The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several crowded Hollywood movie sets. Each section features a a checklist on page fold-out.

Determined to win the student film competition, Mina makes a deal with indie film star Emmitt Ramos, and as they spend time together and NYC starts to feel more like home than ever before, she wonders if winning is worth losing everything.

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that s not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...

Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.

"Eighth-grader Arthur Bean's life has taken a turn for the adventurous--two girlfriends to deal with, and a blockbuster film to co-write, produce and direct. How crazy can one school year get? Told through emails, doodles, texts, newspaper articles, and AV Club rules"--

SOMETIMES THE BEST ACTING IS DONE BY AMATEURS The Hardys' friend Chet answers an ad in the paper for a role in a student film. There's just one catch: All participants must have a boat, so Chet persuades Frank and Joe to get their motorboat, the Sleuth, out of mothballs. He even convinces the brothers to join him. The aquatic extravaganza will be shot locally on Barmet Bay and will be totally improvised. The director promises clues, cryptic charts,...

Buzz is filming a movie about aliens from Outer Space, who capture Fly Guy and Buzz Boy--and our two heroes must outsmart the aliens, with some help from Dragon Dude and Fly Girl.

"P.T. and Gloria try to save the Wonderland again by getting a teen singing sensation to shoot a movie at the motel"--

Twelve-year-old CeCe Monroe is enrolled at Storm Cliff Stables as Cassidy because she does not want the other girls to know that she is an actress, so when Aunt Jane asks her to assist with the movie that is to be filmed at the stables she is mostly afraid of blowing her cover--but when she realizes that the movie man calling himself Paul Martino is not the man she knows, she finds herself cast in the role of detective.

High schooler Natalie Ng has always kept secret her talent for talking with cats, but when she learns-- from a cat-- that a celebrity has been replaced by an imposter, she and her friends investigate, becoming movie extras to get the scoop.