1. I have added new promotional images and trailer screencaptures to the gallery, just click on the images below for the full set of photos.

2. Websites for the film has been launched at: www.agoralapelicula.com and www.agorathemovie.com, remember to drop by for updates.

3. Last but not least the teaser trailer for the film:

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Rachel graces the cover of May 2009 issue of The Black Book Magazine. The magazine can be found at your local newstands and as soon as I get my hands on an issue I will be adding scans to the gallery.

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I have added new appearance photos to the gallery, just click on the links below for the full set of photos.

Source:  Rope of  Silicon

The Hollywood Reporter brings the first word of casting out of Cannes saying Rachel Weisz is “loosely” attached to play MGM icon Hedy Lamarr in Amy Redford’s indie feature Face Value.

THR’s Steven Zeitchik says the film centers on the Austrian-American actress who garnered fame in the 1940s for her luminous screen presence, most famously for playing Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah. The film will focus on Lamarr’s eccentric life, particularly her less-publicized second career as a scientist.

As a scientist, Lamarr helped create a method of changing frequencies — known as frequency-hopping — that became a forerunner to modern wireless communications. That pursuit will be the primary subject of Redford’s film, which was written by Jose Rivera and Gretchen Somerfeld.

The notion Weisz is loosely attached and the note in Zeitchik’s article saying Charlize Theron’s name was at one time in connection with the part, leads me to believe this isn’t a done deal of any sort.

Weisz will be seen in limited theaters this week in Summit’s The Brothers Bloom and will be seen for the first time in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora at Cannes, a film in which she plays the legendary astronomer Hypatia, trapped in the legendary Library of Alexandria, and her fight to save the old world’s wisdom from the religious riots sweeping the streets of Alexandria.

She will also be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and was recently cast in The Whistleblower for Larysa Kondracki. That film is based on the true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, who traveled to Bosnia in 1999 as a U.N. peacekeeper. The story chronicles the trials of a female cop (Weisz) from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal. Weisz will obviously be playing the female cop.

Source: Variety

The AFI Dallas Film Festival has set Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom,” starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi, as its opening-night feature on March 26.

Fest’s centerpiece presentations are “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly, David Morse and Guy Pearce, and “The Burning Plain,” directed by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger.

The eight-day festival is in its third year.

Event’s Dallas Star Award will go to Bigelow, Brody and Robert Towne. Rita Hayworth will be honored posthumously. Hayworth’s award will be presented to her daughter, Princess Yasmine Aga Khan, prior to a screening of “Gilda,” while Towne will be feted at a presentation for the 35th anniversary of “Chinatown.”

The festival’s also celebrating director Henry Selick with the Texas Avery Animation Award, which honors lifetime achievement in animation.

Source: BBC

Dames Judi Dench and Helen Mirren have been named on a list of the UK’s 20 most powerful women in theatre.

Hollywood stars Gillian Anderson and Rachel Weisz also appear in the list complied by magazine Harper’s Bazaar.

It celebrates the playwrights, leading impresarios and rising stars of the British stage.

Harper’s Bazaar editor Lucy Yeomans said: “The 20 women on our list represent the diversity and brilliance found in this creative industry.”

‘Phenomenal hit’

She added that it was an especially strong year for women in theatre.

“As well as including actresses, our list also takes account of the incredible powerhouses who make the productions happen,” she said.

“Sonia Friedman’s staggering drive has helped make Boeing Boeing a success on Broadway and in London and Sally Greene’s Billy Elliot is a phenomenal worldwide hit.”

Also on list is playwright Bola Agbaje, 27, whose debut play Gone Too Far! won an Olivier Award, set and costume designer Miriam Buether, 39, and casting agent Lisa Makin, 43.

X Files and Bleak House actress Anderson, who is to appear in a production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Donmar Warehouse in London, was billed as the “honorary Brit” on the list.

She said: “I have wanted to work on the British stage for most of my life.

“The opportunity to turn that lingering dream into a reality is the greatest reward.

“The challenge is to chase that opportunity, despite an equally passionate fear.”

RWP would like to wish Rachel absolutely fantastic birthday!

Source: UGO Movie Blog

Brian Eno, the legendary music producer who’s worked with U2 countless times and most recently on Coldplay’s latest album, “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,” is on board to score Peter Jackson’s latest film, “The Lovely Bones,” says Collider.

Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, “The Lovely Bones” centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family—and her killer—from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan.

“The Lovely Bones” opens December 9, 2009.

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    Status: Announced

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