American singer Katy Perry excited about Smurfette role

American singer Katy Perry is excited about playing Smurfette in an upcoming movie, which is a remake of the popular TV cartoon The Smurfs.

Perry said she wasn’t allowed to watch the cartoon when she was a child.

“I’m going to be Smurfette. I’m so excited! I’ve never seen an episode, because my parents wouldn't let me,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Perry as saying.

“My mother thought that Smurfette was a little bit slutty, being the only female in the village. And now I’ve shown her: I called her up and said, ''Guess what, ma? I'm Smurfette,” she added.

“It was just like one of those days, ‘Guess what, mom? I kissed a girl!’ ‘Guess what, mom? I'm going to be naked in a music video,’” Perry told MTV news.

John Carpenter bringing Dracula from the dead

American horror filmmaker John Carpenter has decided to revive Bram Stoker’s super villain vampire Count Dracula.

The 62-year-old filmmaker has signed actress Hilary Swank in a modern-day adaptation of Stoker's classic vampire tale.

The director has agreed to take charge of Fangland, which is based on the 2007 novel by John Marks, reports The Daily Express.

According to Variety.com, the plot sees Stoker's story re-imagined in the tale of a female New York-based TV journalist who travels to Romania to interview a notorious European arms dealer, who is a modern-day Dracula.

Swank will play the role of an ill-fated reporter Evangeline Harker.