Yes! More info about the upcoming movie for The Hunger Games!
InStyle got some big-name designers like Christian Siriano, Tommy Hillfiger, The Blonds and Charlotte Ronson illustrated their imaginative designs for Katniss Everdeen's "girl on fire" gown.
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iVillage.com's Pat Sandora and Jacki Garfinkel give their humorous opinions on what's buzzing in entertainment this week.
36 year old Bradley Cooper was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2011. The Hangover Part 2 star was up against stiff competition from the likes of Ryan Gosling, Adam Levine and even Jason Segel -- but did he deserve the title?
The latest Twilight film Breaking Dawn Part 1 is in theaters now, but Twilight author Stephenie Meyer is in hot water after saying she hates the term "Twi-hard", which is the nickname for the series' super fans.
Plus, Pat and Jacki play a round of "likes or yikes?" with Lauren Graham and Jason Ritter from NBC's Parenthood and get their thoughts on those big Braverman dancer parties, acting alongside Sex and the City alum John Corbett and if there will ever be a Gilmore Girls move.
Chime in on the week's hottest entertainment stories with iVillage's Pat Sandora and Jacki Garfinkel at iVillage.com/LikesorYikes
This morning Good Morning America premiered the official debut of the trailer for highly anticipated film The Hunger Games, which hits theaters on March 23, 2012
The muted, emotional and enticing trailer focused on The Reaping, where the leads Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are selected as tributes to compete against 22 other children in a fight to the death. We also saw sneak peeks of the tributes training for the Games, along with other major characters like Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Elfie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) and Cinna (Lenny Kravitz).
Check out the official trailer for The Hunger Games after the jump:
Full disclosure, I have never seen the first Happy Feet film, so when I was invited to a screening of Happy Feet Two -- in theaters Friday, November 18 -- I was a little apprehensive. I mean, how on earth would I know what all of these happy little penguins were dancing for if I didn't see the first one?!
Well, as it turns out Happy Feet Two is extremely enjoyable for all ages, even without having seen its predecessor.
HF2 --as the cool kids like me call it -- is a dazzling display of 3D animation filled with enormous amounts of cute baby animals, family-appropriate laughs and just enough singing to be true to the brand and still be enjoyed by a Glee-hater like me. If it were a a YouTube video with real animals it would have all of the views on the Internet.
The story centers around the main character, an Emperor penguin named Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) and his son Erik (Ava Acres), who is struggling to find his purpose in a world filled with other extremely talented penguins. Meanwhile, Mumble, his spouse Gloria (voiced by P!nk) and the rest of the colony discover a new threat their home -- one that will take everyone working (and dancing!) together to save. Other big names like Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Sophia Vergara lend their voices to the penguin brood.
More excitement for The Hunger Games fans! Just last week we got a first look at the promotional posters of some of the main characters from the film. And today Vanity Fair has a beautiful photo spread and interactive profile of the young cast.
From VanityFair.com:
"While the odds may not be in favor of these actors in the arena, they certainly were in the casting room. In what was one of the most-watched casting calls for young actors since Twilight, auditions for The Hunger Games were a battle royale in their own right. Anxious to make the cut, hopefuls went all out: they covered their faces with dirt, put twigs in their hair, and wielded various weapons (including a Nerf crossbow and plastic butcher knife). It was all for the chance to play the "tributes" who fight each other to the death in contests broadcast throughout Panem (the futuristic ruins of North America) in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins's wildly popular young-adult novels. Ultimately, director Gary Ross took a liking to a fresh-faced cast that includes stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth and a host of new breakout actors..."
Check out some additional photos of the film's stars. Click to enlarge:
Exciting! As the hype for the upcoming film version of the hit series The Hunger Games builds and builds Lionsgate has given a few major media outlets exclusive posters of some of the Games' biggest characters. As a proud member of District 8 I am overjoyed!
Although the film won't be in theaters until March 23, 2012 take an early look at Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, Cinna, Effie, Rue, Cato and Gale -- several whom we're seeing for the first time! Click to enlarge:
This could be the most exciting non-event to happen in the The Hunger Games hype yet!
Yesterday a mysterious website dedicated to the series' menacing dictator district The Capitol popped up online. Some details from EW.com:
A new website — presumably operated by Lionsgate (who has not responded to EW’s queries regarding the site) and fictionally operated by the novel’s evil Capitol — allows users to randomly register in a Panem district.
It also offers a “Countdown to the 74th Hunger Games” that, conveniently enough, take place on March 23, 2012, the day of the Gary Ross-helmed release, and a “Capitol Announcements” news ticker that informs users of gems like, “Reminder: Communication with Avoxes is strictly forbidden. Loose lips attract a peacekeeper’s whip!”
Another offering from the Capitol’s website: The number of tesserae — i.e. food credits that enter tributes into the Hunger Games raffle — claimed by each district.
I connected through Facebook and am still awaiting my registration approval have been assigned as a factory worker in District 8. Check out my ID badge...
Not sure what is to come from The Capitol site, but I am very excited to start receiving transmissions from President Snow!
If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you need to read The Hunger Games immediately!
The highlight of last night's lackluster MTV Video Music Awards for me was definitely the exclusive clip from the upcoming film adaptation of The Hunger Games. Unfortunately we had to sit through the entire two-plus hour show to see it, but it was well worth the wait!
Check out this short but sweet clip of Jennifer Lawrence as the series' heroine Katniss Everdeen braving the elements of the arena in the games after the jump!
The hype for The Hunger Games films is growing by the second! First Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen, then the movie's official and fiery motion poster was revealed, and now EW has the men of the Games on the cover of their latest issue.
From Entertainment Weekly:
Two months ago, Entertainment Weekly revealed the first images of Jennifer Lawrence as the teenage hero of The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins’ blistering dystopian trilogy about children forced to fight to the death on national TV (and due out next March). In this week’s cover story, we introduce you to the devoted young men who fight for her.
We sat down with Josh Hutcherson, the 18-year-old actor whom director Gary Ross fought hard to cast as the deeply decent Peeta Mellark, at a cozy diner in Asheville, N.C., where The Hunger Games shoot was mid-way through filming...
So exciting! Head over to EW.com to read the full piece on the men of The Hunger Games.
Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Marissa Tomei and Kevin Bacon? Crazy, Stupid, Love had me hooked with the cast alone, but the film goes far beyond the famous faces portraying its characters.
After his high school sweetheart (Moore) asks for a divorce following her extra-marital affair with a colleague (Bacon) Cal Weaver (Carell) is involuntarily thrust back into a world of singles. Spending his free evenings sulking alone at a trendy bar, Cal is taken on as wingman and protege to handsome and swagger-filled Jacob Palmer (played with effortless sexiness by Gosling). In an attempt to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal's eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can't be found at Supercuts or The Gap.
During his journey towards manliness, Cal's loved ones fumble through their own love stories, too. Cal's 13-year-old son, Robbie (scene stealing Jonah Bobo), is in love with his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica (ANTM's Analeigh Tipton in her first major film role), who harbors a major crush of her own... on Cal. And even Jacob's player mentality is challenged when he tries his best lines on a disinterested law student Hannah (Stone).
Crazy, Stupid, Love does for film what Modern Family does for television. It manages to captivate us with real family matters -- from the mundane to the serious -- and interject them with outbursts of laughter and lump-in-the-throat heartache. Each and every character finds a way to be both lovable and -- to quote the film -- an asshole, which couldn't be a more realistic depiction of what it's like to love someone.
The story line weaves all of the characters' loves together in a final I-didn't-see-that-coming realization, and even though it's one of my biggest pet peeves I couldn't resist clapping during the film's final moments, because I had fallen hopelessly in love with its message.
Crazy, Stupid, Love is in theaters on Friday July 29. Check out the trailer (and Ryan Gosling's abs) here:
And just for fun, here are a few stills of my favorite ANTM contestant Analeigh Tipton from the film:
Do you plan on going to see Crazy, Stupid, Love? And how do you think Analeigh does in the film? Leave a comment!
Mark your calendars, tributes! The first movie from The Hunger Games series will hit theaters on March 23, 2012.
I'm about half-way through the final book of The Hunger Games series called Mockingjay (read the review here. No spoilers!) and can't wait to see the books adapted for the big screen! The films star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, and a ton of other notables like Josh Hutcherson, Liam Helmsworth, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland -- just to name a few. Meet the full Games cast here.
Keep reading after the jump to see the fiery badass motion poster for the film's release:
By Billy Nastyn, Contributing Writer
Ten years ago, magic took hold over theaters across the world as we watched a young boy enter the wizarding world. Here we are in 2011 arriving at the final chapter that seemed so far away when it all began. We’ve all grown up and so have these movies. Endless combined hours of being transported (and probably months-worth for true Potter fans) to a world enchanted by Cornish pixies, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Acromantulas and Quidditch have brought us to this final farewell.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is the much-hyped second of two full-length films concluding the eight film series (based on seven books by J.K. Rowling). We find ourselves back with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) as they continue to seek out and destroy the final Horcruxes in hopes of ending the dark reign of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). While the series as a whole has been a search for self-discovery, this final film is where the unveiling truly begins -- and ultimately ends.
The battle has been waging for quite some time, so this final film prefers to take the more emotional route over the spellbound action adventure that they allotted for last year’s Deathly Hollows -- Part 1. That doesn’t mean there is anything lacking, since there was considerable time spent filling scenes with cameos from Potter's past. While the final book definitely pulls memorable spells, magical objects and characters into play, it is much more noticeable in the shortened film format and helps to give the proper nod to not only the character’s past, but our own past growing up as viewers. All due nostalgia was paid in full and definitely brought on the waterworks. While tears were rampant in the theater, it’s the onscreen tears that only made it more overwhelmingly moving (just bottle them up and pour them into a penseive and make us cry more, why don’t ya?)
There is no better way to end a series than to experience the parellels of being a viewer coping with the end of an era and your beloved onscreen characters fighting against their own looming end. So, get ready to light a candle, or in this case cast a "Lumos" spell and say your goodbyes. But remember, nothing is truly ever over if you don’t want it to be, so now we can all hop a train at Platform 9 ¾ and make our way over to Pottermore.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is recommended for:
- Potter Heads (obviously)
- Anyone anxious to be one step closer to The Hunger Games movie release
Not recommended for:
- Jerks who don't like Harry Potter
Horrible Bosses plays out the scenario that every Joe Schmoe with a unbearable supervisor wishes they could live: Murder your boss. And although the entire film centers around three lovable guys trying to kill some innocent people it's easy to look past the homicide and find the humor in the coke-filled, sex-crazed murder hijinks that unravels and somehow place yourself in the shoes of the humble office nobody who just wants to catch a break.
The leading funnymen play buddies who finally realize that the solution to their woes is to off their antagonizing bosses. Nick Hendricks (Jason Batemen) wants revenge on his promotion-stealing manager (a ruthless and slimy Kevin Spacey), Kurt Buckman (SNL alum Jason Sudeikis) hopes to finish off his dead boss's corrupt son (a balding Colin Farrell) and Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) who just wants a few moments of peace from his sexually harassing -- and quite hot -- dentist boss (Jennifer Aniston). The boys seek help from a hustling ex-con (played by Jamie Foxx) and find out the best way to get what they want is to kill each other's bosses without getting caught.
The film isn't anything new -- some buddies go on a caper and run into mischief -- but the ensemble cast is what really pulls everything together. The conversation is fast and funny (like Day's native It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia), and the gags are predictable but at least come in small doses which keep the laugh-out-loud chuckles from turning into smirks. It may not be the "eff you, cubicle life!" staple like Office Space, but Horrible Bosses is not horrible at all and is actually pretty good.
Horrible Bosses is in theaters on Friday July 8. Watch the trailer here:
Horrible Bosses is recommended for:
- People who like a good bromance
- Those who want to see a naughty Jen Aniston
- Anyone with a job
Not recommended for:- People who don't like Sunny
- Angelina fans
- Anyone who is a horrible boss
I have to be honest... I saw this trailer in the theater a few week's ago and it totally freaked me out!
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. The film stars James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is in theaters August 5, 2011. Will you go see it?
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Some portions of this trailer may be NSFW...
Growing up together Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable friends, but as the years have passed they have slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. To Mitch, Dave has it all: A beautiful wife (Leslie Mann), kids who love him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch's stress-free life without obligation or consequence would be a dream come true.
Following a drunken night out together Mitch and Dave's lives are turned upside down when they wake up in each other's bodies.
Despite the freedom from their normal routines and habits, the guys soon discover that their new lives are nowhere near the rosy as they once seemed. Further complicating matters are Dave's sexy legal associate, Sabrian (Olivia Wilde), and Mitch's estranged father (Alan Arkin). With time not on their sides, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other's lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.
The Change Up hits theaters on August 5, 2011.
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The Tree of Life is a period film centered around three boys in the 1950s. The eldest son of two characters (Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain) witnesses the loss of innocence.
The story traces the evolution of Jack, an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, who is one of three brothers. At first, the world seems marvelous to the child. He sees everything as his mother does, with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, while the father tries to teach his son the world's way, of putting oneself first. Each parent tries to influence Jack, who must reconcile their claims with each other. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.
Framing this story is the life of adult Jack -- played by Sean Penn -- as a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world's preparation, each thing appears a miracle precious and incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.
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The Muppets are back in their latest feature film! Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo and the rest of the gang return to the big screen where -- with the help of three friends -- reunite in order to save their old studio from a greedy oil tycoon.
The film also stars Jason Segel (who penned the script) and Amy Adams, alongside a of other celeb cameos from the likes of Jack Black, Katy Perry, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski.
The Muppets hits theaters on November 23, 2011.
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Get excited! The first photos of Jennifer Lawrence at Katniss Everdeen in the highly anticipated film adaptation of The Hunger Games novels has arrived!
From Entertainment Weekly:
Fans of The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins’ terrifically urgent dystopian trilogy about children forced to fight to the death — have always been protective of 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen. So when Lionsgate and director Gary Ross announced that they had cast 20-year-old Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) in the lead role, the community was thrown into an inevitable tailspin. Was she too old, too blonde, too pale, too pretty to do the gritty warrior girl justice? In this week’s cover story, EW was granted an exclusive interview with a newly brunette Lawrence, and spent hours watching her train on a Los Angeles archery range and track, just days before she was due on the North Carolina set.
In a free-wheeling interview, Lawrence describes her first encounter with Ross last winter, during the height of Oscar season. “He was asking me what the experience was like,” she recalls, “and I just kind of opened up and said, ‘I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.’ And we both started laughing because that’s exactly what it’s like for Katniss in the Capitol. She was a girl who’s all of a sudden being introduced to fame. I know what that feels like to have all this flurry around you and feel like, ‘Oh, no, I don’t belong here.’”
Read the full piece over at EW.com. Anyone else as excited for the films as I am?
Two of my imaginary best friends -- Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig -- were on the Today show this morning to dish on their upcoming film Bridesmaids, which hits theaters this Friday, May 13.
The funny ladies (interviewed by the also funny Meredith Vieira) talked about their real-life friendship, writing Bridesmaids and how Wiig started her spot-on impression of Kathie Lee Gifford. Check it out:
Full disclosure, I have never seen the first Happy Feet film, so when I was invited to a screening of Happy Feet Two -- in theaters Friday, November 18 -- I was a little apprehensive. I mean, how on earth would I know what all of these happy little penguins were dancing for if I didn't see the first one?!
Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Marissa Tomei and Kevin Bacon? Crazy, Stupid, Love had me hooked with the cast alone, but the film goes far beyond the famous faces portraying its characters.
Ten years ago, magic took hold over theaters across the world as we watched a young boy enter the wizarding world. Here we are in 2011 arriving at the final chapter that seemed so far away when it all began. We’ve all grown up and so have these movies. Endless combined hours of being transported (and probably months-worth for true Potter fans) to a world enchanted by Cornish pixies, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Acromantulas and Quidditch have brought us to this final farewell.
