Zac Efron
Zac Efron may be 17 Again but he doesn't plan on succumbing to the pressures of young Hollywood.
The star of the High School Musical franchise tells GQ magazine that at a recent Lakers game Leonardo DiCaprio warned him...
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Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens
High School Musical 3: Senior Year was the top of the class at the Kids' Choice Awards, taking home two trophies, including Favorite Movie.
"Lately, a lot of people have been taking credit for bringing back the musical," said Zac "Serious Actor" Efron while accepting the movie's trophy. "The truth is we've known who's been responsible for bringing back the musical all along. It was you guys!"
Efron's galpal and costar, Vanessa Hudgens, was named Favorite Female Movie Star.
After losing TV actress to bud Selena Gomez and animated voice to Jack Black, Miley Cyrus was ...
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Leonardo DiCaprio by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
Leonardo DiCaprios production company Appian Way and Warner Bros are on the lookout for material for a feature-length spin on the classic TV series The Twilight ZoneAccording to The Hollywood Reporter the studio and production company are quietly seeking out pitches and scripts for development However rather than follow the formula of the last big-screen attempt in 1983 which served as a remake of three episodes the companies hope to build one continuing storyline based on one or more of the old episodesWarner Bros owns the rights to the episodes written by Rod Serling which makes up the majority of the series five-year run Other attempts to update the show include CBS 1994 TV movie and a short-lived series on UPN in 2002 DiCaprios interest is most likely based on the fact that he has cited The Twilight Zone as his favorite show Are you ready to get in the Zone Adam Bryant
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Christian Bale by Alexandra Wyman/WireImage.com
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins — which kicks off a new Terminator film series — has secured international distro from Sony. With McG at the helm and Christian Bale as John Connor, Salvation arrives May 22, 2009, right alongside Night at the Museum II.... Prison Breaker Robert Knepper's set to join Transporter 3, the next installment of the action-packed series.... Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are headed for Europe — or at least their upcoming movie, Shutters, is, thanks to some deals with Euro distributors. DiCaprio will be joined by Michelle Williams and Mark Ruffalo in the thriller, which starts lensing in March. — Anna Dimond
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Megan Fox by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Transformers' Megan Fox is a cheerleader with a perfect life who becomes possessed and begins killing local lads in Jennifer's Body, a thriller fancied as Heathers meets Beetlejuice.... Also per the Reporter, Hidden Palms' Amber Heard is a sexually promiscuous woman in 1980s L.A. in The Informers, based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel.... Julia Stiles stars opposite Paddy Considine and Scott Speedman in the thriller Cry of the Owl..... Per Variety, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reteam next year for Shutter Island, an adaptation of the Denis Lehane novel about a U.S. Marshal investigating an heiress' vanishing.... Toby Wilkins (Splinter) will direct The Grudge 3.
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George Clooney courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
George Clooney is in talks to direct Leonardo DiCaprio in Farragut North, an adaptation of an upcoming Broadway play loosely based on Howard Dean's 2004! Presidential! Election! Campaign!.... Also per Variety, Tobe Hooper will direct a feature film take on Stephen King's From a Buick 8 (shop Amazon).... Will Smith is a global media mogul in Empire, a drama to be helmed by Michael Mann.... Director Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket) will take Will Ferrell to the Land of the Lost, Sleestaks and all, in the big-screen redo of the children's TV series, says Reuters.
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Ryan Phillippe courtesy Universal Pictures
According to the Reporter, Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish (hmmm...) and Sean Bean have boarded Last Battle Dreamer, a Viking epic pegged as "a love story written in fire and blood" — just like my blog!.... Leonardo DiCaprio is circling producer Scott Rudin's forthcoming adaptation of the Robert Graves novel I, Claudius.... Per Variety, Jeff Daniels and Neal McDonough have joined Traitor, an espionage thriller starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce.... Christini Ricci's oft-postponed Penelope will premiere her profound proboscis on Feb. 1, 2008.
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Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson courtesy ThinkFilm
Half Nelson's Ryan Gosling will play husband to Rachel Weisz (and thus the father of a murdered girl) in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones.... Twelve years after they worked together on The Quick and the Dead, Russell Crowe may play the boss of Leonardo DiCaprio's idealistic CIA agent in Body of Lies, a spy thriller helmed by Ridley Scott.... Per Variety, Mena Suvari is a wife who tests her war-pilot-turned-writer-husband's devotion in unusual ways — inviting a young Italian beauty into their bedroom, even — in The Garden of Eden, based on the Ernest Hemingway novel.
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The unsinkable Molly Brown is teaming up once again with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for the upcoming Sam Mendes drama Revolutionary Road, about a 1950s couple whose relationship devolves into one that sounds an awful lot like Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's. Unreliable sources say Billy Zane was considered for a role, too, but the furniture on the set was so nice, they didn't want the scenery getting chewed. In other movie news, Kevin Bacon has agreed to accept the lead in HBO's Taking Chance, the true story of the military man who escorted the body of a Marine, Chance Phelps, a casualty of Iraq, back to his Wyoming hometown in 2004. Here's hoping he insists on a name change for the project. Is it just me, or does the one they have sound alternately corny as hell and vaguely porny?
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) will portray Thomas Kinkade in The Christmas Cottage, the first of three planned films inspired by the painter and his works.... Per Variety, Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta and Sean Penn will star in Crossing Over, a drama about illegal immigration.... Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in an adaptation of the David Ignatius novel Body of Lies. Ridley Scott will direct.... Larry the Cable Guy is a small-town sheriff in Witless Protection, costarring Ivana Milicevic (Love Monkey), Peter Stormare (Prison Break) and Joe Montegna.
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