New Line and Warner Bros. will debut the Blu-ray and DVD versions of the ensemble sequel New Year’s Eve on May 1, 2012.

New Year’s Eve is the followup to the hugely successful film Valentine’s Day from director Gary Marshall. Like Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve is all about intertwining love connections and stars seemingly half of Hollywood: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhammel, Zac Efron, Hector Elizondo, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Seth Meyers, Lea Michele, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelel Pfeiffer, Til Schweiger, Hilary Swank and Sofia Vergara.

The Blu-ray version of New Year’s Eve will come packaged with the DVD and UltraViolet versions as well. Expect a 1080p 1.85:1 and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio presentation. Bonus features are set to include:

Audio Commentary with Garry Marshall
The Magic of Times Square
New Year’s Eve Secrets of the Stars
Jon Bon Jovi & Lea Michele Rock New Year’s Eve
Deleted Scenes with Garry Marshall
Gag Reel

Heigl says she wasn’t really a mystery fan but found herself hooked on Evanovich’s books.

“Stephanie is fun. She’s just got this great wacky sense of humor and a way of seeing people and the world that is very light and fun,” she says. “She just sort of rolls with the punches, and you just can’t help but like her and want to be like her.”

When asked how she would want to be like her character, Heigl says, “I think that she’s kind of effortlessly beautiful and sexy and doesn’t try. Every woman wants to be effortlessly beautiful and sexy.”

Hard to believe that Heigl, who has graced too many magazine covers to count, has to think about being effortlessly beautiful and sexy. But she’s also well aware that being in the public eye is a lot of work and being a young leading lady – as her mother reminds her – doesn’t last forever.

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Photoshoots: 2012: Session 5

IM Global will take to Berlin The Happytime Murders, directed by Brian Henson (A Muppets Christmas Carol) and penned by Todd Berger (Kung Fu Panda 2) from a story he wrote with Dee Austin Robertson. It takes place in a world where puppets and humans live together, but the puppets are viewed as second-class citizens. When the puppet cast of an 1980s kids TV show gets murdered one by one, a disgraced detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case. Katherine Heigl is in advanced negotiations to star. IM Global is selling the pic through its Opus label next week at the European Film Market.

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