This past Friday, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was released in the US. In the film Jessica Alba reprises her role as Sue Storm, also known as the Invisible Woman. The sequel earned 58.1 million dollars this weekend, knocking Ocean’s Thirteen out of the number one spot at the box office, and also making more in its opening weekend than the first Fantastic Four movie.

Jessica won the “Choice Hottie” Award, alongside Olando Bloom. She also presented the award for “Choice Liplock”.

From JoBlo.com comes information on Jessica Alba’s character “The Invisable Woman”, following their art department tour. It can be found here at JoBlo, and the Jessica Alba segment has also been saved to TBW’s Articles page.

Variety reports (Nov 8, 2004) that Jessica Alba will get $3 million to star in and produce the Regency Enterprises futuristic drama Sonic, written by new screenwriter Kirsten Elms.

Sonic is set in the not-too-distant future and follows a young waitress who dies suddenly, but is brought back to life by her lover. Alba and and her Thruline Entertainment manager Chris Henze will executive produce, while John Davis and Wyck Godfrey will produce.

The former Dark Angel star recently completed the director Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City and MGM’s Into the Blue. She is currently filming 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four in Vancouver.
Source: comingsoon.net

Yet more Jessica Alba news…

|Movie trailers for Into the Blue and Fantastic Four are available online. Click here for the Into the Blue trailer and here to see the teaser for Fantastic Four.

Yahoo has a great page here for Fantastic Four that includes a behind-the-scenes clip where the cast talk about their characters.

And the last bit of Jess news for today… The official Sin
City website was launched in mid- February. I’m figuring it’s full of pics and oter goodies for FF fans, but the darn site isn’t loading for me at all at the moment…

It’s not new news, nor is it really news, but I came across this little article on the net on Jessica Alba’s interpretation of how the boys behaved on the set of Dark Angel…

ALBA: MEN ARE BIGGER DIVAS THAN WOMEN
26/06/2005 - contactmusic.com

JESSICA ALBA refuses to date another actor - as she believes they behave more like divas than women.

The SIN CITY beauty recalls how her male co-stars on TV’s DARK ANGEL, which include ex-fiance MICHAEL WEATHERLY, would need more time to recuperate from awry stunt scenes than her female counterparts.

Alba, 24, says, “Men are much bigger divas than women.

“When I used to do the action scenes in Dark Angel, I would have to lay it rough.

“If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, ‘Don’t do that again’.

“But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable. I would tell them, ‘Come on, man, get over it’. That’s actors for you.”

Thanks to Designation for coming across this article on MSN’s website:

Alba’s anorexia hell
BANG

July 27, 2005

(BANG) - Jessica Alba has spoken out about her anorexia hell.

The stunning actress has confessed she suffered from the dangerous eating disorder several years ago.

Jessica began to starve herself and became obsessed with exercise - training for three hours a day - during her preparation for the TV series ‘Dark Angel’.

|Thanks to Designation for coming across this article on MSN’s website:

Alba’s anorexia hell
BANG

July 27, 2005

(BANG) - Jessica Alba has spoken out about her anorexia hell.

The stunning actress has confessed she suffered from the dangerous eating disorder several years ago.

Jessica began to starve herself and became obsessed with exercise - training for three hours a day - during her preparation for the TV series ‘Dark Angel’.

She admitted to America’s Glamour magazine: “A lot of girls have eating disorders, and I did too. I got obsessed with it.”

The ‘Sin City’ beauty - who realised she had a problem when her weight dropped to just 100lbs - claims she first started worrying about her weight when she hit puberty and started developing womanly curves.

She added: “When I went from a girl’s body to a woman’s body with natural fat in places, I freaked out. It makes you feel weird, like you’re not ready for that body.”

Jessica, who also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks, recently admitted she has been cooking meals for herself since the age of 12 - because she didn’t want to end up as fat as her family.

She is quoted by Britain’s The Sun newspaper as saying: “Everyone in my family is heavily overweight and I wanted to be healthier, so I started cooking for myself when I was 12.”

The Canadian Press BANG Media International

Here’s an article on Jessica and her new love interest, Cash Warren, which Designation found on MSN Entertainment:

Loved-up Alba
BANG
July 19, 2005

(BANG) - Jessica Alba is head over heels in love with her boyfriend Cash Warren.

The actress said: “We are the boy and girl version of each other. We have the same ideas about the future.

“If I met Cash and I was married to somebody else, I would have to get a divorce. We make that much sense together.”

And the ‘Sin City’ beauty says she would fight to keep her man.

Jessica added: “If I found someone messing with him, I would cut them. That’s the ghetto side of me.”

Meanwhile, Jessica says women who play the damsel in distress to attract men make her mad.

She said in an interview with Britain’s Observer magazine: “I can’t stand that girl - the poor little girl you have to rescue.

“Most men love the crazy girl - ‘Oh save me! You’re such a big, strong man!’ The more insecure the man, the more likely he will love the crazy girl.”

The Canadian Press BANG Media International

Here’s a snippet of HNR’s review of Fantastic Four:

Director Tim Story seems to have a difficult time striking the right balance between pathos and levity. And at times, screenwriters Michael France and Mark Frost seem to have become so carried away with cheesy jokes and double-entendres that it almost feels as though a competition ensued between them.

Still, in the pantheon of comic book movies, Fantastic Four certainly isn’t the worst of them. Better than Daredevil, significantly better than Elektra, but not as stylish or earnest as Ang Lee’s Hulk, Fantastic Four is hampered in equal measure by concept and execution.

Fantastic Four is basically a competent piece of filmmaking, but it lacks the emotional involvement of Batman Begins or the sense of wonder we all felt when we first watched Superman in 1978. Moreover, there are no surprises or meaningful arcs in the characters’ development. It’s not a bad film, it’s just a mediocre one.

From sneakpeaktv.com:

20th Century Fox’s “Fantastic Four,” the Vancouver-shot adaptation of the Marvel Comics characters, opened with $56 million from 3,602 theaters.

It was was a victory for Fox after the film was moved from its original Fourth of July release date and, according to Variety, “panned by most critics”.|From sneakpeaktv.com:

20th Century Fox’s “Fantastic Four,” the Vancouver-shot adaptation of the Marvel Comics characters, opened with $56 million from 3,602 theaters.

It was was a victory for Fox after the film was moved from its original Fourth of July release date and, according to Variety, “panned by most critics”.

“When you have a weekend like this, you’ve got to question, what is the relevance of reviewers to viewers at large,” said Fox production president Hutch Parker.

“I don’t think reviewers are writing for the viewing audience anymore. I think they’re writing for each other.”

“More than anything else we’ve seen this summer, this has been a movie that promises and delivers on pure entertainment.”

“Fantastic Four” is now on its way to ranking fifth among comic book adaptations behind “Spider-Man 2″ ($115.8 million in four days) ,”Spider-Man” ($114.8 million in three days), “X2: X-Men United” ($85.5 million) and “The Hulk” ($62.1 million), according to Nielsen EDI.

“Of course, there will be a sequel,” Marvel’s Avi Arad said.

“Now the constituency is much larger.”

The film is rated PG-13, drawing a broad audience, with filmgoers split between those younger and older than 25, according to Fox’s president of distribution, Bruce Snyder.

“You’ve had a series of pretty dark films, and the audience was starved for a good time,” Parker said.

Based on the Marvel Comics series created in the early 1960’s by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, “… it’s one of the only ones that’s a ‘daylight’ comic,” said Parker.

“They are not hiding behind masks or costumes.”

From Monica Khemsurov of Seventeen:

Jessica Alba will be on the cover of Seventeen’s August issue, on news stands July 5. In an interview with Degen Pener, Jessica explains how growing up feeling like she didn’t fit in drove her to become a success. She also reveals her admiration for one of the hottest actors in Hollywood.

The article also features exclusive new photos of Jessica shot by photographer Tony Duran, and details on how you can win a Rebecca Taylor outfit like the one Jessica’s wearing in the magazine, starting August 1 at seventeen.com.

Here’s a sneak peek of her covershot for the magazine