Hilary Swank News

Pictures by: Janet Mayer, Jackson Lee, Mejia-Asadorian, Richie BuxoOn Location For 'The Resident' In downtown Manhattan, N Hillary Swank gets sweaty on the set of her new movie, The Resident , filming in downtown Manhattan.

Tagline: "There's more to life than being a passenger." Translation: That's right, there's also Oscar gold in them thar hills! The Verdict: After Hilary Swank captured her second Academy Award for Million Dollar Baby back in 2005, she did what most other pre-recession Oscar winners attempted to do: try to cash in and land herself few big paydays! ...

There's already Oscar buzz surrounding the biopic. Fresh off the announcement that there will be 10 Best Picture nominees next year, the trailer for Amelia , a serious contender for such recognition, has landed online.

It is embedded above, and looks intriguing. It certainly has a fine cast, with Hilary Swank in the leading roll.

Last week, viewers saw the Las Vegas round trim the field from 172 dancers to 20.

Last August, Erin Gruwell of the Freedom Writers Foundation reminded Menasha educators how crucial it is to help students, especially those who feel 'invisible,' recognize they matter.

The women singing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" are suffragettes who have been imprisoned for supporting the women's right to vote.

The challenges are different, but the same lessons Erin Gruwell learned, and taught, on her way to becoming one of the world's great teachers apply in New Brunswick, Gruwell says.

In a legal filing generally considered inevitable since his Oscar-acceptance Swanking of Robin Wright Penn , actor Sean Penn is seeking "legal separation with minor children" from his wife of 13 years.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin answers questions from the media at the meeting of the National Governor's Association in December In case you missed it ... HBO is making a movie about the 2008 presidential campaign.

It's hard to get a handle on actor Peter Sarsgaard, and he likes it that way. I first noticed him in Boys Don't Cry , where his rough-edged character proved even more ambiguous than Hilary Swank's transgendered one.

Retired educator Kay Kirkman has collected a great deal of entertaining and educational materials, cartoons and songs to top off a program in honor of Women's History Month on Tuesday, March 31 at 1 p.m. in the Tebow Room of the Estes Park Senior Center.

Stanton Academy ninth graders Travis Goddard, left, and Robbee Russell try to fly the kite Russell built in Tom Stone's English class as part of their studying the novel, The Kite Runner.

March 19th, 2009 10:28am EDT Post a comment The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a long history of awarding actors who portray real people.

Haverstraw King's Daughters Library is offering a free screening of "Iron Jawed Angels" at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. in honor of Women's History Month.

AnnaSophia Robb plays an alien in "Witch Mountain." Denver's No. 1 child star isn't such a child anymore.

Jenny Coppola was on her lunch break Wednesday when she stepped near what is becoming an increasingly familiar sight in Metro Detroit -- a crew setting up shop and Hollywood actors filming movie scenes.

Go to the head of "The Class": teacher-turned-author-turned actor Francois Begaudeau.

Make-a-difference true story about an idealistic young English teacher at an "integrated" high school in Long Beach, where she brings peace and harmony to her fractious classroom and seemingly also to the ...

Two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank's latest project, "Betty Anne Waters," set up shop on Wednesday inside Detroit Police headquarters in downtown Detroit.