'NINE' New Trailer, Images, and Smouldering Kate Hudson Song

Kate Hudson performing 'Nine' song and dance number

Awards season is in full swing! We recently reported Nine, a musical adaptation the Broadway production (and loosely based on Fellini’s 8 1/2) went live online. The Weinstein Company has stepped up their marketing blitz and released a killer, dazzling new Nine trailer (below). Rob Marshall (Chicago) directed the film set for release on Christmas Day and already garnered plenty of buzz for a coveted chance at “Best Picture” Oscar®.

The incomparable Daniel Day-Lewis plays Italian film director Guido Contini, who struggles to manage the female relationships in his life. His wife (Marion Cotillard), his muse (Nicole Kidman), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his mother (Sophia Loren), his costume designer (Judi Dench), his prostitute (Fergie), and his next conquest, a Vogue reporter (Kate Hudson).

The director’s guild just had their screening of the film, which means awards season is kicking in. Spy reviewer Tobby for Ain’t It Cool News posted an awesome review of Marshall’s new musical.

In his introduction of the film, Marshall confirmed publicly he’ll be doing Pirates of the Caribbean 4 with Johnny Depp. Then the film started which the critic calls a “curious delight.” Day-Lewis is “masterful” at singing, Cotillard is “spectacular” and deserves another Oscar nod, Dench is a “pleasure to watch,” Cruz is “fantastic” and sexy, Fergie does a “great job” (!), Hudson is the biggest surprise, and Kidman the biggest disappointment. All this and more according to Tobby the spy critic at Tobby at Ain't It Cool News. I can't wait!

The sizzling new musical trailer for the film features Hudson’s singing voice and fresh looks at the production. Scroll further down for nine pictures of the characters:

Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Kate Hudson again

Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, and Judi Dench

Fergie, Nicole Kidman, and Sophia Loren

Check out Penélope Cruz's Jay Leno Show appearance and sexy clip from Nine !


Will NINE be one of this year's ten Best Picture nominees? You can bet on it!

NINE will have a limited release on December 18th in New York and Los Angeles and will then go on wide release on December 25. Aeroplan members can redeem 5,000 Aeroplan miles for a ticket to an Exclusive Canadian NINE Premiere.

Ooh La La... Be Italian!

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Kiera Knightly and Daniel Day-Lewis in the remake of "My Fair Lady"

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Keira Knightley and Daniel Day-Lewis, two of the biggest names in British cinema, are being lined up to star in a film remake of the musical My Fair Lady.

The two stars are set to take on the roles of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, which were given notable treatments by Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 Oscar-winning classic.

Knightley the star of Atonement, Pride and Prejudice and the Pirates of the Caribbean films, has already signed up to the project and has begun singing lessons.

The producers of the film have put Day-Lewis, the double Oscar-winning star of There Will Be Blood and My Left Foot, at the top of their wish list of actors to play landed opposite her.

The film is being produced by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy, the producer of British blockbusters such as Notting Hill, Love Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The duo hope to shoot the film on location in the original London settings of Covent Garden, Drury Lane and the Ascot racecourse, according to Daily Variety.

Sources close to the project say Kenworthy is keen to get Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese or Roger Michell, the director of Notting Hill and Venus, to direct the film. One source said: "Keira is already onboard and everyone is convinced that Day-Lewis would be perfect as Higgins." Is there a doubt?

Any My Fair Lady remake is likely to be controversial. The original, directed by George Cukor, won eight Oscars and in 2006 it was ranked the sixth-best movie musical ever.

Paris Hilton on the way to "Breakfast at Starbucks" in Beverly Hills. Kiera has landed the role so forget about it Paris!!!

All star cast confirmed for "Nine"

All star cast confirmed for the cinematic version of Nine, a Tony-award winning Broadway musical. Daniel Day Lewis, Marion Cotillard (Guido's wife), Nicole Kidman (Claudia, Guido's muse and protege), Penelope Cruz (Contini's sexy mistress Carla), Sophia Loren (Guido's mother) and Judi Dench (Guido's agent) to star.

The 1982 musical, inspired by the film 8½, is about a fictional famous film director Guido Contini savoring his most recent (and greatest) success. He is facing his fortieth birthday and a midlife crisis which blocks his creative impulses and entangles him in a web of romantic difficulties. While trying to complete his latest film, his main problem is that he has too many women in his life.

Kidman is due to give birth in the summer, giving her several months of maternity leave before the film's proposed start date. Her filming also might be scheduled in the latter part of the shoot.

The project was slated to begin principal photography in March but was postponed when the late writer-director Anthony Minghella didn't have enough time to rework Michael Tolkin's screenplay before Hollywood writers went on strike last November. Extra work was needed to coordinate the choreography and Maury Yeston's music and lyrics with a new draft. The musical will be directed by Rob Marshall, who also directed the 2003 hit musical Chicago. Nine rehearsals start in London on July 28 with shooting to commence September 29, with a 2009 release date.

I expect Nine will clean up at the 82nd Academy Awards®!

'Blood' actor Daniel Day Lewis eyes 'Nine' musical

Several months ago, at the height of awards season I was thrilled to hear Harvey Weinstein was casting two of my favorite Oscar® Nominees Javier Bardem of "No Country for Old Men" and Marion Cotillard of "La Vie En Rose" in a new musical titled "Nine". Bardem later dropped out of the film due to exhaustion from work and awards season.

I caught a glimpse of Marion Cotillard and Daniel Day-Lewis on the Red Carpet of the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Show Gala earlier this year. Cotillard was awarded with the Breakthrough Performance Award for "La Vie en Rose" and DDL was honored with the Desert Palm Achievement Award for "There Will Be Blood". Both won Oscars® in their respective categories. I was delighted and rendered speachless when DDL magically appeared on the Red Carpet heading towards me. He smiled and expressed a soft heartfelt "thankyou" after I blurted out "you are absolutely brilliant!" His charm and charisma swept the female audience right off their feet as he strolled by. Hold that thought. . .

Another coup for Harvey Weinstein! According to Variety Oscar® winner Daniel Day-Lewis is in talks with The Weinstein Co. to replace Bardem in the musical. He would play the role of Guido Contini, a famous film director who experiences personal and creative crises while trying to balance all the woman in his life. Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench will play the woman. The Robert Marshall-directed musical is inspired by the Fellini film "8 1/2". Michael Tolkin wrote the screenplay, and Anthony Minghella turned in a rewrite before he died.

Harvey Weinstein's first association with the actor came when Weinstein's Miramax Films acquired distribution rights to the 1989 Jim Sheridan-directed film "My Left Foot."

TWC spokesperson denies a lead has been set and the names being thrown around are pure conjecture. More on this story as it develops...

YouTube clip of Daniel Day-Lewis on the Red Carpet of the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Show Gala (below).