I have added 24 pictures of Chace at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards – Salute To Icons Honoring Doug Morris on January 30th, 2010!

I have added photos from the “Twelve” premiere and portraits session at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival!

Chace Crawford’s “Twelve” won’t premiere at the Sundance Film Festival until Friday afternoon (January 29), but the movie has already been snatched up for distribution for a cool $2 million by Hannover House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

That quick transaction might have more than a little something to do with the talents and public profile of the “Gossip Girl” star, who gets his first chance to take on a gritty, mature role in “Twelve.” Based on a novel by Nick McDonell, the indie flick has Crawford playing White Mike, a teenage dropout whose mother has just died and who is selling drugs to his ex-classmates on the gleaming streets of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In a conversation earlier this week at Sundance, director Joel Schumacher explained to MTV News why the young actor was perfect for the part.

“Chace is very intelligent, comes from a really fine family,” he said. “There’s an old soul in him somewhere. He could play the grieving really well. There are a few scenes of anger. He was just right for the part, and the camera loves him. He does a lot with very little, and that’s the essence of a good actor.”

Schumacher certainly knows how to pick ‘em. Going back to ’80s films like “The Lost Boys” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the director has worked with a string of young actors who became Hollywood stars, like Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson and Kiefer Sutherland.

The movie also stars Sutherland, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Ellen Barkin and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — who plays vicious drug dealer Lionel. Schumacher said filming on location with 50 and Crawford proved difficult.

“Trying to shoot a scene on the streets of Manhattan with Chace Crawford and Curtis Jackson — when all the schools let out around 3 o’clock and you’re trying to do an intimate scene with two people and there are 300 kids screaming — was a challenge,” he said. “But I have to say Chace and 50 were great with the kids. They were really fantastic. But I have to say, some of those private school teenage girls — pretty aggressive there.”

Source: MTV.com

Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford has a new woman in his life — model Jennifer Akerman. Chace and Jennifer, who is the sister of Couples Retreat star Malin Akerman, were seen getting cozy at a Hollywood house party on January 15. “They’ve known each other for a while, but now it looks like they’re dating,” a friend reveals. While it’s not serious yet, the pair is enjoying each other’s company. “Jennifer is adorable and exactly his type,” says the friend. He has been happily living the single life since breaking up with country singer Carrie Underwood via a text message in 2008. “I’m 24 in New York City, so I’m not exactly coming home every night plucking the violin strings,” Chace recently said. After attending a Golden Globes celebration, Chace moved on to the house party where he focused his attention on Jennifer, a sexy blond model.

Source: In Touch Weekly

Joel Shumacher, the man who famously put nipples on the Dark Knight’s costume in “Batman Forever,” isn’t known as a lion of the independent cinema. Still the director of “The Client” and “A Time to Kill” insists that he’s always had a penchant for mixing in low-budget personal projects like “Tigerland” with more mainstream fare.

“Twelve,” the story of a high-school dropout (“Gossip Girl”s’ Chace Crawford) who peddles designer drugs to spoiled Upper East Side teens is very much a passion project. Based on a novel by Nick McDonell, penned when he was just 17, it also involves a brutal murder, a false arrest and a lot of strung-out kids.

The movie, which stars newcomers like Crawford and more established actors like Kiefer Sutherland and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, has been tapped to be the closing night film at this year’s festival.

Schumacher, a Park City newbie, talked with TheWrap about branching into independent cinema at an age when many of his contemporaries are thinking about retirement.

How did you become interested in “Twelve”?
I was in the Taorimina Film Festival getting ready to premiere “Phone Booth,” when my agent at CAA sent me the galleys to Nick’s book. I tried to get the rights, but someone had already bought them and they didn’t want me for the project. So it came out, was a huge sensation and bestseller and time passes.

Nobody, though was able to get it made until [producer] Charlie Corwin got his hands on it and offered me the job. Can’t say it came back to me, because I never had it to begin with, but I always wanted it. Through various incarnations it strayed very, very far from the book. We threw that all out and just pasted Nick’s novel back in.

Is this your first time at Sundance?
Yes, I’ve never been here before. I’m the oldest living student filmmaker. I’ve made some low-budget films before like “Tigerland” and “Phone Booth,” but they were always backed by studios. I started off as a $200 a week costume designer and worked my way up into directing. So I really came through the studio system.

It’s really a thrill for me to be at Sundance at this point in my career. It feels like I’m expanding and not shrinking. I’m not just sitting around Hollywood trying to make a buck.

Has the independent filmmaking been a big adjustment?
There’s always been a misconception about my career, because I’ve been fortunate enough to have some really successful films. I think when “Car Wash” and “St. Elmo’s Fire” hit the zeitgeist there was this tendency to think of them as huge Hollywood films. That’s not true. I’m not a maverick independent director, but we made those movies on the outer edges of the system. The studios didn’t know what we were doing.

People see the [John] Grisham movies and the Batman movies and they think I only do blockbusters, but I made “Phone Booth” in 12 days with an unknown Irish actor — Colin Farrell — so I had pretty good preparation for doing a movie like “Twelve” when we only had 23 days to shoot the whole thing.
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I added three MQ untagged photoshoots to the gallery!

Are you ready to watch avid football fan Taylor Lautner throw around some pigskin Feb 6? If so, book your flights to Miami now, because DirectTV has confirmed to HollywoodLife.com that Twilight’s gorgeous wereboy is leading a pack of Hollywood’s most gorgeous men in a game of flag football in Miami Feb. 6.

The other beautiful boys competing (hopefully alongside and not against Taylor – his muscles are things to be both envied and feared!) are Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford, Entourage’s Kevin Dillon and Christian Slater, as well as a handful of pro NFL players.

But playing with the greats isn’t Taylor’s only reason for wanting to hit the Bowl. HollywoodLife.com overheard Wolf Boy predicting to Glee star Matthew Morrison at Summit’s Golden Globes party Jan. 17 that he’s confident whichever team brings home the NFC championship this weekend will be the ones to walk away with the Super Bowl ring.

As much as we want to trust your opinion Taylor, how about we make this more interesting? Shall we wager a little bet?
Source: HollywoodLife.com

Thanks to Just Jared, I added scans from the February 2010 issue of Glamour magazine!