Hit the trailer HERE Trailer No.2 for Angelina Jolie’s punch, leap and run espionage thriller Salt has arrived. She is staggeringly beautiful, as always, yet her character is definitely of the look but don’t touch variety. Costume design by Sarah Edwards. You’ll want that coat. Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent wrongly accused of being a KGB spy (are we back in the eighties?!) and forced to go on the run, while sporting a wicked black fringe and smacking people hard in order to clear her name. The film is directed by Philip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, The Quiet American), and it is good to see in…

In an interview with The New York Times, director Oliver Stone has confirmed Charlie Sheen is to return as disgraced trader Bud Fox for Wall Street sequel Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (sounding a bit like the title of an episode of The Naked Gun). Good news then for those who enjoyed Bud’s evolution from button-down shirts and plain suits to striped ‘Gekko shirts’ and red braces. Of course Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko pioneered his namesake shirt, but Bud was aping the infamous embezzler all the way. No plot details yet on Sheen’s role in this long awaited follow up to the 1987 Oscar winning hit. It is…

With exclusive insight from costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas, we analyse Sandra Bullock’s low volume, big impact wardrobe in The Proposal. Clothes on Film talks exclusively to Tate Taylor about his use of costume in The Help.

With exclusive insight from costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas, we analyse Sandra Bullock’s low volume, big impact wardrobe in The Proposal. To get you in the mood to derby, here are a few photos from Whip It illustrating its wild ‘thrown together’ style.

…However, he will retain a producer’s credit through his company Blind Wink. Gore Verbinski was contractually obliged to leave the project after BioShock changed filming locations in order to curb escalating costs. He is currently directing animated feature Rango for Paramount. Developed by 2K Boston/2K Australia, BioShock is an immersive first person shooter set inside the underwater city of rapture – a dreamy utopian Eden turned blood-soaked nightmare though the abuse of genre-altering plasmids mined via the sea bed. Set in 1960, the game blends a mixture of design influences spanning the 1930s to 1950s’ Art Deco revival and the neo-Victorianism of Steampunk. By rights BioShock should lend itself more…

The last TWO weeks in costume. Sorry, we were a bit busy. Paul Walker Costume designer Kristin M. Burke worked with Paul Walker on Running Scared. Here she shares a few personal memories of the man and the professional. Hollywood Costume The New York Times reviews the book we wrote a chapter for. Perfect for Christmas, or anyone inconsiderate enough to have a birthday around this time of year. Deborah Nadoolman Landis DNL presents a new show on TCM looking at memorable costume design. Twenty films covered in total every Friday night at 8 pm through December. American telly only though. Boo-erns. American Hustle So excited about this movie we…

Shocking news that veteran costume designer and costume supervisor Michael Dennison has died suddenly from a brain aneurysm. He was 58 years old. Dennison has contributed to films as diverse as Almost Famous (2000), Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and W (2008). Recently he had completed work on chic Julia Roberts starrer Eat Pray Love. At the time of his death he was costume designer on One for the Money featuring Katherine Heigl and John Leguizamo. Heigl had this to say upon hearing the news: It was an honour and a privilege to work with Michael. I am heartbroken by his sudden passing as is everyone here on the film. My…