"Mean Girls" is getting a sequel… of sorts. The 2004 comedy was a massive hit which created the careers of Amanda Seyfried and Rachel McAdams, as well as being a nice look back to a time where Lindsay Lohan was a bit more normal. The film, co-written by comedic genius Tina Fey, was based on the advice book by Rosalind Wiseman, "Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World."

Well, turns out Ms. Wiseman wrote another advice book for parents called "Queen Bee Moms and King Pin Dads: Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make — or Break — Your Child's Future." So now, viola, Variety introduces us to "Mean Moms," which will be written by Dara and Chad Creasey (let's have a moment of silence for the loss of Tina) that will be about a "happily married mother of two who moves from small town America to the high class suburbs and is faces with confronting the cut throat world of competitive parenting."

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We've been closely following the ups and downs of the "Footloose" remake's journey through production, so when leading lady (and only remaining cast member?) Julianne Hough threw us a bone, we immediately bit.

She told MTV News on the Academy of Country Music Award red carpet Sunday that she doesn't know much about the nation-wide search to play the leading man of the film, but that she expects he'll be "somebody edgy and a little rough." Well, Crushers, you know what that means as well as we do: casting couch time. And since we've had some luck with this type of stuff in the past, our three lucky picks better be watching out for some good news to be coming their way soon.

See our casting idea list after the jump!

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MTV News adores the movie "Mannequin." So much so, that we actually spent one recent Friday afternoon watching the trailer and old interviews from the now-classic 1987 flick, which is about a struggling artist, who falls in love with a mannequin that he designed, only to find out she's actually from ancient Egypt. (Yes, that is really the storyline, so if you haven't seen it yet, we bet you totally want to now!) What happens next? Hijinks!

Anyway, it seems that our nostalgia for the movie has somehow spread to Hollywood — Videogum is reporting that plans are now in the works to remake the film. There are very little details about how the great minds of Tinseltown intend to make this project happen, but as soon as we heard thew news, our minds started racing about who might make the perfect next-generation Jonathan (originally played by Andrew McCarthy) and mannequin a.k.a. Emmy (originally played by Kim Cattrall).

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Few literary tales are as bittersweet as the real-life story of author Stieg Larsson—the Swedish journalist who became a world-wide bestselling author only after his death in 2004. If you've wandered through a Barnes and Noble in the last couple of years, you've no doubt spotted the green and yellow-dappled cover of his mega-successful crime drama "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo." Though a movie version of the book was released earlier this year in Europe, according to Variety, Sony has nabbed the English-language screen rights for the film with plans to produce it for an American audience.

The first novel and its sequels "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest” (known collectively as the "Millenium Trilogy") follow journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander as they solve crimes in Sweden. A source Variety spoke with for its story called Lisbeth "one of the most compelling characters in contemporary fiction.” And it's true. She's intelligent, clever and doesn't take B.S. from anybody, which got us wondering who could bring this complex character to life. Thus, another edition of Hollywood Crush's Casting Couch!

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By Emily Donahue

Although Lauren Conrad’s fiction novel “L.A. Candy” is still in the process of being adapted for the big screen, we thought we would help the process along by submitting our picks for a possible cast. Since the thinly veiled novel borrows heavily from Lauren’s “Hills” life — including many of her former costars — we figured we would use her California pals as a reference for our "L.A. Candy" venture on the HC Casting Couch.

JANE

The star of the book and its reality show is “fresh, innocent,” L.A. newcomer Jane Roberts. Lauren look-a-like Sara Paxton is an option we’d like to see put on Jane's heels. Sara’s reign on “The Beautiful Life” was cut way too short, but the fresh-faced blond proved that she can definitely pull-off innocent-bombshell with ease. With “New Moon” under her belt, and “The Runaways” and “Eclipse” due out in 2010, Dakota Fanning has secured herself as a teen to watch and we think its time she does a teen flick. The actress could not only handle the transition from naïve newbie to reality queen, but her star-powered name could also bring some real weight to the movie.

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With a plot seemingly ripped from a lost Nicholas Sparks novel, the long-languishing teen comedy script "Pictures of You" is finally set for production.

According to Variety, the film is "set in a Florida resort town [and] centers on a teenage boy who finds a lost camera on the beach. After developing the film, he ends up on a quest to find the girl of his dreams, whose picture was discovered inside the camera."

Sounds a bit like "Message in a Bottle" meets "Letters to Juliet," right? We also thought it sounded like a perfect opportunity to take a seat on the Hollywood Crush Casting Couch to select the film's star-crossed lover leads. Producers, we hope you're listening!

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By Matt Thompson

Who would have thunk it? "Charlie's Angels" is back in full throttle! According to Variety, the concept that originated in 1976 is set to be picked up by ABC. The same guy who adapted the now-defunct Fox series "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," Josh Friedman, is set to write and exec produce.

The original show was a hit for five years starring the late, great Farrah Fawcett. That TV show later was adapted into two films starring Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Let’s think here. What if Farrah Fawcett had never starred in "Charlie’s Angels", what if Diane Keaton took her spot instead? Or Mia Farrow, maybe? All we know is that if Hollywood Crush were around at the time, we would have had something to say about it!

So, with that being said, we thought it would be rather fascinating to create our own casting suggestions for your personal amusement. After the jump, get ready to hit up the HC Casting Couch once again!

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What if Cher Horowitz had been a vampire living in New York City instead of a well-intentioned Beverly Hills fashionista? As if! No, seriously. Amy Heckerling, the writer-director of the beloved 1995 film "Clueless" is the latest to sink her teeth into the genre with a new romantic comedy called "Vamps."

ScreenDaily.com is reporting that the film is "a modern-day tale of two young female vampires living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality." Krysten Ritter ("Breaking Bad," "Confessions of a Shopaholic") has been cast in one of the roles, meaning it's time to take a seat on the Hollywood Crush Casting Couch to find her bloodsucking bestie. After the jump, check out who we like for the role:

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It's nearly impossible to chose which dearly departed series we miss more: the heartwarming mother-daughter dramedy "Gilmore Girls" or the savvy Manhattan-centric "Sex and the City." Thankfully, we may not have to chose, as a new HBO series penned by "GG" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (pictured far right in 2005 with "Gilmore" alums Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel) may allow us to revisit the best of both worlds.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the as-yet untitled series "chronicles the complicated relationship between three adult sisters, all writers sharing the same Upper East Side apartment building, and their mother, a domineering literary lioness who reserves most of her affections for their ne'er-do-well brother."

"It's a story of love, hate, family — and finding the perfect opening line," Amy added.

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Grandmum Elizabeth already got the biopic treatment thanks to Helen Mirren's Oscar-winning turn in "The Queen," so we guess it's only fitting filmmakers turn their gaze to the fiery spare heir. (Let's be honest, Harry's hijinks make for much better big screen fodder than older brother William's princely ways, right?)

According to Britain's Daily Mail, the film, appropriately titled "The Spare," will "chart [Harry's] life from being trapped in a tragic fairytale to becoming a royal warrior, more at home on the field of battle with his men than in a palace." The screenplay will be finished near the end of the year, with shooting beginning around this time next year.

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