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HollywoodNews.com: Cate Blanchett has played both Bob Dylan and Queen Elizabeth I, but there is still one role that she is hoping to tackle in the near future.
Blanchett recently revealed to ‘Harper’s Bazaar UK’ that she’d love to one day play the role of a villain in a James Bond film, states Hollyscoop. “Oh God! Yes! I’d be there in a heartbeat. I love Lotta Lenya [Ross Klebb in 1963’s From Russia with Love]. She had a club foot and a limp. I’m not a purist in that way,” Blanchett commented.
But, she is also looking to take on a role behind the camera: “There is a film I’d love to direct, but I just don’t know if I’ve got the patience.”
Do you want to see her tackle these projects?
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By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: With so many original “Lord of the Rings” cast members returning to the fold for Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” – from Sir Ian McKellen and Orlando Bloom to Elijah Wood and the lovely Cate Blanchett – some might be wondering what happened to Liv Tyler … especially with the recent addition of Tyler lookalike (and equal cutie Evangeline Lillie).
So ComingSoon asked the actress about her possible involvement in an exclusive, and revealing, interview.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78828
“I actually don’t know a lot about it and I haven’t talked to Fran or Peter or Philippa at all,” she told the site. “I’ve seen some of the other actors, but you probably know more than I do, but I had such an amazing time making that movie. I wish that I could be in it.”
So it sounds like Tyler’s out, though Jackson keeps adding new cast members even though the production began shooting weeks ago. It’s not over until it’s over, but it sounds like Tyler’s character, Arwen, will not be making a cameo in the two-part “Hobbit” film when it comes out in 2012 and 2013.
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HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Brad Pitt. Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” one of the most anticipated films of the Cannes festival (if not of the entire year), finally screened for critics in France this morning and Brad Pitt is the star.

William Bradley “Brad” Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men, a label for which he has received substantial media attention.
Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas in 1987. He later gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’s character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt’s first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995 he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty Ryan in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second Academy Award nomination for his title role performance in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has generated wide publicity. He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally. Pitt owns a production company named Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include the 2007 Academy Award winning Best Picture, The Departed.
Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy, [...]

By Paul Sheehan at GoldDerby.com
HollywoodNews.com: As the saying goes, “Win on Saturday, lose on Sunday.” This axiom refers to the less-than-impressive track record of Indie Spirit winners repeating at the Academy Awards. Of the 48 Indie Spirit acting champs to contend the following day at the Oscars, only 10 of them have won there as well.
Last year, two of the four acting champs celebrated double victories — Best Actor Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”) and Supporting Actress Mo’Nique (“Precious”). Spirit winner Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”) lost the Best Actress Oscar to Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) while Woody Harrelson was defeated by Christoph Waltz (“Inglorious Basterds”). Two years ago, just one of the three Spirit winners in the running at the Oscars prevailed — Supporting Actress champ Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Christina Barcelona”). Mickey Rourke (“The Wrestler”) was edged out of Best Actor by Sean Penn (“Milk”) while Melissa Leo (“Frozen River”) lost Best Actress to Kate Winslet (“The Reader”). Spirits supporting actor winner James Franco (“Milk”) was not nominated at the Oscars.
The trend of the Spirits winner also contending at the Oscars dates back to the first Indies in 1985 when Geraldine Page (“The Trip to Bountiful”) won Best Actress with both groups. Since then, Frances McDormand (“Fargo,” 1996), Hilary Swank (“Boys Don’t Cry,” 1999), and Charlize Theron (“Monster,” 2003) have repeated in this race. The 11 Spirit Best Actress winners who lost at the Oscars were:
1987: Sally Kirkland (“Anna”) lost to Cher (“Moonstruck”);
1990: Angelica Huston (“The Grifters”) lost to Kathy Bates (“Misery”);
1995: Elisabeth Shue (“Leaving Las Vegas”) lost to Susan Sarandon (“Dead Man Walking”);
1997: Julie Christie (“Afterglow”) lost to Helen Hunt (“As Good As It Gets”);
2000: Ellen Burstyn (“Requiem for a Dream”) lost to Julia Roberts (“Erin Brockovich”);
2001: Sissy Spacek (“In the Bedroom”) lost to Halle Berry (“Monster’s Ball”);
2002: Julianne Moore (“Far From Heaven”) lost to Nicole Kidman (“The Hours”);
2004: Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”) lost to Hilary Swank (“Million Dollar Baby”);
2005: Felicity Huffman (“Transamerica”) lost to Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line”);
2007: Ellen Page (“Juno”) lost to Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”); and
2009: Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”) lost to Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”).
Of the 15 Spirit Best Actor champs to compete at the Oscars only two — Bridges and Philip Seymour Hoffman (“Capote,” 2005) — prevailed there as well. The Spirit winners who were Oscar losers were:
1986: James Woods (“Salvador”) lost to Paul Newman (“The Color of [...]

HollywoodNews.com: Academy Award®-winning actress Cate Blanchett will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.
Blanchett is a five-time Academy Award nominee, who took home the Supporting Actress Oscar® in 2004 for her performance as Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator.” She also received supporting actress nominations for “Notes on a Scandal” and “I’m Not There” in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Blanchett received lead actress nominations for her performances as Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth” (1998) and “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2007).
Her other film credits include “Robin Hood,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Good German,” “Babel,” “Veronica Guerin,” “Charlotte Gray,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. She will next be seen in “Hanna,” due out in April.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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hollywoodnews.com: On the occasion of the SIHH watch show in Geneva, IWC Schaffhausen celebrated its new Portofino watch collection with a glamorous event attended by 900 guests and well-known Friends of the Brand. Cate Blanchett and Kevin Spacey enjoyed “A night in Portofino” in the same carefree style as Elle Macpherson, Jean Reno, Matthew Fox and Marc Forster. Other friends are Boris Becker, Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane as well as Tim Jefferies and Ronan Keating. Further highlights of the evening included the world premiere of a photo exhibition featuring these friends and other stars shot by celebrated photographer Peter Lindbergh, a “making-of” film of the shoot and an impressive performance by Zurich Opera House, with a 60-strong orchestra and tenor Neil Shicoff.
For 900 guests from all over the world, “A night in Portofino” was an unforgettable event that captured the irresistible style of the 1950s and 60s. Stepping on to the red carpet were Hollywood stars Cate Blanchett and Kevin Spacey together with other Friends of the Brand such as Matthew Fox and Jean Reno, sports legends Boris Becker, Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane, director Marc Forster, top model Elle Macpherson, vocalist Ronan Keating and gallery owner Tim Jefferies. Each of them had seized this opportunity to come to Geneva to celebrate the elegant Portofino watch family from IWC Schaffhausen. This select group had already caused quite a stir in Portofino back in May 2010, when the Schaffhausen-based company invited the Friends of IWC to a photo shoot in the Italian coastal resort that had inspired the name of the Portofino series. Influenced by the spirit of the 1960s, the period props and clothing provided a realistic setting for a glamorous portfolio of photographs. None other than Peter Lindbergh, one of the greatest photographers of them all, portrayed the Friends of the Brand against the nostalgic backdrop of a 50s/60s-style Hollywood film set. Whether it was Cate Blanchett eating an ice cream whilst clutching Kevin Spacey’s arm, Elle Macpherson and Eric Dane on a scooter radiating genuine Italian lifestyle or Luis Figo and Matthew Fox aboard a sleek powerboat, the stars clearly had a whale of a time and set off the Portofino watch models to their best advantage. The resulting exhibition, “Peter Lindbergh’s Portofino,” consists of a series of impressive black-and-white photographs and celebrated its world premiere at the gala evening. The exhibition is scheduled to take on [...]

Michelle Williams broke into stardom on the teen series ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and later graduated to full-length features, most notably ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2006 she appeared in ‘The Hawk Is Dying’ with Paul Giamatti. In 2007, she was in Ethan Hawke’s ‘The Hottest State’ and in Todd Haynes’ ‘I’m Not There’ with Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Julianne Moore. In 2008, she starred with Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in the Marcel Langenegger film ‘Deception,’ and Martin Scorsese film “Shutter Island.”
Along with the Scorsese film, she shot four other films in succession. Independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Wendy and Lucy’ was shown on September 27 and 28, 2008, at the New York Film Festival and opened on December 10, 2008. Williams was highly acclaimed, with some claiming the performance was her best yet. She is one of a “vivid ensemble cast orbiting around Philip Seymour Hoffman’s harried theater director” in ‘Synecdoche, New York,’ the first film directed by Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of ‘Being John Malkovich,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.’
Two other films include director Lukas Moodysson’s ‘Mammoth’ with Gael García Bernal; and ‘Incendiary,’ which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.
In 2009, Williams was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Williams will next be seen in the romance film ‘Blue Valentine’ with Ryan Gosling. For the Golden Globes 2011, she received a nomination for Best actress in a motion picture drama for her portrayal of Cindy in ‘Blue Valentine.’
Therefore, because of her superb performances including the Oscar worthy acting job she did in ‘Blue Valentine,’ we are proud to announce that Michelle Williams is our “Hollywood Movie Star of the Week.”

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By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Director Joe Wright had some heat.
His first film, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” turned Oscar’s heads. His follow-up, “Atonement,” was a bona-fide awards force, grabbing seven Oscar noms (including Best Picture) and one win.
Then came “The Soloist,” and while I thought it was extremely interesting, it failed to lure crowds and cooled Wright’s hot streak just a bit.
Can he reclaim that career momentum? He’ll try this spring with “Hanna,” what looks to be an intriguing vengeance thriller about a young girl (Saoirse Ronan of “Atonement” and “The Lovely Bones”) who is trained by her father (Eric Bana) to be an assassin. Their target? Cate Blanchett. Seriously, where do I sign up?
“Hanna” doesn’t open until April, but this morning, we have a trailer teasing the action (with a killer soundtrack by The Chemical Brothers). Watch it below, or see a high-definition clip on Yahoo! Movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjTjHo4LjE
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By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Big casting news on the “Hobbit” front, as Warner/New Line has confirmed that Cate Blanchett, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy and Mikael Persbrandt will appear in Peter Jackson’s planned film adaptations.
Here’s the release (via ComingSoon.net):
Cate Blanchett, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy and Mikael Persbrandt have joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic ‘The Hobbit.’ Also joining them are Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy and William Kircher. The films, which are scheduled to commence principal photography in February 2011, mark Jackson’s return to Middle-earth following his Oscar-winning ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. The announcement was made jointly today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema, Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros. and Steve Cooper, co-Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Jackson, who directed all three ‘Lord of the Rings’ films, will helm the two films back-to-back, telling the story of ‘The Hobbit’ in two parts from a screenplay by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro.
Cate Blanchett (‘Lord of The Rings’ trilogy, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’) will reprise her role from ‘Lord of The Rings’ trilogy as Galadriel, the Lady of Lothlorien. Ken Stott (‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, TV’s ‘Rebus’) will play the Dwarf Lord Balin, Sylvester McCoy (TV’s ‘Doctor Who’) will play the wizard Radagast the Brown and well-known Swedish actor, Mikael Persbrandt (‘Everlasting Moments’, ‘Day and Night’) will play the shape-shifter Beorn. British actor Ryan Gage (‘Outlaw’, TV’s ‘Doctors’) will play Drogo Baggins, with New Zealand actors Jed Brophy (‘Lord of The Rings’ trilogy, ‘District 9′) playing the role of the dwarf Nori, and William Kircher (‘Out of the Blue’; TV’s ‘Legend of the Seeker’) rounding out the company of Thorin Oakensheild in role of the dwarf Bifur.
Peter Jackson welcomed the news of Cate Blanchett’s return to Middle-earth ‘Cate is one of my favorite actors to work with and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have her reprise the role she so beautifully brought to life in the earlier films’ On the casting of Scottish actor Ken Stott, Jackson commented ‘Fran and I have long been fans of Ken’s work and are excited he will be joining us on this journey.’ Jackson also welcomed the addition to the cast of Swedish actor, Mikael Persbrandt ‘The role of Beorn is an iconic one and Mikael was our first choice for the part. Since seeing him [...]

HollywoodNews.com: Wow!
Wes Anderson is assembling an edgy eclectic cast for his next movie “Moon Rise Kingdom.”
Per Deadline, he’s considering Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and his go-to guy Bill Murray.
“Moon” reps the first live action Anderson film since 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited.”
Anderson wrote the script about a pair of runaway teen lovers during the ‘60s in New England.
Murray will portray the missing girl’s father and McDormand her mother. However, she’s having an affair with the town sheriff (Willis). Ed Norton is set to play a scout leader.
The film will start lensing in the spring.
Anderson has a gift for squeezing absurdist, hysterical performances from some of the most gifted dramatic actors, i.e. Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alec Baldwin in “The Royal Tenenbaums” and William Dafoe and Cate Blanchett in “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.”
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