Charlize Theron has signed on for the revival of the actor’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies.

Charlize will star in the fourth installment of the franchise – last seen on our screens in 1985 – with Mad Max: Fury Road.

British actor Tom Hardy will be the Burning Plain beauty’s leading man when they start filming in Australia next August.

No news on whether Mel — who launched his career as an Aussie unknown in the original 1979 Max Max movie – will be involved.

The trilogy (Mad Max, Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, starring Tina Turner) is set in a dystopian future world ruled by violent gangs.

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Last night, Charlize was in Beverly Hills to present the Breakthrough Actor award to Jeremy Renner during the 2009 Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony. Renner and Theron were co-stars in North Country. About 50 photos have been added to the gallery.

Charlize Theron has revealed the bizarre nickname bestowed on her by former co-star Jeremy Renner.

Apparently the South African actress goes by the name of “Ass-Nuts” when she is in the company of her American friend.

As to the origins of the moniker, Charlize is keeping schtum. All she will reveal is that it stems from a boozy evening.

The 34-year-old actress starred alongside Jeremy in 2005’s North Country.

She told E! that the name stuck after the cast went out for a few drinks.

“I can’t tell you what transpired, but let me just say I found a friend for life in Jeremy, and he has ever since then referred to me as Ass-Nuts,” Charlize said.

She added: “I wish that was a joke, but it’s true.”

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Usmagazine.com reported that the South African actress Charlize Theron kiss auctioned for 140 thousand dollars, to benefit a NGO for children. The winner was a woman whose bid exceeded that of all male competitors.

Charlize Theron also donated a trip to her home country and tickets for the 2010 World Cup but when the offers were at 37 thousand dollars, she included the kiss, saying that “considering the swine flu outbreak. It’s a dangerous kiss!”.

The winner of the prize directly asked for her kiss on stage.

The crowd controlled the time of the famous kiss whichreached 20 seconds, the actress, laughing, said “My boyfriend is not here tonight,” referring to his partner Stuart Townsend.

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Could this be a casting development for the upcoming Mad Max sequel/reboot? There have been rumors floating around regarding the fourth installment of the action franchise that made Mel Gibson a star for years. Director George Miller has been more than vocal about his desire to produce another film. Now we’re hearing rumors via EOnline that Oscar winner Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy may have been cast as the leads in the new film.

The working title being used for the film is Mad Max: Fury Road, instead of Mad Max 4 (that doesn’t roll the tongue as well). According to multiple sources, Theron is already on board to star as the female lead in the movie that will feature British actor Tom Hardy replacing Gibson in the title role. Miller stated himself that Gibson was too old to continue on in the series so he planned to recast him.

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In the post-apocalyptic drama “The Road,” Charlize Theron plays a wife and mother who yearns to commit suicide because she can’t handle the overwhelming bleakness surrounding her.

In “The Burning Plain,” which opens Friday, the 34-year-old portrays a miserable restaurateur whose guilt over past secrets manifests itself in empty sex and self-abuse.

Pretty heavy stuff.

But don’t think Theron isn’t aware of how tough it can be to sell such dark stories to a movie-going audience that is largely looking for lighter subject matter amid the slumping economy.
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Charlize Theron attended the trophy presentation of the Dixiana Breeders Futurity at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky on Saturday Oct. 10. She presented the trophy to Martinez who won. Low quality photos are now in the gallery.

Don’t call Charlize Theron anything but an actress. “When somebody calls me a movie star, I worry a bit,” she says. “It used to be about the work, but now it means you show up at the Oscars and look good.”

The South African beauty, 34, who moved to New York to model and pursue ballet as a teenager, admits she started acting when a knee injury forced her to quit dancing.

“The whole model-turned-actress thing doesn’t have a good track record,” she tells the Style section of the U.K’s Sunday Times newspaper, “Today, younger girls are addicted to the fame, but that is not me. I keep all that stuff private.”

And true to her word, there is one thing Charlize refuses to discuss, her mother Gerda’s shooting of her alcoholic father Charles when she was just 15. Police ruled the killing as self-defense and Gerda was never charged.

“It’s a tattoo I cannot erase,” she states. “People always bring it up, but I’m not comfortable, because it concerns others.”

However, she’s happy to talk about her eight-year relationship with Irish actor Stuart Townsend, revealing, “My universe shifted when we got together, and life has been better since.”

And the star of The Road (out Nov. 25) admits that there’s only one way to really impress her man. And yes, it involves sports.

With the soccer World Cup being held in her native South Africa Charlize, marvels, “I tell my boyfriend I have been nominated for an Oscar, and he goes, ‘That’s nice, babe.’ But I say I can get tickets for the World Cup and he is all ‘Holy s***!’. All of a sudden, I’m a goddess.”

Source: OK Magazine