Amanda Grace Benitez to Star in “The F*ck It List”

Amanda Grace Benitez has made the List

The 24-year-old Latina actress has joined the cast of The F*ck It List, a high school comedy from Awesomeness Films.

Amanda Grace Benitez

Michael Duggan is directing the film, which follows a high school senior who launches the F*ck-It List – all the things he wishes he’d done in high school but was too busy or afraid to try. The list goes viral and this newfound fame prompts him to break free and make a run for a future of his own design.

Duggan co-wrote the screenplay with Dan McDermott.

Benitez’s previous credits include School of Rock and The Ranger.

Thorne Signs with Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

Bella Thorne is getting Creative

The 18-year-old half Cuban American actress/singer and former Disney Channel star has signed with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Bella Thorne

The move comes as Thorne, who has been branching out fast into feature films as both an actress and producer, just finished filming Midnight Sun opposite Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween and The Babysitter with Robbie Amell and directed by McG.

On the TV side, her Freeform pilot Famous in Love, adapted by Marlene King, has landed a series order.

Her recent credits include the SXSW pic Shovel Buddies, which she also produced, and Thorne now is in production on a second Awesomeness Films movie, You Get Me, in which she will also star and produce. She is voicing a role in Focus Features’ animated Ratchet and Clank and over the summer will begin production on Xavier Dolan’s The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.

She had been repped by WME.

Thorne has 11.3 million Instagram followers, 9.9 million Facebook fans and 6.3 million Twitter followers. She also has a novel, Autumn Falls, and another, Autumn’s Kiss, coming in the fall.