Charlize Central

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year. Be safe and I’ll see you all in 2008.

‘In the Valley of Elah’ will be released on DVD in the US on February 18, 2008 and is now available for pre-order through Amazon.com for $19.99. Click here to pre-order your copy today!

The new teaser trailer for ‘Hancock’ is now available online. It only features Charlize in very brief flashes, but looks to be kind of fun. If for some reason you can’t view it below, click here to view it at movieweb.com or click here to view it at joblo.com. Enjoy!

‘Battle in Seattle’ will be premiering at the Sedona International Film Festival in February 2008. The festival runs from February 27 - March 8, 2008, with opening night previews on February 25th and 26th, in Sedona, Arizona. For more information and to purchase tickets to the festival, please visit sedonafilmfestival.com.

I had a little time to update last night and finally added some of the scans from 2005-2006 I did some time ago. Click here or on the images below to view them all.

Los Angeles police are investigating a break-in that took place Saturday at the actress’ Hollywood Hills home, E! News has confirmed.

The residence had been secured Thursday, according to an LAPD spokesperson, but an unknown number of suspects took the liberty of reopening it over the weekend.

It’s unknown at this time what, if anything, was taken from the house or if anyone who was supposed to be there was on the premises at the time.

Theron’s neighbors did not report seeing any suspicious characters, police said.

There was no immediate comment from the Oscar winner’s publicist.

The 32-year-old Monster star was most recently on the big screen in Paul Haggis’ Iraq war-aftermath drama In the Valley of Elah.

Fellow A-listers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw also fell prey to a home invasion back in February. The nearly fulltime Nashville residents were luckily not home when a burglar broke into their Hollywood Hills manse, which sits in a gated community, and stole an unknown amount of cash.

Source: eonline.com

The following new photos have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

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“The Burning Plain,” a Guillermo Arriaga movie, is scheduled to begin filming in El Paso Monday (Dec. 10), according to the El Paso Film Commission.

The movie stars Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, in a story about a mother (Basinger) and daughter (Theron) trying to form a bond and overcome a difficult relationship, reports The Internet Movie Database.

Theron’s recent movies that “Aeon Flux,” “North Country” and “The Italian Job.” Basinger recently starred in “The Informers” and “While She Was Out.”

Local filming is scheduled to begin 6 a.m. Monday and will last till 8 p.m. Wednesday at Southwestern General Hospital. The hospital, which currently has no patients, will be used to represent a Mexican hospital, according to the Film Commission. Oscar-nominated Arriaga, (of “Babel” and “21 Grams” fame) expects to shoot outside the hospital between 6 a.m. and noon each day.

Keeping with the authenticity of the scene, certain street signs will also be replaced to look like Mexican street signs, the Film Commission wrote in a memo to city officials.

According to the letter, “Residents and business’s needing to access the Murchison East area, to get to Tremont, Ohio, Pittsburgh, etc., will have local-thru traffic access, along with Sun Metro. Vehicles wanting to travel West on Murchison at Cotton, will be rerouted at Detroit by the El Paso PD.”

“This doesn’t happen so often, it’s a bit of an inconvenience but residents have fun with it too. People understand that it’s a good thing for the city, it’s good PR for the community,” said city Rep. Susie Byrd, whose district includes part of the area where the filming will take place.

EPPD officers and vehicles are expected to be stationed around the area and at key intersections as traffic may be blocked off in certain areas for upto three minutes at a time. Emergency vehicles will not be diverted.

The Film Commission memo also says that residents in the area have been notified via “Good Neighbor” letters.

The production, which in addition to the three days spent filming, will spend seven days setting up and a further two days wrapping up, is expected to net the city in the region of $250,000, according to the memo. The movie is expected to premiere in 2009.

The El Paso Film Commission website claims that the total benefit to the city from movies filmed in the area over the years is in the region of $10 billion.

Source: newspapertree.com

‘Sleepwalking’ will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. The festival runs from January 17 - January 27 in Park City, Utah. For more information and to purchase tickets to the festival, please visit sundance.org/festival.

As some of you may have noticed, new photos of Charlize at the Q&A session at the ‘In the Valley of Elah’ screening on September 13th were added to the gallery yesterday afternoon. I had been looking for these for a while, but wasn’t able to find them until a couple of days ago. Enjoy!