Sigourney Weaver, Anne Hathaway
Everyone in Hollywood has a price — even Anne Hathaway.
The actress, currently starring in Rachel Getting Married, was attending the recent Trevor Project's annual Cracked Xmas gala at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles and made an impromptu decision to put herself up for auction.
Proceeds raised (including $7,000 for a walk-on role on 30 Rock) benefit the Trevor Project's suicide hotline for gay, lesbian, transgender and questioning youths.
"I didn't know there was going to be an auction," said Hathaway, who was there to present the Trevor Life Award to Sigourney Weaver for her role in the upcoming Lifetime movie Prayers for Bobby. "I'm not usually very forward, but I thought if ...
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Sigourney Weaver, Eli Stone
What's the best way to create interest in a sophomore shown like Eli Stone that bounced from the bubble to a surprise second season? Stunt casting, of course! Sigourney Weaver plays Eli's therapist in the Oct. 14 season opener, and is just is one of several stars scheduled to pop us this year. (Others include Katie Holmes and singer Seal.) We chatted with Weaver about what drew her to this little show that could, whether we might see more of her character this season and what it would take to see her on the small screen in her own show.
Catch the full Q&A after the jump.
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Variety reports Sigourney Weaver will co-produce and star in Prayers for Bobby, about a conservative woman whose gay son takes his own life.The Lifetime movie is based on Leroy Aarons' 1995 book (shop Amazon) that depicts the true story of a family's opposition to their son's homosexuality. Weaver's character questions her stance against her son's sexual choices after he falls into a deep depression and eventually commits suicide.Russell Mulcahy — who directed Showtime's Queer as Folk — will call the shots on the Lifetime telepic. — J.R. Whalen
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sigourney Weaver is in talks to play the owner of the agency that hooks up wannabe-mom Tina Fey with surrogate Amy Poehler in Baby Mama.... Wedding Crashers hottie Isla Fisher is The Cookie Queen, the holder of a 20-year-old Girl Scout cookie sales record who resorts to sabotage when a fifth grader eyes her title.... Amber Heard (the CW's Hidden Palms) has boarded The Pineapple Express, playing Seth Rogen's honey.... Per Variety, Ridley Scott will direct Russell Crowe in the revisionist Robin Hood tale Nottingham.
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I'm extremely excited for April 24, because that's the day one of my most anticipated titles is released. No, it's not WKRP, which is plagued with music-licensing issues. It's the BBC release of Planet Earth. This 11-episode series explores our planet like no other series has done, from the North Pole to the South Pole, it's all covered in this program. They spent $25 million and 2,000 days in the field shooting material for the program, and they did it all using high-definition cameras. Narrated by the legendary David Attenborough (the Discovery Channel version is narrated by Sigourney Weaver), this series is being released on DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD, and all formats are among the top sellers on Amazon (as of now, DVD is No. 1, HD DVD No. 8 and Blu-ray No. 19 — their list is updated hourly). The DVD set also includes a bonus program, "Planet Earth: The Future," and 110 minutes of behind-the-scenes material that isn't available on the higher-priced Blu-ray and HD DVD releases.T...
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Sigourney Weaver — who has stripped down to her skivvies in films such as Alien and Ghostbusters, to name but two — has been tapped to play famed burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee in an HBO biopic, Variety reports. Gypsy and Me, to shoot by year's end, will be based on My G-String Mother, a memoir written by the performer's son, Erik Lee Preminger, who by age 12 was serving as her stage manager.... Desperate Housewives' Andrea Bowen will play a popular high-school honor student who contracts HIV in Consequences, a TV-movie for — all together now — Lifetime. Jennie Garth costars as a teacher who becomes Bowen's confidante.
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Per Variety, Good Night and Good Luck's David Strathairn has booked a pair of new gigs: the lead in the fantasy pic The Spiderwick Chronicles, and the role of Matt Damon's latest pursuer in The Bourne Ultimatum.... Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth are in talks to star in The Girl in the Park, about a woman traumatized by the 15-years-ago disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter. Bosworth's rumored deal breaker: plentiful salad options at the crafts-services table.... Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have inked a two-picture deal with Dimension Films. (Take that, Eric!) Their first offering will be Naughty or Nice, a stop-motion animated Christmas feature.
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Turning a blind eye to the horror that was The Grinch, Jim Carrey again will give life to a Dr. Seuss character, this time voicing the titular elephant in a CGI-animated take on Horton Hears a Who, Variety reports. The Office's Steve Carell will voice the Mayor of Whoville.... Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Christopher Lloyd ("Marty!!"), William H. Macy and Sigourney Weaver are among the voice cast of The Tale of Despereaux, an animated adaptation of the award-winning children's book about a mouse, a rat and a servant girl with cauliflower ears.... Warner Bros. is remaking Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, this time minus the "of Europe" (xenophobia alert!) and featuring Huff's Oliver Platt as a dessert chef's ex.
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Charlotte Salt, Wildfire
Fans of ABC Family's Wildfire had better brace themselves for a new arrival from across the pond. Charlotte Salt, a charming up-and-coming British-born actress, is joining the cast for the final three episodes of this season (starting tonight at 8 pm/ET) as Gillian, a wealthy heiress who splits apart one of the on-again-off-again romances on the show. TVGuide.com spoke to the 20-year-old about exactly what kind of "horsing around" she did on the set.
TVGuide.com: How did this Wildfire role come about? Charlotte Salt: I auditioned for the pilot over a year ago and I never heard anything more from them. But then I got a call saying, "Reme
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Jessica Alba folds her arms and blinks away reports that her next project will be a big-screen remake of I Dream of Jeannie, telling the New York Daily News that she actually has signed on to film The Wake, with Sigourney Weaver and Hayden Christensen. Too bad — just the thought of Alba saying "Yes, master" was giving many of her male fans a Major Nelson.
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