick "9." | MTV Movies Blog
FFA devotes $56 million to digitization

06/22/09 The German Federal Film Board (FFA) agreed on Friday to provide Euros 40 million ($55.5 million) in start-up financing to help the digitization of domestic cinemas on the condition that exhibs drop their opposition to mandatory levies to the film subsidy org. A federal court ruled earlier this year that the levies are unconstitutional because theatrical exhibs and home entertainment distribs are legally required to pay while TV broadcasters' contributions are voluntary. | Variety
'Star Trek Scene It?' Bursts Into The Galaxy (Win It!)

06/19/09 Screenlife Games, creator of Scene It?, the number one DVD game, recently announced the release of the "Scene It? Star Trek Deluxe Edition". | Starpulse News Blog
'Star Trek Scene It?' Bursts Into The Galaxy (Win It!)

06/19/09 Screenlife Games, creator of Scene It?, the number one DVD game, recently announced the release of the "Scene It? Star Trek Deluxe Edition". | Starpulse
Summer Shakespeare's eternal question: To picnic or not to picnic?

06/17/09 The rarely performed "Pericles" is about a prince who finds love, loses it and then travels from one far-flung place to another. | Journal News - White Plains NY
Kevin Spacey to 'Inherit' stage role

06/05/09 Kevin Spacey will topline a Trevor Nunn-helmed production of "Inherit the Wind" in September at London's Old Vic, the Blighty theater of which Spacey is a.d. Also on the Old Vic's 2009-10 slate is a revival of "Six Degrees of Separation" directed by David Grindley, as well as the two upcoming outings from the Bridge Project, "Three Sisters" and "As You Like It." In "Wind," Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's fictionalized 1955 take on the Scopes monkey trial, Spacey will play Henry Drummond, the lawyer defending a man standing trial for teaching evolution in the classroom. | Variety
Film Review: 'Up' reaches new heights

06/05/09 With 2008's "WALL-E," Pixar proved it could push the boundaries of children's entertainment into the realm of legitimate science fiction and fantasy. | UWIRE
The soundtracks of summer: 'Star Trek,? 'Up? composer Michael Giacchino has them covered

06/03/09 Giacchino was creating music for video games (The Lost World, Medal of Honor) when he was discovered by "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams -- who's just a bit hot himself -- while he was preparing to launch the ABC spy series "Alias." | Buzz Bands
Review: UP *Mild Spoilers*

06/01/09 For such focus on few players, the characters never feel fully fleshed out, most particularly the enthusiastic Boyscout stowaway, Russell. | Twitch
Blu-ray Review: Inside Man

06/01/09 Along with my very late-blooming love for the cinema and my gravitation towards genre films, there are some filmmakers whose films I have never seen. | Blogcritics.org Video
Movie Review: Up (2009) in 3-D

06/01/09 Disney/Pixar's Up flew to astronomical heights with a successful $68.2 million opening weekend. | Blogcritics.org Video
Local galvanizing plants suffer effects of steel slowdown

05/30/09 With the steel industry cutting production, closing plants and laying off thousands worldwide, three steel-galvanizing plants in the Pittsburgh area, known as The Techs, are feeling effects of the slowdown. | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh PA
Terry Gilliam used magic to finish 'Imaginarium'

05/29/09 Gilliam, who co-wrote the script with Charles McKeown, described the film as "my 'Fanny & Alexander,' my 'Amarcord.' I went back to the things I'm really good at." | Journal News - White Plains NY
Movie Review: Up (2009)

05/29/09 On May 29th, Disney/Pixar released Up and proved once again that they simply cannot make movies that are consistently funny anymore, or even cute. | Blogcritics.org Video
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassusm, 3 clips

05/27/09 Although many critics at Cannes deemed Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassusm a noble bur faulty effort, a swing and a miss, I'm not hearing the swoosh of an airball at all from this brief clip with Lily Cole and Christopher Plummer. | Awards Daily
Heath Ledger's finale role presented at Cannes

05/22/09 Heath Ledger's zeal roused his co-stars to up their game in his final film, and his death inspired them ? and three A-list friends who completed his role ? to carry on with a story the late actor had wanted to see, director Terry Gilliam said Friday. | Zap2it
HBO is making a 2008 election film, but who will play whom?

04/14/09 ON AOL TELEVISION The network that brought you a movie based on the 2000 Presidential Election and would have brought you a movie based on the 2004 Presidential Election had it been more interesting is bringing you another one. | TV Squad

Year
Result
Award
Movie

2005
Won
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Our Fathers

2003
Won
Genie Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Blizzard

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