Before you run out and see the new film,The Great Gatsby, here are three things you should know about The Great Gatsby.

1.Leonardo DiCaprio Was Eeluctant o Play Jay Gatsby
Leonardo DiCaprio told Good Morning America that at first he was reluctant to play the role of Jay Gatsby because he said, "everyone has their own interpretation about these characters." Leo said he eventually was drawn to "the idea of a man who came from absolutely nothing, who created himself solely from his own imagination." He said he enjoyed playing a character who was completely obsessed with a dream.

2. There Was...

Even the photographers in the above image are amazed by the stunning Emma Watson. The actress attended "The Bling Ring" premiere at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Thursday wearing a glamorous black and white gown.

Watson wore several fashionable outfits while visiting the French Riviera to promote her upcoming film, which centers on a group of teens who rob celebrity homes.

The actress recently talked to W magazine about her character Nicki's style: "Who wouldn't love to go to work in Uggs and very low-slung tracksuit bottoms?"

She added, "And at one point I told the costume designer, ...

The 66th Cannes Film Festival is a who's who of movie stars who pose for the press and pimp their new films on the French Riviera.

British star Emma Watson attended "The Bling Ring" photocall wearing a cute burgundy ensemble embellished with tiny matching feathers.

Her film is based on the true story about a group of fame-obsessed teenagers who break into celebrity homes and then must face the consequences. It hits U.S. theaters in June.

Nicole Kidman stepped out for "The Great Gatsby" premiere wearing a heavily embroidered strapless dress and hot pink heels. Her hair was slicked back in...

There was an air of old-world elegance at "The Great Gatsby" world premiere in New York City on Wednesday night. A slew of celebrities attended the event at Lincoln Center.

British starlet Carey Mulligan stood out on the red carpet wearing a strapless crimson gown, while Leonardo DiCaprio looked dapper in a navy blue suit with a closely clipped beard.

The film centers on Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), who leaves the Midwest in 1922 and goes to New York City during a time of loosening morals, jazz music, bootlegging and sky-rocketing stocks. Nick ends up in a circle of friends that include...

Actress Carey Mulligan has put the gown she wore to New York's annual Costume Institute Gala up for sale to raise money for charity.

Mulligan, who wed singer Marcus Mumford last month, made her red carpet debut as a married woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's glitzy event, known as the Met Ball, in a futuristic gold and silver Prada piece on May 7th.

And despite making a splash in the dress as one of the evening's co-chairs with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and designer Miuccia Prada, the Drive star is gearing up to say good riddance to the garment.

The 26 year old has put the stun...

The "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City was the place to be on Monday night.

New mom Beyonce stunned in a sheer black and purple dress that showed off her muscular legs. Rihanna was glamorous in a black form-fitted gown, while an adorable Emma Stone wore a short red cocktail dress.

Other stars shining in their designer duds included a golden Jessica Alba, a regal Scarlett Johansson, and a sparkling Cameron Diaz.

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Newlywed Carey Mulligan has been given a belated wedding gift following her nuptials over the weekend - the British actress has been named among the New York Drama League's Distinguished Performance nominees.

The "An Education" star joins other big Hollywood names, like Kevin Spacey, Jesse Eisenberg, Alan Rickman and Matthew Broderick among this year's hopefuls, while Ricky Martin has been recognized for his role as Che Guevara in "Evita".

And there were double nominations for Martin Luther King, Jr. play "The Mountaintop" (Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett) and Arthur Miller's "Death ...

British actress Carey Mulligan shunned traditional wedding shoes and wore rain boots as she exchanged vows with folk rocker Marcus Mumford in the English countryside on Saturday.

The An Education beauty married the Mumford & Sons star in a converted barn in Somerset, England and she chose a custom-made cream Prada gown to wear as she walked down the isle.

But Mulligan decided to ditch her high heels and don pink Wellington boots under her dress as light rain started to fall during the ceremony, according to UsMagazine.com.

Guests at the low-key event included Colin Firth, Sienna Miller a...

Actress Carey Mulligan and fiancee Marcus Mumford, of the band Mumford & Sons, were married on Saturday in a barn on a farm in Bridgwater, England.

Us Weekly confirms the wedding news; and fellow stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Sienna Miller, and Colin Firth were among the 200 guests.

"They're a great couple, very sweet," a friend of the couple tells Us.

26-year-old Mulligan - who previously dated actor Shia LaBeouf (they split in October 2010) - and Mumford, 24, were engaged last August after dating for only five months.

The couple has known each other much longer though - when they were kids t...

Carey Mulligan is set to wed her rocker beau, Marcus Mumford, in a secret ceremony this weekend, according to U.K. reports.

The couple has been dating since early last year, and got engaged after just a few months.

The closely-guarded pair was said to be planning a small, top secret ceremony for family and friends in the English countryside, and according to Britain's The Sun, the big day will take place on Saturday.

The publication reports that superstar Adele will sing at the event after the Mumford & Sons frontman reached out to her.

A source tells the newspaper, "Carey and Marcus ar...

2012 is shaping up to be a very literate year in motion pictures. Over 30 films on the release schedule are based on books, short stories or comic books. Below are 10 of the most notable.

1. BEING FLYNN

Based on: Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

Basic plot: A guy who works at a homeless shelter finds his estranged, alcoholic, deadbeat dad wandering in one night.

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore

Director: Paul Weitz

Why it’ll make you thankful: I’m guessing your father isn’t in a homeless shelter…

Release date: Opened March 2 (limited)

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Actresses Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Helena Bonham Carter and Tilda Swinton have been named among Britain's top 50 female power players in a new list compiled to mark International Women's Day.

Officials from the U.K.'s Women in Film and TV organization have created a countdown of the country's biggest and brightest talents to celebrate the ladies who have made an impact on the entertainment industry.

Other celebrities to make the cut include actresses Maggie Smith, Carey Mulligan, Naomie Harris and Miranda Hart, while The Iron Lady director Phyllida Lloyd, Wuthering Heights filmmaker...

Ryan Gosling's thriller Drive and the final Harry Potter installment lead the nominations for the 2012 Empire Awards.

Drive has landed five nods, with Gosling and his co-star Carey Mulligan both vying for Best Actor/Actress awards, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 also scored five nominations.

Both movies will compete for the Best Film prize, along with the American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Daniel Radcliffe will compete with Gosling for the Best Actor Prize, along with Daniel Craig (The ...

British actress Carey Mulligan refused to strike up a friendship with her Shame co-star Michael Fassbender while shooting the drama so they could remain in character as feuding siblings.

The An Education star plays Fassbender's estranged sister in the Steve McQueen movie and they made sure to keep their distance from one another until filming had wrapped in an effort to enhance their bitter portrayals onscreen.

Mulligan tells the Press Association, "Michael and I decided not to become friends because our characters are so vicious towards each other.

"So we didn't actually spend any time ...

British actress Carey Mulligan is facing a nervous few months after her beloved brother was sent on a military mission to Afghanistan.

The Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps star's brother, Owain Mulligan, is a captain in the British army was recently deployed to the war-torn country in the Middle East.

Family friend Alex Kelly has revealed the entire family is worried about Owain, 27, as he embarks on his latest assignment, telling Britain's Mail on Sunday, "Naturally the family are incredibly concerned. Owain is a fascinating individual. He taught himself Dari and Pashto, the official lang...

Actress Carey Mulligan missed out on the role of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake - even though she turned up to her audition with the director dressed like a goth.

The star of An Education accepted she was a long shot for the role of the heavily-pierced and tattooed computer hacker but she felt it would help Fincher see her 'made-up' as Salander.

She tells the New York Times, "I had read all the books. I thought, 'They'll never in a million years cast me,' and I was right! I thought it was a challenge and I just didn't want to be associated with ...

Sienna Miller is to wed boyfriend Tom Sturridge, according to reports. The news comes just hours after Life & Style magazine revealed the star is pregnant.

A source now tells the publication, "They're engaged and really happy. Her family is happy, as they absolutely adore Tom.

"He proposed to Sienna during their romantic trip to Paris after Christmas. He filled their hotel suite at the Ritz with flowers and presented her with a vintage Victorian ring. It was incredibly romantic (and) she was blown away."

Miller had a seven-year on/off romance with actor Jude Law, which ended for good las...

The Artist and Hugo have both been given major Oscars boosts after landing 11 nominations apiece for the 2012 Critics' Choice Awards.

The two films, which have already picked up early awards, will compete for the Best Picture at the 17th annual Critics' Choice Awards, as selected by the Broadcast Film Critics Association in America.

They will be up against Midnight in Paris, Drive, The Help, Moneyball, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Tree of Life and War Horse.

George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Ryan Gosling (Drive), Brad Pitt (Moneyball), Michael F...

The Help star Octavia Spencer is to be honored with the prestigious Breakthrough Performance Award at the 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival in California.

The actress, who played maid Minny in the critically-acclaimed summer hit, will pick up her biggest accolade to date in January.

It has taken the 39 year old 15 years to land a Breakthrough Performance Award - her first movie credit was for 1996's A Time To Kill.

Past recipients of the award include Carey Mulligan, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Hudson and Freida Pinto.

Previously announced honorees at the 2012 Palm...

Two Jews on Film - By Joan Alperin-Schwartz: A good looking man in his thirties sits on a New York City subway starring intensely at a married woman seated across from him. It's obvious to the viewer that he's hitting on her and it's just as obvious, that's she's enjoying it.

The man is Brandon (Michael Fassbender) and he is a sex addict. Thanks to Steve McQueen's brilliant direction, we get to be a voyeur into Brandon's depraved but always fascinating world.

Brandon lives in a sterile New York City apartment...Everything is neat and orderly...which is a sharp contrast to his everyday...

Carey Mulligan was once pulled over by police for "veering around in the road" while driving in Los Angeles - because she was "so wired" after bingeing on an energy drink.

The An Education star had a brush with the law when she was taking her Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn home, but the cop who pulled them over decided not to take further action.

She tells New York Magazine blog Vulture, "We almost got arrested once in L.A. I used to drive him to and from work when we were doing the movie... and one day we shot until two in the morning. I'd never had Red Bull before, and I had, lik...

Writer/directors helm dramas of various sorts in the relatively quiet week following Thanksgiving. This week you’ll have the chance to see the Steve McQueen drama “Shame” about a sex addict, the Takeshi Kitano crime drama “Autoreiji,” the Alrick Brown romantic drama set in war torn Rwanda “Kinyarwanda,” and the Julia Leigh erotic drama “Sleeping Beauty.”

MY PICK FOR THE WEEK: Shame

SHAME

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a thirtysomething New Yorker who lives a careful private life, in order to satisfy his sexual addiction. His world is turned upside down though, when his younger sis...

Michael Fassbender is baffled by the restrictive rating on his saucy new movie Shame in America, because he is convinced many gory horror films are given lower classifications.

Fassbender stars as a sex addict in the picture, alongside Carey Mulligan, who plays his self-harming sister, and censors in the U.S. branded the movie an NC-17 - meaning no one under the age of 17 will be allowed to view the film.

The actor has now defended the movie's raunchy scenes, insisting they are far less shocking than the gory footage seen in many popular horrors.

He tells The Huffington Post, "(It's) ...

Carey Mulligan has blasted movie censors for slapping a restrictive rating on her new film Shame; insisting officials are punishing producers for including "unattractive" sex scenes.

The British actress stars alongside Michael Fassbender in the drama about a sex addict and his self-harming sister. The hard-hitting film features several raunchy scenes, prompting censors in the U.S. to impose an NC-17 rating on the movie.

It means no one under the age of 17 will be allowed to view the film - but Mulligan is angry as she feels the rating would have been less restrictive if the sex scenes w...

Carey Mulligan's romantic scenes with Johnny Depp were scrapped from their movie Public Enemies because she looked too nervous kissing the Hollywood hunk.

The British actress repeatedly smooched with Depp for the 2009 crime drama, but each take ended up on the cutting room floor because Mulligan looked too apprehensive on film.

She tells U.K. TV host Graham Norton, "I had to kiss him several times. It was 16 times, but it was cut out of the film because I looked so uncomfortable.

"I was kissing Johnny Depp and I got really nervous."

And Mulligan was also left starstruck by her acting id...

Actress Rooney Mara resents assumptions she has found fame because of her famous family.

The beauty landed her breakthrough role in David Fincher's The Social Network and then beat out a number of stars, including Carey Mulligan and Scarlett Johansson, for the coveted lead role in the director's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake.

However, Mara insists her recent string of good luck has nothing to do with her football-loving great-grandfathers - Tim Mara, founder of the New York Giants and Art Rooney, founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers - revealing all her accomplishments are born ou...

British actress Carey Mulligan prepared for a harrowing nude scene in new movie "Shame" by partying with pals and boozing it up for a week.

The star accepts there are better ways to prepare for such a revealing role - but she had a great time.

She tells USA Today, "I ended up going away the week before with friends. We drank a lot of beer, which is about the worst thing you can do a week before doing a nude scene. It was not my finest hour."

But she had very few regrets about stripping off for the shower scene with fellow Brit Michael Fassbender.

The actress, who was honored for her rol...

“Drive” is a point blank shotgun blast to your dome. This is not a metaphor. About a half hour into “Drive”, the audience (and myself) started questioning what exactly Director Nicolas Winding Refn was attempting to accomplish by putting all this pesky exposition in an action movie. Then second act of the movie kicks in with a literal point-blank shotgun blast to the dome, and does not let up. It's jarring how unexpectedly graphically violent this film is. The blood and violence arrives quickly and doesn't stop flowing until the credits. Once Ryan Gosling's character is in the sh*t, he's i...

Most of us ladies know Ryan Gosling as the sweet, sensitive and sexy Noah Calhoun from The Notebook, and most guys know him as that guy they can never live up to their girlfriends. But after Ryan’s new movie Drive, there may be a turn in the table resulting in a few more man crushes in this world. This highly anticipated movie may change Ryan’s career and send him to the top of the Hollywood Food Chain.

Love him or hate him, we all know the guy can act - Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine proves that. But Drive shows that intense, edgy side of Gosling that makes him sex...

Two Jews on Film - By Joan Alperin-Schwartz: Ryan Gosling is 'Driver'. He drives...fast...very fast...If you're a burglar, he's your go-to guy. Just make sure you get the job done in five minutes. Because that's all you got... One minute late, Driver is gone.

Now, driving a get-a-way car is Driver's night job. His day job is slightly more glamorous. Driver is a stunt driver for movies...That is, when he's not working as a mechanic, for Shannon (Bryan Cranston) who just happens to be the Driver's agent and manager as well.

Shannon is a man with a dream. He wants to fund a stock car...