Looks like Mamie will be doing yet another movie. The Internet Movie Database lists a new appearance - in a horror movie! According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The Ward" follows a girl (Amber Heard) who is admitted to a psychiatric ward, meets other girls there with distinct personalities and discovers a mysterious girl haunting the halls at night. Mamie Gummer and Danielle Panabaker are going to co-star. Many thanks to Riikka, webmaster of our new elite affiliate Adoring Amber Heard for the heads-up! :-)

Greater Boston has aired a piece on the making of "The Lightkeepers", including an exclusive look at the film in Cape Cod and interviews with its director, Dan Adams, and the film's stars, Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner and Mamie Gummer. The video can be viewed on Greater Boston's official website by launching the May 26 video.

As interviewed for the program, Mamie said "Because it is an independent film [also] everyone who's here really wants to be here, so it feels like everyone is banded together in this common goal to make this movie."

Posted: 2009-05-22
Article courtesy the Boston Herald: Richard Dreyfuss plays a woman-hating Cape Codder in his new flick "The Lightkeepers," and while the Hollywood heavy has nothing against the fairer sex, he says he can sort of relate to the role! "In the past there were groups of men who called themselves ‘Woman Haters,’ " Dreyfuss told the Track. "Not because they were gay, but more because they were shy and, you know, women are from another planet." Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep’s daughter) and Tom Wisdom of "300" fame, are on the Outer Cape this week filming scenes for their 1912-set comedy. Dreyfuss and Wisdom play a pair of lighthouse tenders who have sworn off ladies, until a free-spirited Boston society gal (Gummer) and her housekeeper (Danner) rent a nearby cottage for the summer. The cast and crew have shot scenes at the two lighthouses in Provincetown and currently are filming at Cook’s Camp, a 100-plus-year-old cottage colony overlooking the ocean at LeCount’s Hollow Beach in Wellfleet. "I was inspired by the short stories of Joseph Lincoln and some Cape Cod folklore that I cobbled together," said writer-director Dan Adams, who is making a trilogy of Cape films "as a homage to the place where I grew up." Adams’ first Cape flick, "The Golden Boys," was also based on a Joseph Lincoln book, and Danner said that flick is one of the reasons she decided to do "The Lightkeepers." Gummer, the spitting image of her legendary mom, plays Ruth, a bohemian Bostonian and suffragette who decides to go back to nature by spending a summer on the Cape. "I do my finest work in a corset," joked Gummer, who played John and Abigail Adams’ daughter-in-law Sallie in the HBO miniseries "John Adams." Mamie said she’s having a blast with the film - and the great old summer frocks she wears in it. "I feel like I’m in a painting," she said. "But I’m drawn to period pieces like this. It’s a chance to time travel."

Posted: 2009-05-16
"Taking Woodstock" celebrates its world-premiere today at the Cannes Film Festival. Unfortunately, Mamie is not among the cast members who attend the festival to promote the film. But her colleagues Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton as well as director Ang Lee showed up at the croisette earlier today. The festival's website has all information on the film with clips from the photo call and press conference, so be sure to check them out.

Posted: 2009-05-16
Twelve years after his Best Screenplay award for Ice Storm, Ang Lee returns to the Croisette to present Taking Woodstock in Competition. It refers, of course, to the famed three days of love, peace, mud, and music which took place in 1969. Based on the book by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte, Taking Woodstock : A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life, the film merely tells "a tiny piece of that story, from a little corner or unexpected joy that happened almost by accident and which helped this incredible event take place," according to James Schamus, who adapted the book. Indeed, we see history unfold from Elliot's initially discouraged viewpoint. Busy reinventing himself as a Greenwich Village interior designer, he learns he must return upstate to keep the bank from foreclosing on his parents' dumpy motel. When he hears that a neighboring town has refused to host a hippie music festival, he jumps on the telephone. Three weeks later, he finds himself swept up by an adventure that will overwhelm him and his whole generation. "Taking Woodstock is the last moment of innocence, director Ang Lee muses. After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy – and one without cynicism. It's also a story of liberation, honesty, and tolerance and of a 'naïve spirit' that we cannot and must not lose."

Posted: 2009-05-14
Principal photography has begun on Daniel Adams' period romantic comedy The Lightkeepers starring Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. Toronto-based Cinemavault holds Canadian and international rights and is introducing the project to buyers in Cannes. The Lightkeepers tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his mysterious assistant who have sworn off women but must confront two attractive females who move into a nearby summer cottage. Tom Wisdom, Mamie Gummer and Bruce Dern also star. Adams wrote the screenplay with Larry Frenzel, who is producing through his Birchwood Pictures label with Penelope L Foster and Harris Tulchin. Below are the first production stills from the film. I'd like to thank Melissa, the webmaster of our newest affiliate Tom Wisdom.net for bringing this project to my attention. Thanks very much! And speaking of new pictures, a first production still from "Taking Woodstock" has arrived as well

Posted: 2009-05-05
Mamie has attended the Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony this past Sunday - she didn't win in her category though as the Outstanding Featured Actress award went to Kerry Condon for "The Cripple of Inishmaan". Pictures from the ceremony can be found in the Image Library.

Posted: 2009-05-02
Kristen Johnston will host the 2009 Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony, to be held at 7pm on Sunday, May 3 at the Marriott Marquis. This year's ceremony, which honors the best in Off-Broadway, will benefit The Actors Fund. Presenters and performers will include Jane Krakowski, Parker Posey, Mamie Gummer, Piper Perabo, Lisa Edelstein, Jeremy Irons, Ari Graynor, Rosie Perez, Ellen Burstyn, Christian Siriano, Tim Gunn, Mireille Enos, Olivia d'Abo, Lukas Haas, John Glover, Mike Birbiglia, Margarita Levieva, Mark Indelicato, Keith Nobbs, Kerry Butler, Marsha Mason, Robert Verdi, Karen Olivo, Stephanie J Block, Fern Mallis, Phyllis Newman, Ty Burrell, Michael T. Weiss, Kate Jennings Grant, Jessica Blank, and Erik Jensen. For a full list of nominations, click here. For more information, visit www.lortelaward.com.