Stars set for UK Panda premiere
posted by Masha on 26 Jun 2008
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Film stars Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Lucy Liu are set to attend the premiere of their new film, Kung Fu Panda, in London later.

The animated film follows the story of bungling panda Po - voiced by Black - who aspires to be a kung fu warrior.

Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan, who also voice characters in the film, will not be attending the screening.

The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and opens in UK cinemas next month.

During an interview to promote the film in Cannes, Black accidentally confirmed the open secret that Jolie was pregnant with twins.

The film has been a hit in the US and Canada, taking $60m (£30.4m) in its opening weekend at the box office.

But some in China have urged the country's censors to ban the film there in revenge for Steven Spielberg's decision to pull out of the Olympics in his role as artistic adviser.

Spielberg founded Dreamworks, the production company behind Kung Fu Panda. [SOURCE]

Giving It All She Chan
posted by Masha on 15 Jun 2008
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Current conventional Hollywood wisdom stipulates that if you want to make a movie, it had better be a sequel, remake, prequel or adaptation from another medium (comics, video games, 40-year-old sitcoms). But with conventional wisdom comes oddities and exceptions. Case in point: Lucy Liu's attempts to re-launch a Charlie Chan franchise with herself in the starring role (she would play the detective's granddaughter).

"It's been a long time," Liu laments of the seemingly stagnant development process. In fact, it's been eight years since she began circling the would-be franchise. "It has a history and that makes it more difficult to bring it to life because you want to pay homage to what it was. Yet you don't want to completely change it. If it's something completely new, you can kind of do anything you wanted." [SOURCE]

Dirty, Sexy Money News
posted by Masha on 07 Jun 2008
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Dirty girl Lucy Liu is swapping partners.

The 39-year-old actress, currently voicing a martial-arts-fighting viper in Kung Fu Panda, confirms she's joining ABC's Dirty, Sexy Money now that the network's Cashmere Mafia is sleeping with the cashmere fishes.

Who will she be playing on Money? Is it a regular role? Recurring? Or a guest stint, like her arc on Ugly Betty?

Liu says she isn't even sure. "Honey, you have to tune in. I mean, you know, you work on something and you don't even know if you made the final cut."

Fair enough. Besides which, Liu acknowledges, she's still feeling the sting of Mafia's cancellation. "We had such a fun time on it and I felt like it was really a great thing to be a part of because it was something that I hadn't seen on TV myself."

Liu came to fame on TV's Ally McBeal a decade ago, but has until recently almost exclusively been making films. Still, she doesn't consider her return to prime-time turf a step backward. "To me, it's not about the idea of what's the medium. It's just what I find character-wise more interesting. And creatively for me, too. Because when I was doing Ally McBeal, I was able to do tons of different movies too." [SOURCE]

"Kung Fu Panda" Los Angeles Premiere
posted by Masha on 02 Jun 2008
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After visiting the Cannes Film Festival last month to promote her latest movie "Kung Fu Panda" Lucy is back in the US. Yesterday she attended the movie's Los Angeles premiere with co-star Jack Black.
Lots of images from the event have been added to the gallery. Now I know that the gallery's looking a little weird right now- but I can promise you that we are working on it.

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Images: Lucy In Cannes
posted by Masha on 16 May 2008
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Lucy is still in Europe. She went from Germany to France. Lucy is there to promote her latest movie "Kung Fu Panda" at the Cannes Film Festival. She is joined by her co-stars Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black.

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Lucy In Cannes
posted by Masha on 15 May 2008
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There are two bulging bellies in the room, and both of the owners are pregnant — sort of. Angelina Jolie, carrying twins, sticks out her round midriff and presses it against the basketball-size stomach of Jack Black. "I came as a panda," she says, a reference to the chubby black-and-white bear Black plays in their animated comedy Kung Fu Panda.

"To compete?" Black asks.

Dustin Hoffman and Lucy Liu, who also supply voices for the film, are watching, so Black pushes out his gut to maximum effect, determined to best Jolie as they go bellybutton to bellybutton. "That'll make the front pages," Hoffman says.

The stomach standoff took place Wednesday in a penthouse at the Hotel Carlton, overlooking the bustling start of the Cannes Film Festival along the waterfront below.

Kung Fu Panda, one of the featured films, premieres tonight and opens Stateside on June 6.

When Jolie entered the room, she immediately congratulated Black, who also is expecting. His wife, Tanya Haden, is pregnant with their second. Jolie mentions twins casually, as though it were already common knowledge and not the subject of intense speculation about whether she and companion Brad Pitt are adding one or two more children to their brood of four.

When talk turns to Black's son, Sam, who is almost 2, Jolie asks, "Terrible 2's?"

The actor shakes his head. "I don't see it as terrible. He does act out, but I have to not smile sometimes when he's naughty because I don't want him to know I'm enjoying it. … But I am, inside." [SOURCE]

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