More Photos from Crowder Shoot

Two more photos from Emma’s photoshoot with Harry Crowder in 2010 have come out recently.

Scans Vogue India had a short article with quotes from Emma, talking about macaroons to owning a Kindle. Sorry for the B&W, but the pictures aren’t new.

Rouge in Love

More images from Emma’s Rouge in Love line with Lancome.

Emma’s Character in The Bling Ring

IndieWire has posted an article discussing characters in The Bling Ring and which person they suspect Emma is playing.

…Also worth noting is that while Watson has widely been reported to be the lead, that’s not quite accurate. The entry-point character for the audience is Marc (Broussard), a fashion-obsessed (and seemingly gay, although it’s never stated outright) 16-year-old kid who starts at a new high school (based on Burglar Bunch member Nick Prugo), and quickly falls in with a Korean-American girl named Rebecca. It’s Rebecca (a character based on the real life figure Rachel Lee, and will presumably be played by newcomer Katie Chang) who’s the ringleader of the group, and arguably the female lead, while we suspect that Watson’s playing Nicki, a pretty teen with an ex-Playboy model mother (to be played by Mann) who schools her two daughters on the importance of finding fame.

Ultimately, Coppola, even more so than most filmmakers, uses her script as a skeleton, and much of what makes her films work (or otherwise) comes in the execution. With a cast so green, the movie will really hang on how well they can pull it off, but if nothing else, having Hermione Granger do a scantily-clad dance with a gun will get the attention of the mainstream media (the film is another smart choice for Watson, who looks like she could be a real force post-Potter).

The first on the set photos from Bling Ring have appeared as principal photography begins in Calabasas, California.

April is almost here and once again our thoughts turn to Emma Watson’s upcoming birthday. Every year Emma-Watson.net creates a birthday project as a way for fans to share their feelings and show their support for Emma. This will be our seventh year in a row. A simple birthday card has been the best way that lets the most people participate, so that is what we are doing again this year. You can send in birthday messages, art work, poems, stories, photos or anything else you can think of to say Happy Birthday. We’ll try to include everything. The card will be posted online on Emma’s birthday, and a printed copy sent to her.

Emma’s 22nd Birthday Project

The April calendar competition is now open!

• The size of the calendar should be at least 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
• Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and April and it should have the dates. It should be mostly original work, and images used should be respectful of Emma’s privacy.
• The deadline to submit calendars is March 28.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. Please send entries to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com

Last month The Perks of Being a Wallflower received an R rating from the MPAA, for “teen drug and alcohol use, and some sexual references.” The film has now been granted a PG-13 rating after a successful appeal by Stephen Chbosky, director and author of the novel, and Erik Feig, president of production at Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an adaption of Stephen Chbosky’s popular novel of the same name, and stars Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Nina Dobrev, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd and Mae Whitman. No release date has been set, but likely it will be late this year.

Wow, that was quick. Not even a week since the news broke, and now Emma Watson is off to Los Angeles to start filming “Bling Ring”. In a brief messsage on her site, Emma says she is packing for LA, talks about fitting school and filming together, and the opportunity to work with Sofia Coppola.

Honorable mentions to Kok Yan, Ingrid, Jia, Rinske and Barry. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you to those who voted.

All the competition entries can be viewed here.

Sofia Coppola has reportedly signed on Emma Watson for her next film, The Bling Ring. Inspired by real life events, the movie is about a group of celebrity obsessed teenagers who burglarize the homes of celebrities. Emma joins an ensemble cast. Filming is scheduled to being this spring in Los Angeles.

 
Update: Emma confirms her role in the film on her official site.

“I am so excited to work with Sofia Coppola. I have been an admirer of her work for many years. The script for “The Bling Ring” is fantastic and I can’t wait to start filming.”

Press Release

OSCAR-WINNING FILMMAKER SOFIA COPPOLA CASTS EMMA WATSON IN NEW FILM, “THE BLING RING”

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (February 29, 2012) – Sofia Coppola has cast Emma Watson (HARRY POTTER franchise) in her new film, THE BLING RING. Inspired by real events, the film follows a group of teenagers who take part in a string of celebrity burglaries. Watson will lead an ensemble cast.

THE BLING RING will begin shooting this spring in Los Angeles.

In addition to directing THE BLING RING from her screenplay, Coppola will produce the feature with Roman Coppola and Youree Henley. Executive producers for the picture are Fred Roos and Michael Zakin.

THE BLING RING shows a group of teenagers obsessed with fashion and fame who burglarized the homes of celebrities in Los Angeles. Tracking their targets’ whereabouts online, the teens would break-in and steal designer clothes and possessions. Reflecting on the naiveté of youth, amplified by today’s culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession, the members of the Bling Ring introduce us to temptations that nearly any teenager would find hard to resist. What starts out as youthful fun spins out of control and reveals a sobering view of our modern culture.

“I’m excited about the young cast we’re assembling and I’m looking forward to shooting on location here in Los Angeles,” says Coppola.

Sofia Coppola won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for her film LOST IN TRANSLATION and was an Academy Award nominee for Best Director and Best Picture. Her latest film, SOMEWHERE, was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Emma Watson is best known for her role as Hermione in the HARRY POTTER films and will be seen this fall in THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER. She just signed on to star in David Yates’ YOUR VOICE IN MY HEAD and Guillermo del Toro’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. She is represented by WME and Markham, Froggatt & Irwin.

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Voting for our March calendar is now open.

Remember, you only get to vote one time. Do not vote multiple times from different emails, and do not ask your friends to come and vote on your calendar. Let’s keep the competition fair.

Please make sure you write your choices in the order you like them. Your favorite should be first, then next favorite, etc.

1. View the calendars here. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger preview image. Take your time, make sure you scroll all the way to the end and check out all the calendars.
2. Choose your favorite 5 calendars, and write down their numbers in order, from best to 5th place. You don’t have to choose 5, you can vote for just one if you like, but you can vote for 5.
3. Send your vote in an email to emmawatson.contest@gmail.com or in a PM to me on the forums to dookdookdook.

Voting is open through March 1, 00:00 GMT.

Good luck everyone!

Emma Watson talks with fashion writer Harriet Walker in a new article for The Independant.

Emma Watson grew up on screen but as an adult, she’s making her mark in the fashion world. Harriet Walker meets the new face of Lancôme.

“As I’ve got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I’ve felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out,” she smiles, when I suggest she has successfully shaken off the fetters of having played a gawky teenage witch for a decade. “I think there’s this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you’d only wear at night. The nice thing about these is that they’re really translucent, like a tinted lip balm, so you can wear them in a more casual way.”

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