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Nothing major but I got some confirmations and a few other bits and bobs.
1) Jane Got A Gun is real and happening.
2) Natalie is producing it. She, however, is not producing any of the other upcoming films.
3) The Malick films will begin filming shortly. They will be back to back and Natalie will film them before joining Thor 2 in the fall. Jane will come after that.
That last bit might be exclusive as it sounded like Thor 2 was going to be sandwiched by the Malick films. That may have been the case at one point but the Thor shoot has moved back.
It's going to feel like 2009 all over again :-)
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Time for some more fanart. These two wallpapers, of Natalie and friends, are courtesy of Thierry. The first one could almost be The Marvel Girls, but Olivia Wilde spoils it.
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| Natalie Heads To The Old West | |
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You can never say that Natalie doesn't try a lot of different types of films, and it sounds like we've got another first coming up - a western. The Hollywood Reporter is, errr, reporting that Natalie will be starring in Lynne Ramsay's, Jane Got A Gun, and the project is looking for investment in Cannes and LA right now.
Jane Got a Gun centers on a woman whose outlaw husband returns home barely alive and riddled with bullet wounds. She is forced to reach out to an ex-lover and ask if he will help defend her farm when her husband’s gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
The script landed on The Black List, which was the list of the best unproduced scripts knocking about Hollywood, which sounds great until you remember that No Strings Attached also made the list one year.
Lynne Ramsay is a very respected director, but I've got no real opinion on her yet. Her last film was We Need To Talk About Kevin, which I found both impressive and frustrating. I've been meaning to watch her first feature film, Ratcatcher, for awhile now, but never got around to it. I need to correct that right now!
What do you guys think?
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| No Cannes Do | |
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My bad. Toto20 posted a Hollywood Reporter link and thought it was saying that Natalie would be attending, but I noticed that the article just mentioned that Natalie was a past attendee to the amfAR benefit.
A few days later Toto posted another link along with a translation. The translation made it sound like Natalie would attend this year, but given the lack of activity I checked the article again. What I saw was a reference to that Hollywood Reporter article, so I think it's very likely that it was just a translation snafu and that Natalie will not be attending Cannes this year.
Next year with Malick? Bank on it!*
* Don't bank on it
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During April we noticed that our 2 year old physical Windows server was showing signs of breaking down and when in early May most people accessing the PHP parts of the site (like the forum) were met with timeouts we decided something had to be done.
So we looked around and decided to give MyHosting in Canada a chance with a virtual server plan and with a 30 day money back guarantee it felt like we had nothing to lose. After the move was complete the server was doing well at first but after a few outages and an emergency maintenance (the notification of which was so poorly written it got stuck in Gmails spam filter) and with no self service and slow support we decided to go back to Softlayer. And after some negotiating they gave us a good deal for a virtual server that we moved to one week ago.
And so far things are going really well. We've lowered the loading time of the site to below 1 second (in the states) and almost everything seems to be working now. RSS seems buggy but hopefully that is fixed now. Please report if you find something that's not working.
And MyHosting never gave us our money back because that guarantee goes out the window if you use some campaign code when signing up. So the moral of the story is ... don't use MyHosting.
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It seems as though Natalie's pooch, Whiz, has been chilling with Natalie's parents since the whole family visited France in September of last year. It was a painful time for Natalie fans. We expected no films but no Whiz as well? That's going too far, Portman, too far!
So it was great to see his furry face again in new photos from a week ago. Now we have a new tweet indicating that he might be back with Natalie on a more permanent basis.
nice celeb sighting in my hood: Natalie Portman, hubby Ben, baby Aleph, and little doggie taking a walk
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Angelina and her mighty pen are back with two more Natalie drawings. Hope you guys enjoy them.
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| Portmania 14 Ahoy | |
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The year is stacked with big sequels, from Dark Knights Rising to James Bond Skyfalling. But none are bigger than Portmania 14, our annual celebration of Natalie's triumphant exit from her mother's vagina.
Sanjiro will return to host and this time he's wearing his critics hat. If you don't know what that means, good. It's called a tease.
The amount of fanart we've gotten this year has been great, so I'm hoping you talented artists can continue to rise to the occasion. We want your most creative and silly work, as we celebrate Portmania and Natalie's 31st birthday.
You can email me any submissions or go ahead and post them in the forum.
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I've updated the gallery with two more new-old photos of Natalie on the set and behind the scenes of Your Highness.
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Found on Instagram is a photo of Natalie at the Audrey Hepburn Children's House anniversary. It's a really nice shot and I'm sure it made that guys year.
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Natalie fans might want to get their hands on this cool Black Swan art print, which Kafinsmif posted in the comments section.
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The RSS feed stopped working during our server moves. Yes, after the one server move we actually made another one on the sly. Server side is looking good but the second move resulted in lots of site functions not working as they should.
Kris has been putting out the fires as they're spotted and hopefully the RSS was the last one.
If there is anything not working as it should, please let us know.
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| New Poll + Gala Results | |
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I was going to do a Barbarella poll but that will have to wait until next week, because how can I not conjure up something based on Natalie's surprising return to the rap world?
So...
The SNL rap poll
The last poll clearly shows that Natalie's spring gala look was something of a knock out. The overwhelmingly positive results are after the jump.
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As promised, here is another great drawing from Daniel M. That's is some mighty fine looking hair.
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I know you guys are probably getting tired of these, but Vogue published a nice B&W photo of Natalie and Benjamin arriving hand-in-hand on the red carpet at New York City Ballet's Spring Gala last week.
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