Young star in three up-coming holiday-release features
IMTAPress ReleaseAugust 28, 2008Film opens nationwide Friday for Labor Day weekendIn an outrageous new comedy opening for Labor Day weekend that follows in the classic footsteps of
Animal House,
American Pie and
Old School, LA 2001 IMTA alum Haley Bennett stars in
College, the story of three high school friends who struggle to win the hearts of three sorority girls on a local college campus. Visiting as prospective freshmen anticipating the best weekend of their lives, the boys are recruited as pledges by the rowdiest fraternity on campus. When they manage to catch they eyes of popular Kendall (Bennett) and her sorority sisters—something no one else in the fraternity has been able to achieve—the fraternity blackmails the three friends over their age and increases their endless humiliation, forcing the guys to fight back. The film also stars Drake Bell, Kevin Corvais, Andrew Caldwell, Camille Mana and Nathalie Walker.
Since her film debut inlast year’s
Music & Lyrics, playing opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, Bennett has been steadily in front of the camera and working on her first album in between acting gigs. She next appears in the title role of
The Haunting of Mary Hartley, a horror thriller (renamed from
She Lived) opening for Halloween on October 31
. In the tale of spellbinding suspense, something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of a teenaged girl's private school world—and it holds the rights to her very soul. Now, on the eve of her 18th birthday, Molly Hartley is about to discover the truth of just who, or rather what, it is she is destined to become. The film also stars Chace Crawford, Shannon Marie Woodward and Shana Collins.
Opening Christmas Day is Marley & Me, a film based on the memoir by John Grogan in which Bennett stars with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. The heart-warming and inspirational comedy revolves around a family that learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog. As for her character in the film, Bennett says it is unlike any other she's done before. She excitedly explained, "I might have blue hair in it. I'm hope I do. Fingers crossed!"