Actress Nicole Kidman will be taking questions from audience members following a special screening of her new film, “Rabbit Hole” at the Belcourt Theatre (in Nashville) on Saturday.

Kidman was both an actor and producer of the movie, which was adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. She portrayed a mother whose young son was hit and killed by a teen driver. The movie follows her and her husband’s attempts to cope with the loss. Her husband is portrayed by actor Aaron Eckhart.

The special screening is at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Belcourt. WSMV anchor and filmmaker Demetria Kalodimos will moderate a question-and-answer discussion following the film.

Tickets went on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. for Belcourt members and were to go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. for non-members, but tickets for the 300-seat theater sold out Wednesday morning.

For more information about the Belcourt Theatre, go to http://www.belcourt.org or call 615-383-9140.

Anton Sanko made some intriguing choices when it came to composing the score for Rabbit Hole.

Rather than go a standard route, he picked up his guitar and plucked out music that was equally haunting and lilting. Certainly, Sanko sonically explores the film’s theme of harrowing loss, but his composition exudes an ethereal quality that’s oddly uplifting. Rabbit Hole examines how a seemingly happy couple—Becca [Nicole Kidman] and Howie [Aaron Eckhart]—cope with the death of their son. It would’ve been easy for Sanko to go maudlin, but his score tastefully deals with the serious subject matter while soaring above the darkness at all the right moments. It all comes from his mastery of the six strings and deep musical empathy.

Anton Sanko sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about his use of classical guitar in Rabbit Hole, getting inside Nicole Kidman’s head, and so much more.

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Q: Now that the accolades are starting to come in, what does it mean for you to get a Golden Globe or Independent Spirit nomination? Does it mean more people will come and see the film?

A: Yes, totally. You know that. Because of the resistance that you, yourself, were expressing, you need award nominations to tell people, “It’s okay to go with this movie to that dark place.” You need people to say, “This is a performance you can’t miss.” That is necessary for this type of film in this day and age.

Q: Nicole has been nominated for a Golden Globe, and her performance is generating Oscar buzz. Tell me what she brings to a project.

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Lionsgate’s Rabbit Hole, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, grossed $136,000 from 34 theaters for a so-so average of 4,000 and cume of $429,139 in its third week. Lionsgate’s marketing efforts for the film were hampered by the fact that the company only bought the film in September, at the Toronto Film Fest.

- hollywoodreporter.com

The Magazine Shelf report that Nicole is on the cover of the February issue of US Harper’s Bazaar! She is interviewed by Just Go With It co-star Jennifer Aniston inside and there will undoubtedly be a new photoshoot with it.

I’ll post more on this as soon as I find it! Feel free to post a comment if you come across more info/photos … or if you know of any more magazine alerts

EDIT: Big thanks goes to PaulineMichelle who commented on this post with links to the cover, photos and interview! Read the interview below the cover, and the photos will be added to the Gallery asap. All thanks to Harper’s Bazaar!

I’ll be on the look-out for scans, so if anyone can help out with them then please just drop me a line

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Due to hit UK cinemas on 4 February, Rabbit Hole is a vivid tale of grief and hope. Here, we trace the story of its transition from Pulitzer-winning play to the big screen

Movies about grief often come enveloped in gaudy sentimentality and hokey Hollywood wisdom that does little to examine the intricacies of human experience. Rabbit Hole, the new film starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as parents struggling to cope with the loss of their young son, manages the rare feat of avoiding these pitfalls.

As the movie starts, we see Becca (Kidman) and Howie Corbett (Eckhart) going about the daily lives of a wealthy and successful New York couple. But beneath the veneer of normality, both are searching with increasing desperation for a way to overcome their grief. Each is engaged in their own blind, Alice in Wonderland-style plunge down the rabbit hole of bereavement; journeys which might prove their salvation but could just as easily pull them apart.

Slowly, we discover that the teenage boy whom Becca follows each day may be uniquely positioned to provide a form of solace, while a woman Howie meets at a support group for bereaved parents offers a different, equally off-beat, path forward. These are fascinating glimpses of difficult choices which feel remarkably genuine thanks to the warmth and depth that the two leads bring to their characters.

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The Central Ohio Film Critics Association have nominated Nicole for Best Actress in their yearly awards. This is again the only nomination for Rabbit Hole from this body. Winners are announced on January 6th.

Best Actress
-Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
-Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
-Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
-Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
-Natalie Portman, Black Swan

- via awardsdaily.com

The Producers Guild Award nominations are announced tomorrow, so let’s cross our fingers Rabbit Hole gets a nomination there, which would include Nicole as she produced!

I hope you all have had a nice start to 2011! To start your Nicole-filled year off, I have a small gallery update for you. I’ve added a newly released photoshoot taken with Aaron Eckhart at the Toronto Film Festival last September, thanks to my good friend Maria. Maria has also passed on some scans from the September issue of Hola to us, which you can now see in the Gallery. And another lovely friend of mine, Colleen, has scanned the new issue of Entertainment Weekly for us, which features a rundown on the top Oscar contenders this year.

And just a small FYI, I’ve upgraded our Gallery today so if it looks a bit strange then that’s why. The new upgrade shouldn’t make much difference to you. If you notice any errors just let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it. I’ll tidy up the gallery layout soon too so it works right.

Slightly off topic, make sure you pay a visit to the sites I’ve just plugged – Brooklyn Decker Online, a fansite for Nicole’s gorgeous Just Go With It co-star, and Glamourous Julianna, for the exceptionally classy TV star Julianna Margulies.

More updates coming soon, plus I have some fantastic new content ideas to get working on for you asap!

• Actors Studio and Screen Actors Guild Foundation “Rabbit Hole” Press Event x1
• 2010 – Session #009 x2
• Entertainment Weekly – Misc./Unknown x1
• Hola (Sp) – September 2010 x4

This article is a few weeks old but I only just came across it! I wish we could hear more from it – ‘A Conversation With Nicole Kidman’ sounds very interesting!

“I wanted to make a movie about how people continue to love each other when everything goes bad,” Nicole Kidman said about “Rabbit Hole” while dishing Wednesday night (December 5th 2010) with members of the Actors Studio and Screen Actors Guild Foundation in Los Angeles. The event was a salute to her whole career, but there was special emphasis on “Rabbit Hole” for several reasons. It’s her newest film due to open on Dec. 17, she produced it and it marks her serious return to the Oscar derby eight years after winning lead actress for “The Hours.”

Nicole Kidman had Oscar disappointments in 2009 (“Nine”) and 2008 (“Australia”). However, early reactions to media and industry screenings of “Rabbit Hole” are aces and it’s a proven winner of a role. Cynthia Nixon nabbed the Tony Award in 2006 for portraying a woman paralyzed with grief over the death of her young son. The hit Broadway play casts a harsh light on what the loss does to the woman’s marriage, but Kidman perceives the drama as hopeful.

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An exerpt from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole script has been posted on NYTimes.com. It’s the scene in the ‘Brick’ clip.

Becca (Nicole Kidman) has been numb with grief since Danny, her 4-year-old, was killed by a car. Now, eight months later, her mother, Nat (Dianne Wiest) — whose son, Becca’s brother, died at 30 — is helping Becca to put away, finally, the little boy’s things.

Int. basement — day

Becca and Nat carry the milk crates of Danny’s stuff down to the basement, and put them in the corner with a few other things Becca has put aside.

Becca stands there, taking it in. Danny’s been reduced to a small corner of stuff in the basement. She lets out a breath, then turns to her mother.

BECCA: Does it ever go away?

NAT: What.

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