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Forced to change the Vulcan bangs, here’s Rooney Mara on the set of Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller The Bitter Pill in New York City April 10.

This is the role that was supposed to go to Blake Lively, whose pout-acting nearly financially-doomed the project once word of her casting leaked online. Asserting that Lively had never really been under consideration, the role later went to Basic Girl With The S**T GOT REAL Tattoo, Mara a.k.a. Aloof. It’s noteworthy only because Mara finally stepped away from Lisbeth Salander after staying in character through the promotional trail and awards season (I watched the AP’s live Oscars red carpet, where Mara was mocked for not smiling only to giggle at cameramen and whine about being made to ‘break character’). 10 photos.

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I already did a mini review of Mirror Mirror, although I didn’t want to give away spoilers for people who intended to take their babies to see the movie betting it wouldn’t be as bad as the trailer (it isn’t) and that strobing primary colours would suffice (it does for the intended audience). I saw the film a few weeks ago, but I keep forgetting about it. It’s not really… there, you know. Snow White & The Huntsman is there. Where? There. Everywhere it needs to be to promote the movie. Mirror Mirror had to have shared a marketing team with John Carter, a film with a name so bland I needed to Google it just then. So lackluster.

The Mirror Mirror trailers were samey and overlapping, and misdirecting to the extent I think a few people literally expected it to be a Bollywood-themed take on the tale. The world premiere was poorly-attended, on what appeared to be laundry day for everyone but Lily Collins and Julia Roberts (Armie Hammer skipped his own premiere to film The Lone Ranger). Speaking of Roberts, she’s been almost entirely absent from the promotional trail and I’m not the only one to notice. Although, judging by these new photos of Collins promoting the movie in the Soho Apple Store in New York City… Roberts isn’t missing out on much. For those who are interested, the film didn’t tank as hard as some expected. But it under-performed. Probably because people gave The Hunger Games a second watch instead of seeing this. Mirror Mirror took $19 million domestic its first week. The Hunger Games took $61.1 million its second week. Wrath Of The Mullets took $34.2 million its first week (Clash took $61.2 million its first week).

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Since her version of Snow White is arbitrarily coming out a few weeks earlier than the good version, here’s Lily Collins on her way to Jimmy Fallon to promote Mirror, Mirror. About which I’m only posting because I’ve seen it already and I had some random non-spoiler thoughts… 1) Collins isn’t ridiculous beside IRL Prince Charming, Armie Hammer, as many suspected she would be. 2) Julia Roberts does a great impression of a c**t with a superiority complex. 3) I’ll leave this here but, yes, Sean Bean is in it… as much as Liam Hemsworth is in The Hunger Games 4) Collins. Okay, her eyebrows. I was Team Eyebrow. Except watching Mirror, Mirror I was all ‘NOOOO!’ My exact thought process: ‘F**k, she’s so hairy. Eyebrows peeking from behind unkempt hair, happy eyebrows, sad eyebrows, eyebrows in a dress.’ It was SO distracting. Which is a shame, since she’s so adorable otherwise even if she is aged in close-up. 5) As Hammer admitted in a recent interview, the movie is far better than the trailers make it look. It’s entirely tolerable and fit for its intended audience. There’s nothing really wrong with it, per se. It just looks awful in the Cliffs Notes version.

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