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Cate Blanchett

Suddenly

Downton Abbey Actress Cast As Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella

British actress Lily James has won the coveted role of Cinderella in Sir Kenneth Branagh’s live-action film. 

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Oh My Stars and Garters

Robb Stark to Play Prince Charming in Disney’s Live-Action Cinderella?

From Game of Thrones‘ King in the North to (possibly) Prince Charming. Richard Madden might have found his niche in handsome royalty. I’m not complaining.

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I'll Allow It

Cate Blanchett to Star as Cartoonist in HBO Series Cancer Vixen

Cancer Vixen is the 2006 autobiographical graphic novel of Marisa Acocella Marchetto, and now (well, soon) it might be an HBO series produced by Trudie StylerCeline Rattray, and Cate Blanchett, starring Cate Blanchett.

Look, all I’m saying is that it’d be pretty great for television and comics to have a series about the life of a woman who makes them.

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In Which We Make A Terrible Pun

Kenneth Branagh May Have the Grimm Task of Directing Disney’s Live-Action Cinderella

Last we heard about Disney’s live-action version of Cinderella director Mark Romanek was out because Disney didn’t take too kindly to the dark (read: Actually fairy tale-esque) ending he wanted. Now Vulture reports that Kenneth Branagh might jump in instead. But Vulture, tell me what I really want to know: Is Cate Blanchett still on board as the evil stepmother?

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In Which We Make A Terrible Pun

Cinderella Remake Director Too Grimm for Disney

I tend to get a little cynical when it comes to fairy tale remakes, just because they’re everywhere and I’m sick of them. But there was one I was really looking forward to: Disney’s live-action Cinderella remake, because Cate Blanchett is going to be the evil stepmother and Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go, One Hour Photo) was going to direct, and how can I resist that?

Except now Romanek’s gone, reportedly because Disney thought his take on the material was too dark. What, was he trying to do an accurate-to-the-original-story version or something? Complete with chopped-off toes and pecked-out eyes?

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Questions! Questions That Need Answering

Ian McKellen Says Which Female Tolkien Character Will Show Up In The Hobbit Extended Release

The Hobbit, as well as The Lord of the Rings, are lacking in women in a big way. You can blame the guy who wrote the first book in 1937 if you feel the need, but when adapting those stories to film in 2013, the absence is noted. Peter Jackson went so far as to add a new elf, Tauriel, to his Hobbit trilogy but it turns out a few of the women who already existed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s world didn’t make the cut for theater viewings. Sir Ian McKellen explains who.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: This Star Wars/M.C. Escher Mashup Makes Me Want to Re-Watch Labyrinth

Dark Side, Light Side. It’s all relative. Via Fashionably Geek, this Star Wars version of M.C. Echer‘s Relativity is available in t-shirt form at Super7.

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Three Up For The Role of Cinderella, Will Disney Reunite Hanna’s Saoirse Ronan & Cate Blanchett?

Earlier this week we learned the always amazing Cate Blanchett might being playing the evil stepmother in Disney’s Cinderella, aka Disney’s Untitled Cinderella Story. Today we find out three actresses who might have to run away from her crying and one of them is the star of Hanna.

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Peanut Butter and Chocolate

Cate Blanchett Possibly Going Evil in Disney’s Live-Action Cinderella Remake

I’m a bit cynical about the “edgy fairy tale” trend that keeps going around, but this new Cinderella movie Disney’s planning miiiiight just have gotten my vote of confidence. Why, you ask? Two words: Cate. Blanchett.

Nothing’s official yet, but The Wrap is reporting that Blanchett is in talks to play the evil stepmother in Disney’s “Untitled Cinderella Story.”

YES. PLEASE.

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There And Back Again

Candid Hobbit Set Pics Reveal Grueling Orc Calisthenics; That Even Elves Get Tired Feet

Cate Blanchett, how do you manage to look so ethereal even in candid set photos? Are you a real elf?

In other news, Sting has been replaced by a fluorescent light bulb.

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