Though the official line-up of the festival, that runs from September 2 to 12, will be out in Rome on July 30, it is likely to include latest creations from biggies such as Steven Soderbergh, Michael Moore, Joe Dante, Werner Herzog and Todd Solondz. Festival Director Marco Mueller and his team appear to have decided on movies whose actors would make it a point to fly down to Venice, helping the international event to avoid last year’s criticism of being star starved.Moore’s documentary Capitalism: A Love Story will have a go at the current economic crisis, while Soderbergh’s The Informant essays Matt Damon as an agriculture business price fixer. Australian helmer John Hillcoat will make …

Charlize Theron has big plans for the World Cup.
The Academy Award winner’s Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project is teaming up with LAFC Chelsea Soccer Club in Los Angeles to build community football programs for underprivileged children in South Africa. In addition to football fields, uniforms and equipment, kids involved in the program will receive health education and services.
The project will serve schools in South Africa’s Umkhanyakude District, an area plagued by a high rate of HIV infection. She hopes to have the first fields built by the time the World Cup begins June 11.

Hollywood actress Charlize Theron spent four nights in a Los Angeles hospital last week after contracting a painful stomach virus, according to a tabloid report.
The Hancock star is alleged to have suffered severe abdominal pains, which she attributed to food poisoning.
But when the sharp stomach pangs failed to go away, her boyfriend Stuart Townsend took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to seek treatment.
According to the National Enquirer, doctors ran a series of tests on Theron and diagnosed her with a serious virus, thought to have been contracted during her travels overseas.
And Townsend was left shaken by Theron’s health scare, reportedly telling pals, “I was scared to death. I had no idea what was happening to …

Charlize Theron has signed with WME after many years without a tenpercentery.
Thesp, an Oscar winner for 2003’s “Monster,” will be repped by WME co-CEO Ari Emanuel. She continues to be repped by manager J.J. Harris.
Theron has been without an agent since 2003, when Harris exited UTA to become a manager.
Source: Variety

Charlize Theron may not have spoken at Saturday’s Meet in the Middle gay marriage rally, but she certainly didn’t go unnoticed.
The Academy Award winner was more than happy to pose for pics, chat and give out plenty of hugs as she listened to speeches with her mom and a small crew of friends.
Theron was an early supporter of the Fresno, Calif., rally, which was organized by the grassroots Courage Campaign.
She wasn’t the only boldfaced name in the crowd. Find out who else was there and what they said…
T.R. Knight kept his remarks to the crowd short and to the point.
“The California Supreme Court achieved something in their decision,” he said. “They created three classes of …

Hollywood celebrities Penelope Cruz, Charlize Theron, Demi Moore and her actor husband Ashton Kutcher will pit their wits against one another at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 18 when they take part in a charity dominoes (tile) game with a celebrity twist.
Cruz has teamed up with director Pedro Almodovar and U2 rocker Bono to host the charity event for The Global Fund, which raises money for AIDS research, reports contactmusic.com.
But instead of playing the traditional game, the stars will compete in Hollywood Domino – a movie board game version of the pastime.
Source: Hindustan Times

Tom Hanks can’t stop smiling after Charlize Theron complimented his butt.
The actress recently went public with her love for his perfect butt, saying that the actor has “A really, really good a**”.
And Hanks can”t believe he’’s got the butt of his That Thing You Do! co-star’s dreams.
“She’s a dear. Any woman who would compliment your a** is one to hold onto,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.
Source: Fresh News

Charlize Theron tells Usmagazine.com that Salma Hayek had a “beautiful wedding” to French tycoon Francois-Henri Pinault Saturday in Venice, Italy.
“I’m really happy for them and they’re just a beautiful couple,” Theron told Us Monday at a Film Society of Lincoln Center event honoring Tom Hanks in NYC. “We’re really good friends, and it was really a celebration of love — that’s what it was really about.”
The bride, Theron added, looked “gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.”
The sweetest moment?
“Everything,” said Theron, who attended the ceremony with her beau Stuart Townsend. “Everything was gorgeous.”
Source: US Magazine

Rock star Bono and actresses Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron were among the glitterati spotted at the La Fenice opera hall, as the couple repeated the vows they made in February.
Former French president Jacques Chirac, a Pinault family friend, was also among the guests, as were film director Emir Kusturica and fashion designer Stella McCartney.
Venice is where Mexican-born Hayek, 42, met Pinault, 46, who is chief executive of PPR, the luxury goods and retailing group controlled by his father Francois Pinault which notably includes the Gucci Group.
The couple – who had a daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, in 2007 in Los Angeles – married discretely in Paris on Saint Valentine’s Day.
Source: MSN

South African-born actress Charlize Theron calls US marriage laws “a form of apartheid”. The Oscar winner and Dior model said,
I don’t like living in an elitist world, it bothers me. I don’t want to be part of an elitist sexual preference. It bothers me. Maybe it’s because I come from a country where I lived under apartheid. This is a form of apartheid and I don’t want to be a part of that.
Theron was referring to the “Grand Apartheid” laws in her native country, which segregated whites and non-whites. The laws prevented non-whites from marrying whites or holding white jobs. Harsh criminal penalties were imposed on …