The Weinstein Company announced today that Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) will join the cast of Nine, Academy Award Nominee Rob Marshall’s (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago) adaptation of the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical. The film stars Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will be Blood) as world famous film director Guido Contini as he prepares his latest picture and balances the numerous women in his life played by Hudson and the previously announced Academy Award Winners Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Academy Award nominee Penélope Cruz. The announcement was made today by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company.

Nine was adapted by Academy Award nominee Michael Tolkin (The Player) and Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, composer and lyricist for the original 1982 Broadway production that won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and was written by Arthur Kopit. Marshall and John DeLuca (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago) will choreograph. LUCAMAR Productions partners DeLuca and Marshall will be on board as part of the producing team, with Marc Platt serving as producer, and Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston to serve as co-executive producers. The film is scheduled to begin shooting in the UK on October 10th.
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Two more days of shooting of Los Abrazos rotos / Broken Embraces and this time it was in Madrid, Spain.

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- On the Set - July 9, 2008
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The small Canary Island of Lanzarote is hoping to welcome flocks of new tourist visitors next year thanks to the release of a new Pedro Almodóvar movie in early 2009.

Broken Embraces stars Penelope Cruz and was filmed on location across Lanzarote.

It tells the story of a couple - played by Cruz and Lluis Homar - who flee to the island from Madrid. And then become embroiled in a car crash in which Homar’s character loses his sight.

Scenes for the film were shot at some of Lanzarote’s most picturesque locations, providing a ready made promotional vehicle for Lanzarote’s tourist industry.

Locations include the Green Lagoon at El Golfo, the beach at Famara and the Timanfaya Volcano Park.

Lanzarote has provided the backdrop for a number of previous big screen productions.

The island’s unique volcanic scenery has proved popular with directors of sci-fi movies such as the classic One Million Years BC, which memorably starred Raquel Welch in a fake-fur bikini.

Lanzarote is already a very popular holiday destination - attracting over one million British and Irish tourists during 2007.

Tourist authorities are hoping the release of Almodóvar’s new film will help to attract more upmarket tourism to the island as they try to re-brand Lanzarote as a quality holiday destination.

Certainly, the Spanish director himself is a major fan – having visited the island on numerous occasions over the last decade.
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Two posters has been released for Elegy and also several more production stills! I will try to find more

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New candids of Penélope and Javier together out in Madrid, Spain to support their soccer team. Whom we now know won!

Sure, she’s an international sex symbol and top Hollywood actress, but that doesn’t mean Penelope Cruz doesn’t enjoy a raucous game of soccer!

The “Vanilla Sky” actress and her actor boyfriend Javier Bardem were spotted in Madrid, Spain over the weekend showing their support for the Spanish national soccer team.

And wouldn’t you know it? Spain won the 2008 European Championship Final 1-0 over Germany. It looks like having a little celebrity boost was just what they needed.

After the game, Cruz and Bardem went to a local bar to celebrate, with Javier even going so far as to paint his face with Spain’s official team colors.

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- Candids: June 29 - Supporting their soccer team

The first photoshoot from 2008 and it was taken at the Cannes Film Festival, Penélope looks amazing as usual! Remember that you have to register to view all our site exclusive photoshoots!

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A new trailer has been released for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and I have made captures plus added the first poster for the movie. It looks really beautiful! An official site has been added as well and you can view the new trailer at Yahoo!

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So they have denied the rumours that was spreading around the internet and it’s wierd how untrue stories can get to be such a big thing!

Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz have been forced into damage control mode after a protected witness told Mexican officials the pair stayed at a swank hacienda - that happened to be owned by a top Mexican drug traffickers - while filming the 2004 flick Bandidas.

The witness said the movie stars were guests of Sergio Villarreal, “El Grande,” who is linked to the powerful Beltran Leyva organization.
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There has been so many posts about this subject on the internet so I decided to post some of it here, I’m not sure what to believe but I’m sure we will know in the future!

Bandits stars stayed at drug trafficker’s ranch

Call it method acting of a kind or a form of research. While shooting the movie Bandidas in northern Mexico four years ago, Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek played outlaws by day before the cameras, and then allegedly slept at a ranch owned, appropriately enough, by a drug trafficker.

There is no suggestion the actors knew who the ranch owner was when they stayed for several nights, at the house beside a reservoir in the state of Durango. But it turns out the property belonged to Sergio Bernal, a man wanted on suspicion of drug trafficking and known locally as El Grande, or the Big One. Mexican paparazzi who covered the actors’ stay in Durango during the eight-week shoot say their security was unusually tight.
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Woody Allen has dismissed reports that there are “steamy” sex scenes in his new movie.

Rumours have been rife that Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson have filmed a lesbian clinch, as well as a threesome with co-star Javier Bardem.

Allen admitted that characters in Vicky Christina Barcelona do get intimate, but insisted that it is “not in the sense [the press] are suggesting”.

He told Empire: “There’s no truth comparable to anything you’ve read. There’s the barest smidgeon of sex in it.

“There are sex scenes between all the characters in the movie: between the men and the women, and the women and the women. That is accurate, but I’d say there’s probably not even 20 seconds of sex in the whole picture.”

The 72-year-old also revealed in the interview that several A-list actors have turned down the chance to work with him.