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Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact [email protected].

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Missy Peregrym has signed with Paradigm. She previously was with Gersh. In addition to her six-season run toplining the Canadian cop drama Rookie Blue, which aired on ABC during the summers, the Canadian native also was a regular on The CW’s cult favorite Reaper as well as ABC’s Life As We Know It. In film, she’s best known for starring in the 2006 gymnastics comedy Stick It. Peregrym is currently...

Congratulations are in order for Jessica Lucas!

The Gotham actress announced her engagement on Wednesday with an adorable selfie, showing off a new diamond sparkler and big smiles with her newly minted fiance at Ponte Amerigo Vespucci in Florence, Italy.

"Feeling like the luckiest girl in the whole world!" she captioned the pic. "Can't wait to spend my life with this man."

Photos: The Biggest and Best Celebrity Engagement Rings 

The 31-year-old's husband-to-be is Alex Jermasek, a Los Angeles-based butcher at celebrity chef Curtis Stone's West Hollywood restaurant and butcher shop, Gwen.

Jermasek shared the same photo to his Instagram page, gushing that he was "Living the dream." 

The couple appears to be indulging in some classic Italian fare on their current travels, with Jermasek sharing a few mid-meal photos of Lucas.

Lucas currently stars as Tabitha Galavan/Tigress on the Fox superhero drama, while her previous credits include leading roles on Melrose Place, Life as We Know It and [link...

Onetime Rookie Blue officer Missy Peregrym has copped a key role on Hawaii Five-0.

PhotosFive-0 First Look: Catherine Rejoins the Team for Episode 150

TVLine has confirmed that the actress will guest-star on the CBS drama as Danny Williams’ sister, Bridget.

To be introduced in the 10th episode of Season 7, Bridget — who still lives in New Jersey with her husband and kids — comes to Hawaii alone for a corporate retreat. Scott Caan’s Danny, witnessing his sister in a professional setting, in turn discovers a side of her that he has never seen.

RelatedHawaii Five-0: Inside Jack Lord’s...

On Fox's Friday comedy "Enlisted," Chris Lowell plays Cpl. Derrick Hill, the middle brother of three -- Geoff Stults plays the oldest brother, Pete; and Parker Young plays baby brother Randy -- all stationed at the same Army base in Florida.

Luckily for show creator Kevin Biegel, both brotherly love and sibling rivalry broke out almost immediately.

"Kevin had this pipe dream of what he wanted the chemistry to look like," Lowell, decked out in full fatigues on the show's Los Angeles set, tells Zap2it. "He created these archetypes that he was hoping these actors would fall into, and then when the three of us first got together, it was just frightening how quickly we just adopted those roles.

"We quickly transcended our lines and became who we were with each other all the time. Being on set is almost like being stuck in a house when you're growing up with your brothers.

Actor Chris Lowell has an expansive list of small screen credits, including “Life As We Know It,” “Private Practice” and the role for which many people still most remember him — Stosh “Piz” Piznarski on the CW’s “Veronica Mars,” a role he’ll reprise later this spring in the big screen spin-off. He also has a starring role in a new movie in theaters now: Maggie Kiley’s striking “Brightest Star,” about a young man’s post-college romantic and occupational wanderings. For ShockYa, Brent Simon had a chance to talk to Lowell one-on-one and in person last week, about “Brightest Star,” twentysomething ennui and what he thinks of how the “Veronica Mars” movie came to [ Read More ]

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NBC has handed down a pilot order for a medical drama first put in development last season. Photos: The Odds on Which Fall Shows Will Survive The untitled projected from 90201 writers and EPs and Life As We Know It creators Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah, previously referred to as After Hours and The Last Stand, is the second off-cycle pilot ordered from the network this season. (It follows soapy book adaptation The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives.) Described as an ensemble medical show, the pilot follows Army doctors working the late shift at a San Antonio

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Casting for pilot episodes is beginning to heat up as Networks scramble to add hot new shows to their fall line up. The CW is one step ahead of the curve as they cast Jessica Lucas as the lead in the pilot for the drama series Cult. The premise for the show is not a far departure from its regular programming which focuses on young adult dramas.

Deadline reports that the project is the brain child of writer Rockne S. O’Bannon who was also the creator of the Australian-American science fiction series Farscape. O’Bannon, in conjunction with Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will be working with Warner Bros. TV developing the new project.

Supernatural’s Alona Tal Joins Cult

Cult is centred around Skye, played by Lucas. Skye is an inquisitive young production assistant who works on a popular television show which is also...

Jessica Lucas has landed the lead role in The CW's pilot Cult. The drama, which is being executive produced by Gossip Girl's Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, focuses on a television show which becomes controversial when fans seem to begin copying crimes featured in the series. Lucas has now signed up to play a production assistant working on the show, Deadline reports. Her character teams up with a blogger to investigate the fans who are apparently taking their devotion to the show too far. Lucas's previous television credits include Life As We Know It, Edgemont, (more)...

Chicago – Last month, the famous retailer Macy’s participated in “Fashion’s Night Out” in Chicago, at both their Michigan Avenue and State Street Stores. Among the special events was an appearance by Kelly Osbourne (”The Osbournes,” “Dancing with the Stars”) and Kyle Richards (”The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”).

Photographer Joe Arce captured these Exclusive Portraits of both Kelly Osbourne and Kyle Richards, during their appearance at Macy’s during “Fashion’s Night Out.”

Kelly Osbourne has built quite the media foundation, after most famously appearing on MTV with her father Ozzy and mother Sharon on “The Osbournes” starting in 2002. She has since released a music album (”Shut Up”), a book (”Fierce”), acted on stage and television (”Life As We Know It”) and participated in 2009 on “Dancing with the Stars,” when she placed third overall.

Kelly Osbourne at Macy’s ‘Fashion’s Night Out,’ Chicago, September 8th, 2011

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TV used to be the awkward cousin of the movies. Sure, every decade had it’s hit series but up until the twilight years of the 90’s when shows like The Soprano’s and The West Wing helped redefine what could be achieved on a weekly basis from the comfort of your living room, there were relatively few titles that dared try to emulate the high octane thrills, slick visuals, and adult subject matters that your local multiplex was home to.

Thankfully the noughties brought a tsunami of titles that shattered the parameters of what could be achieved via the restrictions of tv, a gradual snowball of triple-a titles that have helped a once snubbed medium for storytelling thrive into arguably the most satisfying and diverse option for visual narratives. To the point where it coaxes actors, actresses, screenwriters and even directors to sojourn from their Hollywood hills and to...

If this weekend’s #moviesinmypants isn’t Twitter trending at its best, I don’t know what is.

Joining the fun was simple. All you had to do was think of a movie title that would sound better with “in my pants” attached to the end. Among the best contributions clogging my feed? Eliza Dushku’s Shall We Dance in My Pants, Wil Wheaton’s Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead in My Pants, and a submission from Modern Family’s co-executive producer Danny Zuker, The Wiz In My Pants.

This simple amusement went on for the better part of the weekend,...

Quickcard Review

My Soul to Take

Directed by: Wes Craven

Cast: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker, Emily Meade

Running Time: 1 hr 47 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: October 8, 2010

Plot: A serial killer is thought to have died 16 years ago, and now seven kids who celebrate their 16th birthday on that very day are worried he’s come back to life.

Who’S It For? Do you like train wrecks? And no, not the violent kind that scare the hell out of you. Wes Craven directed and wrote this film. Realizing that is the biggest scare My Soul to Take offers.

Overall

In the town of Riverton everyone knows everyone. There’s the weird kid Bug (Thieriot), the angst ridden sidekick Alex (John Magaro), the blind kid Jerome (Whitaker), the jock Brandon (Nick Lashaway) and the “insanely mean for almost no reason” Fang (Emily Meade). Sure, there’s a handful of...

The hit romantic comedy "Life As We Know It" joins the list of movies about love and breaking up. "Extra" has collected 25 great quotes, from "Gone with the Wind" to "The Break-Up"!

Best Break-Up Quotes'The Break-Up' (2006)

Brooke (Jennifer Aniston): "I just don't know how we got here. Our entire relationship, I have gone above and beyond for you, for us. I've cooked, I've picked your shit up off the floor, I've laid...

Critics think horseracing movie wrings a bit too much drama out of an already dramatic story.

By Eric Ditzian

Diane Lane in "Secretariat"

Photo: Disney

This weekend could end in a photo finish at the box office. "Secretariat," "Life as We Know It" and, in a holdover from last week, "The Social Network" will all compete for the top spot, and it's looking close at the moment. All three could rack up similar grosses — somewhere in the $15 million range — and experts are split on which film will be declared the winner.

If "Secretariat," Disney's retelling of the story of the greatest racehorse in history, can connect with families, the warm-hearted movie might well be trotting around the winner's circle Monday. Here's what the critics are saying:

The Story

"Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) has no idea she has a future winner on her hands when she inherits her late father's Virginia horse ranch.

Critics think horseracing movie wrings a bit too much drama out of an already dramatic story.

By Eric Ditzian

Diane Lane in "Secretariat"

Photo: Disney

This weekend could end in a photo finish at the box office. "Secretariat," "Life as We Know It" and, in a holdover from last week, "The Social Network" will all compete for the top spot, and it's looking close at the moment. All three could rack up similar grosses — somewhere in the $15 million range — and experts are split on which film will be declared the winner.

If "Secretariat," Disney's retelling of the story of the greatest racehorse in history, can connect with families, the warm-hearted movie might well be trotting around the winner's circle Monday. Here's what the critics are saying:

The Story

"Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) has no idea she has a future winner on her hands when she inherits her late father's Virginia horse ranch.

My Soul to Take 3D

Directed by: Wes Craven

Cast: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker, Zena Grey, Nick Lashaway

Running Time: 1 hr 47 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: October 8, 2010

Plot: They thought he was dead. A serial killer returns to terrorize seven children who share the same birthday as the date they thought he died.

Jake’s Take on his interview with Wes Craven, the director of My Soul to Take

Whenever you talk to someone you consider a legend — and in my mind, it’s hard to mention the world of horror without mentioning the name Wes Craven — to outright fail to acknowledge the classics is to take advantage of an incredible opportunity. But, more often than not, many people want to focus on the film they’re promoting and don’t want to talk about the older stuff.

Still, in an interview I consider a real give-and-take of old school vs.

I attended a screening of The Town out at the Edwards Marq*E IMAX theater on Katy Freeway here in Houston on Monday, September 13th. Best part of the whole trip was that Drew, the Warner Bros. rep, came through on his word and gave me a few of the tops (or totems) from Inception. For what's basically nothing more than a few pieces of metal, they're pretty amazing if you've seen the film. Trailers before the film included Due Date and Life As We Know It. Due Date has been playing with an awful lot of movies lately and, to be honest, looks better and better every time I see the...

Now that September is here the networks are in the final sprint for the new 2010-2011 season. If you watch TV you probably will have seen many of these shows advertised. The new season lineup includes inevitable staples (classic cop and legal dramas) and more peculiar blends (The Shield’s Michael Chiklis in a family series playing a dad with superpowers, for example); some legendary names (Jj Abrams, Shawn Ryan, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg) and many fresh faces. A few shows like The Event (NBC), Running Wilde (Fox), Broadwalk Empire (HBO) or The Walking Dead (AMC) have already created buzz. For now, however, all of them are pure potential, waiting for their chance to conquer primetime. But despite any hopes or expectations, the only thing certain is that, among all of these promising shows, very few will make it to the second season mark.

ABC

ABC has a clear, light and family-oriented style – young professionals,...

Last we heard (early last year), Diablo Cody was producing and Geoff Latulippe was scripting the adaptation of S.G. Browne's Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. That script is now in, and it's out to directors. Moreover, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson are loosely attached, according to the Hollywood Cog. The movie is a romantic comedy about Andy, a dead man who discovers himself newly re-animated as a mid-aged, decaying zombie who must figure out what it means to live as an Un-dead in a society that denies his kind basic rights.

Holy Airbrush, Jason Priestley! Here's the latest photo of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie (if you can recognize her) from The Tourist.

Because of Brad Pitt's humanitarian efforts in New Orleans -- and not, probably, because he knows anything about the Saints or cares for football in the least -- he's been tapped to do the narration for...

Yea! We have two new posters for movies you probably don't really care about: Burlesque and Life As We Know It. Okay, perhaps that was a little harsh. Maybe you want to see one of these. Is your inner small-town girl aching for a chance at stardom? Are you looking to relate to the ups and downs of adulthood, but don't want to think too much? If you answered yes to either of those questions then you will be excited about the posters I bring you today. The Burlesque poster might actually...

Set photos from 30 Minutes or Less, Sean Penn in make-up for This Must Be The Place, Daniel Craig on the set of Cowboys vs. Aliens, Mads Mikkelsen in costume on The Three Musketeers, and Martin Scorsese himself and set decoration for "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".

First look photos from Arthur, Beginners, Black Swan, Bridesmaids, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Ceremony, The Conspirator, Daydream Nation, The Dilemma.

Further first look photos from Everything Must Go, Good Neighbours, Henry's Crime, Hereafter, The High Cost of Living, The King's Speech, Passion Play, True Grit, What's Wrong with Virginia, Yogi Bear.

Next, more stills from Devil, Due Date, Faster, Making Plans for Lena, Miral, Monsters, My Soul to Take, The Social Network, Somewhere, The Tempest, The Town.

Finally, several character one-sheets for Never Let Me Go and posters for Alpha and Omega, Buried, Fair Game, The Freebie, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Life as We Know It,...

Some of you may not even know his name yet. In time that will change. Each year that passes his influence grows and grows and with Hatchet II on the horizon his name is being talked about more than ever. Is this horror fan turned writer, director, producer, and yes even actor the chosen one? We think so and if you read on you'll find out why...

We've made it a point to have fun with Adam and often at Adam's expense since the birth of the site. Partially because we are fans of his work and partially because he is so willing to take time out of his schedule to chat with us. If you've read some of our past articles you will know the fascination we have with his film style. It mimics the films that we have enjoyed in the past yet with new films such as...

Kelly Osbourne has gone blonde for a new movie role. The pop star and reality TV darling has landed the role of a groupie in new movie "Should Have Been Romeo". She took to Twitter to announce the big news, writing "It's a comedy and i play the role of nicole, who is a crazy groupie! its amazingly funny."

It's Osbourne's first major film role. She adds, "We have been in rehearsals for a week and i start filming on Wednesday i could not be happier... ! im so excited my brain is not working!" But she's not happy about having to keep her brunette hair blonde for the role. Osbourne tweets, "The burn is about to begin."

Kelly Osbourne has previously showed her acting skills in "Life As We Know It" in 2004. In the project, she tackles the role of Deborah Tynan. She also lends her voice for Sharon character...

Bryce Dallas Howard and Matt Damon in Hereafter

Photo: Warner Bros. Warner Bros. has unveiled a new batch of images from their upcoming Fall 2010 slate including looks at Ben Affleck's The Town, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Zack Snyder's owl movie Legend of the Guardians, Life as We Know It, the new Todd Phillips comedy Due Date and Yogi Bear. However, the most guarded film of their upcoming list of films is Clint Eastwood's new drama Hereafter and just above is the first look at Bryce Dallas Howard and Matt Damon in the new flick.

Despite early reports calling it a supernatural film in the vein of The Sixth Sense I was told by Warner Bros. only yesterday they will be referring to it strictly as a drama as the film tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways.

It's fall (aka queue up the Oscar movies), so not surprisingly there are more dramas headed into theaters than this past summer. Also on the upswing are 3-D movies — in fact, nearly 1/3 of the fall titles boost the extra dimension, with 100 percent of the Kids/Family movies playing in 3-D.

By the numbers, here's how the season breaks down: fans of action/adventure (7), horror (6), drama (6), and comedy (5) are in luck, with the offerings fewer and farther between for kids (4) and mystery/thriller fans (3). Get details on all of them, including who stars, and check out the trailers and photo galleries.

see our 2010 Fall Movie Guide >>

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The American | Machete | Easy A | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | You Again | Let Me In | Jackass 3D | Red | My Soul to Take | Due Date | Megamind | The Next Three Days | Love and Other Drugs | Red Dawn | Skyline...

Veteran TV executive/producer Francie Calfo is joining Imagine TV as president after more than 20 years at ABC. Calfo will replace David Nevins who is leaving to become entertainment president at Showtime, replacing Robert Greenblatt. Calfo's deal with 20th TV where Imagine TV is based came after a couple of weeks of negotiations, mostly over financial terms. Calfo most recently served as an ABC Studios-based producer, executive producing several pilots and one series, this summer’s struggling dramedy Scoundrels. Before that she was Evp at ABC, serving as entertainment president Stephen McPherson’s No.2. She segued into that job after spending a year as a producer, partnered with Stu Bloomberg when the two executive produced the short-lived ABC drama series Life As We Know It. Calfo was previously an executive at ABC Studios’ predecessor Touchstone TV where she helped develop Alias and CSI under then-boss McPherson. Calfo first joined...

The Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Ratings Administration declared ratings for Predators, The Tree of Life and Stone in today's bulletin. While commercials have included the rating for some time now, the MPAA officially announced today that Predators was rated R for "strong creature violence and gore, and pervasive language." Aside from the first, PG-13-rated Alien Vs. Predator, all other Predator movies have been rated R. Predators opens this Friday, July 9, opposite Despicable Me. Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life was awarded a PG-13 rating for "some thematic material." Starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, the secretive project has been in the works for quite some time, though a rating indicates it may finally be moving towards being released. The Tree of Life is currently set to be distributed by Apparition, though the relatively new company has yet to set an official date. Robert DeNiro-...

Charlie St. Cloud

Directed by: Burr Steers

Starring: Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Donal Logue

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: July 30, 2010

Trailer Score: 5/10

My Thoughts: Sorry to all the Footloose fans, but Efron has kicked off his Sunday shoes indefinitely. This trailer is proof that the actor is now taking the straight and narrow. However, it doesn’t seem like the actor’s ready to leave the teen drama behind. Don’t get me wrong, as long as Efron remains good-looking, teens are still bound to come flocking to any of his movies (except Me and orson Welles but to be fair, that was “about an old guy” according to my 11-year old cousin). Still, throw in a tragic circumstance and a smarmy romance, you’ve got yourself a movie. Only way it could sell better is if it was by Nicholas Sparks, but alas, no luck. Still, as new age, touchy...

In the young-cops drama Rookie Blue (airing tonight, 9/8c on ABC), Missy Peregrym plays a wet-behind-the-ears officer trying to make a name for herself on the force. But the 28-year-old actress has already made an impression on TV fans, turning up in such diverse series as Smallville and Life as We Know It. We asked Peregrym for her thoughts on Rookie's Andy McNally and her two other most notable roles, on Heroes and the much-missed Reaper.

Turning Blue "It's a rare thing to have a female lead on a TV show. I was excited to play...

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Before we get started, some of you have asked in the comments why I don't add some ratings to these bulletins even though a trailer or the official site may list them. Well, that's because these are the official MPAA bulletins as distributed by the MPAA each week so I present them exactly as I receive them so as not to cause for any confusion or mistakes. That's why I didn't have Jonah Hex listed until this week, why Dinner for Schmucks is on today's bulletin and wasn't on last week's and why The Expendables is still not included even though the official site says it has an R rating for strong action and bloody violence throughout and for some language. Basically, it's just a way to remain consistent and accurate. That said, let's take a look at today's ratings...

Beautiful Islands Rated PG For some violent images involving animals,...

What do you think of actors uploading their auditions to video websites and being submitted by their agents or managers?John PapsideraLos Angeles; 'Life As We Know It,' 'Inception,' 'Zombieland,' 'The Dark Knight'I guess it depends on how it then gets filtered to the casting director. If your email just becomes a depository for everybody who wants to upload an audition, it will be hugely problematic, given the expansion of managers in the world having increased phone calls to casting directors threefold at least, if not tenfold, over the past five or 10 years. The advent of being so accessible—between instant messaging, email, telephone, texting—it's an avalanche of stuff to get through every day. So if it's unfiltered and anybody can just send it to you, I think it'll be quite difficult. But the advent of global casting, as well as cameras and...

Big Momma's family is growing.

Faizon Love, Emily Rios, Portia Doubleday and Michelle Ang have been cast in Fox's "Big Momma's House" threequel opposite Martin Lawrence.

Brandon T. Jackson ("Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief") and Jessica Lucas ("Cloverfield") already have been cast in the third installment -- now titled "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" -- of Lawrence's FBI-agent-in-drag franchise, which has grossed more than $310 million worldwide. New Regency is financing and producing.

"Big Momma's House 2" director John Whitesell also is helming the new project, from a script by Matthew Fogel and Randi Mayem Singer. David T. Friendly again is producing via his Friendly Films.

In the latest story line, Big Momma (Lawrence) and Charmaine (Jackson) go undercover at an all-girls performing-arts school to unmask a murderer. Love will play Kurtis Kool, a school security guard and former Run-d.M.C. roadie who becomes smitten with Big Momma.

Based on the 1st of four successful illustrated books, Diary Of A Wimpy Kid follows around clever Greg Heffley and his adventures in middle school. He’s a bit of a smart-alec who logs everything into his “its not a diary, its a journal,” complete with the horrors of cooties, bullies, icky girls, and the dreaded “cheese touch,” all of which make a grown-up want to get as far away from middle school as possible. Greg figures that if he can rise above all “the morons” to become popular, it’ll be smooth sailing right through to high school.

After an extensive nine-month search, the producers found the perfect Greg in Zachary Gordon. If you’re a fan of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, you’ll see that his wisecracks are exactly as portrayed in the book. Wary of his big brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick) who plays a prank of...

Universal has pushed back the release of the comedy sequel to the "Meet the Parents" franchise, "Little Fockers," to Wednesday, Dec. 22.The hope is to cash in on the long Christmas weekend. "Fockers" will now compete with Sony's "The Green Hornet," Warner Bros.' "Life As We Know It," 20th Century Fox's re-imagining of "Gulliver's Travels" and Paramount's Coen Brothers remake of "True Grit." According to Variety, Universal will release the upcoming Matt Damon, Emily Blunt film "The Adjustment Bureau" on July 30, which was "Fockers" original opening date."Little Fockers" stars Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern and Harvey Keitel. "Meet the Parents" grossed $166.2 million in 2000, while "Meet the Fockers" grossed $279.2 million...

It's the release date shuffle today as a couple anticipated movies grab new dates as well as the announcement of a couple new Universal summer releases. Universal has announced an update to their 2010 line-up including the move of their comedy threequel Little Fockers , being pushed back from its original July 30 release to come out instead on December 22, in order to take full advantage of the holidays much like the previous installment, Meet the Fockers . Already scheduled for a Dec. 22 release were The Green Hornet , Gulliver's Travels and Life As We Know It . Meanwhile, Edgar Wright's anticipated follow-up to Hot Fuzz , the movie version of Brian Lee O'Malley's graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , starring Michael Cera, has finally settled on its summer...

St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

Opens: 2010

Cast: Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, David Tennant, Gemma Arterton, Talulah Riley

Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson

Summary: A rollercoaster-style treasure hunt for the legendary Fritton’s Gold ensues as the feisty and ever-resourceful schoolgirls of St Trinian’s face their most fearsome establishment rivals yet - the villainous Pomfrey and his sidekicks from the women-hating secret society known as AD1.

Analysis: While it didn't travel much beyond the UK, 2007's reboot of the "St Trinian's" franchise nearly doubled its £7 million production budget in sales in the UK alone - making it one of the top grossing independent British films of the past decade. Reviews were decidedly mixed but generally pretty weak at the time, so the greenlighting of a sequel surprised quite a few.

Despite a critical drubbing, the core audience of young British teenage girls seemed to be satisfied by...

A Prophet

Opens: February 12th 2010

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb

Director: Jacques Audiard

Summary: Sent to prison, Malik El Djebena falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins their confidence but uses his intelligence to discreetly develop his own network.

Analysis: Finally scoring a limited release in the Us in February, Jacques Audiard's violent and hard-edged prison drama won the Grand Prix at Cannes, scored Best Film at the London Film Festival, and is already the hotly tipped favourite to take the Oscar for Best Foreign Film late next month.

Reviews have been stellar around the world for the film which quickly became the most universally admired entry in the often hotly contentious first week of Cannes back in May. From a breakout performance by Tahar Rahim,...

Mother and Child

Opens: 2010

Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.

Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.

The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...

Mother and Child

Opens: 2010

Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.

Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.

The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...

The Last Airbender

Opens: July 2nd 2010

Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

Analysis: It has been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan, who started it as a household name with the label of a modern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".

Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit...

The Last Airbender

Opens: July 2nd 2010

Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".

Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series...

Case 39

Opens: January 1st 2010

Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley

Director: Christian Alvart

Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.

Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the...

Case 39

Opens: January 1st 2010

Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley

Director: Christian Alvart

Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.

Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the...

After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.

Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.

Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.

13

Opens: 2010

Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent

Director: Géla Babluani

Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The...

After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.

Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.

Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.

13

Opens: 2010

Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent

Director: Géla Babluani

Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The...

Warner Bros. has debuted their 2010 picture preview giving us our first look at select films out of the 23 features they have set for the new year. I have added new images from the likes of The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington, Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson, our first look at Sex and the City 2, Kevin Smith's currently untitled new comedy with Tracey Morgan and Bruce Willis, Jonah Hex, Ben Affleck's The Town, and, of course, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

All the cast, director and synopsis information is listed over the course of the next few pages as well as all the release dates for 23 upcoming films. Gallery links have been added for all films and remember, the links open in a new browser window so just close the new window to return to this article and continue the preview.

The Book Of Eli January 15 Photo: Warner Bros.

Wow, two Gilmore Girls-related stories in one day. What are the odds? This one's actually less about Gilmore than it is about one of its alums — Melissa McCarthy. The funny lady behind Sookie is guest starring in a January episode of Private Practice, sources confirm to me exclusively. According to a Pp insider, McCarthy's character is pregnant and a patient of midwifery expert Dell (Chris Lowell). McCarthy has kept busy since Gilmore went off the air three years ago. In addition to her regular gig on the now-canceled Samantha Who?, she just wrapped a supporting role in the Katherine Heigl...

Huh? LeBron James? Yeah, you read that right. Today might be the slowest news day I can remember in 2009, I'm still not going to break each of these into their own story. Because how much do you really need to know about romances and fantasy basketball movies? Exactly this much. Not sure we've mentioned Earthbound before; it's the film where Kate Hudson, as a terminally ill patient, falls for her doctor. Nicole Kassell is directing (she made The Woodsman, 2004's hit starring Kevin Bacon as a pedophile) and now Gael Garcia Bernal is likely to co-star. The trade report doesn't mention his role, but if he's playing the male lead (which seems appropriate) I'd just picture Hudson asking, "aren't you a little short to be a doctor?" [Variety] I know I've mentioned Life as We Know It, because it allowed me to post a photo of Christina Hendricks. Now Josh Lucas...

In this series, we will study the 16 couples on Dancing with the Stars season 9 and predict who has the best chances for success, and who is doomed to humiliation.

Who is Kelly Osbourne?

Yes, she is the eccentric daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne who can or cannot sing. She got her start when she was 16 when she was thrust into the lime light courtesy of the first ever celebrity reality show The Osbournes. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2002, and in the same year Kelly released her debut album. A second one was released three years later, which included the chart-topping single "One Word." Her other screen credits include ABC series Life as We Know It, a West End staging of Chicago, and Project Catwalk, the British counterpart of Project Runway.

Reps have confirmed to Access Hollywood that Katherine Heigl & Josh Kelley will be adopting. The couple met when Heigl starred in Kelly's music video "Only You" back in 2005. They kept the courtship very private and in December of 2007 in a lavish and star studded ceremony in Park City, Utah the happy couple wed. Radar Online is reporting that the couple has been going through the adoption process for the past ten months and hopes to soon welcome a 10-month baby girl from Nayleigh, Korea. Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl spoke with Access correspondent Shaun Robinson early this summer about the possibility of children. The two talked about adoption and Heigl remarked that they were "working on it." Heigl also went on to say, "We're working on it. It's just we are super crazed... Neither one of us want to give up our careers, neither one of us want to,...