Watch: Alita: Battle Angel

Watch: Alita: Battle Angel

This is a movie that sounds like it has a lot going on. It's based on Japanese manga stories by Yukito Kishiro, but rather than staying in the manga format on the big screen, it's live action. Well, sort of. The hugely ambitious project has James Cameron at the helm as producer, who'll be making the most of his experiences on the 'Avatar' movies to bring us a film that's pitched straight down the uncanny valley between 'real' and 'digital', with confusing and unsettling the audience being part of the intent.

Described as a 'cyberpunk action film', Rosa Salazar is in the lead role with a supporting cast including Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connellly and Ed Skrein, and has famed horror director Robert Rodriguez in the big chair. Anime, cyberpunk, horror, live action and animation all in one film. It will either be an absolute triumph or a horrendous mess. We'll have to wait until February 14th next year to find out.

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Did You Know...

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Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.

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Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.

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Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.

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Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.

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