British model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley reportedly gave up a job hosting a fashion TV show after she landed a role in the new Mad Max movie.

The Transformers: Dark of the Moon star was picked to present Project Runway All Stars, according to program insiders but backed out just weeks before filming began last month when she was confirmed to appear in long-delayed blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road.

Huntington-Whiteley flew out to Namibia to shoot the film and TV bosses were left scrambling to find a last-minute replacement, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
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Let's face it: If you had to pick five Hollywood starlets to become your wives in a post-apocalyptic future, chances are you would at least consider giving one of those slots to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. It's just simple logic.

And that's why today's announcement that Huntington-Whiteley has officially joined the cast of "Mad Max: Fury Road" as one of the film's "five wives" makes so much sense.

Hey, if she's tough enough to face off against the Decepticons, chances are she can handle a few mutants on motorcycles, right?

Rebooting the "Mad Max" universe, "Mad Max: Fury Road" stars Tom H...

Charlize Theron has chopped off her pretty blonde locks, but don't worry. It's for her new "Mad Max" movie. Theron plays Furiosa in "Mad Max: Fury Road," which is set to start shooting this summer after a two-year delay.

Theron has been attached to the project since 2009. Teaming up with Tom Hardy, she said: "It's been three years. It's time to skin this cat already!"

She told Us Weekly magazine, "The original Mad Max created such a vivid world, so to go back and re-imagine it and re-play in that sandbox sounds like fun to me. Its a really challenging piece of material... I feel very luck...

Aussie supermodel Abbey Lee Kershaw has replaced actress Teresa Palmer in director George Miller's "Mad Max" revamp.

Palmer was forced to drop out of the delayed project due to reported scheduling conflicts, and her departure gives Kershaw the chance to make her acting debut opposite Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.

An insider tells the Daily Telegraph that the model will portray a post-apocalyptic woman caged like a bird for her beauty.

Cameras on "Mad Max: Fury Road," which was to have started filming last year, are expected to roll this summer.

Charlize Theron has vowed never to rush into performing dangerous stunts after an accident on the set of 2004's Aeon Flux almost left her paralyzed.

The actress was completing a series of back flips for the sci-fi action movie when she landed awkwardly on her neck, herniating a disc dangerously close to her spinal chord.

The film was shut down for eight weeks to allow Theron to recover and doctors feared the mishap would leave the actress with limited mobility. She recovered and now accepts that she should leave the heavy stunt work to the professionals.

She is adamant she will not be ...

Zoe Kravitz attended the the "X-Men: First Class" New York Premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater.

The daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, Zoe took her first major feature bow in the 2007 romanic comedy "No Reservations," followed soon after by a turn in the Jodie Foster revenge thriller "The Brave One."

She stars in the upcoming film "X-Men: First Class" and "Mad Max: Fury Road."

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You may not know Teresa Palmer yet, but the young star is making waves in Hollywood both personally and professionally.

The Australian actress made her film debut in the 2006 suicide drama "2:37," which she followed up with films such as "The Grudge 2," "December Boys" and "The Sorceror's Apprentice."

She stars in the upcoming film "I Am Number Four" about a teenage fugitive with an incredible secret who races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking to track and destroy him. She plays Number Six. The film opens Feb. 18.

Her career is heating up, with several more films i...