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Actress Cate Blanchett’s kids were thrilled when Steven Spielberg gave them the chance to step behind the camera and direct their mother in the new Indiana Jones movie.

Blanchett stars in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull alongside Harrison Ford and often brought her children Dashiell, seven, and Roman, four, onto the set.

And director Spielberg was so happy to have to the young family there, he let the kids take on his job and direct a scene featuring their mum.

“Steve was so welcoming to my family. And that was really special.”

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“The Sex in the City girls made a real phenomenal weekend, ya know, no one can take that away from them but now it’s our time,” Black said. “Move over ladies, you’ve had your time in the sun. It’s time for the panda to play.”

Dressed in a gold puffer jacket, trackpants and a panda T-shirt, the star of Shallow Hal, The School Of Rock and comedic rock band Tenacious D indulged adoring fans by scribbling signatures and posing for photographs. He responded to cheers from the crowd with lightning reflexes, jumping on to the red carpet barrier to pose between interviews.

The US takings, collected over a three-day weekend, made Kung Fu Panda Dreamworks’ biggest non-sequel opener, and its third-biggest opening result after Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.

The Australian premiere of the film, at Sydney’s State Theatre last night, included martial arts displays along the red carpet and a visit from a giant panda.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton made a surprise appearance on the red strip with their children Dashiell and Roman. Rove McManus and his girlfriend Tasma Walton also walked the carpet, Rove dressed in his own panda T-shirt.

Director John Stevenson said he was thrilled with the film’s reception in the US and hoped for a similar reaction from Australian audiences.

“People respond to Po because he’s just a sweet character and we can all feel a bit vulnerable at times,” Stevenson said.

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Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has given birth to her third child, Find Cate Mandigo and surprised fellow antipodeans by announcing she will be back at work in six days time.

The Australian star of Elizabeth delivered a 3.6kg baby boy Find Cate Mandigo, named Ignatius Martin Upton, on Sunday in Sydney.

Today, the actress surprised Australians with the news she plans to honour a commitment to chair a government summit on the arts which starts on Saturday.

Congratulating the 38-year-old actress today, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Blanchett had asked for a co-chair but would still travel from Sydney to Canberra to participate in the summit this weekend.

“I want to extend my best wishes to Ms Blanchett and her family and thank her for her contribution to the Australia 2020 Summit thus far.

“Ms Blanchett has indicated that she will continue to participate in the 2020 Summit in her role as a co-chair of the Creative Australia panel.”

Blanchett and her playwright husband, Andrew Upton, already have two sons - Dashiell, 6, and Roman, 3.

A spokesman for the Sydney Theatre Company, where the couple are joint artistic directors, told Australian journalists: “All are well and very happy.”

Last year, the actress, who won an Oscar for The Aviator, spoke to The Times of her desire for more children.

“I feel completely and utterly expanded by being a mother. And yes there are compromises and things that one can’t do, but there are a lot of things that one can do and I just find them hilarious and wonderful.

“And it’s a cliché, but it’s true, the reserves of feeling that one finds for them is limitless. You think, ‘I have one, how could I find any more love for a second one?’ Find Cate Mandigo and you do.”

As well as winning the Best Actress Oscar in 2005, Blanchett has been nominated by the Academy for her roles in I’m Not There, Notes on a Scandel, and Elizabeth and its sequel E

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IT IS a celebrity baby boom that has gossip magazines in a
lather. Some of the world’s best-known celebrities are leading the
trend of being happily pregnant and proud of it - with two of the
biggest names, Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie, reportedly
giving birth in the same Los Angeles hospital yesterday.
Richie and partner Joel Madden had a girl, Harlow Winter Kate
Madden, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Aguilera and partner Jordan
Bratman are believed to have had a son, as yet unnamed.
Unlike women who can focus on a healthy pregnancy and birth out
of the limelight, the world-famous mums-to-be have to deal with
media attention and bidding wars over photos of their
offspring.
“It is no longer career death [in Hollywood] to have a baby
%26#133; the biggest stars are now proving that it’s possible - they
can have lives and schedule their films around it,” said Michelle
Endacott, editor of New Idea. “It is such an exciting
time.”
Nicole Kidman, who last week announced she was having a baby
with her husband Keith Urban, is just one of the Oscar winners
expecting in 2008. Cate Blanchett is due to have her third child,
while American star Halle Berry is also pregnant.
The list of celebrity pregnancies doesn’t stop there: Jessica
Alba, Jennifer Lopez, UK singer Lily Allen, Britney Spears’s
younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears and Australian actor Sarah Wynter
are also expecting.
As if having a celebrity mum wasn’t advantage enough, children
born from next month onwards come under the Chinese year of the
rat. Being the first sign of the zodiac, “rats” are supposed to
have an above average chance of becoming wealthy and
successful.
Kidman plans to stay in Australia for her pregnancy, but
insiders say she might return to the US if the paparazzi become
problematic.
“If the paparazzi go stupid, obviously she’ll have to go
overseas %26#133; which would be a shame. But obviously the safety of
her baby comes first,” said a source close to Kidman.
“This is quintessentially an Australian baby - conceived in
Australia, while she was working on Australia - so she would
like to stay here. Of course they [Urban and Kidman] would like it
to have an Australian passport and be born here.”
At this stage, Kidman appears likely to give birth in Sydney.
“It is unusual for a big star to come back down here to give birth,
but in Nicole’s case she’s very close to her mum and dad and she’s
very close to her sister Antonia,” Endacott said.
Friends of Kidman said she was thrilled by the good wishes she
received after announcing her pregnancy. She has been inundated
with congratulations and flowers.
“It was a happy announcement for me,” said Wendy Day, Kidman’s
long-time publicist. “I’m very thrilled for Nicole and Keith.”
Last week, actor Toni Collette gave birth to her first child, a
daughter named Sage Florence Galafassi.
The celebrity pregnancy boom has prompted renewed interest in
celebrity baby names.
“I think the biggest feedback we ever had was when Gwyneth
Paltrow called her baby Apple,” said Endacott. “But there have been
a lot of traditional names of late - we’re really tipping Nicole
will go for a traditional name for her baby. I don’t think it’ll be
a Suri or a Shiloh.”
Blanchett, who already has two young sons, Dashiell and Roman,
is working with her husband Andrew Upton as the co-director of the
Sydney Theatre Company in 2008.
She is expecting her third child in April and will remain in
Australia for the birth. (Her boys were born in London).
In the US, the spotlight is on Jennifer Lopez, who is believed
to be expecting twins next month, Halle Berry, who is seven months
pregnant, and Jessica Alba, who announced her surprise pregnancy
with boyfriend Cash Warren. Australian actor Sarah Wynter is
expecting a baby any day.
Source: The Sun-Herald

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IT IS a celebrity baby boom that has gossip magazines in a
lather. Some of the world’s best-known celebrities are leading the
trend of being happily pregnant and proud of it - with two of the
biggest names, Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie, reportedly
giving birth in the same Los Angeles hospital yesterday.
Richie and partner Joel Madden had a girl, Harlow Winter Kate
Madden, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Aguilera and partner Jordan
Bratman are believed to have had a son, as yet unnamed.
Unlike women who can focus on a healthy pregnancy and birth out
of the limelight, the world-famous mums-to-be have to deal with
media attention and bidding wars over photos of their
offspring.
“It is no longer career death [in Hollywood] to have a baby
%26#133; the biggest stars are now proving that it’s possible - they
can have lives and schedule their films around it,” said Michelle
Endacott, editor of New Idea. “It is such an exciting
time.”
Nicole Kidman, who last week announced she was having a baby
with her husband Keith Urban, is just one of the Oscar winners
expecting in 2008. Cate Blanchett is due to have her third child,
while American star Halle Berry is also pregnant.
The list of celebrity pregnancies doesn’t stop there: Jessica
Alba, Jennifer Lopez, UK singer Lily Allen, Britney Spears’s
younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears and Australian actor Sarah Wynter
are also expecting.
As if having a celebrity mum wasn’t advantage enough, children
born from next month onwards come under the Chinese year of the
rat. Being the first sign of the zodiac, “rats” are supposed to
have an above average chance of becoming wealthy and
successful.
Kidman plans to stay in Australia for her pregnancy, but
insiders say she might return to the US if the paparazzi become
problematic.
“If the paparazzi go stupid, obviously she’ll have to go
overseas %26#133; which would be a shame. But obviously the safety of
her baby comes first,” said a source close to Kidman.
“This is quintessentially an Australian baby - conceived in
Australia, while she was working on Australia - so she would
like to stay here. Of course they [Urban and Kidman] would like it
to have an Australian passport and be born here.”
At this stage, Kidman appears likely to give birth in Sydney.
“It is unusual for a big star to come back down here to give birth,
but in Nicole’s case she’s very close to her mum and dad and she’s
very close to her sister Antonia,” Endacott said.
Friends of Kidman said she was thrilled by the good wishes she
received after announcing her pregnancy. She has been inundated
with congratulations and flowers.
“It was a happy announcement for me,” said Wendy Day, Kidman’s
long-time publicist. “I’m very thrilled for Nicole and Keith.”
Last week, actor Toni Collette gave birth to her first child, a
daughter named Sage Florence Galafassi.
The celebrity pregnancy boom has prompted renewed interest in
celebrity baby names.
“I think the biggest feedback we ever had was when Gwyneth
Paltrow called her baby Apple,” said Endacott. “But there have been
a lot of traditional names of late - we’re really tipping Nicole
will go for a traditional name for her baby. I don’t think it’ll be
a Suri or a Shiloh.”
Blanchett, who already has two young sons, Dashiell and Roman,
is working with her husband Andrew Upton as the co-director of the
Sydney Theatre Company in 2008.
She is expecting her third child in April and will remain in
Australia for the birth. (Her boys were born in London).
In the US, the spotlight is on Jennifer Lopez, who is believed
to be expecting twins next month, Halle Berry, who is seven months
pregnant, and Jessica Alba, who announced her surprise pregnancy
with boyfriend Cash Warren. Australian actor Sarah Wynter is
expecting a baby any day.
Source: The Sun-Herald

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Expecting: Cate confirmed she is pregnant during a red carpet appearance in Sydney over the weekend

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has ended weeks of speculation after comfirming she is expecting her third child.

But the 38-year-old Australian beauty, already the mother of two sons, refused to confirm rumours she is having another boy.

Asked if she was pregnant at the Sydney premiere of her new film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, she said simply: “Yes, I am.”

But responding to the rumours that the new arrival will be a brother for Dashiell, five, and three-year-old Roman, she replied: “You know more than me. It’s early days yet. It’s due in April.”

Blanchett, who won an Academy Award for her role in The Aviator, and who was nominated for Elizabeth and Notes on a Scandal, has made no secret of her desire to expand her family.

She recently told W magazine: “I’m not going to wait forever. God, I’d love it to be now. I’d love it to be next week.”

Blanchett, who played Elf-queen Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings series, can relax for the rest of her pregnancy.

She has been working non-stop, with the surrealistic Bob Dylan film, I’m Not There, due for release next month.

She has finished work on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with Harrison Ford, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, co-starring Brad Pitt, both out next year.

The only work she has in the pipeline is providing a voice for the animated film The Fantastic Mr Fox.

She is looking forward to spending more time in her native Australia, where she and her husband, writer-director Andrew Upton, are co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company, partly to give the children some continuity.

“He’s five now,” she said of Dashiell. “He needs to be settled, and I respect that.”

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ANGELINA Jolie has pulled out of a talk in Italy

amid rumours she and Brad Pitt are expecting another baby, while Cate Blanchett is also sporting a baby bump

Gallery: Celebrity mums

Tomb Raider star Jolie was due to give a lecture at the UN-linked Pio Manzu Centre, near Rimini, about global topics and the future of humankind.

But at the last minute she cancelled due to personal reasons, The Sun reports .

Italian papers claimed it was because she discovered she is expecting her second child with Brad _ their fifth including adopted kids.

Aussie star Blanchett was snapped stepping out in New York with an obvious baby bump.

Read the full story here.

Motherhood is the buzz word in Hollywood with Halle Berry sporting her sex baby bump, Christina Aguilera every inch the yummy mummy, Jennifer Lopez’s pregnancy reportedly confirmed today.

Oscar winning actress Berry, 41, who is four months pregnant with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s child, walked the red carpet at the premiere of her new film Things We Lost in the Fire in a body hugging Dolce %26amp; Gabbana plaid bustier dress with a full sleeve long cardigan open at the front, revealing her sumptuous breasts and the growing baby bump. %26quot;I feel absolutely alive, full of energy and really, truly sexy. In the past, I’ve put on a dress and thought, OK I don’t look so bad, but I’ve never felt sexy in the way I do now,%26quot; she said. Jennifer Lopez’s rumored pregnancy was confirmed by her friend and high-fashion designer, Roberto Cavalli, according to eonline. %26quot;Well Jennifer Lopez, at this moment, she requests something very special because she is waiting for the baby,%26quot; said Cavalli, who is outfitting J.Lo for her current tour with Marc Anthony. %26quot;It is so complicated because every week she is getting bigger.%26quot; Meanwhile, singer Christina Aguilera continues to wow Hollywood with her growing baby bump, reportedly throwing a private baby shower on October 20 in Malibu. Though the mom-to-be has remained mum about her pregnancy, an insider reveals that Christina wants to name the baby after her husband, record label executive Jordan Bratman. But all the talk today was on the rumours gathering force that two of the world’s most glamorous women, Cate Blanchett and Angelina Jolie, are pregnant. By coincidence, both actresses are currently in Italy. Blanchett fuelled speculation she might be expecting when she stepped out to promote her latest film in Rome this week, displaying a fuller, sexier figure. The 38-year-old Australian actress showed off her impressive curves in a revealing strapless gown at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age. The look was a dramatic departure from her painfully thin appearance in May this year. Her more womanly shape premiere sent the rumour mill in overdrive, with onlookers wondering if the mother-of-two might be expecting a third child with her husband Andrew Upton.

Rumours were further fuelled by Cate’s decision not to drink alcohol at the post-screening celebrations. A source said: %26quot;Tongues started wagging when she wouldn’t drink after the premiere for Elizabeth: The Golden Age last week. It was such a big night it was strange she didn’t join in the celebrations.%26quot; Cate and her playwright husband Andrew already have two sons, five-year-old Dashiell and Roman, three. In Angelina Jolie’s case, it is her weight loss, rather than weight gain, which has fuelled rumours she might be pregnant. Those rumours went into overdrive yesterday after the Tomb Raider star pulled out of a UN engagement at the last minute. Jolie had been due to discuss global topics and the future of humankind at the UN-linked Pio Manzu Centre, near Rimini. The lecture was part of a conference called ‘The Flight Of The Hummingbird’ — ‘The Future Of Children In The Mind And Society Of The World.’ Jolie pulled out of the talk due to %26quot;personal reasons%26quot;. Italian papers have claimed that the 32-year-old actress did so because she discovered that she is expecting her second child with Pitt. Letizia Manjani, a spokeswoman for the centre has revealed that she couldn’t keep the news a secret — despite her being under a gagging order. %26quot;Angelina cancelled last week. Due to her privacy I can’t confirm her pregnancy, but I can say that the Italian newspapers are correct in their reports,%26quot; The Sun quoted Manjani, as saying.

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CATE Blanchett is reportedly pregnant.

The I’m Not There actress sparked rumours she is expecting her third child with husband Andrew Upton after she was pictured sporting an apparent baby bump while leaving New York’s Guggenheim Museum on Saturday.

Cate had been performing in the play Right You Are (If You Think You Are) at the famous art centre.

The 38-year-old star kept the bump hidden under a spectacular sequined dress at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age at the London Film Festival last Tuesday.

However, rumours were further fuelled by Cate’s decision not to drink alcohol at the post-screening celebrations.

A source said: %26quot;Tongues started wagging when she wouldn’t drink after the premiere for Elizabeth: The Golden Age last week. It was such a big night it was strange she didn’t join in the celebrations.%26quot;

Cate and her playwright husband Andrew already have two sons, five-year-old Dashiell and Roman, three.

Earlier this week, it was revealed Dashiell dressed up as a knight and stood guard to protect his mother on the set of Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Cate said: %26quot;In the scene where Clive Owen is talking about the immensities and I’m sitting on the throne, I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in a knight’s costume protecting me.

%26quot;He stood for like five minutes and each take was different for him. He was a natural, unfortunately.%26quot;

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ACTRESS Cate Blanchett joined 20,000 fellow Sydneysiders in a boisterous march yesterday calling for political action on climate change.

With her husband, Andrew Upton, and sons, Dashiell and Roman, in tow, the home-grown Hollywood superstar urged governments to heed the message ofthe Walk Against Warming rally. %26quot;Politicians need to listen to the people of Australia,” she told The Sunday Telegraph. %26quot;Like the tens of thousands who marched today, I support clean energy and I vote.” In damp and overcast conditions, protesters walked, rode and rolled their way from Martin Place, through Circular Quay, to the Botanic Gardens. The march was part of a global protest involving millions of people in more than 50 countries. Peter Kirnks, 69, of Waverton, said he was marching for a better future for his grandchildren. %26quot;This is not about the present generation, this is about making sure we leave the planet in good shape for our children and grandchildren,” Mr Kirnks said. Young protester Brendan Brown, 10, took the train in from Penrith with his family. %26quot;I’m here to send a message to the Federal Government to do something positive for my future to stop global warming,” he said. Organisers said the Government could not afford to ignore the groundswell of support for laws to put a price on greenhouse pollution, a renewable-energy target of 25 per cent by 2020, and the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. Greens senator Bob Brown, who was cheered like a rock star by thecrowd, said the marchers represented the majority voice ofAustralia on climate change. Climate change is likely to be a big factor in the next federal election, with a recent survey showing almost one-third of Australians could change their vote over the issue.

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