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It girl Carey Mulligan has landed the coveted role of Daisy Buchanan in director Baz Luhrmann’s re-imagining of The Great Gatsby. It was only recently that the An Education Oscar nominee Mulligan threw her hat in the ring for the role among others including Michelle Williams, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson.Luhrmann, of Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge fame, is taking it on with Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, which Robert Redford played in the original, and Tobey Maguire as Gatsby’s friend Nick Carraway.

Emmy-winning “it” girl Claire Danes looks about as amazing as she ever has in her new Homeland-themed photo shoot for Vogue.

After almost a decade, Kylie Minogue is coming back to the silver screen. This time, she’s playing gay. In the upcoming film Jack and Diane, Kylie will portray Tara, a “heavily tattooed” lesbian. Ellen Page and her Juno bff Oliva Thirlby were once attached to this project but they've been replaced with Juno Temple and Riley Keough (who played Marie Currie in The Runaways).

Summer popcorn flicks and thoughtful lesbian-themed cinema don't typically collide, When it comes to lesbians -- or women in general for that matter -- seeking representation on the big screen, the summer blockbuster season is fairly slim pickings next to the testosterone-laden superhero scenario on endless redux and the paean to the poor shlubby guy who always gets the hot girl comedies that apparently never get old in Hollywood.

An accomplished dancer, professor and first-time filmmaker Erika Randall Beahm was on the verge of delivering two ‘babies’ earlier this month, one, her first child with her husband, and the other, her feature film and pet project Leading Ladies, which was just coming out on DVD via the LGBT-friendly distributor Wolfe Video. A professor of dance at The University of Colorado, Beahm, with her writing partner Jennifer Bechtel and her co-director, her husband Daniel, collaborated on Leading Ladies, a dance film rife with humor and romance in the classical Hollywood vein ala director Vincent Minnelli. That is, if Minnelli had dared direct a dance film that replaced the compulsory heterosexual couple with a lesbian couple who find love on the ballroom dance floor.

The Pretty Little Liars star plays Juliet in a fascinating, super-queer short of Romeo and Juliet, which screens at Newfest this weekend.