News thread.

[andrew r]

It's no problem. For anyone who gets Sky, the new little film magazine that now comes with it has a short interview with Christina. I'll type it up for you as soon as I can, the pic with it is a similar one from the Player/Mean mag shoot. She's sitting on the cabinet, but with her legs hanging over the side facing the camera. But she's not looking at the camera.

[Bill5461]

Andrew.....a big welcome back to you

[andrew r]

Thanks Bill, I didn't want to make a big fuss about my return. Glad to see the thread has done well in my abscence.

[andrew r]

A bit of News for UK fans. Christina's in the latest issue of Esquire. It's got Clooney on the front, but it looks like a new interview (compared to the US version) and new pics too! I hope I can find a scan of them as they're pretty good.

[andrew r]

Another UK update! E4 is showing Addams Family Values on Monday (14th May) at 9pm.

[andrew r]

Some news, news today:

Ricci not ready for matrimony yet
From our ANI Correspondent

Washington, May 9: Even though her family wants her to settle down with beau Adam Goldberg, actress Christina isn't ready as yet to say 'I Do'.

Ricci has been dating Goldberg since 2003. Though the couple separated briefly in 2006, they got together after only a few months apart.

Now, the two are under-pressure from their respective families to tie the knot.

"Although I feel like if we didn't have a wedding, my family would be mad at me and Adam's family would be mad at him," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.

However, Ricci insists that she isn't ready for matrimony as yet.

"I think about that (marriage) a lot. Sometimes it sounds really good, but then I'm not sure I'd want to go through with a wedding. I'm definitely more at a time in my life where I want to settle down," she added.

The actress will soon be seen on the big screen in 'Black Snake Moan'.

Link: http://www.dailyindia.com/show/13987...-matrimony-yet

And:

Christina Ricci Isn't Ready To Have Her Own "Addams Family" Just Yet

May 11, 2007 5:53 a.m. EST

Sally Grover - AHN Staff Writer

Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - Christina Ricci has grown up on screen but she has reached the age where she wants to settle down in her real life.

The 27-year-old actress, who rose to fame as a child in films such as "Addams Family Values" and "Casper, "is considering marrying her boyfriend Adam Goldberg.

She told U.K. Tatler magazine, "I'm definitely more at a time in my life where I want to settle down... Sometimes it sounds really good, but then I'm not actually sure I'd want to go through with the wedding. Although I feel like if we didn't have a wedding, my family would be mad at me, and Adam's family would be mad at him."

However, the brunette star can see the positives of becoming a "Mrs." She continued, "I don't want to deal with it because you know you're going to get in trouble. I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break."

Christina recently appeared much thinner and sans her famous curves at the Met in New York. However, rather than buckling to the Hollywood trend of a size zero, the actress lost weight for a role.

She said, "When I did 'Ice Storm' and 'The Opposite of Sex,' I was fifteen and sixteen. Realistically women do change a lot so I just lost my baby fat. As I have gotten older, I am starting to look more like my mother. But in this film ["Black Snake Moan"], she is someone that doesn't take care of herself and I wanted her to look like that. I wanted her to look unhealthy."

Christina stars with Justin Timberlake in the upcoming feature.

Link: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007312356

Love the tax quote. But I wouldn't mind if she got married. I mean realistically I've got a better chance at winning the lottery than marrying Christina. Plus she's been with Adam for roughly 4 years, so she's in a long term and stable relationship. And he seems to be the right guy for her. So good luck to them if they decide to take that step.

[Bill5461]

What gets me is when stars have babies together, but they're not ready to get married...huh. (not refering to these two) Since Andrew has given up, get married you two!

[andrew r]

Oh I've not given up., but I'd do the noble thing...

[Bill5461]

That's kinda what I meant

[andrew r]

Ah. I see now (smacks forehead).

[BlackWolf]

^I'm right there with you Andy, except with Angelina instead of Christina.

[andrew r]

So why's Keira in your avatar? But I see where you're coming from.

Edit: Holey Crap!!! I'll have to get this!!! Thanks to Frank for this.

http://www.tatler.co.uk/

[BlackWolf]

So why's Keira in your avatar? But I see where you're coming from.

I love Keira too! Plus I'm in charge of everything Keira here at FH, so I figure I should represent, thinking about getting a sig as well.

[andrew r]

A Christina one? I have his great interview from the Telegraph website. Thanks to Frank for this one:

The vamp is a lady

An aura of calm sophistication now surrounds Christina Ricci, the one-time poster girl for adolescent misfits whose on-screen troubles were nothing compared with her real-life distress. Interview by Murphy Williams

It is a curious case of co-dependency: if it hadn't been for Hollywood's film industry, Christina Ricci, 27-year-old veteran of 39 movies, would have been, she claims, 'one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard'. Instead her delicate, fascinating features have been adorning its billboards since she was nine, when her performances as Cher's daughter in Mermaids and then as the fantastically morbid, Edward Gorey-esque Wednesday in the Addams Family films set her off on a brilliant career that peaked in 1998 when she played a succession of alienated Lolitas in The Ice Storm, Buffalo 66 and The Opposite of Sex. The Face magazine celebrated this insolent new poster girl for independent films as 'The Most Evil Woman in Hollywood'. John Waters, who directed her in Pecker, predicted the female Johnny Depp would be 'the big, big star of a lot of strange movies'.

Her latest role, as the messed-up nymphomaniac hellcat Rae in Black Snake Moan, is seeing Ricci enjoy a new peak: her petite 5ft frame, intelligent 'gravedigger's forehead', as she has called it, Cupid's-bow mouth and expressive hazel eyes are everywhere in America - on Jay Leno's guest seat, on fashion magazine covers, on countless fansites. Black Snake Moan is a stylised Southern-gothic tale of sin, redemption and love that borders on the absurd, with Samuel L Jackson's Lazarus belting out some mean blues while saving Rae from her demons by chaining her to a radiator, Justin Timberlake as her adoring, equally traumatised soldier boyfriend, and a humid Deep South aesthetic that feels like a William Eggleston photograph brought to life....

There's three pages in all.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...xml&page=1

Also there's the official Penelope website which is now up...

http://www.penelopethemovie.com/

[Bill5461]

Great read....well, before my a.d.d. kicked in, thanks Andrew

[andrew r]

No problem, that's what I'm here for. I wonder if there anymore pics?

[andrew r]

Well there weren't any new ones. I do have this today...

Christina Ricci interview
Christina Ricci in 'Black Snake Moan'
At 27, Christina Ricci is a veteran of the film business. She started out as a child actor with films like ‘Mermaids’ (1990) and ‘The Addams Family’ (1991) before developing a knack for playing mouthy teenagers and vulnerable women in films like ‘Buffalo 66’ (1998), ‘The Opposite of Sex’ (1998) and ‘Monster’ (2003). She bares all in Craig Brewer’s ‘Black Snake Moan’ as Rae, a wild young woman in the deep south who treats her body with zero respect until she meets Lazarus (Samuel L Jackson), an ageing divorcee who decides to teach her a lesson by chaining her to a radiator in his front-room.

Your character in ‘Black Snake Moan’ is a right old mess.
Yeah, she’s got a few problems. A few issues. She’s a girl suffering from post-traumatic stress from a childhood full of rape and abuse. But because her abuse when she was a child was sexual, then she looks to sexually abuse herself. It’s a way that a lot of victims have of stopping it from happening again: they do it to themselves. They’re the ones in control, degrading themselves, and abusing themselves, and no one else can have that power over them again.

That’s usually what happens to kids who go through that, unless they get help. She has these anxiety attacks. and usually if someone’s anxiety attacks are not treated then they will start drinking or cutting themselves – or something else that’s self-abusive....

Link:http://www.timeout.com/film/features/2921.html

[andrew r]

Vote for Christina! Thanks to Frank for this!

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mo...ntar=resultado

[andrew r]

Found this today!

Chanel's 2007/8 Cruise Show Presented by Karl Lagerfeld

LOS ANGELES, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- This year, the Chanel "Cruise"
collection is on the move. After taking over the legendary Grand Central
Station in New York last year, the "Double C" brand is now presenting its
collection in Los Angeles on Friday 18 May. Since Karl Lagerfeld's arrival
at CHANEL in 1983, this collection has taken increasingly spectacular form
on the catwalks. Originally designed for rich women travellers from across
the Atlantic seeking a spot of sun during the long winter months, over the
years the Cruise collection has become a real CHANEL high point, attracting
the international press and customers alike. This ready-to-wear collection,
consisting of around 60 different outfits, provides something suitable for
every moment of the day, and is available in boutiques in late autumn.
Presented at the Cafe Marly in 2002, on a barge sailing up the Seine in
2004, and in a number of old Parisian buses terminating at the Cafe de
Flore in 2005, the show always features a real scenario and magical
settings. One more reason for having a show in Los Angeles, the city of
angels and the film world, where in 1931 Gabrielle Chanel turned up in
person to dress the stars of that time: Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo and
Marlene Dietrich.
Expected Attendees: Lily Allen, Rachel Bilson, Kate Bosworth, Lindsay
Lohan, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Kate Mara, Emma Roberts, Christina Ricci,
Kanye West, Anthony Kiedis, Rose McGowan, Eva Mendes, Emmy Rossum, Dita Von
Teese, Angie Harmon, Chan Marshall, Rita Wilson, Diane Kruger, Roman
Coppola, Camilla Belle, Troy Garity, Amber Valletta, Shannyn Sossamon, more
to come ...
B-roll to include: Red Carpet arrivals and soundbites, event footage
and party b-roll.

Obviously that was last Friday! But hey hope she was there.

Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4593565&EDATE=

[andrew r]

Some new news. This time on her next film, Speed Racer:

First look: 'Speed Racer's' demon on wheels

By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
Emile Hirsch was 6 years old when he saw his first episode of the cartoon Speed Racer and, more important, caught a glimpse of the Mach 5.

"It was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen," Hirsch says by phone from Germany, where filming will begin next week on the movie adaptation. "That's when I started thinking it would be great to be on TV. And have one of those."

Sixteen years later, he finally got behind the wheel of the speedster, which gets its first look here and will be at the heart of the film, due May 9, 2008.

"My first thought was, 'Yeah, they got the car right,' " he says. "That's one of the best things about the show, so it was always going to be one of the most important parts of the movie."

That and the return of Andy and Larry Wachowski, the brothers who are making their first directorial effort since The Matrix trilogy.

Like Hirsch, the brothers grew up on the popular 1960s Japanese cartoon about the adventures of a racing family — and its pet chimpanzee, Chim Chim.

"The TV show was the brothers' introduction to Japanese animation," says Joel Silver, a friend of the press-shy Wachowskis and producer of Racer and the Matrix films. "They fell in love with the genre. They said they'd been making R-rated movies their whole lives and wanted to do something their nephews and nieces could watch."

The film, Silver says, will have a "retro future" look and will center on Speed (Hirsch) trying to make a name for himself in the racing world despite the efforts of corporate giants to foil his career. The film also stars Christina Ricci as girlfriend Trixie and Matthew Fox as Speed's older brother, Racer X.

Like the Matrix films and the Wachowski-produced V for Vendetta, Racer "has a lot to say about remaining independent and thinking for yourself," Hirsch says. "The brothers weren't just looking to do the TV show on film."

Unlike those darker movies, Racer "is going to be very bright, very family-friendly," Silver says. "And it will have great effects like TheMatrix, just with the car."

A car that will not see much time on pavement. The Mach 5 will be placed on a crane and most effects will be computer-generated.

One real effect, though: Chim Chim.

"They're using a real monkey," Hirsch says. "Just don't call him that. He's a chimpanzee. He gets upset if you call him a monkey."

Link: here