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Ashley Tisdale Did Abs Workout On 'Scary Movie V' Set Between Takes

April 12th, 2013 8:05am EDT
Ashley Tisdale
Fresh off her revealing Maxim cover where everyone can see just how fit she is, Ashley Tisdale revealed to reporters that she doesn’t deprive herself of treats or work out like a maniac to get that figure. She stars in Scary Movie V, in which she even spoofs the starvation of ballerinas in Black Swan, but that’s just a joke.

“I love carbs,” Tisdale said. “Unless I have a scene coming up where I’m in not a lot, I definitely will be like watch what I eat, limit the carbs. But I work out and I eat whatever I like. I like pizza and I like ribs. I just feel like living a healthy lifestyle is ju...
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Mila Kunis Stops Being Naughty For New Kids Movie 'Oz The Great And Powerful'

March 6th, 2013 8:10pm EST
Mila Kunis at the Premiere of Oz
Mila Kunis is one of Hollywood’s most popular stars. As a beautiful sex symbol, she’s appeared in edgy dramas like Black Swan or raunchy comedies like Ted and Friends with Benefits, or the sitcom that gave her her start, “That ‘70s Show.” She’s about to double her popularity now that kids can see her latest film. Oz, the Great and Powerful is actually her first kids movie.

“You know what I realized while doing press for this, that this is the first film that I’ve ever done that kids are allowed to see,” Kunis said. “Yeah, laugh guys, it’s very tragic to me. I was like oh my God, this is th...
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Bruce Willis Combines Fatherhood And 'Die Hard'

February 14th, 2013 1:04pm EST
A Good Day to Die Hard
Bruce Willis is most famous for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard films. This week, the fifth film in the 25-year-old franchise hits theaters, and it combines his number one movie job with his number one real life job. Bruce Willis is also a father, and  features John McClane teaming up with his son Jack (Jai Courtney).

“It’s my favorite job, being a father,” Willis said. “I have four girls now. They’re a captive audience. They can’t really run away from you even if they don’t like your jokes. I just enjoy it. I love making my kids laugh and I still do the dumbest things in the worl...
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Katharine McPhee And Jennifer Hudson Never Talked 'Idol' On 'Smash'

February 5th, 2013 8:04pm EST
NBC's Smash
Smash returns for its second season tonight with special guest star Jennifer Hudson. Hudson is the second former American Idol to appear on Smash. The show stars Katharine McPhee as a regular, but McPhee said they never talked Idol when Hudson guested on Smash.

“It never came up, no,” McPhee told the Television Critics Association in January. “We just were there for something entirely separate from where we started. It’s not a natural thing that you’d think would just come up in conversation. I was happy to have her on the show and pretty much for most part we just did the work and then I ...
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Nicole Kidman Talks 'Stoker' And Being Directed Through A Translator At Sundance

January 29th, 2013 9:22am EST
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman’s new movie premiered at Sundance and Kidman took the stage for a Q&A with her costars in and the director of Stoker. Kidman plays a widow whose daughter (Mia Wasikowska) forms an unsettling bond with her visiting uncle (Matthew Goode).

“For me it was just a privilege,” Kidman told the crowd at Sundance. “I sat down with director Park [Chan-wook] and obviously I knew Oldboy and I knew Thirst. I was just very honored that he wanted me to do the film with him because it’s wonderful when you come in and the director has such a strong vision. You go, ‘I can relax’ because I’m goi...
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Stephenie Meyer Attends Premiere Of 'Austenland' As A Producer

January 28th, 2013 4:22pm EST
Stephenie Meyer
The Sundance Film Festival is always full of A-list celebrities walking the red carpets for their latest movies premiering at the high profile event. This year a unique, unexpected star took the stage. Stephenie Meyer is famous to millions for her Twilight books. Now she’s a movie producer and she spoke about the film Austenland on stage after its premiere. Based on the book by Shannon Hale, Austenland is a romantic comedy about a Jane Austen themed resort.

“This is a really amazing experience to get to take a book that I really loved and help make it real with a bunch of friends,” Meyer s...
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Jessica Biel Praises Female Director At Sundance Film Festival

January 21st, 2013 6:20pm EST
Jessica Biel at the Lincoln Square premiere of
Jessica Biel appeared at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her film Emmanuel and the Truth About Fishes, along with her costars and director Francesca Gregorini. During the Q&A after the film, Biel sung the praises of her director.

“To work with another woman is so exciting,” Biel said. “To work with a female director is just really exciting. It’s a unique thing. It does not happen very often.” 

Biel plays Linda, the neighbor of Emmanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who has a strange way of coping with motherhood. We won’t spoil it until the movie comes out, but you will definitely see a new si...
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Keri Russell Hid Her Pregnancy In Sundance Film 'Austenland'

January 21st, 2013 2:45pm EST
Austenland
Keri Russell took the stage at the Eccles theater, the largest venue at the Sundance Film Festival, for the premiere of her new movie Austenland. Her costars and director Jerusha Hess joined her. In the movie Russell plays a Jane Austen fan who goes to a Jane Austen resort to live out her fantasy. Russell avoided the mic in a Q&A that followed the premiere screening, but Hess told a funny story about her.

“I don’t know if this is secret, but Keri was a little bit pregnant during that movie,” Hess said. “You can tell by her bust line that it changes. It changes daily.”

As any proper Jane A...
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'Arrested Development' Cast Talks New Netflix Episodes At TCA

January 10th, 2013 1:00pm EST
Will Arnett, Portia De Rossi, Jason Bateman and Tony Hale
The Television Critics Association waited all week for the Arrested Development panel held by Netflix. In fact, they’ve been waiting six years since the Fox series was cancelled. The major rumor was the cast would reunite for a movie, but Netflix is putting on a 14 episode season of episodes. The difference is each episode will focus on one member of the Bluth family. That was the only way they could get the entire cast back.

“They have other commitments, they’re on other shows, they have other contractual obligations,” series creator Mitch Hurwitz explained. “Their lives have gone on so i...
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Nicki Minaj Reveals Her Favorite 'American Idol' Contestant

January 9th, 2013 5:02pm EST
Nicki Minaj at her Christmas Extravaganza
The new judges for American Idol met the Television Critics Association today. Nicki Minaj is one of three new judges replacing Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez, and though the show is only in audition stages, Minaj described one of her favorite acts.

“Nobody else thought she could sing,” Minaj said. “Big Crazy Baby, Obama girl. No one else thought she could sing and I kept on hearing she had potential. Everyone saw her as a crazy character and I can relate to that because when you have a crazy outgoing character, people don’t see your talent. By the time we were in Hollywood, they said, ‘Y...
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