04.29.08
‘Miss Conception’ Trailer
Click here to watch it at traileraddict.com.
03.11.08
‘Miss Conception’ Acquired by First Look
First Look Studios is pleased to announce the acquisition of “Miss Conception,” formerly titled “Buy Borrow and Steal,” starring Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner and Tom Ellis. The film is directed by Eric Styles, written by Camilla Leslie and produced by Doris Kirch. Blue Angel Films limited co-produced with Miromar Entertainment AG, in association with BBS Productions Ltd and the support of Northern Ireland Screen.
Recently acquired by First Look Studios at the Berlin film Festival, The deal was brokered by First Look’s EVP of Acquisitions, Gary Hirsch, and Oliver Mahrdt of Hanns Wolters International.
“Miss Conception” tells the story of Georgina (Heather Graham), a broody 33-year-old woman who sends her partner packing when it becomes obvious that he does not share her desire for children. Zak (Tom Ellis) hopes she’ll cool off while he is away on a planned business trip. But Georgina, discovering early menopause runs in her family, hears her biological clock ticking like an atom bomb and must answer the call. She turns to her reluctant best friend Clem (Mia Kirshner) to recruit the perfect but unsuspecting man to fulfill her dreams for a child.
“I’m delighted to have First Look Studios releasing the film theatrically in the US,” says Oliver Mahrdt. “The producer Doris Kirch and co-producer Michel Morales are looking forward to the world premiere at the 25th anniversary of the Miami Film Festival tonight.”
“I am confident that women will relate to Heather’s character in this light-hearted look at a dilemma that millions of women face. At the same time, men will enjoy watching Heather and Mia Kirshner so it is a perfect date movie,” says Gary Hirsch.
“Miss Conception” is slated for a June 2008 release.
Source: sys-con.com
‘Buy Borrow Steal’ retitled
According to various online sources, the title of Mia’s upcoming film ‘Buy Borrow Steal’ has been changed to ‘Miss Conception.’ As I stated on my Heather Graham site, I am not a fan of this new title and if I weren’t a fan of Mia and Heather and didn’t know anything about the film, the title would make me walk past it in a video store. I wish the filmmakers and producers well when it is released in theaters and when it comes out on DVD, but I just don’t feel that this particular title was the best choice in the end.
03.23.07
‘Buy, Borrow or Steal’
Mia will be starring alongside Heather Graham in the new film Buy, Borrow or Steal which is currently being filmed in Belfast.
02.12.07
‘They Come Back’
They Come Back
Starring: Mia Kirshner
March 3, 2007 @ 8:00 p.m. on the Lifetime Movie Network
Synopsis:
A young female psychologist damaged by the disappearance of a former patient reluctantly starts treating a 10 year old girl with similar symptoms. The girl was involved in a car accident that killed her parents, and now, like the former patient, she claims to be menaced by unseen forces. After a series of strange and increasingly creepy events, the psychologist begins to believe both patients may have been telling the truth.
Thanks to Mifunes for the heads up. 
01.09.07
Ultimate Addict: ‘Black Dahlia’ Review
Brian De Palma’s stint in film noir — a stint that reached its height with the release of crime classic ‘Scarface’ in 1983 — continues over twenty years later with this adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel, ‘The Black Dahlia’. In this typically 40’s crime drama, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart are two L.A. cops on the hunt for the brutal killer of aspiring Hollywood actress Elizabeth Short. Bucky Bleichert (Hartnett) and his partner Lee Blanchard (Eckhart) are drawn into the investigation, but when Blanchard begins to obsess over the case, Bleichert is left to pursue it alone, meeting along the way what can only be described as a very against-type Hilary Swank as Madeleine, the mysterious, sumptuous daughter of Hollywood tycoon Emmet Linscott. But as Blanchard grows ever more unstable, Bucky is drawn closer to his wife Kay, played by Scarlett Johansson.
09.20.06
The Badger Herald Review of ‘The Black Dahlia’
The real standout in the cast, however, is Mia Kirshner (TV’s 24), who turns in a haunting, blisteringly effective performance as Short. Even though she is seen only in four key scenes, Kirshner’s performance is so evocative and searing that she should earn an Academy Award nomination, even though the movie is a disaster. Whenever she is on the screen, her performance is better than De Palma and his movie deserve.
09.18.06
BBC News Review of ‘The Black Dahlia’
As with most reviews of The Black Dahlia, this video review (click on “Latest Programme” button in the sidebar located under the images of the two women to view) on the BBC News website is a scathing one, but also like other reviews, they praise Mia Kirshner’s performance as Elizabeth Short. Be sure and check it out when you have a free moment.
Thanks again to Mifunes for sending in the link.
Source: BBC News
Los Angeles City Beat Review of ‘The Black Dahlia’
Nearly 60 years old now, the Black Dahlia case continues to cast its pulpy mythic spell over Los Angeles culture. It represents a time and a place that only a few of the living can remember for real; for the rest of us, postwar L.A. is a world of black and white, of nocturnal jazz, of tough guys in fedoras and sultry dolls in heels. In short, it’s the world of classic film noir, made at the time, about the time.
Of course, everyone knows that those films rarely had pretensions to realism, let alone documentary truth. But with the passage of time they are the images that endure and shape our collective memories in a way that may never again be possible. A world of camcorders and 24-hour news provides detail that is harsh and overexposed, if no closer to the truth. Despite its notoriety, the O.J. Simpson case – with everything but the initial violent act transmitted in real time as it occurred – can never achieve the sort of mythic status that has grown up around the sad life and gruesome death of Elizabeth Short.
09.15.06
Interview: Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma has made legendary crime and noir-ish thrillers, so adapting James Ellroy seems like a perfect fit for him. His film of Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia combines all those elements – seedy gangsters, hard boiled detectives, violent crimes and a macabre sense of humor. He talked about that and more when I caught him out junketing for The Black Dahlia.
“But that’s the tone of the book,” said De Palma. “That very much exists in the book. I was just talking to some journalist about this is closer to Sunset Boulevard with the funeral of the monkey and when he arrives at Norma’s estate. It’s like, ‘Okay, how are we supposed to take that?’ I mean, you take Bill Holden’s kind of wry analysis of what he’s watching and this is very much true in this piece too because once you’re at the Linscotts, you’re in a nut house. These people are insane and the way that Ellroy wrote it is sort of like a comic opera. I don’t know how else to explain it, and so what I did in order to get that approach to the audience originally was to shoot the entrance in first person. I said, ‘Okay, you want to see these people? Let them look at you. Let Mrs. Linscott just look at you like you’re trash.’ ‘How is a policeman in my living room?’ So that was the adjustment that I made. When you have a dog stuffed with the newspaper with his first million dollars and Hilary [Swank] just started tosses it off like the weather, I mean, you go, ‘Wow. I’m in a looney bin here and everyone seems to think it’s quite normal.’ That exactly how I did it. It was very much in the tone of the Ellroy book”