Leighton Meester & Minka Kelly Premiere "The Roommate"

Anxiously awaiting the release of their new movie, the stars of "The Roommate" closed out the weekend with press duties in West Hollywood on Sunday night.

With Leighton Meester joined by co-star Minka Kelly, the adorable duo took to the Soho House locale for an exclusive red carpet premiere.

Also turning up for the festivities were "90210" hunk Matt Lanter, actresses Katrina Begin and Danneel Harris and "Titanic" vet Billy Zane.

Directed by Christian E. Christiansen, "The Roommate" is a drama/thriller which boasts quite the star-studded cast which also includes "Vampire Diaries" cutie Nina Dobrev, "Hellcats" hottie Alyson Michalka and "Twilight" actor Cam Gigandet.

Due out in theaters on Friday, February 4th, a plot summary via IMDB tells: "College student Sara finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca."source credit

Leighton Meester from 'The Roommate' is Just a Phone Call Away

Sony Pictures has recently launched its movie campaign for ‘The Roommate’ by inviting fans to call Leighton Meester.

The ad provides a phone number which takes you to a recording of her.

Sony Pictures has launched an old school media campaign for the upcoming film The Roommate, featuring a fairly archaic vehicle for interactivity: A phone number.
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Leighton Meester at the exclusive ‘Gossip Girl’ Set Visit on September 23

'The Roommate' Trailer

The plot centers on a college freshman named Sara (Minka Kelly), who finds out she is roommates with a seemingly nice girl named Rebecca (Leighton). Things seems to be going great as the girls befriend party girl Tracy (Aly Michalka), and Sara starts dating Stephen (Cam Gigandet), but they start going downhill fast after Sara realizes she is Rebecca's only friend. Toss in a creepy scene where Rebecca's mom asks Sara if Rebecca's been taking her medication and you've got perfect fodder for a horror film.

Leighton totally rocks the psychotic roommate angle in the trailer, and while the plot seems somewhat formulaic if only because horror films, generally speaking, are fairly formulaic, it still looks like it has plenty of terrors to keep us up at night. Add that to the fact that it features Cam Gigandet (swoon!) and we're in. Other exciting actors involved in the project include "Vampire Diaries"' Katerina Graham, "90210's" Matt Lanter, and "Titanic's" Billy Zane. Between Leighton, Katerina, Matt and Aly, though, it's kind of like one big CW party.

And goodness if Aly isn't popping up in films all over the place nowadays! She's definitely double-dipping from the "Gossip Girl" costars barrel, what with "Easy A" opening today, so hopefully she will at least have the benefit of "The Roommate" trailer opening before her other film.

Chanel SoHo Re-Opening Party: A Star-Studded Soiree

Bringing an end to the first day of Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, a handful of Hollywood hotties gathered together at the Chanel boutique in SoHo on Thursday night.The for a store reopening party, beauties such as "Gossip Girl" co-stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester turned up in support of designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Joining in on the swanky fashion soiree were newly single "Jumper" actress Rachel Bilson, as well as the always-lovely Claire Danes, model Molly Sims and model/DJ Leigh Lezark.Rounding out the guest list were "Sex and the City" fashionista Sarah Jessica Parker and model Petra Nemcova, along with actresses Diane Kruger, Maggie Grace and Liv Tyler.