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Beastly is the latest take on the Beauty and the Beast story based on the book by Alex Finn.

Here are eleven things you should know.

1.  It will make a sh*t-load of money when it opens July 30th.

2. The book has a huge fan base.  (Twilight version 2.0?)

 3. Alex Pettyfer doesn’t look too beastly and maintains his physique and killer abs after his character’s “transformation”.

4. There’s a lot of gratuitous shirtlessness in the trailer alone.

5. Alex Pettyfer is about to go A list.

6. Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) as well.

7. Mary Kate Olsen plays a witch (typecasting?) 

8. Neil Patrick Harris’ participation as a blind tutor ups the cool factor (and the studio hopes, adult ticket sales).

9. Fan-boys will undoubtedly feel threatened by the film (see #’s 3 -6)

10. The marketing and promotion machine for this juggernaut is already underway. 

11. Resistance is futile.

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… with extra shirtlessness!

If the acting roles dry up or Taylor Lautner gets bored of doing it (as if) he always has a ready made career as an underwear or A&F model to fall back on.

Haters to the left.

Update - Apparently, the buzzkills at Summit Entertainment have had the clip removed.  Boo.  Oh well, check out YouTube if you’re so inclined were it will undoubtedly re-appear again if it hasn’t already.

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Some fictional characters just don’t age as well as others.

Just when Captain America was sounding like it was going to lose some of it’s camp value, comes word via The Hollywood Reporter that Sebastian Stan (Kings, Gossip Girl, Hot Tub Time Machine) has been cast in the role of Bucky Barnes.

Who, you ask?

In the comics, “Bucky Barnes” was Robin to Captain America’s Batman, so to speak.

Originating during WWII, the comics portrayed Bucky as a war orphan too young to join the army, but who became Captain America’s sidekick when he discoverd the hero’s true identity.  The character was killed off in the final WWII adventure, but was ressurected in 2005 as a covert assassin re-named Winter Solider.

No word which version of Bucky Barnes (here’s hoping they tweak the name) producers are going with, but Stan has been signed on to be in six films.  Early confidence in a property is always a good sign.

Just as long as we don’t end up with another Batman & Robin or Batman Forever (shudder).

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore….

Looks like Stephenie Meyer isn’t quite done with The Twilight Saga after all.

Three weeks prior to the movie, an addition to Eclipse is being released on June 5 that follows one of the vampires that Victoria creates in her quest for revenge on Bella and Edward.

Meyer says this one is for her bank account the fans.  Apparently, the story evolved from an exercise the author did in exploring some of the darker elements that appeared in Eclipse into a 192 page novella.

Blatant cash grab or not, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is destined to be one of the top selling books of the summer, if not the year.

Haters to the left.

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World shrugs, continues to spin, as general population gives a collective “Well, duh” look,  tells Ricky to go get his bronze medal and go stand beside Clay Aiken (gold) and Sean Hayes (silver).

The one time Menudo member and Living a Vida Loca solo artist announced via  his website in an extremely long, drawn out, and overly wordy statement that he is in fact “a fortunate homosexual man”.

Quite a change in attitude from this answer Ricky gave back when his career was on fire, ”If I were gay, why not admit it?…I am a normal man. I love women and sex. I am a real hot-blooded Puerto Rican, but I have never been attracted by sex with a man“.

As the Ladies Auxiliary gasps in horror and clutches their pearls, you should know that this epiphany came as a result of Ricky realizing that his career, which isn’t what it once was, won’t be at risk being in the process of writing his memoirs. 

Too bad this earth shattering news wasn’t made in 1999 or 2000 when someone (anyone) would still be surprised.

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The screenwriter that was responsible for the epic fail that was Battlefield Earth has apologized for his involvement in it.  Sort of.

Like many guys, JD Shapiro thinks with his dick (or as he calls it, Willy Wonka).  Apparently, “Willy” decided the Scientology Centre in LA would be a great place to meet closet caseswomen, so off they went, looking to get laid.   He ended up meeting the grand poo-bah of the centre who introduced him to John Travolta.  Travolta had JD read Battlefield Earth, who agreed to come up with a script to take to the studios.

Alas, for sci-fi geeks, film goers, and the human race in general, what JD came up with was not what ended up on screen. 

“My script was very, VERY different than what ended up on the screen. My screenplay was darker, grittier and had a very compelling story with rich characters. What my screenplay didn’t have was slow motion at every turn, Dutch tilts, campy dialogue, aliens in KISS boots, and everyone wearing Bob Marley wigs.”

Meh.  Considering that JD calls his penis Willy Wonka, perhaps it’s just as well this endeavor pretty much torpedoed his career as a screenwriter.

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Haters to the left.

Looking pretty much like the previous posters for the last movie, this new one with the three leads looking like, all serious or whatever with an air of forebrooding or some junk was released by Summit Entertainment today.

“It all begins with a choice” June 30th. 

Ooooooooo – foreshadowing!

Is it just me or does Taylor Lautner look ultra tanned here?

Does anyone else notice that Sparkles looks markedly different than he did in the first film?  Now he looks like Rob Pattinson in white makeup and red lip-gloss.  No wonder the hardcore Twilight fanatics are having a hard time separating the actor from the character. 

Pattinson’s going to spend the foreseeable future trying to prove/demonstate that he’s not Edward Cullen.  Does  this make Robert Pattinson the new Leonard Nimoy?  Discuss!

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Bad news for fans of butterflies, cherubs, rainbows, unicorns, and glitter.

Mariah Carey’s remix version of her last album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (I can’t even type that without rolling my eyes), called Angel’s Advocate, has been scrapped by Island Def Jam. 

Looks like the suits at Mimi’s label felt there wasn’t enough interest in the source material to warrant a remix album. 

Uh-oh. 

Mimi is not going to take this lying down.  Expect lots of diva type antics in the foreseeable future until she feels she’s asserted herself appropriately.  Nick Canon, be afraid.  Be very afraid.

As for the music itself, word is Mariah is already in the studio working on new material of some sort, while the existing tracks for Angel’s Advocate will eventually see the light of day via iTunes for downloading.

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One of those deleted scenes that aren’t on the DVD for New Moon has found it’s way to You Tube (at least for the time being). 

In it, Victoria (played by Rachelle LeFevre who was sacked due to scheduling conflicts and replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the upcoming third film) gets nostalgic about her slain lover James, to a literally captive audience. 

Too bad it was cut, villians always make movies more entertaining.

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Is it just me or does the song seem like it’s been out forever already?

Anyhoodle, yesterday Lady Gaga released the video for Telephone, featuring Beyonce and in doing so seems to have put those “is she a hermaphrodite?” rumours to rest.  At least for the time being. 

If you have about ten minutes to kill, you should check it out.

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