The wait is almost over for Gossip Girl fans!
The show returns to the CW March 8 (9 p.m. EST) — and PEOPLE has an exclusive look from the set of the first new episode in weeks.
Executive producer Stephanie Savage reveals the story behind these two revealing photos (but beware of spoilers!):
“We last saw Nate sleeping on a chair in Serena’s hospital room. Gossip Girl called Serena “Sleeping Beauty” and referred to Nate as her “prince.” Now we get to see this fairy tale for real — Serena and Nate, the golden couple, finally together. It was the reveal of S and N’s fateful coupling that night at the Shepherd wedding that set in motion the dynamics of our entire series, so it’s a big deal to finally have these two pair up. Blake [Lively] and Chace [Crawford] have amazing on-screen chemistry. Their scenes are some of the most fun and sexy we have ever shot.”
“[Our previous episode] “The DeBarted” left audiences wondering, “Who was the mystery woman Chuck saw at Bart’s grave?” Chuck wants to know too, and he spends [our new episode] “The Hurt Locket” tracking her down. Here we are shooting on location in the lobby of the famed Algonquin Hotel, where Chuck confronts our mystery lady (Mulholland Drive’s Laura Harring) and demands the truth about her association with Bart, and any information she might know about Chuck’s mother. This episode kicks off a big emotional Chuck story that brings him and Blair closer than ever. Ed [Westwick] and Leighton [Meester] are at the top of their game in this arc.”
Tell us: Do Nate and Serena make a good couple? What will Chuck find out about his mom?
Source: People.com
CW have officially renewed Gossip Girl!!
The CW Network has given early pickups to five series for next season, including four signature dramas and the reality hit AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. All five shows will return in Fall 2010.
The series receiving early renewals include this season’s breakout hit THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The CW’s most-watched show (4.6 million viewers) and the network’s number one show among adults 18-34 (2.5/8). THE VAMPIRE DIARIES premiere generated the largest audience in network history for a series debut (5.7 million total viewers). THE VAMPIRE DIARIES has improved The CW’s performance Thursday at 8:00 p.m. by 114% among women 18-34 this season. The network also renewed fan favorite SUPERNATURAL, which will enter its sixth season next year. SUPERNATURAL has one of the most loyal audiences of any show on television and does heroic work in a perennially tough time period. It has improved over last season among women and adults 18-34 (29% and 8%, respectively) this season, a remarkable accomplishment for a fifth-year show.
Also given early pickups for next season are The CW’s Monday night sensation GOSSIP GIRL,which is The CW’s number one show among its target demographic of women 18-34, and Tuesday’s trend-setting drama, 90210, which sees some of TV’s largest percent increases from DVR playback, nearly doubling its women 18-34 live-only ratings once live+7 data is included. Wednesday anchor AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL will also be back for cycles 15 and 16 with superstar Tyra Banks and new groups of aspiring models. AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL continues to rank second in the competitive Wednesday 8:00 p.m. hour among young women 18-34 (3.4/10).
Source: Spoiler TV
PARK CITY, UTAH—On the evening of Friday, Jan. 29, Curtis Jackson—better known as the rapper 50 Cent—was milling about the red carpet before the premiere of Twelve, director Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name, which wunderkind New York author Nick McDonell penned when he was 17.
It was Mr. Jackson’s third time at Sundance, but his first starring in a closing night film.
“Speedy turnaround, right?” he said.
In Twelve, which sold to Hanover House last week for $2 million, Mr. Jackson portrays a Harlem dealer named Lionel, who supplies a 17-year-old high school dropout—played, quite appropriately, by Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford—with drugs to sell to all of his privileged former classmates on the Upper East Side. In one scene, Lionel gets killed while a young girl exchanges her virginity for a new super drug.
“I don’t mind dying in films,” said Mr. Jackson, amid an explosion of flashbulbs, “’cause you get up after they say, ‘Cut!’”
Unlike Mr. Jackson, Mr. Schumacher, who is 70, said he had never been to Sundance before, and he was proclaiming over and over that he was “the world’s oldest student filmmaker.” His hair was streaked with gray to the chin, and he was dressed in a denim shirt under a double-breasted black wool blazer, and a hemp necklace a shade lighter than his tan.
Mr. Schumacher, who grew up in Long Island, said he was drawn to the material of Twelve, which has its violent climax inside an Upper East Side palace crammed with 400 Marc Jacobs-clad teens, as soon as he read the galleys back in 2002.
“It smacked of the truth,” he said. “It’s a story where the characters are concerned more with celebrity than accomplishments. It’s really a portrait of bad parenting. It’s the same story in every high school, in every town.” (The film ends with a quote from Camus’s The Plague: “After all…there is more to celebrate in the human being than to denigrate.”)
Twelve is ranked dubiously in a critics’ poll on IndieWire. But at Friday’s premiere, John Cooper, the new programming director of Sundance, introduced the film by proclaiming that its cast was perhaps “the most beautiful in the history of the festival.”
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Twelve This teenage drug thriller, compared to Less Than Zero, was this year’s train wreck. (Last year it was The Informers and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.) Directed by Joel Schumacher, it prompted howls of unintended laughter at the press screening … so hey, why not pay $2 million for theatrical rights? That’s what Hannover House did, before it had even played to a festival audience presumably banking on the teen-friendly cast, which includes Chace Crawford, Emma Stone, 50 Cent and Kiefer Sutherland. Hannover says they’ll do a major theatrical roll-out sometime this year.
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