Sarah Mitchell

Within days of the New York Times printing Brooke Hauser's June 22 article about the International High School in Brooklyn, producers were already fighting to abtain the rights of the article for a film adaptation. Among them, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were rumored to be opting such a project to Paramount.

Jack the Ripper, eat your heart out. The Yorkshire Ripper, aka Peter William Sutcliffe, terrorized West Yorkshire, England from 1975 to 1980, killing a total of 13 known women and assaulting many others.

You may not have heard of Jonathan Levine....yet. But you will. The helmer's latest feature, The Wackness, has already made a good amount of noise throughout the festival scene, winning the Audience Award at Sudance and the Los Angeles Film Festival earlier this year.

Many people will soon be asking, "Who is that cute kid?" when they open the latest issue of Radar Magazine, in which an older and much slimmer Josh Peck directs a puppy-dog gaze at the camera. The former kids' TV star, who was ½ of the Nickelodeon mega-hit show Drake & Josh, is breaking out of his shell big-time in the upcoming pic, The Wackness.

You probably know her as the bubbly sidekick to Ellen Page in last year's blockbuster Juno. But Olivia Thirlby is quickly making quite the name for herself. Appearing with Josh Peck in Vanity Fair's upcoming feature called "Hollywood's next wave", her performance in The Wackness has placed Thirlby among one of the hottest up-and-coming Hollywood youngsters around.