The Last Station News

Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman and Jake Gyllenhaal will be making appearances - on-screen - in Aspen during the holidays.

EW movie critic Lisa Schwarzbaum dubs Helen Mirren an Oscar contender for her role as Leo Tolstoy's frustrated wife Sofya, struggling against her husband's renouncement of wealth and sex, in the adaption of the novel The Last Station.

The Last Station is a story loosely based on fact that sees a young man dispatched by the powers that be to, under the guise of an assistant to help chronicle the works of Leo Tolstoy, keep an eye on him and his wife, Sofya Tolstoy, during his final years of life.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman and Jake Gyllenhaal will be making appearances - on-screen - in Aspen over the holidays.

After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya , Leo Tolstoy's devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary-she's copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!-suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down.

The year's big holiday season brings a special cinematic gift on Dec. 18 with the limited release of "The Young Victoria," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.

Stuff heard around town this week..... In chatting with "Up" director Pete Docter I stumbled onto an interesting change just adoptedin the Oscars voting process that affects writing, directing and acting hyphenates.

At this point on the derby track, with many films like "Invictus" and "The Lovely Bones" still unseen, it appears that there are three Oscarfront-runners for best supporting actor: Christoph Waltz , Christopher Plummer and Alec Baldwin .

An Education, The Last Station, Broken Embraces, Coco Before Chanel, The Damned United.

But he's not the legendary Russian author that'll be getting all the press this next couple of months.

To go along with today's published "Holiday hits" to look forward to, here's the complete lineup of films opening between now and Christmas.

After piping in with their Oscars predix for best pix on Tuesday,our forums' moderators now stick out their thin, tender, trembling necks toforecast the best-actress race.

Look, I mean if Osama bin Laden gave me money to film I'd take it. -- Todd Solondz, INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER Todd Solondz, the U.S. director whose movie 'Happiness' was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1999, knows how desperate raising funds for a film has become.

So much in love with movies, it's Awesome! << Two Wolfman Posters Oscar talk has been buzzing about The Last Station for both Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren.

WHEN THE United Nation's gives away the Children's Fund "Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award" on Dec.

Mirren, who scooped the best actress Oscar at the Academy Awards in 2007 for her performance in "The Queen", joins a cast featuring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, Daily Variety reported.