It's all about the fresh faces in Tinseltown these days, and Vanity Fair is celebrating this new wave of young Hollywood by featuring them in their upcoming August issue. Besides the stylish cast of Gossip Girl getting some serious love in the pages of this magazine, celebs including the Jonas Brothers, Emma Roberts, Zoe Kravitz and even McLovin' made the cut as the best and brightest of their generation. BTW, don't be surprised to not see Miley amongst the bunch.
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Sir Ben Kingsley, 63, passionately locks lips with 21-year-old Mary-Kate Olsen in The Wackness, now lensing in New York and concerning a drug dealer who pays his shrink (Kingsley) in weed, says the New York Post's Page Six. Consider your eyes warned.... Emma Roberts will front the live-action comedy Hotel for Dogs, in which two orphaned teens hide dozens of strays in an abandoned hotel.... Also per the Reporter, Bernie Mac has come on board Old Dogs.... Rosario Dawson has joined Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan in the D.J. Caruso-directed thriller Eagle Eye.... Also per Variety, the BCC, in partnership with Pathe, is backing a $50-million live-action take on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
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Pandemic's Eric Roberts
In Hallmark Channel's Pandemic (premiering Saturday at 8 pm/ET, repeating Sunday at 6), when flu-like symptoms kill a young man aboard a plane en route to Los Angeles from Australia, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (one Tiffani Thiessen) orders the quarantine of all the passengers. Alas, containing an outbreak never proves to be simple, and soon a hunt is on for Patient Zero. Playing the mayor of Los Angeles during this crisis is Eric Roberts, most recently of Heroes but more notably from any number of films. Oh, and he's Julia's brother and up-and-comer
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Hellboy: Sword of Storms
Former adolescents Michael Davis and Mark Nollinger can still summon their inner middle-schooler when they watch tween TV. They got together the other day to compare notes on the new season for kids who are approximately 5 feet tall, wear braces and inject the word "like" between words, like, all the time.
Michael Davis: Which new or returning shows will send parents screaming out of the room?
Nollinger: It's too early to tell with the new shows, although I can imagine that even some folks who loved Beavis and Butt-Head as college students might not welcome Mr. Meaty (premiering Sept. 22, on Nickelodeon) into their living rooms as parents. Personally, I can handle just about anything as long as I don't have to hear the Camp Lazlo theme song ever again. I do
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Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and Martin Scorsese will direct a big-screen adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris.... Former 007 Pierce Brosnan will join Liam Neeson in the period thriller Seraphim Falls, lensing this fall. Also per Variety: Julia Roberts' 14-year-old niece (daughter of Eric), Emma Roberts, is set to play the titular teen sleuth in the feature Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills.
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