Well, Mamma Mia! is now out worldwide and doing very well in the box office. I hope you’re all enjoying it! This means that the promo circuit is mainly behind now but Amanda is still featured in many, many magazines at the moment. For an updated list, please check out the sidebar. Amanda also appeared in The Today Show and The View and you can view videos of both appearances below. Also, be sure to visit YouTube for tens of new interviews with her!

Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep will appear on The View on Friday, July 18, to discuss Mamma Mia! Be sure to tune in!

The star-studded soundtrack for the Mamma Mia! movie is set for release on Decca on July 8, 2008. Amanda herself provides vocals on several of the tracks:

1. Honey, Honey (Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall)
2. Money, Money, Money (Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski)
3. Mamma Mia (Meryl Streep)
4. Dancing Queen (Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski)
5. Our Last Summer (Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried & Meryl Streep)
6. Lay All Your Love on Me (Dominic Cooper & Amanda Seyfried)
7. Super Trouper (Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski)
8. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall)
9. The Name of the Game (Amanda Seyfried)
10. Voulez-Vous (Full cast, Philip Michael, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters & Stellan Skarsgard)
11. SOS (Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep)
12. Does Your Mother Know (Christine Baranski & Philip Michael)
13. Slipping Through My Fingers (Meryl Streep & Amanda Seyfried)
14. The Winner Takes It All (Meryl Streep)
15. When All is Said and Done (Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep)
16. Take a Chance on Me (Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgard, Colin Firth, Philip Michael & Christine Baranski)
17. I Have a Dream (Amanda Seyfried)

The music video for Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) has now been released and can be viewed here or streamed below. I am definitely impressed by Amanda’s singing voice; she sounds really lovely (even if the video is a little cheesy).

SOUND OF MUSIC: While at the shoot, Amanda—who belts out all her own tunes in the ABBA-scored musical turned movie Mamma Mia!—sang along with the radio in between takes. Her mom, who was with her on set, joked: “I miss hearing her sing. The cats don’t though. When she hits those high notes, there’s one cat who’s so afraid…when he sees her, he goes running!”

ROCK THIS WAY: We dressed the star in lots of luxe knits, oversize tweeds, and flowery prints—grunge rock-inspired but with a feminine twist. Amanda loved the clothes and was particularly obsessed with a flirty, olive-colored D&G dress.

AMANDA, ON YOUNG HOLLYWOOD: “You never know what to expect from somebody who’s young and successful. It can really go either way. I’ve met some people who are just so freaking distraught and who don’t know how to handle it, and I’ve met some who have their head on straight and are really happy. You try to stick around them.”

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You can check out a really fun behind the scenes video of the August 2008 Vanity Fair “The Class of 2008″ photoshoot right over here. Amanda is featured throughout the video.

AMANDA SEYFRIED
Age: 22.
Hometown: Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Breakthrough roles: Karen in Mean Girls, Sarah on HBO’s Big Love.
Upcoming film: Mamma Mia!
Levi’s or J Brand? Levi’s.
Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin? “Prada. I don’t have any, but they make a woman’s leg look fantastic.”
Favorite designer? “Miu Miu. I can’t afford it, but I love it.”
BlackBerry or iPhone? BlackBerry.
What’s on your iPod? Folk music.
Who do you dream of working with one day? Michael Caine.
Favorite movie? “Romeo and Juliet with Claire Danes. She was the first girl I related to in some way.”
Last book you read? Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk.
What did you want to be when you grew up? A meteorologist.
Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation? “Wii, because of Guitar Hero.”
Hybrid or Escalade? “Audi. Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, ‘Go Green.’”

Radiating bombshell good looks and an innate knack for her craft, Amanda Seyfried has all the makings of a Hollywood heavyweight. Yet as she takes the silver screen by storm in this summer’s epic musical, Mamma Mia!, it’s safe to say that Amanda is not only unique – but she’s in a league all her own.

When it comes to Amanda – a 22 year-old ex-child model who remains best known for her portrayal of a ditzy “Plastic” in Mean Girls, or the doomed high-school beauty in Veronica Mars – appearances can be more than a little bit deceiving. With long golden locks and an angelic face, it’s no wonder Amanda has encountered an unfortunate typecast; however, once represented by famed modeling agency Wilhelmina, Amanda’s striking face is credited with igniting her career. Posing for Limited Too campaigns alongside fellow future actress, Leighton Meester, Amanda remembers her insecurities budding around the time she met the Gossip Girl. “Leighton was very confident,” she recalls. “And I was very shy.”

As Amanda steps out of the shadows as one of Tinsletown’s brightest young talents, she is candid in revealing that her life as an actress was not always a priority. When she first moved to New York from her native Allentown, Pennsylvania a half-decade ago all Amanda wanted to do was sing.

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