Admin Note: Long time no see wonderful Penelope fans. Sorry updates haven’t been made recently but in light of Pe’s condition there hasn’t been much to report. Until now that is.

Disney has announced that they will premiere the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides on Monday, December 13th. However, Disney is holding a contest that will allow a few lucky fans to see the trailer before anyone else as part of “Pirates Fans First!” event at AMC Downtown Disney 12 Theater and Disneyland Resort. The trailer will then go online worldwide at 1:00pm (PST).

Hit the jump for full details on the contest and the press release. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides stars Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, and Ian McShane. It’s set to open in 3D on May 20, 2011.

Also I have a mass update on Friday with the most recent event Penelope attended, The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2009, now this event should total more than 100.

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar will chronicle the progress on his upcoming project Broken Hugs on his newly created blog, the Oscar-winning director’s production house El Deseo announced Wednesday.

Hugs will star Penelope Cruz — who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Almodovar’s most recent film, Volver — along with Blanca Portillo, Lluis Homar and Jose Luis Gomez.

Almodovar will include pictures, videos and other snippets from the film, set to begin shooting in May. The film noir centers on plastic surgeon who seeks revenge on the man who raped his daughter.

The blog will be available by Friday in English, Spanish and French at PedroAlmodovar.es.

Made captures from the Manolete trailer and the movie will get released on DVD in parts of Europe on February 29, 2008.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Manolete: Captures – Trailer

New project for Pen?
? ??lope it seems!

Yup! You heard it right. Anurag Basu is all set to direct our very own Hrithik Roshan alongside the pretty Spanish damsel Penelope Cruz. It has been reported that Anurag Basu and producer of the film-Rakesh Roshan have already left for Los Angeles to speak to Cruz???  ??  ?s agent.

Hrithik and his dad felt that the script required an international face and thus considered Penelope Cruz. Rakesh Roshan has signed Anurag to direct the film as he was impressed by Anurag???  ??  ?s Metro. Anurag???  ??  ?s new flick is set to be an action packed romance which will roll by mid this year.

Penelope Cruz on the other hand is the winner of the best actress at Cannes and also holds several nominations for Academy Awards, Golden Globe and BAFTA.

Looks like bollywood is finally going international.

Well quitting smoking is always good and it sounds interesting with Pe singing in a movie!

Pen?
? ??lope Cruz has been ordered to quit smoking so she can sing in her next movie.
The Spanish actress needs to show off her singing voice in Nine – which is directed by Rob Marshall and also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sophia Loren.
She reveals, “I’m giving them (cigarettes) up because in Nine I have to sing!”

Pedro Almodóvar working on two new scripts ahead of shooting his new film with Penélope Cruz.

The male co-star with Penélope Cruz in ‘La piel que habito‘ is still to be revealed

Spanish film writer and director, Pedro Almodóvar, has started to write two new screenplays which will, according to his brother and producer Agust?
? ??n, be used after his current project ???  ??
S La piel que habito‘ ???  ?? ?
S ‘The skin I live in‘, which starts shooting in the summer.

The idea is to shoot the three films consecutively, in the same way that Almodóvar organised ???  ??
S Hable con ella???  ??  ? and ???  ??
S Todo sobre mi madre???  ??  ?.

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