Maya Entertainment has picked up international rights to the rom-com Café starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Kennedy and Alexa Vega.

Sales head Elias Axume is talking to buyers here on writer-director Marc Erlbaum’s debut about a ravishing coffee shop employee who impacts on the lives of those around her, including a drug dealer and a young woman.

Café is the first film to emerge from Nationlight Productions and was produced by J Andrew Greenblatt, Erlbaum, Sean Covel and Chris Doc Wyatt.

Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content and Alexis Garcia of WME Global brokered the deal on behalf of the producers with Maya’s Tonantzin Esparza.

“Maya Entertainment is pleased to be a part of this unique comedy that sheds a light on how intertwined our everyday lives and communities really are,” Axume said. “Marc has created a wonderful story that at its heart has a dynamic performance by Ms Hewitt.”

Source

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT has landed her dream job – she has been hired to cover the red carpet at the final TWILIGHT movie premiere for TV show ACCESS HOLLYWOOD.

The die hard fan revealed she has yet to meet Twilight hero Robert Pattinson after he snubbed her at a photo signing, and now TV bosses have stepped in to make her wish come true.

Appearing on Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday (01Feb11), the actress told host Billy Bush, “I actually waited in line to take a picture of him (Pattinson) after the very first premiere for, like, an hour and 15 minutes and, as I got up to take my picture, they were like, ‘Robert, are you tired?’ He’s like, ‘Yes’, and he left.”

But then Bush offered her the job of a lifetime, asking Hewitt if she’d be interested in reporting on the red carpet at the next Twilight premiere.

Thrilled Hewitt screamed and said, “Are you kidding? Really…? Oh my God… This is amazing… I’m gonna get (vampire) teeth… I’m gonna get him (Pattinson) to sit on my lap.”

Source

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Dita von Teese are among the lineup of saucy sirens dressing in red to walk the runway at the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection celebrity fashion show.

USA TODAY’s Cindy Clark reports that joining Hewitt, who will wear Max Azria, and a Zac Posen-clad von Teese are Audrina Patridge in Badgley Mischka, Cat Deeley in Alberta Ferretti, Garcelle Beauvais in Monique Lhuillier, Linda Gray in Pamella Roland, Patti LaBelle in Zang Toi and Stephanie March in Oscar de la Renta.

The fashion show, which is held to raise awareness for heart disease, will kick off Fashion Week on Feb. 9 at New York’s Lincoln Center.

Beginning tomorrow, select dresses from the 2010 runway worn by celebrity models will be up for auction. This year’s dresses will go online after the show, with proceeds to benefit the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and their efforts related to women’s heart health awareness and research. For more information, visit www.clothesoffourback.org/thehearttruth.

Don’t forget that Jennifer Love Hewitt is starring in the TV movie “The Lost Valentine”, TONIGHT on CBS at 9:00pm! Make sure you tune in and/or set your DVR’s to see this all new movie starring Love!

Sadly, Jennifer Love Hewitt did not win the Golden Globe Award for “Best Actress for miniseries or made-for-TV movie” at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. She lost the category to actress Claire Danes.

While this is a disappointment, Love has a long career ahead of her and I’m sure this will not be her last Golden Globe nomination!

The first photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt arriving at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards are slowly coming in. I have just created a preview image for everyone to check out Love’s outfit/style at the awards! Will be adding actual photos from the event later tonight.

Jennifer Love Hewitt will make her feature directorial debut in an adaptation of family ghost story “Wait Till Helen Comes” through Hewitt’s Fedora Films and Just Believe Prods.

Producers are Hewitt and producing partner A.J. Rinella with Victoria Sanchez Mandryk co-producing and Manuel Freedman exec producing. Producers are eyeing a summer start.

Sanchez Mandryk has penned the script for “Wait Till Helen Comes,” based on the novel by Mary Downing Hahn, which centers on a 12-year-old girl who’s the eldest of three children in a blended family that moves from Baltimore into a house converted from a church in the Maryland countryside. The tormented ghost of a little girl comes to haunt the 12-year-old but forms an intimate though dangerous friendship with her seven-year-old stepsister.

She directed several segments of “The Ghost Whisperer.” She and A.J. Rinella have set up “Bad Taste in Men” at ABC and an untitled comedy at Fox, as well as a series adaptation of her TV film “The Client List” at Lifetime.

WME, which reps Hewitt, is packaging “Wait Till Helen Comes.”

Source