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MTV News caught up with ‘Hills’ star at ShoWest in Las Vegas.
By Larry Carroll
“Sorority Row” stars Margo Harshman, Audrina Patridge and Leah Pipes
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LAS VEGAS — Although her silver-screen debut won’t be in theaters for another six months, Audrina Patridge — who will appear in the season-five premiere of “The Hills” — swept into ShoWest on Thursday, receiving an award for Female Star of Tomorrow.
Patridge came to town with her
“Sorority Row” co-stars Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung and Margo Harshman, who all received awards for their buzzed-about remake of the 1983 horror classic “The House on Sorority Row.” The film focuses on a tight-knit group of sorority sisters whose prank goes horribly wrong, leading to a series of grisly murders. And although the trailer makes it look like Audrina dies early on, the “Hills” star made it sound like her role might be more substantial than fans think.
“Well …” she said, laughing knowingly. “I can’t give too much away, because there’s a lot more to watch. You’ll see.”
Grinning mischievously over the film’s twisty plot turns, she added, “I was so glad to go and film in Pittsburgh with all these lovely ladies. [I got to] take time off from ‘The Hills’ to go and actually pursue what my dream is.
As her fans know, Audrina moved to Los Angeles and originally landed a job as a receptionist. Her meteoric Hollywood career took off when “Laguna Beach” stars Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag moved into her building in 2006 to shoot “The Hills,” and after Audrina befriended the pair she joined the popular reality series.
But with a role in this month’s straight-to-DVD film “Into the Blue 2: The Reef” alongside “Sorority Row,” Patridge has spent as much time on Hollywood soundstages over the past year as she has alongside L.C. and Heidi. And she makes no secret about her dreams of becoming an A-list actress.
“I love Rachel McAdams,” Patridge said when asked who she’d like to pattern her movie career after; the “Notebook” star was also in Vegas at ShoWest. “She’s one of my favorites. And I hear she’s here tonight. So, hopefully I’ll get to meet her.”
The new season of “The Hills” premieres Monday at 10 p.m. on MTV.
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‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,’ ‘Hulk’ and other films also hit the Web before their release.
By Eric Ditzian
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Hugh Jackman isn’t having a good day. The Internet is buzzing with news that a full-length version of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” has appeared online a full month before it’s due in theaters.
But at least Hugh’s not alone. While the big-budget franchise reboot is certainly the most substantial and high-profile to hit the Web, it’s not the first. As studios and audiences have come to know, spoilers are a fact of movie life these days.
Until now, the most infamous leak came in 2003, when Universal’s “Hulk” found its way onto the Internet two weeks before its release. The Ang Lee-directed film still managed to open with a $62 million weekend. A week later, though, it experienced a 70 percent box-office drop and went on to be a financial failure (which probably had less to do with the leak than with the film being poorly received by both critics and moviegoers).
The lesson learned from “Hulk” would appear to be that if your movie is good, spoilers don’t matter. But 2003 was practically a technological lifetime ago. Web video was in its infancy, and widely used sharing sites like YouTube didn’t even exist. The number of people with the equipment and know-how to view “Hulk” early pales in comparison to those who can now watch “Wolverine” with a just a few mouse clicks.
Inevitably, then, more and more films have become the targets of leaked footage, scripts or photos, including “Iron Man,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “The Wolfman,” “Sex and the City,” “The Simpsons Movie” and “The Happening.” In 2005, eight people were charged with copyright-infringement offenses related to the leaking of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.” Oscar-nominated films consistently show up on the Internet, as screeners are distributed to Academy voters. Last spring, a bystander recorded footage of Jason Segel fighting Lou Ferrigno on the set of “I Love You, Man” (hardly a spoiler, but when even buddy comedies are under attack, you know the industry has a major problem on its hands).
Leaks haven’t just been a tricky situation for the movie business. Photographed pages of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” appeared days before that book’s publication, and the details of two eye-popping endings of “Lost” season finales were spilled online. The winners of reality shows, which are sometimes taped months before they air, are routinely revealed early.
When it comes to movies, Internet spoilers have become such a problem that they might actually be changing films. A spoiler claiming to reveal the ending of May’s “Terminator Salvation” appeared online last year, which reportedly prompted filmmakers to rethink the conclusion.
The “Wolverine” leak raises many questions. What, if anything, will be the impact on the film’s box-office receipts? Have we just entered a new era in the history of spoilers in which any blockbuster — “Star Wars,” “Transformers,” “Terminator” — runs the risk of appearing on a computer screen before the big screen? And if that’s the case, what is the implication for the future of mega-budget movies?
Check out everything we’ve got on “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
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EW.com also reports that film is on hold.
By Eric Ditzian
Chace Crawford
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In the original “Footloose,” the government of a small town banned dancing and rock and roll music. Now, 25 years later, the big-screen may be denied its license to boogie as well.
After Zac Efron dropped out of the lead role last week, the movie is currently on hold, according EW.com.
A source close to the production told EW.com that Paramount has hit the brakes on the movie — which had been active since at least July — as the studio figures out how to proceed without their top choice of Efron. The source also denied reports that Chace Crawford of “Gossip Girl” had auditioned for the lead role last weekend. A rep for Paramount had no comment on the report when asked by MTV News.
When Efron dropped out at the end of March, Paramount issued a statement assuring the public that the film was still very much on track. ” ‘Footloose’ is a project we’ve longed to see re-booted for a new generation,” it said. “While Zac is no longer attached, we remain excited and committed to the collective brain trust of [director] Kenny Ortega, [producers] Neil Meron and Craig Zaden, who will reinvigorate the franchise.”
Crawford, with just “Gossip Girl” and a few low-profile movie roles to his name, is not as established a star as Efron. But it was just that experience — starring roles in “Hairspray” and three “High School Musical” movies — that reportedly led Efron to drop out of “Footloose”: his advisors were said to repeatedly warn him against taking part in yet another big-screen musical rather than branching out into new territory.
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