Nicholas Hoult

Hugh Grant is being stared at. Paparazzi and fans he's used to, but this is a bit different. It's a sea lion perched on the edge of a water tank, its big brown eyes bulging beseechingly at Grant's cool blue ones. Grant stares back a bit uncertainly, then turns and says, "Stark, raving mad. They're probably insane, aren't they?"

Are Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult dating again? Well, pictures from one night out are hardly enough to judge by, but we do know the former couple had dinner together Monday night in L.A. (Hopefully Jack Nicholson wasn't too broken up about it.) "It looked like a date," an eyewitness to the outing at the Little Door restaurant told People, noting that they weren't openly affectionate. Lawrence, 22, and Hoult, 23, tried to avoid photographers by leaving the Little Door through the back door after spending a couple of hours together, but didn't succeed.

Looks as if Jennifer Lawrence and her on-screen alias have a little heroism in common. The actress, who played fierce warrior Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," saw an underage girl collapsed in front of her Santa Monica apartment building Monday evening, TMZ reported Tuesday. Wearing a black camisole, gray leggings and flip flops - she'd reportedly been walking her dog - the 21-year-old waited with concerned neighbors until the girl was treated and released from care on-site.

Continuing the recent trend of adapting fairy tales into effects-heavy adventure films - see also "Red Riding Hood," "Mirror Mirror," "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" - "Jack the Giant Slayer" arrives Friday with Bryan Singer in the director's chair and Nicholas Hoult in the title role. Alas, like many of its predecessors, "Jack" is not faring well with critics, many of whom find it generic and uninspired. (Note the many "fee-fi-ho-hum" puns cropping up in reviews.)

Continuing the recent trend of adapting fairy tales into effects-heavy adventure films - see also "Red Riding Hood," "Mirror Mirror," "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" - "Jack the Giant Slayer" arrives Friday with Bryan Singer in the director's chair and Nicholas Hoult in the title role. Alas, like many of its predecessors, "Jack" is not faring well with critics, many of whom find it generic and uninspired. (Note the many "fee-fi-ho-hum" puns cropping up in reviews.)

Having just turned 20, Nicholas Hoult -- son of a piano teacher mother and a now-retired commercial pilot father in Wokingham, Berkshire (about 13 miles west of London) -- has already marked 13 years in the business. He has evolved from the round-faced boy of BBC television episodes and the Hugh Grant film "About a Boy" to the angular, runway-handsome epitome of searching, youthful beauty in Tom Ford's "A Single Man." "Some people grow up, they think they know who they are and there's kind of a beat where suddenly nothing makes sense around them, why they're here on Earth," he says of his character Kenny, a student who shows an unusual interest in one of his professors (played by Colin Firth)

The new trailer for Bryan Singer's new fantasy film, "Jack the Giant Slayer," doesn't play coy with the goods. The last trailer showed only bits of the giants -- an eyeball here, a pool of rippling water there ("Jurassic Park"-style). But the new trailer shows the behemoths in full rampaging glory. There are two-headed giants, falling giants, giants with funny haircuts and even baking giants. Singer's film, which was originally titled "Jack the Giant Killer" and moved back to March 1, 2013, from its original opening date of June 2012, stars Nicholas Hoult as a farmboy who unwittingly reignites a centuries-old war between his people and the sky-dwelling giants.

Are Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult dating again? Well, pictures from one night out are hardly enough to judge by, but we do know the former couple had dinner together Monday night in L.A. (Hopefully Jack Nicholson wasn't too broken up about it.) "It looked like a date," an eyewitness to the outing at the Little Door restaurant told People, noting that they weren't openly affectionate. Lawrence, 22, and Hoult, 23, tried to avoid photographers by leaving the Little Door through the back door after spending a couple of hours together, but didn't succeed.

Leonardo DiCaprio isn't jumping on the marriage bandwagon any time soon, though "The Great Gatsby's" titular star concedes that it isn't totally out of the question. The Hollywood bachelor turns 39 in September and is pretty optimistic about his 40s being "right around the corner. " So what of settling down, getting married or starting a family? "I take it as it comes," the actor told Extra. "We'll see what happens in the future. We'll see what happens. ... I don't try to determine what the future will be. I take it day by day. " PHOTOS: 'The Great Gatsby' premiere DiCaprio has previously been linked to a slew of beautiful women, including supermodel Gisele Bundchen (now married to Tom Brady)

Mila Kunis has been voted FHM's sexiest woman in the world and is apparently "the perfect girlfriend" as well. Ashton Kutcher must be blushing with pride. The British men's mag released its annual list of 100 sexiest women on Wednesday that included a bevy of busty babes, with Kunis, Rihanna and British actress Helen Flanagan topping the list based on FHM's 2013 poll. Alas, Gwyneth Paltrow, People magazine's most beautiful woman of 2013, was nowhere on the list. PHOTOS: 50 most beautiful female celebrities "The nation has spoken, and the verdict is that she is officially the perfect girlfriend," said Dan Jude, FHM's 100 Sexiest Editor, said of Kunis.

Even with Hollywood's magic touch, zombies may never beat out those seductively stylish vampires for a Vanity Fair cover, but something about the unfashionable undead makes them ripe for irony in the right hands - so many possibilities lurk behind those blank stares. The right hands at the moment seem to belong to Jonathan Levine. The writer-director certainly has a good grip on what to do with those cold souls in "Warm Bodies," a surprisingly sentimental mash-up starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich.

Zombies are people too. Or they were, before they became the flesh-craving, brain-eating undead. The new film "Warm Bodies," opening Friday, is an unlikely hybrid of horror film and young adult romantic comedy that transforms a zombie apocalypse into a last stand for feelings. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Isaac Marion, adapted for the screen and directed by Jonathan Levine. Set in a future where many people have inexplicably turned to zombies, the story opens with a zombie narrator (Nicholas Hoult)

The new trailer for Bryan Singer's new fantasy film, "Jack the Giant Slayer," doesn't play coy with the goods. The last trailer showed only bits of the giants -- an eyeball here, a pool of rippling water there ("Jurassic Park"-style). But the new trailer shows the behemoths in full rampaging glory. There are two-headed giants, falling giants, giants with funny haircuts and even baking giants. Singer's film, which was originally titled "Jack the Giant Killer" and moved back to March 1, 2013, from its original opening date of June 2012, stars Nicholas Hoult as a farmboy who unwittingly reignites a centuries-old war between his people and the sky-dwelling giants.

Looks as if Jennifer Lawrence and her on-screen alias have a little heroism in common. The actress, who played fierce warrior Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," saw an underage girl collapsed in front of her Santa Monica apartment building Monday evening, TMZ reported Tuesday. Wearing a black camisole, gray leggings and flip flops - she'd reportedly been walking her dog - the 21-year-old waited with concerned neighbors until the girl was treated and released from care on-site.

Having just turned 20, Nicholas Hoult -- son of a piano teacher mother and a now-retired commercial pilot father in Wokingham, Berkshire (about 13 miles west of London) -- has already marked 13 years in the business. He has evolved from the round-faced boy of BBC television episodes and the Hugh Grant film "About a Boy" to the angular, runway-handsome epitome of searching, youthful beauty in Tom Ford's "A Single Man." "Some people grow up, they think they know who they are and there's kind of a beat where suddenly nothing makes sense around them, why they're here on Earth," he says of his character Kenny, a student who shows an unusual interest in one of his professors (played by Colin Firth)

Hugh Grant is being stared at. Paparazzi and fans he's used to, but this is a bit different. It's a sea lion perched on the edge of a water tank, its big brown eyes bulging beseechingly at Grant's cool blue ones. Grant stares back a bit uncertainly, then turns and says, "Stark, raving mad. They're probably insane, aren't they?"

We're always looking for those performances that truly define an actor, where we can sit back and simply watch the talent soar. For Colin Firth, "A Single Man" is that film. Until now probably best known for his work in the "Bridget Jones" films -- the stuffy, sensitive suitor forever in the shadow of Hugh Grant's roguish charmer -- his portrayal of George, the single man that he imbues with amazing grace, should change all that. George is 52, a Briton transplanted to L.A., where he's been an English professor for years.

Even with Hollywood's magic touch, zombies may never beat out those seductively stylish vampires for a Vanity Fair cover, but something about the unfashionable undead makes them ripe for irony in the right hands - so many possibilities lurk behind those blank stares. The right hands at the moment seem to belong to Jonathan Levine. The writer-director certainly has a good grip on what to do with those cold souls in "Warm Bodies," a surprisingly sentimental mash-up starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich.