Amanda Bynes News

Hey, look, it's Amanda!

2012-02-09T11:46:00.002-05:00

This is a photo of Amanda out grocery shopping on December 13 of last year.

Doesn't she look cute? And sadly, although there are no plans rusting around for her to return to acting, at least she looks healthy.

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In other news, I miss you all, and invite you to follow Amanda Bynes News on Twitter and me on Twitter and Amanda herself, since she still posts once in a while.

Amanda Bynes sets the record straight

2011-06-14T19:54:00.002-04:00

For the record, Amanda Bynes has NOT retired and has no regrets for publicity she's received over her Twitter account.

She told People Magazine at the MTV Movie Awards:

"You say what you feel because you felt it at the moment."

"It's sort of like what I would tell a reporter if I were doing an interview," Bynes says. "You kind of have to let people know a little bit about you. And once you've been in the business for a long time, people kind of know stuff about your life."

Amanda also clarified her decision to take a break from Hollywood.

"I really just needed some time off. I've been acting since I was seven, and I'm 25 now. So, it's not retiring so much. It's just taking some time off."

2011 MTV Movie Awards

2011-06-06T12:33:00.001-04:00

Amanda attended last night's MTV Movie Awards. She sparked up a trending topic on Twitter just seconds after working the red carpet in a Herve Legere dress, auqa shoes, and a clutch.

Check out more photos here.

Amanda tweeted that last night was "so fun" and it was "great seeing everyone".

MTV Movie Award nominations

2011-05-18T23:52:00.003-04:00

Amanda Bynes is co-nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Line from a Movie from Easy A!

Amanda and Emma Stone are nominated for this line:

"There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency."
"Tom Cruise?"

Emma Stone is also nominated for Best Female Performance and Best Comedic Performance.

Vote here, and catch the show live on June 5th on MTV! Maybe Amanda will work the red carpet!

Out for coffee

2011-05-18T23:40:00.003-04:00

New Amanda Bynes photos? What? Yes!

Thanks to Faded Youth Blog, we now have photos of Amanda making a stop at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Beverly Hills on May 9th.

You can check out more photos here.

Nice to see you out Amanda, looking good!

Amanda Bynes gets her food on

2011-02-21T20:46:00.003-05:00

Just Jared has pictures of Amanda getting groceries this afternoon at Bristol Fair. Since they have that website's tag on them, I'll just link to them rather than upload them.

Check out the rest of the photos here from Just Jared!

Good to see you out and about, Amanda!

A comeback (sort of)

2011-01-27T23:25:00.003-05:00

Amanda Bynes has returned...to Twitter.

You can now follow the actress once again. She's been back on Twitter as MsAmandaBynes_ since yesterday and shared a bunch of photos and answered a few questions with fans.

I'm lovin' that she's back online, now hopefully next a movie set? What do you say, Amanda? We're ready and waiting.

Nikki Blonsky still in touch with Amanda

2011-01-23T00:01:00.002-05:00

In an interview with Broadway.com, Nikki Blonsky, currently making her New York debut on Broadway in Love Loss and What I Wore, mentioned that she is still in touch with her Hairspray costars, including Amanda.

Were you upset that plans for a Hairspray sequel were scrapped?

I love Hairspray so much. It’s just magical to me. I would just die to work with John Travolta again. We’re very close, and I still speak to him all the time. Same with Amanda Bynes and Zac Efron, which I know girls will like to hear. It was such a fun, life-changing experience for all of us.

Maybe she can convince Amanda to make a comeback?!

Critics: Easy A is Amanda's 'best work'

2011-01-02T13:21:00.003-05:00

As if you need another reason to watch Easy A, critics in their year end DVD/movie reviews are citing Amanda's role in Easy A as some of her best work of her career.

"Amanda Bynes gives one of her best performances as the leader of the school's unofficial God squad."

- Huffington Post

[Lisa Kudrow appears] as the guidance counselor who's having an affair with boyfriend of an uptight born again type played by Amanda Bynes [possibly her best work, too]

- TV.com

Just leave it to Amanda to steal the show!

Easy A gets top Blu-Ray Review

2010-12-28T23:01:00.003-05:00

Easy A got a rare 5 star review from Blu-Ray.com. Check it out here! Below is a screencap from their website.

Meanwhile, critics continue to praise Amanda's work in the movie:

"...one of the years best...[featuring] the thank-goodness-she-unretired Amanda Bynes as a passionate religious instigator." -SheKnows.com

"Tucci and Clarkson aren't the only nice surprise though, there are excellent performances from Thomas Hayden Church [and] Amanda Bynes." -Daily Dischord

Here's hoping she headlines a project in the new year.

A is Golden

2010-12-18T00:15:00.005-05:00

Just a quick update to congratulate Emma Stone on her first ever Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical for Easy A! She's up against some stiff competition, but being recognized and nominated is already a win, and dare I say it, an Easy A.

Cheesy jokes aside, don't forget that Easy A is hitting stores on Blu-Ray and DVD Tuesday! This is a chance to have Amanda under your Christmas tree.

Here's a rundown of the features for the DVD and Blu-ray:

Additional Material:

Commentary with Director Will Gluck and Emma Stone
Emma Stone's Webcam Audition Footage
Gag Reel

Blu-Ray Exclusives:

Extra Credit: Pop-Up Trivia Track (BD-exclusive)
The Making of Easy A (BD-exclusive)
The School of Pop Culture: Movies of the Eighties (BD-exclusive)
Vocabulary of Hilarity (BD-exclusive)

Maybe another present would be for Amanda to announce another project and come out of retirement for real!

Thanks for sticking by as always, for reading, leaving comments, and continuing to support Amanda and this blog. Hopefully 2011 will bring more of Amanda. Entertainment needs her, don't you think?

All the best and happy holidays! See you next year.

Make your holiday shopping Easy

2010-10-30T13:16:00.004-04:00

Easy A has been pegged for a release date of December 21 on Blu-ray and DVD, just in time for Christmas!

Additional Material:

Commentary with Director Will Gluck and Emma Stone
Emma Stone's Webcam Audition Footage
Gag Reel

Blu-Ray Exclusives:

Extra Credit: Pop-Up Trivia Track (BD-exclusive)
The Making of Easy A (BD-exclusive)
The School of Pop Culture: Movies of the Eighties (BD-exclusive)
Vocabulary of Hilarity (BD-exclusive)

Since its release this September, Easy A has reeled in over $55 million at the box office.

Easy A makes the grade at weekend box office

2010-09-19T13:33:00.009-04:00

The weekend estimates are in, and Easy A looks to clean up nicely at the box office, coming in at #2 with a 3 day take of just over $18 million. This is a great open for a teen comedy, and it was budgeted at just $8 million. Factor in the generally positive reviews, and Easy A looks like a hit for all involved.

Update (9/20/10): Actuals totalled a little lower than expected (which is normal) so Easy A opened with $17.7 million!

Amanda after Easy A

2010-09-19T00:25:00.005-04:00

Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch blog posted a fantastic article in which they hope Amanda chooses to not retire. Amid the great reviews she's gotten from Easy A, (nearly all of them are positive), the blog author hopes Amanda sticks around because she shows more promise than other performers her age.

I hope [deleting her Twitter] doesn’t mean that she’s un-un-retired. I think that would be a shame.

Especially in this weekend of Yet Another Disappointing Headline Concerning Lindsay Lohan, I find myself respecting the way Bynes has conducted her transition from child star to young adult: no scandals, no arrests, no embarrassing boyfriend drama, just the one Maxim cover (on which she’s practically swaddled in fabric) and a very select smattering of well-played parts. I’m fairly certain she still lives with her parents, which I find adorable. And while it is her right to decide what to do with her own future — especially after nearly two decades of the Hollywood grind life on screen [better, readers? - WP] — I wish she wouldn’t give up on making people laugh. We’ve got waaaaay too many generic ingenues around here already.

Check out the rest of the article here, and don't forget to see Easy A in theaters!

Easy A is in theaters now!

2010-09-17T00:01:00.000-04:00

Almost three years to the day, Amanda Bynes is finally back on the big screen co-starring as uber religious high schooler Marianne Bryant in Sony Pictures' Easy A, also featuring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigagnt, Alyson Michalka, Stanley Tucci, Dan Byrd, Patrica Clarkson, and Thomas Hayden Church.

The film revolves around a girl who lies about being promiscious in order to help social outcasts become accepted.

Budgeted at $8 million, the ensemble comedy is predicted to rise to the top of the box office class this weekend.

What the critics are saying:

A strong cast of actors such as Bynes, Lisa Kudrow and Thomas Haden Church portray the witty dialogue of a well-written script by Bert V. Royal in this Will Gluck film....“Easy A” is a must-see movie.
- Collegiate

Marianne [is] played with butt-clenching perfection by Amanda Bynes...
- Variety

Gluck was really fortunate that this cast came together, because they're all so relaxed with each other, all so funny, and they all know exactly what tone to use to play this material. And with the young cast, everyone seems on their game. Speaking of Bynes...she was pitch perfect in "Hairspray," and she pins down a very different character here, making her Marianne a nice example of curdled Christianity.
- Hitflix

Hopefully, the impending success of Easy A will bring Amanda Bynes back out of retirement fully and will lead to more projects.

After you see the movie, leave comments below or Tweet your thoughts!

Welcome back, Amanda!

Catch up on everything Easy A here and check out the official site.

Easy A likely to top weekend box office

2010-09-16T15:06:00.006-04:00

Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider press has released its box office predictions for this weekend and places Easy A at the top of the pack estimating the movie to score in $18 million range:

Teen girls haven’t had something to sink their teeth into since Twilight. And while I’m not even considering comparing Easy A to the vampire juggernaut, I do think this PG-13-rated teen flick does have the ability to spark with its intended demographic. How high it gets is going to be predicated based on how many teenage girls are available for movie-going this weekend. If they love it, which I predict they will, then word-of-mouth could give the Screen Gems flick a hefty opening frame. It would also mean the Sony subsidiary scores its third No. 1 film in three weeks, after Resident Evil and Takers.

The Associated Press predicts the movie to open even higher, in the $30 million range.

Easy A is generating tons of positive reviews and praise for not only Emma Stone, but the entire cast. Will the positive press and a high outcome in receipt totals convince Amanda to come back to acting full time? What do you think?

See if Amanda lives up to the hype in theaters Friday!

Easy A B-Roll

2010-09-10T12:57:00.002-04:00

Movie Jungle has posted some interviews and B-Roll footage from Easy A. Check out this one, where Amanda is featured at 2:03. It's mildly spoilerish, so don't watch if you'd rather be surprised when Amanda pops up in Easy A.

More comments from Easy A director Will Gluck on Amanda's retirement

2010-09-10T11:42:00.004-04:00

Easy A director Will Gluck did an interview with Comingsoon.net about the movie and Amanda's retirement.

CS: I don't know if you've been asked this already, but what on earth did you do to Amanda Bynes to make her want to retire?
Gluck: (Laughs) Well, here's my answer to this. I don't think that she's retiring yet.

CS: No, I didn't think so either.
Gluck: Here's the story. The story is that three years ago she woulda said it to a friend and that woulda been it. Nowadays, because of the Twitter and the social networks she said it, and 10 million people know what you're doing. So it's beyond just an impulsive thought and now it gets broadcast to everyone. You can't take it back. It's very much like this movie, that rumors now travel at the speed of light. If three years ago, something happened, it would take three weeks for it to get around and by then it could've been repudiated or whatever. Now, it's instant. I mean, literally there's a shot I did when she looked and it goes through all her school and comes all the way back. That was in real time, six seconds, everyone knows about it. That's the kind of thing with the Amanda Bynes Twitter thing. That's the story there I think.

Read more of the interview here.

We're only ONE WEEK away from seeing Amanda on the big screen! Who is excited?

Reviews for Easy A

2010-09-09T21:09:00.008-04:00

Here is will I post significant reviews of Easy A! We're only a week away everyone!

Blogcritics:

This movie rocks...Whether you’re 17 or 85, guy or girl, Easy A is for you. This is one of those films that transcends barriers and will keep audiences laughing for years to come.

- The Collegian:

A strong cast of actors such as Bynes, Lisa Kudrow and Thomas Haden Church portray the witty dialogue of a well-written script by Bert V. Royal in this Will Gluck film....“Easy A” is a must-see movie.

- Variety:

Marianne [is] played with butt-clenching perfection by Amanda Bynes...

- Hitflix:

Gluck was really fortunate that this cast came together, because they're all so relaxed with each other, all so funny, and they all know exactly what tone to use to play this material. And with the young cast, everyone seems on their game. Speaking of Bynes...she was pitch perfect in "Hairspray," and she pins down a very different character here, making her Marianne a nice example of curdled Christianity.

Film School Rejects

The most fascinating stand out is now-retired actress Amanda Bynes who, as the school’s know-it-all evangelical Christian, can manage a serious crying scene and then go right back into the walking stereotype that she’s created. It’s the sort of foot stomping, face clenching performance she’s delivered before, but this time it includes a few sober acting moments that fit easily into the tone of the rest of the film.

Get more reviews from Rotten Tomatoes.

Easy A premiere

2010-09-08T23:11:00.001-04:00

If you follow Amanda Bynes News on Twitter, you would have been one of the first to know that the Easy A premiere is being held September 13th at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Hopefully Amanda will attend and we'll get some pictures!

Follow Amanda Bynes News on Twitter!

Easy A's first review

2010-09-05T11:46:00.002-04:00

Easy A is a special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival next week, and the website already posted a small review. It was given three and a half stars out of four and billed as "the freshest, funniest teen comedy in many a semester."

The article says that Emma Stone is surrounded by great actors and mentions Amanda!

When will you see Easy A? Vote in the poll!

You can check out more information on the TIFF here.

Amanda Bynes and Aly Michalka on Easy A

2010-09-02T19:13:00.001-04:00

Check out 1:20 in this video below for some insight from Amanda on her character and the movie Easy A!

Also, you can now vote on whether you like each story and share it with your friends, so do it! :)

Easy A clip & Behind the Scenes

2010-08-31T12:11:00.002-04:00

Eight Easy A movie clips have been released from Sony including this one with Amanda!

Icy, yes?

Also, check out this featurette where the cast and crew talk about the movie and their characters.

Easy A director on Amanda's retirement

2010-08-25T23:09:00.003-04:00

Easy A director Will Gluck spoke to Movieline about the film and offered his insight on Amanda'a retirement.

Easy A is the last film Amanda Bynes made before her retirement announcement. Did that surprise you?

The stock answer I’m giving on that is…well, you know that she’s unretired, right? It actually speaks to the movie a little bit, that there’s all this text messaging and one thing you say can get out instantly. I think it wouldn’t have been a story two years ago when no one tweeted about anything, but now that everything’s broadcast, stuff that shouldn’t really become a story does become a story. I don’t think she’s going to retire. That’s the thing about this: I tried to make a John Hughes movie — and with all due respect, I know I didn’t come close to making one of his movies — and then you add in the internet, the social networking, the “every thought we have is broadcast” society that we live in, and every decision that you make now is much more magnified.

He also stated that the movie was toned down from an origianl R rating to a more audience appealing PG-13 and about how he feels that the internet can be a poisonous place. You can read the interview here.

Easy A Clip

2010-08-16T22:35:00.002-04:00

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Amanda tweeted that Easy A was filmed in June 2009 and that her part is more of a cameo, but she hopes everyone likes it!