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Divergent Many scoffed at predictions that Neil Burger's Divergent adaptation starring Shailene Woodley would open in excess of $65 million, citing recent Ya flops like The Host, Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments, but Fandango reports that the Ya sci-fi/actioner has already outpaced the first Twilight in advance first-day ticket sales. The movie also made the top five of must-see movies for 2014 in Fandango's fan-submitted survey, besting fanboy favorites like 300: Rise of an Empire and Need for Speed. Veronica Roth, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, praised the movie, saying that she "loved it" and "was completely absorbed by it." Divergent opens March 21st.

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Baby Avenger Now that Scarlett Johansson is expecting her first child with fiancé Romain Dauriac, it's unclear what will happen with her Avengers character. Johansson's Black Widow character, next appearing in Captain America: The Winter Soldier,...

In an age-appropriate role, Tempestt Bledsoe plays a mother of four in NBC's "Guys With Kids." Yet because of her baby face and growing up on "The Cosby Show," people expect her to somehow still be a child, frozen in time.

Bledsoe was Vanessa, the fourth of the five children on "The Cosby Show" (1984-92). Wearing a killer one-shouldered, body-hugging red dress and very high red heels, Bledsoe, 39, reflects on why she was able to resist the pitfalls that engulf so many child stars.

"I wanted to go to college on time, and I did," she tells Zap2it of attending New York University. "When Dr. Cosby found out I was doing that, he moved the shooting schedule" to accommodate her classes, she says.

Decades later, Bledsoe still beams when she says, "He put my grades on his dressing room door."

Bledsoe earned a degree in finance because "I wanted to do something different,...

Mere marketing tool, or thumping good read? Here, David praises the greatness of movie novelisations…

They’re the novels film buffs love to read, and collect omnivorously. The books take up at least a single shelf, and their collectors smile, impressed, at the way a multi-million dollar scene sparkling with special effects can be effectively emulated in prose. Or maybe that’s just me.

But seriously: haven’t you ever watched Lethal Weapon and thought, “This should have been a book!” If you ever have, then track down and pick up Joel Norst’s paperback version and see how he can make maverick cop Martin Riggs jumping off a building while clinging to a hysterical civilian just as breathtaking as when Mel Gibson does it onscreen.

Or how about when James Bond free-falls over a cliff in Goldeneye? Check out veteran Bond novelist John Gardner’s take on it. These scenes,...