Christina was at the Cannes Film Festival today - May 19. She attended the “Chopard Trophy Party”. I have added the first image from the event - with more to be added soon! Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the HQ version of the photo.

If you are having issues hearing the sound on some of the videos that were recently uploaded, please try to use VLC Media Player to view them. This seems to be the best way to watch these videos.

Over the past two days, I’ve added over 500 new event HQ’s into our gallery (from years 2004-2008). This is the first part of a two part update, the next one will include more HQ’s from events from 2003 and earlier. Click on the thumbnails below to see the last uploaded images - more will be coming soon!

The video from Christina’s appearance on “Last Call with Carson Daly” from last night is now up at our video archive! Thanks to Frank for the heads up! Click on the thumbnail below to download the video.

Christina is ranked as #66 on the annual “Hot 100″ list from Maxim Magazine. You can view a feature on her from the website, Maxim.com.

She’s dazzled in everything from Sleepy Hollow to Black Snake Moan, and with Speed Racer, she proves she’s also at home in the racing-movie-based-on-a-bizarre-Japanese-cartoon genre.

“Speed Racer” stars Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci are better known for smaller independent movies than summer blockbusters.

Yet they could not pass up the chance to work with Larry and Andy Wachowski on the brothers’ first writing-directing effort after “The Matrix” trilogy.

After the lesbian thriller “Bound” and their science-fiction franchise, all dark R-rated affairs, the Wachowskis have gone the family route with the PG-rated “Speed Racer,” a live-action and computer-animated update of the TV cartoon series.

Hirsch, who starred last year in Sean Penn’s acclaimed drama “Into the Wild,” plays Speed, the young phenomenon of the Racer family, who gets behind the wheel to take on a corrupt corporate honcho ruining auto racing.

Ricci, most recently seen as a pig-faced girl in the fairy-tale romance “Penelope,” plays Speed’s girlfriend Trixie, who flies the skies in her helicopter to scout out the race course.

With the Wachowskis reteaming with “Matrix” producer Joel Silver, “Speed Racer” also stars John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox and a pet chimpanzee that’s constantly getting into trouble.

Hirsch, 23, and Ricci, 28, chatted with The Associated Press at March’s ShoWest theater-owners convention, where distributor Warner Bros. showed off footage of “Speed Racer.” The movie opens Friday.

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AP: Given the more serious films the two of you often do, a big summer action movie doesn’t seem like an obvious choice.

Ricci: But this is the coolest, because it’s the Wachowski brothers, and also, it’s not your average cheesy big blockbuster. It’s really awesome.

Hirsch: There’s something just so wonderfully rebellious about the idea of being like some serious actor and having to just do those kind of movies, where I wanted to spit on the idea and just do something so wrong. But it’s so right.

Ricci: And so much about choices for me is about what’s going to be fun. This sounded like so much fun. You get to go do an action-y film and a really stylized character. To me, that’s fun.

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Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Josh Lucas and Justin Bartha will star in Adam Davidson’s drama “Long Time Gone.”

In the feature, based on April Stevens’ 1994 debut novel “Angel Angel,” Ricci will play a mysterious woman who enters the life of a dysfunctional family and turns it upside down, one member at a time.

GreeneStreet Films International president Amy Beecroft is repping international sales of the feature, and ICM is handling domestic rights

Karen McCullah Lutz adapted the book, and is producing with Seth Jaret’s Jaret Entertainment and Steven G. Kaplan & Gregg L. Daniel’s Rainstorm Entertainment.

Davidson won the Palme d’Or for best short film and an Oscar for his 1989 short “The Lunch Date,” and has directed numerous TV series.

From the Hollywood Reporter. Thanks to Frank for the heads up!

Christina and Matthew Fox being interviewed for Fox 6 news in San Diego, CA. If the embed doesn’t work, you can view the video right here.

From writer/directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the groundbreaking The Matrix trilogy, and producer Joel Silver, comes the live-action, high-octane family adventure Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci.

Trixie flies a helicopter in the movie. Is that her racecar?

They wrote this character and she made sense to me. This is a car culture, and you’ve got to think that Speed raced a lot of rallies in his young life and she’s part of the team. That’s her contribution.

Did you know before you got the role of Trixie that you’d be doing martial arts in the movie?

A lot of the script was action sequences – just pages and pages describing the races and action sequences. I didn’t read those pages because it was a little dense and I had to audition in twenty-four hours. So, when I got to the set and the stunt coordinator came to see me, he said, ‘So, you’re going to be doing some kung fu.’ I was like, ‘What? Really? I fight in this?’ And he assured me that I fight in this. I had a couple of training sessions. It was really fun and the stunt guys were awesome and really fun to deal with and work with. I had a really good time. I love that kind of thing, so it was great. I tend to be very competitive and athletic, so it was awesome.

With so much of the film being shot in front of a green screen, did the Wachowskis give you detailed information about what each scene would look like?

No. They explained as much as they could and you were certainly able to go and find out as much as you wanted to, or you could know as little as you wanted to. I mean, there’s no way of really knowing exactly what it’s going to be like because it’s very much in their hands. With Larry and Andy, it’s their personality, it’s their ideas and vision that stamped all over the movie. But the thing is, you get such a great feeling out of the fact that they know exactly what they’re going to be doing. They have this world worked out completely.

You can ask any question about minutia in the world and they would know the answer. So, when people are like that, it tends to inspire a lot of confidence and a lot of trust. Also, there’s this idea that if I argue with them, I have no ground to stand on because I have no idea what’s in their head. So, it’s not like you can say, ‘Look, I don’t think this would go with what’s happening in the background,’ because you don’t know what is happening in the background. So, you really are in a place where you just do what they tell you. If you don’t, it probably will not fit with the rest of the film.

Were you nervous meeting the Wachowskis for the first time?

I was very nervous. I didn’t talk much at my audition. Then they said they were worried about hiring me because I didn’t talk much. I was like, ‘I was nervous, people. Come on.’ It was a combination of the fact that I really would have liked to do the job plus being a huge fan of theirs. I loved The Matrix.

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From writer/directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the groundbreaking The Matrix trilogy, and producer Joel Silver, comes the live-action, high-octane family adventure Speed Racer. Win posters signed by Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci!

Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized - the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill.

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