I’ve added more 14 new pictures from August 3rd when Alexis was on the set of The Good Guy filming in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Flash of Genius is supposed to be premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. So this is news for all Canadians near Toronto.

Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival is pleased to announce the addition of 20 Special Presentations to the programming lineup for TIFF08, which runs September 4 through 13. These include films from critically acclaimed filmmakers Steven Soderbergh, Claire Denis, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Winterbottom, Kevin Smith, Danny Boyle, Barbet Schroeder, Charlie Kaufman and Max Färberböck and starring Jennifer Aniston, Greg Kinnear, Mickey Rourke, Adrien Brody, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Steve Zahn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Evan Rachel Wood, Zac Efron and Lauren Graham.

Ticket packages now on sale. Purchase online at tiff08.ca, by phone at 416-968-FILM or 1-877-968-FILM or in person at the Festival Box Office at Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor Street West (main floor, north entrance). Box Office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival runs September 4 through 13, 2008.

Flash of Genius Marc Abraham, USA
Canadian Premiere
Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’ (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the American automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. And while paying the toll for refusing to compromise his dignity, this everyday David tried the unthinkable: to bring Goliath to his knees. Flash of Genius also stars Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney and Alan Alda.

source: tiff08.ca (Thanks Jen to email me about it)

On July 27th, Alexis was seen leaving a press junket for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 at the Regency Hotel in New York City.

Finally I’ve added the screencaps from Alexis’s appearance at MTV’s TRL, also you can download the videos here. (I’ve having problems to upload the videos but hopefully they will be up soon)

Bonds of ‘Sisterhood’ Are Still Strong

The film has four distinct storylines, held loosely together by the peripatetic pants, which get FedExed around the globe. Along the way, the friends deal with Issues (mental illness, a suicidal parent, fear of intimacy, burgeoning sexuality, strained friendship, missing magic pants), and, thanks to the talent and humor of its young stars, you don’t mind that everything gets wrapped up a little too neatly by the end.

Full article here.

Catching up with Rory
Alexis Bledel talks mopeds and offers ‘Sister’-ly advice

Alexis Bledel isn’t your usual young actress. The star of the much-mourned “Gilmore Girls” series, who returns to the big screen in “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” as a member of a female foursome brought together by magical blue jeans, isn’t the tabloid presence a young woman in Hollywood often risks becoming — and she’s perfectly happy about that.
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Given that Bledel spent seven seasons as Rory Gilmore, the rising TV stars came to her for advice, right? “I don’t remember if anyone asked,” she says, laughing, “but I do remember contributing my two cents. ‘Oh, you’re going to be on a show? There goes your life.’ They’re all-consuming jobs, these series. And it’s nice that we’ve all had these experiences.”
Bledel, who attended New York University for writing and directing, is back in New York filming the independent feature “The Good Guy,” and returning to the Big Apple suits her just fine. “I love it,” she says. “I’m only here for six weeks, but I’m kind of deluding myself, pretending like I live here.”

Full article here.

Movie Review: “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″

Grab your best girlfriends and some classic junk food and get to your nearest theater A.S.A.P to see “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.”
I have to admit, I was a little skeptical going in to the film because this movie followed the tale of the fourth book, “Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.” The first movie (which I also loved) focused on the plot of the first book, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” So where were book two and three?
But my apprehensions fell away no more than three minutes into the movie. Even if you didn’t like the books, you can easily enjoy this tale about friendship and finding who you really are.

Full article here.

‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ is a Good Fit for its Audience

Where the first film found the friends finding a pair of jeans that bonds them together, the sequel is really about how their lives start drifting apart. Or at least start drifting in new directions. Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is at NYU studying film and struggling with having sex for the first time with her boyfriend. Lena (Alexis Bledel) is getting over a broken heart, which means allowing herself to fall for the nude model in her class at Rhode Island School of Design. Bridget (Blake Lively) finds a box of letters that inspires her to reform her relationship with her grandmother. Carmen (America Ferrera) goes to help a new friend at a private acting camp and ends up taking the stage herself.
Teenage girls are going to love this movie. It has a lot of shocking, shriek-worthy moments and features a heavy amount of male eye candy. The story deals real issues that will resonate well with that audience, and, since they are handled tastefully, parents are going to be happy. The boyfriends and husbands who get dragged along are not going to fall in love with it, but that’s no surprise.

Full article here.

Movie Review: ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′

You would think with all the television success Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel have had, they would be too big for their britches and would not want to do a sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”
Luckily for the fans of the books and the feature film, “Pants” is still a good fit for them.
“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″ is a sweet, sentimental and occasionally funny movie about four female friends. The friends are linked by a pair of magical pants they pass around like a note in the back of the classroom. It takes only a few minutes of seeing the four on screen to know it is the chemistry of the cast that makes the movie work.

Full article here.

Slipping back into her Traveling Pants
Before joining the Sisterhood and becoming a Gilmore Girl, Alexis Bledel was just a ‘gentle girl’ from Houston

Raised in Houston by her Mexican mother, Nanette, and Argentine father, Martin, Alexis Bledel learned Spanish first. She’d love to use it on camera.
“I think it’s a little tricky because in the States, when they want a Latin actress, they want someone who looks sort of stereotypically Latin,” she says. “But I think I can get away with playing a Spanish or Argentine character. I really hope I get to do that someday.”
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Also generating uncertainty is the Screen Actors Guild’s threatened strike. “I definitely don’t want to work if we’re trying to stand for something,” she says.
Though she asserts she is not an activist, she has been looking for a good cause to put her heart into. “A lot of times charities just want an actor to lend their name. I actually want to know everything about what I’m promoting and be involved directly.”

Full article here.

Talking with the ‘Sisterhood 2′ Stars
Premiere caught up with the smart and funny stars of ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ to talk about growing up, keeping in touch, crazy rumors, Planned Parenthood, and positive female friendships.

Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, and Amber Tamblyn have grown up since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005, and so have their careers.
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Alexis Bledel: The donkeys were fun. The donkeys were whatever. They’re easy. You just sit on them.
Alexis Bledel: We just have fun working together. I know that in the first movie they kind of got out of our way, and whatever we were lucky to have as chemistry ourselves, they really let it come through. And in this movie there was more of that.
Amber Tamblyn: Alexis, talk about how much you like me. Come on, spit it out.
Alexis Bledel: Just trying to stay in touch as you get older is difficult. That’s something we’ve all probably had to deal with.

Full article (6 pages) here.

Warner Bros. Records released the original soundtrack to Alcon Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment’s new film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, on August 5th, one day before the movie hits theaters nationwide.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 – Soundtrack features music by Cyndi Lauper, Missy Higgins, Craig David, Hot Hot Heat and Eric Hutchinson, whose song “Rock & Roll” will be the first single off the album. The soundtrack contains one original track, a previously unreleased song by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Michelle Branch, who was inspired to write her contribution, “Together,” after seeing a cut of the film.

“Michelle reached out to us early in the process as she was interested in writing a song; while her label, Warner Bros. Records, was releasing the soundtrack,” says the film’s music supervisor Julia Michels. “It was very organic how the music picture came together. Michelle wrote the perfect song for the end titles, and a number of other artists on Warner Bros. Records also worked well on the soundtrack for the film. The movie has wonderful music that serves the film brilliantly.”

If you want to purchase the CD, go here. The track-listing for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 – Soundtrack is as follows:

“Rock & Roll” - Eric Hutchinson
“Together” - Michelle Branch
“Sunset Man” - James Otto
“No One’s Aware” - Jack Savoretti
“Warm Whispers” - Missy Higgins
“Friday Night” - Craig David
“Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit)” - Noisettes
“5 Times Out Of 100″ - Hot Hot Heat
“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” - Cyndi Lauper
“You Are Mine” - Mute Math
“Strange & Beautiful (I’ll Put A Spell On You)” - Aqualung

More pictures from Monday, Alexis and her sisterhood co-stars appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live and 21 pictures have been added, more to come:

Alexis has begun filming her latest movie, a romantic comedy entitled The Good Guy, in New York City and some pictures are in the gallery, more to come.

Alexis Bledel and her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 co-stars Blake Lively, America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America yesterday to help promote the sequel to their criticially-acclaimed 2005 effort, which opens in theaters August 6. I’ve added 8 HQ pictures from the appearance, plus 200 captures. and you can watch the video here.

Four starlets, one pair of pants

Magic pants can’t take away all of your problems. Especially when they involve a motorized bike on rocky Grecian terrain.
And unfortunately, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 stars America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn have the scars to prove it.
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Now a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Lena gets caught in a love triangle with studly — and nude — art school model Leo (Jesse Williams) and her Greek boyfriend Kostos (reprised by Michael Rady).
“She needs a little help,” Bledel laughs.

Full article here.

‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′ is a fit accompli

Thanks to the “Sex and the City” quartet, the chick flick went from Hollywood also-ran to bona fide blockbuster this summer - and that movie’s success is likely to help another all-girl power foursome when “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″ opens Wednesday.
There’s arty, idealistic dreamer Lena (Alexis Bledel), Charlotte York with a Greek twist;
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Alexis Bledel is as reserved as her onscreen alter ego. Arty Lena might be silent out of shyness, but Bledel is clearly a sardonic wit. And she’s a sports nut on whose soccer team Ferrera tried to earn a spot.
Bledel is in New York now to film a movie, “The Good Guy,” and both Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn chide her playfully for not having called after more than two weeks in town.
“You’re busy dude, and I had a rough couple of weeks,” says Bledel, promising to make up for it.

Full article here.

‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants’: Girls gone mild

In an era when young Hollywood has gone wild, the “Sisterhood” remains mild.
Bledel and Tamblyn are equally good girls who have not even warranted an Enquirer cover. “I have a general disinterest in that life. It’s not interesting to me,” says the cerebral Tamblyn.
Adds the former Rory Gilmore, “I’m a pretty low-key person.”

Full article here.

Different tracks, same ol’ slacks

Regardless of their reversal of fortunes, all four women agree that their group chemistry remains the same for the sequel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, which opens on Wednesday.
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“This film was a little tricky because it was three books all in one movie,” 26-year-old Bledel notes. “There was a lot of material. But the things that were important to us about our characters, they let us keep, so hopefully it comes across.”

Full article here.

Actress Alexis Bledel Thrives On A Breakneck Work Schedule, And That’s A Good Thing Lately

When the makers of the original “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” movie saw that their sequel option was expiring, the preparation went into hyperspeed.

“It was hectic; it was crazy,” Alexis Bledel says. “It was evolving as we were shooting it.”

What could have been unnerving was business as usual for Bledel.

From 2000 to 2007, she conquered the fluid domain of series television as the pragmatic yet ambitious Rory Gilmore, who had machine-gun banter with her single mom on “Gilmore Girls”.

“Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2,” opening Wednesday, is Bledel’s first movie since the WB drama comedy went off the air. She will appear in Fox Atomic’s “The Post-Grad Survival Manual” next year.

“I like change,” she says. “So going from one job to another is really exciting for me after all these years.”

Bledel turns 27 in September and looks like the same Rory, with otherworldly blue eyes that invite the corniest of metaphors. Her dog Sophie, a Maltese-chihuahua mix, sniffs about and yelps on occasion. The actor’s manager and publicist sit to the side, texting and checking e-mails. It’s a busy room, even by Manhattan hotel standards.

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I’ve added 25 LQ pictures from the Tony Kim photoshoot, they were taken for InStyle August.