Pretty Little Liars: #PLL is @paleycenter

Monday, June 10, 2013
7:00 pm PT
Los Angeles

Scheduled to appear:
Members of the cast and creative team

From ABC Family and Warner Horizon Television, Pretty Little Liars—the addictive and suspenseful drama series that revolves around four teenage girlfriends who begin receiving threatening messages shortly after the disappearance and apparent death of their friend, a notorious Queen Bee—is routinely one of TV’s most tweeted-about series. In fact, PLL boasts one of the most passionate followings in the social media universe. On the (stiletto) heels of the third season’s twists and thrills, and the recent announcement of an upcoming spinoff (Ravenswood), PLL is a new kind of media phenomenon, with an engaged audience that’s thrilled to be along for the ride. The series cast and creative team gather at the Paley Center to offer a special preview of their highly anticipated fourth season premiere and give us an insightful look behind the scenes of this TV hit.

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Maxim unveils this year’s Hot 100 list and Ashley made it to number 82. While she is far from the top, this is the first time she made the cut, so congrats, Ash! Check out the full list here!

Ashley Benson

We may or may not have seen Ashley Benson on Days of Our Lives, The O.C., and Bring It On: In It to Win It. Now she’s on the scandalous teen drama, Pretty Little Liars, and can also be seen starring opposite James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, and Selena Gomez in Spring Breakers.

Hold onto your pretty, little hats, LiArs! We have some big news for you today. There’s an ALL NEW Pretty Little Liars recap episode coming your way! Pretty Little Liars: A LiArs Guide to Rosewood (a recap special encompassing all three previous seasons of Pretty Little Liars!) will premiere on Tuesday, June 4 at 8/7c. Featuring new voice over from the all-seeing Mona, this special will recap the Liars history with “A” from the very first text message, to the most recent spotting of Red Coat.

Then, only one week later, Pretty Little Liars returns with ALL NEW episodes! In the season four premiere, titled “A is for A-l-i-v-e,” the Liars are desperate to uncover what new scheme “A” has in store for them in the wake of the lodge fire, and have no choice but to turn to Mona for answers, now that she is also being targeted. Aria struggles with seeing Ezra in the wake of their breakup, and Emily starts to make plans for life after high school. Meanwhile, “A” sets Toby on a new path, what’s in the trunk is revealed, and a shocking discovery reverberates through Rosewood.

Get excited, LiArs!

Don’t miss the recap episode of Pretty Little Liars on Tuesday, June 4 at 8/7c – and the much-anticipated summer premiere on Tuesday, June 11 at 8/7c!

Pretty Little Liars has staged sensational surprises in nearly every single episode over the last three seasons, but the biggest shocker to date happened off screen as it was announced on April 30 that ABC Family’s recently announced spin-off was bringing Tyler Blackburn’s Caleb along for the Ravenswood ride.

Now, for the first time, PLL executive producer and Ravenswood co-creator Marlene King is exclusively revealing why Hanna’s hottie was tapped to front the new series.

“In terms of the mythology of Ravenswood, there is a reason his character was chosen,” King tells ETonline. “Caleb has an ambiguous past. He doesn’t know as much about where he comes from compared to the other [characters] and we’re going to use that as we unfold the Ravenswood story.”

Once fans got over the initial shock, thoughts — and Twitter trending topics — immediately turned to the following question: “OMG!!! What does this mean for Haleb?!?!?!?!” Turns out, Ashley Benson had the exact same thought after finding out her scene partner was packing up his laptop and amazing conditioner.

“I was so sad,” Benson recalled of hearing the big news. “This is the thing, I’m so happy for Tyler, he deserves it so much, but he’s like my other half! He’s just amazing. When the day comes to shoot his last scene, I’m not going to be able to do it. I mean, I don’t want to give him away to these other people. But, I talked to Marlene about [how Caleb will be written off PLL] and I’m excited for people to see that because I’m pretty happy with how she told me their story would end.”

So what did Marlene tell Ashley? You know I got that answer. “Hanna and Caleb are such a great couple and we’ve designed this beautiful Casablanca moment for them,” King teased. “Hanna really gives Caleb permission to leave Rosewood and, basically, go to this other show [laughs]. I hope our fans embrace it as much as we’ve embraced it as writers. That’s important to us.”

Harmony Korine’s edgy Spring Breakers starring James Franco, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and Rachel Korine will be partying on Blu-ray and DVD beginning July 9.

Spring Breakers was made on the cheap for $5 million in Panama City Beach, Florida and has gone to earn $13.8 million domestically to date. The film is rated fresh at Rotten Tomatoes with a 65% score and should be a hit on Blu-ray and DVD considering the theatrical release never expanded much further beyond 1,100 locations.

Spring Breakers comes to Blu-ray in 2.35:1 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Extras include:

• Breaking it Down: Behind Spring Breakers – A Behind-the-Scenes 3-Part Documentary
1. Part 1 – Film Makers: Spring Breakers
2. Part 2 – Breaking Convention
3. Part 3 – Spring Breakers Forever
• Deleted Scene/Outtakes
• Harmony’s Ear Candy featurette – An Insightful Look at the Music of Spring Breakers
• Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Harmony Korine
• VICE featurettes – An Inside Look at the ATL Twins and Real Life Partying in Panama City Beach
• Theatrical Trailer/TV Spots

The Spring Breakers Blu-ray cover art above is as it should be with the young ladies looking raucous and Franco looking dope, the same key art as the main theatrical one-sheet movie poster.

Click here to pre-order Spring Breakers on Blu-ray for $19.59 at Amazon.com, 30% off the $27.99 list price.

On Tuesday, May 7, WetPaint released a possible spoilers for season 4 of “Pretty Little Liars.” The spoilers are of Ashley Marin (Laura Leighton), Hanna’s Mom, and it looks like fans will be changing their mind about how they feel for her.

According to the source, ET Online’s Jarett Wieselman’s tweet has got fans worried.

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The actor is the first to be cast in the new ABC Family series debuting in October.

ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars spinoff has landed its first castmember.

Tyler Blackburn, who plays Hanna’s (Ashley Benson) significant other, Caleb Rivers, is leaving Rosewood and heading to Ravenswood as a series regular. The offshoot debuts in October following Pretty Little Liars’ Halloween episode.

Ravenswood centers on a town not far from Rosewood, Penn., which has suffered under a deadly curse for generations. Five strangers find themselves connected by this fatal curse and need to dig into the town’s mysterious and terrible history before it’s too late for all of them.

Blackburn will be seen traveling to the new town in the Halloween hour, during which Ravenswood is first introduced.

The actor — who has been a Pretty Little Liars regular since 2011 — still will be an integral part of the mothership’s upcoming summer season before officially switching gears in October. How Blackburn’s character enters into the Ravenswood equation and the future of the Caleb-Hanna relationship remain to be seen.

Speaking of Pretty Little Liars, how’s filming going for Season 4?
It’s good, but it’s crazy! I keep talking to people, and they’re like, “What happened? What was in the trunk?” And I have to be so careful every single time to make sure I don’t say what’s in there. I have to keep reminding myself that they haven’t seen that part yet. Even though we’re filming Season 4, no one has seen it, so I always have to remind myself to be careful about what I say.

And there’s so many photos! Norman Buckley can’t stop tweeting behind-the-scenes pics.
Norman is the social media king. He loves it! And he’s always snapping photos. I always know what’s going on even when I’m not at work. I’m like, “What is Ashley [Benson] doing today?” And then I look at Norman’s page and it’s like, “Oh, OK. I know what she’s filming.” He’s amazing. He’s directing two episodes at the same time.

Toward the end of last season, we saw Emily become Spencer 2.0 and lead the charge for “A” clues. Is she still sleuthing in Season 4?
Yeah! I think ever since Emily came out, there was a point in Season 2 where everyone was calling her “badass Emily.” She started to come out of her shell, and she became a lot stronger. Now she’s the one who really takes the lead, so I do think Detective Fields continues to sleuth in Season 4. More than anything, she just wants to look out for her friends and protect them all. Now she’s leading the situation, going in head first, which is really cool to play. There’s going to be a lot more of that. I love Detective Fields.

We know the Liars are going to work more with Mona this season, instead of against her. How does Emily feel about working with their former enemy?
It’s awesome! Usually, when we were shooting scenes with her in the past seasons, there was never a lot between Mona and Emily. She didn’t really have much to do with Mona in the beginning. Aside from being with the rest of the girls, she never had any one-on-one scenes, like she had with Spencer and Hanna, and even Aria. Now, she’s kind of in the group. You’re going to see the girls question, “Can we trust her? Do we trust her? Is this all right? Are we telling her too much?” So it’s one of those things where we cross our fingers and hope that she’s on our side for the good reasons.

Marlene King has promised a lot of answers this season, particularly in the first episode, and a lot more Sasha Pieterse, so what can you tell us about how Ali will be involved in Season 4?
Ali will definitely be involved a lot more because where we last left off, it was all about what happened that summer and was she really pregnant. So a lot of those questions will be answered. There’s going to be a lot more flashbacks as well, as the girls try to put all the puzzle pieces together, so we are definitely going to be seeing Alison a lot more and see other relationships that she had with certain people who might have a big clue in the whole thing.

Troian Bellisario, better known as Spencer from Pretty Little Liars, stopped by On Air with Ryan Seacrest to chat PLL and her YouTube series, Lauren, as well as how boyfriend Patrick J. Adams won her back!

First things first, what was up with that Season 4 poster which had all four PLL stars donning red coats? Troian says even she is in the dark!

“It’s actually really funny. When the photo came out, I put it in my head and was like I need to call Marlene King, who is the creator of the show, and talk to her because I have the same question: ‘What is going to happen?’ I know with the season finale the girls all think they saw Alison … in the red coat, so it brings up the question, ‘Is Alison red coat? Is Alison dead?’ So I think all of us are wrapped up in this red coat because they don’t tell me anything.”

Troian continued: “The slogan is ‘Liars Unite,’ so I think the idea is we are all coming together to take down this new adversary.”

Although Troian stayed hush about the poster, she did reveal insight as to what was in the trunk during the last (and very memorable) scene of the finale.

“I can say, which is kind of funny, because when we shot the scene there was nothing in the trunk. When I say we know nothing, we were looking at nothing in the trunk, and I said to Marlene … ‘I just have to know. I’m an actor. Tell me what’s in the trunk so I can imagine it.’ And she said, ‘It’s pretty close to your worst nightmare.’ But when we shot the scene picking up with the season premiere where you see what’s in the trunk, she wasn’t far. It’s pretty awful.”