I have added HD screen captures from My Sister’s Keeper and it’s DVD extras. This is truly a wonderful film. So honest, real and Cameron gives such a fantastic performance as Sara that I felt proud to be a fan watching her. She’s such an underrated actress, in my opinion, and she can handle drama very well. The rest of the cast also delivered awesome performances, especially Sofia Vassilieva as the dying Kate. Check out the screen captures by clicking on the previews above.

Nick Cassavetes’ My Sister’s Keeper is coming to Blu-ray Disc and DVD on November 17. (See the cover to the right.)

The film, starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Alec Baldwin and Jason Patric will be offered on Blu-ray in 2.4:1 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio.

Bonus features are confirmed to include over 15 minutes of deleted scenes; Blu-ray exclusive From Picoult to Screen: a visit with bestselling author Jodi Picoult; behind-the-scenes footage and a digital copy.

As most of you probably know by now, My Sister’s Keeper was released to cinemas this weekend. Here are the box office results: The movie earned a respectable $12 million, and came in at #5 in the top ten. The full list can be seen below.

1) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $112 million
2) The Proposal – $18.4 million
3) The Hangover – $17.2 million
4) Up – $13 million
5) My Sister’s Keeper - $12 million
6) Year One – $5.8 million
7) The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 – $5.4 million
8) Star Trek – $3.6 million
9) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – $3.5 million
10) Away We Go – $1.6 million

It’s finally here! Today is the day! At last! Okay, I think that is enough. But I’m so excited over the fact that My Sister’s Keeper is released in cinemas today (for US, UK, Canada and Mexico residents, that is)! I can’t wait to see this film, especially to watch Cameron Diaz as the mother Sara. Be sure to go out and see it at your local theater and then let us know what you thought!

My Sister’s Keeper currently holds a respectful 67% fresh on RottenTomatoes.com. Read what some of the critics have said about Cameron’s performance below.

“Diaz gives one of the best performances of her career as the ‘villain’ of the piece, an uncompromising fighter.”
- Orlando Sentinel

“Cameron Diaz goes against type in a beautifully executed dramatic role, which changes her game and probably will change her career.”
- Monsters and Critics

“Nothing Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric have ever done prepared me for their emotionally charged performances as the parents of three children coping with death in diverse ways.”
- The Observer

“Cameron Diaz, as the devoted mother Sara, does a fine job in what is her most successful dramatic role to date.”
- The Movie Minute

Yesterday, Cameron Diaz and the rest of the cast of My Sister’s Keeper attended the world premiere of the movie in New York City. Cami looked ravishing in a white dress, as she posed happily for photographers at the red carpet. Check out over 130 photos from the premiere and after party, by clicking on the previews below, as usual.

Here’s a new, very interesting, interview with Cameron Diaz, Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin, courtesy of USA Today. They talk about My Sister’s Keeper, Cameron playing a mother and more. Read it below. Enjoy!

Cameron Diaz is having a mommy moment.

The notoriously private actress finds herself the first to arrive for a joint interview to promote her new film, My Sister’s Keeper. And co-star Sofia Vassilieva is nowhere to be found.

After 20 minutes, Diaz stops the interview to call Vassilieva.

“Honey, I’m just checking on you,” Diaz says, straining for patience. “I was worried about you. Are you almost here?”

She has no immediate plans on being a mother, but Diaz is getting the knack of playing one.

Keeper, which opens Friday, marks something of a career shift for Diaz, 36. The Nick Cassavetes film is the first in which she plays a mother. And she follows Keeper with The Box, in which she plays another mom, due Oct. 30.

Though Diaz says she was not looking for maternal roles, she is aware of her new career stage.

“I’m not 25 years old,” Diaz says. “Obviously I wasn’t going to play the 14-year-old daughter. As you get older, you play different roles. I enjoy doing that.”

But don’t take the career change as a lifestyle shift. Diaz, whose relationships have included Justin Timberlake and Matt Dillon, says she’s comfortable as a bachelorette, though she has been increasingly peppered with questions about whether she plans to start a family.

“I understand the reason people ask, and with this film the question happens to be relevant,” she says. “But people are obsessed with it. … They were asking me with What Happens in Vegas whether I wanted to be a mother.”

She didn’t answer then, and she isn’t answering now. She is, however, a staunch defender of the child-free life.

“I’m not the only 36-year-old woman who doesn’t have children,” she says. “In all aspects of my life, most of my friends don’t have kids. It’s not uncommon.”

And Diaz hardly needs parenthood to prepare her for the grown-up world. While making Keeper, Diaz lost her father, Emilio, 58, to pneumonia.

Cassavetes, who stopped production for nearly two weeks, was moved by Diaz’s determination when she returned.

“I had known her for years, so I knew she was strong,” Cassavetes says. “But I was amazed by her resolve. That’s one of the reasons she was perfect for this role.”

Diaz says that her father’s death “was the most profound thing that’s ever happened to me. It was pretty intense. Whether it helped me or hurt (the performance), I have no idea. I can’t say I was really there. I wasn’t there. But I was fortunate to go back to a wonderful group of people who were very supportive and be able to finish the work I had to finish.”

The film, based on the Jodi Picoult novel, tells the story of a family coping with the cancer of the older daughter (Vassilieva). Diaz plays a loving but unyielding mother who has another daughter (Abigail Breslin), whom she pressures into donating bone marrow to the dying teen.

Despite the heavy material, Breslin says, the women had a bond that kept things light on set — led by Diaz.

“She kept things fun,” Breslin says. “She was always cooking us fajitas or Philly cheese steaks. There was a lot of kindness on set. It was very nurturing.”

Diaz even played driving instructor to Vassilieva, who got her license during filming.

“I’d make her let me drive her from her trailer,” Vassilieva says. “We all got close in a way I didn’t expect. … We got to know cancer patients. We cried together. The material was so personal to us, we kind of created a family.”

Diaz hopes that will happen often as she takes unfamiliar roles: “For me, this feels right in rhythm with the way I’ve been making films for the past 15 years. I just want to tell great stories as I go.”

I have added the video of Cameron Diaz being interviewed at Good Morning Amerca earlier today. Check it out in the video archive or after the cut! Stay tuned for screencaptures, as well as coverage from the rest of today’s happenings!

Today will be a long day for Cameron Diaz, as she’s scheduled to appear on three different TV shows, as well as the New York premiere of My Sister’s Keeper! Check out the “Cameron Calendar” section in the sidebar to follow what she’s doing, and be sure to stay tuned to Cameron-Diaz.org for coverage!

Cameron Diaz and My Sister’s Keeper director Nick Cassavetes are featured in a new – very interesting – article on the LATimes.com. Be sure to read it below, and check out the photo that went with the article to the right (click on it to view the picture in full size in the gallery)!

Real men do shed tears.

That’s the conclusion one gets from sitting down with Nick Cassavetes, the 6-foot-6-inch, square-jawed, mustachioed, multi-tattooed film director who was so wild and belligerent as a kid that his mother — actress Gena Rowlands — gave him a suitcase for his 16th birthday so he could pack up and move out. Now, a couple of lifetimes later, he’s made the film “My Sister’s Keeper,” a movie that requires even more Kleenex than his last hit tear-jerker, 2004′s “The Notebook.”

“As a society, we are trained not to feel things. We respect things that are scientific and cerebral and smart, and this ain’t one,” Cassavetes says over water and tea at the Chateau Marmont. His friend, the film’s star, Cameron Diaz, sits across from him, all long legs and scarves and jeans and jewelry.

Throughout the afternoon, the 50-year-old Cassavetes can’t stop showering Diaz with loud, brash adulation, while she looks at him with the fondness one reserves for a beloved papa bear. Diaz focuses on him intently with those limpid eyes, as green-blue as a bay in the Bahamas, and unconsciously twirls her uncoiffed blond hair with a finger.

The film, based on the Jodi Picoult bestseller, tells the story of a family coping with the elder daughter’s debilitating cancer. As part of the mother’s unbending plan to do everything possible to save the girl, a younger daughter had been deliberately procreated to provide bone marrow and other genetic material for the dying teen. As the story progresses, the younger girl (played by Abigail Breslin) sues her parents to stop making her undergo the many medical procedures — in effect, for control of her own body.

“I guarantee you that everyone who read this script saw it as a TV movie, a cushy, sappy tear-jerker,” says Diaz, who plays the mother. “But when you say Nick Cassavetes is directing, it changes everything.”

“She’s being too kind. It’s a nonsympathetic part,” says Cassavetes. Viewers will certainly be surprised to see Diaz playing a former corporate killer turned rabid maternal angel who will do anything to prevent her daughter’s death.

Or as Diaz explains, she’d “jump off a cliff” for her child. “Step in front of a train. You do whatever it takes for them to survive. Even if it means you don’t sleep for 10 years. Or it means that you don’t have one day where you can be empathetic. It’s not one second that you can let up. I think that it is something that every parent can relate to — anyone who deeply loves someone.”

Cassavetes, the son of famed independent film director John Cassavetes, has been acquainted with Diaz since both shared an agent 15 years ago, when she was just breaking into Hollywood with “The Mask” and he was a character actor playing heavies in such films as “Face/Off.” He sought out Diaz for the role, even though she’s best known for such broad comedies as “There’s Something About Mary.”

“We are all aware that Cameron doesn’t have children in real life, and [everyone said], ‘Won’t you hire someone named Kate for this part?’ but I was bored with that,” says Cassavetes of the pleas for the reigning queens of dramas, Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett. “I was like, ‘This girl can do it.’ I wanted to show people what I already know.”

He also pushed Diaz not to play the mother as a sympathetic “victim.”

“Nick was like, ‘You don’t cry in this movie till the end. You don’t cry,’ ” Diaz says. When the actors did get teary, Cassavetes nearly always cut it out of the movie.

Though Diaz might be the shiniest name on the marquee, “My Sister’s Keeper” is an ensemble piece in which the perspective in the drama shifts through each family member — the ignored brother (Evan Ellingson), the stoic father (Jason Patric), the dying girl (Sofia Vassilieva) in the throes of her first romance with another cancer patient and the little sister, who convinces an ambulance-chasing lawyer, played by Alec Baldwin, to take her case. It’s the constant fracturing and recombining of the family that ultimately proves so moving.

“My Sister’s Keeper” is undoubtedly the most personal story for Cassavetes, who reveals somewhere in the conversation that his oldest daughter, now 23, has suffered from a congenital heart defect since birth. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving,” he says ironically, though he notes that the unexpected wallop of it made him grow up.

He understands the mother character’s single-minded devotion to her child. Cassavetes tells a story about when his daughter was little and had to have an operation for scoliosis, a spine condition that often accompanies such heart defects. “She had gotten pneumonia and there was a chance she was going to die. They were sticking a tube down her nose and in her lungs every hour and were making her cough. It was very brutal and hard on her, and I could literally see the life sucked out of my daughter.” Finally, Cassavetes threw the doctors out. “They were like, ‘You are killing your daughter. She needs these things. She could be dead by morning.’ I said, ‘I want [you] out of the room.’ ”

His daughter survived the night, and Cassavetes ultimately apologized to the doctors, but, as he points out, “I know what is best for my kid, and I am going to get it. Why? Because that is my job. Why have kids? Because they are pretty to look at? No, you have got to protect them until they get big enough, and then they can protect themselves.”

“It’s always present with him,” Diaz says. “There were moments when we were in a scene and I’d look over, and Nick’s by the camera and he is crying. Tears are coming down his face. That’s how generous he is.” As she speaks, her eyes begin to tear up.

For Diaz, the director, with his huge bark and equally huge heart, always reminded her of her own father. Throughout filming, she’d mention frequently that Cassavetes would have to come with her to visit her folks. Three weeks before the end of shooting, however, Diaz’s father died of a heart attack. It was devastating for her.

After a few days off, she returned to work. “I was kind of in shock,” she says.

“She was totally stunned. She had the look. Couldn’t feel anything,” Cassavetes says.

“It was really fortunate to be able to go back someplace really safe,” Diaz says. “Nick’s experience with his father’s death was something that he shared a lot with me about, even before my dad died.”

John Cassavetes — the irascible director who pioneered a kind of documentary-style realism in such films as “Women Under the Influence” — died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1989. “It was horrible,” says his son, whose stoicism in the moment certainly informs “My Sister’s Keeper,” a film that doesn’t ennoble suffering.

“We put him in the ground on a Friday, and on Monday I had an audition. I was auditioning as an actor back then, and I remember looking in the window thinking, ‘Dude, go home.’ I knew, No. 1, I wasn’t getting the job and, No. 2, what are you doing? Then I thought, ‘What am I supposed to do?’ You don’t know. Life goes on. That’s the beauty of it and absolute tragedy of it.”

Source: LATimes.com, by Rachel Abramowitz

Here’s a fun article about how Cameron cooked for My Sister’s Keeper co-stars Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva. Doesn’t Cami seem to be so much fun to be around?

Cameron Diaz showed off her culinary skills on the set of new movie My Sister’s Keeper by cooking up daily treats for her young co-stars. Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin played her daughters in the harrowing new film and Diaz felt the need to play set mum to them in her trailer, which she turned into a dining spot.

Breslin explains, “Cameron would cook in her trailer a lot for us. She made excellent chili cheese fries with guacamole.” And Diaz wasn’t about to make sure the girls ate healthy food: “Each one of them got to pick what they wanted to eat for lunch.”

But the treats weren’t all fun for Vassilieva, who plays a cancer sufferer in the film. Diaz says, “Sofia was on a special diet for the whole movie and her discipline was amazing. I kept trying to make her eat things she wasn’t supposed to.”