CBS Films is hoping to remind your Twitter-happy, ADD-afflicted kids about its long-delayed “Beauty and the Beast” update Beastly with a new trailer and photos. The film stars British newcomer Alex Pettyfer as a handsome high schooler who, after being cursed to look like R&B artist Seal, nonetheless finds his way into Vanessa Hudgens pants heart.

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The official synopsis reads:

Kyle Kingson (Pettyfer) has it all — looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity — and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating “aggressively unattractive” classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion.

She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is — a task he considers impossible.

Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle s callous father banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper (Lisa Gay Hamilton) and blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris). As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer.

Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter Lindy (Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle’s Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle’s journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’ story.

Beastly is directed by Daniel Barnz (Phoebe in Wonderland) and is based on the novel of the same name by author Alex Flinn. Costars include Neil Patrick Harris, May-Kate Olson, Peter Krause, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Dakota Johnson (daughter to Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith).

The film, which was originally slated for release in July of 2010, is now set to hit theaters in March 2011.

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