Read the latest entry about Emily Mortimer over at the official movie blog for “City Island” by its director Raymond de Felitta. There are also 2 Outtakes clips!

Her “Molly”–her character in “City Island”–is so lovingly drawn, so original and so effortlessly tossed off as to make me feel that I overwrote, overthought and overthunk the whole thing: Emily showed up and showed me how it should be done and who this woman truly was. Oddly we only worked together for about five days–yet now that I’ve got the whole movie assembled it feels like she’s in at least half of it. Somebody wrote me in the comments section askiing about screentime for the actors: both Emily and Julianna share the same amount of screen time. But for whatever reason, Emily’s shoot days were concentrated into just a few and Julianna stuck out the run of the show. It felt to me like Emily was doing a cameo–but not at all; she is a major and majorly important piece of the puzzle that is “City Island”.

Be sure to read the full blog entry & watch the outtake clips here.

Apparently, it’s a great time for Emily Mortimer as she has now landed a leading role opposite Michael Caine in “Harry Brown”.

Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer have signed on to star in “Harry Brown,” a British vigilante thriller from MARV Films. Lionsgate U.K. has just acquired the U.K. distribution rights on the film, which British director Daniel Barber is helming.

“Brown” centers on an elderly ex-serviceman and widower (Caine) who lives alone, within a community that has been decimated by drugs and gun crime. When his best friend is murdered, the man dispenses his own brand of justice. Gary Young wrote the script.

Mortimer plays a young police officer.

“It’s a modern urban Western that reflects the stark realities of youth crime in the 21st century both in the U.K. and internationally,” said MARV’s Kris Thykier, who is producing with Keith Bell (”The Descent”)

The film will shoot entirely on location in the U.K., and principal photography is set to begin in November.

source: The Hollywood Reporter

So sorry for the lack of updates recently. But rest assured we are not giving up on this site! I’ve come across 3 additional gorgeous HQ stills of Emily Mortimer in “Chaos Theory”. Enjoy!

A few days ago Variety reported about a film that is already filming:

Production has begun on “Saint John of Las Vegas,” a drama that stars Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Emily Mortimer, Tim Blake Nelson, John Cho, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Peter Dinklage.

Newcomer Hue Rhodes wrote the script and makes his feature directing debut.

In a loose adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno,” Buscemi plays an ex-gambler who’s under the tutelage of a maverick insurance fraud investigator (Malco). The film is shooting in Albuquerque, N.M., and Las Vegas.

Not sure how that project fits in with Ms. Mortimer’s schedule which lists another new film ‘City Island‘. Yet seeing as filming for ‘Saint John of Las Vegas‘ is expected to continue till August 23 while Emily was called to the set of the-soon-to-be-finished ‘City Island‘ as of July 31 (source: official movie blog) - it may very well be that she will shoot her scenes as a supporting character in the Inferno adaptation after leaving ‘City Island‘.

Given how many movie and TV roles Emily Mortimer has tackled thus far in her career (44 at latest count), it’s hard to believe she’s only been working professionally for a little more than 13 years. Following bit parts in movies like The Ghost and the Darkness and Notting Hill, she quickly established herself as one of the most versatile and adventuresome actresses of her generation. And while her most talked-about role to date was previously that of an insecure actress who subjects herself to a fully exposed, unmerciful critique of her physical assets in Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing, she courts controversy yet again as the main character in Brad Anderson’s murder mystery-cum-thriller Transsiberian.

In the film, Mortimer plays a dissatisfied newlywed who struggles to be faithful to her doting husband Roy (played by Woody Harrelson), with disastrous consequences. IGN recently caught up with Mortimer via telephone to discuss her participation in the film; in addition, she talks about the fearful process of finding each new character she plays, and collaborating with filmmakers to find deeper truths among each project’s entertaining core.

Click here to read their full interview with Emily!

It was reported on July 22 that Emily Mortimer together with Julianna Margulies, Alan Arkin, Andy Garcia and Steven Strait have signed up for the indie family comedy ‘City Island‘. In fact they’re all very busy filming already:

Garcia plays Vince Rizzo, a Bronx prison official who realizes that an inmate (Strait) is his secret love child. His efforts to become his guardian lead to comic complications. Margulies plays Rizzo’s wife, Arkin plays a teacher in his acting class, and Mortimer plays a fellow student he befriends.

Garcia’s daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays his onscreen daughter, and Ezra Miller also stars.

Raymond De Felitta’s Medici Entertainment, Garcia’s CineSon, Lucky Monkey Pictures’ Lauren Versel and Zachary Matz will produce “City,” which began shooting this week on location in the eponymous Bronx fishing neighborhood where the story is set.

De Felitta directed “The Thing About My Folks” and the sleeper period indie “Two Family House.”

Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group packaged the project and is repping domestic sales.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The project I’m most looking forward to ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ - also starring Ryan Gosling and Patricia Clarkson - has a US release date: October 12, 2007.

The first reviews of Emily’s upcoming romantic comedy ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ also starring Ryan Gosling and Patricia Clarkson have emerged on Ain’t it Cool. Read them here and here. They’re making me want to see this as soon as possible!

“Unlike Little Miss Sunshine, this is an indie comedy with real soul, not all too perfectly quirky characters whose lives fall apart according to the jokes. What struck me is how amazingly real the premise is played, never pandering to the comedy and never pushing false profundity and hope on us. Instead it allows its characters to breathe and through that the story flourishes instead of becoming a slave to gags. What you see, rather than a comedy, is human beings reacting to a situation that happens to be comedic the way you or I would. And while it’s an absolutely hilarious film, the filmmakers (and Gosling) never shy away from the fact that Lars is a very troubled individual with incredibly deep seeded insecurities, and as a result we have some very funny scenes punctuated with heart breaking drama.

A big nod also belong to Paul Schneider and the ethereal Emily Mortimer as Lars’s brother and sister in law.”

According to an interview with Kate Mara published on Movies Online on March 20, Transsiberian finished shooting.

“I just finished a film last week called “Trans Siberian,” totally different than anything I’ve ever done. It’s an independent film with Woody Harrelson and Sir Ben Kingsley. It’s a big ensemble cast — Emily Mortimer, it’s such a really interesting cast. We shot it in Lithuania and the crew was Spanish and the director Brad Anderson is American. Woody and I are both Americans, but Emily Mortimer and Sir Ben Kingsley are both British. And then there’s Eduardo Noriega who’s the other guy in it who’s Spanish. And then there’s all these Lithuanian extras. It was the most bizarre set to be on, but a really interesting dark sort of thriller.”