We reported falingl past year that Michelle Pfeiffer would get her Stard at "Walk of Fame" this year, but we didn't known when would be the waited event.

And now finally the event will take place the upcoming August 6, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. on the Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard. It will coincide with the release of Stardust in USA (August 10).

About this News, I've known it through Jackie, pfan and visitor of PfeifferTheFace, who has let me know. Although I don't know her source, so it is not official at the moment.

And today, another video of Michelle Pfeiffer in ExtraTv with footage of 'Stardust' and in a promotion-interview with Michelle and Robert De Niro.

According ExtraTv, "it's almost hard to believe that wicked witch in 'Stardust' is one of the most beautiful women in the world! Michelle Pfeiffer told Extra there's only one reason she accepted Matthew Vaughn's wild role in the fantasy film. Hint: He's sitting right next to her."

Click on the image to access the video

Source: ExtraTv
Thanks Sean for providind the info at the Pforum!

And The Hollywood Reporter, one of the most important show-business newspapers around the world, has already published one of the reviews for Stardust. The journalist ans critic Sura Wood has love the part of Michelle in the movie:

"[...] The ultra-evil, uber witch Lamia (the terrific Michelle Pfeiffer, who has gone from a delicious bitch goddess in "Hairspray" to a bona fide, wicked witch here), seeks the star's heart for its promise of eternal youth and beauty.

Only an actress as beautiful as the graceful Pfeiffer would allow herself to be rendered bald, aged and grotesque by startling special effects and makeup and have such a great time in the role. Her delight is palpable, and she gives a fully realized performance. Her Lamia is resourceful and genuinely scary rather than cartoonish. [...] "

Souce: The Hollywood Reporter
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Anthony Breznican from USA Today publishes today an interesting interview with Michelle Pfeiffer about her transformation on Lamia in Stardust: "Pfeiffer transforms from bewitching to just witchy"

In Stardust, Michelle Pfeiffer plays the ancient witch Lamia, who restores her youth and vitality by devouring the human form of a fallen star. Here's her transition from glam to ghoul:

The witch begins as an ancient crone, who consumes the last bit of her previous star so she can pursue her latest meteoric meal (in the form of Claire Danes). But at her loveliest, the witch can barely pull herself away from a mirror. "Eternal youth and the obsession with it is something we poke fun at," says Pfeiffer,

Each time Lamia uses her powers, it saps her restored beauty: "We started with the aging spots on the arms and exaggerated veins painted on. Then we had stages of jowls and different levels of wattle.

"There were different degrees of breast droopage. And we had story meeting after meeting with these discussions on whether it was my left or right breast that would droop. It's so bizarre to have a meeting on that," she says. "There was an actual mechanism inside the costume. Let's just say we had a lot of trial and error."

The idea of playing a 5,000-year-old "was more fun than the actual execution of it," Pfeiffer says.

Souce: USA Today
Thanks Juanita for providind the info at the Pforum!

ExtraTv launches today a video from the Stardust Premiere in Los Angeles where our Michelle Pfeiffer "breaks down her red-carpet beauty secrets".

Sincerely, I had never seen our Michelle so cute! She is really lovely in the video, it is worth it!

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Source: ExtraTv

Finally the event took place, and I have to admit that it has catched me unaware!!... Well, so many events, news, interviews... all this too fast! but we were able to see to our pfantastic Michelle Pfeiffer again. The premiere of the waited Stardust movie was at the Paramount Studio Theater yesterday, July 29, 2007 in Los Angeles.

And almost the full cast attended the event, Michelle Pfeiffer -in blue, with her husband, David E Kelley, daughter Claudia Rose and sister DeDee- Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Nathaniel Parker among others..., the Paramount producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and movie director Matthew Vaughn, and of course the writer of the novel Neil Gaiman.

Thanks Bond for the info!

How many release dates have we known for I Could Never Be Your Woman along these last two years? Aren't you tired of it? I seems -according our contributor Dennis- they're gonna change it till world's end!!... will be it the story for the new tv-series: "Desesperate Pfeiffer-Pfans"?

Well, now our other great contributor Juanita provides us of the new release date of the movie in USA, it is sheduled to be launched the upcoming November 9th of this year. The reasons for all these changes... well, we would love to know... pfeiffertheface.com will offer a juicy reward whom can let us know! jejeje

And on the other hand, my brother Bond reports us that the Taiwan release date just moved from November to October 19 2007 now. Really incredible!

Source: PfeifferTheFace Pforum
Thanks Juanita and Bond for the info

Such we reported in this early month, scheduled for yesterday, July 26 (1:30-3:30), Paramount Pictures presented Stardust among other films at Comic-Con 2007.

On a press conference, Guest of Honor Neil Gaiman and screenwriter Jane Goldman talked about the movie. And they also brought along a clip of Michelle Pfeiffer as the evil witch trying to capture and kill the fallen star (Claire Danes). According to Neil Miller from FilmSchoolRejects.com, the clip shows a film that is very whimsical and destined to be one of the better fantasy flicks of the year.

Source: FilmSchoolRejects.com

According Billboard.com -the world's premier music publication- there's no stopping the "Hairspray" (New Line) soundtrack, which debuted last week at No. 20 before the movie had opened. Now entrenched in the box office top 10, the CD also dances its way into the top 10 of The Billboard 200. A 20-4 move makes the album only the second motion picture soundtrack to find a berth in the top 10 in 2007. The first soundtrack to spend time in the top 10 this year was "Dreamgirls," which went all the way to No. 1.

"Hairspray" is also represented on the Hot 100, where the rousing finale song "You Can't Stop the Beat" (written for the Broadway musical version of "Hairspray") enters at No. 88. One cast member of "Hairspray" also figures in another song that is new to the Hot 100 this week. That would be Zac Efron.

Source: BillBoard.com
Thanks Leandro posting it at the Pforum

The Official Site of Stardust movie has been updated with four new wonderful Tv-Spots with new interesting footage, so now you can watch seven different ones besides the trailer.

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Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum

According Fred Topel in RottenTomatoes.com --on an article titled: Pfeiffer Not So Bad in Stardust. A pair of witchy roles in two of this summer's biggest flicks, where the actress talks about being a bad girl in movies--, the previews for Stardust show Michelle Pfeiffer as the big bad villain. She's the old witch using evil magic to stop the hero from rescuing the star. But she's asking for a little forgiveness:

"Even though my character is sort of being talked about as the villain of Stardust, everyone is a villain in Stardust," she said. "I'm probably the ugliest villain in Stardust, for sure, and the oldest because I age. I'm 5,000 years old or something ridiculous like that."

So reserve your judgments until you see her whole performance, because she did her darndest to make her character well-rounded. "I think as fun as these characters are to play in the beginning, you don't want to fall into the trap of just going out and being mean because mean people don't think they're being mean. Mean people think they're completely justified in their outbursts or their comments and the truth underneath it all, they're fighting and angry. They feel like the victim, as twisted as they might be, so that's also why it's so interesting to play those because you kind of get to figure that all out."

Source: RottenTomatoes.com
Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum

Yesterday, we reported about the first weekend of Hairspray at Box-Office according BoxOfficeMojo.com, now Variety.com offers new facts about it, according Pamela McClintock's Variety, "New Line's "Hairspray" sang as the best musical opening on record."

"Hairspray" made an estimated $27.8 million from 3,121 locations, far outpacing predictions that it would gross somewhere around $20 million.

New Line prexy of distribution David Tuckerman said "Hairspray" worked so well because it is "terrific entertainment. As predicted, a large portion of the aud was female, but he noted that more than 30% was male. This is a peculiar movie where males don't want to go, but once they get in there, they love the movie. That's positive," Tuckerman said.

The 1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" previously held the record for best opening for a musical, at $11 million. "Rent," released in 2005, was next best at $10 million. Recent musicals like "Chicago" and "Dreamgirls" all opened in limited runs. Perf of "Hairspray" is a needed boost for New Line, whose most recent releases have been underperformers, including "Fracture" and "The Number 23." Studio is expected to have another crowdpleaser with "Rush Hour 3," which opens next month.

Source: Variety.com

This weekeend Hairspray was the word, delivering the biggest opening on record for a musical (even when ticket price inflation is taken into account) althoug it took the thrird place in the ranking. On the top "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" (also launched this week got the #1) and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (in its second week, the #2)

According BoxOfficeMojo, New Line Cinema's early Sixties-themed musical based on the Broadway show that was based on John Waters' picture of the same name spritzed a lustrous estimated $27.8 million on approximately 3,900 screens at 3,121 theaters, the widest release ever for the genre. The 1988 original, also released by New Line, grossed $6.7 million in its entire run, the equivalent of roughly $11 million today.

Among musical opening weekends adjusted for ticket price inflation, Hairspray edged out The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas from 1982 and Grease from 1978, starring Hairspray's John Travolta, both of which were also summer releases. For perspective, though, those pictures had a fraction of Hairspray's theater count, and their era was considerably less weighted towards openings. In fact, Grease went on to become one of the most popular musicals with a final gross that would adjust to over $500 million today.

Like hair product-titled Grease, Hairspray appealed as bright, nostalgic fun and was a unique offering in the market, mostly for female moviegoers like The Devil Wears Prada last summer. It marks New Line's first $20 million-plus launch since Wedding Crashers two years ago and breaks the distributor's losing streak that had persisted since Final Destination 3 in February 2006.

So we can think it has been a success, it has been opened better than Chicago or Moulin Rouge.It got the best opening of all MusicalFilm: You can see this Weekend Box Office Results Chart and Musicals (1974-Present) Gross Chart at BoxOfficeMojo

Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com

All the reviews on Hairspray are talking about Michelle Pfeiffer's Velma, and they are really good!! Here some passages of them:

Pfeiffer is the most sublime ice queen/dragon lady/femme fatale to grace the screen since, I don't know, Jessica Rabbit (LA Times' CalendarLive.com)

Pfeiffer sang in "The Fabulous Baker Boys" but hasn't appeared in an official musical since "Grease 2" early in her career. She's the biggest surprise here, surpassing even James Marsden's unsuspected vocal prowess as the quietly subversive Corny Collins. Pfeiffer's not only very funny, but she also belts out a couple of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's clever doo-wop/R&B numbers with aplomb.(New York Post)

Michelle Pfeiffer, licking every delicious drop of the role's sexy villainy (RollingStone.com)

In her first on-screen role in five years, Michelle Pfeiffer plays the antagonist, Velma, and the Barbie-doll racist now dominates more of the narrative. Her comeuppance, part of the film's flat-footed climax, isn't enough. Pfeiffer handles the shtick well, but overemphasizing this bland witch makes for heavier going. (MetroMix.com)

Pfeiffer restarts her career with a bang after five years offscreen, turning Velma into a tight-lipped vamp quivering with racist politesse. That said, the scene I'll pack away in my movie-memento scrapbook doesn't involve either actress.(Boston.com)

Sure, it's great to see purr-fectly slinky Pfeiffer again playing a catty woman—meow! But the lengthy scene in which her hissable villain tries to seduce joke-shop owner Walken doesn't land on its comic feet. Get out the clippers, because their clumsy shtick trips up the film's pacing and—like Pfeiffer's claws—needs a good (E! Online)

I wish that Michelle Pfeiffer, as the villainous Velma Von Tussle, had a more memorable song to express her dragon-lady WASP disdain. But Hairspray gets its vibe back quickly enough, and the climactic number sends you out on a high. (EW.com)

The adult cast is a little more of a mixed bag. Michelle Pfeiffer’s got a tough job playing Velma Von Tussle. She’s a good villain, and she seems game for anything, but she is hindered by the worst song in the movie (“Miss Baltimore Crabs”), and it almost seems like she did something to piss off cinematographer Bojan Bazelli. I spent an afternoon sitting beside her last year on the STARDUST set, and she’s still a beautiful woman close-up. I’m not sure you’d know it based on how she looks here. (Ain't it Cool News)

Thanks Dennis, Leandro and Sean for posting it at the Pforum!.

Here the SomaGirls.tv (an entertainment media company producing original lifestyle content) review for Hairspray movie: "Michelle steals the show"

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Paramount Pictures has already begun the great campaign of promotion of Stardust movie. You can see big posters of the film on buses and billboards announcing the single characters, here you can see an example of Pfeiffer's Lamia with the tagline: "Wicked Witches":

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On the other hand don'f forget vote for Stardut at ComingSoon.net on the poll: Which August release are you anticipating the most? (the Poll is at the right side of the page. You have to scroll down - at the moment The Bourne Ultimatum on the top of tist/Stardust on #5 place!!)

Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

And today the second Stardust clip with Michelle Pfeiffer, this time it has been launched by Comic Book Resources and also cortesy of Paramount Pictures. The clip features featuring Michelle and Ricky Gervais in a memorable scene,

Source: ComicBookResources.com
Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

ComingSoon.net has got an exclusive Stardust clip cortesy of Paramount Pictures. The clip features Michelle Pfeiffer as the evil witch, Lamia, who overpowers Tristan (Cox) and Yvaine (Danes). Lamia needs Yvaine, who was a star that transformed into a girl, to become young again.... (Our Michelle looks really scary in this!)

Source: ComingSoon.net
Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

And today more new reviews about Pfeiffer's Lamia in Stardust:

From IndyMogul.com: [...] Chris Cox does a wonderful job as Tristan, the young protagonist, while Michelle Pfeiffer commands the screen as the evil witch, Lamia, and Robert De Niro adds a large dose of humor as a captain who is not who he appears to be. For anyone who has read the novel, Claire Danes as the choice for Yvaine, the fallen star, may have seemed strange, but she holds the role surprisingly well against the rest of the cast. [...]

And for Crused For Inertia, the only good of the movie: [...] The only character I found even remotely appealing was Witch Queen Lamia, played by Michelle Pfeiffer with some actual relish and personality. The best shot in the film is Lamia's rapid transformation from an old hag into the only somewhat-old Michelle Pfeiffer, which is funny and even kind of sexy, though I did wonder why a witch casting a youth spell on herself would turn into the middle-aged version of Michelle Pfeiffer. Shouldn't it have been Fabulous Baker Boys Michelle Pfeiffer? Or even Scarface Michelle Pfeiffer? I mean, we are talking a realm of sorcery and magic. (I'm making fun of Pfeiffer a bit, but she's the only one who really commits to this world and her character, and she gets almost all of the films best little jokes and moments, so I really appreciated her presence. She gets more laughs out of an arched eyebrow than 2 hours of quipping spirits and effeminate sky sailors could muster.[...]

Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

According to Dennis, one of our contributors in Germany, the release date of Stardust in his country has been pushed back (it was October 3 previously), now it's October 18th. You can check the release dates of your country at IMDB.com (you can read here the main launches):

Australia and Hong Kong: 20 September 2007
Netherlands 4 October 2007
Brazil, Denmark and Italy: 12 October 2007
Germany: 18 October 2007
UK: 19 October 2007
Belgium and France: 24 October 2007
Spain: 26 October 2007
Japan: 27 October 2007

By the proximity in time of the main countries of Europa, it could mean that part of the movie cast might come to these places to promote the movie. I'd love if Michelle did.

Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

It seems I Could Never Be Your Woman is being launched World-wide. It is now released in Belgium today and Belga Films is the Distribution Company there.

On the other hand, also Portugal will launch tomorrow, July 19, the movie. There the movie has been re-baptized as: Nem Contigo... Nem Sem Ti! ("Neither Without You...Neither With You" in English), a title which was chosen by votes of the people at lusomundo.sapo.pt (see facts and more pics at RFM Online.

And besides, my brother Bond - Gorgeous Pfeiffer - has found the Chinese version of the poster, which has been published for it's Taiwan market. the title is featured in Chinese words and also they put the ages for both Michelle and Paul's character on the poster(40 and 29) and besides the movie was rescheduled again and was moved to 23 November 2007 (it was sheduled for June 29).

Sources: Belga Films, VrtNieuws, Gorgeous Pfeiffer
Thanks a lot our Bond and Leandro for your wonderful work!.

Well, finally we have got thanks to Juanita who recorded it. So if you missed the interview, you can watch here:

Thanks a lot our Juanita for your wonderful work!.

Here new reviews of Stardust -here the parts referred to Michelle Pfeiffer's character):

From Newsarama.com: [...] Another major surprise is Pfeiffer as the malevolent Lamia. You have to be blind not to see the former sex kitten is maturing magnificently (she will be 50 next year). What’s even more impressive is while her good looks have held up exceedingly well, she’s also not afraid of putting on a ton of makeup and playing a vicious crone with a gigantic obsidian blade who knows how to use it. The inevitable final confrontation between her and Cox shows that the five year gap she took between projects, her last live action acting role was the film White Oleander, has truly recharged her batteries. Her Lamia has to be her strongest performance since she appeared in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. [...] After all, as said before, the idea of DeNiro in drag shuffling to the Can Can could have been one truly horrendous sight if handled even slightly off base. As it stands, Gaiman and Vaughn manage to take this scene and other things that should have fallen flat on their face and made it into probably one of the truly best films of the summer, if not the year in general [...].

And from Comics2film.com: [...] Tristan must battle an evil witch (played brilliantly and against type by Michelle Pfeiffer) [...] 'Stardust' is a film that both young and old alike will enjoy and could very well become a fairytale classic.

Thanks Dennis for posting it at the Pforum!.

We reported about it, Michelle Pfeiffer has been this morning on NBC's Today Show, at Hairspray Week to promote the film. Finally you can see here the video!

Thanks a lot our Juanita for your wonderful work!.

During the Hairspray premiere in New York, John Travolta told Access Hollywood’s Tim Vincent "I wanted Michelle, I wanted Chris Walken, and I thought they were important because they have a pedigree of musical",

"Oh, that makes me feel really good because (Travolta is) absolutely one of the reasons that I did it,” Michelle Pfeiffer said. “When I found out that he was playing, I thought, ‘brilliant.’ There aren’t that many actors that could pull that part off.”

But we didn't knew a new fact about the connection between Travolta & Pfeiffer in the past:

“We heard that (Pfeiffer) auditioned for ‘Urban Cowboy’ many years ago,” said Vincent told Travolta. “Do you remember anything about that?”

“She was very good,” Travolta replied, noting that Rene Russo and Kim Basinger were also up for the female lead in the 1980 film. “She could act it, but Debra (Winger) was more kind of (a) ‘cowgirl’ type. The other girls were more ‘beauties.’”

As for Pfeiffer, she remembered that audition very well. “He was so sweet to me,” she recalled. “It was so many years ago, and I was so nervous, and got to dance with him. No, I didn’t get the part, but he was just darling.”

I guess, we pfans are memembering that quote of Michelle in a interview with Esquire (December 1990) when she was asked for her early years on movies: "I remember that I used to get on the phone with Ellen Barkin. We were both unemployed. Nobody would hire us. Every part that we wanted, Debra Winger would steal. We could not get a job and we'd be hysterical for hours on the phone, bitching and moaning and kvetching."

Source: msnbc

... And taking advantaje of being in New Yok, Michelle Pfeiffer (this time, woman in black) attended the Hairspray premiere on the city at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Also they attended the full cast of the movie: John Travolta (and wife, Kelly Preston), Qeen Latifah, Christopfer Walken, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Nikki Blonsky and of course, the movie director, Adam Shankman.

All them were accompanied by John Waters, Michael Sheen, Harry Hamlin, Paula Abdul, Katie Holmes, Lisa Rinna ... and Liza Minnelli!!... among other VIPs.

Thanks Juanita and Dennis for the pictures.

Such as we reported some weeks ago, tonight, July 16, it is broadcasted an interview with Michelle Pfeiffer to promote Hairspray movie at the Late Show with David Letterman.

You can the picture wich shows the arrival of the actress at the Ed Sullivan Theater for a taping the show in New York. [click the image to see the gallery]

Source: GettyImages
Thanks ABigPfan! for the picture.

According Neil Gaiman says in his livejournal, the promotion wheel is going to move on