Voters for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards spread the wealth, bestowing Movie of the Year and Best Kiss to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, Best Female and Male Performance to The Hunger Games‘ Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, and Best Hero and Best Cast to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. Check out the full list of winners below: READ FULL STORY »
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Jun 3
2012
11:16 PM ET
May 21
2012
09:46 PM ET
Casting Net: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy team for cop comedy. Plus: Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Chloe Moretz, Rupert Everett, Tom Cruise
Image Credit: Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
• Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are joining forces for an untitled comedy about an F.B.I. agent (Bullock) and Boston cop (McCarthy), with Bridesmaids director Paul Feig. Parks and Recreation scribe Katie Dippold is penning the script. [Deadline]
• Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, and James Earl Jones have signed on for The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, about a patient who is erroneously told he has 90 minutes to live. The comedy marks the first film from Field of Dreams director Phil Alden Robinson since 2002′s The Sum of All Fears. [Screen International]
• Jessica Biel, Chloe Moretz, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star in The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, about a widower (Morgan) who helps a girl (Moretz) construct a raft to cross the Atlantic Ocean. (Biel will play Morgan’s late wife.) Justin Timberlake will add two more hyphens to his multi-hyphenate resume, meanwhile, serving as the film’s composer and music supervisor. Bill Purple will make his feature directing debut from a script by Robbie Pickering (Natural Selection). [THR]
• Speaking of Chloe Moretz, the in demand actress is also in talks for Kick-Ass 2, reprising her role as Hit Girl, who will go into retirement. But will she stay there?! (No.) [Total Film]
• Colin Firth, Emily Watson, and Tom Wilkinson will star in actor Rupert Everett‘s directoral debut The Happy Prince, a biopic about Oscar Wilde. Everett will play the famed author and playwright, and also wrote the screenplay. [Variety]
Check out new projects for TOM CRUISE, ABIGAIL BRESLIN, PAUL DANO, OWEN WILSON, RACHEL McADAMS, and ELIZABETH BANKS below: READ FULL STORY »
Mar 29
2012
11:26 AM ET
'People Like Us' trailer: Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks are secret siblings
The trailer for the upcoming film People Like Us puts you, the viewer, into a bit of a bind. On one hand, you can’t help but admire the fact that the movie looks like a romantic comedy — gauzy overlit visuals, chipper pop music on the soundtrack, a cast so gorgeous that Olivia Wilde is relegated to a supporting role — but is actually not a rom-com. Instead, it’s the story of a guy (Chris Pine) who learns that his late father had a secret illegitimate child — a child who has grown up to be a struggling single mom (Elizabeth Banks). Intriguing! But then Pine meets Banks, and pointedly does not tell her who he is. And they’re both so pretty… and so tortured… Look, suffice it to say: Awkward half-sibling incest chemistry go! Watch the trailer: READ FULL STORY »
Mar 19
2012
09:15 AM ET
How 'Hunger Games' star Elizabeth Banks brought Effie Trinket to life. (Katharine Hepburn helped.)
Image Credit: Murray Close Hunger Games
It was Banks who first reached out through a mutual friend to director Gary Ross, whom she’d worked with on Seabiscuit. “I love Effie Trinket,” she said. ”So tell Gary that if he’s talking to Lionsgate about the movie that I want to do it.’” When Ross invited her to his office to talk about the role, she came prepared with a fully fleshed-out vision for Effie. “I always saw her as a very three-dimensional, very unique character,” she said. “Even in the book she can be written off as sort of comic relief.” READ FULL STORY »
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