Thanks goes out to Jordana Tal at Engelman & Co. for sending in the below contest information.

Here’s Your Chance To Strut With The Stars

W Desires is offering the chance to win a trip to the Hollywood premiere of Hancock, starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron.

Enter here for a chance to win.

The grand prize winner and a friend will be treated like Hollywood royalty with professional hair and makeup styling before they are whisked off to walk the red carpet at the star-studded June 30th premiere.

The prize package also includes round-trip airfare and two nights at a chic Los Angeles hotel.

Hancock in theaters July 2nd.

Positioning a South African icon such as Sun International comes with a challenge. How do you singularly represent this multi-faceted organisation, the benchmark for Southern African hospitality and gaming entertainment? How do you align iconic hotels, resorts and casinos under a mother brand and yet keep their individual nature.

This challenge gave rise to a new corporate promise for Sun International - A Million Thrills. One Destination.

When Sun International briefed Ogilvy South Africa to dramatise its new corporate positioning, the agency came up with a concept to use Charlize Theron as the star. Ogilvy believed that Theron could capture the magic of the brand and truly bring it to life.

“The key focus was to find an individual that could truly answer the brief of uniting very different brands such as gaming and resorts under the umbrella of a million thrills, one destination. Charlize as a persona was amazingly able to not only provide the promise of excitement when it came to gaming but also the grace and sensuality of resorting,� says Nunu Ntshingila, Ogilvy South Africa CEO.
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Enthusiastic feedback is pouring in for the historic 90-second commercial for Sun International featuring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron.

The commercial was directed by Ian Gabriel and conceptualised by creatives Felix Kessel, Jacques Massardo and Prabashan Pather of Ogilvy South Africa. The commercial marks a bold launch for Sun’s signature campaign for the coming years and gives notice that major brands are all gearing up for the big marketing opportunity that heralds the run-up to South Africa’s host status at the 2010 World Cup.

True to form, this commercial boasts an arresting soundtrack by Muse, aptly supporting its diverse and breathtaking visuals. Gabriel’s direction expertly brings out the commercial’s international feel while embracing its South African flavour: a melding of two worlds which Charlize Theron so accurately embodies.
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I added a ton of new videos to the streaming video archive this weekend and there are now 107 videos available for your viewing enjoyment. Look for many more to be added soon. Happy viewing!

Living up to its name, Stuart Townsend’s “Battle in Seattle” and its stars Charlize Theron and Martin Henderson will kick off the 34th Seattle International Film Festival on May 22 at Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.

The sprawling fest, which will screen 418 films during the course of 25 days, will run through June 15. The closing-night gala, set for June 14, is Randall Miller’s “Bottle Shock,” set in California’s wine country and starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman and Chris Pine, which will screen at the Cinerama Theatre.

“This year’s SIFF is fiercely independent with wide-ranging opportunities for people to explore new ways to look at the world through cinema,” SIFF artistic director Carl Spence said. “Seventy percent of the films in the program are currently without U.S. distribution.” Almost half of the features in the lineup come from first- or second-time directors.

The June 6 centerpiece gala will feature “The Great Buck Howard,” directed by Sean McGinly and starring Colin Hanks and John Malkovich.

Other presentations include the world premiere of “Jolene,” directed by SIFF co-founder Dan Ireland, and screenings of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 historical drama “Alexander Nevsky,” accompanied by the Seattle Symphony playing Sergei Prokofiev’s original score.

Source: hollywoodreporter.com

Charlize Theron is an actress who traverses between the mainstream (The Italian Job, Aeon Flux) and the independent (The Yards, Monster) with ease, and now she wears another hat: in Sleepwalking, she both co-stars and produces.

It’s not the first time she’s worked as a producer – that would be Monster, the little movie that could for which she won the Best Actress Oscar.

“That’s the job I signed up for,� she says when asked about her nonstop busy schedule during filming. “When people are going to give you millions and millions of dollars to go make a film, you’re responsible for them. So I spent six weeks up there before anybody came up, doing the location scouting and meeting with the film community out there and figuring out our incentives and how we were going to work our budget out. And if we didn’t make a day or were behind schedule, I was the one who had to answer those questions.�
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A big “thank you” to Philipp from MovieSet.com for sending me this link to the ‘Battle in Seattle’ trailer they have available on their site. They also an interview with Charlize there, just scroll through the additional videos beside the trailer and click to view it. Happy viewing.

Source: seattlepi.com