emma roberts

New ‘People Pets’ to Singlehandedly Save Celebrity Media

3:55AM STV | A new Web site proves today why People Magazine so mercilessly cut off all those staffers a week ago: They simply couldn’t hack the celebrity-pet beat. More »

Box Office: Jessica Alba In A Tight-Fitting Costume Still A Reliable Box Office Draw

8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Like a bucket full of ice water dumped upon your slumbering form by a boss who doesn’t appreciate how hard it is to get going, the weekend box office numbers: 1. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer – $US57.4 million Many high-level executives at Fox were quietly worried that the two-year delay between releases in their Fantastic Four franchise might be too long to retain the loyalty of the attention-impaired teen audience that delivered the first FF installment to a surprising number one opening back in July 2005. More »

Hollywood Ready To Devour New Generation Of Wholesome Teen Actresses

11:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Positing that the public might be growing tired of the Lohan/Hilton/Spears class of troubled starlet and that the industry is ready to pump out a more wholesome, less frequently rehabbed product to capture the tween entertainment dollar, the LAT looks at the “new wave” of Hollywood good girls, including Nancy Drew’s Emma “Aunt Julia Would Produce My Movies Even If We Weren’t Related” Roberts, Nim’s Island’s Abigail Breslin, and the Charlize Theron-approved AnnaSophia Robb. The article’s true focus is the impeccably pedigreed, terrifyingly ambitious Roberts, who’s so precocious she’s already bored with the whole imminent movie stardom thing: “I want to do a fashion line too, but not an ‘Emma’ fashion line,” she said, clicking through her mental check list. “I want to do a real fashion line and sell it out of a boutique in Barneys or Neiman’s. Like Mary-Kate and Ashley’s line [the Row] but a really cool line of jeans or maybe dresses like [British pop singer] Lily Allen. [...] More »