Isla is now in Europe to promote Rango! She attended a premiere for the movie in Berlin yesterday, with her co-star Abigail Breslin and their director Gore Verbinski. Isla looked fabulous in a little deep red lace dress – she always looks great in red, I think. 40+ photos have been added to the Gallery for you, and I’m sure more will pop up soon. I’ll also be on the lookout for some videos etc., and if you come across any before me then please post a comment!

Hopefully we’ll get a premiere in London this week too and/or maybe more events in Europe! It’s great to be seeing more of Isla out and about again!

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Early last month I posted about Isla decorating a bra for an auction to support the Jewish Community Centre, and now thanks to Rachel we have a picture of her customised bra! Isla’s bra is typically colourful, and very pretty. View the picture to your left, and you can bid on it at jccbigbraauction.org.uk The auction closes on February 28th, and Isla’s bra is only at £50 so far, so you may be in with a chance!

Isla Fisher has revealed she was disappointed when she couldn’t kiss co-star Johnny Depp because she had a cold.

The Australian beauty and the Hollywood heart throb lend their voices to animated comedy Rango. The actress takes on the role of Bean in the movie – in which Johnny plays the title character. Despite only voicing the movie, Isla, 35, claims that director Gore Verbinski still insisted on the cast acting out their scenes together.

When asked to kiss the leading man, the mother-of-two says she passed up the opportunity because she was feeling ill.

“Although we were only voicing the characters we were encouraged to actually act out scenes,” she is quoted as saying. “It came to the scene where my character kisses Johnny’s but I ducked out as I had a really bad cold and I didn’t want him to catch it. “

Isla – who is happily married to Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen – has admitted that it only dawned on her afterwards that she had missed her chance to kiss the actor, who is renowned for his sex appeal. The actress even contemplated passing on her cold in order to give her co-star a smooch.

“Afterwards I was like, ‘What was I thinking? It’s Johnny Depp.’ Maybe I should have just got the kiss and given him the germs,” she added.

Even petite Isla Fisher sometimes struggles with her weight.

The star of the new animated flick Rango told UsMagazine.com that she can’t tuck into food like she used to. “I don’t know. I’m just trying my best,” said the mother of two and wife of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Daughter Olive is 3, and Fisher just gave birth to her second daughter — whose name has not yet been released — 6 months ago.

Getting rid of the baby weight has been tough work. “I used to say that I could eat anything I wanted and it was true and now I can tell you that I can’t eat whatever I want.”

Fisher, 35, radiated beauty at the Rango premiere, a film where she shared animated scenes with Johnny Depp.

As for her work with Depp, well, that was a piece of cake. “He’s so funny and I was so lucky and blessed to work with him and he’s such a brilliant actor,” she said.

A notoriously private couple, Fisher and Cohen were married in a top secret ceremony in Paris in March 2010.

In the lead up to the big summer films of 2011 we are in the midst of some wonderful family movies in the coming months. DreamWorks Studios just released Gnomeo and Juliet which grossed $25.5M in its opening weekend. DreamWorks also has its highly anticipated thriller, I Am Number Four (rated PG-13), opening this Friday, February 18.

On March 4, 2011, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) under Nickelodeon-Paramount Pictures, debuts its animated movie Rango. Rango (voiced by the incomparable Johnny Deep) is the name of a troubled chameleon that is having an identity crisis (ironic for a changeable creature) and is trying to discover his path in life. Along his journey he finds himself in a Western town swarming with bandits where he soon realizes his dream of becoming a swashbuckling hero.

What’s new and unique about Rango is the method by which director Gore Verbinski worked with his actors to create the voices for the movie. Typically voice work for animated movies is non-collaborative. For instance when I interviewed Zach Levi and Mandy Moore, the main voices for Disney’s animated movie Tangled, the actors had never met until the press tour.

For the movie Rango, director Verbinski created an environment where all of the main actors had this incredible playing field complete with costumes, props and sets to act out the script (see video below). Their voices were recorded in what Verbinski calls “emotion capture” with the audio used for the final film. Verbinski’s goal was to develop a more “raw and kinetic” quality to differentiate it from the vocal performances of other animated films.

Isla attended the LA premiere of her upcoming animaetd movie Rango yesterday, and did so in style! She wore a short and low cut bright blue dress by Temperley London, with her luscious red locks down. She looks gorgeous! She really rocked the colour and dress. I’ve added the first 83 HQs to the Gallery, and scroll further down this post for a few articles/quotes and videos from the event.

Check back in the next few days for lots more HQs! And don’t hesitate to leave a comment here if you want to share your thoughts on Isla’s latest look. It’s definitely good to see her lighting up the red carpet again!

Rango is released on March 4th, so I’m hoping there’ll be more promotion for it in the coming weeks.

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For Monday night’s preem of “Rango,” Paramount turned Broxton Ave. in Westwood into a Western ghost town, opting for old-timey saloons and general stores rather than red carpet’s traditional step-and-repeat.

“I wasn’t familiar with the Western genre, so I did have to watch a bunch of films” in preparation for the role, shared thesp Isla Fisher. “I wanted her to sound like Holly Hunter in ‘Raising Arizona.’ I must have watched that movie a million times.”

Fisher also said “Rango” was assembled unlike most animated films, with the actors rehearsing their parts together as though it were a play before recording any voices.

Story scribe James Byrkit said the film’s true influence is rooted not only in Clint Eastwood genre pics but also “this Don Knotts film called ‘The Shakiest Gun in the West.’” After all, in the pic Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon with an identity crisis.

Byrkit added that he and helmer Gore Verbinski share a trait that shows through in their films together: They don’t like to be pinned down to a single genre or style. “I love the whole broad spectrum…I love the big effects spectacles, but I also love old MGM musicals and everything in between.”

- variety.com

Hampton Hotels recently announced a partnership with Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies to offer hotel guests and their families the chance to see the new animated film RANGO, which is set to open nationwide on March 4, 2011. Guests who purchase and complete a weekend stay at any Hampton property in the U.S. from January 24 through March 6, 2011 will receive a movie ticket family pack including two adult and two child movie tickets to their local theater.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for families who stay at Hampton Hotels to be rewarded with the experience of seeing this exciting new film”

“Hampton is thrilled to be partnering with Paramount and Nickelodeon on their new animated movie, RANGO, which delivers a wonderful message for families about self-discovery, perseverance and adventure,” said Judy Christa-Cathey, vice president of global brand marketing for Hampton Hotels. “Through this promotion, we’re offering guests an added value for their stay and bringing families together with free movie packages.”

From the director of “Pirates of the Caribbean” comes RANGO, featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin, an original animated comedy-adventure that takes moviegoers for a hilarious and heartfelt walk into the Wild West.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for families who stay at Hampton Hotels to be rewarded with the experience of seeing this exciting new film,” said LeeAnne Stables, executive vice president of worldwide marketing partnerships, Paramount Pictures.

This offer can only be booked online through www.Hampton.com/Rango. Guests who book and complete a weekend stay from January 24 through March 6, 2011 will receive four complimentary RANGO movie tickets (two adult and two children tickets.) Guests who take advantage of this promotion will receive their tickets via email between March 1 and March 8, 2011 and must redeem the tickets at theatres by March 20, 2011.*

For more information about this promotion, please visit www.Hampton.com/Rango, and for more information about the movie RANGO, visit www.RangoMovie.com.