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Take Me Home Tonight Star Teresa Palmer on the ’80s, and Emulating Angelina Jolie

It’s already shaping up to be a huge year for Teresa Palmer. Last month, the Australian actress kicked serious alien ass as a mystery assassin in the Michael Bay-produced I Am Number Four , and was rumored to be dating Zac Efron. This weekend, Palmer officially emerges from the shadows of her Twilight doppelgänger Kristen Stewart with her leading role in the 80’s romantic comedy Take Me Home Tonight co-starring Topher Grace.

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Take Me Home Tonight Star Teresa Palmer on the ’80s, and Emulating Angelina Jolie

Alex Pettyfer on I Am Number Four, Beastly and the Magic of Cinematic Sweat

It is an exciting time for Alex Pettyfer. Based on the box office performance of his first big budget film, I Am Number Four — which premieres tomorrow — the 20-year-old English model-turned-thesp could join Robert Pattinson in the ranks of hunky, tortured heartthrobs. Like Pattinson’s Twilight character, Pettyfer plays a sensitive-yet-inhuman high school student at once trying to fit in, overcome supernatural obstacles, and win the heart of his mortal crush (played by Pettyfer’s real-life-girlfriend Dianna Agron). And with the sci-fi thriller’s all-star pedigree — D.J. Caruso directed while Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay produced — I Am Number Four is indeed poised to carry the handsome Pettyfer from verge to vampire-level popularity.

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Alex Pettyfer on I Am Number Four, Beastly and the Magic of Cinematic Sweat

Anne Heche on Cedar Rapids, Religion, Midwestern Women and Turning Down Speed

Anne Heche is happy. Or relatively happy. At least that’s how she seems upon first meeting her — a brimming, enthusiastic counterpoint to her well-documented less happy times that you know will come up at some point in your conversation. Indeed, talking about past choices and decisions, she refers to herself as an “unguided soul” and expresses hope that she’s matured over the years. And while it’s impossible, over the short time we had discussing the intricacies of her new comedy Cedar Rapids , to make any grand conclusions of maturity, there’s definitely an energy level surrounding Heche that would be hard to simulate for a woman who wasn’t totally at ease with who she is — and who she was.

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Anne Heche on Cedar Rapids, Religion, Midwestern Women and Turning Down Speed

WTF: Latest Still From Breaking Dawn Features Sand, Paper Lanterns

Oh, for the days when a new Twilight still meant some butter-colored sex . To take advantage of Valentine’s Day — or maybe to throw bloggers a bone on a slow news day — Summit Entertainment has released another image from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn . Does it include a shirtless Taylor Lautner? More Bella-Edward baby making? Perhaps a glimpse at the Volturi or Baby Renesmee? Nope! Just a — well, why don’t you click ahead to see for yourself.

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WTF: Latest Still From Breaking Dawn Features Sand, Paper Lanterns

Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

The startling beauty of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated True Grit — and in most Coen brothers films, for that matter — owes to frequent collaborator and award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, who’s lensed all but one of their films since 1991’s Barton Fink . But as much as the nostalgic Western serves as a throwback to simpler times, simpler heroes (and heroines), and a yearning to stick to one’s principles in the face of obsolescence, True Grit could also mark a wistful point in Deakins career — his last film shot on film.

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Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

The startling beauty of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated True Grit — and in most Coen brothers films, for that matter — owes to frequent collaborator and award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, who’s lensed all but one of their films since 1991’s Barton Fink . But as much as the nostalgic Western serves as a throwback to simpler times, simpler heroes (and heroines), and a yearning to stick to one’s principles in the face of obsolescence, True Grit could also mark a wistful point in Deakins career — his last film shot on film.

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Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

Ed Helms on Cedar Rapids, a ‘Big’ Hangover II Spoiler and Sleeping with Ellen Ripley

Ed Helms is noticeably more anxious than the last time we spoke. In 2009, Helms was promoting his supporting role in a little film The Hangover — a film which you’ll recall went on to become the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all-time. Back then, Helms was just a co-star; now he’s both the lead and executive producer on Cedar Rapids , a Sundance favorite about a mild-mannered insurance man from Wisconsin who heads to Cedar Rapids and has more than a few life-changing experiences. As the saying goes, “What happens in Cedar Rapids, stays in Cedar Rapids.”

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Ed Helms on Cedar Rapids, a ‘Big’ Hangover II Spoiler and Sleeping with Ellen Ripley

Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this humpday edition of The Broadsheet: Ryan Murphy has some choice words for Kings of Leon… J. Edgar finds its icy blonde… a new Oscar nominee is also a new father… and more ahead.

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Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Michelle Williams

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Actress Oscar nominee Michelle Williams!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Michelle Williams

The Mechanic’s Ben Foster on Gun Porn, Producing and Pedophile-Baiting

One look at the gun-crazy poster for The Mechanic and you know what you’re in for with this week’s hit-man thriller: Lots and lots of gun porn. Pairing Jason Statham as a calculating, composed assassin and Ben Foster as his boss’s loose cannon of a son, director Simon West remakes the original 1972 Charles Bronson flick of the same name with a greater focus on his characters. But the initial appeal, as Foster tells Movieline, was the prospect of getting to “blow sh*t up” with Jason Statham.

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