Beautiful Creatures is the latest young adult book series to be adapted into what Hollywood hopes is its next great fantasy-romance franchise — complete with supernatural powers, star-crossed lovers and a showdown that determines the fates of people’s lives and loves.

But at the Los Angeles press day for the film, the cast offered a few of their favorite romantic stories, or supernatural franchises, that captured their hearts.

Viola Davis, who plays the “seer” Amma, tells Celebuzz that she was enchanted with Rich Man, Poor Man, and The Sound of Music. “I was always attracted to the forbidden love story,” she said. “But who doesn’t love a love story?”

Emmy Rossum, who plays the deliciously villainous Ridley, reveals that she was obsessed with Harry Potter.

“I was really into all of those books,” Rossum said. “I remember getting them the day they came out, and underlining stuff, and going back. I remember I was so excited when, a couple of years ago, as an adult, when I went to Harry Potter World and drank Butterbeer and thought it was so cool that it really existed.”

Alice Englert, who grew up in New Zealand, said that her country’s deep ties to fantasy entertainment inspired her to rebel against that sort of storytelling.

“I grew up with this genre so present in pop culture that actually it was rebelling against it that left an impression on me,” she explained. “So it was less part of that fantasy genre.

“Although I have to say my father read me The Hobbit when I was a kid, and I love that,” she added.

Beautiful Creatures opens in theaters nationwide Feb. 14.

Watch the Beautiful Creatures cast talk about their favorite fantasy romances in the video, above.

What’s your favorite fantasy romance that made it to the big screen? Tell us below.

Emmy Rossum made her Hollywood breakthrough in 2004 as Christine, the ingénue who captures the attention of the disfigured title character in Phantom of the Opera. Nine years later, Rossum is playing Ridley, one of the villainesses in Beautiful Creatures who menaces a young woman (played by Alice Englert).

The transition from would-be victim to antagonist has played out on screen as well as in life for Rossum, who has taken on increasingly mature acting challenges as she’s gotten older.

“I wonder if I looked or seemed as terrified as I actually was when you first met me,” she told Celebuzz, whichpoor  first spoke to Rossum for Opera. “I was not ready for everything that came with that movie, and I was out of my element and had no idea how to handle myself.”

In Beautiful Creatures, Rossum faced not only the prospect of playing a bad guy – or girl – but vamping it up, old-Hollywood style, unlike she’s ever attempted before.

“She kind of channels different old movie stars from Rita Hayworth to Marilyn Monroe,” Rossum explains. “Embracing those different looks was incredibly fun. I loved the challenge of playing this likeable evil villain.”

Although the idea of an “evil villain” somehow being “likeable” might seem counterintuitive – not to mention a tough task for an actor – Rossum says that it’s precisely because of her on- and off-screen evolution that she’s capable of handling the part.

“I guess the roles that I’ve gone after have been more challenging and more adult as I’ve felt able to take on different things,” she says.

Beautiful Creatures opens in theaters nationwide February 14. Watch Celebuzz’s exclusive interview with Rossum, and then head to the comments section and tell us:  what do you think of Rossum as an actress? Is she capable of being really, really bad?

In Beautiful Creatures, Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert play Ethan Wate and Lena Duchannes, a restless Southern teenage boy and the girl he hopes will help him escape the boredom of small-town life. Sounds a little bit like a certain supernatural romance between a introverted schoolgirl and a shiny, impossibly good-looking vampire, no?

According to the story, their characters share an almost otherworldly connection. But when the pair met one another before filming began, they immediately liked qualities in the other that would ultimately make their on screen connection that much stronger. For Englert, she jokes that it was the actor’s carefully-sculpted bed head.

“I just thought he had great hair,” she tells Celebuzz.

All kidding aside, the pair did harbor deep-rooted respect and admiration for one another, which created palpable chemistry once they were sharing kisses and creating a relationship for audiences to care about.

“Alice was more intent on presenting herself as someone who had ideas about things,” Ehrenreich says. “[She] was a thinking person with a lot of her own philosophies and values than someone who was just trying to be pleasant – which is kind of a dime a dozen.”

“She brought in this force of her convictions, and a real vision for what she wanted to make out of her character’s story, that I really appreciated.”

Englert says she appreciated Ehrenreich’s commitment to his character, and to bringing the story to life. “Alden’s work ethic really appealed to me. I just thought he was doing this thing for the right reasons. When someone is really passionate about the stories in their work, it’s always exciting.”

Beautiful Creatures opens in theaters nationwide February 14. What do you think of the chemistry between the film’s two leads – is it as powerful as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s, or has the sun set on any Twilight comparisons? Let us know in the comments section below.

Before J.J. Abrams landed the gig, directing Star Wars: Episode VII was Hollywood’s most coveted job.

Now, on the heels of recent news that Disney and Lucasfilm are developing a standalone Star Wars movie centered on Han Solo’s origins, the role of everyone’s favorite intergalactic scoundrel is quickly becoming the job every young actor wants.

So who should play the scruffy-looking nerf herder? From Chris Evans to Hunger Games‘ Liam Hemsworth, Celebuzz takes a look at which young stars are most likely — or at least we think are best-suited — to be up for the part.

Click here to launch Celebuzz’ gallery of 7 Actors Who Should Play Han Solo

Han Solo gave Harrison Ford his big break, with 1977′s A New Hope. To call the role an iconic one would be an understatement; every kid then (and now) wanted to be him. Sure, Luke has his lightsaber. But Solo has the Millennium Falcon. And that vest!

Those are obviously some very big space boots to fill. Since the character will be getting the “Batman Begins” treatment, with audiences seeing a young Solo in action in the years between Episodes III and IV, we limited our casting picks to those rising stars no older than 30.

Check out Celebuzz’ roster of potential Solos in the gallery above, then rattle off a few of your own casting choices in the comment below. Who would be the best young actor to play the iconic anti-hero?