After their Park Slope adventure, Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly decided to head back to Manhattan, investing in a $6.9 million Tribeca penthouse. Apparently Tribeca didn’t suit them either, however, as they have just put the place on the market, Curbed reports. Read More
Creation
Running time 108 minutes
Written by John Collee
Directed by Jon Amiel
Starring Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam
reation is a sluggish tome on the life of Charles Darwin and his long and painful creation of The Origin of Species, the controversial work of revolutionary thinking about evolution advancing the theory Read More
The Young Victoria
Running time 100 minutes
Written by Julian Fellowes
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Mark Strong
In the otherwise somber The Young Victoria, vivacious Emily Blunt, who did so much for stiletto heels in The Devil Wears Prada, puts a modern spin Read More
While actors like Brandon Fraser and Paul Bettany were arriving on the Upper West Side last night for the premiere of Inkheart, a children’s fantasy adventure film about fictional characters from books coming to life, a rather fantastical event involving a plane landing in the Hudson River had happened that very afternoon in New York. Read More
“I think movie parties are more fun,” said Chloë Sevigny, in a sweeping, strapless Kelly green gown by Balenciaga, at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute gala on Monday, May 7. “I don’t know—I think here it’s very like a popularity contest. In the movies, everyone’s just kind of like—we’re all just glad to be working.” Read More
So last year, the movie stars Connelly and Bettany rubbed two pennies together and bought a big Brooklyn townhouse with “a nice backyard and a place for the bicycles”–not far from where Connelly, a Saint Ann’s grad, grew up in Brooklyn Heights….
Connelly’s story seemed to be over–but, per horror formula, real-estate terror lurched Read More
A ponderous medieval thriller may not exactly be what everyone’s been hoping for as a welcome antidote to overhyped crucifixion fables by Mel Gibson and the sudden new avalanche of brain-atrophying time-wasters about teenagers trying to get laid, but at least it’s different. The Reckoning , directed by Paul McGuigan and set in the English Read More
Paul McGuigan’s Gangster No. 1 , from a screenplay by Johnny Ferguson, seeks to transcend its genre with a curiously stylized, quasi-Shakespearean portrait of pure misogynist evil, one that requires the services of two actors for a single blackguard: Malcolm McDowell as a London mob chieftain in the present, and Paul Bettany as the same Read More
