Ansel Elgort Is Augustus Waters in "The Fault in Our Stars" Opposite Shailene Woodley

From siblings to star-crossed lovers! EW reports rising star Ansel Elgort has been offered the male lead in "The Fault in Our Stars" opposite Shailene Woodley - who plays his sister in the currently-filming dystopian adaptation "Divergent." The two Read more

Dylan O'Brien Lands "The Maze Runner" Lead; Ki Hong Lee Also Joins

UPDATE: Director Wes Ball tweets that Ki Hong Lee has also joined the cast as Minho, a fellow Glader and ally to Thomas throughout the series. Lee is probably best known as a regular on short-lived ABC Family Read more

Shailene Woodley Confirmed for "The Fault in Our Stars"

I mean, duh, we called it. It has now been officially confirmed with glowing quotes from director, producer and author in tow that the increasingly in demand Shailene Woodley will play the lead role of Hazel Grace Lancaster Read more

Up and Comers Presents: 20 Faces to Watch in 2013

After a somewhat unpredictable year in which the stars we expected to break out largely didn't but fresh faces came out of nowhere to surprise us all, we are ready to look ahead to the new talent waiting to Read more

Up and Comers Presents: The Breakout Stars of 2012

Another year, another new crop of fresh talent. Just like last year, the hardest part is narrowing down which of the dozens of the year's rising stars shone the brightest. This year we heralded the arrival of the unlikeliest Read more
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“Friday Night Lights” star Adrianne Palicki travels to “Coffee Town”

February 20, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

Adrianne Palicki is moving to “Coffee Town.” Variety reports the “Friday Night Lights” actress and almost Wonder Woman has landed the female lead in CollegeHumor’s first foray into feature films and will join a cast that already includes Glenn Howerton, Ben Schwartz, Steve Little and Josh Groban in the workplace comedy.

Brad Copeland wrote and will make his feature directorial debut on the film, which follows three friends “who band together when their freeloading existence is threatened.” Palicki plays Howerton’s love interest, a coffee-loving nurse. Filming is set to begin this week in Los Angeles.

Palicki won audiences’ hearts as troubled hometown girl Tyra on critically acclaimed NBC series “Friday Night Lights”, which is churning out some potential movie stars in the likes of Taylor Kitsch and Kyle Chandler. Palicki, though, seemed to have some trouble finding her breakout role, though movies like “Legion” and the titular role on a reboot “Wonder Woman” series had potential. She recently completed the female lead of Lady Jaye in “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”, out this summer, so here’s hoping this one will stick.

“Social Network” star Joe Mazzello joins Channing Tatum and Adrianne Palicki in “G.I. Joe 2″

July 26, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

Joe Mazzello is reporting for duty. The actor has won the coveted role of Mouse in “G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes”, according to Deadline, a part that “a lot of young guys wanted.” He will join returning “G.I. Joe” stars Channing Tatum and Ray Park and fellow newbies Adrianne Palicki, DJ Cotrona and Dwayne Johnson in the sequel to the 2009 summer actioner based on the classic Hasbro army toys. Earlier reports indicated Paramount was courting the likes of Bruce Willis for the title role of G.I. Joe.

“Cobra Strikes” is being fast-tracked to fill a blockbuster void that existed in Paramount’s 2012 summer schedule. A report earlier this month from What’s Playing shed some light on the character of Mouse, who originated from the Sgt. Savage and Screaming Eagles series of toys. Said to be an 18-year-old Southern charmer with a pivotal role in the film, one casting agent was quoted as saying “the role would be Taylor Kitsch’s had he been just a spot younger” and the character is being used as a way to entice young teenage girls to the flick. You go, Dustin Moskovitz!

Mazzello was known to most audiences as “the kid from Jurassic Park” but has grown up to have a pretty successful career, as part of the ensemble cast of HBO’s Emmy-award winning wartime mini-series “The Pacific” and most notably as the aforementioned Dustin Moskovitz, nerdy roommate to Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg and computer programmer for Facebook in David Fincher’s modern masterpiece “The Social Network.”

Adrianne Palicki is female lead Lady Jaye in “G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes”

July 4, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

“Friday Night Lights” star Adrianne Palicki has scored the female lead in one of those sequels no one really wants, “G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes”, reports Deadline. Dwayne Johnson and D.J. Cotrona also recently signed on and the three newbies will join returning cast members Channing Tatum and Ray Park as Duke and Snake Eyes, respectively. Other cast members from 2009′s “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marlon Wayans and Rachel Nichols, are not expected to reprise their roles. As for G.I. Joe himself, the studio is said to be eyeing Bruce Willis, among others.

Palicki’s Alison R. Hart-Burnett – codename Lady Jaye – was originally created for the 1984 “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero” animated series and is the team’s covert operations specialist. She shares a romantic relationship with Dashiell R. Faireborn – aka Flint – who is the Warrant Officer for the G.I. Joe Team and will be portrayed by Cotrona in “Cobra Strikes”. Paramount greenlit and fast-tracked the sequel despite lukewarm critical and box office response to “Rise of Cobra” because a blockbuster void existed for the studio for Summer 2011, with JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek” sequel deemed not ready in time. “Cobra Strikes” and Brad Pitt zombie apocalypse thriller “World War Z” will be the studio’s current offerings.

After a critically acclaimed run as troubled high schooler Tyra on NBC series “Friday Night Lights”, Palicki had trouble finding a breakout role. “Legion” underperformed, ambitious Fox series “Lone Star” was canceled after just two episodes and despite heavy buzz, her title role in the new “Wonder Woman” was never picked up by NBC, suspected to be due in large part to negative reactions to the updated costume and the remake of “Red Dawn” may never see a release at this rate. Will “Cobra Strikes” be the big breakout franchise moment for Palicki? We have our doubts, but are hopeful.

Now that Henry Cavill is Superman, who should play Lois Lane? Ten names for your consideration

January 31, 2011 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting, Features 33 Comments

Since Zack Snyder is obviously peeking in on us, as our choices for Clark Kent were eerily similar to his finalists (including eventual winner Henry Cavill), we thought it would only be fair to Mr Snyder if we help him out and offer up our choices for Clark’s partner in love and banter, Lois Lane, as well. Given the disappointing limp and boring Lois played by Kate Bosworth in Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns”, here are ten actresses who we think will put zingy, spitfire and intelligent back into the iconic role in Snyder’s reboot.

Sure, we, too, love the universally popular choices like Emily Blunt, Olivia Wilde and Anne Hathaway (who’s undoubtedly unavailable now), but we want to present some more unconventional or even conventional but maybe you wouldn’t have thought of choices, as it’s always our goal to look ahead to who’s “next”. Of course there is the matter of how Snyder envisions the character, as even in the decades of comics appearances, she’s gone through various incarnations that see her range from take-charge ass-kicker to damsel in distress. No matter how Snyder chooses to “re-imagine” his Metropolis, there’s plenty of variety in our choices for Lois to choose from, while all maintaining the smart and sassy reporter at the heart of the character.

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First Cast Photo: ‘Red Dawn’

January 4, 2011 | Posted by Tamara Manne in Images Leave a comment

Here is the first cast photo from Red Dawn. Cast includes: Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Josh Hutcherson (RV), Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights), Isabel Lucas (Daybreakers), Josh Peck (Drillbit Taylor), Edwin Hodge, Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Losers), Alyssa Diaz, and Connor Cruise.

While the title remains the same, some significant changes to the film have been made, including setting and two additional characters among the “Wolverines” (a title the group of tough teenagers have taken on). In the 1984 version, starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, the “Wolverines” defended their town from Russian invaders. In the remake, the threat comes from China — a script change that met early controversy. The Daily Blam reports that the film drew “sharp criticism from one of the leading Chinese state-run newspapers; which ran headlines such as ‘U.S. reshoots Cold War movie to demonize China’ and ‘American movie plants hostile seeds against China’.”

How will 2011′s Red Dawn stack up to the original, a film that found itself in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records for most violent film ever made?