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above: Alec Baldwin tells Olivia Wilde "Who is the fairest of them all" in the newest Disney Dream Portraits by Annie Leibovitz

Legendary portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz continues her series of celebrity photographs for the Disney Dream Portraits with Alec Baldwin, Olivia Wilde, Queen Latifah, Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz and Patti Smith. The ads will be part of a special insert in the April issues of O – The Oprah Magazine, People En Español, Real Simple, Essence, and InStyle as well as in the March 28th issue of People.


above: Annie in action as she shoots the latest Disney Dream Portraits

The magical combination of famous Disney characters portrayed by today's hottest celebrities and shot by one of the world's most talented photographers continues to delight. Just released by Disney on March 3rd, are the following latest three portraits for Disney's Dream Series.

Alec Baldwin as the Mirror to Olivia Wilde's Evil Queen from Snow White And The Seven Dwarves:

close-up detail:

The ad will run as shown below, with the caption “Where magic speaks, even when you’re not the fairest of them all.”


Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid:

close-up detail:

The caption in the final printed ad reads, “Where memories take hold and never let go.”


Jeff Bridges with Penelope Cruz as Belle and the 'transformed' Prince from Beauty and The Beast:

close-up detail:

In the ad that will run, the celebratory moment is captioned, “Where a moment of beauty lasts forever.”


Behind the scenes shots:







The behind the scenes images from the shoot show Patti Smith as a pirate which means there are more to come!



See ALL the previous Disney Dream Portraits here.

above: dancer and gymnast Emmanuel Brown, pictured here, is a stunt double.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz went behind the scenes of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, directed by Julie Taymor with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, to shoot this fashion editorial for Vogue's December issue.

CAPTIVE AUDIENCE


above: Mary Jane (Jennifer Damiano) falls into the clutches of the Green Goblin (Patrick Page). Will Spider-Man save the day?

fashions: Alexander McQueen red printed silk chiffon bustier dress. Shot on location at Foxwoods Theatre, NYC. Mask by Julie Taymor.

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS


above: Mary Jane fends off the multibladed Swiss Miss (Sean Samuels). “There are a lot of comic-book nerds out there who are in love with Mary Jane,” says Damiano. “I don’t want to let them down.”

fashions: Marchesa sculptured sapphire satin-faced organza ball gown. Mask by Julie Taymor.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST


above: The ill-intentioned Carnage (Collin Baja) goes after Mary Jane. Says Taymor: “I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn’t resist.”

fashions: Marchesa black-and-white hand-painted crinoline ball gown.

WEB OF DESIRE

above: Carney and Damiano as the star-crossed Peter and Mary Jane.

fashions: Dior Haute Couture red-and-violet hand-painted satin organza dress. On Carney, Billy Reid striped shirt and Marni pants.

Images shot on location at PRG Scenic Technologies, New Windsor, NY. In this story: hair, Kamo for Mod’s Hair; makeup, Gucci Westman for Revlon. Photography production design by Mary Howard. All costumes by Eiko Ishioka. Fashion Editor: Tonne Goodman.

above images and captions courtesy of Vogue.com



The story:
Drawing from over 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark spins a new take on the mythic tale of a young man propelled from a modest rowhouse in Queens to the sky-scraping spire of the Chrysler Building, the bustling offices of the Daily Bugle, through the dizzying canyons of Manhattan, to new vistas never before seen.The musical follows the story of teenager Peter Parker, whose unremarkable life is turned upside-down— literally—when he’s bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to his bedroom ceiling. This bullied science-geek—suddenly endowed with astonishing powers—soon learns, however, that with great power comes great responsibility as villains test not only his physical strength but also his strength of character. (text from Broadway.com)

A behind the scenes glimpse at the musical:

Hello Friends! As promised the fabulous Annie Leibovitz images from the infamous "Killers Kill, Dead Men Die". movie that Leibovitz captured for the 2007 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue. They may have already been around the blog world and they may be a few years old, but I believe they are so beautiful and relevant that I had to share them again. Enjoy! I added some great print from the Vanity Fair issue about the original idea and film below...P.S. I am dying over the gorgeous wallpaper in the above photo!

*Sigh* a smokey nightclub filled with gorgeous and mysterious characters. The slinky gowns and a cigarette girl, and men in tuxs! What more could you ask for!?!

"A clean print of the lost film noir classic Killers Kill, Dead Men Die was miraculously discovered at a Mulholland Drive lawn sale last month, resolving a mystery that has transfixed noir fans for decades. Little was known about the film for certain, though it has been the subject of wild rumors ever since the screenplay was written, probably in 1942, by Raymond Chandler (based on “The Big Blood,” a story by James M. Cain, and later revised, as No Orchids for Oscar, by Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner).

It is believed that Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum were originally cast in the roles of private detectives Oscar Slade and Dan O’Bannion, only to be replaced, several years later, by Sterling Hayden and Glenn Ford, and then—most intriguingly—by Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. We know that Lauren Bacall loved the original script. But she passed her troubled-heiress role to Barbara Stanwyck when Fritz Lang replaced John Huston as director. (Lang later ceded to Stanley Kubrick, who let Joseph Losey take over when RKO sold the project to Republic Studios.) It is suspected that additional scenes were shot with Joan Crawford, Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame, Ida Lupino, and Jimmy Stewart throughout the 1950s, when the picture was known by its two shooting titles, Dame Danger and He Died by Murder. After acquiring the Republic library in the 1980s, Ted Turner reportedly planned a colorized version of the film, which, curiously, is one of the few noirs actually shot in color. In this period certain scenes are also thought to have been reshot with Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Melanie Griffith, and Michael Paré, under the direction of Brian De Palma. Based on a close examination of the newly discovered film stock (and the movie’s credit sequence, opposite), several noir scholars have even gone as far as to suggest that the picture was not completed until this year.It’s too bad, since this delay has deprived us of viewing an undeniable film noir classic. Every element of the genre is here: The Femme Fatale, sultry, scheming, and doped up on tranquilizers; The Private Dick, crawling through the gutter in search of a diamond garter; The Chanteuse and The Champ; The Doll and The Aristocrat; The Spy who knows too little and The Moll who knows too much; mistaken identity and double indemnity; high life and low society; shocking—though possibly nonsensical—plot turns; despair, lust, blood violence, and the cruel fist of fate. Finally, lurking in the shadows behind all this is the menacing figure of The Killer. And what does he do? Why, he does what all killers do: he kills.

~Excerpt from Vanity Fair