The actors’ multiyear charitable gift will enable The Opportunity Network to expand its programs and serve more students in need.

From the press release:

Craig and Weisz recently have made New York their home and sought out an organization to support as a way to express their commitment to their new community. They are particularly excited to work with an organization that equals the playing field for low-income students, an issue they care about deeply.

“Some of the brightest, most motivated young people are living in New York City neighborhoods where college seems further away than a foreign country. We want to help give them a passport to a better life,” said Craig.

The couple chose The Opportunity Network because of the organization’s track record of doing just that. One hundred percent of Opportunity Network students graduate from a competitive college, a compelling fact considering only one in ten low income studentscomplete college at all. Eighty-five percent of the organization’s alumni have begun careers in their chosen fields within six months of college graduation.

“We are incredibly grateful for Daniel and Rachel’s gift. Not only will it help us get more programs to more kids in need, but it raises awareness of the important work we do, and puts us on the map in a new and bigger way,” said Opportunity Network founder andexecutive director Jessica Pliska.

The Opportunity Network works with students for six years, from sophomore year in highschool through college graduation. During that time, the organization prepares students for college, introduces them to careers, gets them five summers of paid internships, trains them in professional etiquette and teaches them how to build networks.

“I wouldn’t be going to Bowdoin College this fall if it weren’t for The Opportunity Network,” said Mariely Garcia, a high school senior who lives in a Harlem housing project. Mariely, whose mother works as a babysitter to support her four children, will be the first in her family to attend college. “OppNet changed my life, and it’s pretty cool to know we have James Bond on our side now.”

About the Opportunity Network The Opportunity Network (OppNet) equals the playing field for high-achieving, low-income high school and college students by creating access for them to career opportunities, professional networks and college. Opportunity Network students attend competitive four-year colleges and universities across the country, and intern at leading organizations, like Deloitte, HBO, Morgan Stanley, Brooks Brothers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Mount Sinai Schoolof Medicine, and Tommy Hilfiger. In addition to a college degree, students leave the program with five summers of internships, a mastery of professional etiquette and a network of influential executives across industries.

For more information contact or interview with Jessica Pliska contact:jennie.abrams@breakingnews.com

Students Photo Caption: Ira Fox Photography

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1715985.php/Daniel-Craig-and-Rachel-Weisz-give-college-opportunity-to-poor-kids

If you missed this film, you truly haven’t seen a magical release well worth viewing. The talented cast of the Sam Raimi-directed film is frontlined by James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz as well as Abigail Spencer, Joey King, Zach Braff, Martin Klebba, Ted Raimi, Bill Cobbs, Tony Cox, Tim Holmes and Tony Wynne.

Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the script from the novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum.

Disney’s fantastical adventure imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Weisz) and Glinda (Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well. 

via http://www.upcoming-movies.com/

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Showbiz 411 reveal that while Streisand is developing a movie to direct, it won’t be “Skinny And Cat,” after falling out with producers, as scheduling became an issue. With Streisand also touring this summer, she apparently missed meetings for the movie and the filmmakers perhaps want to get it moving sooner. Particularly as they have financing locked up, and Rachel Weisz reportedly slated to star, replacing Blanchett who has exited. As for Firth, his involvement doesn’t seem clear, but he does still seem to be attached. That being said, whatever Streisand’s movie is, it’s not clear, and there is some suggestion she may try and make a similar story somewhere else, though that would open the floodgates to litigation apparently.

Anyway, back to “Skinny And Cat.” It was penned by Linda Yellen and will tell the true story of the romance between writer Erskine Caldwell and photojournalist Margaret Bourke White. The duo collaborated on three books, the seminal “You Have Seen Their Faces” about the South during the Great Depression, “North Of The Danube” and “Say, Is This The USA.” They married in 1924, but were divorced a couple of years later. A director needs to be found — apparently “Like Crazy” helmer Drake Doremus was attached briefly last fall — but the $12 million budget is ready to be spent, pending someone to point the camera in the right direction.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/skinny-and-cat-loses-barbra-streisand-cate-blanchett-but-gains-rachel-weisz-20130409