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Alexa and Carlos PenaVega pose atop the Empire State Building on Monday (December 2) in New York City.

The cute couple joined The Salvation Army’s Kenneth and Jolene Hodder at the landmark, celebrating the kickoff of the Red Kettle season amid the holidays.

That same day, the trailer for Alexa and Carlos‘ new Great American Family movie Get Him Back for Christmas debuted, which features The Salvation Army as a central point in the plot.

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Here’s a synopsis: Up-and-coming singer songwriter Bella Harlan (Alexa) comes home for Christmas and enlists her high-school songwriting partner Jack Grayton (Carlos) to craft a song to win back her rockstar boyfriend by Christmas. As the two reunite for the first time in a decade, they embark on a Christmas journey down memory lane, and soon realize true love may be closer than they thought. The...

YouTube star Marcus Johns says it was "nothing short of a miracle" that he and wife Kristin Johns survived an alleged hit-and-run.  In separate videos posted from their hospital beds on Tuesday night, the couple said they each underwent surgery after being hit by a car while riding bikes.  Speaking through tears, Kristin, 25, said in the Instagram video, "Last night Marcus and I were in a horrible bicycle accident. A man going extremely fast hit us head on and he fled the scene. My femur is snapped in half and I had surgery this morning. Marcus' lower leg is broken. I just have to tell you guys that Jesus saved our lives and there's no question about that. This is an extremely...

Talent agency CAA has added to its digital fleet today with the signing of lifestyle creator Kristin Johns.

The Baton Rouge-born creator counts 614,000 YouTube subscribers, and has created sponsored content alongside Sephora, Marc Jacobs, and Anthropologie. Johns is also an aspiring entrepreneur as the founder of lifestyle brand and media company Kristin Made, which vends apparel, accessory, and home and garden products -- including $48 rattan bags, a $25 candle set, and $64 sweatshirts. 

On her channel, Johns  shares beauty, fashion, home decor, and recipe videos. Johns is also the wife of fellow creator Marcus Johns, with whom she operates a shared channel called Marcus & Kristin. 

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Former Vine star Marcus Johns will recount his rise to fame in Viral: The Musical, set to premiere at theatre event The Hollywood Fringe Festival next month.

Johns, who joined Vine shortly after it launched in 2013, became one of the top five most followed people on the platform, with more than 6.5 million folks following for his often absurdly humorous six-second videos. After Vine shut down in 2017, Johns bumped over to YouTube, where he’s focused on much longer-form projects, like Yard Boys, a feature-length documentary following him and his friends as they train-hop their way from California to New York in one month.

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Once a year, journalists, politicians and Hollywood elite come together to rub shoulders at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, alternately dubbed the “Nerd Prom.” But this year, the guest list had a new addition: social media stars. Millennial multitaskers famous for their YouTube videos, Instagram posts, snaps, tweets and Vines including Tyler Oakley, Bethany Mota, Marcus Johns, Nash Grier and Jerome Jarre (all invited by the Huffington Post’s Ariana Huffington) made this the most social guest list yet. And nowhere was the influence of social media more obvious than at the Vanity Fair after-party. Vanity Fair teamed up with...

The annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is typically dominated by a guest list full of traditional Hollywood and media celebrities. But on April 25, 2015, several YouTube and digital stars like Bethany Mota and Nash Grier will sit at the The Huffington Post table, thanks to invitations from the publication’s founder Arianna Huffington.

Grier and Mota (who previously had the honor of interviewing President Obama) are only two of several digital-centric attendees on Huffington’s guest list. Joining the Viner and YouTuber at the HuffPo table are Vine star Marcus Johns, Napster founder and ex-Facebook president Sean Parker, blogger Heather Armstrong, Snapchat celebrity Jerome Jarre, and YouTube vlogger Tyler Oakley. Huffington also invited media theorist and Ted speaker Steven Johnson, scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Serial podcast host and journalist Sarah Koenig, and hip-hop artist Killer Mike.

“There’s a new power center,” Huffington told The Washington Post. “People whose names...

For the second year in a row, Fandango sent Marcus Johns to the Oscars, and once again, the Viner's trip to the red carpet provided both charming and awkward moments. During his time at Hollywood's Dolby Theater, Johns chatted with several prominent actors, directors, and musicians while also bothering many more.

Fandango gave Johns a microphone, set him loose on Hollywood, and collected his best moments in a video released on the Movieclips Trailers channel. Among other highlights, he took a selfie with Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, sang "Everything Is Awesome" with nominees Tegan and Sara, and shook Clint Eastwood's hand, at which he exclaimed that he "can just die." Along the way, several other celebrities decided not to give the young Vine star any attention. We're sorry that Rosamund Pike lied to you, Marcus.

Simmons, who scored an Academy Award win for his role in Whiplash, wasn't...

AwesomenessTV will soon boast a title in Netflix’s streaming library. The YouTube multi-channel network’s comedy film Expelled, starring Viner Cameron Dallas, will debut on the streaming video-on-demand service on February 1, 2015.

In Expelled, Dallas (who boasts 6.8 million followers on Vine alone) stars as trouble-maker Felix, who gets kicked out of high school after pranking one too many times. Felix turns to his brother (fellow Vine star Marcus Johns), best friend (up-and-coming Instagram and Twitter personality Matt Shively), new friend (YouTuber and fellow AwesomenessTV talent Lia Maria Johnson), and classmate (Vine celebrity Andrea Russett) for help in convincing his parents he’s not only still in school, but also doing a great job at that.

Alex Goyette penned, produced, and directed Expelled, with Shauna Phelan (The Smosh Movie, Terry the Tomboy) and AwesomenessTV’s founder Brian Robbins on board as producers. Brett Bouttier (The Smosh Movie), Joe Davola (One Tree Hill,...

As it turns out, casting a bunch of social media stars in a film is a good way to ensure that film performs well on digital platforms. Expelled, which stars Vine personality Cameron Dallas as a prankster who gets kicked out of school, reached #1 on iTunes just one day after its video on-demand (VOD) release.

Expelled is produced by AwesomenessTV, which is partnered with Dallas across sites like Vine (where he has more than one billion total loops) and YouTube. Beyond Dallas, the film's cast also includes many other online media personalities, including Andrea Russett, Lia Marie Johnson, Marcus Johns, Michelle Glavan and Teala Dunn.

The film, first announced in November, was shown in theaters on December 12th and arrived on VOD platforms four days later. In the first few hours after its release, it raced up the iTunes charts, and at 8:18 Pm, Russett snapped a pic of it...

Kim Kardashian tries to keep her daughter grounded, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher take their love to the big screen, Gigi Hadid might model for Victoria’s Secret, and more in First Dibs.

Kim Kardashian says she won’t be spoiling North this Christmas, but everyone else will be. [E!] Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher star in a fake movie trailer for Moonquake Lake, a parody featured in the upcoming Annie remake. [Us Weekly] Gigi Hadid might be the newest Victoria’s Secret angel, according to a tweet she posted yesterday.

bein a goof on set of @Vspink with #ellistonlutz...

Kim Kardashian tries to keep her daughter grounded, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher take their love to the big screen, Gigi Hadid might model for Victoria’s Secret, and more in First Dibs.

Kim Kardashian says she won’t be spoiling North this Christmas, but everyone else will be. [E!] Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher star in a fake movie trailer for Moonquake Lake, a parody featured in the upcoming Annie remake. [Us Weekly] Gigi Hadid might be the newest Victoria’s Secret angel, according to a tweet she posted yesterday.

bein a goof on set of @Vspink with #ellistonlutz...

AwesomenessTV will deliver its latest film “Expelled” to fans’ favorite screen. The comedy will challenge the traditional distribution model, debuting in theaters on Dec. 12 before quickly moving to the Internet and video-on demand by the end of the month. The film stars a who's who of YouTube and Vine stars like Cameron Dallas, Andrea Russett, Lia Marie Johnson, Marcus Johns, Michelle Glavan, Teala Dunn and Matt Shively. See photos: TheWrap's 2014 ShortList Film Fest Rocks YouTube Space La (Photos) “The movie industry is changing in terms of not only who teens want to see on screen, but also how, when and where.

School's out early this Winter with Expelled, AwesomenessTV's action-packed comedy film starring Cameron Dallas and a roll call of YouTube and Vine favorites including Andrea Russett, Lia Marie Johnson, Marcus Johns, Michelle Glavan, Teala Dunn, and True Jackson, VP actor Matt Shively.

The film debuts in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on December 12. Expelled will also be available on demand at and through iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Target Ticket, and Walmart beginning December 16. Pre-sale starts today. Video-On Demand will release December 30.

Dallas plays Felix, a legendary prankster who seems to always charm his way out of trouble. However, after his third strike at school, the principal has had enough and expels him. Never defeated, Felix resorts to his infamous ways and devises a plan with his brother (Johns), best friend (Shively), new friend (Johnson) and classmate (Russett) to convince his parents he's a stellar student.

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Supergravity and Rockstream Studios aren’t the only organizations in the online video industry producing feature-length films with prominent social media stars. AwesomenessTV is making movies, too. The YouTube Multi-Channel Network acquired by DreamWorks Animation back in May 2013 in a deal that could be worth up to $117 million is now a YouTube McN, record label, management company, young adult book publishing imprint, burgeoning retailer, and motion picture studio. It’s latest project is Expelled, an “action-packed comedy” flick starring a cavalcade of incredibly popular individuals from YouTube, Vine, and other social media sites the kids are on these days. Cameron Dallas (who has no less than 6.1 million followers on Vine) leads the cast in the role of Felix, “a legendary prankster who seems to always charm his way out of trouble.” Here’s the rest of the premise: After Felix’s “third strike at school, the principal has had enough and expels him.

TV shows are so 2013. Right now, it seems as if every prominent YouTuber is going to print. The latest creators with their own book deals are five United Talent Agency (UTA) clients who will benefit from a deal with Simon & Schuster: iJustine, Shane Dawson, ShayCarl, Connor Franta, and Joey Graceffa. Those five YouTubers will all publish books through Keywords Press, a new imprint of Simon and Schuster. Each book will relate to its author's online personality in an attempt to draw YouTube viewers to bookstores. According to the New York Times, Keywords Press hopes to publish between six and ten books a year, each one based on an Internet content creator. If the imprint decides to keep up its partnership with UTA, it will find plenty more potential partners; most recently, the Hollywood talent agency teamed up with Vine star Marcus Johns. In addition to Keywords Press, two other Simon...

Another week, another high-profile Vine personality makes headlines in traditional entertainment circles. This time it's Marcus Johns. The 21-year-old, Florida-based comedic Viner has signed with UTA for representation in all areas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John's has over 4.6 million followers on the six-second video platform, where he posts quick sketches featuring his brother Cody Johns (who has 1.9 million followers), his incredibly agile father, randomly entertaining ephemera, and evidence of how sometimes he just doesn't care. Johns recently leveraged his immensely popular Vine status to secure a spot on the Oscars red carpet as a correspondent for Fandago and if the cameos on his videos are any indication, he hangs out with some high-profile players. But the burgeoning entertainment personality was exposed to Hollywood even before he was big online. Now, expect Hollywood to soon get some more exposure to Johns.

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Vine celebrity Marcus Johns has signed with UTA for representation in all areas, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The Florida-based comedy personality’s six-second, looping micro-sketches have attracted 4.6 million followers to his account on the Twitter-owned mobile app Vine. Photos: Facebook Turns 10: The Most Popular Stars, Movies and TV Shows In March he served as Fandango’s social media correspondent on the Oscar red carpet. His online popularity also has landed him ambassador roles with brands including Pepsi, G.E. and Klondike, as well as cameo appearances by famous faces (see the Vine below). Johns,

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At last night's Academy Awards, a pair of Vine stars joined the Hollywood elite on the red carpet to do what they do best. The unrestrained Jerome Jarre and the dashingly handsome Marcus Johns both found spots on the film industry's biggest night, where they were up to their usual shenanigans. Johns, who has more than four million followers on Twitter's six-second video capture platform, scored an invite to the Academy Awards through Fandango. His Vine feed ended up containing a mix of commentary, behind-the-scenes bits, and, once Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie showed up, screaming. Jarre's Vine updates were a little more singular, as he used his talent for bothering people in public to create Vines where he bothered celebrities in public. His best one features Pharrell Williams, who can't help but give the camera shifty eyes when accosted by a singing French dude. Jarre (who has 4.7 million Vine...

12 Years a Slave won for Best Picture and Gravity blasted off to Oscar success taking home seven awards including Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron. Dallas Buyers Club performed well in the marquee acting categories, while American Hustle, which earned 10 nominations, was shut out. The show featured a number of memorable moments from an ongoing pizza gag to host Ellen DeGeneres setting a Twitter record for the most retweeted tweet of all time with her A-list ensemble selfie (for our own special red-carpet reporter Marcus Johns' fun selfies with celebs preshow, watch here). See below for the full list of winners.   Best Picture 12 Years a Slave   Actress in a Leading Role Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine...

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Earlier today, Vine superstar Marcus Johns helped us out on the red carpet interviewing nominees and posting pictures and videos for his thousands of followers. If you missed any of them, you can go to the Fandango Instagram and Marcus Johns' Instagram to check out the complete coverage. Or watch our highlight video below, plus a few more pics and video. Enjoy!     Here, Marcus meets our chief correspondent and Oscars guru Dave Karger. Our man poses on the red carpet. Marcus asks Kristen Bell if she wants to build a snowman. Here's a selfie with a special guest in the background. Selfie with Uncle Jesse from Full House (John Stamos)

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Honoring the best in social media, the 2014 Shorty Awards nominees were announced on Monday (February 24).

On April 7th, winners will be celebrated at the New York Times Center in a live-streamed ceremony at ShortyAwards.com.

Among the nominees are Lena Dunham, Jimmy Fallon, Chloe Moretz, One Direction, Justin Bieber, and Demi Lovato.

Honored for their web-based projects were Amy Poehler's "Smart Girls at the Party" Tumblr and Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" web series. Check out the nominees below.

#Actor

Aaron Paul, @aaronpaul_8

Joshua Malina, @JoshMalina

Orlando Jones, @TheOrlandoJones

Arthur Aguiar, @Aguiarthur

Shahrukh Khan, @iamsrk

Misha Collins, @mishacollins

Dylan O'Brien, @dylanobrien

#Actress

Felicia Day, @feliciaday

Lena Dunham, @lenadunham

Retta, @unfoRETTAble

Lua Blanco, @Lua_Blanco

Sophia Abrahão, @sophiaabrahao

Chloë Grace Moretz, @ChloeGMoretz

Miranda Cosgrove, @MirandaCosgrove

#Band

Fifth Harmony, @FifthHarmony

One Direction, @onedirection

Big Time Rush, @bigtimerush

The Script, @thescript

Tokio Hotel, @tokiohotel

5 Seconds of Summer, @5Sos

EMBLEM3, @EmblemThree

#Celebrity

Aaron Paul,...