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And the Wiki says...

Anna Katherine Popplewell (born 16 December 1988) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.

Popplewell began acting at the age of six, taking classes at the Allsorts Drama School. She began acting professionally in the TV production Frenchman's Creek in 1998. She made her film debut in 1999 in the film Mansfield Park and has since appeared in supporting roles in films like The Little Vampire (2000) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003).

Her first major role was in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) where she played Susan Pevensie. She reprised her role in the sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, in which she acted with William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley and Ben Barnes. The movie opened in theatres May 16, 2008. She has musophobia, which required a double to do part of her scene at the Stone Table in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. [Wiki]

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Pictured above, Carmen Electra is one of the main stars of the new spoof flick that no one is talking about----actually, I shouldn't say that. The few people who're talking about it have really disastrous things to say.

Let's review the headlines floating around:

'Disaster Movie' turns out to be just that
Disaster Movie voted the worst of all time
Disastrous disaster movie
Disaster Movie is cinematic pollution
"Disaster Movie" less funny than real ones

As per Box Office Mojo, the flick production costs were around $20mil & marketing was probably another couple mil. And, as of today, it has raked in a modest $7mil, so assuming they put some additional Kim Kardashian sex tape footage in the upcoming DVD, I'm pretty sure they'll actually make money at the end of the day.

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Film fans short-changed by trailer trash

Keira Knightley is unhappy about what has been said about her role in her new film, The Duchess. She plays Georgiana, the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire. She's not unhappy about what the critics are saying, not yet anyway. Miss Knightley's unhappiness is about what the film's own trailer is saying.

The trailer draws a link between the Duchess of Devonshire and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. In fact, the trailer doesn't so much draw a link as sledgehammer a link. I have seen the film at an advance screening, and the trailer on You Tube. They are, like Georgiana and Diana, somewhat distant relations.

The trailer begins with a picture of Diana, followed by the choice phrases: "Two women related by ancestry"; "United by destiny"; "History repeats itself". [The Independent]

About the movie:

Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love. (Her love child with Lord Grey was Eliza Courtney). [Wiki]

Here's the trialer:

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These were snapped @ the 65th Venice Film Festival being held in Italy.

About the movie:

Rachel Getting Married is an upcoming Jonathan Demme film set for a 2008 release. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Academy Award nominee Debra Winger. The film was recently annouced to compete for the Venice Film Festival's top prestigious prize, the Golden Lion. The film is set for a October 3, 2008 release.

Plot
When Kym (Anne Hathaway), an ex-model who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years, returns home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. [Wiki]

Here's the trailer:

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These were snapped over the weekend @ the premiere of the documentary, "Valentino: The Last Emperor," at the La Fenice Theatre.

For more info about the upcoming movie, head to the official website!

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These were snapped @ the photocall for her directorial debut film, "Eve" in Venice.

More about the flick:

Natalie Portman presented her debut as a director at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday with a short movie “Eve” about a young woman who is dragged along to her grandmother’s romantic date.

A young woman, Kate, goes to visit her grandma Lola for a private dinner. She is surprised to find she is instead the third wheel at her grandma’s date with Joe.

“Eve” (17 minutes), screening out of competition in the Venice short film section, star Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirbly.

Portman, 27, said she had always had a fascination with the older generation, and drew inspiration for Bacall’s character from her own grandmother. [Film Filia]

Here's a clip!

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