Allen High School grad Amanda Seyfried has landed on the cover of Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood edition.

The March issue, due out Tuesday, features Seyfried as part of a three-page pullout cover with other young actresses — Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Evan Rachel Wood, Rebecca Hall, Anna Kendrick, Mia Wasikowska and Emma Stone. The photographer was the legendary Annie Leibovitz. The headline blares: ”A New Decade. A New Hollywood.”

This is the second time Seyfried has been on Vanity Fair’s cover. In August 2008, she was declared part of ”Hollywood’s New Wave” and appeared with Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively and Emma Roberts.

Seyfried stars in three movies opening over the next four months. The first, due out Friday, is ”Dear John,” a romance based on a Nicholas Sparks book about a college student who falls for a soldier.

Vanity Fair wrote of Seyfried:

”She was more dippy than mean in her 2004 film debut, ‘Mean Girls,’ announcing vacantly that her breasts could predict the weather. But it took a most unlikely confection — the movie musical ‘ Mamma Mia!’ — for the world to see Amanda Seyfried in her full, dewy, wide-eyed loveliness. Since then she has become the go-to girl for modern fairy tales, including Lasse Hallström’s ‘Dear John’ and the forthcoming ‘Letters to Juliet.’ But watch for a 180-degree turn in this month’s ‘Chloe,’ Atom Egoyan’s artsy sexual thriller, in which 24-year-old Seyfried plays the alluring, troubled complication in a failing marriage.”

Seyfried will be on ”Late Show with David Letterman” tonight to promote ”Dear John.”

Teen.comTV posted videos of Channing TatumF and Amanda answering fan mail on their youtube channel.

Amanda: Can you describe Channing in 5 words? Grounded, hysterical, unpredictable, punctual, and trustworthy.

Amanda: What’s your favorite book? Wally Lamb: I Know This Much Is True.

Amanda: What makes for a good on-screen kiss? Chemistry.

Amanda: Do you prefer acting in TV or movies? Movies because it’s more intense of course you only get to play this character for so long so you really gotta know your character in and out and have to be able to relate to them as much as possible so yeah it’s more of a challenge for sure. I mean you don’t get much time but the time you do spend working on these movies is pretty magical.

Amanda: If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be? A toasted sesame seed bagel with cream cheese and hot chocolate

There are three additional clips on their website you can view them here.

Amanda: Who is your favorite on-screen romantic couple of all time? Claire Danes & Leonardo Dicaprio (Romeo and Juliet)

Amanda: Dog or Cat? Dog, I have one that is an Australian Shepherd named Finn.

Amanda: Is it harder to do a film adapted from a novel or a musical? Musical, because you have to sing and dance and you have to lip sync.

Amanda: If you can buy one thing everyone to own on the planet, what would it be? A good book. Some classic novel.

Amanda: If you could star in any musical with any singer, who would it be? Josh Groban

It’s not word for but I tried my best!

She was more dippy than mean in her 2004 film debut, Mean Girls, announcing vacantly that her breasts could predict the weather. But it took a most unlikely confection—the movie musical Mamma Mia!—for the world to see Amanda Seyfried in her full, dewy, wide-eyed loveliness. Since then she has become the go-to girl for modern fairy tales, including Lasse Hallström’s Dear John and the forthcoming Letters to Juliet. But watch for a 180-degree turn in this month’s Chloe, Atom Egoyan’s artsy sexual thriller, in which 24-year-old Seyfried plays the alluring, troubled complication in a failing marriage. Read more.

I love to see some of my favorite actresses with Amanda in the March issue of Vanity Fair. Amanda has done an issue with Kristen Stewart before and Emma Stone replaced Amanda in her upcoming movie Marmaduke. I’m glad to see Anna Kendrick and Evan Rachel Wood on there too!

As if “The Notebook” didn’t already raise women’s romantic expectations high enough, now guys have to deal with “Dear John,” another romance flick based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, which features a more muscular, Abercrombie model-looking heartthrob in the male protagonist role.

Thanks, Hollywood.

Channing Tatum (or “Chan” as he introduced himself to me) plays John Tyree, a soldier who meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) when he jumps off a dock and into water to rescue her purse. The two instantly fall for each other and stay in touch when he’s away on duty by writing letters.

Like any other bitter male, I went into my interview with Tatum and Seyfried at their downtown hotel on Thursday hoping somewhat to find a flaw in Tatum. You know, so I could tell my female friends who swooned over him in the dancy-heavy “Step Up” films that he’s an arrogant jerk, a womanizer or, at the very least, a meathead.

Unfortunately, that plan backfired.

“Chan didn’t get much sleep last night because he’s working on a website devoted to expressing love,” said Seyfried, 24, who knitted a hat while answering questions alongside Tatum. “He’s reaching out to the public to share their love stories.”

Tatum, who married his “Step-Up” co-star, Jenna Dewan, is hoping to get the website, postthelove.com, done before “Dear John” hits theaters Feb. 5.

“You can put up a poem, a youtube video of yourself singing a song or a photo of yourself with ‘I love you’ written on your hand,” said Tatum, 29. “I don’t care what it is. I just want a venue for people to express themselves.”

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Just from looking at her, anyone can guess the answer to this question. But ask it anyway, man. You’re a professional!

Ms. Amanda Seyfried, star of Mamma Mia! and the new romantic tear-jerker Dear John, have you ever gotten a “Dear Amanda” letter?

“Oh nooo,” Seyfried says. “Well, not yet.”

She’s young. Give her time.

Letters are very much on Seyfried’s mind these days. Dear John is about a long distance romance between an Army Ranger and a college girl he met over spring break, a love kindled by letter writing. And Letters to Juliet, also starring Amanda and coming in May, is a lighter romance about a girl who discovers a “letter to Juliet” that lovers leave in the Verona courtyard where Shakespeare’s characters are thought to have lived, and sets out to find its author. Seyfried is just 24, and these movies have her believing she and her generation missed out on something.

“I grew up after letter writing died out. I mean, I had pen pals growing up, but with email and texts and everything else, who does that anymore? We’re losing the personal touch, the effort, the thought process that goes into writing something to someone, not just blurting it out in a text. The actual piece of paper is something I miss, too.

“Sure, it takes longer for a letter to be written, mailed and get to you. But it keeps love alive, to be thinking about when the mail comes, waiting for that next letter from somebody you love. You live by it. We need so much immediacy and we’re sacrificing something more personal, more intimate. We’re so impatient and I think texting and all this technology that gives us instant access adds to our anxiety. I struggle with that myself.”

One thing she isn’t struggling with is her career. A former child model turned screen ingénue (She made her film debut in Mean Girls), Seyfried studied and groomed herself for stage musicals (She was in Grease on Broadway), she could be pronounced a “charming discovery” by critics like Pete Hammond (Hollywood.com) when Mamma Mia! came out. But the girl had been prepping for that break-out. She sings in Dear John – no big surprise there. The novelty is that she accompanies herself on guitar and wrote the song herself.

“I’ve been playing for about six years. But that’s something I do in my private life. Lasse (Hallstrom, Öthe director) asked me to bring my guitar to the set one day, and I said ‘No,’ but I did it anyway…And now I’m on the soundtrack!”“

Seyfried (pronounced SIGH-frid) is on the critically acclaimed cable TV polygamy drama Big Love. A film of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance is in her future. And her present? Maybe a little less time online and a little more with pen in hand.

“I did happen to have a boyfriend, not too long ago, who enjoyed writing me letters, because it is romantic and it makes you feel so special to get one. .

“I just came across an old love letter from him just the other day, and I just melted. The familiar hand-writing, the envelope, remembering how I felt when I got it. An amazing experience, even though we haven’t been together for a long time. But what’re we going to do when there are no love letters? You can’t save texts.”

Amanda Seyfried decided to quit Big Love because she felt the TV show’s producers weren’t maximizing her potential.

The actress shot to fame in 2006 after landing a lead role in the series as a member of a polygamous Mormon family – but she announced last month she will be leaving after the fourth season.

And Seyfried admits she made the decision so she can focus on landing more film roles that will allow her to show off her talents.

She tells Britain’s OK! magazine, “I was frustrated because I wasn’t really working that much on it and it was six months of my life. My career is going places and I wasn’t able to do the things I wanted to. And I had to live in L.A.”

Over at Hollywood Outbreak, Amanda Seyfried sat down and did a short audio interview about Chloe and her other films. She said in Chloe, it shows a ‘ridiculously different side of the world’, also included is the trailer again, which can also be viewed a few post below. She also talks about the hardest parts of filming Dear John in a separate interview.

“Chloe”, directed by Canadian Atom Egoyan, was premiered at the London Film Festival. Starring Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried and Liam Neeson, the film is a remake of French film “Nathalie” by Anne Fontaine.

The plot involves a wife (Moore) who hires a call girl (Seifried) to “present herself” to her husband (Leeson) in order to prove that he is unfaithful to her. Icky. Even more icky when the two women launch into a series of tasteless skin flick scenes themselves.

Moore looks haggard, Neeson haunted and Seifried unhappy – and that’s just the trailer.

Worse, everyone is aware that this is the film that Neeson was shooting when his wife died earlier this year making the subject matter even more distasteful. (Neeson did not attend the premier.)

Established stars Neeson and Moore are expected to survive catastrophic reviews and a straight to dvd release. As for starlet Seifried, the news that Mamma Mia 2 is on the way must be the only compensation for appearing in such a rotten-tomato release.

Chloe will be released in France and the Netherlands next March. No other releases are on the horizon.

Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has confirmed there are plans for a follow-up to the hugely successful movie.

The actress, who played Sophie in the musical, has denied knowledge of a sequel in the past. However, she has now suggested that there are serious talks underway about releasing a second film.

She told Newsbeat: “I’ve been talking to some insiders and it’s not something that they haven’t been working on. I don’t actually know anything other than that.

“I know it’s still going to be Abba music, because what else would it be. Come on, I wouldn’t do Mamma Mia 2 without Benny and Bjorn.

The 2008 film version of the West End musical grossed more than half a billion dollars worldwide.

Seyfried, who’s currently promoting new movie Chloe, admitted that she was slightly intimidated by some of her co-stars on Mamma Mia! who included Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth.

She said: “I’ve got to say that was a big cast. It was so much fun that nothing was very serious on that so it was a completely different type of project.

“Maybe it would give me an opportunity to not be intimidated by Meryl any more. Especially because now after doing Chloe I feel so much more capable than I’ve ever felt before.

“If I go back I’ll probably have enough confidence in myself to not be so intimiated by anybody.”

However, the 23-year-old admitted that they all had fun on the Greek Island set.

She said: “I think we all had the best time and we all got along so well. It was like some days it felt like we were just people on vacation.”

“I will do it. And I know Meryl’s game as well, so bring it on. It will be so cool.”