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Isla at the “Rango” London Photocall today

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Earlier today our lovely Isla attended a photocall for Rango in London, alongside her co-star Abigail Breslin, and their director Gore Verbinksi. Isla looked classy in what is becoming her trademark style – a short dress, showing off her perfect pins! This time she opted for a beige colour dress with beautiful black decoration, and a little black jacket. 86 HQ photos have been added to the Gallery for your viewing pleasure, and check back soon for more!

I think there was originally going to be a premiere for the film in London this week, but for unknown reasons that has been cancelled. I guess this photocall replaced it. There may be a screening of the film in London this Saturday with a red carpet, but I’m unsure whether that has been confirmed. As always, stay tuned here and I’ll keep you updated!

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Isla attends the Berlin premiere of “Rango”

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Isla is now in Europe to promote Rango! She attended a premiere for the movie in Berlin yesterday, with her co-star Abigail Breslin and their director Gore Verbinski. Isla looked fabulous in a little deep red lace dress – she always looks great in red, I think. 40+ photos have been added to the Gallery for you, and I’m sure more will pop up soon. I’ll also be on the lookout for some videos etc., and if you come across any before me then please post a comment!

Hopefully we’ll get a premiere in London this week too and/or maybe more events in Europe! It’s great to be seeing more of Isla out and about again!

• Rango Berlin Premiere x42



Isla Fisher sad to miss out on Depp kiss

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Isla Fisher has revealed she was disappointed when she couldn’t kiss co-star Johnny Depp because she had a cold.

The Australian beauty and the Hollywood heart throb lend their voices to animated comedy Rango. The actress takes on the role of Bean in the movie – in which Johnny plays the title character. Despite only voicing the movie, Isla, 35, claims that director Gore Verbinski still insisted on the cast acting out their scenes together.

When asked to kiss the leading man, the mother-of-two says she passed up the opportunity because she was feeling ill.

“Although we were only voicing the characters we were encouraged to actually act out scenes,” she is quoted as saying. “It came to the scene where my character kisses Johnny’s but I ducked out as I had a really bad cold and I didn’t want him to catch it. “

Isla – who is happily married to Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen – has admitted that it only dawned on her afterwards that she had missed her chance to kiss the actor, who is renowned for his sex appeal. The actress even contemplated passing on her cold in order to give her co-star a smooch.

“Afterwards I was like, ‘What was I thinking? It’s Johnny Depp.’ Maybe I should have just got the kiss and given him the germs,” she added.

Rango: Aims to Deliver More Than a Deep Message

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In the lead up to the big summer films of 2011 we are in the midst of some wonderful family movies in the coming months. DreamWorks Studios just released Gnomeo and Juliet which grossed $25.5M in its opening weekend. DreamWorks also has its highly anticipated thriller, I Am Number Four (rated PG-13), opening this Friday, February 18.

On March 4, 2011, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) under Nickelodeon-Paramount Pictures, debuts its animated movie Rango. Rango (voiced by the incomparable Johnny Deep) is the name of a troubled chameleon that is having an identity crisis (ironic for a changeable creature) and is trying to discover his path in life. Along his journey he finds himself in a Western town swarming with bandits where he soon realizes his dream of becoming a swashbuckling hero.

What’s new and unique about Rango is the method by which director Gore Verbinski worked with his actors to create the voices for the movie. Typically voice work for animated movies is non-collaborative. For instance when I interviewed Zach Levi and Mandy Moore, the main voices for Disney’s animated movie Tangled, the actors had never met until the press tour.

For the movie Rango, director Verbinski created an environment where all of the main actors had this incredible playing field complete with costumes, props and sets to act out the script (see video below). Their voices were recorded in what Verbinski calls “emotion capture” with the audio used for the final film. Verbinski’s goal was to develop a more “raw and kinetic” quality to differentiate it from the vocal performances of other animated films.

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Isla at the LA premiere of “Rango”!

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Isla attended the LA premiere of her upcoming animaetd movie Rango yesterday, and did so in style! She wore a short and low cut bright blue dress by Temperley London, with her luscious red locks down. She looks gorgeous! She really rocked the colour and dress. I’ve added the first 83 HQs to the Gallery, and scroll further down this post for a few articles/quotes and videos from the event.

Check back in the next few days for lots more HQs! And don’t hesitate to leave a comment here if you want to share your thoughts on Isla’s latest look. It’s definitely good to see her lighting up the red carpet again!

Rango is released on March 4th, so I’m hoping there’ll be more promotion for it in the coming weeks.

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‘Rango’ makes ghostly bow

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For Monday night’s preem of “Rango,” Paramount turned Broxton Ave. in Westwood into a Western ghost town, opting for old-timey saloons and general stores rather than red carpet’s traditional step-and-repeat.

“I wasn’t familiar with the Western genre, so I did have to watch a bunch of films” in preparation for the role, shared thesp Isla Fisher. “I wanted her to sound like Holly Hunter in ‘Raising Arizona.’ I must have watched that movie a million times.”

Fisher also said “Rango” was assembled unlike most animated films, with the actors rehearsing their parts together as though it were a play before recording any voices.

Story scribe James Byrkit said the film’s true influence is rooted not only in Clint Eastwood genre pics but also “this Don Knotts film called ‘The Shakiest Gun in the West.'” After all, in the pic Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon with an identity crisis.

Byrkit added that he and helmer Gore Verbinski share a trait that shows through in their films together: They don’t like to be pinned down to a single genre or style. “I love the whole broad spectrum…I love the big effects spectacles, but I also love old MGM musicals and everything in between.”

– variety.com