Blog Posts by Meriah Doty

Jennifer Lawrence at Sunday night's SAG Awards (Photo: Getty/TNT)Contrary to speculation, it appears Jennifer Lawrence's dress didn't necessarily rip at Sunday night's Screen Actor's Guild awards show in Los Angeles (above photo, right).

We did some due diligence and seem to have zeroed in on the issue -- though the case on this couture mystery can only be closed if Lawrence's dress tailor, stylist Rachel Zoe, Dior or Lawrence herself explain what really happened.

Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman in 'Identity Thief' (Photo: Universal Pictures)Melissa McCarthy packs a whole lot of punches in her upcoming comedy with Jason Bateman, but she also saved a few real-life wallops for her co-star, both actors told Yahoo! Movies on Friday. And oh yeah, she thought Bateman was really dreamy during his stint on '80s sitcom "Silver Spoons."

In "Identity Thief," Bateman plays a mild mannered family man with a self proclaimed unisex first name: Sandy. Taking advantage of the gender neutrality of his moniker, McCarthy plays loud-living, shopaholic serial criminal Diana. And she has stolen his identity.

Amanda Seyfried at Sundance on Tuesday, right, and in 'Lovelace' (Photo: AP/Sundance Institute/Getty Images)We've seen the photos, but up until this week we hadn't seen actual film footage (below) of Amanda Seyfried wholly transformed into '70s porn star Linda Lovelace.

From her poofy brown, curly hair to her thick Bronx accent, Seyfried's bet on "Lovelace," which premiered on Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, has paid off... at least, initially. Shortly after it screened in Park City, Utah, the biopic was acquired for U.S. distribution by RADIUS - TWC for $3 million.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (also inset) and Tony Danza at this year's Sundance Film Festival (Photo: Everett/Getty)"Don Jon's Addiction" may mark Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, but it does not mark his acting debut with co-star Tony Danza. The two first worked together 20 years ago in "Angels in the Outfield" -- a family-friendly, Disney baseball film that couldn't be further in theme than Levitt's tale about a man addicted to Internet porn.

Now screening at the Sundance Film Festival where it was bought by Relativity Media for $4 million, "Don Jon's Addiction" was written and directed by the "Looper" and "Dark Knight Rises" actor. And oh yeah, Gordon-Levitt also stars in his own film as Jon Martello, an iron-pumping city guy who must overcome his sex-crazed ways to find true love.

Gabby Hoffman at this year's Sundance Film Festival, left, and in 'Field of Dreams' (Photo: WireImage/Everett)Most of us remember her as the young girl who was miraculously saved from choking on a hot dog in "Field of Dreams." Now, 24 years later, Gaby Hoffmann is all grown up and starring alongside Michael Cera in a Sundance Film Festival submission, the comedy "Crystal Fairy."

Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, then and now (Photo: Everett/Getty)It's been nearly 50 years since the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film about a Northern California town that becomes the target of flocks of attack birds. To mark the occasion, two of the stars of "The Birds," Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, appeared at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday night for a special screening of the half-century-old flick. And Hedren, known as the film's star but also as the target of Hitchcock's abuse, abstained from airing her complaints.

Muriel Wright, left, and Annabelle Wallis -- who will portray Wright (Photo: Courtesy of Marxist Library/Getty Images)James Bond creator Ian Fleming met young Muriel Wright at a posh Austrian ski resort in 1935, marking the beginning of their long term affair. Fleming is said to have been taken by Wright's looks -- and not much else.

Sound familiar?

Understandably, many have speculated that Wright was the inspiration for Fleming's rather one-dimensional, devastatingly gorgeous female characters who served as Bond's usually-fleeting love interests.

'The Canyons' in post-production (Photo is from Facebook.com/TheCanyonsFilm)What got off to a rocky start met with dubious, watchful eyes is now meeting the general consensus of low expectations.

Indie flick "The Canyons," starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen (yes, two Es), is quickly becoming the brunt of Internet jokes.

A first clip of the ill-fated flick -- a seemingly dark spoof on former MTV reality show "The Hills" -- proliferated on the web in recent days, garnering jeers.

In the nearly-three-minute monstrosity, a confused and disheveled Lohan (as Tara) awakens in a sun-filled, modern hillside Southern California mansion and begins looking for her cell phone. The entire sequence is a display of poor acting and less than zero suspense.