Christina Aguilera was traveling in support of her new album ‘Bionic’ and new film ‘Burlesque’ during San Francisco’s Gay Pride celebration this year (June 26-27) but sent this video to the main stage to show her support and love for the LGBT community.
‘Burlesque’ follows the journey of an ambitious small town girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a neo-burlesque club, reminiscent of the famed nightclub in Bob Fosse’s ‘Cabaret.’
Burlesque is in theaters November 24 from Screen Gems.
New promo still from ‘Burlesque’
I added another promo still from ‘Burlesque’, Thanks to XtinaNews. 
Cher on working with Christina: ‘She Has My Respect!’
Cher has a lot of respect for her “Burlesque” co-star, Christina Aguilera
“Bout me & Xtina ! Didn’t know her b4, but she worked her a** off,” Cher Tweeted on Tuesday night. “She has my respect & a great deal of my love.”
“I wanted 2 help her ! In my heart I think I did,” Cher, 64, added.
Promo stills from ‘Burlesque’ in HQ
I replaced the smaller stills with High Quality ones.
ET talks Bionic, Motherhood and Burlesque with Christina
Christina Aguilera is back in the spotlight after a four-year break with her new hit album Bionic and the upcoming movie ‘Burlesque,’ and the multiple-Grammy winner reveals to ET’s own Kevin Frazier whether or not she plans to expand her family!
“Bionic is definitely my baby at the moment,” says Christina. “Eventually, in the future, I do want to expand on my family and have another one, but for now, Bionic is the baby and ‘Burlesque’ is the other baby.”
“I couldn’t be happier about … the fact that the album’s inspired by my son, and the future, and the feeling of the movement of electronica music, in a sense,” says Christina, “but still maintaining that rawness of having those definite ballads that evoke that pure, honest emotion. … Being able to just pour my heart out into the beauty and emotion of a song is very important to me.”
Promo stills from ‘Burlesque’
Aguilera’s Ali runs away from Iowa in search of fame and ends up waitressing at The Burlesque Lounge on the Sunset Strip. But not for long. “Christina really takes it all off in terms of makeup and hair for a lot of the movie,” says director/writer Steven Antin. “She looks like a girl right off the farm.” That is until Kristen Bell’s headliner, Nikki, shows up tipsy one night and Ali must fill in.
Ali helps turn what once was a lip-sync club into a singing-and-dancing revue after she displays her vocal fireworks onstage in numbers like But I’m a Good Girl. The 12-song soundtrack includes four originals written by Aguilera.
Cher is Tess, owner of a retro club who has a modern-day problem: She can’t make the payments on her over-mortgaged property. It took Antin three tries before the Oscar winner for 1987’s Moonstruck would finally agree to take the part, her first major movie role in more than a decade. When she read the script, she told Antin, “This character is me. I can do this with my eyes closed.”
Together, Ali and Tess manage to transform the Burlesque Lounge into a success. After meeting Cher for the first time on the set, Aguilera says, “I found her kind and warm, welcoming me with open arms – which was nice, coming in as a newcomer.” Meanwhile, Tess – also a performer – “sees a lot of herself in Ali’s character.” For the record, Aguilera’s favorite Cher films are Mermaids and The Witches of Eastwick.
Stanley Tucci is Sean, the lounge’s stage manager, a go-to guy for the gals and best friend to Tess. “They have a history,” Antin says. “He is gay but they were once involved.” Other men in the cast include Cam Gigandet (Twilight) as Jack, Ali’s piano-playing love interest; Eric Dane as entrepreneur Marcus, who tries to woo Ali away; and Alan Cumming as Alexis, the gender-bending doorman.
Every night, Tess and Sean put together the costumes for that evening’s performance. “The closet is every girl’s dream, filled with fabulous outfits,” Antin says of the hangers mostly filled with vintage and secondhand wear. Its contents? “Swarovski crystal-beaded dresses, corsets and bustiers, sailor hats and mismatched gloves.”
Source: USA Today
First look: Christina Aguilera stars as queen of ‘Burlesque’
After slithering her slinky self through countless music videos, pop siren Christina Aguilera will sizzle on movie screens for the first time this fall in the song-filled fantasy Burlesque.
“It’s sexy, it’s sensual,” she promises. “The whole idea of burlesque has always intrigued me. The art of the tease, the dance, beautiful women — need I say more?”
Her Ali might be a showbiz staple as old as greasepaint: a plucky gal from Iowa who runs off to the big city to follow her dreams and lands a job at a struggling nightclub.
Yet it was her character’s heart and grit that caught her eye. Says Aguilera, 29, who has been candid about her own childhood travails: “It wasn’t just a girl who comes to L.A. and makes it big. It was a girl who had suffered and felt pain, been in seven foster homes. She doesn’t let her past make her a victim. And that to me was so appealing.”
Director/writer Steven Antin was impressed by how quickly Aguilera adapted to a new type of performing. “She figured out how it works within weeks. She is a little bit of a freak of nature and a perfectionist. This girl is a movie star.”
The novice actress found the perfect mentors in such castmates as Cher, who hasn’t had a major film role since 1999’s Tea With Mussolini, and Stanley Tucci, recent Oscar nominee for The Lovely Bones.
“I love no-bull-(expletive) women, and she’s the best of the best,” Aguilera says of Cher, who plays Tess, owner of The Burlesque Lounge. “An original trendsetter in her time and a legend in mine. I found her kind and warm. She had helpful advice and stories for days.”
As for Tucci, whose gay stage manager once had a fling with Tess, “he’s such a professional and hilarious to be around.”
Aguilera’s famous pipes get a workout, along with her legs (”I’ve never danced so much in my life”). She wrote four songs for the soundtrack and does an Etta James oldie.
While music will always be her first love, Aguilera is keen on continuing to act if Burlesque manages to seduce the public. “I think people will definitely feel energized and excited.”
Source: USA Today
‘Burlesque’ director Steven Antin proves persuasive
Getting Burlesque off the ground wasn’t exactly an easy task for Steven Antin, whose only other feature-directing experience was a straight-to-DVD thriller with Angie Harmon.
For one, he had to convince Christina Aguilera that his musical fantasy was the right vehicle for her long-in-coming film debut, a decision the pop star is more than pleased about.
“I immediately connected to Steven from the beginning,” she says. “There’s a lot to take on with a musical, but he definitely had a vision going in that spoke to me. He eased me into the process.”
Even more daunting, he had to persuade Oscar-winning super-diva Cher to come out of semi-retirement as a big-screen actress for her first movie musical ever as the owner of a financially strapped Sunset Strip nightclub.
“Her manager loved the script but said: ‘You know how hard it is to get Cher to commit. She is very dubious.’ ” He sent it to her anyway, as did mega-mogul David Geffen, a mutual acquaintance of Antin and Cher’s.
06/26: Burlesque Party at Summer of Sony in Cancun
I added new images of Christina attending Screen Gems’ Burlesque Party held at Summer of Sony in Cancun, Mexico on Saturday, June 26, 2010. She looks gorgeous! 
Christina and Cher will not be dueting in Burlesque
We’ve got some terrible news to share with you from musical divaland.
Much to our surprise…
Christina Aguilera and Cher will not be dueting in their upcoming movie Burlesque!
“She and I didn’t sing together,” Cher recently told me. The “Believe” diva plays the owner of a burlesque joint where Aguilera is the new girl in town, but Cher does have two numbers with the rest of the girls.
And Cher, like her costars, says the making of Burlesque was quite painful. “It was hard,” she said. “It was sixteen-hour days in six-inch heels.”
She continued, “It was a bitch. I have a broken foot and toe that’s been broken twice so it was really hard for me. I mean, the girls who were 22 were complaining and crying, too.”
Source: E! Online
