Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris and Rodrigo Santoro are negotiating to lend their voices to “Rio,” the next collaboration between Blue Sky Studios, Fox Animation and director Carlos Saldanha, all of whom are riding the $882 million global tsunami of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.”

“Rio,” which follows the adventures of a nerdy macaw who lights out from his small-town Minnesota cage for the exotic Summer Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro, is scheduled for an April 8, 2011, release. Like “Dinosaurs,” it will be filmed in 3D digital animation.

Chris Jenkins (“Surf’s Up”) and Bruce Anderson (“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”) are producing.

Hathaway and Harris have done animation before. Hathaway voiced the lead role of Red in the Weinstein Co. release “Hoodwinked!” in 2005, and Harris voiced a character in Sony Pictures Animation’s “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”

Fox would not confirm casting. Read the full article »

Anne Hathaway has been nominated as ‘Favorite Movie Actress’ at the 2010 People’s Choice Awards. Click here to vote!

12. Anne Hathaway

Another starlet so perfect that she could have been created in a lab, Hathaway is blessed with eyes so big and wide and pretty that she could take the lead in a live-action version of Bambi. In fact, with her pixie-like face and stunning figure, she also seems to have been modeled on another Disney character: Mary Poppins. After all, she’s practically perfect in almost every way.

Most alluring as… We’re going to ignore the two movies in which she has appeared sans bra, because we’re classy, and focus instead on Get Smart, to which she brought much-needed sex appeal as Agent 47.

Interests include… Juggling. No, seriously. She knows how to juggle. So if the career goes tits-up, she can always take herself off to the circus.

Actress Anne Hathaway, accompanied by a harpist, sang “Ave Maria” at the Funeral Mass of her paternal grandmother, Jacqueline Ann Gouin, on Wednesday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in the city’s Andorra section.

Her grandmother, who died Aug. 21 at age 86, lived at Cathedral Village.

Hathaway’s father, Jerry, is one of five children. The actress’ mother, Kate McCauley, also grew up in the area and went to Mount St. Joseph Academy and acted in the troupe at La Salle. Anne Hathaway was born in New York and raised in North Jersey, and still pops up in Cape May. Last summer, out with friends, she sang karaoke at Martini Beach.

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Stage veterans Christina Applegate, Anne Hathaway, and Sigourney Weaver will be honored at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon, to be held on September 24 at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel. Jane Lynch will host the event.

The trade publication will also honor Christina Aguilera, Maria Bello, January Jones, Sherry Lansing, and Laura Ziskin. All of the women were chosen because of their charitable work.

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Anne Hathaway is listed number #1 for LoveFilm.com’s Top 20 Actresses Under 30.

Age: 26
2008 ranking: 6
Credits: Rachel Getting Married, Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, Get Smart, The Princess Diaries
Debits: Princess Diaries 2, Havoc
Hathaway has gone from strength to strength over the last 12 months. She got terrific reviews for the chain smoking recovering addict in Rachel Getting Married and was the only actress under 30 to get an Oscar nomination this year. Get Smart was a hit and she proved an elegant, plucky comedienne. Hathaway also earned rave reviews for her performance in ‘Twelfth Night’ in New York. Such acclaim has propelled her to the top of our list this year. Next from Hathaway, she’s the White Queen in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and costarring in an ensemble romantic comedy with Julia Roberts, Valentine’s Day.

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that actor and comedian Josh Gad has joined Jake Gyllenhaal and recent New York star Anne Hathaway in the business-world drama “Love and Other Drugs” at Fox 2000/New Regency.

Ed Zwick is helming the project, originally titled “Pharma,” which Charles Randolph adapted from Jamie Reidy’s nonfiction book “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman.” To read the full THR article click here.

Variety reported a few months ago that Anne Hathaway will star on both stage and screen as Judy Garland in the Weinstein Co.’s stage and film adaptations of Gerald Clarke’s bio “Get Happy.” The Weinstein Company recently optioned the stage and film rights to the book, first published by Delta in 2001. Read the full article »

Anne Hathaway has apparently shown how much she cares about her fans, for she treated people waiting in line to see her final performance in Shakespeare play Twelfth Night with pizza. According to reports, fans had to wait overnight for tickets to see Hathaway close her run in New York’s annual Shakespeare in the Park event last week, as the tickets were available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The actress surprised her queuing fans by arriving at 3am on Sunday to personally thank them for their support, reports the Daily Star. The report further reveals that Hathaway brought a giant box of pizza, and offered a slice to every person in line.

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Looking back at recent productions, I am struck by the strength — and often the prescience — in the casting. When a movie star had one of the two big female roles, bets were usually hedged with a real stage professional in the other part. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was a radiant Viola to Pfeiffer’s Olivia. Kyra Sedgwick played Olivia to Hunt’s Viola. And look at this: Oliver Platt was madly lovely as Sir Toby Belch in the Smits/Stiles production, with Christopher Lloyd as a terrific Malvolio, and Kristen Johnston and Zach Braff in smaller comic roles.

Look for Hathaway also to be surrounded by formidable theater actors, including Audra McDonald as Olivia and Raul Esparza as Orsino. In 2006, Hathaway said she was more comfortable onstage than in movies. “I trained to be a theater actress,” she said. “Put me in front of a camera and I’m like ’duh.’ But put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what I’m doing.” So we’ll see.

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WHEN&WHERE
Shakespeare in the Park’s “Twelfth Night” starring Anne Hathaway, at the Delacorte Theater, Central Park near West 81st Street, in previews for a June 25 opening, through July 12. Tickets are free on the day of performance, two per person, after 1 p.m. in

Anne Hathaway is both theater nerd and Hollywood starlet, do-gooder and glamour-seeker. And this summer, in Central Park, she is also both boy and girl.

You must excuse me,” says Anne Hathaway, at Cafe Luxembourg on the Upper West Side. The 26-year-old actress is explaining that she’s very, very tired, because she is playing Viola in Twelfth Night, this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park offering, and she has been rehearsing like mad. She’s trying to say the play is complicated, but deceptively so, or maybe it’s deceptively simple? “My mind is shot,” she says, dumping a bit of milk into her coffee. She doesn’t look tired: Her skin is porcelain clear, her eyes calm and bright. “I can speak only in iambic pentameter.”

Anne Hathaway is a theater geek: She enunciates her words very clearly and speaks with an actressy almost-accent, like Rosalind Russell. She has a big, toothy, Julia Roberts–esque laugh. Some words she sings out, mock-opera style: “Great minds!” she trills when we both order the same thing for lunch.

Had Hathaway been born with a less beautiful face, or with less talent, you get the feeling she would’ve stuck to the theater anyhow, as a stagehand or a grip, or a longtime counselor at Stagedoor Manor camp. “I wake up in the morning,” she says, “and the first breath I take is in the devotion of acting.” But she is beautiful—her features out-proportion the rest of her face by a mile—and, as became particularly clear in last year’s Rachel Getting Married, in which she played a recovering drug addict, she’s really very good. “I saw her in The Princess Diaries at a drive-in movie theater in Maine,” says Rachel director Jonathan Demme, “and I just thought, What a great presence. It kind of made me proud to be an American, seeing her share the screen with Julie Andrews. She’s got quote-unquote It.” Read the full article »

The Aussie star has developed a script for the beloved Stephen Sondheim musical and he wants Hathaway to play Julie Jordan opposite his Billy Bigelow.

He says, “I’ve been looking to do a musical film for some time and after things like Moulin Rouge!, Chicago and Hairspray, I think there’s a real opportunity there.”

And he’s clear only Hathaway will do as his leading lady: “I’ve been filling up her answering machine with messages about Carousel.”

Hathaway, who joined Jackman for a song and dance at the Oscars, is about to embark on her own musical journey – she will star in a new theatre and film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland’s life.

Source: Express

A star has already been born, but apparently Anne Hathaway’s Oscar-nominated role as a tempestuous recovering addict in Rachel Getting Married was just a warm-up.

The 26-year-old It girl is attached to star in upcoming film and theater productions of Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

The dual projects are based on the 2000 Gerald Clarke-penned biography about Judy Garland, the wee (4 feet, 11 inches, per IMDb) actress with the huge voice who went from child star to MGM golden girl to walking tragedy before her death at 47 of an accidental barbiturate overdose in 1969. Read the full article »