Just a quick update to let you know that Woody Allen’s completed film, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for a fall release.

Shot in London last year and financed by Mediapro, the Spanish company that also funded Vicky Cristina Barcelona, not much is known about the film beyond its strong cast — Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts — and a vague logline: “The film revolves around the members of a family, their tangled love lives and their attempts to solve their problems.”

No word yet if the movie will be screened at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival or not. When information becomes available I’ll report it to you. Stay tuned for that.

According to several sources, Mickey Rourke has signed on to star in Relativity Media’s War of the Gods, about a Greek mythological battle, starring opposite Henry Cavill and Freida Pinto.

According to Variety, the story follows a young warrior Theseus who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods to defeat evil and the powerful elder gods of the Titans in order to save mankind.

Rourke has been cast as the villain, King Hyperion. Tarsem Singh is directing. Pinto will portray Phaedra, an oracle priestess who must join Theseus – played by Cavill – on his quest to prevent the cataclysmic war from erupting. Jason Keller penned the most recent draft of the script. The original screenplay was written by Christian Gudegast.

Production is set to start in April.

I have added scans of Freida Pinto’s cover feature in the February issue of Elle India! She looks absolutely gorgeous in the photos and the interview (though a bit short) is a very interesting read about Freida’s life after Slumdog Millionaire. Be sure to check out all the scans by clicking on the preview above. If you repost the scans on other sites/forums, please credit freidapintofan.com!

Freida Pinto is featured with a brand new picture and interview in the Times of India. She looks gorgeous in the photo and the article is very interesting and lets us know what’s been going on in Freida’s life the past months. Be sure to read it below. Enjoy!

The news is out. Freida Pinto, who somebody said went from obscurity to worldwide superstardom in the blink of a well-curled eyelash with Slumdog Millionaire, has bagged the biggest and perhaps best role of her young career as an actress.

It is in Tarsem Singh’s $100 million Greek mythological epic War of The Gods which will release in the summer of 2011. An excited Hollywood press is supposed to have cranked up the buzz blaster and Tarsem himself described his film “as a larger-than-life adventure with the look and feel of an Italianrenaissance painting — a setting well-suited to Freida’s timeless beauty”.

The actress, who plays Phaedra — the hero’s oracle in War of The Gods, was in Mumbai when the story broke. I met her for tea one evening at a city hotel poolside where she was shooting a campaign for a UK human rights organisation. She walked upto me with her hair blowing madly in the breeze, long legs flashing in snug designer jeans, golden-beige thongs peeping carelessly over the waistband through a tomato-red top. I thought she looked what she was, a sweet and young Catholic girl from Malad in whom Danny Boyle saw some spark and cast in Slumdog, changing Freida’s life forever.

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Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger will be released on September 23, according to reports. Freida Pinto stars alongside Oscar nominated Naomi Watts, Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, Oscar nominated Josh Brolin, and Golden Globe nominated Antonio Banderas. Quite the cast, no?

The film is about a family, love lives of its members and how they try to solve their issues. Directed and written by Woody Allen, it was filmed in United Kingdom last year.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Mickey Rourke is possibly joining Freida Pinto and Henry Cavill in War of the Gods. He’s supposedly being courted by Millennium Films and Lionsgate to join the remake of Conan The Barbarian, titled just Conan, which is the Marcus Nispel-directed reinvention of the Robert E. Howard creation. Rourke is negotiating to play Corin, the father of Conan who’s played by Jason Momoa.

At the same time, Rourke is negotiating for the Tarsem Singh-directed War of the Gods and the part of King Hyperion, the ruler of Ancient Greece who does battle with the divines.

Conan begins shooting in Bulgaria in late March and War of the Gods begins April 7th, so it is possible he might need to make a choice between the two projects.

Stay tuned for more on this story…

I have added over 100 screen captures from Freida Pinto’s commercials for L’Oreal Paris to the gallery. She looks absolutely gorgeous and very natural in them, so it’s not hard to watch and take screen captures of the commercials. Be sure to check them out by clicking on the previews above!

According to Variety, Freida Pinto has boarded director Tarsem Singh’s War of the Gods, which centers on a Greek mythological battle.

The story follows young warrior Theseus who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods to defeat evil and the powerful elder gods of the Titans in order to save mankind. Freida Pinto will portray Phaedra, an oracle priestess who must join Theseus – played by Henry Cavill (The Tudors) – on his quest to prevent the cataclysmic war from erupting.

The most recent draft of War of the Gods was penned by Jason Keller. The original screenplay was written by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides.

Production is set to start in April.

I’m really excited for Freida’s film career, she now has three interesting projects ahead of her! What do you think of War of the Gods? Discuss at the forum!

I just wanted to say that the affiliates-form has finally been fixed, so it should be much easier for all of you to apply for affiliation with Freida Pinto Fan now. Feel free to do so right away by clicking here! Looking forward to hearing from you!

On February 20, Freida Pinto was honored with the “Global Indian Face of the Year” at the All India Women Concert by Pearls Wave. She attended the event with her mother (picture above) and looked gorgeous in an Indian design. Check out a few pictures from the event (thanks to Indian websites for them!) by clicking on the preview above. Enjoy!