Finally found the pictures from the Harper’s Bazaar Magazine Shoot. Amazing, Attractive, Atypical, A Helenish. LOL. I love it!

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If you’ve been watching BBC America on Friday nights, you may have stumbled upon an enchanting, stunning British beauty named Asha Leo gabbing it up with some A-list celebs.
Last week, she hit the red carpet for the Britannia Awards, held by BAFTA Los Angeles and hosted this year by the charming Scotsman, Alan Cumming. The event attracted major celebrities from both sides of the pond, including Anglophenia’s Women of 2011 Helena Bonham Carter, named British Artist of the Year; Ben Stiller, recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy; and Pixar creative head John Lasseter, winner of the Albert Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. Asha grabbed a few moments with each of them, and we present a few clips below.
A wee bit of Helena Bonham Carter, who apparently walked the red carpet barefoot:

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Now that Warner Bros. has finally greenlit the live-action adaptation of Akira, based onKatsuhiro Otomo‘s classic manga (“comic book”) series, casting has been the primary focus. Garrett Hedlund is set to play the lead role of Kaneda, but the rest of the cast is uncertain.

At the end of October, Helena Bonham Carterwas offered the role of Lady Miyako, a character that becomes an important ally of Kaneda’s and has even bigger hair than Bonham Carter’s Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. However, Bonham Carter told MTV that she hasn’t accepted the role yet. “I have read the script and I haven’t really decided yet,” Bonham Carter revealed at the Britannia Awards. “I don’t know yet what I’m going to do next.”

Bonham Carter refused to say more about the movie, but was more willing to discuss the upcoming adaptation of Dark Shadows, directed by her off-screen partner Tim Burton. The actress says that the movie, based on a 1970s and 80s soap opera, was a labor of love for Burton.

This is a thing he raced home to see when he was about age 10, so it’s returning to his childhood roots of what he loved watching. It’s actually a really bad, hilariously bad soap opera, and because it’s so bad, he felt he had to make a hugely expensive movie.

Warners may have spent a penny or two on Dark Shadows, but Bonham Carter says the studio’s marketing department will have a tough time selling the movie to the public, calling it “uncategorizable”

It’s going to be unlike [anything], I think. It’s dangerous to say that. But it’s very original and it’s kind of uncategorizable. It’s going to be impossible to sell, frankly, because it’s just so … it’s a soap opera, but it’s very, very subtle. I don’t know. We’ll see. It’s a ghost story, but then it’s an unhappy vampire story, it’s a mixture of so many different things and a real ensemble piece. Hopefully it will be funny. I don’t know.

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Finally it’s out and finally, sorry to say but it’s for me only, I’m done with this. I don’t like Harry Potter despite loving Bellatrix and I’m happy it’s over. On the other hand, I want the best for my site and waiting for the bluray was just worth it watching at the quality of the caps. Enjoy them.

After such a long time in development, it still seems like “Akira” is having a difficult time getting off the ground. Things looked up once Garrett Hedlund had signed on. Both Helena Bonham Carter and Gary Oldman were approached for the roles of Lady Miyako and the Colonel, respectively.

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Oldman eventually passed on the role, which looks to be going to Ken Watanabe instead, and when Bonham Carter spoke with MTV News at the Britannia Awards, she said she wasn’t sure whether the sci-fi film was in her future either.

“I haven’t really decided yet,” said Bonham Carter, who confirmed she had in fact read the script already. “I don’t know yet what I’m going to do next. I’m not really going to talk about it until I’ve decided whether to do it or not.”

A description of the plot leaked earlier this week, and it follows below. Spoilers ahead.

Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother, Tetsuo, is abducted by government agents led by The Colonel.

Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join with Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City thirty years ago when it was destroyed. Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous but after finding his brother again, is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers.

Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy, Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo’s mind. Kaneda clashes with The Colonel’s troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races in to save his brother before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island, as he did thirty years ago

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