The Independent has a small Q&A with Emily Mortimer for the UK DVD release of Redbelt. Be sure to read it in our press archive.

• One Minute With… Emily Mortimer

By the way, I plan on catching up on Emily news & pictures soon.

Yesterday’s announcement of the full line-up for the Tribeca Film Festival ‘09 includes City Island, which features Emily Mortimer in a small but significant supporting role. It will have its world premiere in the “Encounters” section.

Sponsored by L’Oreal Paris, this collection of world premieres includes ten engaging narrative features and documentaries, with a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare.

City Island
Vinnie’s been secretly taking acting classes, his daughter’s moonlighting as a stripper, his son’s got a weighty fetish, and mom’s eye is wandering… the Rizzos might get along a lot better if they weren’t keeping so many secrets. Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, and Alan Arkin star in this smart and poignant dysfunctional-family comedy, set in unassuming City Island.

The festival runs April 22 - May 3. To find out about screening times and Q&A panels with cast (hopefully Emily will attend) and crew be sure to regularly check the official movie blog.

The nominations for the 35th Saturn Awards have just been announced. And Emily Mortimer deservedly got nominated for “Best Actress” for her performance in the much overlooked film “Transsiberian” (Screencaptures coming soon). Congratulations!

Her fellow nominees are Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Maggy Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Julianne Moore (Blindness), and Gwyneth Paltrow (Iron Man).

Additionally, Emily’s co-star Woody Harrelson got nominated for “Best Supporting Actor” and the film itself for “Best International Film”. Read the full list of nominees here.

Members of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror decide on both nominees, and the winners which will be announced June 25.

Last summer Emily Mortimer shot a movie called “City Island“. According to the movie’s offical blog, there were two screenings for potential buyers in LA and New York during the last week of January. In both cases the audience reaction was really good. Also, the premiere will take place this spring at a major film festival - name to be revealed. Isn’t all this fabulous news?!

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

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‘.

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

First Season of ‘30 Rock’ is over now and Writer/Executive Producer Tina Fey answered some questions on a Live Blog. There will be a DVD later and when asked about future guest stars she said amongst other things: “Oh gosh! I would love to have Emily Mortimer back…was she British, was she faking it?” So we may get to see more of Phoebe, Jack Donaghy’s (played by Alec Baldwin) fiancée, an art dealer who says she suffers from avian bone syndrome and cannot be touched.

According to TV Fodder Emily Mortimer guest-starred in the TV Series ‘30 Rock‘ in the episode ‘Corporate Crush’. She played Phoebe, an employee at Christie’s, who has the odd habit of assuming nobody remembers her, pointing it out, and introducing herself repeatedly. If you live in the US you can still catch it online at the show’s official site.

[edit] As I have just found out, Emily Mortimer will continue to guest-star as Phoebe in at least the next 2 episodes: ‘Cleveland’ (April 19) and ‘Hiatus’ (April 26). The show airs on NBC at 9.00 pm.

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.”