Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway is about to fall down the rabbit hole, and into the role of the benevolent White Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
Helena Bonham Carter, who has worked with her fiancé Burton on several movies including Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has also been cast as the "Off with their heads" shouting Red Queen, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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Helena Bonham Carter by Vera Anderson/ WireImage.com
Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join McGs Terminator Salvation filling a top-secret role described as small but pivotal Thats what she saidPer the Reporter exteriors for the fourth installment in the franchise which chronicles the origin of the humans battle with SkyNet are being filmed now in New Mexico before a possible SAG strike or lockout comes to be Matt Mitovich
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Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter late Saturday welcomed their second child and first daughter, says People.... The web series Quarterlife gets its NBC premiere Monday, Feb. 18, at 9 pm/ET, sandwiched between Baby Borrowers and Medium).... JoBeth Williams on Dec. 20 will help announce the nominees for the Screen Actors Guild’s new honors for stunt ensembles.... DVD releases have been set for Rob & Big: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2 Uncensored (Jan. 8) and 30 Days of Night, Goya's Ghosts and the CBS TV-movie Jesse Stone: Sea Change (all on Feb. 26).
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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens in High School Musical 2 by Adam Larkey/Disney Channel
Verizon FiOS customers have the chance to see Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 as early as today, a full week before its official premiere, via its Disney on Demand service. (Psst, save yourself some coin and pay me a mere $5 not to tell your rugrats.).... Helena Bonham Carter is pregnant with her and director husband Tim Burton's second child, her publicist tells the AP. The couple have a 3-year-old son, Raymond.... The role of Notorious B.I.G. for an upcoming biopic about the ill-fated rapper will be filled via an open casting call, producers tell the AP. if you're big enough and bad enough, go here for details.
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Fresh from Fox:"The original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, along with Hugh Grant" — as in American Dreamz? — "Keira Knightley, Forest Whitaker, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Radcliffe" — Emma must be holding out for a bigger per diem — "Teri Hatcher and Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), are scheduled to appear on 'Idol Gives Back,' a two-night special airing Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25. These celebrities join previously announced talent Gwen Stefani, Josh Groban, Pink, Michael Bublé" — really, again? Can I write his material this time? — "Annie Lennox, Il Divo and Borat Sagdiyev."
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Per Variety, Helena Bonham Carter has been tapped to play diabolical meat-pie maker Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation of Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp. What. A. Surprise.... Jennifer Aniston will produce and possibly star in Counter Clockwise, a dramedy about Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer's study in which she reversed the aging process of her subjects by making them think they were younger.... Djimon Hounsou will play an aspiring concert pianist fighting to escape the ghetto in The Trunk.
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Question: I have two commercial-related questions. First, there is a MasterCard commercial I saw recently, with adults in a rather unique candy store. The song playing is the Willy Wonka tune "Pure Imagination," but it's performed by a modern group. Could you please tell me what group performs this version? The other question is about the ads for Dove cookies and ice cream. I say that the actress in the ads is Minnie Driver, but my wife thinks it is just someone who looks a lot like her. Could you please settle this? Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Answer: Hey, as James Taylor once sang in an oh-so-mellow fashion, that's why I'm here, Patrick.
Don't know if you'll be happy with what I have to tell you, however. First off, the MasterCard ad you're referring to, "Candy Store," featured a version of the Wonka song specially commissioned for the commerc
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