Dakota attended the�2013 LACMA Art +Film�Gala�honoring�Martin Scorsese�and�David Hockney�held at LACMA on Saturday night (November 2) in Los Angeles. I have added x55 photos to the galleries …
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We have added x2 more photos from October 23rd, where Dakota attended the dinner to celebrate the 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. Check out the photos here.
In more Fifty news, True Blood’s Luke Grimes has been cast as Christian Grey’s brother Elliot in the upcoming film. Grimes’ part, as Grey’s brother and Kave Kavanagh’s boyfriend, is relavitely small, but it’s still a crucial one.
As well as True Blood, 29-year-old American actor Luke Grimes has previously starred in Brothers and Sisters and Taken 2. He’s also set to appear in upcoming films Squatters, Manhatten Undying, Forever and Dark Around The Stars.
43-year-old Jennifer Ehle, who played Lizzie Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is set to star as Anastasia Steele’s mother. Other characters, including Anastasia’s roommate Kate, are yet to be cast.
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Dakota Johnson donned a blue-grey frock that elegantly showed off her slim figure at the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund in New York.�The daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith pinned her hair high and tight, offering a full view of her fine bone structure and gorgeous blue eyes. Check out the photos on our galleries …
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According to breaking reports, EL James has finally found her leading man!
After a super-sexy screentest with actress Dakota Johnson, producers have chosen Jamie Dornan as their Christian Grey. The 31-year-old Irish actor was rumored to be next in line for the Fifty Shades of Grey titular role after Charlie Hunnam dropped out, but this is the official confirmation we’ve all been waiting for.
A few fun facts about Jamie -�he’s a former Calvin Klein model, he starred in TV Series Once Upon A Time, he dated Keira Knightley for 2 years, he married�Amelia Warner, he’s about to become a dad, his first role with in�Marie Antoinette�with Kirsten Dunst, he was the face of�Dior Homme campaign and he’s the great-nephew of�Greer Garson.
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Dakota Johnson�is “our rock,”�Michael De Luca, one of the hotly anticipated film’s producers, told E! News exclusively on the red carpet at the 2013 Hollywood Film Awards tonight. “She’s just so Anastasia Steele. She’s the best partner a producer could have.”
So just how much sway does the 24-year-old Johnson have, now that she’s the sole big name still definitively attached to the project after�Charlie Hunnam‘s sudden exit last week?�Well, she�does�get to put the hopefuls to the test�the chemistry test, that is.
“She’s helping us look through the candidates to see which chemistry kind of captures our attention,” De Luca explained.
As for the rumors that�Jamie Dornan�is�the�frontrunner�to replace Hunnam, the producer said that he couldn’t comment�but he says that he really thinks that the role of Christian Grey will be refilled within the next month.
“We’re looking on your website, we’re looking under rocks in Zimbabwe, in space, on the moon. We’re looking everywhere, but I think in a couple weeks it will be announced and everything will be cool,” DeLuca said.
The filmmaker also said that the film based on the erotic�E.L. James�bestseller, to be directed by�Sam Taylor-Wood, is still on schedule.
“We’re on track. The release date [Aug. 1, 2014] is preserved and we’re gonna kind of keep going,” he said.
Not that losing Hunnam wasn’t a blow, though.
“Charlie, I think, is an amazing actor of his generation or any generation, and we just couldn’t make it work in the time he had to transform into Christian Grey,” De Luca lamented. “But I think if its meant to be its meant to be. I’m convinced we’ll work together again.”
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Tony-nominated actor�Billy Magnussen�is among a small group of men who have begun testing for the role of Christian Grey in the big-screen adaptation of�EL James’�Fifty Shades of Grey.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features restarted their efforts to fill the male lead after�Sons of Anarchy�star�Charlie Hunnamdropped out of the project Oct. 12. Their shortlist of possibilities includes�Magnussen and British actor�Jamie Dornan.
Sources say that both Dornan, the 31-year-old star of the U.K. series�The Fall, and the 28-year-old Magnussen, who was nominated for a best featured actor Tony this year for�Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, tested with director�Sam Taylor-Johnson�on Friday. They read opposite female lead�Dakota Johnson.
The studio is looking to move fast, given that the film is scheduled to begin production Nov. 1 in order to meet an Aug. 1, 2014, release date.
Magnussen, an American actor, is scheduled to shoot HBO’s�David Milch�pilot�The Money�in the next few weeks, but sources say his schedule could be worked out for�Fifty Shades. He would be a departure for the mostly British production. James, Taylor-Johnson and writer�Kelly Marcel�all are U.K. natives, as is Hunnam.
Magnussen isn’t afraid to take over a project after another actor falls out. He replaced�Jake Gyllenhaal�as Rapunzel’s Prince in Disney’s musical�Into the Woods.
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While she and Charlie definitely had chemistry, Dakota Johnson is eager to find out who her new Christian Grey will be, HollywoodLife.com has learned.
At first Dakota Johnson, 24, was sad that Charlie Hunnam wouldn�t be playing her dominant in the film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey, but she�s actually now helping the producers find a new Christian Grey!
�For Dakota, she was sad that Charlie had to back out but she is very excited to see who will take the role,� a source in the industry told HollywoodLife.com exclusively. �She is in constant contact with producers and the studio and she is very willing to help out in any way and is looking forward to do readings with everyone who is available for the role. She is taking things well since she is still a part of the film.�
Charlie, 33, dropped out of the film after getting cold feet, a source close to the Sons of Anarchy star confirmed to HollywoodLife.com. Additionally, he wasn�t yet ready for the fame that was going to come with the daring role.
Meanwhile, Dakota is still 100 percent in the film.
�Dakota earned the role and she shouldn�t be worried right now. The only time she will have to worry, if at all, is if they hire someone that has no chemistry with her,� a source told us. �But they are casting the actor with her in mind.�