Tuesday, June 10th, 2008, the Hollywood stars were out for the gala premier of M. Night Shyamalan’s THE HAPPENING - heart-pounding paranoid thriller about a family on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind . . . but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.

Sometimes there are interview opportunities and there are interview opportunities. Consider the circumstances that came up with covering this sort-of horror/suspense film, "THE STRANGERS." A great trailer suggests a film that ratchets up the personal anxiety through the assault of three strangers who threaten and eventually attack a couple—in this case played Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman—late at night in an isolated suburban home. Supposedly "Inspired by A True Story" (so the film is tagged), it stimulates another round of fear for unknown vacation towns that was stirred by "Funny Games." Great fare to start off the summer season.

After being a crucial member of the "Lord of The Rings" trilogy and the star-girlfriend in "Armageddon," Tyler established her presence among the genre-geeks. But marriage, child-bearing and a pending divorce took her out of the spotlight until the release of this film and the upcoming "The Incredible Hulk." Speedman had garnered fan credos as the werewolf/vampire hybrid in the "Underworld" series as well as parts in various genre flicks as "Anamorph," "Weirdsville" and a sequel to "xXx."

Regardless of the fact that “THE STRANGERS” is made by an unknown, first-time director (Bryan Bertino), interviewing the stars together can be complicated at best. In between a little fooling around and the actors provided us with some some insightful comments and thoughts about the film.

With his easy manner and disaffected attitude towards his good looks it comes as no surprise that 26 year-old actor English actor Ben Barnes was tapped to star as the lead of "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." Having had a small part in Neil Gaiman's "Stardust," his career path didn't immediately suggest he was a likely candidate to play this heroic yet flawed character in the mythic Narnia saga (written by the late British author C. S. Lewis).

At the time of his auditioned for this film, Barnes was set to tour with the National Theatre's production of "The History Boys." Narnia director Andrew Adamson did not expect to cast a British actor as Caspian, but he noted that the young Londoner fit well into the surrogate family of Adamson and the four actors who played the Pevensies in the 2005's “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." In the series debut, set in 1940, the four Pevensie siblings - eldest brother Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and the youngest Lucy (Georgie Henley) – are evacuated to the country home of Professor Kirke (Jim Broadbent) avoid the devastating Nazi blitz of London. In the house they come upon an old wardrobe.

Former Teen Star Hilary Duff Redefines Herself in the Near-Future Satire WAR INC.

Premiering at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, the dark futuristic satire WAR INC. offers one helluva platform for former clean-queen pop star Hilary Duff to make a unique career move. Starring veteran actor John Cusack as covert assassin Brand Hauser —who works for the mega corporation Tamerlane which has been hired to wage a future war on insurgents in fictional Turaqistan — Duff plays Yonica Babyyeah, a Middle Eastern pop star about to be married to the son of Turaqistan's Emirate.

Through many twists and turns, master hard-guy Hauser finds out he has a deep bond with Babyyeah, one which makes them both abandon their careers and escape the craziness of the absurd war.