GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazines: FHM (UK) – June 2008 – 100 Sexiest
- Magazines: Celebrity (The Netherlands) – May 2008
- Magazines: Tele Swiat (Poland) – March 17, 2008
- The Nanny Diaries: DVD Screencaptures > Deleted Scenes
- New York, I Love You: On the Set – March 12, 2008

After a month-long voting process which saw over 5 million votes cast worldwide, the lovely and talented Scarlett Johansson has been officially selected as the No. 6 Most Desirable Woman of 2008 by the readers of AskMen.com.

You can check out her Top 99 profile page here.

Thanks in large part to the strong support from fan sites like Scarlett-Fan.com, the Top 99 Most Desirable Women has become a popular annual mainstay on AskMen.com, in fact, the 2008 edition of the list will mark our 8th anniversary.

Scarlett also came in at second place at Playboy‘s list of sexiest celebs straight after Angelina Jolie.

If you liked Annie’s style in The Nanny Diaries, you can now check out I Saw It In to shop for similar styles to that of Scarlett’s character. I personally l o v e that red rooftop dress and the Chinese style Mary Janes – so cute!!

Last but certainly not least, The Other Boleyn Girl official site has been updated with new promotional stills from the film as well as interesting video interviews with novelist Philippa Gregory.

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Nanny Diaries: DVD Screencaptures

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Nanny Diaries: DVD Screencaptures > Making Of
- The Nanny Diaries: DVD Screencaptures > Bloopers
- The Nanny Diaries: DVD Screencaptures > Menus
- The Nanny Diaries: Trailer

The Nanny Diaries will be available to own on DVD (R1) from December 4, 2007, and should retail at around $29.95. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include behind the scenes featurettes, and a blooper reel.

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Nanny Diaries > Production Stills

From Variety:

When it came to chick film The Nanny Diaries, the film took in most of its haul from bigger cities, with audiences in smaller cities and towns largely failing to turn out. TWC is expected to tweak its media buying campaign to target locales where the nanny concept isn’t as prevalent as in big cities.

TWC co-chair Harvey Weinstein said word-of-mouth and an increased targeted marketing campaign should build buzz and turnout in those smaller markets. Pic also stars Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti.

“As we head into the Labor Day weekend holiday, we are committed to marketing the film to audiences all over the country and expect that it will continue to play,” Weinstein said.

From E! News:

The Nanny Diaries, the boss-from-hell tale that preceded The Devil Wears Prada in print but followed it to big screen, didn’t come close to matching Devil’s box-office might, thanks to an unfashionable $7.8 million opening weekend, per Exhibitor Relations Co. estimates.

“This is a book that took the literary world by storm, but filmdom is another story entirely,” Exhibitor Relations’ Jeff Bock said Sunday.

Based on the 2002 bestseller, The Nanny Diaries, starring Scarlett Johansson as the titular child-care provider, posted the second-weakest opening of any new movie bowing on more than 1,000 screens. Only Resurrecting the Champ, a drama starring Josh Hartnett as a sportswriter on a mission to save boxer Samuel L. Jackson, was more punchless, scoring $1.8 million at more than 1,600 theaters.

While Johansson trumped Hartnett, her former onscreen and offscreen costar, in the weekend box-office standings (Nanny placed sixth; Resurrecting the Champ didn’t crack the top 10), there was little else to cheer.

The Devil Wears Prada, the 2006 Oscar-nominated comedy to which The Nanny Diaries was inevitably and oft-unfavorably compared, was a bona fide box-office hit, earning $27.5 million in its opening weekend and going on to gross $325.5 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo stats.

To Bock, the big-screen Prada, based on the 2003 bestseller, had a couple of key advantages over the big-screen Nanny Diaries: namely, a star named Meryl Streep and a marketing campaign that, unlike The Nanny Diaries‘, worked.

Bock faulted MGM and Weinstein Co. for an early Nanny Diaries trailer that sold the movie as a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy rather than a smart movie for grown-ups.

“I think they missed the boat marketing to that demographic—the more upscale market,” Bock said.

And the 22-year-old Johansson arguably missed the boat on becoming a bigger star. The Nanny Diaries‘ subpar performance, according to Bock, “will probably prove she cannot carry a film on her own yet.”

At least The Nanny Diaries has company in the misery department. The summer has been a tough one for movies fronted by females. (Note to moviegoers: Females are the ones who play the hot girlfriends and/or supportive wives.) Georgia Rule (Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman), No Reservations (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) were no match for the likes of Transformers. Adding insult to ignominy, aside from the indie hit Waitress, which has generated award-show talk for Keri Russell, the most notable female part of the season went to a man (John Travolta in Hairspray).

Overall, the boy-led Superbad ($18 million; $68.6 million overall) hung on to the top spot in the weekend rankings, despite or in spite of the requisite ticket-sales nosedive of nearly 50 percent.

Other top-performing boy movies: The Bourne Ultimatum (which moved up to second place with $12.4 million; $185.1 million overall) and Rush Hour 3 (which moved down to third place with $12.3 million; $109 million overall).

Male-skewing title or no, Jet Li and Jason Statham or no, War (fifth place, $10 million) didn’t make much noise in its debut. That left the family-friendly Mr. Bean’s Holiday (fourth place, $10.1 million) as the weekend’s biggest-grossing new wide release, with $10.1 million.

Elsewhere, The Invasion, starring one of them no-fun female types (Nicole Kidman), continued on its fast-track journey to DVD (10th place, $3.1 million; $11.5 million overall).

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ($2.5 million; $283.3 million overall) exited the top 10 after a six-week stay, along with I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry ($2.1 million; $114.3 million, per Box Office Mojo), after a five-week residency, and Underdog ($2.2 million; $36.6 million overall), after a three-week stint.

In limited release, the new Billy Crudup-Mandy Moore drama Dedication ($24,000 at just four theaters) shared art-house honors with the returning 2 Days in Paris ($471,000 at 75 theaters). The new documentary Deep Water trumped them all, including the big boys, with $23,000 at just two sites.

And in a victory for the good old-fashioned revenge movie, the no-star, R-rated Illegal Tender ($1.4 million) boasted a better per-screen average ($2,805) than four of the weekend’s top 10 movies.

You can check out the reviews thread over at the forum to read more of the critics’ thoughs. I’ve included a few here that mention Scarlett:

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Johansson is game. There’s nothing to criticize in this performance, but there’s nothing to get excited about, either. It’s solid though uninspired work.

From Charlotte Observer:

Johansson, hair dyed brown to make her seem less glamorous, spices up this bland role.

From Variety:

Johansson, for her part, essays an engaging heroine, though even with mousy brown hair and Casual Corner wardrobe, she’s far too voluptuously beautiful for the job, like a Tiffany necklace in a brown paper bag.

From Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Although Johansson has a knack for nailing most roles, the angry yet fun-loving nanny doesn’t quite work for her.

Mycah has sent in a bunch of amazing goodies. These include three The Nanny Diaries related videos from ET. The most interesting one is from August 22. In it we get to see some of Nicholas Art’s audition with Scarlett and she is also interviewed briefly. Mycah also made captures from all of these news segments. Last but not least, we’ve added two more stills.

Happy downloading!

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Also, Roxana of Alicia-Keys.net has made Scarlett-Fan.com their Site of the Moment. Big thanks to her! Be sure to check out this ultimate source on Scarlett’s TND co-star.

GALLERY LINKS:
- The Nanny Diaries > Production Stills

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