A live-action version of Beauty and the Beast arrives in theaters on March 17, 2017. The film stars Emma Watson, now 26, as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast. Emma, a known advocate for women's equality, recently revealed that she took a hands-on role in reshaping the character for the film. Aside from giving the plotline a major feminist makeover ( Read more... )

In a recent interview with LGBT publication PrideSource, Hilary Duff, now 27, opened up about a lot of things, including what it was like to transition from a teen star to an adult actress, and her thoughts on Miley Cyrus. Hilary returned to television with her TV Land series Younger, which premiered in March, and her interview with PrideSource was ( Read more... )

Film: Back to the Secret Garden (2001). Young Actress: Camilla Belle, age 12.

I mentioned in my review for The Secret Garden (1949) that The Secret Garden (1993) is one of my very favorite child-actress movies. It's worth repeating that here, because Back to the Secret Garden - released 90 years after the book was published - isn't just a ( Read more... )

Film: Premonition (2007). Young Actresses: Courtney Taylor Burness, 10, and Shyann McClure, 6.

Courtney and Shyann have smallish roles as the two adorable daughters of a couple whose lives are unraveling in this awful, over-the-top movie. Their mom Linda (Sandra Bullock, Hope Floats) begins switching between alternate realities; one day, she wakes ( Read more... )

Film: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). Young Actress: Sarah Bolger, age 15.

It's safe to say that when a movie involves killing goblins with exploding tomato sauce, character development isn't its main focus. So obviously, you shouldn't go into this expecting Sarah to display the same caliber of acting that she did in In America. Still, The ( Read more... )

Film: Dark Water (2005). Young Actress: Ariel Gade, age 7.

It's no surprise that this film is from the same writer as The Ring, since the two movies have some similar plot elements and an almost identical visual style. All the outdoor scenes are overcast and rainy, all the indoor scenes are dimly-lit, and all the colors are dull and muted. ( Read more... )

Former child star Skye McCole Bartusiak was only 21 when she suddenly died on July 19. Her mother, Helen Bartusiak, maintained that Skye was healthy, did not drink or use drugs, and likely died from an epileptic seizure. Skye's longtime friend Abigail Breslin similarly defended her, posting to her Twitter page: "Rumors are just rumors, to everyone ( Read more... )

Former child actress Skye McCole Bartusiak never reached the child-star celebrity status that some of her contemporaries did. (I imagine her career might've been very different if she hadn't started out at the same time as another precocious little blonde girl, Dakota Fanning. Dakota's career had a rather eclipsing effect in the young actress world ( Read more... )

Well, this one hurts.

Former child actress Skye McCole Bartusiak was found dead in her Houston home on July 19, 2014. She was only 21. She still had so much life yet to live ( Read more... )

I love it when current/former child actresses get together onscreen, and right now, you can find three of them in one movie: Scream 4, released in theaters everywhere last month, stars actors from the original Scream franchise -- namely, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette. But joining them are 21st-century starlets Emma Roberts, Hayden ( Read more... )