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Who you get stuck with at college for a roommate gets a creepy spin in The Roommate.

Leighton Meester is Rebecca, the unbalanced new roomie Minka Kelly’s Sarah gets to share her living space with. The two start off friendly but Rebecca takes it to Single White Female level and begins to try eliminate Sarah’s other friends played by Aly Michalka and Cam Gigandet.

The Roommate also stars Katerina Graham, Frances Fisher and Matt Lanter and opens February 4th.

Check out the new featurette below to hear the actors talk about their new film.

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Lily Collins has grabbed up a role in big screen adaptation of YA novel City Of Bones. The Blind Side actress has just landed the deal to star in the film that Scott Charles Stewart will direct. Stewart and Collins have worked together before on the clergyman- turned-vampire-hunter movie Priest, starring Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet.

While the original article doesn’t say specifically which role she has (it says only “set to star”) I believe that means Collins will have the Clary Fray role (not Isabella Lightwood.) She definitely fits the physical description of Clary – 15 year old, red hair and freckles – more than Isabella.

Along with Priest, Collins also has Abduction with Taylor Lautner coming out in 2011.

I love Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series and look forward to more casting on this.

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She’s one of the most fashionable young actresses so it makes sense for Leighton Meester to consider designing her own line of clothing and accessories.

“The more I think about it the more it sounds like something I would want to do,” she tells us. “I don’t know if it’d be any time soon but I’d really like to work on a collaboration with somebody – I always have ideas for stuff like that. The problem is I always have so much admiration for so many designers and for so many different styles, it’d difficult to hone in on just one look but why not?”

Counting Audrey Hepburn, Helen Mirren and Cate Blanchett as women whose style sense she admires, Meester looks at each for inspiration.

The Gossip Girl actress has a number of films coming out next year: Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow, The Oranges with Hugh Laurie, The Roommate with Minka Kelly and Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez so she will have to squeeze in a fashion collaboration but she would have a great point of view to work from.

Creepily obsessed and all out psycho, actress Leighton Meester is giving the audience one scary moment after the other in the first trailer for her movie The Roommate. Cast as crazy Rebecca who ends up rooming with clueless Sara (Minka Kelly) Meester just loses it and rips out a belly button ring (Aly Michalka’s) sets a guy on fire and is just plain Single White Female nutso. Cam Gigandet, Matt Lanter and Katerina Graham co-star in the thriller due February 4, 2011.

Check out the deranged insanity below.

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Emma Stone’s latest movie Easy A is gaining momentum and buzz as it nears it’s opening weekend of September 17th. Stone plays Olive, a high school girl who uses the rumor mill to gain popularity but it begins to backfire on her. Check this new featurette out with Stone, Penn Badgley, Stanley Tucci, Amanda Bynes and director Will Gluck as they give you the scoop on their film.

Can’t wait for this – Tucci and Stone play off each other so well and are so at ease as father and daughter.

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Easy A looks like it will be easy to love. Emma Stone finds her inner bad girl, rocks a bustier, exhibits serious ‘tude and lets it all fly in this new clip MTV has posted.

Easy is about Olive Penderghast (Stone) who’s reputation hits the gutter thanks to the high school rumor mill. Olive is reading The Scarlet Letter and decides to own her new infamy and adopts the red letter “A” on her clothes. She makes it her mission to use the negativity to her advantage.

Easy A costars Amanda Bynes, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka and Penn Badgley and hits September 17th.

Australian magazine Girlfriend nabbed Leighton Meester for the cover of the August 2010 edition.  For the issue, Meester gave the mag some of her personal philosophies on how to be your happiest:

Be Natural: “I never wear make-up when I’m not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I’ve grown to really love the way I look without it.”

Have Priorities: “I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anyone. Honestly, all I ever do is work. ”

Resist the Pressure: “I am this way and that’s it. I’ve never been under pressure to lose weight – if I want to eat chocolate, I will.”

She’s certainly right about her work ethic. The actress, who just wrapped filming the movie Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez and Cory Monteith, is currently working in New York on the new season of her hit TV show Gossip Girl. She has a ton of big screen projects for release next year, including The Roommate with Cam Gigandet (my personal fave ex-vampire) and The Oranges with Hugh Laurie.

See the scans for more Leighton goodness here.

Bandslam’s Aly Michalka is joining the brand new show Hellcats that will air this fall on the CW. The 78violet singer is joining Gail O’Grady (Desperate Housewives, NYPD Blue) in the drama.

A drama set in the world of competitive college cheerleading. The former [Michalka] will play Marty Berger (“wicked smart, an acerbic outsider”), a student at Memphis’ Lancer University who’s forced to try out for the Hellcats – the college’s competitive cheerleading team – after she loses her scholarship. O’Grady will play her mother Wanda who tends bar at a rathskeller type snack bar on campus that serves food and drinks.

Aly’s also part of the 2011 movie ensemble cast for The Roommate, staring Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet and Katerina Graham.

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Filming for their upcoming movie Burlesque, Cam Gigandet and Christina Aguilera are snapped looking so very stylish on a motorcycle on the streets of Los Angeles. The duo are part of the all star cast, including Cher, Kristen Bell, Julianne Hough, Alan Cummings and Eric Dane.

Gigandet has professed his love of cycles before as he spent quite a bit of time on one while filming Priest.

Burlesque is currently shooting hoping for a November 2010 release.

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If you haven’t started watching The Vampire Diaries, what are you waiting for? The CW Network has a juicy hit on their hands and has extended the show another 9 episodes for the year. With all the deaths of the peripheral characters, there has to be an injection of fresh blood (pun intended!) for the thirsty Damon (played so deliciously by Ian Somerhalder) to snack on.

Enter Sean Faris and Malese Jow as new additions to the cast.

EW.com is reporting Faris will be a buddy of Matt’s (Zach Roerig) who will bartend at the only place in town where everyone goes, Mystic Grill. A possible romance/hook-up could be in the future for Faris’s character Ben. Sean also starred with another former vampire, Cam Gigandet, in the flick Never Back Down.

TVGuide.com says Jeremy (Stephen R. McQueen) will get a gorgeous friend in newcomer Malese Jow. Jow will play Anna and give Jeremy some friendship, comfort and perhaps something more. The pair are expected to uncover a mystery. Jow is no stranger to TV with roles in Unfabulous with Emma Roberts, Hannah Montana with Miley Cyrus and iCarly with Miranda Cosgrove.

Love love love The Vampire Diaries.

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