Naomi was in attendance at the Mercedez Benz Fashion Week in New York City yesterday, making an appearance at the runway show and after-party for Calvin Klein’s Fall 2010 collection. She was seen alongside other big-name Hollywood actresses at the show, including her Mother & Child co-star Kerry Washington, and – rather excitingly for me! – one of my other all-times favourites, Isabel Lucas!! Her brother Ben was also there with her. Naomi wore a turquoise sweater dress for the runway show, and changed into a simple yet glamorous strapless grey dress for the party.

Over 100 photos from the two events have been added to the Gallery. Unfortunately I don’t have many good ’sources’ at the moment, so we don’t have many HQs yet. But as usual, I’m always on the lookout for more more high quality photos to add to our Gallery, so be sure that we will have more for you as soon as is possible

• Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Calvin Klein Front Row Fall 2010 x86
• Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Calvin Klein Women’s Fall 2010 Collection After Party x18

The Calvin Klein Women’s Collection show boasted one of the most star-studded line-ups of the week. Knockout Naomi Watts paused to strike a pose with Kate Bosworth before the pair joined Kerry Washington, Isabel Lucas, and Helena Christensen in the front row. The perfectly poised stars showed off excellent posture and matching sets of bare legs. While genes certainly play a part in looking that good, it’s nice to know that Christensen makes an effort to keep up her apparent perfection. “I started boxing two years ago and that is a hell of a workout,” she said. The five front-row bombshells are veterans to the fashion scene, but one of their seat-mates admitted that getting dressed wasn’t her strong suit. “I know jack about fashion!” said Whoopi Goldberg. Fortunately, she’d asked the right friend to play tour guide this week. “I have been hanging out with this fabulous man here. He’s taking me around and showing me lots of different things.” Whoopi said, gesturing to Vogue’s André Leon Talley. He knows a thing or two.

Naomi Watts says Samuel L Jackson is surprisingly “tender”.

The actress stars alongside the famed actor in new movie Mother and Child, about three women whose lives centre around adoption. Naomi was amazed by Samuel’s acting ability, and hopes to team up with him as much as possible in the future.

“I was blown away. I only knew him from his movies. He’s just a total gentleman, a really tender person. He really took care of me,” she told People magazine.

Mother and Child debuted at the recent Sundance Film Festival in Utah, with Naomi admitting being at the event brought back some memories for her. She recalled the first time she attended, and laughed about the lengths she had to go to to get people to pay attention to her movie.

“The first time I came, I handed out flyers, trying to get people to come and see our short film. Actually, I was accosting people and trying to drag them in,” she laughed.

From a recent interview with Anthony Hopkins, whilst he was promoting The Wolfman:

Besides his five-week stint on location for “The Wolfman,” Hopkins spent three weeks last year in the U.K. filming a Woody Allen movie tentatively titled “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.”

“I play this stupid man called Alfie who’s married but decides to have a second life where he has this much younger girlfriend, and she’s taking him for every penny he’s got,” he says with a chuckle. “Lucy Punch plays my girlfriend and Naomi Watts plays my daughter. It’s great fun and Woody Allen is a great guy to work with.”

Today I have added more gorgeous photos from Sundance! There’s a new photoshoot from the festival, in which Naomi looks her naturally beautiful self and totally lovely in a cosy purple cowl neck sweater. We also have additions from another shoot she did with her Mother & Child co-stars at the festival. And to top that off, there are 61 more photos from the Mother & Child premiere, half of which are HQs.

I’m just working on a big content/site-related update so stay tuned for that very soon …

• Sundance Film Festival – Mother And Child Premiere x61 more
• 2010 – Session #003 x5
• 2010 – Session #001 x4 more

Rachel Weisz will star alongside Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts in Universal Pictures’ Dream House.

The Morgan Creek production is being directed by Jim Sheridan and was written by David Loucka. Filming began Sunday in Toronto.

The film is about a family that relocates into what appears to be the ideal residence in small town Connecticut. However, the father (Craig) and his family are disturbed to discover that their beautiful new home was the site of another family’s slaughter, believed to be at the hands of the husband who survived.

Weisz will play the wife and Watts is the family’s neighbor.

This is an old-ish video from last September of Mother & Child director Rodrigo Garcia talking about the film. I don’t think we’ve posted this before.

Just a tiny update today – I’ve added 2 new HQ stills from Mother & Child. The movie now has a distributor and is set for release in May, so hopefully we’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the next few months!

• Mother & Child (2010) > Stills x2 more

I’ve added 3 new/old photoshoots today! The first is from 2002 and is one I’d never seen before – it looks like a fun shoot and I’d love to see more from it! The 2nd is from the gorgeous autumn/fall inspired Access DirecTV magazine shoot that we gave you scans of last year. And the 3rd is an all-new one from Nuvo magazine, which Naomi was featured in late last year (sorry we didn’t alert you to this at the time! Anyone have scans of the mag, though?).

EDIT: Make that 4 new photoshoots! I’ve found and added a couple more portraits from Naomi’s appearance at Sundance the other day.

• 2002 – Session #015 x2
• 2009 – Session #005 x3
• 2009 – Session #006 x3
• 2010 – Session #002 x1

The best films at Sundance are those that speak to an audience with themes that are universal, featuring flawed, complex and deeply human characters. Rodrigo Garcia’s “Mother and Child” is such a film, with some of the most exquisite performances captured on film in ages.

Destiny plays a part in the lives of three disparate women from a 50-year-old physical therapist [Annette Bening], the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years earlier [Naomi Watts], and a woman looking to adopt her first child [Kerry Washington]. Here we have what appears to be three distinct stories that inevitably intertwine and come together. However, this is not a film so much about narrative but the relationships and the foibles of humanity.

With profound insight, the film ventures deep into the hearts and souls of three women whose commonality often stems from our inability to communicate in different ways. Each of the three women are brought to life by three truly great actresses who manage to tell us all we need to know by what we can see on their expressive faces.

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