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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.

Hayden Panettiere turned up in New York City over the weekend for the Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil family screening. The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival held the special showing at the Clearview Cinemas Chelsea on Saturday, April 23rd.

The Scream 4 actress arrived in a floral print, silk chiffon Julien MacDonald dress with orange overlay and shredded hemline for the event, which she paired with a dark toffee colored leather jacket.

The 21 year-old told Entertainment Tonight that her character in the animated film, Red Riding Hood, is a “kick-butt version” of the classic fairytale heroine.

In this movie, Red ends up investigating the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel and Panettiere said the film has everything that’s popular in film today.

“There’s inherent drama and a female protaganist and woods and wolves. I think that describes like 80-percent of the movies that most teenagers are into these days.”

Except vampires…

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Emma Roberts walked the red carpet for the premiere of Scream 4 held at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Monday, April 11th.

The actress was cheery in her blue Burberry Prorsum textured, racer back dress and Elie Saab black platforms.

The 20 year-old appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and confessed to kids teasing her because of her unibrow.

“I had a unibrow for a lot of my childhood,” Roberts said. “I remember I was in kindergarten then and I came home one day and I was like, ‘Mom, What’s a unibrow?’ because this boy kept calling me unibrow all day.”

She said her mother felt bad and told her that someday she’d take her to get it waxed! Poor Emma.

Emma’s Homework costar, Freddie Highmore also hit the premiere.

More photos of the non-unibrow Emma and Freddie are under. Read more »

Gossip Girl actress Jessica Szohr has landed on the cover of ASOS magazine for the November 2010 edition. She is striking on the front in the black and silver draped dress and slightly messy ‘do. The beautiful Szohr tells the fashion magazine about her own style, insisting she is far more comfortable dressed down than in the glamorous clothing of her GG character Vanessa:

“At heart, I’m still a simple jeans and T-shirt kind of girl,” Szohr admits, whose personal style mixes designer items with pieces picked up at vintage shops and small boutiques. When questioned about her favorite wardrobe on set Jessica confesses, “From the show, I’d choose Jenny Humphrey’s (Taylor Momsen) style. Its grungy, rock n’ roll, looks thrown together, doesn’t look super glam.”

Szohr has her hands full with a new movie. She will costar with Joseph Cross (from Running With Scissors and Milk) in Art Machine, a film about “a child-prodigy painter (Cross) on the verge of turning 18 who is suffering from bipolar disorder and needs to come up with an art show to end all art shows. When he meets a group of artist-anarchists, his world turns upside down. Szohr plays one of the outlaw hipsters, a pyrotechnic artist who is attracted to the prodigy, but as his manic madness grows, she becomes concerned for his safety.”

Check out more photos of Szohr’s photo shoot for ASOS below. Read more »

Valentine’s Day had the teen dream team pairing of Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift (Taylor Squared!) and now the movie’s sequel, New Year’s Eve, might just catch Bieber fever. That’s right girls, Justin Bieber’s name is being bandied about to make his movie debut in the upcoming rom-com with loads of stars. Director Garry Marshall is pretty clueless as to who this Bieber kid is:

“Already, they’re mentioning Justin Bieber,” he said about who will be cast. “I have no idea who that is, but I’m sure we’ll meet.”

Shooting will start in September, so someone should download a couple of songs for Marshall or you know, get the man an internet connection.

Camp Rock 2 actress Demi Lovato is happy to be working with her friends The Jonas Brothers again and is even more excited for Kevin Jonas and his upcoming wedding to Danielle Deleasa. Tiger Beat asked her if she knew what she was going to wear to the wedding:

“I feel like maybe I’ll wear a wedding gown and be like, ‘What’s up guys. Oh! This isn’t my wedding?’ I’m just kidding,” Demi joked to us, “I don’t know what I’ll wear.”

Now that is funny!

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Actor Shia LaBeouf is in New York City filming the sequel to the mega 80′s hit Wall Street. Here are some pics of him riding a motorcycle for the Oliver Stone directed pic. He looks sexy in his suit. Love the bemused look on the crew member in the background of a couple of these shots.

The movie Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps is due in theaters April 2010.

It must be a closed set as the actor does not have a license still due to an accident in 2008. I believe he cannot legally drive until somewhere around January of 2010.

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The cable channel Disney XD has scored a coup from rival Cartoon Network by landing rights to Naruto: Shippuden and will begin showing episodes in early October. The original series, Naruto, has been on Cartoon Network since 2005 and is wildly popular.

The Japanese anime is based on the manga written by Masashi Kishimoto and follows the story of Naruto Uzumaki as a tween. With the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside him, he strives to become the strongest ninja (Hokage) in his village. Shippuden picks up the story in the fictional universe with Naruto as a teenager. I’m looking forward to this.

Here is the official video for Demi Lovato’s song ‘Gift Of A Friend.’ From her album Here We Go Again, the tune is also featured on the DVD animated movie of Tinkerbell and The Lost Treasure from Walt Disney.

While out touring to promote her new album, ‘Here We Go Again,’ Demi Lovato gave an interview with Katie & Karleigh and dropped a couple of tidbits about Camp Rock 2 and the Teen Choice Awards. Enjoy!