Cate looks set to be no run of the mill Maid Marion, as she can be seen in armor on the set of Robin Hood/Nottingham, June 22nd. Look below for some pictures thanks to comingsoon.net.

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Cate voices the character 'Granmamare' in the upcoming Hayao Miyazaki animation movie 'Ponyo on the Cliff'. The trailer was released today, watch it below! You can see the character and hear Cate's voice at about 0:55.

I've added high resolution DVD captures of "Benjamin Button". Enjoy!

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As before reported, Cate spoke on the World Business Summit on Climate Change last Monday. Here's some pictures of Cate at the event!

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On Monday, May 25, Cate Blanchett spoke on the topic of climate change at the "World Business Summit on Climate Change" in Copenhagen. In front of 700 participants, among them the heads of Pepsico, Siemens or Ericsson, she not only urged the representatives of some of the biggest businesses in the world to invest into low carbon economies, but also warned of the desastrous effects climate change will have and already has on both economy and environment in her homeland Australia, citing the recent bush fires in Victoria as an example.

"Australia's best climate scientists have been warning us that we'll face many more catastrophic fire days in south-east Australia unless the world acts to dramatically cut greenhouse pollution."

"We have the ability to kick start the low carbon economies of the future right when we need to, and that's now."

Later this year, the world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for bringing a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol on the way, which will expire in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol regulates carbon exhaustion with the intention to stabilize the greenhouse gas balance.

Says Blanchett, "Political failure at Copenhagen in December is quite simply unacceptable and this powerful room must play a major role in preventing this failure."

Cate will be featured in the Australian InStyle due out next Monday, May 18. We don't know yet whether she'll be on the cover or not, but you can already look forward to new pictures.

Here's a first little teaser:

Thank you once again, Blaze78, for letting us know about this!

It's May 14th, and that means it's Cate's birthday! And not just any birthday, it's a milestone birthday as she is turning 40 today. Have a great day Cate, congratulations from all of us at cateblanchett.net and cate-forums.com, we wish you many more creative, healthy years to come!

On March 25, 2009, Cate attended the launch of "David Williamson: Behind The Scenes," a biography of the Australian playwright written by Williamson's journalist wife Kristin, at the Wharf Theatre in Sydney together with husband Andrew Upton and other figures from the Australian theatrical and literary world. In a speech, she lauded him as "the single most influential voice in mainstream Australian theatre."

Cate remarked upon Williamson as being "instrumental in developing an audience for that voice and very passionate about creating a serious platform from which Australian writers could speak."

You can watch a video clip of the public event here.

Contrary to earlier information, Cate will not lend her voice to Wes Anderson's animated film "Fantastic Mr Fox," which is based on Roald Dahl's book of the same title and currently scheduled for a release in November 2009 . Instead, Meryl Streep will supply the lines of Mrs Fox, alongside George Clooney as Mr Fox, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Anjelica Houston and others.

The online site of the Sydney Morning Herald celebrates Cate's upcoming 40th birthday by dedicating a picture gallery to her, among the images a couple of rare treasures from the early years of Cate's career. Have a look at them here. Thank you to Blaze78 for the heads up!