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Charlize Theron Dishes on Chatting Up Prince Harry

Don’t worry, Chelsy.
Hollywood royalty and plain ol’ royalty collided at a May 7 charity polo match in the UK’s Royal Berkshires when Charlize Theron talked up Britain’s hottest unmarried royal: Prince Harry. The Oscar-winning actress, 35, looked typically stunning in a black dress as she giggled with Prince William’s redhead little brother, 26, sweaty and clad in polo gear.
“He was really lovely. Super nice,” Theron told reporters of the chat at a Wednesday party to celebrate the launch of Dior VIII in support of her eponymous Africa Outreach Project. “I really like the work he does in Africa,” Theron added of the “spare heir.”
But Harry, of course, has long been romantically attached to lawyer-in-training Chelsy …

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Charlize Theron hates watching herself

CHARLIZE Theron hates watching her own films.
The 35-year-old actress admits she finds it difficult to watch herself on the big screen — but she did enjoy seeing her Oscar-winning performance in 2003’s Monster. “I hate to see myself on screen,” she said. “When I did Monster it wasn’t too bad, because I didn’t look like Charlize Theron.”
The South African-born beauty had to re-watch many of her scenes in the film — in which she portrayed real life serial killer Aileen Wuornos — because she acted as a producer on the project.
“During the rough cut I had to watch a lot of my scenes over and over again,” she said. “I would slit my wrists if …

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Filmmaker entices Charlize Theron – by Staff reporter

Namibia’s film industry is set to receive a major shot in the arm shortly if Charlize Theron, Oscar-winning South African movie star, can be enticed to accept the female lead in a film to be shot on location by a local producer in Namibia.
Joel Haikali, well known producer and actor, and proprietor of Joe Vision Production cc, told Artlife this week that he and Rodney Charles of Los Angeles plan to produce the Namibian based feature film titled ‘Feral.’ Haikali said this joint venture is the first of a proposed slate of independent feature films for the two companies which have previously produced award-winning projects.
‘Feral’ is the story of a Namibian man who …

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Charlize Theron, Townsend list $7.5M Rancho Topanga 3BD

Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend have listed for sale a three-bed, 3.5-bath home at 21644 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu for $7.5 million.
Theron and Townsend purchased the property for $3,495,000 in Jan. 2003. The 2,095-square-foot home was built in 1930 in Las Flores. It is located in the Rancho Topanga subdivision. Ginger Glass and Madison Hildebrand of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are the listing agents for the property.
According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 430 home sales in Malibu during the past 12 months, with a median sales price of $1,600,000.
Source: Block Shopper

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Theron, Hammer Consider Supporting Roles in ‘J. Edgar’

NY Magazine reports that Charlize Theron has also been tied to the Eastwood production. She’s been offered the part of Helen Gandy, the woman who at 21 was selected as Hoover’s personal secretary and remained at his side for 54 years. Lucky Leo, 54 (movie) years next to Charlize doesn’t really sound like that much of a chore.
We already learned that Leonardo DiCaprio would team up with fellow super A-lister Clint Eastwood to bring the tale of J. Edgar Hoover, the first ever director of the FBI, to the big screen, but now the project is really beginning to take shape. Armie Hammer of The Social Network fame, is in talks to take a role …

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Join Charlize Theron, The Dalai Lama And Richard Branson For Living Peace Talks

Charlize Theron, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama will take part in a special lecture series aimed at making the world healthy, sustainable and compassionate place.
Sponsored by UC Irvine and Center for Living Peace Orange County, the Living Peace Series will kick off on December 4 at the UCI Student Center with Charlize Theron, who will discuss the Charlize Theron African Outreach Project, which promotes safety and health among impoverished children and communities in South Africa – with a focus on those suffering from HIV/AIDS. There will also be a VIP event benefiting the outreach project.
This will be followed on January 25 by Richard Branson, the British industrialist who built the Virgin Group into more …

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Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron Offered Snow White and The Huntsman?

Earlier today we discovered that Universal plans of releasing their adaptation, Snow White and The Huntsman on December 21, 2012. The studio is wasting no time with pre-production and their first order of business is to find the right actors to play the main characters. It was previously rumored that Tom Hardy might be in the running for the Huntsman and Angelina Jolie for the evil queen, but now two new actors have joined the race.
According to The Wrap, Johnny Depp has been offered the part of The Huntsman by Alice in Wonderland producer Joe Roth, who’s also working on this film. The actor’s reps and the studio refuse to comment on casting deals or …

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‘Mad Max’ filming delayed again

Fears are growing over the future of the new Mad Max movie after filming was postponed for a second time.
The fourth film in the franchise, starring Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult, is a reboot of Mel Gibson’s original 1979 action picture and will be shot back-to-back with a sequel.
The blockbuster was due to begin production in Australia next month, but was delayed until February.
And now the shoot has been put back again – with reports suggesting work on Mad Max won’t begin until 2012.
Hugh Gough, who was due to provide accommodation for the film crew, claims the production company’s bookings for February have now been pushed back.
He tells Australia’s ABC News, “I would call it …

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Paramount Grabs Jason Reitman-Diablo Cody Comedy

Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the latest collaboration from “Juno” filmmakers Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody’s, the black comedy “Young Adult.”
The Mandate Pictures production stars Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser and Patton Oswalt in the story of a divorced, young-adult fiction writer who returns to her hometown in Minnesota to chase an ex-boyfriend who’s now married and has a baby. The project, which Cody wrote and Reitman will direct, begins shooting in New York this month.
Paramount released Reitman’s last film, “Up in the Air,” which grossed $161 million worldwide.
Source: ABC News

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Paralypic swimmer cast as Mad Max stars stunt double

Charlize Theron’s stunt double in the new Mad Max movie will be a one-armed Aussie swimmer.
Paralympic swimmer Annabelle Williams, 22, whose left arm ends just below the elbow, has revealed that she will be filling in for the Oscar-winning star in the film’s fight scenes.
The casting has triggered online rumours that Theron’s as-yet-unnamed character will have part of one arm missing.
Williams, who is taking part in the Delhi Commonwealth Games, told ABC news in Australia that she landed the role in Mad Max 4: Fury Road last December.
She said: ‘I got a phone call from one of the people at [the production company] and they said it’s got a AUD$200 million budget. My mum was …

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