Taylor Lautner is a man of many talents. Not only does the 18-year-old Twilight heart-throb make women all over the world weak in the knees by flexing his muscles, he’s secretly an awesome gymnast who did all of his own stunts in the ensemble rom-com Valentine’s Day!

“Taylor did all of his own stunts, even that fall he took while running on the track field,” a Valentine’s Day insider dished to HollywoodLife.com exclusively. “But that’s Taylor.”

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, Taylor plays Willy, a high school track & field star who’s out to impress his cheerleader girlfriend, Felicia (Taylor Swift). While the couple is being interviewed for a local news program, Taylor L. shows off by doing a series of flips and tricks that looks worthy of an Olympic gold.

“Taylor is super-advanced at gymnastics,” our source said. “He learned it for karate…he’s like a ninja!”

No wonder Taylor Swift, 20, fell for her co-star during the shoot in July 2009…it was love at first flip!

SOURCE: Hollywood Life

Thanks to TaylorSwiftWeb.Net for these – they look so cute together:

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Even if most critics derided ‘Valentine’s Day’ as a barely-directed, poorly-acted, laughably-written bucket of candy-coated schmaltz, women still came out in droves to see it!

OK, so Citizen Kane this was not — nor was it even Love Actually, actually. But Valentine’s Day, which starred pretty much every star ever to appear on HollywoodLife.com, was exactly what women wanted at the movies over the Prez Day Weekend and on V-Day itself, and they bought $65 million worth of tickets to prove it, Deadline.com reports. So what if the critics battered it like a heart-shaped pinata? As Taylor Swift’s character in the flick would put it: Whatever.

Just like with New Moon and Dear John, young women totally ignored the critical opprobrium and went to see Valentine’s Day, despite its mostly silly dialogue, completely cut-and-paste plot development, and — oh, wait, was that Eric Dane’s bronzed chest? And Taylor Lautner doing backflips in a muscle shirt? And blonde Jessica Alba in a pair of sweet Louboutin pumps? Just like that box of chocolates most of them got sometime during the weekend, nutritive value was of no consequence.

As such, V-Day and Dear John and, still, Avatar made this four-day Presidents’ Weekend the highest-grossing ever, with $230 million in box office. Way to go girls!

SOURCE: Hollywood Life

Director Garry Marshall and his pack of A-list stars are on track to win the President’s Day weekend with the ensemble romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. Friday’s opening for the film starring Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper and many, many others is estimated at approximately $15 million, a number that is likely to reach over $50 million for the 4-day holiday frame. The other two new wide releases also opened to strong numbers, with dollar amounts that could push the frame into record-breaking territory. Early estimates show both Percy Jackson & the Olympians and the R-rated Wolfman opening on Friday to approximately $10 million. Fourth place for the day goes to Avatar. Early estimates show the massive grosser earning an additional $5 million for its 9th Friday in release. Rounding out the top five is the romantic drama Dear John which fell over 65 percent from last weekend’s opening day to approximately $4 million. Crushed by Valentine’s Day, Dear John is likely to earn $18 million for the four-day frame. Check back tomorrow for updated figures and have a happy Valentine’s Day.

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly

There’s actually not even a whiff of desperation about Valentine’s Day; the film skips along pleasantly, supremely confident in its own cuteness and utterly unapologetic about how shallow or contrived it might be. Whether his films are to your taste or not, Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, The Princess Diaries) has an undeniable gift for mainstream entertainment. His aim here is certainly somewhat self-congratulatory: an outtake that runs over the credits has Roberts, playing a military officer on leave to visit a loved one, quoting one of her most famous lines from Pretty Woman. (See the best movies of the decade.)

But the love goes both ways; nestled among Valentine’s Day’s multifarious plot lines is a love letter to the city and industry that made Marshall powerful enough to rally this kind of cast. He gives us a tour of Los Angeles’ scenic locations, from the canals of Venice to the sandy beaches of Malibu, with a dash of the urban thrown in: the Flower Market, Dodger Stadium and a street sign for No Ho, the cutesy name for the decidedly not cute North Hollywood. The script, by Katherine Fugate (Army Wives), also serves as a tour of the various components of the Hollywood dream factory. The characters include a cutthroat agent (Queen Latifah), an actress/poet (Anne Hathaway) who moonlights as a phone-sex operator and a neurotic publicist (Jessica Biel) whose most important client is a famous quarterback (Eric Dane). The cast runs the generational gamut, from teen pop star Taylor Swift, playing (rather charmingly) a high school dork, to the 75-year-old MacLaine, one of cinema’s reigning grand dames. It’s a small part, but MacLaine gets a romantic scene to cherish, necking with Hector Elizondo while her lovely, fresh young self — in footage from her 1958 film Hot Spell — is projected behind them at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. (More travelogue: the venue really does show old movies outdoors at night.)

The closest thing Valentine’s Day has to a lead is Ashton Kutcher, whom I’d have thought an implausible choice to anchor anything much more than a vehement Twitter response to the impetuous Meraz. But Kutcher is surprisingly endearing as Reed, a sweet florist trying to survive the busiest day of the year while negotiating his own love life with fiancée (Jessica Alba) and the complicated affairs of his best friend Julia (Jennifer Garner). Julia is dating Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey, who plays (what else?) a surgeon. Garner and Kutcher are so alike in looks — warm brown eyes, chiseled features and dimply smiles — that I mistook their characters for siblings. Hathaway and the Robertses — both Julia and her niece Emma, here playing a nanny to a lovesick little boy — could fit into that family as well. Clearly Garry Marshall has a type.

Even with all these characters buzzing about, Valentine’s Day is mainly a movie structured around moments, a few of them genuinely funny or surprising but most of the Hallmark variety. As a result, we never grow particularly attached to any of these people, but we’d like them to at least have a nice day. Yes, that is the most banal sentiment available, but that’s the kind of mood the movie puts you in.

SOURCE: Time.Com

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Added 2 new stills from Valentine’s Day.

As gooey and lacking in protein as a chocolate holiday bonbon, “Valentine’s Day” plays like a feature-length commercial produced by the Friends of the Valentine Promotional Society. Almost every scene is larded by talk of flowers, gifts, cards, restaurants and other ways to spend gobs of money on a single day, all delivered by a raft of attractive stars or semi-stars rotated on and off by director Garry Marshall. Never was there a film more release date-targeted than this one, which only means that, once opening weekend is gone, so will be the audience.

A compendium of lovers found, lost and avenged on a day designed to make you feel bad if you don’t have anyone, this would rate high on any list of pictures featuring the greatest number of talented actors given the least interesting things to do, as well as the most gaping differential between the beauty of many of the performers and the way they’re made to look.

It would be interesting to know why the New Line Cinema titles now released by Warner Bros. invariably look worse than actual Warner Bros. productions; the sets seem cheaper, the lighting gaudier, the color processing worse, the soundtrack compendiums patchier. All this does no favors to the parade of beauties here, as Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Anne Hathaway, Emma and Julia Roberts and Taylor Swift on the female side, and Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Jamie Foxx, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher and Taylor Lautner among the guys, have all been seen to better advantage elsewhere.

And that’s before they even open their mouths. Screenwriter Katherine Fugate had to have spent more time figuring out how to shuffle all the characters on and offscreen with a measure of balance and coherence than giving them anything amusing to say. Virtually all the women speak with the same snippy, frayed-nerves cadence, which most of the guys respond to with more bland agreeability — or, in a couple of cases, evasiveness — than imagination.

Only Hathaway gets a reprieve from the norm, playing a young woman who earns extra money providing “adult phone entertainment” in different accents. Tiresomely, however, her would-be b.f. (the underused Grace) is a Midwestern hick offended by the source of her needed income; the relationship could have been much funnier if, upon overhearing her lurid monologues, he got excited and aided and abetted her, or perhaps signed up for her services.

As it is, there is perhaps one surprise embedded in the extended romantic roundelay: Finding out her lover (Dempsey) is married, a betrayed woman (Garner) plots her revenge; a florist (Kutcher), through whose shop several of the characters pass, proposes to his g.f. (Alba), who may have mixed feelings; a neurotic publicist (Biel, who seems the least neurotic of actresses) guides her free-agent football star client (Dane) through a momentous press conference, at which a TV reporter (Foxx) plays a key role; a high school couple (Emma Roberts, Carter Jenkins) plot to lose their virginity over the lunch hour, while their classmates (Lautner, Swift) cavort on the playground; a fellow (Cooper) becomes intrigued by the identity of the person his airplane seatmate (an Army captain played by Julia Roberts) is traveling halfway around the world to see for one day; and a woman (Shirley MacLaine) ill-advisedly lets a long-hidden cat out of the bag as a Valentine’s Day gift to her husband.

Some teen viewers may be drawn by the lure of the two Taylors, but their time onscreen together arguably reps the film’s low point; Swift, especially, seems entirely undirected, as she jumps around, makes faces and jabbers on inanely. If she’s to have a film career, she needs to find a skilled director to tamp her down and channel her obviously abundant energy.

Marshall functions more as a benign host than as a disciplined director here, inviting his thesps to spend some profitable time at such scenic L.A. spots as the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the Bistro Gardens, Disney Hall, the Flower Mart, the dog park under the Hollywood sign, the Venice canals, Bob’s Big Boy and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where (as in real life) old movies are shown at night. The one in question here is the 1958 “Hot Spell,” in which the very young MacLaine is seen being romanced while the more mature version tries to reconcile with her hurt husband.

SOURCE: Variety.Com

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Little wonder Warner Bros’ New Line is in love with the Garry Marshall-directed Valentine’s Day because of its formula of cramming more than a dozen stars into a film and keeping the budget below $50 million. Now I’m told there’s a sort-of-sequel underway. Valentine’s Day scribe Katherine Fugate has turned in a draft of New Year’s Eve, which Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener are reading this weekend, with Warner Bros bosses to follow shortly.

I’m told that, during production, New Line execs Sam Brown and Michael Disco started brainstorming with producers Mike Karz, Wayne Allan Rice and Josie Rosen as well as writer Fugate on how to use the ensemble formula again. New Year’s Eve was the logical choice. They agreed the holiday possibilities are endless. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the franchise in the future is focused not just around major ones but even secondary ones like Arbor Day.)

Execs will enlist Valentine’s Day director Garry Marshall on the new pic, as well as bring in some VDay characters for continuity. Those actors will segue into the new New York-set relationship ensemble story that uses December 31st and a little after midnight on January 1st as the plotline’s ticking clock. So these days, when most films can barely afford even 2 major stars, how did Valentine’s Day keep down costs for the cast including Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Dempsey, Taylor Lautner, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah and Emma Roberts? I’ve learned most worked for discounted quotes and some back-end because they were able to film their parts quickly and then leave for other projects. All that talent makes for an impressive trailer (the one-sheet is so crowded that only thumbnails of the stars in the shape of a heart was possible), giving the illusion that the stars are in the pic from start to finish.

If Valentine’s Day opens the way Dear John did, the studio will be thrilled. And Toby Emmerich will be on a romance roll. The Warner Bros-based shingle gets 7.5% of Dear John’s first-dollar gross receipts, the reward for Emmerich having bought the Nicholas Sparks novel first and then completely packaging the love story (except he hired Miguel Arteta to direct). But his former bosses, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, didn’t like the project as much as he did. That’s when Dear John was snapped up by Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity and distributed by Sony’s Screen Gems.

SOURCE: Deadline Hollywood

The premiere of Valentines Day is later on Tonight (Feb. 8). Between myself and our good friend Stephen from Jessica-Biel.Org, we will be having up to the minute live coverage of photos and video from the premiere – this includes both Medium AND High Quality. Can’t wait!

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Even though IMDB claims that Taylor’s character is named Tyler Harrington in the movie Valentines Day, on the official movie site, which trumps IMDB – we find out that Taylor plays WILLY and Taylor plays FELICIA. Also here’s a promo from the V-Day photoshoot:

You might just be in luck!

The Grand Rapids Press is offering to collect gifts and cards for Taylor Lautner and send them over to his people in one, formidable bundle.

Of course, it’s not impossible to dig up Lautner’s fanmail address for yourself, but Grand Rapids is simply trying to make the process a bit easier.

They’re adding a few incentives to the bundle by randomly selecting submissions to receive movie tickets as well!

Click HERE to be a part of this.

SOURCE: Twilight Examiner

They put up another layout to the official site for Valentine’s Day. It looks like downloads and other things are coming soon to the site! I like this layout better than the old one – this one’s pretty sweet. Click HERE to enter the site

Can the New Year live up to what was a rotten old year for everybody but the movie business? There are never any guarantees that films will perform, and movies usually look best sight unseen.

On the other hand, the first half of ‘10 does include some franchise installments that should be safe box office bets — like “Iron Man 2,” “Shrek Forever After,” “Sex and the City 2″ and “Wall Street 2.”

Consider the possibilities:

January: The four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend (January 15-18) is the New Year’s first shot at beefy box office business. Warner Bros. hopes to score with “The Book of Eli.” Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes (“Menace II Society”), it’s a post-apocalyptic action-adventure starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. However: Will audiences want another post-apocalyptic vision?

WB’s thriller “Edge of Darkness” (January 29) could end January with a blast as Mel Gibson returns to action with Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”) directing. Gibson’s a Boston homicide detective whose daughter’s been murdered. However: How bright is Gibson’s post-DUI star power?

February: Fox’s fantasy adventure “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” arrives February 12. Directed by Chris Columbus (“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”), its ensemble cast is led by Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. Percy (Logan Lerman) is Poseidon’s son and on a quest to return Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt. However: The “Percy” books were written for juveniles. Can the movie pull in older teens?

New Line has the perfectly titled romantic comedy for Valentine’s Day in “Valentine’s Day,” directed by Garry Marshall (“Pretty Woman”) with an ensemble cast including Jessicas Alba and Biehl. Its intertwining tales of L.A. romance should be a magnet for women dragging their husbands and dates. However: It’s tough to engage audiences with multiple storylines.

SOURCE: ABC Net

1. Taylor Swift – Today Was A Fairy Tale
2. Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (I Love You)
3. Jools Holland and Jamiroquai – I’m In The Mood For Love
4. Willie Nelson – On The Street Where You Live
5. Sausalito Foxtrot – Everyday
6. Jewel – Stay Here Forever
7. Ben E. King – Amor
8. Amy Winehouse – Cupid
9. Maroon 5 – The Way You Look Tonight
10. Joss Stone – 4 And 20
11. Diane Birch – Valentino
12. Nat King Cole – Te Quiero Dijeste
13. Taylor Swift – Jump Then Fall
14. Black Gold – Shine
15. Steel Magnolia – Keep On Lovin’ You
16. Leighton Meester – Somebody To Love (featuring Robin Thicke)
17. The Bird and The Bee – I’m Into Something Good
18. Anju Ramapriyam – Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours

This awesome soundtrack releases on February 9!

There is a new poster that has been revealed for the upcoming movie Valentines Day! Also, they have a new layout up on the official website – click HERE to check it out along with stills from the movie (no Taylor is not in the stills).

And here is a new poster from the movie!:

It’s in German – but it’s the new trailer from the new movie Valentines Day released on February 12, 2010!

Added a ton more photos of Taylor and Taylor refilming their scene for Valentines Day:

Added new high quality, untagged images of Taylor Squared re-shooting a scene for their upcoming movie Valentines Day. Click below to view:

The rumored couple filmed a new scene for their upcoming appearances in the movie Valentines Day. Click below to view:

Mark February 12, 2010, on your calendars, people; for that day is likely to see the box-office battle of the century.

The Examiner reports that Twilight co-stars Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner will be facing off with each other for the hearts and dollars of moviegoers, as Remember Me and Valentine’s Day open on the very same day.

Remember Me, of course, is Rob’s upcoming romance flick co-starring Emilie De Ravin. Valentine’s Day, meanwhile, is the star-studded Garry Marshall film that features T-Laut getting hot and heavy with country warbler Taylor Swift.