With regard to those one- or two-day roles, we tried to get Craven to reveal a few specifics about two recently announced “guests” in particular: Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell.

“I don’t know what I’m allowed to say,” he laughed. “They do have a very significant and exciting role in the film, let me put it that way.”

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When a beloved television show ends, it’s practically expected for the fans to demand more, more, more. Usually, the stars are the ones who are reluctant to join the cavalry at the studio door. (We’re looking at you, Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham.)

Leave it to former “Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell to break the pattern. Over three years have passed since her spitfire teen detective made her final appearance, but Bell refuses to give up the dream. Bell took to her Twitter today (September 2) to re-ignite the Neptune flame.

“Mars fans-can we bug @wbpictures & tell em they must do a VM film?? new tactic. bombard em w/tweets, there’s evidence of fans they cant ignore,” she writes. She doesn’t stop there.

“#veronicamars fans send petitions & any obsessive behavior you have to @wbpictures & demand the film. they see no audience for it? i beg to differ.”

Bell explains that since Warner Bros. owns the rights to “Veronica Mars,” the movie depends on the studio — unless they release the rights. “They gotta make it, or set it free!” she says. “We would be happy to make it privately!”

Team Zap2it is so, so, so on board with the demand for the movie. The last time we saw Veronica, she was walking through the rain after having been relegated back to the seventh circle of social hell. Let’s just say it was the exact opposite of driving off into the sunset. With her status as an underdog once again secure, there’s plenty of material left for a movie.

Plus, there’s that whole unresolved Veronica/Logan (Jason Dohring) love-hate thing. We simply can’t let it go until we’ve got closure!

Want to join the fight? Direct your tweets to @wbpictures with the hashtag #veronicamarsmovie. Then sign a petition or two, and join this Kristen-sanctioned Facebook group.

Veronica Mars may be a marshmallow, but she’s also smarter than you, Warner Bros. Let’s prove it!

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Although she’s the lead actress in the romantic comedy You Again (opening September 24th), Kristen Bell is smart enough to give her props to co-stars Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Betty White (personally I’m hoping Odette Yustman gets a huge career boost from the flick). You Again centers on a successful woman named “Marni” (Bell) whose future sister-in-law “Joanna” (Yustman) actually bullied her in high school. Curtis stars as Bell’s mother, who has her own rivalry with “Joanna’s” jet-setting aunt, “Ramona” (Weaver). The film, which also stars Kristen Chenoweth and features a cameo from Dwayne Johnson, has tons of cat-fighting, most of which are actually funny. Click on the media bar to hear Bell talk about her You Again mates Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, and Betty White.

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Teaming up with Hollywood vets Weaver, Curtis and White in You Again.
“It was kind of surreal because they accepted me as a peer, which I wasn’t prepared for. I thought I would be a giddy ball of nerves the entire time because they’re such iconic women, and I look up to all of them. I was intimidated initially but very shortly I realized they haven’t been working for decades because they have bad personalities! They are actually a lot of fun to work with and bring a lot to the table, so I was just happy to be the runt of the litter.” \

Working with the one and only Betty White.
“We were just lucky that she fit us into her busy schedule because she is quite literally the busiest woman in Hollywood. Everyone was just happy to be working on a movie where there were so many fun, feisty women.”

Can she imagine having a career like Betty’s at 88?
“I don’t think anyone will do it as good as Betty White. She is working right now because she is good at it and because she wants to. I think that’s the key to success in any field, if you want to keep doing it. If I’m still happy working when I’m 88, then absolutely I’ll still work. But if I just want to be on a beach somewhere in a one-piece bathing suit and giant straw hat, then that’ll be what will happen.”

Remembering her high-school days.
“I think I was somewhere in between popular and nerdy. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were a lot more dramatic than they were at a big school. You couldn’t just walk down the hall and shove a nameless face because we all knew each other’s families. There wasn’t a stereotypical bully. But in high school, I was just very insecure because I was always so concerned that everybody liked me so I was just very sweet, a little meeker than I am now, but I was really just so hopeful that I wouldn’t fight with anybody.”

Trading in her Hollywood image for glasses, pimples and braces on the big screen.
“That was my dream come true. That’s what I wake up looking like, or at least that’s what I feel I wake up looking like! I loved that because it’s always been my dream to be more of a character actress, so to be able to put braces and glasses and pimples on my face and have greasy hair and a little bit of a hunchback was so much fun for me. I actually wanted to go much further with it, but I came out of the makeup trailer with all of these whiteheads all over my face and Disney kind of pulled me back and said, ‘This isn’t a horror film, let’s just do your standard run-of-the-mill acne please.’”

Why she’s keeping it real.
“I have no desire to put on this face of perfection. I’m constantly striving to better myself, but that’s also maybe out of intense insecurities. Feeling like I went right from high school to Hollywood, it’s essentially the same dynamic. But I can admit, I don’t always have the best style. I trip a lot, I go to therapy because I make mistakes, I just try to be as real and as well-rounded as possible because there’s nothing really that interesting about perfection. It’s been done so many times before.”

On recently turning 30.
“I love 30 more than I’ve ever loved anything. I feel like I was born on my 30th birthday. It’s finally the time where I’ve fully accepted and loved myself, which I’m realizing more and more each day — it is so important to love yourself. Because if you don’t love yourself than nothing really matters. For a long time, I went through life kind of beating myself up and trying to be a perfectionist and do everything right and I just thought, ‘What’s the point?’ I have faults, that’s fine. I can still strive to be better, but I’m not going to be as rough on myself as I used to and it’s just kind of alleviating all of this stress and kind of taken a weight off my shoulders and I think now I’m just happy.”

What’s she’s looking forward to most in her next decade.
“Anything and everything that my 30s have to throw at me. Part of the great place that I’m in is that I’m not planning as much anymore. I have goals, but my main goal is just to be happy. And if I plan everything out I just feel that’s what crazes your brain and messes you up and makes you feel like a failure. Wherever you are right now is OK. That’s kind of been my mantra.”

Finding comfort in her engagement to Dax Shepard.
“I never loved dating. I think it’s very uncomfortable to put yourself out there and be vulnerable. I’m much more comfortable in a relationship and I’m very happy.”

They’re not your typical Hollywood couple.
“I’m definitely a homebody. I don’t know if I’ve been to a club in the last seven years, at least not one that I was forced to go to because it was for a friends’ birthday party. I’m not much for the club atmosphere, but I don’t drink so that may have something to do with it! I love to cook and I have a garden at home and I’m much more like a 1950s housewife, I think.”

The shows she’s hooked on.
“I like Damages, I like Mad Men. I love 30 Rock. I really like Friday Night Lights and was over the moon when they were finally acknowledged on the Emmys this year because I think they’ve been one of the better shows on television for a while now.”

Her one guilty pleasure.
“I’m always DVR’ing Jersey Shore, but I’ve never been ashamed to admit that. I probably should be ashamed to admit that, but I’m not. I think that it’s one of the greatest disasters to ever come to television and I just love the lessons they learn each week and the trouble they get into.”

On her hush-hush cameo in the upcoming Scream 4.
“I am in the movie, I will say that. I don’t know if I can say much more than that but it’s a really, really fun movie and everyone loves it as much as they did the first one.”

Will her character suffer a fate like Drew Barrymore’s in the first flick?
“It doesn’t go down like you think it does. But it was fun doing it, that’s what I’ll say. I loved being a part of the movie.”

Kristen tweeted

congrats creators @slaverat1 @danetheridge of VMars & Party Down 4the new show! lets keep this one on air people! http://tinyurl.com/2ahpzr3 8:00 PM Aug 27th via web

The team behind “Party Down” has reason to hire caterers: Its next project just scored a put pilot order from NBC.

Rob Thomas, Jon Enbom and Dan Etheridge are the creators behind “Temps,” a single-camera laffer that has landed at the Peacock after an aggressive bidding war. Thomas and Enbom will write the script.

Warner Bros. TV is behind the single-camera comedy. Thomas, Enbom and Etheridge will exec produce along with Jennifer Gwartz and Danielle Stokdyk.

The quintet all spent two seasons on “Party Down,” the Starz comedy that scored critical acclaim but low ratings. Starz recently canceled the show after ratings failed to pick up.

Where “Party Down” found humor in a group of Angelenos working for a catering company while waiting for something better to come along, “Temps” will focus on a group of recent college grads who are forced to take a variety of oddball temp jobs to make ends meet.

Gwartz, Stokdyk, Enbom and Etheridge worked alongside Thomas on his highly regarded UPN series “Veronica Mars.” Stokdyk, Gwartz and Etheridge worked with Thomas on ABC’s recent rework of “Cupid,” while Enbom’s credits include “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

UTA reps Thomas, Etheridge, Stokdyk and Gwartz, while Enbom is repped by WME.

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BEING AN OBSTETRICIAN? “While I was in Brazil on a volunteer mission, I was asked to help out around the hospital. This hospital was absolutely barren. They didn’t even have enough rubber gloves, and they disposed of their ‘sharps’ in a two-liter soda bottle. Not everyone had masks in the operating rooms. There just wasn’t enough to go around. It was very eye-opening. I assisted on minor surgeries, acted as a triage nurse. Two of the days I was working there, women showed up and said, ‘I’m ready to pop! Let’s do this!’ So I helped some babies be born. It was unbelievable.”

Bell is grateful for SO much more: Sondheim, Smurfs, fanboys, and the transformative power of tragedy. Read the rest of Kristen Bell’s gratitude list in ON GRATITUDE (in bookstores 9.21.10, World Gratitude Day).

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Pitchfork: How did Kristen Bell get involved?

AN: I was looking for someone that was a good enough actor to cry. I also wanted someone that had an All-American sweetheart tone to her. Kristen’s also a spokesperson for PETA. She was our first choice and she wanted to do it.

Pitchfork: How did you pitch her the idea?

AN: [laughs] It was funny because we sent her the treatment and never heard back. Then, a couple days later, I was at the Apple store in Santa Monica and she was there. So we went up and just talked to her. It was divine interference. And she had a dog that died two weeks before we shot it, so she was quite close to the experience.

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