and the lucky one, starring sack ephron. -- stars sac ephron. to date that film has grossed $360 million. >>> two former child stars want to protect kids in hollywood. >> and hue grant is animated on the big screen. >> reporter: justin bieber and carrie underwood are set to perform next month. also hitting the stage, the wanted and lmf ao. british sing heir dell leads the pack with 18 nominations. >> two former child stars are backing a bill to protect young actors against sexual predators. >> todd bridges and cory feldman say men in the entertainment industry molested them when they were young stars. there is a new bill requiring fingerprinting of those with access to young child actors. act to you hue grant tries his hand at voice over animation. >> i'm the pirate captain. and i'm here for your gold. >> grant plays a bungling pirate captain trying to outsmart his rival and win the pirate of the year award. >> it was an unusually funny script that managed to be profoundly silly at the same time as being quite sophisticated. >> it opens in theat

. >>> in close second, "the lucky one" a romantic tearjerker, which stars zac ephron as a marine trying to track down a female that he believed kept him out of harm's way. should pull in $16.5. >>> and celebrating her 4 week old son, to date, his belly button falling off. might be not so cute. to her husband's disgust she actually kept the memento and stored it in a freezer bag in a drawer in her makeup drawer. a lot of parents do that. >>> to chicago. dreaming are, but shouldn't do, a little boy ran on to the field during a major league baseball game. quickly scooped up by the left fielder not before causing the game to be halted. the ball player handed the boy off to security who took him back to the stands. his family was then tossed out. this in keeping with mlb rules. strict rules there. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is nbc "early today" on your nbc station. >>> in honor of queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee, buckingham palace has become a colorful canvass. england's children are gracing the walls of the palace in a pretty impressive showcase. 200,000 self-portraits are being projected o

. >>> also, best-selling author deal i can't ephron joins us to discuss her new novel. >> i don't know if you've noticed, but the east coast has dried out in a hurry. we didn't have the snow pack to keep the ground moist and it hasn't rapined in a white we ha numerous brush fires yesterday. a big brush fire shut down amtrak in connecticut. even staten island had a big fire. and that was the view from new york city down over staten island in the fire. statue of liberty in the bottom left. so kind of a rare scene. today, once again, with the gusty winds, no rain in sight. red flag warnings have been posted from new york city all the way down to the upstate of south carolina. all of the mid atlantic today, any brush fires form, they're going to spread rapidly and be very difficult to contain tore firefighters. you can see there, there's barely any clouds at all. and the wind, which died off last night, will pick up this afternoon. temperatures in the 60s. whatever rain showers there will be, more or less upstate new york into new england. middle of the country, really acti

when a fan asked ephron on twitter, how he imagines himself in 30 years, zac said, hopefully exactly isn't doing too badly himself these days. his new film, "the lucky one," was number two over the weekend at the box office. i hear you. i also did the math. i know. but i think we know what zac meant. >> right. >> an older, more sophisticated tom cruise in 30 years. we get it, zac. he's fabulous. >>> in royal news. she may or may not be harry's girlfriend. mollie king is not saying. but i can't imagine the queen would be too happy at the moment if she was. considering mall live and the rest of her girl bandmates from the saturdays, tined a development deal for, yes, a reality show here in the u.s. according to "the new york post," the show would follow the group as they move to los angeles, and try to climb the pop charts. no word on when the show starts shooting. when it does, i have a feeling i know one or two guys sitting right here, who will be watching. >> scottie. >> stephanopoulos. >> you're not that kind of show, are you? >> now, i feel a little played. >> you feel played. >>