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It's all about the long run for me. It's not about immediate gratification. It's not about who's at the hottest party, because most of what's 'hot' right now is not going to be 'hot' in ten years. And I'd rather be well-respected in all areas than noticed when I walk down the street as the girl who was at that party instead of the girl who wrote this film and is now producing it.

"I think she's such a natural and intuitive and giving actor. She's brilliant. I think everyone's got this opinion that she's going to suck, but would you put someone who couldn't act next to Toni Collette? It would be stupid. "

"So I think everyone's going to be surprised when they see her if they've got that opinion of her,'' she added.

Gemma Ward is one of fashion's highest paid models, and was ranked by models.com as #1 in its previous listings.

Says model agency director Christine Fox in her interview with ModelWatch:

I discovered Gemma Ward when she was 14 years old sitting in the crowd of about two thousand young girls at a model competition, she hadn't entered and I ended up persuading her to do so - she never won but I signed her up the next day and the rest is history. It feels pretty surreal to have actually been the one to initiate her career and will be something I will tell my grandchildren. Not many people can say they discovered a super model. Australian newspaper in Sydney wrote an article and referred to me as someone who has defined and set the trend for the look of models at the moment. That was a huge compliment to me and something I think will remain as one of the highlights of my career to date.

More of Gemma Ward soon in an exclusive profile!

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Not all Jews are diamond merchants, my God! [laughs] And you can quote me on that. So, basically, it’s a small drama. It’s kind of like Mean Streets but it’s kind of like Jew Streets. It’s like myself and one of my favorite young actors, Jesse Eisenberg, are the two guys in the movie and, if you look at Mean Streets, he’s kind of like Harvey Keitel and I’m kind of like the Johnny Boy character where I’m already kind of into that world of drugs and I bring him into it.

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"It's funny," he continues. "Everyone asks me, 'Do you regret what you did?' And the answer is, fuck no. I mean, I think of myself as an entrepreneur, and I went about some of that the wrong way. But I've done more at twenty-two than most people do their whole lives. I partied my ass off. There were so many women. I smoked so much weed. Anyone says they regret that, they're full of shit. They're saying that to please other people. I don't care. I had a blast."

That's Scuz talking to Rolling Stone.

Nate Norman is just a 19-year-old small town kid from Idaho who came up with the idea of setting up a marijuana smuggling ring to transport drugs from Canada into the US—a business enterprise that would transform him into a $38 million drug lord. His story is about to become a film, entitled Kid Cannabis and it stars two awesome young actors: Chris Marquette who'll play Nate, and Cam Gigandet, who'll play his partner, Topher.

Chris Marquette is definitely ready for that elusive leading role. He's been giving such great performances in his recent films: The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, The Invisible, and The Education of Charlie Banks among others. But in all of these films, he played supporting roles. It's about time he gets to play the star in a cool movie, and I think this might be it!

You should always speak your mind. I’m not interested in being one of those petulant, fuck you, eat the birds, punk rock, Avril Lavigne kids. I don’t have angst or anger, I don’t have any defense. It’s almost an intellectual attack on perception.

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Starting off as a wickedly seductive comedy about a naive youth and his unusually attentive tutor, only to take on increasingly insidious dimensions, "Private Lessons" more than confirms the rising talent of 33-year-old Belgian writer-director Joachim Lafosse. Lighter in tone and subject matter than his 2006 dysfunctional-family drama "Private Property," but no less incisive in its examination of toxic relational dynamics and the damage that can occur in the absence of boundaries, this is a sly, superbly knowing entertainment that looks set to earn high critical marks and admission to offshore arthouses.

After the critically-acclaimed Into the Wild, where he was regarded by critics and moviegoers as one of 2007's best performers, Emile Hirsch took a short, relaxing break in Hawaii to be on the cover of Flaunt mag.

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Photgraphed by top fashion lensman David LaChapelle, Hirsch has regained his lost pounds, one of the many sacrifices he did for Sean Penn's movie. One of the mag's highlights mentions Hirsch who spoke out about Milk for the first time.

Definitely one of the most exciting and talented actors we have today is British-born Jim Sturgess. The 26-year old actor has been hogging the news with such movies as The Other Boleyn Girl and the upcoming 21.

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Of course, you'll remember Jim very well if you've watched last year's Across the Universe. If not, this film may be a good introduction to this amazing actor.

There's an awesome Jim Sturgess article by Melanie Pimentel that has just recently been launched at ABC News Now.

"In the December 2005 edition of Empire Magazine, he was dubbed "...the most unlucky man in Hollywood"

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That's quite depressing, especially if you're Henry Cavill. Apparently Empire refers to the run of 'bad luck' that the young British actor had during his auditions for three high-profile roles.

Cavill auditioned for the lead role in Batman Begins but lost out to Christian Bale. In 2005, he became a young contender for the role of James Bond, and performed in a final screen test. The producers and director were torn between Cavill, Daniel Craig, and Sam Worthington. Apparently the director favoured Henry Cavill as a younger version of James Bond, roving about the parlors in Casino Royale. However, the producers believed Cavill was too young for the role, which then went to Daniel Craig.He also auditioned for the role of Superman in Superman Returns, and was reportedly under heavy consideration before the October 2004 casting of Brandon Routh.

It seems it's not enough to described Henry Cavill as 'an unknown actor from England' then.