After the complete disaster that was What Goes Up, described as ‘pointless and pretentious’ by Variety magazine, Hilary Duff hasn’t given up on trying to star in cool indie teen films, and you can see the trailer for her latest, Greta, here. It actually looks like quite a sweet and interesting film, so I’ll probably try to see it if it ever gets released.
Did you know that the classic 90s teen film Ten Things I Hate About You has been made into a TV series? It recently started on ABC Family in America and although it’s not a patch on the fantastic original, I’m quite enjoying it so far. Perhaps this is simply proof that I’ll watch anything as long as it’s aimed at teenage girls!
Once upon a time, Thora Birch was the coolest of all teen stars with her lead roles in Ghost World and American Beauty. Having not heard from her in a while, I looked her up on IMDB, only to find that her next project is a feature film remake of the CBBC series Cavegirl. Super-random! It also stars Jacob Zachar, who plays Rusty in my current fave TV show, Greek.
Daniel Bruhl is reuniting with the director of Good Bye Lenin for a new film, Ich und Kaminski, which will be released in 2010. No other stars have been announced yet, but we know Daniel will play a character called Sebastian, a young journalist writing an article on an artist called Manuel Kaminski.
Speaking of cute foreign-language actors, Gael Garcia Bernal’s new film is out this weekend in the UK. Rudo y Cursi reunites Gael with Diego Luna and the makers of their previous film, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and the storyline involves Gael becoming a popstar!
The third in my trio of favourite foreign actors is Romain Duris, and he also has a new film out soon. Afterwards is his first film in English, but sadly it doesn’t look like my kind of film at all. After Moliére and Paris were both a little disappointing, I think I must concede that Romain will never live up to L’Auberge Espagnol.
After writing, directing and starring in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell then made waves with the controversial Shortbus, but the high profile cast list for his next film suggests it’ll be a little less daring. Rabbit Hole will be out in 2010 and stars Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Sandra Oh.
I’ve loved him since he played Daniel Deronda for the BBC, but Hugh Dancy is fast becoming more popular in Hollywood than fellow British Hugh, Mr Grant. He was lovely in Confessions of a Shopaholic and new film Adam, in which he does a very convincing American accent, is set to be another big hit.
One of my favourite TV shows of all time is Gilmore Girls, so I’m pleased to see that both Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel have new films coming out. The girls can be seen in The Answer Man and Post-Grad respectively, and both of the films look well worth seeing, especially Answer Man which has had great reviews.
For those of you who like me were obsessed with the Nancy Drew book series in the olden days, you’ll be excited to hear that 2007 will bring us a new 
If you enjoyed the documentary Spellbound you might want to book your tickets for a new film released in the UK this month (the 18th to be precise) called 
While looking up what Mandy Moore’s been up to lately I found a very interesting film project starring a huge list of ace people including Mandy, Amber Tamblin (Tibby from Travelling Pants), Paul Dano (the Nietzsche fan from Little Miss Sunshine), Michelle Williams, Kelli Garner (Rebecca from Thumbsucker) and even the highly amusing singer Nellie McKay. All I know so far is that it’s an 80s-set teen movie named 
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