Garry Marshall’s new ensemble romantic comedy, “New Year’s Eve,” celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, with intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year. In this breezy bit of escapist fare, Marshall serves up romance in all of its many delicious and maddening stages as his large cast of characters discovers love, fun, and excitement amidst the countdown to 2012 leading up to the ceremonial “ball drop” in Time Square.

MoviesOnline sat down at a press conference with Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lea Michele, Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel, and director Garry Marshall to talk about finding love, fulfilling your dreams, and making life truly count … Read the rest

For her film debut in “New Year’s Eve,” “Glee’s” resident show-stopper Lea Michele found herself in good hands.

Her cast members included such A-listers as Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Efron, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katherine Heigl and Jon Bon Jovi.

Behind the camera was Garry Marshall, a filmmaker who helped boost the early careers of both Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway with, respectively, “Pretty Woman” and “The Princess Diaries” films.

And doing the costumes was Lower Saucon resident Gary Jones, a Oscar-nominated designer who has dressed everyone from Frank Sinatra to Taylor Swift, and Jane Fonda to Kirsten Dunst.

“It was the most perfect fit for my first film,” says Michele. “I got … Read the rest

Lea Michele has had a starring role on Broadway, a leading role on TV’s “Glee,” and now she’s made her motion picture debut in the star-stuffed “New Year’s Eve,” which just topped the box office in its opening weekend ($13 million). As Rachel Berry on the hit Fox show she’s an overly ambitious high schooler with her sights set on New York, and in the film Michele’s character is similarly ambitious, an aspiring singer who’s booked her first big gig on the biggest New York night of the year. But that’s where the similarities end, and Michele embraced the chance to stretch her acting chops in a role outside the “Glee” bubble. We caught up with Michele to chat about … Read the rest

Lea Michele may be the best-sounding noisemaker of “New Year’s Eve.”

The vocally dynamic “Glee” star makes her film debut in director Garry Marshall’s episodic, interlocking rom-com, starring as a backup singer for a major pop star (Jon Bon Jovi) who “meet-cutes” her New Year’s-hating neighbor (Ashton Kutcher) in a faulty elevator on her way to Times Square. With far more than a few minutes to midnight left on her burgeoning career, Michele sings about her first stint on the big screen.

On keeping up with Kutcher:

“I got to be stuck in an elevator with Ashton for two weeks, which was awesome. And, as you know, he’s hilarious and I got punk’d a couple times. He’s also really smart. … Read the rest