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Much to Charlize Theron's chagrin, it seems there isn't a high demand for movies featuring substance and strong female leads.

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Charlize Theron

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Shia LaBeouf

"I asked Michael Seitzman, who wrote North Country, 'Why don't you write these kind of stories more; these roles for women?' He said: 'There isn't the demand for it,'" the Academy Award-winning actress was quoted by BreakingNews.ie as saying. "It's not necessarily Hollywood's fault. People don't go to see these movies. I think it's a bigger problem. We've become completely fluff-obsessed."

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Shia LaBeouf recently discussed his costar-crush syndrome.

"I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with," the 21 year old told GQ magazine, the New York Post's Rush & Molloy reported. That list would include Megan Fox, Sarah Roemer and Michelle Monaghan. "There's the three-month attention span that actors have. I don't know if it's mutual, but I really don't care. They have to kiss me when 'action' gets called, anyway, so I'll get what I want."

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Though his character's name is in the title, Ben Barnes insists The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is not all about Caspian.

"Not as much as the poster would lead you to believe!," he laughed, as he talked to Total Film.

"I was in LA last week and saw the billboard of just me and I thought how there was a thousand people who've made this film and it's so ridiculous that it's just me on that poster. Its both exciting and terrifying at the same time. It's awesome in the traditional sense of the word, not the LA sense of the word. It makes me full of awe."

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Keira Knightley seemed shell-shocked after having to sing in front of a huge crowd for the film The Edge of Love.

"I did some lessons with a voice coach because I can't sing. There were 100 extras and John (Maybury, the director) was like, 'Now you're going to sing...'," the actress recalled to Total Film, contactmusic.com reported. "I've never been so frightened in my entire life... I don't know how singers do it. I never want to have to do it again. I don't want to be a rock star."

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Ashton Kutcher recently compared his relationship with Demi Moore to the one in his latest movie, What Happens in Vegas.

"Sometimes the most illogical decisions that you make in your life can be the best ones, when it comes to love... When I first met Demi, I was 25 years old, hosting Saturday Night Live, on the cover of Rolling Stone and had the number one show on cable TV and the top show on Fox. I might have thought, 'I'm a pretty hugely successful young person right now, why would I want to get married to a woman with three kids and an ex-husband who's a legendary star. If I would've thought that logically out at that point in time, I think my logical mind would've talked me out of it. But I was like, 'I have to do this. I have to be with this person.' And I woke up in the morning and I went, 'God, that was the smartest decision you ever made.'"