"Miss Pettigrew" French poster

"Miss Pettigrew lives for a day" is finally coming out in theaters in Paris. It's being released on February 25, 2008 and the new poster looks quite lovely! The slogan at the top of the poster says "there is no age for fairy tales" and it looks as though they are trying to put Amy under the spotlight with a photograph very close to what we could see in "Enchanted". Here's a link to the French official website: http://www.misspettigrew-lefilm.com.

UK/US release dates for Amy's upcoming movies

Just a quick post to inform you that I'm still around lurking on the net to find you all the latest on Amy Adams but so far, no luck. It sounds like we won't get much until at least mid-September, that is when Amy wraps up filming 'Night at the Museum 2' in Vancouver.

As a reminder, here's a brief list of release dates for Amy's upcoming movies in the UK/US:

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

- US (DVD): 19th August 08

- UK (Cinema): 15th August 08

Doubt
- US (Limited release): 12th December 08
- UK (Cinema): 16th January 09

Sunshine Cleaning

- US: 2009
- UK: 2009

Julie & Julia
- US: 2009
- UK: 2009

Greenburg
- US: 2009/2010
- UK: 2009/2010

Amy Adams wins 'Best Actress' Saturn Award

Excellent news here -- Amy Adams took home the 'Best Actress' award at the Saturn Awards 2008, held yesterday evening at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City.

"Enchanted" won two other major awards including 'Best fantasy film' and 'Best Music' which went to the legendary Alan Menken. Congratulations to Disney & the "Enchanted" team, but also kudos to the voters of the Saturn Awards who recognized their wonderful talent!

So far, I haven't seen any pictures from the event but I doubt Amy was there to receive her award. By the way, in case you didn't know, she is also nominated for a Teen Choice Award. The ceremony will air on Fox on August 4th, 2008. You can vote for Amy here.

The UK Premiere of 'Miss Pettigrew lives for a day' is tonight at the Edinburgh Film Festival so I hope Amy will be there with the cast & crew to present the movie!

DVD cover of "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day"

Here's the DVD cover of "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day". It will be released on August 19, 2008 in the US.

"Miss Pettigrew" is coming to the UK on August 15

Just a few random facts related to Amy Adams:

- "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day" will be released on August 15, 2008 in the UK. It will also premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June.

- Amy is filming "Julie & Julia" until June 3.

- She will possibly make an appearance at the MTV movie awards. Don't forget to vote for her on this website. The show is on June 1.

- Amy is also in the run for 'Best actress' award at the Saturn Awards 2008. The awards will be handed out on June 24 in Universal City, California.

- "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Standing Still" are finally out on DVD in the UK.

"Miss Pettigrew" premieres at the Edinburgh Film Festival

This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, which runs from June 18 to 29, will showcase "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. There will be two screenings on June 25 and 27. Box office opens Friday 09 May at midday. You can buy your tickets here.

It is still unknown whether Amy or Frances will travel to Scotland to present the movie. After all, this can be considered as the UK Premiere of "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day". Among those who are due to attend this Festival are Oscar-winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, Keira Knightley Sir Sean Connery, Brian Cox, and many others.

On a personal note, now I can say that I'm officially gutted. I'm going to Edinburgh the week before the Festival. Think about coincidences. Anyway - I'm going to London for a couple of days so don't expect any updates during this time. In the meantime, please don't forget to vote for Amy at the MTV movie awards here! Thank you very much :)

Amy Adams at the Soho Playhouse for "Julie & Julia"

Today, "Julie and Julia" is filming near W 13th St between 7th and Greenwich Ave and also filming near the Soho Playhouse.

In related news, Amy Adams is featured in People magazine's newest issue, available tomorrow on the newsstands. She's listed as one of the most beautiful celebrities (in the "redheads" category).

According to The Observer, "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day" will be released in UK theaters in August 2008.

UPDATE: you can see a scan of Amy in "People magazine" here.
Thank you very much to the wonderful Jee for this! ;-)

"Miss Pettigrew" comes to DVD on August 19th

Great news everyone -- "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day" is coming to DVD on August 19th.

Universal Home Video announced that it will be a dual-sided disc containing both the widescreen and fullscreen versions, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 surround tracks. Extras will include a commentary with Director Bharat Nalluri, deleted scenes, a Miss Pettigrew's Long Trip to Hollywood featurette, and a Making an Unforgettable Day featurette.

Video interview at the NYC Premiere of "Miss Pettigrew"

MSN video interview for "Miss Pettigrew"

Here's another video interview for "Miss Pettigrew". Amy Adams admits to MSN it was thrilling to record songs for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day at the Abbey Road studios where the Beatles recorded and explains why she thinks Delysia is not a damsel in distress. Click on the image below to watch the video interview!

Source: MSN

First box-office results for "Miss Pettigrew"

Focus Features rolled out Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day at 535 locations and scored an estimated $645,000 on Friday, a $1,200 per theatre average.

The Amy Adams-Frances McDormand comedy is headed for a $2.35M weekend haul, just missing the week's Top 10.

Source: SlashFilm

Introducing the delightful Delysia

After stealing audiences' hearts playing the princess Giselle in Enchanted, Amy Adams needed to find a role that showcased some of her other talents - like singing, being sassy and looking sexy. Enter the fabulous Delysia Lafosse from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

Amy Adams on New 'Pettigrew' Comedy

How do you keep your energy levels up for a movie like this?
I've played depressed characters and there's a benefit to that, but I have to tell you, this is much more infectious in your life. You go home with energy. You go home with more spirit. I get something from my characters as well, even though I'm putting a lot in and she definitely gave me a different perspective on myself.

As her social secretary, Miss Pettigrew fixes a lot of things In Delysia's life. What would she fix in your life?
I nitpick and worry about little things. I get a bed set and wake up in the middle of the night thinking I should have gotten the patterned sheets instead. If somebody could just make me stop doing that I could accomplish a lot more in my life.

Can you identify with Delysia's ambition and drive to be a star?
To a certain degree, but I don't think she really wanted to be a star. I think she was after security and stability in her life, and I can definitely relate to the idea of wanting some control over your own destiny.

Renee Interviews Amy Adams and Lee Pace

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day opens today in selected theaters in the US.

Source: John Black for BostonNow / Thank you Cynthia for the video links!

Amy Adams' 'Enchanted' journey to 'Miss Pettigrew'

The word "focus" comes up a lot in conversation with Amy Adams, mostly at her end. And when she's in conversation, you understand why. She shares with the more successful contemporary politicians the ability to aim her bright blue eyes directly at your dimmer, darker pair and make you feel as though you're the only one in the universe she's noticing.

Of course, that's easier to pull off in one-on-one hotel-room colloquies like the ones the 33-year-old star of "Enchanted" had been having all day recently to help promote her newest film, "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day," which opens today. But you do get the feeling that she'd behave the exact same way toward you in a crowded room, to the exclusion of everyone else.

Such focus has barely given Adams the time to notice how much more recognizable she's become since "Enchanted," the blockbuster Disney musical fairy tale that opened last Thanksgiving to reviews that all-but-unilaterally praised her magnetic performance as a fairy princess marooned in Manhattan.

"The first day of this junket," she says, referring to the "Miss Pettigrew" campaign, "I'm out with my brother and sister-in-law, who are in town. And they're the ones who are looking around and noticing how people are responding to me in a different way. I honestly have no sense of this whatsoever and I don't know if it's because I have blinders on or not."

A state of busyness

Even when "Enchanted" opened to shimmering acclaim, Adams says she was so embedded in rehearsals for "Doubt," the forthcoming film version of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play, in which she co-stars with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, that she barely noticed the reaction.

"The only way I was able to sort of get any kind of an honest reaction to 'Enchanted' was with this class of kids I was working with in 'Doubt.' [Adams plays a nun teaching in a mid-1960s New York parochial school.] And most of them knew me from playing Giselle in 'Enchanted,' and I was picking up their excitement and enthusiasm, which is so much more valid than, you know, all the celebrity hype."

Adams seems to have kept her head down in a perpetual state of busyness since she was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar two years ago for playing a winsome Carolina naif in "Junebug." She's since taken on roles of all sizes in such disparate projects as "Talladega Nights," "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny," "Underdog" (that's her voice speaking for Polly Purebred) and " Charlie Wilson's War."

The script for "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" came to Adams while she was working on "Enchanted" and she immediately went to England to work on this brightly colored farce, set in pre-World War II London, in which she plays a flighty-but-ambitious actress named Delysia Lafosse, who befriends the dowdy ex-governess ( Frances McDormand) she's unwittingly taken on as a social secretary.

"I'd met Frances when we'd been nominated together that same year for the same Oscar," Adams says. "I always knew she was a fantastic actress. But working with her, I got so much out of her work ethic, generosity and her sense of play. She spends most of the movie, especially the first part, reacting to all this wild stuff Delysia does. But she's got such an ... active sense of reacting that I never felt I was doing everything in isolation. I learned so much from her."

Delysia is the latest in what would seem to be a series of roles for Adams requiring her to project a sense of wonder so luminous that it almost explodes. Granted, she's somewhat more grasping than "Enchanted's" Giselle, but both share a beguiling effervescence concealing a dark streak of vulnerability and, in Delysia's case, desperation.

"I tend to be attracted to pretty larger-than-life characters," says Adams, whose carries her 5-foot-5-inch stature with the poise of the ballet dancer she was originally trained to be. "But I always try to find what's underneath. So here's this woman from America on her own in London and she's probably a much better actress in her own life than she would be on the stage. But it turns out her social background isn't what it seems to be and there's urgency in her to use everything she can, not to get ahead so much as to keep from starving, from being homeless. It's not dwelt upon too much in the movie, but that's what I kept in the back of my mind to keep her reality in focus."

"Too much pressure"

Adams, an Army brat born in Italy, but raised mostly in Colorado, has apparently been too focused on developing her craft to share Delysia's lurking anxieties. But before her "Junebug" breakthrough, she concedes to feeling in, at best, a professional holding pattern.

"I had so many ... I don't want to say 'false starts' exactly. But before 'Junebug,' I'd done 'Catch Me If You Can' [the 2002 biopic of a con man played by Leonardo DiCaprio] and maybe I allowed myself to think that after working with Steven Spielberg things would get better. And they didn't. I don't know why. Maybe I was too nervous, too much pressure." After a succession of TV appearances, she even considered relocating from Los Angeles to New York "and do more stage work and find other ways to fulfill myself and accomplish my goals because I realized I wasn't happy going to so many auditions."

Adams now feels differently about that gray-sky time in her life. "I have to say that all that auditioning made me a better actress. I learned the kind of dedication it takes to prepare an entire character three different times each week. It's great practice for being busy. And, God knows," she says with a grin, "I've been pretty busy lately."

By Gene Seymour for Newsday

After-party of the NY Premiere at "Paris Commune" (4)

More pictures of Amy heading to the after-party of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day.

Source: Splash News

After-party of the NY Premiere at "Paris Commune" (3)

Amy, Darren and Jack McBrayer (thanks Cynthia!) are heading to the Paris Commune for the after-party of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day.

Source: Splash News

After-party of the NY Premiere at "Paris Commune" (2)

Amy Adams was among a few of the celebrities at the afterparty for the "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" screening thrown at The Paris Commune in Greenwich Village.

Source: Splash News

After-party of the NY Premiere at "Paris Commune" (1)

Co-president of Focus Features James Schamus, Amy Adams and Lee Pace with fans

Morgan Freeman, Darren LeGallo and Amy Adams

Amy and producer Stephen Garrett at the after-party at Paris Commune
Source: Gettyimages

New York Premiere of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day (8)

Here are a few more pictures, just because we love Amy & Lee so much! When I see these lovely pics, I can't help wondering how awesome it would be to see Amy guest-starring in Pushing Daisies.

Source: Gettyimages

New York Premiere of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day (7)

Producer Nellie Bellflower and Amy Adams

With director Bharat Nalluri, producers Nellie Bellflower and Stephen Garrett Ciaran Hinds and Amy at the Tribeca Grand screening

Amy arrives at the NY Premiere of "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day"

Source: Gettyimages

New York Premiere of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day (6)

Amy attends the NY Premiere of Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

Amy with co-stars Lee Pace, Ciaran Hinds and Tom Payne Amy, what are you looking at ? :-) Cast & crew picture at the NY Premiere...but where are Frances and Ciaran? Source: Gettyimages