Jennifer Lawrence, the insanely attractive 19-year-old star of the award-winning indie-drama Winter’s Bone, has been cast in Mathew Vaughn’s eagerly anticipated X-Men origins reboot X-Men: First Class. Lawrence will play sexy shape-shifting mutant Mystique (played by Rebecca Romijn in the original X-Men trilogy).

Lawrence joins a cast that includes Alice Eve as Emma Frost, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Caleb Landry as Banshee, Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Prof. Charles Xavier. Kevin Bacon has also signed on to star as the film’s villain (possibly Mister Sinister according to internet rumors).

X-Men: First Class will go into production next month in London. Twentieth Century Fox has scheduled the film for release on June 3, 2011.

Lawrence is also set to headline A Bigger Boat’s new frightener House at the End of the Street. She plays a teen girl caught up with a boy whose family was murdered.

Burlesque troupe Devil’s Playground returned to the stage on July 10th to perform their popular Star Wars themed striptease show at The Music Box theater in Hollywood, CA. However, a disturbance in the force—namely a cease-and-desist letter from Lucasfilms’ antipiracy department—has strong-armed troupe founder Courtney Cruz into making some notable changes to the act.

For starters, the Star Wars costumes have now been feminized with touches of glitter and pink. Names have been changed as well (i.e. Princess Leia is now Princess Slaya, Chewie is now Chunky). The stage show also features girlier props such as giant lipstick canons and the addition of an intergalactic smuggler named Juan Cholo.

I’m not sure if the show’s new tweaks will get Lucasfilms off the dancers’ tattooed asses, but it’s a hell of a Wampa step in the right direction. Watching Sith Lords, wookies, and Imperial stormtroopers strip down to their frilly panties is just not my cup of blue milk.

Everyone loves TIE chicks!

That said, I would totally buy a 2-for-1 lap dance from that TIE Bomber! Just look at those Twin Ion Engines. They gotta be real.

Don’t forget to check out the Devil’s Playground dancers on video. To see former Playboy Playmate of the Year Sarah Jean Underwood do Star Wars right in the sexiest Princess Leia car wash ever, click here.

Now, enjoy some solo time (photos courtesy of LA Weekly):

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Dimension Films have updated their Piranha 3-D viral marketing website, Wild Wild Girls, with nude photos of porn-star-turned-almost-actress Riley Steele in a brilliantly shameless effort to bait chronic masturbators moviegoers to see director Alexandre Aja’s remake of Joe Dante’s 1978 original.

(UPDATE: SEE RILEY MOTORBOAT KELLY BROOK HERE)

Of course, seeing nude pictures of a porn star is like seeing your sister naked—you’ve seen it all before, but it’s nice to know it’s there. But, I digress.

Steele and costar Kelly Brook are  profiled on the site as their party-girl characters Crystal and Danni, respectively. The gorgeous duo also share a nude underwater scene in the flick.

In June of ’09, Riley told AVN:

Kelly Brook is hot. She’s a brunette with natural boobs—she plays Danni. We’re Wild, Wild Girls, but her character is tamer than mine. I’m the crazy girl always out to have fun.

I was nervous when I got this role because I’m not an actress; I’m a porn star. But, luckily, everything that I say is very natural. Crystal is a Girls Gone Wild type of personality. She’s always trying to get girls naked with her and have fun. It’s a very comfortable role for me.

Piranha 3-D stars Elisabeth Shue (Hollow Man), Ving Rhames (Day of the Dead), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Jerry O’Connell (”Sliders”), Richard Dreyfus (Jaws), Adam Scott (The Return), Dina Meyer (Saw IV), Jessica Szohr (House at the End of the Drive), and Hostel director Eli Roth.

The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 20.

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Warner Bros. held the Los Angeles premiere for director Chris Nolan’s Inception earlier this week at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA. Sadly, I was unable to attend as I was too busy purchasing my 2-for-1 Sorcerer’s Apprentice tickets at Fandango (Yeah, it’ll probably blow, but nothing in Inception will be as eye-popping as Monica Bellucci, baby).

Joining Nolan on the red carpet were the film’s stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard (in an insanely hot formfitting dress), Ellen Page, Joseph Gordan-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Lukas Haas, blonde stunner Telulah Riley and Ken Watanabe.

Other celebs on hand included a bra-less AnnaLynne McCord, Twilight’s Kellan Lutz, Matrix babe Carrie-Ann Moss, Djimon Hounsou, a pregnant Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), “The Bachelor’s” Erica Rose and her enormous breasts, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ Asian ex-wife Kimora Lee, and soap star Sharon Case.

Peep the gallery (courtesy of Zimbio):

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Laura Vandervoort is swooping into “Smallville” this fall for a special final season episode that will have the stunning 25-year-old starlet reprising her role as Supergirl. Vandervoort was introduced as Superman’s Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-El during the long-running hit show’s 7th season.

The Supergirl episode is scheduled to air in October and marks Vandervoort’s return to the series since appearing in season eight’s “Bloodline.” Producers for the CW program are also bringing back former series regular John Schneider (Clark Kent’s dad) for one or two episodes.

“Smallville” begins its tenth and final season on Sept. 24.

Vandervoort currently stars as alien-visitor Lisa on ABC’s “V.”