Anne Hathaway is on her way to London where she’ll begin filming ‘Les Miserables’.

Anne will be taking on the role of Fatine, the tragically abused mother of young Cosette, in the Tom Hooper-directed musical. Anne joins a star-studded cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter and Taylor Swift.

William Nicholson, who co-wrote Gladiator, is writing the script, with the film being targeted for a Dec. 7, 2012 release.

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After three years of dating, Anne Hathaway and her boyfriend, actor Adam Shulman, are engaged!

The Oscar-nominated actress, 29, has been spotted out and about wearing an engagement ring, designed by Kwiat Heritage.

Hathaway’s rep confirms the engagement.

Low-key Shulman was initially Hathaway’s rebound romance after the messy end of her four-year romance with Raffaello Follieri in mid-2008. (Follieri pled guilty in October 2008 to defrauding investors of millions of dollars in a shocking scheme in which he posed as a real estate consultant for the Vatican.)

“We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway has said. After they realized they were both single, the actress reveals that “things sped up a bit — and I think I’ll leave it at that.”

“So far, it’s worked out great,” the Dark Knight Rises actress told Harper’s Bazaar of her guy, adding that Shulman was far more “mellow” than her previous romances.

“Mellow doesn’t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.”

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Anne Hathaway has just landed the sought-after role of Fantine in the upcoming Universal Pictures’ new production of Les Miserables.

She joins co-stars Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the project, which The King’s Speech helmer Tom Hooper is directing. The film has been slotted for a Dec. 7, 2012 release.

Jackman has the role of Jean Valjean and Crowe will play Inspector Javert in the new adaptation of the classic Victor Hugo novel and stage play. William Nicholson (Gladiator) has written the screenplay. Sir Cameron Mackintosh is producing with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Debra Hayward of Working Title.

Universal execs Erik Baiers and Maradith Frenkel are overseeing for the studio.

What do you think of this casting? Yay or nay?

Here are pictures of Anne and her boyfriend Adam Shulman shopping at a Farmers Market in Beverly Hills.

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Here’s another first-look at Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. When the first image of Anne’s Catwoman was released, a major uproar rang out. Fans of the comic HATED Anne’s costume. She wore these funny goggles – and sported no cat ears.

Anne herself weighed in on the controversy. She told MTV “If you didn’t like the photo, you only see about a 10th of what that suit can do.”

In these new photos on set, Hathaway is wearing a Catwoman suit that should keep all the fans happy. Here we see the eye mask, the cat ears, and a tight leather catsuit.

I can’t wait to see this movie!!!!

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Actor Jim Sturgess and Actress Anne Hathaway attend the European premiere of ‘One Day’ at The Vue Westfield.

Anne is wearing McQueen Resort 2012, and she looks absolutely stunning!

I’m going to see this movie tonight – how many of you have seen it? What did you think?

Okay – so she didn’t really put it that way, but wasn’t she the worst Oscar host ever? She was awful!! Here’s more from her interview – with Interview.

In interview Magazine, Anne opens up about the hosting gig:

“You know, it’s not like I’d had this big dream to do this thing, and it’s not like I had a set of skills I’d been honing for years and years that I was going to showcase on this night. To me, it seemed like such a random opportunity, and such potential for fun, that I really was enjoying myself completely. It’s actually been very nice because the critical reaction was what it was, but since then . . . Like, just today, I was sitting, having lunch, and a really nice Canadian couple on vacation with their daughter came up and made a point of saying, “We just loved you at the Oscars.” It’s been so amazing and lovely, the feedback that I’ve been getting even months after the show. But then the other side of it was that I was obviously a little bummed out by the critical response because you work so hard at that. What I never appreciated about any of the hosts was just how much time and work goes into this huge production. Almost immediately afterwards, I went to Africa for the first time with an initiative that I work with called The Girl Effect, and I just realized that all these feelings that I was having, maybe even the negative ones, were a privilege to be had, and that good, bad, middling, whatever the Oscars were . . . I mean, I met a woman on this trip who got married at the age of 5.”

On getting ready for Catwoman:

“I actually had this moment when I convinced one of the assistant directors on the London portion of the film to get a cat with me, the idea being that we were going to get a kitten from a rescue shelter, and he was going to live with me, and I was going to observe it, and when I left London I was going to give it to her. Then, thankfully, her husband pointed out that that was a terrible idea on so many levels, not least of which being that it would probably be really confusing to the cat. So I turned to YouTube instead and got a National Geographic video on cats… I am still cat-less. My man is allergic to cats, so that decision is made for me.”

On being from Jersey:

“I think JWoww is amazing. I love JWoww. She’s intense. See, JWoww to me is proper Jersey because she will scrap for a friend…. My best friend got married this past weekend in Barcelona, and I was one of her bridesmaids. She’s one of my best friends from Jersey, and this guy was messing with her, and I was totally like, “Who am I punching?” She was like, “No one. You’re not going to punch anyone. And I was like, “Fair enough, but if a fight breaks out, who do you want me to swing at?”

“I wanted to be in New York. My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, “How come I’m not in New York?” That being said, I’m older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I’m very grateful for it. But it’s not a place I wanted to stay. I left when I was 16, just to follow my dreams . . .”

Anne Hathaway does not like the paparazzi, let this be clear. In a bit on last night’s ‘Conan’, Anne says she likes to vent her frustration with the paparazzi by rapping – “in the style of Lil Wayne”.

That was awkward.