Events included are the premiere, photocall and Hollywood Foreign Press Association party. Abbie looks absolutely gorgeous at all the events! We will be adding Venice photos soon.

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- Public Events: 2011 Toronto International Film Festival – W.E. Premiere
- Public Events: 2011 Toronto International Film Festival – W.E. Photocall
- Public Events: 2011 Toronto International Film Festival – InStyle and Hollywood Foreign Press Association Party

W.E. is a romantic exploration of the mysterious connection across decades between two women confronting the consequences of desire. Caught in a loveless Manhattan marriage, abused and frustrated Wally (Abbie Cornish) obsesses over Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the stylish American divorcee who captured the heart of Edward the VIII (James D’Arcy) who abdicated the throne as King of England. As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis spends the rest of her life in the glare of celebrity exile. Inspired by the Duchess’ determination to pursue love in the face of social exile, Wally escapes into the arms of another man (Oscar Isaac) whose love sets her free. Madonna and a world class team of collaborators present a passionate tale of the search for love and the meaning of happiness. W.E. (for Wallis and Edward, forever entwined in the love story of the 20th century) is a rich, cinematic portrayal of two strong women resolved to find romance.

Source: ComingSoon

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- Public Events: Sucker Punch Los Angeles Premiere

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- Public Events: Limitless Los Angeles Special Screening

Cheers to ‘TerrapinPrime’ for a bunch of the photos!

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- Public Events: Limitless New York Premiere

The film’s London premiere will be on March 30 at Vue Cinema in Leicester Square. There’s no confirmation on Abbie’s attendance as of this moment but fingers crossed she’ll attend! More details at Mark Meets.

The 52-year-old singer has directed W.E. – a two-tier tale about Britain’s King Edward VIII’s relationship with American Wallis Simpson – and the full feature will be shown to critics and audiences at the film festival in September, reports contactmusic.com.

The film stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and Laurence Fox apart from Madonna’s 14-year-old daughter Lourdes, who has been given a cameo in the film.

The 52-year-old earlier said she had put her music career on hold so she could concentrate on her family life and the movie.

‘I haven’t really been focused as much as I should be on the music part of my career, because the movie has consumed every inch of me. Between that and my four children, I don’t have the time or energy for anything else,’ she said.

Source: Sify

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- Public Events: 2011 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter

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- Public Events: Clicquot in the Snow Tube-a-Thon Benefitting Habitat For Humanity

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- Public Events: Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood 2011 – Chrysler Celebrates The Fighter

The material girl will first screen her film privately for select distributors in Berlin next month.

W.E. stars Abbie Cornish and Oscar Isaac in the film about parallel stories of the early 20th century love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII and a modern romance.

Selection for the title in Cannes won’t be official until fest artistic director Thierry Fremaux makes his final statement in April.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Abbie was presented the Excellence in Film award by Sucker Punch director Zac Snyder. It was the third anniversary of late great Australian actor Heath Ledger‘s passing and Cornish dedicated her G’day USA Award to him. She made an emotional speech about her Candy co-star and his pivotal influence on her career.

She told a story about shooting Bright Star in London and requiring a new trailer because hers was too small. Four trailers arrived and she randomly picked one. It turned out to be Ledger’s former trailer and they found a hotel room key he had used and a stash of vitamin pills. Before closing she accepted the accolade in “Heath’s memory”.

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- Public Events: G’Day USA 2011 Black Tie Gala

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- Public Events: Miu Miu Store Launch Dinner

AFI AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS

• Abbie Cornish. Bright Star.
• Morgana Davies. The Tree.
• Charlotte Gainsbourg. The Tree.
• Jacki Weaver. Animal Kingdom.

Bright Star earned an impressive total of 11 nominations, including for Feature Film, Best Direction and Cinematography. Congratulations to the whole crew for the wonderful honor!

The AFI Awards will be handed out in Melbourne on December 10 and 11. The ceremony will be broadcast on Saturday December 11 on the Nine Network at 9.30pm.

Earlier this year Abbie Cornish was named Australia’s sexiest vegetarian. She’s been one since the age of thirteen.

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- Public Events: PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala And Humanitarian Awards – Show
- Public Events: PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala And Humanitarian Awards – Backstage
- Public Events: PETA’s 30th Anniversary Gala And Humanitarian Awards – Red Carpet

ComingSoon.net live blogged the event yesterday on their website and this is what they reported back on:

Geoff Boucher suggests that the presentation for Sucker Punch could be another “firecracker” that’s been lit in Hall H at Comic-Con and he introduces Zack Snyder who comes out to big cheers, and he’s being asked a few general questions about the movie.

Zack says he’s been working on the movie for eight years or longer, and that he was a fan of fantasy and that he just had this journey he wanted to “torture these girls with” and they agreed. (The girls being the female cast mentioned above.)

They’re bringing out those very same girls before showing the footage. Out comes Carla Gugino, Jamie Chung, Vanessa Hudgens, Jenna Malone and Emily Browning, and they followed with an insane montage of footage we will describe as best we can in a second.

The footage begins with Emily Browning’s character Babydoll’s eyes opening and the title card “Close Your Eyes” and Scott Glenn’s voice asking “What are you looking for?” and then we hear Carla Gugino’s Polish accent telling Babydoll, “push through your fear to find your own paradise.” Gugino’s voiceover does a count-off… “1… 2… 3… 4″ then we hear the opening drums of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” and we see Scott Glenn as Babydoll’s stepfather driving a large old car with Babydoll in the passenger seat as the car drives into the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont here he commits his stepdaughter. We then see lots of scenes of Babydoll in the insane asylum being introduced to Gugino’s Madame Gorsky, who says, “What you’re imagining now, you control this own world.” Babydoll closes her eyes again and the insane asylum transforms into a brothel/dancehall where all the female patients are prostitutes. (The original footage is very muted almost black and white, a bit like Sin City, but in the world where it’s a brothel, it’s a lot more bright and colorful.) Gugino says, “Your fight for survival starts right now” and we see a slow-motion snowflake falling on Babydoll’s eyelash and the footage turned into an insane fast-paced montage of some of the different worlds where Babydoll and some of the other girls of the brothel visit in order to get different items. Each of the girls has a dance number and there are four different worlds where they visit, all of which we saw brief glimpses of the footage including samurai battles. They also have a WWI sequence where they’re fighting in the trenches and one of the girls gets to ride a giant manga-inspired Mecha while shooting down biplanes. This really was some insane stuff that went by very fast with so many images that it probably be very hard for any of it to register.

One of the prison officers tells Babydoll, “I’m going to give you freedom, freedom from pain, guilt, regret” and then we see John Hamm, who plays a john at the brothel and he makes a sleezy comment: “Did you see the way she looked at me?”

As the fast footage continued, the title cards came up with the words, “You Will Be Unprepared.”

After the footage, they talked a bit about their characters and the story, which we’ll have to catch up in a bit, and they’re already onto questions from the audience.

Question from the audience about the fight choreography, and Zack is using the same fight choreographer as 300 and Watchmen, Dave Carlo.

As Zack has told us before, he thinks that Sucker Punch has a chance to be PG-13, but they have a lot of creatures being killed, and he hopes the MPAA will remember how creatures got decapitated in The Lord of the Rings movies and they got a PG-13.

He mentioned that the German soldiers in the WWI sequence are zombies.

Zack confirmed that they’re busy writing Xerxes while Frank Miller works on the graphic novel of the same name.

They’re going to show the footage again and all the girls are going to come off the stage to see the footage from the audience. We’ll see if we can catch some more of it. Honestly, having visited the set, we can probably figure out what everything is if the footage were slowed down a bit, but we don’t want to get in trouble with Warner Bros. (and Zack) by breaking the embargo.

On second viewing, we were able to focus on a few more of the images including the dragons the girls fight, as well as the futuristic world where they fight robots. One thing we noticed of interest was that each world has a different color scheme, and the way the footage was cut together, we can see how much they differ, some worlds being muted with very little color and others being lush and colorful.

11:45-1:15 Warner Bros.: Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows— Warner Bros. showcases three eagerly awaited upcoming new films in this Hall H presentation!

Sucker Punch — Fasten your seatbelt for a sneak peek at the dark action fantasy Sucker Punch, from director Zack Snyder, who previewed his films 300 and Watchmen at past Comic-Cons. A group of young girls escape the dark reality of their lives through their vivid imagination, which takes them to various fantasy locations in different realms. The ensemble cast features Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung, and Jon Hamm.

Goss from E! Online:

Oh no, Vanessa was totally grinding with…

Abbie Cornish! The woman arrived at Staples solo, but she met up with Vanessa and Brittany Snow inside the show.

“Vanessa and Abbie were dancing and holding hands during the concert, having a great time,” onlookers tell us.

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