The cast for Mikael Hafstrom’s adaptation of Matt Baglio’s novel The Rite has increased threefold with the addition of Alice (Repo Men, Predators) Braga, Ciaran (The Eclipse) Hinds, and Toby (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) Jones.

Variety has confirmed the trio will be joining the previously announced Anthony Hopkins and Colin O’Donoghue in Hafstrom’s take on Michael (Queen of the Damned) Petroni’s screenplay. Hopkins will play an expert in exorcisms while both Hinds (pictured) and Jones will portray priests.

The Rite centers on a disillusioned American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican and ultimately finds his faith through encounters with demonic forces.

Alice turns 26 today, and we would like to wish her all the best!

Alice Braga, Mickey Rourke and Vincent Cassel are set to star in 11 Minutes, an adaptation of the steamy Paulo Coelho novel that will be directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now), says Variety.

Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari is producing, with Craig J. Flores and George Waud as executive producers. Shooting begins June 1 in Brazil and Geneva.

Braga plays a naive girl who is betrayed by her first lover and swears off romance. She becomes a high-priced call girl who works at an upscale gentlemen’s club in Geneva. Cassel plays a music executive who gets her hooked on S&M. Rourke plays the club owner.

Italian heartthrob Riccardo Scamarcio is in talks to round out the cast.

Abu-Assad has rewritten a script by Marcos Bernstein.

Stefano Azevedo is passionate for hippopotamus, and decided “stalking” celebrities in seeking to achieve that they drawn their own version of the annimal. This drawings are published in a blog. Alice was one that has created a hippopotamus especially to him.

This was particularly shameful. Alice entered, and I was concealed ask the hippo. Open the brochure, I raised for it, and when I was talking about Jorge Furtado (also made a hippopotamus) showed to her and the whole world looked, applauded and found that I was a groupie asking autograph. After she has done, found lawful, and said ‘oh, forgotten leg backwards”.

According to brazilian portal O Fuxico, Alice is making tests for star the new Mike Binder movie, The Friday Night Knitting Club, besides the pretty woman Julia Roberts.

Other young actresses are doing the tests also. So we need to wait and crossing fingers to Alice.

The Brazilian actress Alice Braga was clicked by Bob Wolfenson for the spring campaign of Hering. This is the first time that she participates in an advertising campaign and the reason was noble: she donated her salary for IBCC (Brazilian Institute of Control of Cancer).
“I am very happy in participating, the people need to have conscience that the disease doesn’t only happen with the other ones”, Alice said.

Alice arrived at the studio with great humor. The brunette guaranteed moments of amusement for all that accompanied the rehearsal and who heard her cellular one play, with a touch that imitates croaking of a toad, they also burst out laughing.

During the pictures, the actress revealed that she will be the protagonist of the film “Cabeça “a Prêmio” (Head to Prize), the first of Marco Ricca as director. In September, she leaves to Mato Grosso do Sul, where the recordings happen. The itinerary is based on the book of same name of Marçal Aquino and it portrays the decadence of a family of farmers that migrate for the drug traffic.

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Wednesday night, fashion designer Carlos Miele launched a series of t-shirts designed by celebrities and fashionistas to directly benefit the Rainforest Foundation. Those lending their personalized touches to the green-themed tees included Scarlett Johansson, Camilla Belle, Michael Roberts, Diana Picasso, and Alice Braga.

100% of the proceeds from the launch party will benefit the conservation organization — which was founded by rocker Sting and his wife Trudie Styler back in 1989. Said Miele of the effort, “I’ve liked the work of the Rainforest Foundation for a long time. I think Sting was a visionary when he came to Brazil and he was really concerned about Amazonia and the rainforest. For me, it’s great to support this foundation.”

You too can support the foundation — with 20% of each purchased tee going towards the Rainforest Foundation. Rainforest Foundation Ts sold at Carlos Miele boutiques 646-336-6642.

The site Joblo.com has a short interview with the director Francis Lawrence, done during the Comic-Con, about a I Am Legend sequel. According to Lawrence, a new Legend movie is in the works, but would be a prequel, not a sequel. And Will Smith is all for returning as Robert Neville, so this would probably mean no Alice Braga. Read more here.