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	<title>Rope of Silicon &#187; Natalie Portman</title>
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		<title>Wachowskis, Tykwer and Hanks Team for &#039;Cloud Atlas&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wachowskis-tykwer-and-hanks-team-for-cloud-atlas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/wachowskis-tykwer-and-hanks-team-for-cloud-atlas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Wachowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halle Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Weaving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McKellen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James McAvoy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Wachowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Hanks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s been three years since we&#039;ve seen a film from Andy and Lana Wachowski, but it seems the drought is about to come to an end as the filmed adaptation of David Mitchell&#039;s &#034;Cloud Atlas&#034; we&#039;ve been hearing about for quite some time is finally taking shape. Deadline reports Tom Hanks is now officially attached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Opinion: Natalie Portman&#039;s Top Six Films</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/in-my-opinion-natalie-portmans-top-six-films/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/in-my-opinion-natalie-portmans-top-six-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rank and File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon: The Professional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[V for Vendetta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=38899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted a picture of Jean Reno and Natalie Portman from The Professional, simply because I stumbled across the photo about a week or two ago and felt it fit a slight lull in content. Then a few people began ranking and discussing Portman&#039;s other films, which got me to thinking about what my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now She&#039;s an Oscar Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/now-shes-an-oscar-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/now-shes-an-oscar-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For No Reason Whatsoever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Reno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Professional]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in The Professional Photo: Columbia Pictures]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Black Swan&#039; Tops 2011 Independent Spirit Award Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/black-swan-tops-2011-independent-spirit-award-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/black-swan-tops-2011-independent-spirit-award-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Spirit Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[127 Hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Dickey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exit Through the Gift Shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Franco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hawkes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kids are All Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The King's Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter's Bone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 Independent Spirit Awards were handed out a few hours ago and Black Swan won in all four categories it was nominated in including Best Picture, Best Director (Darren Aronofsky), Best Actress (Natalie Portman) and Best Cinematography (Matthew Libatique). Winter&#039;s Bone earned the most nominations at seven and dominated the supporting categories with wins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman, Ehrenreich and Coppola for Dior</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-ehrenreich-and-coppola-for-dior/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-ehrenreich-and-coppola-for-dior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sidebar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alden Ehrenreich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofia Coppola]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=37108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following ad was directed by Sofia Coppola and features Natalie Portman and Alden Ehrenrich (Tetro), the latter of which actually has an uncredited role in Sofia&#039;s Somewhere as a starving actor looking for advice before he&#039;s blown off by Steven Dorff. Nothing particularly newsworthy about this, but it&#039;s always fascinating to see what notable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Hours a Day, Six Days a Week</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/five-hours-a-day-six-days-a-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/five-hours-a-day-six-days-a-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featuring Featurettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=36934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Putting the psychological aspect of Black Swan aside for a second, Fox Searchlight debuted the following featurette dedicated to Natalie Portman&#039;s preparation for her role.]]></description>
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		<title>2011 SAG Award Winners: &#039;The King&#039;s Speech&#039; Takes Home Top Honors</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2011-sag-award-winners-the-kings-speech-takes-home-top-honors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2011-sag-award-winners-the-kings-speech-takes-home-top-honors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Screen Actors Guild Award News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Leo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fighter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The King's Speech]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=36158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight the Screen Actors Guild held their annual awards program and if you were following my live blog you saw that it wasn&#039;t exactly an exciting show, but it does help those of us trying to go 100% on our Oscar predictions a little help with our forecasts. Just to get it out of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards User Prediction Results</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2011-screen-actors-guild-awards-user-prediction-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2011-screen-actors-guild-awards-user-prediction-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Screen Actors Guild Award News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Firth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Leo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fighter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=36137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The user results are in and I can&#039;t help but wonder if people would have voted a little differently if they had known the Directors Guild was going to award Tom Hooper for The King&#039;s Speech. Of course, acting awards have nothing to do with directing awards, but the influence may have been there to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman Pregnant and Engaged to &#039;Black Swan&#039; Co-Star</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-pregnant-and-engaged-to-black-swan-co-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-pregnant-and-engaged-to-black-swan-co-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sidebar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a totally gossipy post, but I just couldn&#039;t resist as it is somehow fascinating news to me as Natalie Portman&#039;s representatives have confirmed with People that the 29-year-old actress is pregnant and engaged to Benjamin Millepied who served as choreographer on Darren Aronofsky&#039;s Black Swan and was Portman&#039;s dance partner in the film. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me Figure Out These 14 &#039;Classic Screen Types&#039; Offered by the New York Times</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/help-me-figure-out-these-14-classic-screen-types-offered-by-the-new-york-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/help-me-figure-out-these-14-classic-screen-types-offered-by-the-new-york-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annette Bening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Mackie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chloe Moretz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Franco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Javier Bardem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Eisenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Manville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Damon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Douglas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noomi Rapace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Duvall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincent Cassel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=34309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following video comes courtesy of &#034;The New York Times&#034; from their &#034;Fourteen Actors Acting: A Video Gallery of Classic Screen Types&#034; project scored by Owen Pallett and directed by Solve Sundsbo. This came online yesterday, but as I looked through the various silent performances I couldn&#039;t make out just what &#034;classic&#034; screen types each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: Nine Tormented Clips from &#039;Black Swan&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-nine-tormented-clips-from-black-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-nine-tormented-clips-from-black-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mila Kunis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincent Cassel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winona Ryder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=33977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Portman in Black Swan Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures I&#039;m excited, because in less than six hours I&#039;ll be sitting down for a second helping of Darren Aronofsky&#039;s Black Swan. I&#039;m also excited because while I would never suggest anyone watch even a trailer for a film they know they are already going to see, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#039;Black Swan&#039; Clip and Featurette</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-black-swan-clip-and-featurette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/new-black-swan-clip-and-featurette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featuring Featurettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movie Clips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=33943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Portman in Black Swan Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures A new clip and a production design featurette for Black Swan, which I am excited to see for a second time tomorrow night, have arrived this evening to give you a couple of brief tastes of the film which opens in limited release this Friday. First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Nolan&#039;s &#039;Dark Knight Rises&#039; Franchise Bleed into Snyder&#039;s &#039;Superman: Man of Steel&#039;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/could-nolans-dark-knight-rises-franchise-bleed-into-snyders-superman-man-of-steel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/could-nolans-dark-knight-rises-franchise-bleed-into-snyders-superman-man-of-steel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rumor Monger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blake Lively]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keira Knightley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Watts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Weisz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superman: Man of Steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight Rises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deadline is a reputable enough source that we can examine their list of female front-runners for two lead roles in Christopher Nolan&#039;s upcoming Batman franchise finale, The Dark Knight Rises with some measure of legitimacy. Before we get to the names, you should know they are being reported as candidates for the first role as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidman, Portman, Bening, Swank, Carter and Adams: THR&#039;s Actress Roundtable</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/kidman-portman-bening-swank-carter-and-adams-thrs-actress-roundtable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/kidman-portman-bening-swank-carter-and-adams-thrs-actress-roundtable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annette Bening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helena Bonham Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Swank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Kidman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=32861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every award season The Hollywood Reporter churns out what amounts to probably the feature the site has to offer, a series of video roundtables with actors, writers and directors and yesterday they debuted their actress roundtable, which includes the following participants: Helena Bonham Carter (The King&#039;s Speech), Annette Bening (The Kids are All Right), Natalie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Portman Tops List for Scott&#039;s &#039;Alien&#039; Prequel</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie-portman-tops-list-for-scotts-alien-prequel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie-portman-tops-list-for-scotts-alien-prequel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noomi Rapace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prometheus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=32104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently revealed Natalie Portman had dropped off both Alfonso Cuaron&#039;s Gravity as well as the announced adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith&#039;s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the latter of which also lost David O. Russell as its director. While Sandra Bullock is rumored to now be up for the lead role in Gravity, Portman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman for &#039;Gravity&#039;? Is It Her Time to Become a Bankable Movie Star?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-for-gravity-is-it-her-time-to-become-a-bankable-movie-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-for-gravity-is-it-her-time-to-become-a-bankable-movie-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Blumeyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Questions for the Audience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Natalie Portman in Black Swan Photo: Fox Searchlight One film we keep hearing about is Gravity, the sci-fi survival thriller from Alfonso Cauron (Children of Men) that has now twice been turned down by Angelina Jolie. The difficulty in putting the film into motion has been finding a suitable replacement for Jolie because, while Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;Breaking Dawn&#039; Directors, &#039;Hobbit&#039; Start Date, &#039;Smurfs&#039; Casting and Elder Reitman Directs Again</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/breaking-dawn-directors-hobbit-start-date-smurfs-casting-and-elder-reitman-directs-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/breaking-dawn-directors-hobbit-start-date-smurfs-casting-and-elder-reitman-directs-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who's In? Who's Out?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbie Cornish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Seyfried]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Condon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends With Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghostbusters 3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gus Van Sant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hank Azaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McKellen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Reitman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jayma Mays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julianne Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofia Coppola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Fields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Smurfs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Van Sant, Coppola and Condon as Breaking Dawn Director Contenders: A bit of two day old news here, but yesterday I neglected to report Gus Van Sant (Milk), Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) and Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) have all been reportedly approached by Summit to gauge interest in directing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emmerich&#039;s Shakespeare Pic Fills Out, &#039;Croods&#039; Find Cage and Reynolds and Cooper Drops McG</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/emmerichs-shakespeare-pic-fills-out-croods-find-cage-and-reynolds-and-cooper-drops-mcg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/emmerichs-shakespeare-pic-fills-out-croods-find-cage-and-reynolds-and-cooper-drops-mcg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who's In? Who's Out?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Hopkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cole Hauser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba Gooding Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Thewlis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Delpy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhys Ifans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Emmerich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Croods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vanessa Redgrave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zach Galifianakis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Emmerich&#039;s Anonymous Adds Three: Roland Emmerich&#039;s next film will be titled Anonymous and he has lined up Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis and Rhys Ifans to star. Emmerich is quoted describing the films as &#034;an historical thriller because it&#039;s about who will succeed Queen Elizabeth and the struggle of the people who want to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Best Actress Oscar Prediction Clean-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/yet-another-best-actress-oscar-prediction-clean-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/yet-another-best-actress-oscar-prediction-clean-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oscar Contenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crazy Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marion Cotillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things have been happening recently in the Oscar race that has my head spinning, and primarily because several films I have yet to see continue to change their status. Just yesterday I mentioned how I forgot to add Sandra Bullock&#039;s performance from The Blind Side to the Best Actress prediction race only to have one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigelow, Portman and Tucci Among Gotham Tributees</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/bigelow-portman-and-tucci-among-gotham-trubutees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/bigelow-portman-and-tucci-among-gotham-trubutees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gotham Independent Film Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Tucci]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) are making me happy today announcing today that director Kathryn Bigelow, actors Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci, and producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, will each be presented with a career Tribute at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Monday November 30th in New York. Earlier today I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMR: &#039;Inception&#039; Plot, &#039;Green Lantern&#039; Problems, &#039;Batman 3&#039; in IMAX, &#039;Magneto&#039; Future and More</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/rmr-inception-plot-green-lantern-problems-batman-3-in-imax-magneto-future-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/rmr-inception-plot-green-lantern-problems-batman-3-in-imax-magneto-future-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rumor Mill Roundup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cars 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Lantern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inglourious Basterds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magneto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight Rises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Last Airbender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Princess and the Frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Where the Wild Things Are]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Highness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to ruin Christopher Nolan&#039;s hopes of keeping the plot to his upcoming Inception a secret click here, or you could just be patient and watch the wordless teaser again to the right. Ryan Reynolds is set to star in Green Lantern for director Martin Campbell and Warner Bros., but Inside Film says, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Portman Cast as Jane Foster in &#039;Thor&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie-portman-cast-as-jane-foster-in-thor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie-portman-cast-as-jane-foster-in-thor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marvel has just announced Natalie Portman has officially joined the cast of Thor as Jane Foster. Portman will join Chris Hemsworth who&#039;s playing the title role and Tom Hiddleston who is playing the villain Loki, the god of mischief. Kenneth Branagh is directing for a May 20, 2011 release. Portman had been rumored for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman Set to Star in Darren Aronofsky&#039;s &#039;Black Swan&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-set-to-star-in-darren-aronofskys-black-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-set-to-star-in-darren-aronofskys-black-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Production Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darren Aronofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t tell you how happy I am to hear Darren Aronofsky has something more likely to get off the ground than that silly RoboCop remake as The Hollywood Reporter announces Natalie Portman is attached to star in Black Swan for the well-respected filmmaker. The film is described as a supernatural thriller set in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman Bows to &#039;Your Highness&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-bows-to-your-highness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman-bows-to-your-highness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 04:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Highness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of days ago I brought up the upcoming comedy Your Highness, which at the time only starred Danny McBride and James Franco, but now Variety is announcing Natalie Portman has joined the cast. Universal Pictures is distributing the comedy with David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) directing from a script co-written by McBride [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitt and Portman Team for New Romantic Comedy</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/pitt-and-portman-team-for-new-romantic-comedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/pitt-and-portman-team-for-new-romantic-comedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casting News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming Up Next]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Pitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Variety reports Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman have signed on to star in a feature film adaptation of the new Leanne Shapton book &#034;Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry&#034; for Paramount Pictures. Pitt and Portman will produce through their respective production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#039;s the Next Big Female Movie Star?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/whos-the-next-big-female-movie-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/whos-the-next-big-female-movie-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abigail Breslin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Seyfried]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Kendrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AnnaSophia Robb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryce Dallas Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dakota Fanning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Blunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emma Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Rachel Wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayden Panettiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isla Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Biel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Heigl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keira Knightley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megan Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel McAdams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reese Witherspoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosario Dawson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zooey Deschanel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julia Roberts has yet to be surpassed. Back in September of last year I asked Who&#039;s the Next Big Male Movie Star? At the time Robert Pattinson Fever had spread all over the Internet and the conversation resulted in a wasted experiment as commenters weren&#039;t able to have a real debate. However, a few people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Austen&#039;s &#039;Pride and Prejudice&#039; Meets Aliens, Zombies, Elton John and Natalie Portman?</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-meets-aliens-zombies-elton-john-and-natalie-portman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice-meets-aliens-zombies-elton-john-and-natalie-portman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming Up Next]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=13444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I reported on news of a parody novel titled &#034;Pride and Prejudice and Zombies&#034; by Seth Grahame-Smith that apparently a lot of Hollywood studios are looking to pick up for a film adaptation. Then, earlier today &#034;Production Weekly&#034; announced the following via thier Twitter feed of all places: Natalie Portman attached to Seth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman Makes Right Move and Ditches &#039;Wuthering Heights&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman_makes_right_move_and_ditches_wuthering_heights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman_makes_right_move_and_ditches_wuthering_heights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Maybury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=9456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A month after the announcement that Natalie Portman would play the lead in yet another production based on Emily Brontë&#039;s only novel &#034;Wuthering Heights&#034; we learn from Variety the actress has ditched the project for an as-yet-unknown production. Variety calls the news shocking since Portman was one of the driving forces behind the film, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portman to Star in Bronte&#039;s &#039;Wuthering Heights&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman_to_star_in_brontes_wuthering_heights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/portman_to_star_in_brontes_wuthering_heights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A search on IMDb results in 14 film/television productions based on Emily Brontë&#039;s only novel &#034;Wuthering Heights&#034;. One of them has the date 2010 attached and that one would be the flick Natalie Portman is now attached to star in. The IMDb page, however, has The Jacket director John Maybury attached to helm a script [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natalie Portman&#039;s Directing Debut is Set</title>
		<link>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie_portmans_directing_debut_is_set/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/natalie_portmans_directing_debut_is_set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Portman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February it was announced that Natalie Portman was going to take a stab at directing and it seems she has finally found a place to do so as she has just signed a two-year production deal with Participant Prods. where she has set up her Handsomecharlie Films. Portman will make the previously announced [...]]]></description>
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