Anne Hathaway has explained delays in her Judy Garland film are because of the “sensitive” nature of the project.

She told BBC Radio Four’s Front Row she hoped production would start in the next two years.

The Devil Wears Prada star was first in talks to play Garland in early 2009.

“It’s a very sensitive project and there have been so many stories told about her life that we’re really trying to get it right.

“So we’ve taking our time with it. I know it seems like it’s sort of an endless process but it’s very, very slow incremental steps.

“I had a meeting about it a couple of weeks ago and we’re all very motivated.”

Get happy

Film producer Harvey Weinstein was quoted in 2009 as saying it would be a film and theatre project based on Gerald Clarke’s 2001 book Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.

Hathaway said she will be singing in her role as the legendary star: “I certainly don’t sing like Judy Garland but the talk is to have me do the singing.

“But I think people might cry murder if they don’t get to hear Judy’s beloved voice so the talk is for me to sing but I don’t know if that’s exactly what will happen.”

Hathaway is nominated for a Golden Globe for her latest film Love and Other Drugs which opens in the UK on 29 December 2010.

Listen to Hathaway’s interview with John Wilson on Front Row 21 December BBC Radio Four 1915 GMT or listen again via BBC iPlayer.

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What?! The cast of the Les Miserables film are singing LIVE on set???? But no one will be able to hear Anne Hathaway’s sweet serenade or Hugh Jackman’s crooning if their voice boxes give out!

While we ADORE the authenticity of singing live for every take, those are some CRAZY intense vocals being done over and over and over…

One source says about the epic filming process:

Every big musical number is being recorded as live, which is a huge challenge to the cast. It has to be note-perfect or Tom [Hooper] won’t use it – he’s a real perfectionist. Some of the cast have been belting out songs a number of times in a row and it’s taken its toll on their voices.”

BUT, it seems that the production crew are handing out specialty ginger and lemon concotions to the star-singers, and throat lozenges are being sucked on the regular.

This movie will be INSANE and is surely going to DEVOUR any lurking tigers in the night!

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A new trailer for Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Riseswill be released in less than two weeks time.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer, the third for those keeping count, will be attached to Marvel and Disney’s The Avengers beginning May 4. Nolanfans got the trailer confirmation from WB Exhibitor website which clearly shows the trailer’s existence and debut date. It also confirms The Dark Knight Rises trailer will appear in 2D and 3D traditional and IMAX screenings.

You might be wondering why Warner Bros. and DC Comics would attach their big summer tentpole on the competition’s film. It’s all about playing to the target audience and The Avengers is a perfect fit, especially considering its near record-breaking opening weekend tracking. As Nolanfans points out, the third trailer for The Dark Knight made its debut attached to Iron Man in 2008. Similarly, Inception’s last trailer was first spotted in front of Iron Man 2.

If any of you needed a little extra push to go watch The Avengers theatrically next month, The Dark Knight Rises trailer should do the trick. Batman’s final fight under the direction of Christopher Nolan will take its own shot at box office records beginning July 20.

The Dark Knight Rises stars Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine and Marion Cotillard.

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Anne Hathaway has reportedly postponed her wedding because of her newly-cropped hair.

The 29-year-old actress – who has had to lose weight and cut off her long locks to play dying prostitute Fantine in the film adaptation of ‘Les Miserables’ – apparently wants to wait for her hair to grow back before tying the knot with fiancé Adam Schulman.

A source told the Daily Mail newspaper: ‘Anne’s worried there won’t be time to get back in shape and grow her hair for a summer wedding.

‘She also has to promote her movie Batman. They are thinking about postponing until later this year or maybe 2013.’

The couple – who started dating in 2008 following Anne’s split from Raffaello Follieri after he pled guilty to 14 counts of money laundering, conspiracy and wire fraud – announced their engagement in November and Anne explained he ‘ruined’ her plans to stay single.

She said: ‘We hit if off immediately but it took us a pretty long time to get together. He thought that I had a boyfriend and I thought that he had a girlfriend, so I thought that I’d better keep my distance because I didn’t want to be that girl.

‘I am very much in love with him, [only] Adam totally ruined my plan. I was really actually looking forward to a little alone time, and then I fell in love like a fool!’

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Rather than eating the recommended dietary allowance of around 2,000 calories a day, Anne is consuming fewer than 500

Everybody’s seems to be talking about Hunger Games… and it’s probably no different at Anne Hathaway’s house.

But it won’t be the blockbuster film the Oscar-nominated actress is on about, it’ll be the extreme “two apples a day” crash diet she’s started for her part as Fantine in Les Miserables.

Anne has been ordered by movie execs to shed 16lb in less than 20 days so director Tom Hooper can shoot the tragic character’s death bed scenes.

The Devil Wears Prada star, 29, is currently a size 10, which has been fine for shooting scenes before single mum and prostitute Fantine falls gravely ill.

Now, rather than eating the recommended dietary allowance of around 2,000 calories a day, Anne is consuming fewer than 500.

By the end of filming she will be an emaciated size six. My film set source says: “Anne is playing a destitute factory worker-come-lady of the night.

“Unfortunately, she only has 15 to 20 days to lose as much weight as possible – up to a stone-and-a-half – because she’s been filming the scenes showing her fit and healthy, almost slightly chubby.

“It’s not ideal but, as with any high-budget movie, there are strict time constraints.

“Producers have assigned her a personal trainer and she is literally eating nothing more than a couple of apples a day, and some protein – mainly in the form of a shake.

“Anne knows the risk of such an extreme diet and will undergo weekly medicals to make sure everything is still functioning as it should do.”

The movie is based on the hit West End musical and also stars hunks Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. The cast began filming early this month.

It’s due to hit cinemas in December, so Anne’ll have time to get her natural shape back for the premiere…

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