Kristen Bell is featured on the cover of the April 2012 issue of “Women’s Health” magazine!

Lily Collins, Kristen Bell, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff, Liana Liberato, Rusty Joiner and Patrick Schwarzenegger have joined the cast of Josh Boone’s directorial debut “Writers,” which will also feature a cameo by author Stephen King as himself.

Judy Cairo of Informant Media is producing the indie pic, which starts production next week in North Carolina.

Greg Kinnear stars as a famous novelist obsessed with his ex-wife, who will be played by Jennifer Connelly. Collins co-stars as their collegiate daughter who’s pursued by a fellow writing student (Lerman). Wolff will play Collins’ young brother, who’s in love with Liberato’s character. Bell will play Kinnear’s friend with benefits who tries to help him get over his ex-wife.

The dramedy, penned by Boone, interweaves the stories of the family members and their love interests over the course of one tumultuous year.

Informant’s Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner will exec produce with Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson of The Solution Entertainment Group, which is also handling international sales. CAA is handling U.S. rights for the film, which is produced in association with MICA Entertainment.

Collins next stars as Snow White in Relativity Media’s “Mirror Mirror.” Lerman will soon be seen in Summit’s coming-of-age drama “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” Wolff, who starred in the popular Nickelodeon series “The Naked Brothers Band,” co-stars in Bruce Beresford’s “Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding.” Liberato will soon be seen opposite Aaron Eckhart in Informant’s upcoming action-thriller “The Expatriate.” Bell, who currently stars on Showtime’s “House of Lies,” next appears in Relativity’s omnibus comedy “Movie 43.”

CAA reps Collins, Bell, Lerman, Liberato and Wolff, who’s managed by Untitled Entertainment. Lerman is managed by Lisa Lerman Management, while Bell is managed by Brookside Artist Management. King is repped by Paradigm.

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Kristen Bell has been cast in Some Girls, director Jennifer Getzinger’s adaptation of Neil LaBute’s play of the same name. Bell joins Adam Brody (Damsels in Distress) in the film, in which Brody plays a man who attempts to make amends with several ex-girlfriends on the eve of his wedding.

Bell plays Bobbi, a smart, articulate woman he bailed on years prior without a word, leaving her without respect or love for him.

After making her name as the star of the cult television series Veronica Mars, Bell starred opposite Jason Segel in the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Currently starring opposite Don Cheadle on the Showtime series House of Lies, Bell has lined up not one but two projects for the big screen. She is also set to provide the speaking and singing voice as the lead in Disney’s new animated feature Frozen. Directed by Chris Buck (Surf’s Up), the film is being produced by John Lasseter and Peter Del Vecho.

Bell is repped by CAA and Brookside Artist Management.

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Kristen Bell was at last summer’s Television Critics Association party for Showtime as she was just starting to film “House of Lies.” I asked her a few questions then, but now that I’ve seen the show I know how naughty she gets to be. On the TCA panel for the show’s premiere in January, I asked her some more informed questions, and included the two from last summer below as well.

Crave Online: How are you enjoying the naughty talk on the show?
Kristen Bell: Let’s just say I’m enjoying it. I’m f***ing enjoying the hell out of it. Sorry. No, it’s more provocative than anything I’ve ever done. And sometimes I have a potty mouth, and it’s just nice to not have those limitations.

Crave Online: Is the pace of “House of Lies” even faster than “Veronica Mars”?
Kristen Bell: I would say yes. Keeping up with the three of them and the dialogue that they write, yeah, I would say it’s a little bit faster.

Crave Online: Were you looking for another TV show and is cable very different from your network experiences?
Kristen Bell: I think so. I think that they’re not under the same restraints as network. They can go a little further with their subject matter, with what they show, with how provocative they are. So yeah, I think it is a little bit more interesting and I had my eye, I was looking for something to come back to TV.

It’s like a feeling like I’ve been away from home for too long and I love doing movies, but I look at TV like high school and movies like camp. You create these great relationships in movies in movies and then they sort of dissipate and you go on your way. I like knowing the crew that I work with, I like coming to the same job every day so it appeals to my emotional stability a lot more.

I think whatever you do that works, if you have good writers they pick up on it right away and they continue to write that for you.

Crave Online: Has that happened?
Kristen Bell: I think so. I don’t know, I’m not in the writer’s room but I hope that they’ve seen, “Oh, that works for her and that doesn’t.” I love where my character is going. I love it. It’s not like anything I’ve ever had before.

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After standing up for the underdog as the titular teenage private eye in Veronica Mars, Kristen Bell continues the good fight as a vocal LGBT ally. Currently starring as a smart and sassy management consultant on Showtime’s House of Lies — and as a news reporter in the big-screen whale tale Big Miracle — the 31-year-old Burlesque beauty and Gossip Girl narrator opens up for the first time about how marriage inequality has stalled her plans to wed fiancé Dax Shepard.

The Advocate: When did your relationship with the LGBT community begin?
Kristen Bell: I’ve always done musical theater, but I wasn’t necessarily aware of gay people while growing up in Michigan. I knew I was attracted to a certain male personality, but it was an unwritten love because no one in my high school was out of the closet. That’s why attending NYU was such a wonderful, joyous musical theater experience for me: About 70% of my friends during college were gay.

How did your upbringing inform your views on LGBT issues?
I didn’t know anyone who was openly gay, so it wasn’t addressed. I wasn’t taught to treat gays with respect; I was taught to treat everyone with respect, so I never grew up with a prejudice against any race or sexual orientation, and that’s the gift I was given. When I got to New York, I was like, “Wow, gay people are awesome!” It was a sort of celebratory acknowledgement of the acceptance my parents talked about.

You’ve supported Friendfactor, a social media website that connects straight allies with LGBT causes. You even wore an Old Navy gay pride T-shirt to the May 2011 launch event in New York.
Fuck, yeah. You bet your balls, I did. I hosted that event with Chelsea Clinton because I thought it was absurd that New York hadn’t passed a marriage equality bill yet. In about 10 years, knock on wood, I think we’re going to be embarrassed as a nation about our behavior on this issue. It’s going to be exactly like what happened in 1970, when people were like, “Whoa, 1960 sucked. We should’ve let everyone ride the bus.”

Friendfactor founder Brian Elliot mentioned in an interview that you dedicated your own Friendfactor Friend-setter page to one of your best gay friends.
I dedicated it to my friend Greg, who I went to college with. He’s been one of my best friends since 1998, and I love and adore him. After I moved to New York, a lot of lovely men and women that I knew started to come out of the closet, because they felt comfortable being in an atmosphere that was finally accepting of them. It breaks my heart when I think about what some of my gay friends have gone through. I’ve heard them say things like, “But I’m wrong, I’m a disappointment,” and none of it’s true, of course. There’s so much bullshit that idiots preach. No matter what your beliefs are, nobody is bad or wrong because of the way that they were born. Why anyone would tear anyone else down, especially for reasons that are so intimate, is beyond me. It almost doesn’t infuriate me as much as it confuses me.

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I have updated our photo gallery with 1,038 HQ and MQ images of Kristen Bell from all of the events that she has attended so far this year!

Kristen Bell was on the talk show “Chelsea Lately” this week – watch her interview below!

Kristen Bell isn’t going anywhere as Showtime’s ‘House of Lies’ has recently been announced as being renewed for the second season.

The show, also starring Don Cheadle, has only been on for about four episodes but is already one of the network’s highest-rated programs, states UsMagazine.com. ‘Shameless’ and ‘Californication’ have reportedly also been renewed for more seasons.

The network has commented on being pleased with all the shows and the growing audiences they are gaining.

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