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  • Sofia Carson Performs Song, “Rotten to the Core,” from Disney Channel Original Movie, in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

    Sofia Carson stars in Disney Channel Original Movie, The Descendants, and on Thursday morning, she performed a song from the movie in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

    Costar Dove Cameron was supposed to do the song, “Rotten to the Core,” along with Carson, but at performance time she was nowhere to be seen.

    Sofia Carson shared a photo of herself with Dove Cameron during a rehearsal for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade earlier this week, via Instrgram.

    ❤️ #macysthanksgivingdayparade #rehearsals #isthisreallife

    A photo posted by Sofia Carson (@sofiacarson) on

    Despite Dove’s absence, Sofia Carson gave a stellar performance atop the Discover Adventure float. She was adorable, decked out in a black trench coat with red lining that perfectly enhanced her bright red lipstick.

    Sofia was honored to learn she was the first person ever to ride the Discover Adventure float. It’s the new Build-A-Bear float, featuring teddy bears on a sailboat, rocket ship, and a castle.

    Fans took to Twitter out of concern for Dove Cameron when they saw Sofia Carson performing solo in this morning’s parade.

    Did you catch Sofia Carson’s solo rendition of “Rotten to the Core” from The Descendants at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

  • Shailene Woodley Questions her Talent

    Shailene Woodley was all set to play Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 when her role was completely cut from the film after producers decided to take another direction with the plot. The decision left the Fault in Our Stars actress second-guessing her talent and place in Hollywood.

    “For a few hours it was literally like, ‘Oh, my God, was I awful? Why did they cut me? What are people going to think?’” Woodley said in Vanity Fair‘s July 2014 issue.

    “I woke up the next morning and I was like, ‘OK, it makes total sense.’ I’m a pretty spiritual person, so I can just sit back and trust that everything happens for a reason, even if my ego doesn’t like it,” she said.

    The young actress told Vanity Fair she’s beginning to feel the pressure as her career blossoms.

    “Somebody came to me and said, ‘I can’t wait to see what you do next.’ I took that as pressure – that I had to live up to somebody else’s expectations. There were a few months where I was like, ‘I don’t want to act anymore.’ And then I got over it and realized it’s none of my business what other people think of me,” she said.

    George Clooney, with whom she co-starred in The Descendants in 2011, had high praise for Woodley.

    “Shailene can do whatever she wants. If she wants to be a movie star, she has it. If she wants to change the world, she will. Her talent and kindness go hand in hand,” said the recently engaged Clooney. “We’ll be talking about Shailene Woodley 40 years from now. I’ve never seen anyone so young that has so much together.”

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  • Shailene Woodley: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Star and Fan

    Shailene Woodley stars along with Ansel Elgort the new film The Fault in Our Stars, but she says she’s a fan, too. In fact the actress was a huge fan of the book long before the screenplay was written. She actually sent a lengthy email to the book’s author John Green, very strongly suggesting the book become a film.

    “I didn’t say I needed to be Hazel,” Woodley said at the movie’s New York premiere last Monday of her role as Hazel Lancaster, a 16-year-old cancer patient. “I said I needed this movie to get made. Because I knew that it would change the lives of millions of people.”

    The Fault in Our Stars debuted as a Young Adult novel in January of 2012 and earned Green the title of ‘The Teen Whisperer.’ It received an incredible recognition from Time magazine that year, too. It awarded the book as the year’s best–period. Never mind that it was a YA novel.

    Shailene Woodley recently explained to New York Magazine how she perceives the power behind The Fault in Our Stars–the film.

    “In ‘Fault,’ I am trying to rewrite what a female lead can look like,” she said. “You’ve never seen a woman on the poster for a movie with a cannula in her nose.”

    So how did author John Green react to Shailene Woodley’s email? He never even hit reply. That came back to haunt him, too, when he realized she was auditioning for the role of the film’s lead.

    “I didn’t technically know who Shailene Woodley was,” he said. “So I just responded like, ‘That’s such a lovely e-mail! Thank you so much! But I am not a casting director.’ And then when I saw her audition, of course I was horrified that I had not written her back and said, like, ‘Please! Please! Be in our movie!’”

    He certainly didn’t have to beg Woodley to sign on. The 22-year-old actress has gone from The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family to films like The Descendents and Divergent. The Fault in Our Stars was simply meant to be hers. She didn’t even think twice when cutting off her long locks for the role. She says the role has provided her with “a deeper sense of gratitude” for living.

    At the June 2nd New York premiere of The Fault in Our Stars Shailene Woodley pre-empted the tear-jerker with a few tears of her own.

    “On this beautiful day, there’s kids at home in bed hooked up to chemo machines,” she said. “There’s no way to justify it. So, really, it taught me a deeper sense of gratitude and a deeper sense of appreciation for these small palpable moments, because they’re the only thing that we’re guaranteed.”

    The Fault in Our Stars has trended this weekend and is on the lips of movie-goers across the country. Something big is happening on the big screen–for Shailene Woodley and for the film world.

    Have you checked this film out yet?

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  • Kristin Chenoweth Cast as Maleficent in Disney Channel’s ‘The Descendants’

    Kristin Chenoweth has been cast in the Disney Channel’s latest TV movie The Descendants as the iconic evil witch, Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty.

    The release date has been set for 2015. Kenny Ortega is slated to direct, and Chenoweth will appear along side Twilight’s Booboo Stewart and prolific child actor Cameron Boyce.

    The actress has appeared on television before starring in shows such as Pushing Daisies, Kristin, The West Wing, and The Good Wife, during which she was injured on set. In December, she appeared for Glee‘s 100th episode.

    But Chenoweth made her arguably biggest role on Broadway as another witch, Wicked‘s Glinda:

    Disney first announced the made for TV movie back in December, describing the plot as a comedy about the children of well-known Disney villains:

    In a present day idyllic kingdom, the benevolent teenaged son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from Disney’s iconic Beauty and the Beast) is poised to take the throne. His first proclamation: offer a chance at redemption to the trouble-making offspring of Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar who have been imprisoned on a forbidden island with all the other villains, sidekicks, evil step-mothers and step-sisters. These villainous descendants (Carlos, Mal, Evvie and Jay, respectively) are allowed into the kingdom to attend prep school alongside the offspring of iconic Disney heroes including Fairy Godmother, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Mulan. However, the evil teens face a dilemma. Should they follow in their nefarious parents’ footsteps and help all the villains regain power or embrace their innate goodness and save the kingdom?

    Up and coming Disney star Dove Cameron is set to play Maleficent’s daughter, Mal, and plenty of mother/daughter antics are sure to ensue.

    Chenoweth is not the only contemporary actress to tackle the character. Angelina Jolie will appear as Maleficent in a titular movie this summer. The casting announcement has spurred the imaginations of people like The Wire’s Esther Zuckerman, who thought the actresses should share other roles: “something just tickles us about the fact that these two actresses—one a tiny blonde with an impressive soprano; the other an imposing brunette movie star known for her humanitarianism—are sharing a part. What other roles in their resumes could they perhaps share?” Social media is certain to inform us if it captures the internet’s imagination as well.

    However, from the look of things, Jolie’s take on the character is sure to be much, much darker:

    Image via Kristin Chenoweth, Facebook