Elizabeth has been added as a confirmed guest at this year’s Met Costume Institute Ball. The event is being held on May 5 in New York City… Here are a couple of news snippets talking about the event and Elizabeth’s involvement.

As the biggest singular fashion event of the year approaches — The Met’s Costume Institute Gala on May 5 — designers have already started to announce which celebrities they are bringing as guests.

Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein revealed that he is dressing Fergie and Liv Tyler — no surprise there, since he’s brought Liv to the event the past couple of years. He hinted that Fergie and Liv weren’t his only two guests, but wouldn’t name any more names.

Meanwhile, Miuccia Prada has invited recent Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton and actress Elizabeth Banks to accompany her.

Remember, this year the Gala’s theme is superheroes, so it will be interesting to see how much the attendees play into that. I can’t wait!

BALL GAME: Tilda Swinton will go to the Met Costume Institute Ball as a guest of Miuccia Prada, according to a source. The American actress Elizabeth Banks also is said to have been invited by the house. A surprise installation is in store for the centerpiece of the Prada table at the event, meanwhile, in the form of a living art installation

From Fab Sugar and WWD

Q. Is it true that Oliver Stone is making a movie about the presidency of George W. Bush? - N.F.

A. No; Stone, who has ventured into presidential films before with JFK and Nixon, is making a film about Bush, but it’s about his formative years, not his presidential ones. Josh Brolin has been chosen to portray W., with Elizabeth Banks as Laura, Ellen Burstyn as his mother, Barbara, and James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush. The film starts shooting later this month, and Stone has promised to have it in theaters in time for the election.

From Journal Now

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Elizabeth attended the premiere of the film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall in Los Angeles last night. She looked great! At the film’s after-party, she caught up with actor Paul Rudd, whom will co-star with Elizabeth in Mentors later this year. Click on the thumbnail to the left to see all images from the event. :)

Have you ever meet someone and been like, oh my God, that person is so incredibly awkward, they can’t actually be a person, they must be a spaceship disguised as a person? And then you think for a second and you’re like, whoa, that would make a lot of sense except, like, who’s ever heard of a spaceship disguised as a person?

If you’re like us and this happens to you at least three or four times a week—or, more realistically, if you just happen to be an 8- to 12-year-old or a parent of one—Eddie Murphy’s upcoming film Meet Dave will definitely be of interest to you.

Murphy stars as Dave, a fellow who dresses oddly, has trouble talking to women, jaywalks, kicks cats, can’t dance, doesn’t know how to shake hands and sings really funny. But unlike everyone you know who fits that description, Dave has an excuse: He actually is a spaceship. A spaceship that looks like a human being. A spaceship manned by a crew of aliens (Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, an inexplicably British-accented Murphy, and others) as zany as they are tiny. A spaceship that falls in love with an Earth chick (Elizabeth Banks) after she hits him with her car.

See? It could happen!

Currently slated for a July 11 release, Meet Dave (née Starship Dave) was penned by Mystery Science Theater 3000 scribe Bill Corbett and longtime television writer/producer/director Rob Greenberg (Frasier, How I Met Your Mother)—which is actually the impetus for us writing about this film in the first place. We’re thinking their involvement will certainly liven up what could’ve otherwise been another mundane summer movie.

Watch the trailer:

Might we suggest that Corbett and fellow MST3K alums Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy give Dave one of their hilarious RiffTrax treatments? Why yes, we certainly might.

From Paste Magazine