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The Other Boleyn Girl Movie Trailer

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at May 26, 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl Movie Trailer

Most men dream of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. So a movie starring both women together on the screen is something that most men should be excited about, right? The bad news is that it is a romantic period drama (a genre which is usually beloved by women and attested by men).

The Other Boleyn Girl, based on the Philippa Gregory novel which follows the story of two beautiful sisters, Anne (Portman) and Mary (Johansson) Boleyn, who driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete for the love of the  King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Kristin Scott Thomas and Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess also star. Check out the trailer.

Watch the new trailer in High Definition on AOL.com. The Other Boleyn Girl hits theaters on February 29th 2008.

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Scarlett Johansson Biography

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at May 9, 2008

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A pouty and pretty strawberry blonde New Yorker who commenced her career a child actor with instincts, skills and a streetwise grace that far outpaced her age, Scarlett Johansson first came to attention playing the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw terrorized by Blair Underwood in “Just Cause” (1995). Having made her stage debut at age eight in 1993’s “Sophistry” at Playwrights Horizons Theatre, the young player also studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Her screen debut in Rob Reiner’s disastrous “North” (1994) was less than memorable, but Johansson has maintained an even career, impressing with her fully-realized characterizations in nearly every showing.

She got noticed as one of Eric Schaeffer’s wise charges in “If Lucy Fell” and took a co-starring role in the understated independent “Manny & Lo” (both 1996), a perfect vehicle for the actress to prove her talents. Johansson’s finely crafted portrayal of Amanda (Manny), a rather sensible 11-year-old who escapes from a foster home and runs away with her 16-year old sister Laurel (Lo) earned her critical praise and led directly to her casting in the high profile but disappointing 1997 release “Home Alone 3″ and the highly-anticipated romance “The Horse Whisperer” (1998). In the latter, Johansson landed the coveted role of Grace, a youngster who suffers a physically and emotionally debilitating riding accident. When her mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) turns to a horse trainer (Robert Redford) for assistance, romance blooms, and as Johansson turned what could have been little more than a two-dimensional plot device into a full-fledged character, an actress bloomed.

All but disappearing after this film-saving turn, the performer resurfaced three years later in the independent favorite “Ghost World” (2001), starring alongside Thora Birch as the more pragmatic of two best friends who have just graduated from high school and are making plans for the future amidst their own adventures, both real and invented. Snarky but somehow sweet, her Rebecca didn’t get the screen time and controversial storyline of compatriot Enid (Birch) but nonetheless impressed in her smaller role. Later that year, she played a young Hungarian girl left behind when her refugee family flees their homeland in a Cold War political climate in “An American Rhapsody” and earned even more indie cred as a piano-playing teenager who catches the attention of a crafty barber (Billy Bob Thornton) in the Coen brothers’ acclaimed period noir “The Man Who Wasn’t There”. Taking a break from this more heady material, Johansson would next battle giant spiders in the surprisingly fun sci-fi comedy “Eight-Legged Freaks” (2002).

Johansson’s true breakout performance would come–like gangbusters–in “Lost in Translation” (2003), writer-director Sophia Coppola’s wonderfully romantic film about Charlotte, an emotionally adrift young married tourist in her 20s, left to her own devices in Tokyo while her self-involved photographer husband is on a shoot, who meets and forms a deep, complex relationship with Bob Harris (Bill Murray) an equally disaffected 50-something Hollywood actor. The actress–only 18 during filming–is a revelation in the picture, displaying a rare, multilayered chemistry with Murray despite their age difference. Their rapport, a first tenative, then confident and cozy and then suddenly awkward and sexual, fuels the movie and carries many scenes completely without dialogue. Her subtle yet knockout performance, wildly praised by critics, was posied to rocket Johansson to new career heights. Hot on the heels of that role, Johansson also dazzled audiences in the indie “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (2003), a speculative account of the life of Griet, a 16-year-old girl who appears in Johannes Vermeer’s (Colin Firth’s) most famous painting. As a result of her two strong 2003 performances, at age 19 Johansson received a pair Golden Globe nominations–one for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama (for “Girl With a Pearl Earring”) and another for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (for “Lost In Translation”).

Johansson’s next vehicle, made before her big breakout, was the limp teen caper movie “The Perfect Score” (2004) in which she played the thrillseeking, daddy-loathing member of a gang of high school students plotting an ambitious scheme to swipe the key to the SAT exam, and she voiced Mindy in the animated “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” (2004). She was better served with a pair of challenging roles released simultaneously at the end of 2004: first, she added depth to her supporting role as the daughter of a middle-aged ad salesman (Dennis Quaid) who becomes involved with her father’s new young boss (Topher Grace) in writer-director Paul Weitz’s adult comedy “In Good Company”; next, she played the headstrong teen Pursy Will, who returns to her late mother’s home to unexpectedly share it with a pair of booze-soaked intellecutal boarders (John Travolta and Gabriel Macht) for the Southern-influenced character drama “A Love Song for Bobby Long.” In both films Johansson’s potent combination of adolencent freshness and wise-beyond-her-years maturity helped breath a compelling realism into her roles.

Johannson next tried the sci-fi action genre with director Michael Bay’s missfire “The Island” (2005), playing a woman living in an orderly envrionment in a post-Apocalyptic world hoping to win relocation to the only remaining pure bio-zone on the planet, only to discover her world is a facade for a more sinister scenario. The actress fared better with a more accomplished autuer when she appeared in Woody Allen’s serious-minded film “Match Point” (2005) playing Nola, a sensual but struggling American actress in London who takes up an affair with her ex-beau’s brother-in-law (Jonathan Rhys-Myers), and her demanding nature soon forces the man to chose between her and his comfortable, status-granting marriage. The result was one of Allen’s best works in years, and the writer-director quickly drafter Johansson to star in his next project “Scoop” (lensed 2005), a romantic comedy that cast her as an American student in London who becomes involved with an aristocrat.

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Eva Green Biography

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at May 9, 2008

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Eva Green (born July 5, 1980 in Paris) is a French actress and composer.

Green is the daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist. She has one sibling, a fraternal twin (non-identical) sister, Joy. Eva studied in Paris and London and performed on stage before making her film debut as the female lead in the Bernardo Bertolucci’s 2003 NC-17-rated film The Dreamers with Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel. In addition to her acting, Green composed original music for the film. The Dreamers brought her some notoriety for her explicit, extensive full frontal nudity. While filming Dreamers, Green was said to have found Bertolucci manipulative, though in a creative way that wasn’t pushy. In comparison to her previous stage acting, she has said that acting in front of the camera makes you its “plaything.”

Described by Bertolucci as “so beautiful it’s indecent”, her performance brought her critical acclaim. In 2004 she co-starred alongside of Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas in Arsène Lupin, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé. In 2005 she starred in her first Hollywood blockbuster as Sibylla of Jerusalem in the film Kingdom of Heaven with Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson and directed by Ridley Scott. She has recently been cast as Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the upcoming James Bond film Casino Royale with new 007 actor Daniel Craig. Casino Royale will be released in theaters worldwide on November 17, 2006.

Green has been in a relationship with Yann Claasen since the late-1990s. The multi-lingual Green’s name in Swedish is pronounced “grain” and comes from the Swedish word gren, which means (tree) branch.

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Kate Bosworth Biography

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at May 9, 2008

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A pretty blonde actress with an all-American look and a beatific presence, Kate Bosworth began her acting career on a whim at age 14, going on make her mark as an actual teen in a teen drama, starring on The WB’s “Young Americans” (2000). A champion equestrian who previously only acted in a community production of “Annie” and performed as a singer in California county fairs, Bosworth presented the casting directors for “The Horse Whisperer” with a Christmas card photo in lieu of a professional headshot and landed her first acting role in the 1998 romantic drama (credited as Catherine Bosworth), playing Judith, the ill-fated best friend of the scarred young girl (Scarlet Johansson) who brings together her mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) and the titular hero (Robert Redford).

Following “The Horse Whisperer”, she returned to her non-acting life, attending high school and pursuing various athletic endeavors for eighteen months in an effort to assure that work would not be the main focus of the remaining years of her childhood. In 2000 she was featured as the bratty sister of the protagonist in the independent children’s film “The Newcomers” and made her TV debut with a regular role as a well-adjusted small town girl of unknown parentage working at a gas station near an elite prep school on “Young Americans”. The only real high schooler on the high school-set series, Bosworth brought a fresh-faced innocence to her role and was likable if somewhat pitiable as a young girl who finds love with Scout (Mark Famiglietti), a Rawley Academy student and senator’s son who just may be her half-brother. She went on to more feature film roles, including a turn in the period drama “Remember the Titans” (2000), starring Denzel Washington as a football coach leading his newly racially integrated team to victory in 1971 Virginia.

In 2002, Bosworth starred in her breakthrough film “Blue Crush”, the first surfing movie of the new century, directed by John Stockwell. Although it initially appeared to be a brainless summer popcorn flick, the film impressed some critics and many audiences with its awesome MTV-style visuals of the Hawaiian surf circuit and, particularly, Bosworth’s effective performance as Anne Marie Chadwick, a sweet-faced surf savant looking to overcome various obstacles holding her back. That same year, she also appeared in the ensemble cast of writer-director Roger Avary’s edgy film adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ potboiler “The Rules of Attraction,” which center on the sexcapades of 1980s-era collegians. After both roles, Bosworth was poised to lay claim to the title of the latest Hollywood “It” girl and her face graced dozens of magazine covers seemingly overnight–especially when she embarked on a romance with rising actor Orlando Bloom (which ended in 2005). She next appeared in “Wonderland” (2003), a dizzying but ultimately unsatisfying attempt to portray the real-life events of Los Angeles’ notorious drug-related Wonderland Avenue murders of 1981, in which porn legend John Holmes was a key figure. Bosworth was quite effective as Holmes’ naive, wide-eyed teenage girlfriend Dawn Schiller, whom the morally repugnant porn king ultimately tried to help protect, but the character was given screen time that was disproportionate to her otherwise minor role in the actual events (the real-life Schiller was the primary consultant on the film).

Bosworth began seguing into leading lady roles of the Reese Witherspoon and Meg Ryan variety, and her fresh, sunny, innocent effervesence was a major boost to the ’50s-esque vehicle “Win a Date With Tad Hamilton” (2004), playing a sweet small-town girl who wins a date with a Hollywood idol (Josh Duhamel) only to return home and find that he’s followed her, attracted by her lack of guile, prompting a showdown between the actor and the friend who’s long carried a torch for her (Topher Grace). Bosworth continued in a perky 50s vein but explored slightly darker corners when she played popular teen screen idol Sandra Dee, the wife of singer Bobby Darin, opposite star-director Kevin Spacey in the Darin biopic “Beyond the Sea” (2004). Although Spacey and Bosworth lacked any special chemistry and their vast age difference was occasionally creepy, the actress often held her own in scenes opposite the acting powerhouse. She next had a small role as a shiksa-ish blonde who tempts Richard Gere’s Jewish religious studies professor in the drama “Bee Season” (2005). Bosworth made headlines when she was cast as the Man of Steel’s perrenial love interest Lois Lane in director Bryan Singer’s revival of the original comic book film franchise, “Superman Returns” (lensed 2005), which also co-starred Spacey as Lex Luthor and newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman.

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