Kate Beckinsale joins Mark Wahlberg In "Contraband"

Actress Kate Beckinsale is jumping to another action-thriller flick as the good people at Latino Review reports that she secured the role for the upcoming film titled, "Contraband" via Working Title Films.

Attached to this movie since last year is Mark Wahlberg .

The story is about an ex-freight ship worker, fired for smuggling alcohol between Reykjavic and Rotterdam, is struggling as a security guard. His best friend convinces him to sign on for one last crooked job. The worker doesn’t realize his friend has set him up and plans to make off with his family while he’s away at sea.

This is remake of the Icelandic thriller "Reykjavik-Rotterdam". Baltasar Kormakur, who starred in the film, and produced it and owned remake rights, will direct the remake.

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Kate Beckinsale in sexy-proof Absolut Vodka ad

A sexy enticing combination using Kate Beckinsale in the new Absolut Vodka ad and I Absolut-ly agree with their tagline “Every drink is an exceptional experience.”

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Kate Beckinsale is chic-sexy

Sexy Kate Beckinsale keeps it casual-chic as she was spotted shopping in Beverly Hills. (October 6)

Meanwhile, Esquire named her Sexiest Woman Alive and with this recognition, she said, "I'm feeling that I must earn this. I need to go out and become much better at pole dancing or something."

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Kate Beckinsale is the Sexiest Woman Alive

With no doubt, Kate Beckinsale is ravishingly captivating in this cover and it is rightful to her to be named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire Magazine (November 2009 issue).

"This whole notion of being named Sexiest Woman Alive is going to earn me quite a beating," she says. "You can't have that title with four brothers. I'll get wedgies. Headlocks. Noogies."

Seems fair, I allow. They are your brothers.

"If you're any kind of a human," she says, "you know the title is utterly ludicrous." Then she gives an on-the-other-hand nod. "But I like the idea of it, too. I do. I'm feeling that I must earn this. I need to go out and become much better at pole dancing or something."

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Kate Beckinsale is casual chic-sexy

Looking glamorously classy, Kate Beckinsale was spotted in a medical center building in Beverly Hills. (September 2)

Meanwhile, Kate has two movies set to hit the theaters this year: crime-thriller "Whiteout" (Sept. 11, 2009) and "Everybody's Fine" with Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore (Dec. 4, 2009).

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"Winged Creatures" - Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker

Checkout the posters for the upcoming film "Winged Creatures", due out June24, 2009.

Based from Roy Freirich's novel of the same name and it has definitely a very interesting stellar cast that includes Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Josh Hutcherson, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Embeth Davidtz.

A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a Los Angeles diner.

Kate Beckinsale is an icon first lady, (January 2009 Inauguration issue of Capitol File magazine)

Kate Beckinsale's beauty is very ideal for America's first ladies-inspired theme photoshoot in the latest January 2009 Inauguration issue of Capitol File magazine.

Aside from her classic classy images (with the Jackie O. trademark), Kate talks about her upcoming movie "Nothing But the Truth" were she plays plays Rachel Armstrong, a Washington, DC-based reporter who reveals the identity of a CIA agent and then goes to jail for refusing to name her source. Another breakout role for Beckinsale.

Some highlights of her interview....

What most attracted you to the script of Nothing But the Truth?
"It’s a really well-written, intelligent movie that’s about something. My character starts out in very normal circumstances. She’s an ordinary person who’s trying to catch her break as a journalist, raise her young son, and keep her marriage afloat—all those things everybody’s doing. And then she finds herself in a very extraordinary position of having to be heroic, which I think is interesting because I don’t think anybody sets out to be heroic. There’s a lot that you sacrifice, and it’s very interesting to see this woman have to keep going through experience after experience that’s changing who she is, what she stands up for, and how she manages to keep hold of that all the way through."

A large part of the film’s plot centers on a very daunting ethical question. Did you find yourself wondering, What would I do in that situation?
"I think that if you’re not the person involved, then it’s much easier to come at it from a hypothetical, intellectual place. I didn’t find anything particularly interesting in playing someone who is heroically standing up for a principle. As an actor, [you try to] find the personal, the emotional reasons. It’s almost as if you’re trying to play someone who’s saintly. There’s nothing more boring to watch than somebody going around making the right decisions all the time. As a woman and a mother, I had a very hard time with how long my character is in jail without seeing her son. I know that in terms of heroics, I probably would be less capable because I would be thinking of the effect on my child and I’d probably have to come home."


What was it like to film in a prison?
"If I hadn’t decided against a life of crime before, I definitely have now. They were quite frightening about “Don’t touch anything and always wash your hands.” The level of general filth, I didn’t really think hard about it, but the prison warden was really worried about us touching things and getting hepatitis or something. But it was quite interesting because the weird celebrity culture that we’re in, it doesn’t matter whether people are incredibly oppressed in prison, they still want me to autograph their Bible. You feel ridiculous dressed up in a very similar prison costume, and you know they’re all looking at you thinking, “She’s going home to her hotel, and we’re staying here.”

Have you ever thought about becoming an American citizen?
"I haven’t yet; I may at some point. A British friend of mine—a much older man who’s about the most British person I’ve ever met and has been here God knows how long—has just become an American citizen. He may not be American, but his children live here and he wanted to be part of voting on who’s going to be in power for them, which makes sense to me. I have to say I’ve never planned on living in America. I seem to have got myself here, to my amazement, married to an American—none of these things was I remotely anticipating. Maybe if I find myself still here in 10 or 15 years it would probably be silly not to be able to vote."

For the full article, visit Capitol File.

Kate Beckinsale at Spike TV’s 2008 Scream Awards

Rockin' gorgeous in black, Kate Beckinsale is definitely a jawdropper as she presents the Scream Legend award to actor Anthony Hopkins at Spike TV’s 2008 Scream Awards at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.

The Scream Awards event honors the best in comics, fantasy, scifi and horror.


Other honors for excellence were bestowed upon filmmakers Tim Burton (SCREAM IMMORTAL Award) and Wes Craven (SCREAM Mastermind Award).

The 2008 Scream Awards airs this October 21st @ 9-11PM ET/PT on Spike TV.

Jennifer Garner and Kate Beckinsale at the 4th Pink Party event

Glamorously hot sexy moms Jennifer Garner and Kate Beckinsale attends The Pink Party 2008 held at Hangar 8 in Santa Monica, California, Sept. 13.

Designer Elyse Walker hosted the event and the proceeds all are going to Cedars-Sinai Women’s Cancer Research Institute.