Are you ready to ring in 2008? Our next (Feb.-Mar.) cover girl Kate Del Castillo is and she as made a resolution to have more fun in the New Year. “I’m a control freak in the sense of my own life. I need to loosen up a little. I think it’s time I enjoy life a little bit more, you know?” confides the Mexican beauty, who’ll star in Under the Same Moon as a mother separated from her young son. You can read all about it in our next issue and watch a video interview here at Estylo.com.

Constance Marie also made a resolution—for the second time. “Last year’s resolution to not cuss so much didn’t go so well. I have a bit of a potty mouth,” she explains. “So I’d like to work on that one again.” 

As for Mario Lopez’s resolution, he has vowed to “learn to say no more. I’m a nice guy and I try to be cool with everybody and help everybody and I commit myself to things and over-commit. So I have to learn how to say no. And go to bed earlier,” he adds. “I get about six hours but I’d like about eight.”

Jessica Alba won’t be getting much sleep either in a few months. She and her fiancé Cash Warren—they just announced their engagement—are expecting a baby in late spring/early summer, making her the latest Latina superstar to join the mommy-to-be club. She’s already completed the thriller The Eye, in theaters Feb. 1, and the comedy The Love Guru with Mike Myers, set for release June 20, but will have to shed the baby weight before getting back into her sexy Sin City costume for a sequel to that cult favorite, due out in 2009.

If you’re in the mood for a good scary haunted house movie, check out The Orphanage, Spain’s entry into the Oscar race. Produced by Guillermo Del Toro, who showed off his eye for stylish scares in Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and written by Sergio G. Sánchez, the Spanish-Language suspense flick had me jumping a few times with its spooky ghost story. Belén Rueda (The Sea Inside) stars as a woman who returns wither family to the former orphanage she lived in as a child, hoping to turn it into a home for special-needs kids, only to discover it’s haunted by the ghosts of her young playmates when her own son goes missing. Are they real or in her tortured mind? In any case Rueda makes the mother’s emotional torment painfully convincing.

I wish you all a healthy, prosperous and beautiful 2008!

—Gerri