It promises to be a box-office smash when it’s released next year, and after months of seeing teaser photos we finally have a chance to check out what’s in store for the Sex And The City movie sequel in the first official trailer.

Sarah Jessica Parker, 44, returns to the big screen as Carrie and her friends Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) take on another adventure set two years after the events of the first film.

According to reports Sex and the City 2 will see Carrie’s marriage to Mr. Big being put to a test, Samantha having to downgrade her glamorous lifestyle and Miranda quitting her law practice.

Sarah Jessica Parker, who stars alongside Hugh Grant in her latest film Did Your Hear About The Morgans?, recently denied rumours that the cast of the film have fallen out.

The actress told Star magazine: ‘It’s ridiculous, I love the cast and spending time with them – it was peculiar to me to see the scrutiny the four of us have come under.’

She added: ‘We love each other. Could we spend more time together? If that existed in our lives, absolutely.

‘Do I see Cynthia Nixon as much as I want to? Never. Kristin Davis or Kim Cattrall? Never.

‘It’s just not the way our lives work. I don’t see my best friends as much as I want to. But that doesn’t mean there is any less affection.

‘Ultimately we respect each other and we really like each other.’

She also described the new film, which is due to hit the big screen in May 2010, as ‘probably the most fun we’ve ever had’.

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It seems the stylist and creative director at Mark Fast’s London Fashion Week presentation weren’t the only fashion professionals who staged a walk-out at the shows this season.

Model Abbey Lee Kershaw has spilled to the Frockwriter blog that she and fellow models Natasha Poly and Sasha Pivovarova refused point blank to walk in THOSE crazy shoes at the Alexander McQueen show.

The trio of models struck a blow for beautiful peoples’ rights by deciding amongst themselves that the 10-inch high Armadillo shoes just weren’t worth the risk, choosing instead not to appear in the model line-up for McQueen’s prestigious show.

We’ve since seen Daphne Guinness and Lady Gaga clopping about in the Armadillos (although to be fair, posing briefly on the red carpet, and lolling kookily in the Bad Romance video, respectively, are not the same as gruelling tramping up and down required on McQueen’s never-ending catwalk).

Kershaw is right to be cautious. After all, it was only a year ago that she fainted after being squeezed into a too-tight corset at Alexander McQueen’s spring ’09 show (pictured below)… [TheCut]

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The singer was snapped by acclaimed photographer David LaChapelle for a series of images that perfectly match her bizarre, sexy and outrageous personality.

And she even managed to persuade good friend Kanye West to take part, although he probably had no complaints.

Completely naked, GaGa lies in his arms with one hand covering her breast, as he stares zombie-like into the distance as a volcano rages behind them.

In what could be a subtle nod towards one of cinema’s most iconic film posters, Gaga also goes futuristic Metropolis-style as she stands on crutches over sleeping naked people, dressed in an android-esque two-piece with matching helmet and arms.

In another, she lies as though fallen from the wheelchair, on a mirrored floor in a doll-like pose, with pink afro hair surrounded by pink flowers and a blue sky.

And of course, we all know that Lady GaGa is no wallflower and no photo shoot would be complete with just one naked picture.

In what could be a subtle dig at the world’s press, the singer stares provocatively at the camera as newspaper headlines that scream scandal cover her modesty.

And in the last shot, New York-born GaGa, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is in her birthday suit once again, strapped to a generator as electricity shoots out of her hands, head and nether regions.

The shots feature in the super deluxe limited edition of her new album The Fame Monster which contains all the original tracks from her debut CD The Fame, plus eight new ones.

Not only does it come with a booklet containing these amazing pictures, but giving fans a very unusual and very weird treat, she has also included a lock of her hair.

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After four weeks of shooting the “real world” part of “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” in London, writer-director Terry Gilliam gave his cast a few days off while the production moved to Vancouver.

His star, Heath Ledger, headed for a few days’ rest at his apartment in New York, but eager to fly out later that week to finish the movie.

As the world knows, Ledger never made it.

“[We] finished on the Saturday night after midnight. The next morning Heath gets on a plane for New York and I go to Vancouver and on Tuesday he’s dead,” Gilliam says, his face still registering surprise almost two years later.

“You can not actually begin to imagine it. He was healthy, alive, vibrant, joyous. It just didn’t compute.”

The 69-year-old filmmaker has been no stranger to bad luck: Gilliam had to shut down his dream project, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” in 2000 because of a perfect storm of flash floods, budget problems and injuries.

Still, Ledger’s accidental overdose on prescription drugs on Jan. 22, 2008, left Gilliam in unknown territory.

Should he scrap the entire project – like George Sluizer did with “The Dark Blood” after River Phoenix‘s 1993 death – or should he go on, relying on special effects and body doubles to finish Ledger’s scenes – the way the late Oliver Reed‘s part was salvaged in 2000′s “Gladiator”?

Gilliam chose to do, in the words of one of his former Monty Python cast-mates, something completely different in his approach to the movie, which opens in New York Christmas Day.

It all started with a commiserating phone call with his friend, Johnny Depp.

“I told Johnny, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do. I might close the whole thing down. I don’t know how to finish it, I don’t know if I want to finish it,’” Gilliam said.

“And Johnny said, ‘Whatever you decide, I’ll be there.’

“And that kind of started the turn.”

Gilliam didn’t want to abandon his story of a traveling side show, where members of the audience enter a magical mirror that lets them choose between enlightenment and the more tempting eternal damnation.

At the center of the tug of war is Ledger’s Tony, a charmer with terrible secrets.

Since much of the movie is set in the computer-built imaginary universe behind the mirror, Gilliam decided Tony could look different depending on whose fantasy pulled him in.

The director recruited Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law – all friends of Ledger’s – to play the role. The actors then donated their salaries to a fund for Matilda Rose, Ledger’s daughter with actress Michelle Williams.

“Everyone raised their glasses and toasts were made and we all thought Heath was very much there in spirit,” Farrell told the News last year, comparing the set to an Irish wake.

“It was one of the most special seven or eight days that I’ll ever have in my working experience.”

Ledger’s passing does cast a shadow over the movie, most notably with his first scene – the very first he shot – showing the 28-year-old actor hanging from a noose on the underside of a bridge.

“There was not a moment I considered [cutting that visual] – that’s what a studio would’ve done,” said Gilliam, who relied on independent financing to make the movie. “Heath and I set out and that was the story we agreed on doing and that’s the story that we did.”

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