LeAnn Rimes photo courtesy of Curb Nashville.
Ryan Bingham earned a lot of attention for country music when he picked up an Oscar award for the theme from Crazy Heart this weekend, but he’s hardly alone among country recording artists participating in current film projects.
LeAnn Rimes, Dwight Yoakam and Miley Cyrus all have roles in titles that are on the way. Tim McGraw just finished working on another film, and Taylor Swift has racked up more sales for her work on a recent soundtrack.
Here’s a rundown on country’s current ties to Hollywood:
• LeAnn has a slot alongside Luke Perry in the movie Good Intentions, which is released Tuesday on DVD. Billed as an “off-beat comedy,” it might represent a bigger commitment to film by LeAnn, who co-starred with Eddie Cibrian last year in the Lifetime movie Northern Lights. “I’ve been wanting to act,” she says. “It’s just been finding the right thing. And Good Intentions was the right thing at the right time. It was the right script.” Two of LeAnn’s songs, “Nothin’ Better To Do” and “Family,” also appear on the soundtrack.
• Dwight has a role in Provinces Of Night, an independent movie about a twisted family shot last year in North Carolina. The picture — which also features Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Hillary Duff — premiered last month at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It’s slated for a screening next month at the Nashville Film Festival.
• The Last Song, starring Miley and her current beau Liam Hemsworth, hits theaters March 31. The final episode of her Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana” is slated to air March 14.
• Tim and his wife, Faith Hill, were at Sunday’s Oscars, but they also were on hand at a recent wrap party in Nashville, according to The Tennessean. They celebrated at the Mercy Lounge as Love Don’t Let Me Down reached its final week of filming. Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays a country singer in the project, got up during the party to sing a karaoke version of “Killing Me Softly.”
• Taylor has collected another gold single for a song that hasn’t actually been released as a single. “Today Was A Fairytale,” included in the soundtrack to Valentine’s Day, was certified last month for downloads of more than 500,000 copies.
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I don't understand why all the blame is on LeAnn Rimes. Eddie Cibrian had something to do with it too! It takes to people to have an affair and the unfortunate thing is that he has had more of them before he had this one with LeAnn Rimes. Put the blame where the blame is due., on both of them. His own wife called him a serial cheat. LeAnn Rimes had a squeaky clean image before this affair. She was never talked about bad. She fell in Love. What can you do? It is done and we must move on. There are plenty of Country musicians who have done the same and worse. There are plenty of celebrities who have done the same or worse. Let it go. Move on. I Pray they get married and have their own family and have those two boys with them involved. GOOD LUCK EC & LR GOOD LUCK
You don't hear about Faith Hill anymore since she bad-mouthed Carrie when Carrie beat her as Best Female Vocalist. Faith's lack of respect cooled her career. She went into hiding……and hasn't been heard of since….Leann will get what's coming to her. Yes, we all make mistakes but showing it in public was very uncool. Carrie has it going on, she is classy and it shows……..Taylor needs voice lessons, and acting lessons. But thegirl has talent as a writer……
Christina, the reason Reba isn’t talked about anymore is because she’s yesterday’s news. She had a great career but LeAnn is now going to be front and center. Carrie and Taylor are just flashes in the pan. LeAnn is the greatest songstress in country music history and a great actress. LeAnn’s tallent allows her to come and go as she pleases and she’s now going to the top of music once again. Move over ladies, LeAnn Rimes is here again.
Rimes is a fraud. She ain’t country and never been country. She quit country music for acting and that didn’t work out so now she wants back in to country. She only comes to Nashville when she wants to sell something, otherwise she don’t leave that country of all country cities, LA. Country is full of liars but their good liars. Country don’t need no bad liars or hypacrits.
UNFAIR PRESS? LeAnn Rimes betrayed her husband by sleeping with a married man with children who will now grow up in a single parent home. LeAnn exposed her affair to the tabs to taunt the man’s wife. She cancelled a concert to stalk him and later moved in across the street from his children’s school where she assaulted the man’s wife with her car and then sent taunting text messages. For months LeAnn has paraded around LA for the paps while basking in the publicity of being a homewrecker. Her husband is a very good man who dedicated his life to her career, and yet she showed him no respect while she obsessed over another man. LeAnn cancels concert after concert, showing no respect to her fans and feels entitled to their loyalty. The person LeAnn has become is a far cry from the image she wanted her fans to believe in. The fact is, LeAnn is a pathological liar and narcasist, obsessed with publicity and cares nothing for country music or her fans.
They didn't mention Carrie Underwood for "Soul Surfer", either.
Hello? No offense, but how is it we are mentioning Taylor and LeAnn, and NOT mentioning Reba? For heaven's sake, the woman had her own show on network t.v., while also doing broadway the same year! Not to mention, the long list of other movies she has done. I'm sure she would have been fantastic in Titanic!
Bad press for LeAnn??!! Give me a break! She’s a homewrecker and she and her boytoy hurt two precious kids in the process!!! Boycott anything she does!
Dwight Yoakam is awesome in music, my top pic of male country, and has some good movies out there but I think the best is yet to come in movies for him.
There is no excuse if these singers can't do film. They all have the help of a retake. Not like real life.
I didn't really like LeAnn in the Northern Lights movie, so hopefully this one will be better. I haven't really seen much of her stuff lately.
I think Tim is just great. He's picked really good roles, and I thought he was funny in The Blind Side, and I wish he got more attention for it as well. I haven't actually seen Faith Hill act in anything yet, but I would love to hear more music from her.
I don't really care so much for Miley outside of Hannah Montana, but I would like to see Taylor in some more roles. She was great in CSI and I thought cute in Valentine's Day.
sorry to say this ,but I have seen Dwight in films and I like his acting better,he was really good in "sling blade" I prefer his acting over his singing. but on another person,Tim Mcgraw can do anything good. he was great in all his movies and he has a great singing voice and a great stage presence. he knows how to get his audience off their feet. Faith is just as great as a performer,I have seen her and she can act. just needs the rigtht film to show her acting ability. performing on stage and putting your soul into your voice is about the same as acting,you have to perform. I don't understand why Tim's name was not mentioned at the top of this.
faith hill is getting old, she looks all wrinkly and worn out, and the woman can't act her way out of a paper bag to save her life. She needs to stick to singing, and keep her wrinkled average looking has to wear a ton of makeup face OFF the big screen. Nobody is gonna to PAY, OR CARE, to go see an old fossil like Faith Hill "act" in a movie. Please…..She ain't no Meryl Streep.
faith hill is amazing she and shania were the 2 that opened the door for country singers females…..it was all about those 2 for a very long time..and now it is all about taylor and whatever her name is oh ya cu but faith has still got a awsome voice..and she looks beautiful!!!
It's amazing that where ever you are, you NEVER fail to somehow diss Carrie Underwood. Carrie is NOT even in this article!! You, diamond, are officially a Carrie hater and a taylortard.
Well at least you finally admit that Carrie's a huge part of the industry. Step one is accomplished.
I think Faith looks great and maybe her stylist didn't do that great with her makeup because she sure looks better without it. people do look different as they get older it happens to all of us! Faith did a great job in the episode of "touch by an angel" years ago and she was great in "the Steford wives" the movie was not that great but she was.
years ago and she was great in "the Steford wives" the movie was not that great but she was. ——————-
okay hun, whatever you say. Personally, I think you need to get out more if you think Faith Hill is a great actress, and as far as looking better w/out makeup, my brother, who is a stagehand, and has worked several Tim Mgraw concerts before, and has seen this supposed "beauty" faith hill up close backstage w/out said make up, he said she is a nothing special to look at and is old looking, and sees better looking, & god knows younger too, women in Tim's audience routinely. He also has said Shaina Twain is stunningly gorgeous, with or without makeup, when she toured a lot back in the day. SHE, Shania, probably still is.
Tim has proven to be a great actor as well as a great singer,too bad they don't mention him when they talk about the Blind Side. of course Sandra did deserve the Oscar she got . I am looking forward to Tim's next film with Gwyneth,sure wish he and Faith could do a film together.
You forgot to mention Julianne Hough. She is currently filming Burlesque.
LeAnn has gotten alot of unfair press. I hope this movie does well. I'm glad she is no longer supporting a deadbeat husband.
Anything Dwight does is good. Wish he would put a new CD out.
I'm sure anything Taylor does will turn to gold. For a pop singer she gets alot of country awards for wearing boots.
I don't think you can call it unfair press for LeAnn when she cheated on her husband with another married man.