Here are some new photos from the Contagion premiere last night in NYC. For such an all-star cast, I’m surprised by how few A-list celebrities showed up for the premiere. Maybe everybody was exhausted after Venice…? Perhaps. Anyway, Matt Damon is always a good promotional soldier, so he and Lucy were there. Plus, Marion Cotillard walked her first red carpet (I think) since giving birth to baby Marcel. She’s still breastfeeding. Marion wore Dior Fall 2011, which is lovely. I like the detailing on the gown, although I think many of the gorgeous details might get lost in photos. My only problem with Marion’s look is her hair. These braids… they are not flattering. She has such a pretty face, but the hairstyle makes her look matronly, dated and square-faced.

Now for Lucy and Matt. When I covered the photos of them in Venice, many of you absolutely hated Lucy’s gold gown, especially the way it fit at the top. Some of you even whispered some stuff about breast implants. Can I just say… I agree. I think Lucy got her boobs done after giving birth and breastfeeding all of those babies. I think Matt is a tit-man, and Lucy got ‘em done. I’m not judging – obviously, Matt can’t keep his hands off of her, and I think it’s kind of cute that she got her boobs done for him. Plus, she looks great in turquoise. Matt looks nice too.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

A new trailer for the thriller Contagion by director Steven Soderbergh has been released and it just looks incredible. It’s about a virus that quickly spreads throughout the world, killing everyone in its wake. There’s so much talent in this movie including my imaginary husband, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow as his wife (she dies early on, so it’s ok), and supporting roles by Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cottilard, and Laurence Fishburne.

This trailer was so good that I watched it several times and paused to see who was possibly dying and what the plot might be. (Here are some potential plot points that are in the trailer. Highlight the blank space after these words to reveal spoilers from the trailer I think Damon gets the virus, recovers and is immune, and then goes into hiding to save his kids. One of his daughters then gets the virus. She’s the one in the blue hat torward the end)

I love apocalyptic movies for some reason, and it’s nice to see a non-zombie film in this genre. Zombies creep me out, but there’s something so compelling about watching people try to survive when all hell breaks loose. Put Matt Damon, Jude Law and Kate Winslet in there and it’s perfection. The only question is: with so many big names, who is going to promote this movie? Please let it be Damon.

Contagion is out in the US on September 9th.

Wow, I wasn’t expecting this so soon! Marion Cotillard has given birth to her French baby! Huzzah! She only confirmed that she and her long-time lover/boyfriend Guillaume Canet were expecting in January, and Marion isn’t one of those celebrities who is photographed all the time, so it didn’t seem like we were inundated with endless updates of her bump. Marion and Guillaume named their son Marcel. Very French. If I had a French baby, I would probably name him Alexandre or Serge. But that’s just me!

Inception star Marion Cotillard and her French actor-director beau Guillaume Canet are parents.

Their son, named Marcel, was born Thursday night in Paris, a source confirms to PEOPLE. “Mother and baby are fine,” says the source, who adds that Cotillard is “very happy.”

Cotillard, 35, and Canet, 38, first starred together in 2003′s Love Me If You Dare and began dating in 2007.

Though Cotillard – who won a Best Actress Oscar as singer Edith Piaf in 2007′s La Vie En Rose, and will costar with Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale in the upcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises – has been spotted wearing a diamond solitaire from Canet on her left hand, they are not engaged.

“They haven’t disclosed any plans concerning marriage,” a source told PEOPLE when the pregnancy was announced in January.

The couple most recently collaborated for the film, Little White Lies, which Canet directed.

Cotillard currently costars in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which kicked off this year’s Cannes Film Festival on May 11 – Cotillard did not attend – and is opening in limited release in Los Angeles and New York on Friday.

[From People]

Canet is Diane Kruger’s ex, correct? I’ve heard Diane talk a little bit about her relationship with Canet, and she made it seem like they’re still on okay terms, they just grew apart for whatever reason. Still, I bet Diane is thinking about babies now. She and Joshua Jackson should totally have a baby. It would be SO cute. I’m betting that little Marcel will be adorable too – he has two nice-looking parents.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

For some reason, we’ve been covering every fart and burp that comes out of the casting rumor mill for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. We already know that Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine will be reprising their roles, and we know that Anne Hathaway was cast as Selina Kyle/Catwoman. The latest additions to the cast – Joseph Gordon Levitt and Marion Cotillard – were announced in February and March, although their characters haven’t been confirmed until now. Oh, and we know that Tom Hardy was likely cast as Bane, and SPOILER if you read the comics, you know what casting Bane means for the series. So, many already had a strong feeling that this was going to be the last Batman from the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale pairing. But at this point, the cast has grown so large and there are so many storylines, I don’t see how this is not going to be a really weak, schizophrenic plot. So… would you like to know what roles JGL and Marion have taken? I guarantee that you never considered this junk:

Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that Oscar® winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have joined the cast of The Dark Knight Rises, the epic conclusion to the Dark Knight legend.

Cotillard will appear as Miranda Tate, a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father’s philanthropic endeavors for Gotham. Gordon-Levitt will play John Blake, a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon.

The film reunites the actors with Christopher Nolan, who recently directed them in the award-winning blockbuster Inception.

The director stated, “When you collaborate with people as talented as Marion and Joe, it comes as no surprise that you would want to repeat the experience. I immediately thought of them for the roles of Miranda and Blake, and I am looking forward to working with both of them again.”

Heading the cast of The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale stars as Bruce Wayne/Batman. The main cast also includes Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy as Bane. Josh Pence, who played the body of one of the Winkelvo.

Nolan will direct the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jonathan Nolan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Christopher Nolan will also produce the film with his longtime producing partner, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven.

The Dark Knight Rises is slated for release on July 20, 2012. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

[From Coming Soon]

So, Marion is going to play a corporate bureaucrat with a philanthropic bent, and JGL is going to play a beat cop. Er…? The idea of Marion, who is in reality a space cadet, an eccentric, crazy, beautiful hot mess of a woman, playing it “straight” as a corporate type is totally bizarre. It’s like… I don’t know, hiring Angelina Jolie to play an insurance saleswoman. Or hiring Sofia Vergara to play a neurosurgeon. It’s an odd casting choice. As for JGL… well, I want to think that this part will be meaty, but I doubt it. It’s probably a pity part.

But yeah, this movie is probably going to have about 30 sub-plots. Ridic.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Marion Cotillard just signed on to join The Dark Knight Rises as an as-of-yet unknown character. Cotillard is currently pregnant with her first baby, due this April. The film is going to start shooting in June so she’s not going to have much time before she has to get right back to work. Cotillard last worked with director Chris Nolan on Inception.

Gotham City is about to get a French accent. Already set to star Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Christian Bale returning as the Caped Crusader, the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, is also welcoming a formidable femme fatale: 2008 Oscar winner Marion Cotillard.

While it still remains to be seen whether the French star, 35, will play a romantic interest or a rival superhero to Hathaway’s character of Selina Kyle – also known as Catwoman – the addition of Cotillard comes as a surprise, reports Monday’s Le Parisien newspaper.

Sources also tell PEOPLE that the La Vie en Rose Oscar winner, who is expecting a baby in April with her French actor-director beau Guillaume Canet, signed onto the Batman project Saturday in Paris.

The Batman movie will also reunite Cotillard with her Inception director Christopher Nolan and costars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy. Others in the cast include Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman.

According to sources, Cotillard will start shooting at London’s Elstree Studios in mid-June, then move on to locations in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles this summer. Filming is expected to wrap in New York in November, with the picture’s release set for July 2012.

Cotillard’s next picture is Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival May 11 – with Cotillard expected on the red carpet.

[From People]

Anne Hathaway has already been cast as catwoman so leaves the question as to who Cotillard will play. Kaiser thinks she’ll be playing Talia Ducard, the daughter of Liam Neeson’s character. Quite a few actresses have been attached to that role, including Keira Knightley and Rachel Weisz. It’s a plum role and one that Cotillard should fill nicely. She’ll have the mom boobs for it.

Marion Cotillard is shown on 10/14 and 12/4/10. Credit: WENN.com

Marion Cotillard has finally confirmed her pregnancy! Thank God. This confirmation is for all of those people (me) who feared that Marion had put on major munchie weight and gotten a massive boob job. No, the girl is just pregnant. Her rep has confirmed it, so it’s on, although American outlets are at a loss as to what to call the baby-daddy, Guillaume Canet. Is he the boyfriend? The love-time love? The partner? The fiancé? I think they may be engaged – the last time Marion was photographed, she was wearing a diamond ring that looked engagement-y.

Inception star Marion Cotillard and her French actor/director beau Guillaume Canet are broadening their repertoire to include parenthood.

The couple are expecting their first child together, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.

Cotillard, 35, and Canet, 37, first starred together in 2003′s Love Me If You Dare and began dating in 2007. Their baby is due this spring, according to a source.

Though the actress has been spotted wearing a diamond solitaire on her left hand – a present from Canet – they are not engaged. “They haven’t disclosed any plans concerning marriage,” says the source.

The couple most recently collaborated for the film, Little White Lies, which Canet directed. Cotillard will next be seen in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion. The actress won an Oscar in 2007 for La Vie en Rose.

[From People]

No one is saying, but I suspect Marion is well into her second trimester, considering how pregnant she looked back one month ago. I suspect she’s like four or five months along.

Anyway, congratulations to Marion and Guillaume! They’re going to have a beautiful French baby.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Back in October, Marion Cotillard debuted a dramatic new look – bangs trauma and major, gigantic boobs. Marion wasn’t really flat-chested before, but it seems like all of a sudden the girl is Jessica Simpson-sized in the boob department. This lead some of us to discuss the pregnancy-boobs versus boob job debate. Marion helped us out a month later by stepping out once again looking slightly heavier, with perhaps a slight hint of bump. And now, one month after the initial boobs-and-bangs trauma, we have new photos of Marion from this week’s Marrakech Film Festival, were she was promoting a film directed by her long-time lover Guillaume Canet (Diane Kruger’s ex-husband). And now PopEater points out that Marion might have been debuting something else on the red carpet – an engagement ring? Here’s the close up of the ring she wore:

God, I hope that isn’t it. It’s looks small, right? Oh, well. Just another bitch who is going to steal Jessica Simpson’s thunder! Here’s PopEater’s report:

Morocco got some refreshing attention last week from the Marrakech Film Festival, but Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard snagged some of the spotlight by wearing a rock on her finger at the opening ceremony. Photos have surfaced revealing what appears to be an engagement ring on Cotillard’s ring finger while she walks next to her boyfriend Guillaume Canet.

There are no confirmed reports from Cotillard or Canet about an engagement, so maybe the French starlet is keeping it hush-hush. Historically, Cotillard and Canet speak very little about their relationship to the media. In fact, they didn’t even attend the 2009 Cannes Film Festival on the red carpet together.

Canet, an actor, director and writer, is considered the George Clooney of France these days, which makes Cotillard and Canet one of the premiere French couples. The couple first united while working on the set of French film ‘Love Me if You Dare’ (2003), then officially began dating in 2007. They’ve continued to work together ever since with ‘The Last Flight’ (2009) and ‘Les Petits Mouchoirs’ (2010).

[From PopEater]

The French George Clooney? Canet wishes. I don’t hate Canet or anything, he seems like a perfectly nice and attractive man, but he’s not any Clooney-type. James Franco, maybe.

By that way, I’m still not even convinced that she’s pregnant. Marion strikes me as toker, and I could see this whole thing just being a stoner weight gain from too many munchies.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I was looking through photos of this BAFTA/LA event in Los Angeles last night, and instead of becoming obsessed with Carey Mulligan (her outfit was meh), I chanced upon these Marion Cotillard photos from the event. Remember a couple of weeks ago when Marion had major tittay drama on the red carpet? Some of us were like “maybe those are pregnancy boobs.” Well, I’m thinking the same thing again. See:

While I’m not really spying a “bump” for Marion in this Elie Saab dress, she does look… fuller. Rounder, in general. Is it just that she eats and she naturally has some nice boobs and full(er) hips, and I just haven’t been paying attention? Could be. But I’m still putting Marion on Bump Watch. If she is knocked up, chances are the baby-daddy is Guillaume Canet, Marion’s boyfriend since 2007 (and Diane Kruger’s ex-husband). Neither has any children thus far.

A couple more photos from the event… Carey Mulligan looking “eh” and Michael Sheen with an extremely unconvincing mustache.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Bauer-Griffin.

These are new photos of Marion Cotillard at the Paris premiere of her new film, Les Petits Mouchoirs. I don’t really care about the film. I care about the fashion. I care about the boobs. And I care about the bangs trauma. First, lets’ go with the dress: I really don’t like it. It’s very “inspired by a trash bag.” These beautiful women… they’re told they can pull off anything, that they could wear a trash bag or a potato sack and still pull it off. Stop telling beautiful women sh-t like that. They get ideas. While Marion is a beautiful women, for sure, she looks so much better when she’s wearing a lovely dress that is fitted appropriately and doesn’t jack everything up and over (remember her upper arm disaster last month? Yeah). Speaking of: her boobs. They look… HUGE. Big enough that I’m considering whether or not those are pregnancy boobs. But Marion is normally well-endowed, isn’t she? She has nice-sized boobs normally, and this dress might just make them look huge because it’s so tight, everything is spilling out.

Lastly: The Bangs Trauma. Now, I know some of you have bangs and like bangs, and that’s great and good for you. BUT. I have bangs trauma, and that’s my thing, and it’s a syndrome I deal with daily, especially when I see a hot mess like this. What bugs me most of all is that Marion is STUNNING without the bangs. Like, her face is a work of art. Add to that her already comically oversized ears, and you have a traditional beauty with just a hint of humor. When you add bangs trauma to that… it’s just a mess. She looks like a frog. I’m not making a French joke. I hate the bangs so much.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Marion Cotillard is the August cover girl for Interview Magazine. I love the cover – and the rest of the photo shoot (here) is really lovely. Marion is a gorgeous woman, and the camera loves her, I’ve never doubted that. What I do doubt, however, if just how eccentric Marion is. I’ve mentioned this before, when I attempted to cull some highlights from Marion’s Vogue cover interview – this chick is strange, and it’s not all just “lost in translation”. Much like Sarah Jessica Parker, I think Marion tries too hard to be eccentric, but unlike SJP, I think Marion comes by her strangeness more legitimately, you know? Like, it’s less of an affectation and more that Marion has always been a strange duck, and she just plays that up for effect in interviews.

The interview is conducted by Nicole Kidman, and the whole piece is worth a read (here). Here are some highlights:

KIDMAN: I remember everyone on the set said the same thing about you. I know Rob [Marshall] said it on Nine: that you’re otherworldly, that it seems like you come from another planet—and I mean that in the most beautiful way. And yet you are the most Earth-based of all of us. That’s a very strange paradox. You have this fairy quality, like you’re flitting through trees and stars, and then at the same time, you’re really grounded. It’s very hypnotic . . . You don’t have to respond to that. I’ll say that!

COTILLARD: [laughs] I think the Earth and everything around it is connected—the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery. I think we connect when we accept that the mystery is also taking place here on the ground. We live on Earth and have jobs and interact in society, but we still exist because there is a moon rotating around us, and a sun we rotate around.

COTILLARD: I think searching is a beautiful thing. There is this thought that goes, If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you’ll find what you need. But I think maybe if you don’t search you wouldn’t have the experience of searching and then won’t find it at all. You have to search first, if you know what I mean. It’s the experience of living. We can have one experience that can change our whole lives. I saw a documentary recently about a guy who was attacked by a shark. He was very injured and almost died. After this, he went all over the world killing sharks. Then an even bigger fear entered his mind: “I have killed so many of them. If I go on killing sharks, maybe one day they will all disappear.” The fear of his being responsible for the extinction of sharks made him change, and he then became a defender of sharks.

KIDMAN: Wow.

On Inception:

COTILLARD: I love the story because it has a beautiful balance between an action movie and a movie about dreams. I have a very busy nightlife in my dreams. [laughs]

KIDMAN: It’s about being able to enter people’s dreams and control them, isn’t it?

COTILLARD: Cobb [Leonardo DiCaprio’s character] is a specialist in entering people’s dreams. He tries to steal things out of them and manipulate the dreamer’s unconscious. It’s really an interesting idea to enter someone else’s dreams. I would love to be able to do that.

KIDMAN: I couldn’t bear it if anyone was privy to my dreams. It would be like reading my diary.

COTILLARD: You know what? I would love to go into an animal’s dream—like a lion’s or a cat’s. I’m sure that’s pretty awesome.

KIDMAN: I love that feeling when you wake up after a nightmare and go, “Oh, it’s not happening,” when it’s been so vivid and so real. I love that moment when you realize it was just a dream. Then there are those, which I had a lot of when I was young, where you wish that the dream had been real.

COTILLARD: Like flying in dreams . . .

[From Interview Magazine]

Blah. Since this piece was boring as hell, I’d like to share my thoughts on Inception. I saw it over the weekend, and I did like it. However, I didn’t think it was the Second Coming, you know? The way the critics were getting hot and bothered for it, I thought it was going to be the most amazing film in years – and it just wasn’t. It was visually beautiful, it had a solid story and solid performances by all of the actors, especially Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page and Tom Hardy. My problems with it were about the over-wrought “love” story that SPOILER didn’t make much technical sense in the end, and Marion’s performance was… stilted, to me at least. You know what the love story reminded me of? That suckfest Clooney movie, Solaris. Anyway, who else is with me? It was good, but not mind-blowingly awesome.

Photos courtesy of Interview Magazine.