I have uploaded captures and HQ’s from Christina’s appearance on “The Today Show” from earlier today. Check them out by clicking on the thumbnails below. Our photo gallery also have over 22,000 images and is still growing!

Christina and Emile were on “The Today Show” this morning, May 5th. Check out the video below! (I’m working on an downloadable version of this interview) Captures will be coming to the site a.s.a.p!

CHRISTINA Ricci’s film career hasn’t so much skyrocketed her to fame as locked her in a semi-leisurely orbit.

The 40 movies she has made since starring opposite Cher in Mermaids at the age of nine have run the spectrum from sure-fire hits to forgettable misses.

But Speed Racer the upcoming mega-budget movie by the Wachowski brothers, who gave us the Matrix trilogy – could mark the beginningof a big 2008 for the diminutive Ricci.

“I’ve made films that didn’t come out at all,” Ricci says, philosophical beyond her 28 years. And usually that’s been a good thing. They’re doing me a favour.”

Ricci became an international star in 1991 after landing the breakthrough role of melancholic, gloomy Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family.

One of her most acclaimed roles in recent times was as the lesbian lover of Charlize Theron’s serial-killer character in 2003′s Monster.

Quirky roles are definitely her forte. In her other big movie for 2008, Ricci stars alongside Reese Witherspoon and Atonement heart-throb James McAvoy in Penelope as a character cursed with the features of a pig.

“The first make-up tests – we did about four – ranged from really, really wild-boar awful and hideous and monstrous to really super-cute,” Ricci says.

“We ended up with something somewhere in the middle. I had some say about how I’d look for the movie. I got to say: ‘That’s really hideous. Let’s make me a little cuter, can’t we? Maybe more Miss Piggy?”’

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Born in California in 1980, Christina Ricci grew up in New Jersey and appeared in her first film, Mermaids, aged nine. She has since starred in The Addams Family, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Opposite of Sex and Monster. Ricci owns a production company, Blaspheme Films, and lives in Los Angeles with Kick Gurry, an Australian actor.

Christina Ricci, once the weird-looking child star in The Addams Family, has blossomed into a smart and together young woman. Today she is looking charmingly demure in a silk Yves Saint Laurent cocktail dress and elegant Manolo Blahnik heels, so it’s somewhat disconcerting when a sudden release of flatulence comes from her direction – so loud it reverberates about her Beverly Hills hotel suite. “Oh no! You thought that was me? That was Ramon!” she exclaims quickly, gesturing to the miniature French bulldog curled up on her lap. “When he gets tired he snores very noisily, and other stuff . . .”

Ricci was only nine years old when she made her movie debut in Mermaids, alongside Cher, as her on-screen mother, and Winona Ryder, who played her big sister. That’s almost 20 years ago now, and though there have been some tricky times – teenage struggles with anorexia and self-harm – she has at least managed to avoid the cycle of hard partying and stints in rehab that has taken hold of other young stars. It may be stretching credulity but she claims never to have been offered drugs at Hollywood parties and says she’s pretty much stopped drinking alcohol because she cannot handle it.

“I think it’s hard for young actors because when you go to the premiere party you’re told, ‘Have a great time.’ But you’re going to have your picture taken all night and then you’re going to have to talk to interviewers. So they don’t really mean, ‘Have a great time and start drinking . . .’ They mean, pretend you’re having a good time, basically. But if you’re a kid or a teenager you don’t really understand that yet. I think it takes falling down or messing up a few times until they get that.” Ricci, now 28 and with 40 films under her belt, is grateful to have grown up before the boom in celebrity magazines and the attendant paparazzi that constantly trail troubled stars such as Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

“When I was growing up there wasn’t the same sort of media attention that there is now,” she says. “I went through all the normal growing pains of being a teenager and then being in your early twenties and the whole drinking thing and going out to clubs. “But there weren’t paparazzi around and there wasn’t this level of attention that there is now. I think I got off pretty easy. But I do have my regulars, which I think is hilarious. It’s not quite Britney status. No, no, no. I have maybe three cars waiting outside my house while she’s got, like, maybe 50.”

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Christina was at the party celebrating her “Gotham” magazine cover in New York today. I’ve added the first HQ’s into our gallery. I also started adding some MQ’s from past events. Hopefully I’ll get everything caught up soon!

Don’t forget, Christina and Emile will be on “The Today Show” tomorrow morning! They will also be taping TRL tomorrow as well, but it won’t air until Thursday.

Christina attended the screening of Speed Racer at the closing of the Tribeca Film Festival today. She looks absolutely stunning – the best look since she’s been promoting the film – in a black one shoulder dress. Check out some HQ’s from the event by clicking on the thumbnails below.

I have uploaded HQ’s from all the missing events from this year. I still have MQ’s to add, but I’m sure the HQ’s will do for now. Also, I have changed some things around in the gallery, you no longer need to be registered to view the event photos. You still have to be a member to view the portraits and candids sections though. Check out the last uploaded images by clicking on the thumbnails below.