Donny Osmond has defied the odds of many child stars whose careers went from red-hot to has-been before age 21, and now he seems as popular as ever with a new movie and a co-hosting job on a celebrity TV show.

The singer told Reuters he also has plans for a Las Vegas show with sister Marie Osmond later this year. When he appeared on the red carpet at last week’s oscars with his wife of 30 years, Debbie, his fans went crazy.

Most are now middle-aged women who grew up swooning when a teenage Osmond sang hits like “Puppy Love,” but Osmond, who turned 50 years-old in December, seems as youthful as ever with a boyish enthusiasm for all things showbiz.

So, what’s his secret?

“Lots of plastic surgery!” he joked to Reuters. “No, it’s a mystery to me. But I think it’s good to be versatile nowadays and have a TV presence. I’m busier than ever, and I love it.”

Osmond’s new movie, “College Road Trip” debuts in theaters on Friday with Donny in a supporting role opposite comedian Martin Lawrence. Osmond plays a nerdy father of a high school girl who has befriended the Lawrence character’s daughter.

Osmond also recently began co-hosting “The Insider,” a U.S. television show that features entertainment news and interviews with film, TV and music stars.

More than four decades have passed since Donny and his four Osmond brothers began singing and dancing as a squeaky clean, All-American family act on “The Andy Williams Show.” Three decades have gone by since he and his sister had their smash hit TV variety show, “Donny and Marie.”

Rose Byrne, co-star of FX’s legal drama “Damages,” will join Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller “Knowing.” The project is set to begin shooting later this month in her native Australia.

Byrne will play the daughter of a woman who buried a 1962 time capsule bearing the dates of the assassinations of historical figures, the hotel fire death of the wife of a professor (Cage) and an imminent world apocalypse. After the professor discovers its contents and alerts her, the initially skeptical Byrne begins remembering strange incidents from her childhood. Alex Proyas (”I, Robot”) will direct.

Byrne, received a Golden Globe nomination this year for her supporting turn as an ambitious young lawyer in “Damages,” which stars Glenn Close. After its first season wrapped last fall, FX ordered two additional seasons. Byrne’s feature credits include “Marie Antoinette” and “28 Days Later.”

Summit Entertainment, in theaters with the Christina Ricci drama “Penelope,” will fully finance and distribute “Knowing.”

In the new historical melodrama “The Other Boleyn Girl,” which opens Friday, Natalie Portman plays Anne Boleyn, the woman who would become the second of six wives of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana), only to be beheaded. Scarlett Johansson plays Mary Boleyn, Anne’s sister, and rival for the hand and the bed of the handsome Henry.

What would happen if we pit Portman and Johansson together as rivals? Who would win that competition? They are popular, highly in-demand young women in their 20s who mix major studio films with small, independent fare. They have both made successful transitions from child actress to adult, received major award nominations and been the muses of legendary directors. Neither has shied away from nudity. But who is actually the better actress? Or are they on an even playing field?

After “Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby,” and “Blades of Glory” in which Will Ferrell parodied NASCAR and figure skating, this year he turned to basketball in “Semi-Pro,” another sport comedy, which opens this Friday, Feb. 29.

The movie is set in 1976 and Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, an owner, player and coach of the Flint Michigan Tropics, the worst basketball team in history.

Moon achieved his dream of having his own basketball team after he recorded a success with one hit wonder, “Love Me Sexy.”

As the American Basketball Association announce that it will merge with NBA and that only four teams will be qualified, Moon sees himself in a difficult position: to win the game in order to survive.

As the movie parodies basketball, it also gives attention to the disco era, with big hair, shorts and stunts made in order to get attention.

In the movie Ferrell seems to be same old him, trying to deliver pure stupid comedy with ridiculous scenes. Take for example the stunts he makes during halftime: he has to wrestle a bear or get shot out of a cannon.

Speaking about those stunts Ferrell said: “I loved those, because if you look at what they were doing in the ABA, that’s how the league survived. They did all these stupid promotions to just get people in,” Bostonherald.com reports.

The movie also stars Woody Harrelson as Monix, a real basketball player Moon hires to win the fourth place. Monix used to play in the NBA, but now suffers from a knee injury, bad temper as well and has a weakness for alcohol.

Even so, he arrives just in time to save the team and knows much about the real game.

The movie doesn’t quite hit the note of comedy. Ferrell does the entire job in the movie in his old fashion way, running around with no reason whatsoever, wearing too much hair.

Ferrell mentioned that even though it looks like he has an obsession with sport movies, is not like that.

He said: “I love them, they’re fun, but I’m not really always like, ‘OK, I gotta do a wind-surfing movie now,’ ” Chicago Tribune informs.

They each won three gold spray-painted trophies worth $4.89 (£2.48).

Murphy won three of the four worst acting categories for his comedy Norbit, which was mauled by critics.

Lohan won two worst actress Razzies for I Know Who Killed Me. The film broke records by winning eight of its nine nominations, including worst film.

This shattered a record for seven Razzie wins, previously held by Showgirls and Battlefield Earth.

Lohan also won worst screen couple for a scene in which she appears opposite herself.

In I Know Who Killed Me, she plays a small-town girl abducted by a psychopath, and an alter-ego stripper who is missing body parts. It was a major box office flop, with takings of $9m (£4.5m) worldwide.