Riley Smith in New York Minute!

Riley Smith plays Ashley Olsen’s first big screen love interest in Warner Bros. Pictures' New York Minute. Co-starring in the action comedy, Smith plays a bike messenger who keeps running into (literally) Ashley Olsen’s character around New York City. It airs tonight on HBO!

Riley competed at IMTA in 1997. Little known IMTA fact ~ Riley was Ashton Kutcher's roomate that week!

World's Most Beautiful People Announced

People magazine's annual Most Beautiful issue is out and IMTA has TWO stars on the list this year. Eva Longoria and Brandon Routh made the cut! This marks the fourth year in a row IMTA'ers have been on the prestigious list (Jessica Biel, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Duhamel, Beverly Peele and Katie Holmes are the other IMTA alums that have made the exclusive list!)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Keri Lynn Pratt guest stars on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit tonight on USA network. She plays Lauren Westley, a runaway teenage girl in the episode titled "Rockabye." Keri Lynn competed at IMTA in 1996 where she first signed with the same manager that started Katie Holmes' career!

Sara Dawson's Stone Mountain Campaign Rocks!

Sara Dawson's gorgeous shots for the Stone Mountain Handbags 2006 Campaign are appearing in Lucky, Women's Wear Daily, Real Simple, and The New York Times.

Sara competed at IMTA in 1996 and won Model of the Year! She has been a working model ever since! Appearing in high fashion, commercial and editorial print work, Sara is also in some memorable television commercials!

Sara Niemietz's film Akeelah and the Bee Opens!

Akeelah and the Bee opens today nationwide! Look for Sara Niemietz as Polly in this inspirational drama! Sara competed at IMTA in 2000. Since then, she's starred on Broadway, on television and performed in Times Square for 50,000 people!

IMTA alums nominated for MTV Movie Awards

The 2006 MTV Movie Awards nominees were announced this week in Los Angeles. Two IMTA alumni are among the crowd pleasers. Katie Holmes' Batman Begins is up for "Best Movie" as well as several other categories. Seann William Scott is nominated for "Best On-Screen Team" for The Dukes of Hazzard (Seann's ensemble included Johnny Knoxville and Jessica Simpson). MTV Movie Awards are determined by the fans in online and mobile messaging voting. The Awards will air Thursday, June 8th on MTV.

Double Dose of IMTA on SNL!

E! network is airing back to back episodes of Saturday Night Live with IMTA alums hosting. Wednesday night, catch Seann William Scott and on Thursday, watch Ashton Kutcher. These natural comedians both made their stage debuts on an IMTA runway! Seann competed at IMTA in 1995 and Ashton competed in 1997.

The IMTA alums starred together in the cult comedy hit Dude, Where's My Car? in 2000.