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May 9th, 2008
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April 17th, 2008
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NBC Universal has signed a deal with Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky’s Electric Farm Entertainment for the domestic rights to their upcoming Internet SF series Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. NBC U also has acquired the rights to Electric Farm’s next scripted online series, the zombie comedy Woke Up Dead.

Sony Pictures TV International has come aboard to co-produce and distribute the two series internationally on mobile, broadband and traditional TV. Under the deal with NBC Universal Digital Studio, the 50 three-minute episodes of Gemini and Dead will run on various company Web sites, including NBC.com.

Gemini, eyed for a late-summer launch, stars Dawson as a New York cop who uncovers a global conspiracy involving the creation of simulated life forms that have assimilated into an unsuspecting population.

Source: SciFi.com

April 17th, 2008
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It may be April, but that didn’t stop Rosario Dawson from celebrating V-Day — albeit it was a very different kind of V-Day.

The actress was one of the many stars present at V To The Tenth in New Orleans over the weekend, an event founded by Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler aimed at celebrating V-Day’s 10 years of ending violence against women and girls and to honor the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South.

“I think it’s really important to show what people never want to talk about, that there are tremendous atrocities happening in our own backyard,” Rosario tells OK! of the significance of the event. “In three years, so many people forget about what happened [with Hurricane Katrina]. Just even traveling around the Ninth Ward and then going to the French Quarter, people are going, ‘Where’s the problem, I don’t see it.’ Unless you get in a car and drive, you can’t see it.

Stars, including Kerry Washington, Ali Larter, Jennifer Beals and Amber Tamblyn, performed skits and monologues empowering women and shedding light on past cruelties. Rosario performed a moving piece about a Bosnian refugee who was repeatedly raped by soldiers, reducing the crowd to tears.

“I was blown away,” Ali tells OK! “I thought Rosario was incredible.” The performance was the least lighthearted out of all of the skits, ranging from feigned orgasms (Jennifer) to accepting how a vagina looks (Kerry).

“That piece is a really difficult piece,” Rosario says. “It’s such a heavy piece that there is no getting around it. Everyone always calls it the most difficult piece out of all of them. It’s very heavy, there’s no jokes in it, no laughs, there’s no relief. It just keeps getting stronger and harder until the end where it’s just hopeless. I was just glad that we got that out there and people came up and said it really touched them.”

Source: OK! Magazine

April 14th, 2008
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Nacional Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of a star-studded Voto Latino benefit album on April 15th exclusively via iTunes. The track-listing features 15 songs for only $3.99 from an all-star lineup including Don Omar, Aterciopelados, Aventura, David Garza and Ozomatli.

“Music is the soundtrack to my life. The Voto Latino compilation is the soundtrack of a movement,” says Voto Latino co-founder Rosario Dawson, who recently starred in a widely circulated telenovela parody PSA with Wilmer Valderrama. “It encapsulates everything about the Latino drive to the polls so blast it on your way to change” Adds Valderrama: “Music has proven to be an influential platform for our generation. This is the time to use it.”

To purchase the CD click here. To read more about the CD as well as check out the tracklisting, click to read more

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April 14th, 2008
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Rosario is featured in Glamour Magazine’s April 2008 issue as one of their Heroes of the Month along with Eve Ensler, Kerry Washington, Ali Larter, and Jessica Alba for their work in helping to end violence against women. The issue features Salma Hayek on the cover so pick it up at your newsstands.

To view scans from the issue visit the gallery here. While you’re there, check out pictures from the events and festivities from the V Day 10th Anniversary celebration this past weekend. For a direct link, click here. Keep checking back for more updates!

April 13th, 2008
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“The Vagina Monologues” playwright Eve Ensler planted marsh grass in the moist ground of an urban wildlife refuge in New Orleans, saying it’s important America take care of the wetlands as one would a vagina. “We have to cherish it, nourish it, nurture it,” she said, her black sneakers muddied from traipsing through the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.

Ensler joined dozens of volunteers Tuesday to plant marsh grass in areas damaged by saltwater intrusion during Hurricane Katrina. She said it’s one way she wanted to give back to the Gulf Coast while in New Orleans this week preparing for the 10th anniversary celebration of V-Day, the global movement she started a decade ago to end violence against women and girls.

After helping to plant some of 10,000 marsh grass plugs Tuesday, Ensler headed to the Louisiana Superdome, where she will be joined this weekend by a host of big-name film and music industry stars for the two-day celebration. It begins Friday, and among those to attend are Jane Fonda, Jessica Alba, Faith Hill, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Hudson and Rosario Dawson. Other celebrities arrived early. Actress Kerry Washington came Sunday to prepare for her role in Friday night’s “Swimming Upstream,” a theatrical interpretation of the experiences of New Orleans women after Katrina and during its slow recovery.

“I am blessed to be doing this piece,” said Washington, who played Ray Charles’ wife in the 2004 film “Ray.” She also will moderate a panel discussion with young women to compare their lives and experiences to “find parallels and celebrate differences.” That panel, slated for Saturday morning, includes actresses Rosario Dawson, Amber Tamblyn and Ali Larter. “It’s really important to celebrate and highlight young women who are doing well and are aware of their power, their strength,” Washington said.

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April 9th, 2008
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Below you will find a “making of” featurette on Explicit Ills, the film directed by Mark Webber starring Rosario Dawson, Paul Dano, Lou Taylor Pucci and many more. Explicit Ills won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the SXSW Film Festival where it premiered last month. This video was shot and edited by Anthony Dalseth and Cait Davis. Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/lhmovies.

April 7th, 2008
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As some of you may have noticed we have begun to slowly but surely rebuild the gallery. If you did not know we were hacked earlier this year and lost a large portion of images. Since then we have been deleting old files and replacing them with higher quality versions which is why you will notice older pictures in the latest images feed. We thank you for your patience and understanding and again if any of you have images you once downloaded from our site and wish to share so we can add it again, we’d really appreciate it. Special shout out and thanks goes out to Danielle - also known as Dani Mac over at our forums - for sending in a whole CD full of photos in order for us to continue rebuilding. We really appreciate it!

Again the gallery is free to join, anyone can register so definitely go check it out!

While you’re at it, join our forums and talk to fans from all over. It’s had a slow start since being rebuilt but hopefully soon enough it will return to it’s large membership and constant interactions. It’s also free and from time to time we will hold contests for members only so definitely take a moment to join.

By the way, thanks to all your votes, Rosario now has a page on People.com’s celebrity central.

Thank you again for all your support and keep visiting Rosario Online; your official source for all things Rosario Dawson.

April 7th, 2008
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NBC has added its Gemini Division page giving a brief synopsis of what’s to come. Aside from the 50 three-minute episodes there will be an online game, a secret database, and weekly compilation videos to catch viewers up on what’s been going on.

Check out the website at its NBC.com home.

April 7th, 2008
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