Scarlett Johnasson and Oscar-winner Denzel Washington will be honored in Germany this weekend with the Golden Camera prize, one of the country’s top entertainment awards.

Johansson, who stars in Joss Whedon’s summer tentpole The Avengers, will receive the best international actress award while Washington, currently in theaters with Daniel Espinosa’s Safe House, picks up the Golden Camera for best international actor.

In the music categories, R&B legend Dionne Warwick will receive a lifetime achievement honor and Dutch jazz sensation Caro Emerald will be honored with the best music international nod.

The Golden Cameras are arguably Germany’s most prestigious awards show, on par with the Oscars or the Emmys. Every year some 4-6 million Germans tune in to watch the live, three-hour Golden Camera broadcast. Last year’s winners included John Travolta, Rene Zellweger and Michael J. Fox.

The 2012 Golden Cameras will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 in Berlin.

source: Hollywood Reporter

Things are just fine with Scarlett Johansson and her mom Melanie Sloan, thank you very much.

Over the weekend, the New York Post reported that Johansson’s former “momager” Sloan, 60, had fallen upon hard times financially; two months after signing a contract to purchase a posh two-bedroom apartment in midtown NYC for $1.4 million, Sloan filed court papers for the return of her $130,000 deposit.

Sloan told the court she was “cash poor” and could not obtain a mortgage. She was the longtime manager for her movie star daughter, now 27, until they parted ways professionally two years ago, when the We Bought a Zoo actress hired a professional manager.

“Once I got married [to Ryan Reynolds], I felt that I needed to cut the cord,” Johansson told Vanity Fair of the decision.

But that professional parting — and Sloan’s current struggle to make ends meet — hasn’t soured the mother-daughter bond, Johansson told Page Six in a statement Wednesday.

“Scarlett and Melanie are as close as they have ever been” Johansson’s rep said. “They are incredibly proud of the solid and productive professional partnership they had through the many years they worked together. Their personal relationship is solid and loving.”

source: US Magazine

Scarlett Johansson has a dream of giving up showbusiness and becoming an organic farmer.

The actress tasted a bit of her “other life” while playing a zookeeper in new movie We Bought a Zoo and she insists it wouldn’t be too difficult for her to turn her back on Hollywood and live the rural life.

She tells WENN, “There are things outside of the movie business that I want to pursue and hopefully eventually will when all this falls apart.

“I work with a lot of non-governmental organisations and I think it would be nice to work and dedicate more of my time to that.

“I also think it would be nice to have a vineyard somewhere and have an organic farm. It’s a hippy dippy wish but a good one.”

source: Contractmusic

Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she has “no interest” in playing Marilyn Monroe in a biopic.

Johansson is often compared to the iconic sex symbol, and was reportedly in the lead to portray Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, a role which was eventually offered to Michelle Williams.

“There’s a lot there to explore, and I like to watch other people do it, but I have no interest,” Johansson told USA Today.

“It’s lovely to be compared to somebody as sort of effervescent and charming and fragile and I think kind of an underrated actor, really… you know, beautiful and everything. But it’s never been one for me.”

Johansson can be seen next as a zookeeper in Cameron Crowe’s family drama We Bought a Zoo opposite Matt Damon, in which she also shared her joy in not spending many hours in the make-up chair.

“I was just happy that Matt and I spent about the same amount of time in the make-up chair,” she shared. “It’s the only time that’s ever happened in my life, that my leading man and I came out at the same time.”

source: Digital Spy

On Monday night, Scarlett stopped by The Late Show to promote  ‘We Bought a Zoo’.

But David Letterman was more interested in discussing the nude self-portraits recently hacked from Johansson’s cellphone.

To her credit, she seemed to have a healthy perspective on the ordeal. “Somebody stole my nudie photos. They were out there for all the world to see which was, uh, unfortunate, really,” she said, laughing. Johansson, who described herself as “lame” when it comes to technology, suspected something was awry when her email password changed multiple times over several months. “It meant the guy was there constantly, every 20 seconds, sitting there all pasty and sweaty and pervy and weird. And that’s the creepiest thing, really,” she said.

You can watch the funny video of the interview here*, where she also talked about her grandma, filming ‘Under The Skin’ in Scotland and many more things. Check also our gallery for HQ photos and caps!

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For an especially private person, Scarlett Johansson has an especially difficult time seeing her life played out publicly.

So, imagine her horror at reading tabloid headlines about her divorce from Ryan Reynolds, her dating and breaking up with Sean Penn, her time in Paris with Kieran Culkin and in Manhattan with Justin Bartha – not to mention the nude photos from her hacked cellphone. Those went viral.

“The hardest part is actually going through whatever hardship you’re facing. Going through it in public is the added unfortunate thing,” the actress, 27, tells USA Today while promoting her new movie with Matt Damon, We Bought a Zoo.

Still, “There’s nothing you can do about that,” she says. “It’s just nice to have kind of a blinder up in that regard. It helps keep you sane. I can’t follow all that stuff. It’s too exhausting.”

Answering the very direct question of whether she would marry again, the actress replies: “I have no idea. I don’t X things off. I don’t know. Life is long.”

She does say she would like to have a family of her own, when she’s older, but for now, her work will suffice. “It’s been nice to just focus on that and to focus on myself,” she says. “There’s something quite refreshing about it.”

And one more thing, speaking about herself. Don’t call her “ScarJo.”

“Oh, it’s awful,” she says. “It’s a laziness. People can’t actually say the whole name? It’s just bizarre.” After all, Cate Blanchett has no such nickname, and, says Johansson, “is not, like, ‘CaBla’ … Why is that? Why do I have to get stuck?”

source: People Magazine

Scarlett Gives a Damn

“I don’t have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don’t know how I feel about this idea of, “Now, I’m eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I’m having dinner at this time.” or “I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids.” That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon. I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life. I’m always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I’d rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I’d be a happy lady.”

Scarlett Johansson’s new film, We Bought a Zoo, is based on the true story of Benjamin Mee, a British journalist who moves with his family into a house on a piece of property that contains a private zoo that has fallen into disrepair. Following the untimely death of his wife, Mee decides to focus his energies on refurbishing the zoo and making a new home not only for the animals that live there, but for his grieving family as well.

In the film, directed by Cameron Crowe, the locale is reset in Southern California, with Matt Damon playing the Mee role, and Johansson as the zookeeper who helps him with the project. All told, We Bought a Zoo is a heartwarming movie that brings to light the resilience of the human spirit, the kinship that can exist between people and animals, and numerous other wholly life-affirming ideas. But for those very same reasons, the film stands out in the Johansson oeuvre, which by and large is comprised of more fraught, conflicted material like Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003), or Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), in which the philosophical takeaway is more ambiguous and bad things occasionally beget worse things as the characters struggle bitterly (and often unsuccessfully) to come to terms with parts of their lives that don’t quite square up to their own expectations. So We Bought a Zoo is a different kind of movie for Johansson, and it arrives at what has turned out to be a very different kind of time for her, too.

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“Summer Crossing”, an adaptation of Truman Capote’s lost novella, is headed for the bigscreen as the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson.

Project’s being produced by Barry Spikings, who won an Oscar for “The Deer Hunter,” and executive produced by Peter D. Graves in conjunction with the Truman Capote Literary Trust and its trustee Alan Schwartz.

Screenwriter and New York playwright Tristine Skyler is adapting the Capote novella.

“Summer Crossing” novella is set in New York when Gotham was emerging from the trauma of World War II and centers on an 18-year-old girl breaking free of her rich, smothering, family to discover her own identity and sexuality.

“Summer Crossing” was written by Capote during the 1940s and then lost for half a century before it was recovered and published.

Johannson told Women’s Wear Daily in September that she planned to direct the movie. She’ll be seen next in “We Bought a Zoo,” “Under the Skin” and “The Avengers.”

source: Variety

Photographed by Mario Sorrenti, Scarlett covers the US issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, looking this stunning!! I’ve added scans of the editorial to our gallery, and hope to add the interview ones soon. Meanwhile, here you have a sneak peek from VF! – click on the cover to see scans!