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Following the modest success of the first movie, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightening Thief, the sequel is finally moving forward with Logan Lerman set to reprise his role as the title hero.

The 19 year-old actor has had his option picked up by the studio (he is contracted for three Percy films with Fox 2000) and will have a new director for this film. Thor Freudenthal who helmed Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes over from Chris Columbus and new writers have been brought on board for the script for Percy Jackson & The Sea of Monsters, the second book in the series by Rick Riordan.

Lerman is currently finishing work on The Perks of Being A Wallflower with Emma Watson and Nina Dobrev in Pennsylvania and has The Three Musketeers coming out in October.

Lining up another role in yet another crazy popular teen book series, Jamie Campbell Bower takes on the next big thing: The Mortal Instruments.

Bower, who is Caius in the Twilight series and Grindelwald in the final two Harry Potter movies, now owns the role of Shadowhunter Jace Wyland in the film based on the Cassandra Clare novels.

The 22 year-old will star opposite Lily Collins, who was cast months ago as Clary Fray.

While the fan favorite, Alex Pettyfer, apparently turned the role down, Bowers casting is causing lots of upset among fans.

Remember no one liked Robert Pattinson for Edward Cullen or Jennifer Lawrence for Katniss Everdeen either. That alone puts Jamie in good company.

Kristen Stewart fantasy fairy tale film has finally found it’s leading man.

The upcoming Snow White and The Huntsman has gone through a few possible actors to fill the role (Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman) but Thor star Chris Hemsworth has grabbed up the role of Eric the Huntsman.

Hemsworth will be a bounty hunter working for Ravenna, the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron) who needs Snow White (Stewart) killed to remain fairest in the land. When Eric learns of the Queen’s involvement in his own wife’s death, he helps Snow escape and trains her to fight back.

The film is scheduled to be released in December of 2012.

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Kellan Lutz may have to endure a long layover with Camilla Belle for their next movie.

Both stars are in negotiations to join the indie drama/comedy ensemble cast of Bumped, a film about five strangers who come together over a very long flight delay set at Chicago’s O’Hare airport.

Kellan attended the Victoria’s Secret 6th Annual What Is Sexy List: Bombshell Summer Edition party at The Beverly in Los Angeles on Thursday (May 12th) night.

Lutz’ costar, Ashley Greene was named Facebook Fans’ Choice: Sexiest Tweeter at the event, but it was Lutz who looked super hot.

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“Sucker Punch” star Vanessa Hudgens is currently in negotiations to play a pregnant homeless teen in a new indie drama called “Gimme Shelter” also starring Brendan Fraser. The 22 year-old actress sees this as THE opportunity to get rid of her High School Musical image.

The role of the pregnant teen, who escapes an abusive mother and is rejected by her own father, is purely dramatic. When the teen refuses to abort, her father throws her out. Vanessa is left on the streets homeless and expecting her first child.

Brendan Fraser is expected to play the role of her insensitive father in the movie directed by Ron Krauss.

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I hope she brings a sweater because Keke Palmer is heading to the Ice Age.

The 17 year-old is among the voice talent cast for the fourth film Ice Age: Continental Drift. Palmer joins the existing cast of Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Josh Peck and John Leguizamo .

But she isn’t the only new cast member. Jennifer Lopez, Aziz Anzari, Wanda Sykes, Jeremy Renner and Drake are all hoping on the animated train. It is scheduled for release on July 13, 2012.

Palmer’s character is “Peaches” the daughter of Ellie (Latifah.)

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Blake Lively is joining some Hollywood heavyweights for her next film.

The 24 year-old actress has joined director Oliver Stone’s film Savages, based on the novel by Don Winslow. By accepting this part, Lively cannot take the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Oz: The Great and Powerful, which she was considering. Both are scheduled to begin shooting in June.

In the film the Gossip Girl actress will play Ophelia, the girlfriend and accomplice of two local, small time California marijuana dealers who try to stay under the radar of the big drug cartels. Ophelia is eventually kidnapped and held for ransom.

John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Taylor Kitsch, Benicio del Toro and Salma Hayek are just some of the big names attached to this project with a few roles still left to cast.

Logan Lerman is grabbing another movie lead.

The 19 year-old has signed on to star in The Only Living Boy in New York, directed by Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses.)

The movie is described as “a twisted coming-of-age tale in which a young man (Lerman) learns that his overbearing father is having an affair. The son tries to stop it, only to become involved with the woman as well.”

Lerman will start filming this shortly after he finishes The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which just added The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev to the cast with Emma Watson and Mae Whitman already on board.

The Percy Jackson star is also in the summer release The Three Musketeers and said this film adaptation is “badass.”

“It’s much more badass,” he said. “We definitely wanted to up the action, and give it a cooler spin. A well deserved cooler spin. This is nothing that anyone’s going to expect when thinking about the long line of D’Artagnans, and how much older they were than the character is.”

Hot new young actors, Dayo Okeniyi and Amandla Stenberg, have been cast for the roles of Thresh and Rue, the District 11 tributes, in the movie adaptation of “The Hunger Games” triology by Suzanne Collins.

Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Join The Hunger Games

In the “The Hunger Games”, Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death. The boy and girl representing District 12, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, have already been chosen – Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are the big stars of the movie!

You can follow The Hunger Games casting progress in the movie’s official Tributes Casting Tab on Facebook. “The Hunger Games” will hit theaters on March 23, 2012.

Nina Dobrev has landed a role in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The Vampire Diaries actress is joining Logan Lerman and Emma Watson for the adaptation of the book by author Stephen Chbosky, according to Deadline.

Dobrev, 21, will play Candace, while Logan is Charlie and Watson has the role of Sam.

The book is consistently challenged in many libraries across the U.S. for it’s themes of drug use, sex, homosexuality, child abuse and suicide according to the American Library Association.

Nina has just wrapped season 2 of The Vampire Diaries and is expected to start filming this soon, on her summer break from TVD. She also stars in The Killing Game with Kellan Lutz, due out later this year.