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8 October 2008 2:04 AM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway has signed on for a trip down the rabbit hole to “Alice in Wonderland,” which Tim Burton is directing for Disney, says The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, will use a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story. Hathaway is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen (Carter), who has an affinity for crying out, “Off with their heads!” The White Queen needs Alice to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch. Richard Zanuck, Joe Roth and Jennifer and Suzanne Todd are producing. Hathaway, repped by CAA and Management 360, next appears in the horror thriller “Passengers." Bonham Carter, repped by Endeavor and Magnolia Entertainment, has frequently worked with Burton, her fiance; their credits include “Sweeney Todd,

8 October 2008 2:03 AM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway are taking a trip down the rabbit hole into Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which Walt Disney Pictures is producing, says The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, will use a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story. Hathaway is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen (Carter), who has an affinity for crying out, “Off with their heads!” The White Queen needs Alice to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch. Richard Zanuck, Joe Roth and Jennifer and Suzanne Todd are producing. Hathaway, repped by CAA and Management 360, next appears in the horror thriller “Passengers." Bonham Carter, repped by Endeavor and Magnolia Entertainment, has frequently worked with Burton, her fiance; their credits include “Sweeney Todd,

7 October 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter have been signed to star as sisters in "Alice in Wonderland", an animated movie produced by Disney Walt Pictures. Hathaway will act as the good White Queen, while Bonham Carter is playing the villain named the Red Queen.

White Queen is a benevolent monarch who is betrayed by her sister, the Red Queen. The villainous Red Queen, with her significant order, "Off with their heads!", will finally take the White Queen down from her throne and send her away. It is said that with the help from Alice, the White Queen will kill a creature known as the Bandersnatch.

Hathaway, who is highly praised for her performance in "Rachel Getting Married", is also successful for starring as Agent 99 in "Get Smart". Her next performance will be seen soon in the horror thriller "Passengers". Meanwhile, Bonham Carter is famous for her performance in many movies,

AceShowbiz.com

14 January 2008 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Golden Globe awards, known more for their glamour and glitz than for the prestige of the awards themselves, had neither Sunday night as they were reduced to a perfunctory announcement of the winners by the hosts of several syndicated entertainment TV magazines. The awards are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of mostly part-time and freelance writers for overseas newspapers and magazines (none of whom announced any winners). The winners were not on hand for the announcements, abiding by directions from their unions not to cross picket lines of the Writers Guild of America, which had vowed to send strikers to the ceremonies in Beverly Hills en masse if the awards show was staged as usual. (Ironically the first winner announced Sunday night was Cate Blanchett, who won the supporting actress award for a film titled I'm Not There.) Sometimes regarded as a forecast of the Oscars, Sunday night's non-affair was only that in the sense that it raised the question of whether a similar fate would befall the equally glitzy but far more prestigious Academy Awards show, scheduled for February 24. As usual, the awards were spread over numerous films -- in order to curry favor with stars and publicists, according to some critics -- with Atonement, which was voted best film, receiving only one additional award -- for best original music. Some of the awards seemed to come out of left field and mirrored none that had come earlier. Contacted by the Associated Press, producer Richard Zanuck, whose Sweeney Todd won for best musical or comedy (beating the favorite, Juno), predicted that the strike will either be settled before the Oscars or that the WGA will grant a waiver for the show to take place. "I don't think they want to be responsible in bringing the most important event in the motion-picture industry each year down to its knees," he said. The WGA has maintained, however, that it is the studios who would be responsible for such an eventuality since they are the ones who broke off negotiations and continue to insist that they will not return to the talks until the union drops several demands regarding jurisdiction over reality and animated films and TV shows.

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