The first film still of Dev in The Last Airbender has been released today and was posted along with an article on USAToday.com.

 

For years, Noah Ringer went by the nickname “Avatar” because he looked so much like the lead in the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. Now he gets to act like the character, too.

Ringer, 12, makes his feature-film debut opposite Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, a live-action version of the show that opens July 2, 2010.

Ringer didn’t need to alter much to play Aang, who uses martial arts to manipulate the weather. Like Aang, Ringer keeps his head shaved and is an expert in martial arts. “It keeps me cool when I’m doing tae kwon do,” says Ringer, a Texas native with a black belt who landed the role after sending a homemade DVD of him practicing the sport. “It’s so cool to get the part.”

Patel, too, seems suited for the film, the first of a planned trilogy. He earned his black belt in tae kwon do before he turned to acting and discovered the television show while filming Millionaire. “I started watching it in my trailer in India,” says Patel, who plays the villain Zuko, a “firebender” (he manipulates flames). “I see why the fan base is so big. It’s got action but a lot of moral messages.”

Though they square off on the big screen, don’t expect any exhibition matches between the actors. Patel, seven years older and a foot taller, says it wouldn’t be close: “Noah would knock me flat on my back. “

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It probably comes as no surprise to Twilighters everywhere that the movie’s stars, Robert Pattinsonand Kristen Stewart, made People’s annual 100 Most Beautiful List.

“I don’t get it,” Pattinson said about his newly minted status as a heartthrob. “It’s funny, you look the same for years, and no one ever mentions it. Then suddenly it’s a big deal.”

Pattinson and Stewart weren’t the only teen idols who made the list, which also includes Nick and Joe Jonas, Channing Tatum and “17 Again” star Zac Efron, who revealed his secret to staying beautiful: “Backpacking, hiking, surfing, swimming, playing tennis — things that get you active and are also fun.”

This year’s cover girl is cancer survivor Christina Applegate, and pop star Christina Aguilera heads up the “Beauty After Baby” category. Aguilera described how her son, Max, changed her for the better. “I’m a total vampire — but Max makes me go out into the sun or to the pool in the middle of the day. He brings out a different side of me that I’m really starting to enjoy.”

Starlets Frieda Pinto, Demi Lovato, Emma Roberts, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift also made the list. “It’s important to be comfortable with who you are and go natural once in a while,” Swift said about her style.

“Gossip Girl” star Taylor Momsen, who is also in the rock band the Pretty Reckless, found her way onto the list, but she doesn’t get why. “I have a really strange body,” she said. “I’m tall, but I’m all legs, like three-fourths of my body.”

Other Beautiful People of 2009 include Barack and Michelle Obama, Keke Palmer, Hugh Jackman, Angelina Jolie, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, Rashida Jones and the ladies of “90210.”

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Producer Frank Marshall has informally announced via his Twitter feed that the first teaser trailer for The Last Airbender will arrive early this summer.The Last Airbender is the first in a planned trilogy of films based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender anime television show. Marshall also confirmed via Twitter that the largest portion of the trilogy’s planned $250 total budget will fall upon the first film to create the elaborate world.

M. Night Shyamalan will helm at least the first installment which stars Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel and a slew of other young actors. Production is ongoing in and around Shyamalan’s favored shooting haunt, Philadelphia.

The Last Airbender is aiming for a 2010 release.

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Dev-Patel.com would like to wish Dev a very happy 19th birthday! We hope you have a wonderful day, Dev!

OK! Magazine named Dev one of the 10 most eligible men.

The Shy Guy: Dev Patel, 19

“I’ve never had a girlfriend,” says the star of Slumdog Millionaire. “I’m the guy who stands in the club nowhere near the dance floor.”

Dev, and Slumdog Millionaire, are nominated in several categories for the upcoming 2009 MTV Movie Awards. You must login to vote for these categories, but registration is free and only take a few minutes. Here is a list of the nominations:

Best Movie: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Female Performance: Freida Pinto Slumdog Millionaire
Best Male Performance: Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Female Performance: Freida Pinto Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Male Performance: Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire
Best Kiss: Freida Pinto & Dev Patel Slumdog Millionaire
Best WTF Moment: Ayush Maheseh Khedekar Slumdog Millionaire
[Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (Young Jamal) takes a mud bath... in an outhouse. Get it?]

VOTE HERE! The show will air Sunday May 31st @ 9PM ET on MTV.

Here is an excerpt from the 150th issue of Total Film magazine that was on stands in December 2008. “The brightest British young hopefuls” recreated some of the most recognizable characters of the past few decades.

Dev Patel

… is Renton from ‘Trainspotting’ (1996)

Patel has just won a British Independent Film Award for his role in Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Another TV star breaking out, the 18-year-old former ‘Skins’ star, who has just appeared on the Letterman show in the US, says “I’m kind of like a sponge at the moment; I haven’t had any formal training, but I’m up for taking on anything!”

The second series of Skins, which Dev appeared in, is up for the Philips Audience Award at the BAFTAs. You can vote for the series here!

The Philips Audience Award is for the Best Programme of 2008. It is the only Award to be voted for by the public and the winner will be announced at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday 26 April.

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Dev’s film, The Last Airbender, has begun filming in Pennsylvania today.

[Cast and crew] plan to begin filming Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender” in the Reading area beginning Thursday, weather permitting.

Most of the work for the Paramount picture this week will take place at the Pagoda on Mount Penn, following the company’s return Monday after 15 days in Greenland.

Production designers and special-effects crews have been working for several weeks to prepare the local site for the film, which is set in a series of mythical nations – Air, Water, Earth and Fire – and is based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series of the same name.

Shyamalan’s version will be live action, with a cast of mostly young, unknown actors – although Dev Patel, star of the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire,” has a pivotal role as Prince Zuko, prince of the Fire nation…

…The set will not be open to onlookers…

[Mayor Tom] McMahon added that there will also be filming in Ontelaunee Township and at the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower at a later time.

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LONDON/NEW YORK: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ stars Freida Pinto and Dev Patel, who are riding high on the Oscar success of the film, have been roped in
to star in Woody Allen’s and M Night Shyamalan’s upcoming films respectively.

In an interview to US morning news programme Today, Pinto credited director Danny Boyle for landing a role in three-time Oscar winner Allen’s new venture. “Yes, it’s up in July. So thank you, Danny Boyle, for helping me take off,” she said.

Patel steps into a role that was originally meant for Hollywood actor Jesse McCartney. ‘‘Jesse had tour dates
that conflicted with a boot camp I hold for my films,’’ Shyamalan said. ‘‘Patel was one of the guys I was interested in. Then I saw ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, and the kid just grew in my eyes,’’ he said.