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  • Scarlett Johansson Starts Girl Band, Drops Single

    Scarlett Johansson is an actress, a mom, a wife, and a singer, too. The Lucy and Avengers star started her own girl band recently. Called The Singles, the group dropped their first single, dubbed ‘Candy, on Friday.

    This isn’t the first foray into the music world for Scarlett Johansson either. In fact, she has performed in a music video, ‘When the Deal Goes Down,’ with Bob Dylan. She also released a cover album of Tom Waits tunes back in 2006. On the Tom Waits album, one critic compared her voice to that of Blondie’s Debbie Harry.

    ‘Candy’ is a catchy dance track, reminiscent of songs from the 1980s. The Singles might remind some of The Go Go’s.

    “The idea was to write super-pop dance music written and performed by girls,” Scarlett Johansson said during a recent interview with Rolling Stone, describing her group’s sound as “ultra-pop but also a little ironic, a little in on the joke.”

    You can listen to ‘Candy,’ and critique The Singles below.

    In addition to Johansson, The Singles includes Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris and Julia Haltigan. Este Haim, the oldest of the Haim sisters, is the group’s drummer.

    Scarlett Johansson married Romain Dauriac in October. A month earlier the couple welcomed daughter Rose Dorothy into the world.

    Where does Scarlett Johansson find time to be a wife, mother, actress, and singer? She no doubt has some able-bodied help in the form of a housekeeper and nanny–don’t you think?

    What’s your take on ‘Candy?’ Is there a future in the international music world for The Singles?

  • Scarlett Johansson Talks About Her Post-Pregnancy Body

    Scarlett Johansson spoke recently about her post-pregnancy body and admitted that she doesn’t like her thighs. It was during Sunday night’s airing of Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014, that the actress, who only gave birth to her daughter Rose Dorothy three months ago, said she doesn’t think there’s anything special about her body.

    “It’s an okay body,” she told Barbara Walters, “I wouldn’t say it’s particularly remarkable, though. I don’t like my thighs, my midsection.”

    Barbara Walters included Scarlett Johansson on the ‘fascinating people’ list because of her very eventful year as a new mom, wife, and blockbuster star in Lucy, Chef, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

    Walters asked Johansson what it was like to be a sex symbol and to film sex scenes.

    “You have to be totally without judgment,” she said of filming “realistic” sex scenes. “It’s sort of liberating. It’s challenging, but you’ve just got to stay in the moment.”

    Walters also asked the Her actor about marriage and motherhood.

    “It’s wonderful and exhausting,” Johansson said of motherhood. “The love is just unbelievable. It’s very overwhelming. I’m nursing and I love it. It’s the best way to get back in shape.”

    Scarlett Johansson secretly married French journalist Romain Dauriac on October 1st.

    “I think being in a committed relationship takes work. It’s very easy to leave a situation when it gets uncomfortable. It’s challenging. But when it works it’s really worth it,” she says of her still relatively new marriage.

    Given the year Scarlett Johansson has had, is it any wonder Barbara Walters chose her as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014? No. The real wonder here is why Scarlett Johansson doesn’t think her body is anything special. There are no doubt many people–both male and female–who will pointedly disagree with that.

  • Scarlett Johansson Critiques Her Body — ‘I Wouldn’t Say It’s Particularly Remarkable’

    Scarlett Johansson, who gave birth to daughter Rose Dorothy just three months ago, thinks her body is just “okay.”

    On Sunday’s Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014 on NBC, the Lucy actress critiqued what the rest of us finds ridiculously fabulous — her famous bod.

    “It’s an okay body,” said the 30-year-old actress, who was number 10 on Walter’s list. “I wouldn’t say it’s particularly remarkable, though. I don’t like my thighs, my midsection.”

    Johansson, who reportedly married French journalist Romain Dauriac in October, also claimed she doesn’t consider herself to be particularly sexy.

    “I never put on a sexy face,” she told Walters. “So I don’t know what it means to act seductively.”

    On the other hand, the Avengers star said filming sex scenes is an exercise in freedom.

    “You have to be totally without judgment, and it’s sort of liberating,” said Johansson. “It’s challenging. You have to stay in the moment.”

    Whatever she may think of her body, she looks pretty fantastic just three months post-birth. She told Walters her secret to shedding the baby weight is breastfeeding.

    “I’m nursing and I love it,” she said. “It’s the best way to get back in shape.”

    Johansson told the 85-year-old journalist that, even though taking care of little Rose can be daunting at times, she prefers to be hands-on when it comes to caring for her daughter.

    “It’s wonderful, and exhausting,” Johansson said. “The love is just unbelievable. It’s very overwhelming.”

  • Lucy Overpowers Hercules at Box Office

    “It’s a great result in every depressed marketplace … And I think it says that more female action stars are called for.”

    Although the 2014 summer box office numbers are down by one-fifth as compared to last year, Luc Besson’s French action film, Lucy, hit big at theaters this weekend.

    Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, follows a 25-year old American woman studying in Taiwan who is tricked into carrying a packaged drug inside her abdomen. The drug, CPH4, a synthetic superdrug that can increase the user’s brain function capacity, is accidentally released in Lucy’s system when one of her captor’s kicks her in the stomach. After that, all hell breaks loose.

    Lucy is the latest in summer female-power films, overpowering its predecessors Maleficent and The Fault in Our Stars at $44 million. In fact, in the first weekend, females made up 50 percent of ticket buyers for the new film.

    Lucy is one of many recent films in which Johansson portrays an action hero, including Iron Man 2, The Avengers, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

    “The main reasons for coming to see the film were the story, and then Scarlett,” said Nikki Rocco, Universal’s president of domestic distribution. “She’s very diversified in what she does. Luc brought out the best of her in this movie.”

    The R-rated film received mixed reviews in the Twitter world.

    But, despite differing opinions and only receiving a C+ CinemaScore, Lucy beat Dwayne Johnson’s Hercules, which received a B+, in the first weekend.

    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes finished in third at $16.4 million for the weekend.

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  • Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Fallon Alter Pitch via Helium

    Morgan Freeman and Jimmy Fallon both altered the pitch of their voices on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this past week by inhaling helium–fresh from a balloon. It all started when Freeman agreed to conduct an interview with the late night host after inhaling the gas. It was a take off of sorts from the actor’s Emmy-nominated Science Channel show, Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman–a show Freeman produces and Fallon claims to love.

    “I really shouldn’t be doing this,” Freeman said in a very high-pitched–rather squeaky voice. “It’s very undignified.”

    “I’m going to do it, too,” Fallon said, adding, “It’s so fun when you come here.”

    Jimmy Fallon, of course, has a contagious giggle that gets to audience members and guests alike. He asked Morgan Freeman if he would ever return to the show.

    “I’m never coming back,” replied the actor, after inhaling the helium yet again.

    Of course Morgan Freeman was on hand touting his new film Lucy, which also stars Scarlett Johansson. The film opened in theaters nationwide on Friday.

    Hopefully everyone who sees the film and also saw Morgan Freeman post-inhalation with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night can get the sound of the actor’s raised pitch out of their heads. It’s really very difficult to take someone who sounds like that seriously.

    Needless to say, hearing Jimmy Fallon after he had inhaled the helium didn’t sound so off beat. Fallon is simply synonymous will silliness. It’s a perfect fit.

    Did you catch Morgan Freeman when he guest starred on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon? Will you be checking him out in Lucy, too?

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  • Scarlett Johansson Plans to Marry Fiancé Romain Dauriac in August

    Scarlett Johansson is apparently planning on getting married next month.

    The 29-year-old actress was overheard telling fellow guests at a dinner thrown by Martha Stewart on Saturday that she and French journalist Romain Dauriac — with whom she is expecting her first child — will marry in four weeks, the New York Post’s Page Six reports.

    The wedding venue is still unknown at this time, but The Avengers star will likely either marry in her fiance’s native Paris, or in the Hamptons, where they have been hanging out this summer.

    Johansson and Dauriac were joined at the dinner held at Stewart’s East Hampton estate with fellow guests and Hampton regulars — Howard Stern, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Barbara Walters, Rachel Zoe and Harvey Weinstein. The dinner was held to celebrate the launch of Dom Pérignon’s P2-1998 champagne — a vintage that retails for $400 a bottle.

    The nuptials will likely be rather simple — the actress has admitted she would probably “wing it” on her wedding day.

    “I don’t plan anything. I’m terrible at planning. Yeah, I’m not gonna plan anything – I like to wing it!,” Johansson told Access Hollywood.

    This will be the second marriage for the Lucy star. She was married to Ryan Reynolds from 2008 until 2011 and has admitted she finds it “easier” to date someone who is not a celebrity.

    “It is [easier to be with someone who isn’t famous], but it’s more than that. We do different things. He’s [Romain] in the whole art-scene world. So it’s nice, because we can enjoy each other’s worlds, but we don’t have our crazy conflicting schedules and all that other stuff to contend with,” she said in Vanity Fair’s May issue.

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  • Scarlett Johansson: Behind The Scenes Video For D&G Shoot

    Scarlett Johansson is preparing for motherhood at the moment, but before the news was released that she’s expecting, she was glamming it up for Dolce & Gabbana in a photo shoot for their new eye color, which will debut in the fall.

    The 29-year old actress looks a bit like Marilyn in the new ads with her blonde curls and polka dots, but it was her eyes the company was most interested in when they chose her to be the face for the campaign.

    “When we were looking for someone whose eyes embody the innermost essence of the Dolce & Gabbana woman, we could only think of one person: Scarlett. Her eyes can speak even when she does not, evoking intense emotions just by catching your glance. She has the look of a true star,” Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in a statement.

    Johansson has been a busy lady of late, between her spokesperson gigs and filming, and is promoting her new action film Lucy at the moment as well. However, she noted recently that she does understand that motherhood will mean making some sacrifices when it comes to her job.

    She hasn’t sacrificed style, that’s for sure; the chic mom-to-be made headlines recently in a cute red and black ensemble with a soft motorcycle jacket on top and clogs on the bottom.

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  • Scarlett Johansson Answering Questions About ‘Lucy’

    Actress Scarlett Johansson will be answering questions about her new film Lucy via Twitter, according to Entertainment Weekly. Twitter users can tweet with #askLUCY and @EW today to send questions to Johansson herself, and EW will be sharing answers on Thursday.

    Lucy is a sci-fi action film directed, written, edited and produced by French director Luc Besson, and hits theaters on July 25. The plot revolves around a world controlled by criminal organizations, and Johansson plays the title character Lucy, who is forced into being a drug mule by a mob based in Taipei, Taiwan. A surgically implanted packet of drugs breaks open and leaks into her body, which causes a reaction that allows her to access more than the mythically standard 10% of her brain.

    Lucy then evolves into a superhuman, to where she can absorb vast amounts of information instantly and wield telekinetic powers. The film also stars Morgan Freeman.

    Here is a new clip from the film, in which Johansson’s character speeds through Paris:

    Another clip showing Lucy making an escape is also online:

    Here Lucy has an encounter with the Taiwanese mob:

    The 10% brain myth is a popular urban legend perpetuated by a misunderstanding of archaic brain research. Modern imaging has revealed that all areas of the brain are “firing,” though the exact functions of some regions are still misunderstood.

    In 2013 Johansson also appeared in director Jonathan Glazer’s excellent sci-fi thriller Under the Skin, playing a confused alien disguised as a woman, who seduces men in order to harvest their flesh, which is a delicacy on its home world.

    Here is the trailer:

    Johansson, who recently revealed that she was “tired of being sexy,” is expecting her first child with fiance Romain Dauriac, the owner of an independent advertising agency. The couple presently lives in the Rive Gauche district of Paris.

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  • Scarlett Johansson Ready To Film Coen Bros. Movie

    Scarlett Johansson has played many a role on the big screen, but her latest two movies are shaping up to be quite interesting.

    Lucy, which comes out July 25th, stars Scarlett Johansson as a drug mule who absorbs some of the drug she is charged with into her system.

    This drug allows her to use way more of her brain than the average person. However, this new brain power comes at the expense of her humanity.

    Awesomeness ensues…

    Scralett Johansson destroys a good chunk of Paris in the movie during a crazy car chase.

    She also has the power to slow and speed up time, as well as a few other super-human tricks she keeps up her sleeve.

    Watch the trailer:

    Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy will open at the 67th Locarno Film Festival on August 6th. It looks pretty fantastic, but not as interesting as her new role in the new Coen brothers movie Hail Caesar. She is set to join the likes of Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes.

    Quite a star-studded movie! Who wouldn’ t want to be part of a Coen brothers production, after all?

    Scarlett Johansson plays an actress in the 1950’s who gets pregnant in Hail Caesar.

    It shouldn’t be too difficult to play that part, as Scarlett Johansson announced in March that she actually is pregnant with her first child with fiance Romain Dauriac.

    Sounds like a full load for the mom-to-be! For now, Scarlett Johansson is just enjoying her work and being engaged. She said of her relationship with Dauriac, “We do different things. He’s in the whole art-scene world. So it’s nice, because we can enjoy each other’s worlds, but we don’t have our crazy conflicting schedules and all that other stuff to contend with.”

    Hopefully she has time to rest between work and romance!

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  • Scarlett Johansson No Sex Object, Wins Lawsuit

    Scarlett Johansson has won a lawsuit against an author whose book featured a character bearing a very similar likeness to the actress. She filed suit against author Gregoire Delacourt for making “fraudulent use of her name, fame and image” in his book titled La premiere chose qu’on regarde (The First Thing We Look At). The book features a character described as Scarlett Johansson’s ‘exact double.’ That character is treated like a sex object throughout the book.

    Delacourt, however, claims he used Johansson’s likeness on the written page as a means of complimenting the Avengers actress.

    “It was meant as the highest praise. She is an archetypal beauty of our times, very human with a touching fragility. She is a wonderful, iconic actress. I was hoping that she might send me flowers because this book is, in a way, a declaration of love. If I had known she was going to kick up such a racket, I would have picked another actress,” he said.

    “I wrote a work of fiction. My character is not Scarlett Johansson,” the author said in an interview with a French newspaper. “I’m not sure she’s even read the book. It’s not been translated.”

    And speaking of translated, Scarlett Johansson wanted to make sure the work is never translated into any other languages or adapted for film use, and she sought an injunction that would hopefully prevent any of these things from happening. The court threw it out, however.

    Johansson will soon be back on the big screen in a film called Lucy, in which she plays a ‘merciless warrior.’ She decides to fight back against some people who have taken extreme advantage of her.

    Gregoire Delacourt’s publisher claims that since the lawsuit is now settled the novel could in fact be published again–in English this time.

    Scarlett Johansson only received 2,500 euros–the equivalent of 3,400 U.S. dollars in the suit. She sought the equivalent of $70,000. Do you think she deserved more respect from the French courts than this paltry award? Do you think the novel will eventually wind up published in English? That will no doubt open up a whole new lawsuit from which Johansson will hopefully get more money and stop the author who has unfairly portrayed her as a sex object.

    Scarlett Johansson is sexy, but definitely no object in the upcoming Lucy. This may be one of her most enthralling roles to date.

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  • Scarlett Johansson: The Superheroine We Need?

    I will admit that I am excited for Lucy, Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming summer flick.

    I am excited because it has the potential to be a great superhero movie with a main woman character at the helm.

    Lucy isn’t being advertised outright as a superhero movie, but let’s be real…that’s exactly what it is:

    An ordinary and weak human woman is thrust into extraordinary circumstances. In the midst of said circumstances, she encounters a substance that gives her strange new powers.

    She must then use those powers (with the help of a wise mentor) to overcome a great evil. However, with great power comes great responsibility and there’s the risk her powers might be too much for her.

    It has all the tropes and all the fixings.

    Considering Hollywood’s reluctance to invest in a quality superhero movie featuring a woman as the main character (please don’t bring up those godawful Resident Evil movies…), this movie may be a subtle test to see whether or not American audiences are interested in super-powered women.

    With all the comic movies flooding movie theaters and raking in billions, we know that audiences love their men in tights.

    The argument has been that it’s nearly impossible to make a good superhero movie with a woman character.

    Despite the finger pointing at American audiences, it often comes down to an inability to write convincing women characters and present a bankable plot.

    But why blame the movie makers when you can blame the moviegoers?

    The one major asset that Lucy has in its favor is Scarlett Johansson herself. We all know her as the kick-ass Black Widow in Iron Man 2, The Avengers, and most recently Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

    All of these movies were massive hits, though Johansson can’t be specifically credited with their success.

    However, because we have seen Johansson in action as a convincing superheroine, it stands to reason she can bring her A game to Lucy.

    The movie arrives in theaters July 25th.

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