NYGossipGirl Exclusive Interview: Elle Fanning

NYGossipGirl recently caught up with Elle Fanning at the premiere of her new film Somewhere. The 12-year-old actress dished about her role, balancing school work and what it was like working with co-star Stephen Dorff.

NYGG: So tell me a little about how the role came about?

Fanning: I first sort of just met with her [director Sophia Coppola] and I didn’t know what the movie was about and we talked and I got to know her. Then, a long period of time passed and I’m like ‘Oh, I didn’t get it.’ Later on she called me back to the Chateau Marmont and I read lines win Stephen. After that we started and did the rehearsing process.

NYGG: And Stephen plays your father and you have this father-daughter relationship in the film. Did you meet before shooting to get to know one another?

Fanning: Yeah, he actually came and picked me up from school one day, which is the same school that he went to when he was a kid and after that we went to Pinkberry and got frozen yogurt. We also went to this place called Color Me Mine where you paint pottery. He also came to one of my volleyball games and cheered in the stands. He was acting like a dad and just getting into character.

NYGG: Did your sister Dakota [Fanning] give you any advice?

Fanning: She’s very supportive of me and very proud that I got the role. She comes and visits me on my sets and I come and visit her on hers. I think just because she’s a big sister, I always look up to her, all the choices that she’s made and everything.

Continue reading NYGossipGirl’s exclusive interview with Elle after the jump!

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Edited: December 22nd, 2010

It’s a Boy for Ali Larter

Christmas came early for Ali Larter!

The Heroes actress and actor Hayes MacArthur welcomed a healthy boy early Monday (Dec. 20) morning in Los Angeles, according to Us Magazine.

The first-time parents have named their son Theodore Hayes MacArthur.

“He’s our perfect Christmas present,” the couple shared with the publication.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Edited: December 22nd, 2010

First Look: Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre

Check out the first images of the upcoming Jane Eyre.

Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska and Inglourious Basterds’ Michael Fassbender star in the romantic drama based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel.

Cary Fukunaga directs the film, which follow Jane Eyre (Wasikowska) as she flees Thornfield House, the vast and isolated estate where she works as a governess for Adele, a child under the custody of Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester (Fassbender). As Jane looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, from her childhood as an orphan to her education at the cruel charity school to which she was consigned, she realizes that she must return to Thornfield – to secure her own future, and to come to terms with the terrible secret Rochester had hoped to hide from her forever.

Jane Eyre hits theaters on March 11, 2011.

Check out the trailer below!

Edited: December 21st, 2010

Christina Hendricks & Olivia Munn Don’t Know How She Does It

Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn have signed on to join the cast of I Don’t Know How She Does It.

The romantic comedy, which is based on the Allison Pearson book of the same name, tells the story of a woman balancing the world of Wall Street and motherhood.

Sarah Jessica Parker is playing the lead role.

Munn will reportedly play a colleague of Parker’s and Henricks will play a friend.

SNL’s Seth Meyers also joined the cast last week.

Edited: December 20th, 2010

Sam Worthington Admits That Clash of the Titans Let People Down

Not every star makes a hit movie and Sam Worthington admits that the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans wasn’t that good and there’s definitely room for improvement for the upcoming sequel.

“I just think we can improve on it,” Worthington told Moviefone of the upcoming Titans sequel. “I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree. The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we’re setting out to do with this one — the writers and the director and myself — is improve. I think I can act f***ing better, to be honest … Just take all the notes from people that I have been reading about on the ‘net and give them a movie they f***ing want. This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people.”

Worthington promises fans that Clash of the Titans 2 will be better.

“I’ve always said you make movies for an audience, that’s who you make movies for,” he said. “If the audience is speaking, it’s like the old gladiator thing, they give us the thumbs up/thumbs down, you want to stay alive in that coliseum as long as you can.”

Edited: December 20th, 2010

NYGossipGirl Contest: Twelve DVD Giveaway – CLOSED

In a dark, twisted tale of deception, critically-acclaimed director Joel Schumacher’s indie flick TWELVE arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on Dec. 28th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

TWELVE, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, centers around the privileged son of a restaurant tycoon, ‘White’ Mike (Chace Crawford) who drops out of his Upper East Side prep school to peddle marijuana to his spoiled teenage friends on the party circuit. His drug supplier and friend Lionel (Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson) introduces him to an exotic new designer drug known as “Twelve,” and Mike struggles to keep his underground lifestyle a secret from his naive friend and confidante, girl-next-door Molly (Emma Roberts). However, when Mike’s cousin is mysteriously found dead and Lionel is accused of murder, Mike’s world spirals out of control—and the drugs that made him notorious threaten to destroy his life.

View the ABC’s of Twelve Flipbook here.

NYGossipGirl is giving away 3 copies of the film. To win your own copy of the Twelve on DVD, simply answer the following question:

Which Culkin brother stars in TWELVE?

• Macaulay
• Kieran
• Rory

Edited: December 20th, 2010

Vince Vaughn Welcomes a Daughter

Vince Vaughn and his wife Kyla Weber welcomed a baby girl on Saturday (Dec. 18)  morning, Dec. 18.

Locklyn Kyla Vaughn, weighed 7 lbs. and measured 20 inches long. She was born at a hospital in Chicago, Vaughn’s hometown.

“Both of them couldn’t be happier to welcome their sweet little girl into their family!” a friend of the couple told People.

This is the first child for both Vaughn, 40, and Weber, a Canadian real estate agent, who married in January 2010.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Edited: December 20th, 2010

Gwyneth Paltrow Offered Role in Rock of Ages

Gwyneth Paltrow has been offered a role in the upcoming big-screen adaption of Rock of Ages.

“It sounds cool,” Patlrow told EW. “I just got the script and I will read it on the plane home tomorrow. But it sounds like it could be fun.”

Tom Cruise is also “in discussions” for a role in the film, which Adam Shankman will direct.

Rock of Ages is set in Los Angeles and follows a young couple whose story is told through ’80s rock hits.

Paltrow who’s not stranger to singing said that she has other projects in the works that involve singing.

“[Country Strong co-star Tim McGraw] keeps joking that I should go on the road as his opening act. And I keep saying, ‘Let’s do it. Let’s make it happen.’ I don’t know about a whole tour but maybe a string of nights could be fun. I will probably do some more Glee episodes and maybe some more films that involve singing, but I’m not sure I would ever quit my current job and become a full-time singer. I love my day job and we already have a musician in the family.”

Edited: December 17th, 2010

Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnam: Kin Ready

Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde and Charlie Hunnam are in negotiations to star in Kin, a crime thriller.

The film follows “two desperate sibling fugitives (Bana and Wilde) on the run who subsequently collide with the holiday homecoming of a troubled ex-boxer (Hunnam).”

Filming begins this March in Canada.

Bana can next be seen in Joe Wright’s assassin pic Hanna alongside Saoirse Ronan and Cate Blanchett.

Wilde stars in Tron: Legacy, which opens this weekend and Hunnam is filming FX’s  Sons of Anarchy.

Edited: December 17th, 2010

Julia Stiles: I Didn’t Break Up Michael C. Hall’s Marriage

Julia Stiles is addressing the rumors that she’s the reason Michael C. Hall and fellow Dexter star Jennifer Carpenter are divorcing.

“I have absolutely nothing to do with the split between Michael and Jennifer,” Stiles said in a statement.

“We are good friends and enjoyed working together. This is a personal matter between them, and we should respect their privacy. Although I too prefer to keep my private life private, I felt compelled to dispel the rumors I was somehow the cause for this matter,” she concluded.

Edited: December 16th, 2010