DAMIEN LEWIS AND CLAIRE DANES TO HEADLINE SHOWTIME'S NEW SERIES "HOMELAND". ADORABLE NEW PIC AND POSTER FOR "SMURFS"

One of my favourite British actors, talented Damien Lewis (THE FORSYTHE SAGA, DREAM CATCHER, BAND OF BROTHERS, LIFE) will get his new TV show. According to "Beyond Hollywood" he will take the lead role in Showtime's HOMELAND, which comes from

the producers of 24 and will see Lewis as a former prisoner of war who returns home after 8 years in captivity, only to be suspected by the CIA of being a possible terrorist sleeper agent waiting to go batty on the homeland. Claire Danes will join him as a CIA agent.

A new picture from next years crazy adventure SMURFS, in which those adorable blue gnomes will visit Central Park, is here and it shows all of them - Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters), Smurfette (Katy Perry), Gutsy Smurf (Alan Cumming), Clumsy Smurf (Anton Yelcin)... The film also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Sofia Vergara and Hank Azaria as Gargamel. In the film, the evil wizard Gargamel will chase the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village and they will tumble from their magical world into Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down. The film comes out next August and it will be in 3D!

Meanwhile, HOLLYWOOD SPY is wishing you a smurfilicious Christmas Eve tonight in the cozy atmosphere of your shroom-houses away from Gargamel :)

ADORABLE ROMANTIC COMEDY "FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS" WITH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AND MILA KUNIS

Ah, here's my own most anticipated romantic film of the year FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS starring the irresistible couple Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. The trailer for this superb romantic comedy must be the sexiest and at the same time the most hilarious trailer I've seen in a long time. Justin, who is proving his stunning talent with every new film he makes, is absolutely flawless in it showing an astounding comical talent and charm, while gorgeous Mila Kunis is sexier and wittier than ever and definitely deserves some bigger roles in Hollywood.

Directed by Will Gluck (EASY A, FIRED UP) and premiering July 22nd, the film also stars Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Richard Jenkins,

Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Bryan Greenberg and Andy Samberg. The film follows a female headhunter (Mila Kunis), coming out of disastrous relationships, and her newest client turned best friend (Justin Timberlake) who make a "friends with benefits" pact vowing to stop the casual sex if either become emotionally attached. While the set-up works at first, soon the two friends fall in love and must reevaluate what they mean to each other.As you can see from the trailer, FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS has a lot of steamy scenes in which they are both naked, so here's what Mila said about shooting those scenes: We had two weeks worth of sex scenes to shoot. Justin would just

wear a sock that covered his frontal parts, so yeah, I could pretty much see everything. And I had tiny nipple pasties and a little pasty on my hoohah.We couldn’t have been more uncomfortable in the beginning, but by the fourteenth day, we’d just drop our robes, like, "Hey, how’s it goin?" Imagine having a job in which you would work with nude Mila or nude Justin :)

Both Mila and Justin had a successful 2010, she had a great performance in BLACK SWAN while he shined in THE SOCIAL NETWORK. Justin also has two other films coming out this year: sf action NOW (previously titled I'M.MORTAL) with Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde and Alex Pettyfer,  and crazy comedy BAD TEACHER with Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz.

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