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Hello all my fellow Kristen fans! Kristen Bell’s new movie When In Rome is now in theaters!!

Everyone please go make sure to catch this sure to be hilarious movie and let’s make this a huge success for Kristen!!

If you have seen the movie already please post in the comments your thoughts and opinions on the movie!!

Italy would’ve been nice and all, but we were more than happy to walk on over to the lower-Manhattan set for the scoop on the new fantastical romantic comedy When in Rome. Kristen Bell plays an love-weary “gallerina” who, while in Rome for her sister’s wedding, steals coinage from a “fountain of love” and is soon being chased by a band of suitors (they’re played by Will Arnett, Jon Heder, Dax Shepard and Danny De Vito, though we’ll say the odds-on favorite is the above-the-title Josh Duhamel). Here’s our traveler’s guide to — OK, 10 fun behind-the-scenes facts from — ‘Rome.’

1 female star + 5 male stars = More funny.
What clearly separates Rome from your average rom-com is the addition of the wildcard suitors in Shepard as a model, Arnett as a painter, Heder as a street magician and De Vito as a sausage king (actual occupation). “They’re all very unique and very eccentric,” Bell said. “So when they come together, the scenes with them just interacting is hysterical.” At first Duhamel feared, as the straight man, he’d be “the most boring character in the movie,” but his journalist Nick was bestowed one idiosyncratic characteristic: He has no peripheral vision. And tunnel vision is funny.

Filming rom-coms is dangerous.
You wouldn’t think a romantic comedy would be all that physically grueling for one of the stars of Transformers, but Duhamel had a trying experience shooting one of Rome’s only stunt shots, which required him to get hit by a car, roll onto the hood and tumble off it in NYC’s highly trafficked Columbus Circle, near Central Park. “The first couple times I go ass over teakettle into the street,” he said. Even worse, the actor had to perform the scene in front of a massive crowd, which included his father, who playfully taunted him with each gaffe. It’s not surprising a video of the shot surfaced on YouTube claiming Duhamel had been hit by an actual car while filming. “I figured that might happen because there were so many people watching,” he said. Maybe it was his dad.

Bell got a workout.
In the scene we watched filmed — during the Italian wedding of Beth’s sister Joan (Alexis Dziena) — Bell struggles frantically to smash an antique vase against the floor, a local matrimonial tradition (“the number of pieces symbolize the years of happiness you wish for the bride and groom,” the actress explained). She failed repeatedly, one take after the next. Could she ever hope of breaking the prop vase? “No, it’s rubber,” Bell said before deadpanning, “It’s indestructible, like my spirit.”

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Kristen Bell is one of our fave Hollywood gals, and not just because she gave us a sexy Josh Duhamel love-status report!

First off, Kristen’s adorable (yes—we’re superficial), and she knows how to be the Girl Next Door while also having that slightly naughty appeal. Clearly, it’s a balance she’s picked up from boyfriend (and regular Blind Vicer) Dax Shepard.

We recently caught up with K.B., who stars alongside Dax and that other sexy bad boy, Josh Duhamel. Fergie’s man and Kristen both star in the upcoming rom-com, When in Rome.

Listen to Kristen downright salivate as she gabs:

Let’s cut straight to the point—we know your boyfriend’s in the flick, but Josh Duhamel. Wow.

They’re both awesome guys. Josh is maybe the prettiest male ever to walk the earth! He’s gorgeous, right? Man.

And the gorgeous ones are always the ones who get into trouble…
No, Josh is amazing. Seriously, just a really good person.

Clearly we understand what Fergie sees in him…those eyes.
The funny thing is no one is going to realize how funny Josh Duhamel is. You have no idea! Honest to God, he might be the funniest guy in the movie. He’s somehow convinced he’s not funny, but he’s hilarious! He’s a comedian in this movie, not the heartthrob.

So no one had to twist your arm to sign alongside such a stud like Josh and, oh yeah, and your boyfriend, too!
Right! But also five guys revolve around the girl [played by Bell in When in Rome], and she didn’t want any of them. I really liked that message. So many times we see the heartbroken girl, or the girl who needs the guy to complete her, and [Bell's character] didn’t want any of that.

Still, if we didn’t know how much K.Bell hearted her Dax, we’d think she had a little bit of a crush on her dreamy costar!

Can’t blame her though, who wouldn’t? But Fergie has nothing to worry about…with Kristen, that is.

Source: E! Online

In the romantic comedy When in Rome, Beth (Kristen Bell) is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. Disillusioned with romance, she travels to Rome, where she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of live. The coins attract an assortment of odd suitors, including a sausage merchant, a street magician and an artist. But, when a persistent reporter throws his hat in the ring, she wonders if his love is the real thing.

During a press conference to promote the film, co-stars Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel talked about how much fun they had making When in Rome together.

Q: Kristen, are you as much of a workaholic as your character? If you met a guy, would he have to be as important to you as your job?

Kristen: I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don’t know that I’d say I’m a workaholic because I also love relaxing. I don’t think I’m a workaholic, but currently I feel I’m at a really lovely place and I’m grateful to be where I am, so I like working too.

Q: Your character doesn’t believe in magic or superstitions. What about yourself?

Kristen: I’m not very superstitious at all. I never have been. I’ll walk under ladders.

Josh: One of her hobbies is breaking mirrors, in fact.

Kristen: Absolutely! I like to smash mirrors, any chance I get. No, I’m not superstitious at all.

Q: Kristen, how was the experience of carrying this film for you?

Kristen: First of all, being surrounded by these guys was so flattering because they all have a style of comedy that I just really envy and often laugh out loud at them. I was grateful for the opportunity. I’m glad that they had the faith in me to be able to pull it off, and I just tried to do the best I could.

Q: Josh, you had the opportunity in this to exercise the physical comedy muscle that people haven’t often seen you do, with all of the pratfalls. How was it to get the opportunity to do that? Was that fun or did you worry about hurting yourself?

Josh: (Director) Mark Steven Johnson worried about me hurting myself more than I did.

Kristen: We took out a huge policy on his face, before we started this movie.

Josh: If Mark and I had any arguments in this film, it was for that. There was a scene where I was supposed to run into this car, but the stunt coordinator had it set up where the car was going to sweep out my leg, I was going to roll under the front of the hood and roll up onto the windshield, and look in and see that it was my friend, Puck (Bobby Moynihan). It wasn’t the most well-conceived stunt ever performed, and it took us a few times. The first two times we did it, I literally went right over the top of the car. One time, I fell on my shoulder and neck. And then, another time, I fell some other way over the other edge of the car. They almost pulled the plug on the stunt, but I talked Mark into letting me do it one more time because I’d figured it out and when we did it right. We literally took out the windshield on the front of the car. But, this was more in line with the way I am, anyway. I’m more of a klutz than anything, so I just had a lot of fun coming up with as much stuff as we could.

Q: Kristen and Josh, what was it like to do a romantic comedy together? How did you build that relationship enough, so that it pays off in the end for the audience?
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Kristen Bell will be making a few appearance this week, check them out!!!

January 26, 2010 – Jimmy Kimmel Live
January 27, 2010 – Lopez Tonight
January 29, 2010 – Regis & Kelly

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) — It looks like “Veronica Mars” won’t be heading to the big screen.

“No,” creator Rob Thomas told me when I asked if the much-ballyhooed movie project is ever going to happen. “I would write it if anyone would finance it. If anyone’s interested in making that movie I am available, Kristen’s [Bell] available. I would love to do it. I think the closest we came was Joel [Silver] pushing it at Warner Bros. and they didn’t bite. It has sort of gone away.”

Thomas was at the TCA Winter Press Tour on Saturday as part of Starz’s promotional efforts for the second season of “Party Down” where I managed to snag a few minutes of his time following the panel.

“I get Google Alerts on ‘Veronica Mars‘ and I see this non-stop sort of messaging about the movie,” he continued. “And I’ve heard things, like I read an interview [where] I think Kristen’s telling people I have written the script. I have a treatment, I don’t have a script. So she shouldn’t have jumped the gun on that but I am ready to write a script.”

I just read that Kristen will have return as a guest on season 2 of Party Down on IGN.com webpage:

Besides Guttenberg and Lynch, other Season 2 guest stars include Kristen Bell, returning as rival caterer Uda, who is not dating Henry, along with Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) and J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man). Enbom noted that David Wain (Role Models) is directing one episode, while his fellow The State alum Marino is directing the season finale.

Kristen did an interview for Health Magazine and she is feautured in the January issue. We have found one incredible outtake from the shoot and she just looks so fantastic, you can view it here.

She’s the voice of Gossip Girl, the Sarah Marshall that Jason Segel had trouble forgetting, and the love interest of some surprising suitors in her new movie When In Rome.

But Kristen Bell, 29, has some more tricks up her white cotton J.Crew sleeve: she is not afraid to stand up in a crowded restaurant during breakfast to demonstrate her favorite workout moves, and is so knowledgeable about the caloric and fat content of every food item she mentions, she could be an iPhone App!

Over an egg-white breakfast burrito, the Midwest-born vegetarian—currently two years into her relationship with actor Dax Shepard—chats with Health about everything from Madonna arms (she’s a fan) to the real secret to a happy relationship.

Q: In your upcoming film When In Rome, you fish some coins out of a magic fountain and end up with some unexpected love interests. Have you ever been surprised to like someone you didn’t expect?

A: Not really, because looks don’t matter that much to me, so I kind of give everybody a chance. When I was single, my eyes were always open. There was nobody off the list. When my gut told me to date, I followed it. And sometimes it was someone I never would have picked out of a lineup. I find weird people really interesting. There’s nothing interesting about a normal person.

Q: What is the best and worst part of having a limited diet as a vegetarian?

A: I don’t find it limited at all, I really don’t. For some people it will make you feel great, and for me, it works. I think you have to listen to your body. If you’re eyeing the cheesecake, just have a little bit. Work on being satisfied with one bite and not blacking out and having the entire pie—which I’ve fully done before. I don’t believe in depriving yourself. I think life is too short … and so am I. [laughs]

Q: How do you measure health?

A: I never step on the scale, because I don’t believe weight is a measure of health. I have too many girlfriends who’ve been curvy and voluptuous and healthy in every possible way to take any of that body bullshit seriously. It’s ironic that I would be saying that, because I was blessed with a very fast metabolism. But women that wear womanly curves like [Mad Men's] Christina Hendricks? She is the epitome of sexy to me. She’s got boobs and a butt for days, and she works it. I just think it’s beautiful.

Q: Got any healthy snacking secrets?
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