I’ve added to our gallery the latest sets of candids. Check them out!

[01/13] Arriving at LAX Airport

[01/16] Depart from The LAX Airport

[01/17] Arriving at Heathrow Airport

Kate Winslet stepped back into the Golden Globes press room shortly after accepting the latest statue for her collection. She won for her work in Mildred Pierce, but backstage, talk turned to future roles. She apparently has her eye on playing Elizabeth Taylor as well as taking on the part of a man someday. Plus, Kate told us why roast chicken became a favorite in her household:

On the rumors both she and Lindsay Lohan want to play Elizabeth Taylor: “I think I’ll decline to comment, that’s the first I’ve heard of that story. It’s a massive undertaking for anybody who should be fortunate enough to get that part. I’m not gonna go there, dude!”

On dream future roles: “I would like to someday play a man. That is something that I do know. I don’t know what kind of man. I don’t know whether that would ever happen or not. That would be the ultimate challenge.”

On learning to cook for the part: “I was taught to section up a chicken by Tom Colicchio! He used a technique that was quite old-fashioned so it married up. My children were eating a lot of chicken!”

On how Ricky Gervais is doing as a host: “He seems to be doing absolutely fine. I’ve been back here for about the past half-hour, so unless he’s fallen over or started drinking too much, I think he’s doing OK.”

Best fashion advice she’s ever received: “Wear something that I feel comfortable in, not to wear something just because someone else is telling me to. I think that is true of life as well.”

Congratulations Kate for winning The Golden Globe for her role in Mildred Pierce! She looked absolutely stunning this night. I’ve added already some HQ pictures to our gallery but still more to come.

And video of Kate picking her award

Organized to help promote Australian tourism in the States, the 9th Annual G’Day USA Los Angeles Black Tie Gala was held at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom on Saturday night (January 14).

Kate Winslet and her boyfriend Ned Rocknroll arriving on a flight at LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA on January 13, 2012. (14 photos)

Kate was spotted leaving hotel in London on January 11th, 2012. Check pictures in our gallery!

LONDON — Kate Winslet is attached to star in “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” which Kenneth Branagh is set to direct for Fox 2000.

This reunites Winslet with Branagh for the first time since she played Ophelia in his bigscreen “Hamlet” in 1996.

“The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society” is adapted by Don Roos from the bestseller by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

It’s a love story set in the London and the Channel Islands after WWII. Winslet will play a magazine columnist who enters into a correspondence with a man from Guernsey, and learns how the islanders used a book group during the war as cover to outwit their German occupiers.

Captivated by their stories of the occupation, and how the books came to influence their lives, she decides to travel to Guernsey herself, a journey that changes her forever.

In a recent interview with Variety, Branagh described the project as “a beautiful romance, very touching and uplifting.”

The project is being produced by Paula Masur and Mitchell Kaplan, with Branagh’s regular partner David Barron. Shooting is scheduled for March, according to the Daily Mail.

The book was first published in the U.S. in 2008. It was the first and only novel by Mary Ann Shaffer, an editor and librarian, whose niece Annie Burrows helped her finish it when Shaffer became terminally ill. Shaffer died aged 74 a few months before the novel was published.

Source: Variety.com

Kate Winslet is back as the face of knitwear company St. John, and the label just released her latest ads. For the shoot, the 2012 Golden Globe nominee wore a series of St. John’s classic looks, including an off-the-shoulder sweater and a charcoal wrap dress. Below behind the scenes of making this spring campaign.

Contagion

3½ stars (out of four)
Rated PG-13
Warner Brothers
Available on: DVD, Blu-ray and digital download

Steven Soderbergh has a catalogue of great movies, including “Traffic” (2000), “Erin Brockovich” (2000), “Ocean’s 11” (2001) and “The Informant!” (2009). Now, he can add “Contagion” to that list.

The film takes a multi-pronged look at the spread of a virus that kills within days and leaves international healthcare professionals baffled. Viewers first meet Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow), a traveling businesswoman who returns to her Minneapolis home after a trip to Hong Kong. After suffering a seizure, she dies in the emergency room, leaving her husband (Matt Damon) baffled. In the meantime, people from around the globe begin succumbing to similar symptoms, convincing professionals from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that a pandemic is imminent.

The movie follows its characters, including doctors played by Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard and Kate Winslet, as they try to grasp the severity of the situation. Soderbergh also considers the broad social consequences of an uncontrolled outbreak. Normally right-thinking people – even those who aren’t infected – begin to panic, and a crusading blogger (Jude Law) begins to command the respect that only medical professionals typically receive.

Soderbergh has always been good at taking expansive issues and filtering them through a personal lens, and he does that here. A number of the characters demonstrate how terrifying a global epidemic would actually be and how helpless a simple virus can make even the most educated and affluent individuals.

The cast, which also features John Hawkes, Elliott Gould and Bryan Cranston, is a fantastic group, which is important because no single character is central to the movie’s success. Despite the talent in every realm of production, it’s Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns who deserve the bulk of the credit. Without proper guidance, a film like “Contagion” could have easily bogged down in technical details or simply become irredeemably gloomy. Soderbergh and Burns avoid those trappings, delivering a film that is appropriately somber, yet never overbearing or dull.

DVD extras include a short on how viruses can change the world.

Source: Highbrow Magazine

(Cover) – US Showbiz – Kate Winslet thinks people always need “hope” in relationships. The actress is currently romancing Ned Rocknroll, who is the nephew of British entrepreneur Richard Branson. However, the actress knows what it is like to go through a break-up.

She has been divorced twice; her union with director Jim Threapleton ended in 2001 and she split from American Beauty director Sam Mendes in 2010. The 36-year-old believes it is very clear when a relationship needs to end.

“When I feel like I’m living the wrong life. When I feel trapped. You always need to have hope – and if you haven’t, then you should leave,” she told German magazine In. “But that’s no secret: everyone knows how it feels to be with the wrong person.”

However, Kate now feels comfortable with her past loves. She has felt like she’s battling at times but is now happy with life.

“I found my inner peace. I know that I am responsible for my own luck. So changes are part of everyone’s lives. You have to fight through, there’s no other way,” she said.

© Cover Media / Source:  Hot92and100