As expected, the entire festival program of The Berlinale is now online at the festival’s official site, according to which The Other Boleyn Girl will first be screened on Friday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. local time. The film will furthermore be screened three times on Saturday, February 16 - check Berlinale.de for schedule details and tickets. Scarlett is expected to attend.

Thanks to Sandra and Roberto for sharing the exciting news.

The Other Boleyn Girl will premiere at the 58th Annual Berlin International Film Festival, which will run between February 7-17 2008. Check out the Berlinare official site for further details and future announcements regarding the exact premiere date.

Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman were added to a star-filled Berlin Film Festival lineup on Friday that already includes the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese and Madonna.

The Berlinale, the first major European festival of the new year, rounded out its 26-film main programme with the final eight selections after it earlier picked Scorsese’s documentary on veteran British rock bank the Rolling Stones as its opener.

Festival director Dieter Kosslick has packed the “out of competition” section of the main programme with a formidable collection of Hollywood stars.

Fireflies in the Garden, starring Roberts as well as The Other Boleyn Girl with Portman, Johansson and Eric Bana, will be making their world premiere in Berlin, considered one of the world’s top festivals.

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We now know of two The Other Boleyn Girl premieres: a Royal Premiere in London, England on the evening of February 19, 2008 and another one in Vancouver, Canada on February 25, 2008 at 7 pm. For some information about the Royal Premiere, check out CTBF.co.uk. For Vancouver premiere, you can win passes at 95crave.com. Good luck! No word whether or not Scarlett will be in attendance.

Thanks to Roberto for the scoop.

Happy 2008! I am still away until next week but I had a quiet moment and made a quick update as there are some awesome new Johansson goodies to share with you all.

Scarlett Johansson was the special guest at Barack Obama’s last big rally in Iowa last night. The Obama Campaign avoided publicizing her appearance or involving her in the official program, but she spoke at a separate, small gathering to rally young voters. Here’s more information of her appearance, courtesy of OANmedia.com:

As we followed Barack Obama out of the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, Iowa after a campaign rally on Wednesday, we noticed Scartlett Johansson in the crowd – going in the opposite direction. Being dedicated political journalists, of course we turned and followed Johansson into a conference room, told organizers that we were absolutely invited to be at the press conference with a camera, and got lost in the actress’ smoky voice during her fifteen-minute speech. Johansson is in Iowa supporting Obama, but if she really wants to pull in voters, we suggest she stand at the polls on election day.

I have added three MQ eight HQ sized photos from Scarlett’s appearance. Hopefully more will show up soon! It is certainly good to see her out and about, especially at such an event. Credit for some of the images goes out to OANmedia.com.

An amazing set of new The Other Boleyn Girl stills have surfaced online in HQ and I was able to load them up in the gallery with the help of Mycah and Sandra. Be sure to check these out as they’re really spectacular but please remember that the may contain possible spoilers regarding the movie.

Sandra of Portman Source informed me of a site that appears to be an international official site for The Other Boleyn Girl. Not much there yet, except for the international trailer that premiered online a week back. Nevertheless, be sure to bookmark TheOtherBoleynGirlMovie.net.

Roberto sent in a link to Hollywood.com, which confirms that Scarlett’s character in He’s Just Not That Into You is named Anna and the film will be released August 1, 2008.

For those who are interested in the “sexiest women” type of polls, Andre Poupada reported to us that Scarlett has been nominated for AskMen.com’s Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2008. You can vote for her here. Scroll through the galleries and rank each of the nominees on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the most desirable). Feel free to vote as many times as you like, the final results will be revealed on January 31, 2008. As you may remember, Scarlett ranked #2 in the 2007 vote.

Scarlett also ranked #8 on EmpireOnline.com’s “Sexiest Movie Star Ever”. Visitors of the site were earlier in the year asked to pick the sexiest movie star ever, with their choice of screen star being unrestricted by age, gender or silver screen era, and over 20,000 votes were reportedly cast. Here’s what they had to say about Scarlett:

#8 - Scarlett Johansson

The voice that sounds like she’s been awake all night and up to all sorts of things would be sexy enough. But match it with a pouting face and a body apparently designed to describe the term ‘va-va-voom’ and you have a killer package.

Sexiest Moment
Sheer knickers in the opening moments of Lost in Translation.

Did You Know…?
She has a twin brother, who is her junior by three minutes

Last but not least, The Nanny Diaries is now out on R1 DVD so be sure to grab your copy! Captures will be up soon.

A new poster for The Other Boleyn Girl has surfaced online! It seems Scarlett in a more prominent role than the first one. Thanks to NataliePortman.com for the find and everyone who alerted me about this.

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Other Boleyn Girl Posters

A wonderful new high quality production still of Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn has been added in the gallery. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Other Boleyn Girl Production Stills

When rumours begin to circulate that King Henry VIII (Bana) is no longer intimate with his wife who has been unable to give him a male heir, Sir Thomas Boleyn concocts a plan to bring his family back to prominence: his daughter Anne (Portman) shall seduce the King and provide him with a son. However, the scheme goes off course when the King takes to the other Boleyn girl, Anne’s younger sister and best friend Mary (Johansson). Although married already, Mary gives in to family pressure and reluctantly provides the King with a boy, but along the way, she finds herself falling in love with the surprisingly tender monarch. Of course, this love affair is no obstacle for Anne whose hunger for the throne now overpowers her sisterly love, and she enacts a plan that eventually tears her family and her country apart while leading to her legendary demise.