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Janssen To Star In NBC Cop Drama

January 30, 2007 Famke Janssen has signed on toplining a new cop drama for NBC. The show will be created by David Shore, also the creater and executive producer of the current hit show House. The writer of House - Peter Blake will also help develop the project. The show is a light drama with procedural elements that centers on a female cop (Janssen.) "We're thrilled to have her -- she's smart, funny and somewhat attractive," - Says David Shore No word yet on any filming or airdates.

X-Men Advances In Oscar Race!

January 19, 2006 On Saturday, January 20, the Academy's Makeup Award Nominating Committee will view ten minutes of excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three films for Oscar consideration. Amung the films is X-Men 3! continue reading...

Treatment has distributers and set for release in 22 countries

November 9, 2006 New Yorker Films has acquired U.S. rights to romantic comedy "The Treatment," directed by Oren Rudavsky and starring Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen and Ian Holm. Pic received the prize for best narrative in the Tribeca Film Festival's "Made in New York" competition this year. Janssen's work won an acting award at the Hamptons festival. New Yorker plans to open the film in the spring at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York, followed by a platform release. More than 20 international territories have been sold by Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group. Noeltner acquired international sales rights to the film after he saw it at Tribeca. "The Treatment," based on Daniel Menaker's novel, was penned by Daniel Saul Housman and Rudavsky. It was produced by Jonathan Shoemaker with his company Centre Street and by Oren Rudavsky Prods. Source: Phoenix_force

Entertainment Weekly

The Dutch-born actress, 40, has spent more than a decade mixing a deadly cocktail of beauty and intrigue--as a Bond girl, a Nip/Tuck gender bender, a telepathic mutant... With X-Men: The Last Stand out on DVD, the former Chanel model--who cues up next as a pool hustler in 2007's Turn the River--reflects on a career marked by powerful roles. 2000 (Kate Welles) After her first meeting with costar Jon Favreau, "We ended up going [dancing at] the Derby, where he had shot Swingers. It set the tone for the whole production." NIP/TUCK 2004--2005 (Ava Moore) "I thought, I've never done this before, this television thing where you sign on without seeing the whole script. I had no idea I was going to [end up being] a transsexual." 'X-MEN' TRILOGY 2000--2006 (Jean Grey/ Phoenix) "The great thing about Phoenix was you couldn't really say she was purely evil. She was more complicated than that." continue reading...

People Magazine

FAMKE: FLYING SOLO Famke Janssen may have played a mind-reading mutant in X-Men: The Last Stand (now out on DVD). But she couldn't pick up on her costars' plottings. "In one scene I'm lying on a table in a coma while Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman are doing dialogue over my head," remembers Janssen, 41. When told they were going to shoot without them talking, Janssen told herself, "Don't move or think about anything funny." When the silence became less than golden, Janssen opened her eyes. "Everybody left! They all thought it was hilarious. "

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