Dimension Films has released the first trailer for the dramatic thriller Sin City: A Dame to Kill For from directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. The new film brings back some familiar faces to the world of Sin City including Jessica Alba, Powers Booth, Rosario Dawson, Jaime King, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis, and adds in some new characters played by Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, Dennis Haysbert, Stacy Keach, Ray Liotta, and Jeremy Piven.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For will hit theaters on August 22, 2014.
The Plot:
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning Sin City graphic novels back to the screen in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants.
Captain America plummets from a plane without a parachute to lead his S.H.I.E.L.D. cohorts on a mission to rescue hostages being held by 25 mercenaries on a mobile satellite launch platform (an ocean liner) in this new four-minute video from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The new clip also features some witty banter between Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Captain (Chris Evans) over the Captain’s lack of a love life.
We also get to see Black Widow looking all badass as she takes down multiple mercenaries.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and opens in theaters on April 4, 2014.
The Plot: After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk.
Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
Starz’s critically acclaimed, incredibly addictive series Da Vinci’s Demons kicks off season two on March 22, 2014 with Tom Riley back in the lead role as Leonardo da Vinci. Created, written by, and executive produced by David S. Goyer (the Dark Knight trilogy), Da Vinci’s Demons‘ first season introduced the world to a younger, sexier version of Da Vinci than has been previously played in films or on television, with the series featuring a Da Vinci who’s as good with a sword as he is at handling complicated mathematical problems.
Full of intrigue, danger, romance, and even occasionally a little humor, Da Vinci’s Demons explores the world of Da Vinci and his dealings with the Medici and Pazzi families.
The Plot of Season Two:
Season two of Da Vinci’s Demons finds Florence thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo is gravely ill and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother.
He’ll come to realize that he has lethal competition in his quest — new enemies who may be even worse than the forces of Pope Sixtus. His search will take him to faraway lands and force him to reevaluate everything he knew about the world and his own history.
Exclusive David S. Goyer Interview
Tom Riley says you have storylines planned through season four.
“Loosely, yeah. I always had season two in my mind when we were starting the first season. And we made some adjustments, but it more or less follows my original thinking.”
How far out have you got it planned? Is four the limit?
“Well, I mean I know if we’re fortunate enough to get there, I kind of know how the show ends. I think if we were completely going to do the show justice I would want at least five seasons. Could that be six or seven? If we extended it, then maybe we could. God knows there’s enough material. But the basic shape of what would be season three and four, you kind of have to have that in your head and at least know that you’re working towards something.”
Is there anything you did in season one that you now wish you had changed or maybe left a little more open-ended so that you could re-explore it in season two or future seasons?
“Sure. I mean, even in season two there was some things, in hindsight, that you wish you would have done. One of the things that originally happened is we had originally planned to do 10 episodes in season one and Starz decided that they were going to do all their first seasons as eight. But if I’d had my druthers, I would have told the same amount of story but stretched it out over two more episodes because there were definitely some things in season one that I would have expanded or elaborated on if I’d had more time.”
Season one surpassed, I think, what anyone expected it to do as far as viewership goes. Did you expect the numbers that you saw, given the subject matter?
“Well I didn’t know what to expect, honestly. I had no idea. It was just uncharted territory because it was such a bizarre show, or just different. I was just giddy that somebody was making my crazy ideas. I mean the fact that people tuned in was a bonus.”
And the fact that there’s season two is just awesome.
“The fact that there’s season two and that we have 10 episodes instead of eight and a bigger budget is even better, yeah. I was just sitting here with Tom a second ago and saying, ‘Wow, we’ve got like 18 episodes under our belt. That’s kind of cool.'”
You were given a bigger budget on season two? Season one looked phenomenal.
“Season two looks even bigger. I mean, yes, we had a bigger budget in season two.”
I’ve seen the first few episodes of season two and the tone, if possible, appears to be even darker this season.
“It is darker.”
Why is that and was that definitely in the plans all along?
“Yes. I will say this: I think that, on one hand, I always intended to introduce him as this, a little bit of a bon vivant, and then it’s kind of the hero’s journey. His life is going along one trajectory and then he’s handed the, sort of, reins of destiny and gradually takes on more responsibility. He’s been leading a relatively selfish life when the show begins.
But then the other thing that I always wanted to do with the show and him was I always described him as he’s the flame that attracts moths and people get burnt up in his aura because of his obsessions, because he’s so charismatic. So one of the themes for Da Vinci that I was always wanted to deal with was the idea that actions have consequences and that he might not have thought through the consequences of all of his actions and that sometimes he really f**ks things up and screws things up and people get hurt. Some of that starts to play out particularly in the second half of season two, because a lot of people are going to end up dying because of things he did, either intentionally or unintentionally, I guess, in the show.
But then I also think that with a lot of dramas that can sometimes be a natural trajectory to get darker, because as you become more invested… I don’t know. I’ve just seen that happen sometimes in the shows that I watch.”
You definitely get the feeling that you could kill off any character except Da Vinci.
“Yes, but I think that’s great. That’s what I love about Game of Thrones or Walking Dead. I think that’s exciting for an audience, that you just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The threat is real. You don’t feel like, “Oh, it’s a major character so there’s no way they’re going to kill them off.”
David, what I really admire about your writing on this series is that you’re walking that fine line between madness and genius with Da Vinci, and that is so tough and Tom does a great job of portraying it. How do you do that? How do you write that?
“I think that madness and genius are often inextricably linked. I think if you chart a lot of historical figures that people would say were geniuses, many of them had problems with mental illness or were bipolar, because I often think it’s that slightly left of center sensibility that allows them to perceive the world in a different way. So I think they’re often twined and necessary, and if I look at some of the people I really admire throughout history, yeah, some of those people were difficult and had difficult lives. Anyone that’s an iconoclast often is difficult.
I’ve said he’s a charismatic character, but he’s also a very selfish character and he’s not always a nice character. He’s very flawed. I think that makes him interesting.”
In season one you introduced Dracula, or Vlad, and that episode became a fan favorite. Why did you make that choice and can we expect something similar this season?
“I made that choice because I’ve always said this was a historical fantasy. But one of the things that was interesting in my research is that I found out that they were contemporaries, that Vlad supposedly died around about the time that our first season would’ve ended. They were only about five day’s horse ride from each other and Vlad intensely hated the Ottoman Empire, the Turks. He was a prisoner of the Turks when he was a kid and there’s some evidence that suggests that the Medici Bank helped finance some of Vlad’s dealings. They were fighting kind of skirmishes, guerrilla warfare, against the Turks because they were kind of at the Eastern front. There is some evidence to suggest that the Medici Bank helped finance Vlad. I just thought, ‘Well, how can we not have these two iconic characters meet up with one another?’
Yes, we do a little bit more of that in season two and if we go even further, one should expect other various figures of history to rear their heads.”
Did you get any feedback from scholars about introducing the character?
“Vlad? Yeah, but nobody can deny the fact that they were contemporaries.”
It could have happened.
“Exactly. Let’s put it this way. I’m absolutely convinced that Leonardo Da Vinci knew who Vlad was, would have heard of him, so why not? The other thing about our show is that there were two, three, or maybe even four years that we call ‘the missing years’ around about 1480, ’81, ’82, where nobody really knows where Da Vinci was or what he was doing, and there’s all these conflicting accounts. So I just feel like that’s fair game.”
Anything could have happened during that time.
“Yeah. He, by his own account, claims … we have two letters in existence claiming that he was in Syria designing war machines for the Ottoman Empire. Then a lot historians say that was a prank, but yet this character that you’re going to meet in season two named Beyazid who is the son of the sultan, who at one point – and this is true – hired Da Vinci to design a bridge that crossed the Bosphorus. It was never built but he did actually hire him, so at some point they did come in contact with each other.”
Starz is actually good about letting include a lot of material that other networks might have balked at, and I’m specifically thinking about the strapping of the magistrate to a pig scene. Was that a hard sell?
“Yes. It was a very hard sell and it was one of the few big rows I had with them, big fights. But I just love it, it’s so mad. I just love that. But the crazy thing is that we actually go an actor to do that.”
Tom Riley said the actor didn’t know he signed up for that.
“No. Somehow he came in and auditioned scenes and we had sent him the whole script because, as you can imagine, we had a hard time finding an actor that was willing to do that. He was supposed to have read the script and he claimed that he had read the script, the whole script. He came in and I said, ‘So are you cool with what we’re doing?’ And he said yeah. Then we started talking and it became clear to me that he hadn’t actually read the whole thing. I said, ‘Do you know what we’re doing?’ Then I told him and he thought we were kidding. But to his credit, he said, ‘Okay. I’ve signed on. I’m going to do it.'”
Tom mentioned that the actor made friends with the pig.
[Laughing] “Yeah. Well, he had to because he was strapped to it for a good two hours.”
You know, that is my favorite scene of all season one.
“I love it. I just love the fact that I put that on television.”
Does Starz pretty much leave you to do your own thing at this point?
“I will say this. They give me more latitude now than they did. They gave me a lot of latitude, in fairness. They’ve been great. We’ve had our debates, but having done the first season, I think I earned more latitude. They were willing to trust me more.”
For season two, you were obviously very actively involved with the production. How do you do that with your schedule with films?
“It’s really, really complicated.”
Are there times when you wish that you wouldn’t be involved in series TV just because you do have the Batman stuff going on and you don’t have time for it?
“No. I love series TV. I’m actually getting more involved. I have a new pilot that starts shooting next week. No, I love it. I think we’re in this Golden Age of television, and I don’t differentiate between features and TV.”
What makes this TV’s Golden Age and why is this a good time to be involved with a television series?
“I think that there’s been a sea change with pay cable channels like Starz and with basic cable, and I think that it used to be that there was a divide. If feature people were to do television, actors and creators like myself, we were slumming it. The quality wasn’t as good. I would argue that, pound for pound, there’s actually probably more interesting things happening on television these days than in the cinema. There’s so many incredible shows out there now that, from Game of Thrones to, I love The Americans. I love Justified. There’s almost too many shows for my wife and I to watch that we just think are incredible shows.”
I can’t believe you have time to watch any of the shows.
[Laughing] “We do our best.”
A lot of people binge-watch Da Vinci’s Demons. Do you think that’s the right way to watch it, not that there’s a wrong way to watch the series?
“It’s how I tend to watch serialized television. I kind of prefer it that way. One of the things that’s great about time-shifting and DVDs and things like that is that my wife and I tend to bank episodes of things and watch them two or three at a time. I think that the, particularly with serialized television, we’re sort of just taking a kind of novelistic approach. That’s where you can really enjoy sort of the subtleties as you get going.”
Before season one aired we spoke and I asked you why Tom Riley was the right guy to play Da Vinci. It’s obvious throughout season one that he was absolutely the right actor. What do you think it is about him that so captures Leonardo?
“Tom is, first and foremost, incredibly bright, and I remember saying this in the casting process, that it’s hard to fake intelligence. If you’re an actor that’s not actually that bright, it’s hard to fake that, and Tom is incredibly bright. Tom is very playful as well. I think he’s an incredible actor but he’s also genuinely become a friend. We just adore each other.”
It’s fitting that you describe him as playful because that’s also what I see in the character is that playfulness, which I think allows you to like him when he does things that you normally wouldn’t like.
“Yeah. Absolutely. Da Vinci absolutely has a playful side and he has a dark sense of humor. One of the things also that his character does is that he sometimes can’t help himself. He does things that are, he could get away scot-free but he chooses to go back. Just the whole thing with episode five and the judge and whatnot. It wasn’t enough just to be exonerated. He had to have very specific requirements met.”
Exactly. You directed a couple episodes of season one. Did you direct any of season two?
“Not as much. Sadly, I didn’t direct any full episodes. I did some second unit in season two. I’ve got little bits and bobs. I actually got some stuff in the first episode. It coincided with Man of Steel coming out and things like that, but I would love to get back in the saddle again and to do some more episodes because I just love the cast and the crew.”
What so far has been your biggest challenge of actually writing a script for Da Vinci’s Demons? Is it that you can’t put as much in as you want to put in or figuring out how to balance all the elements?
“I would say that’s been one of the challenges. But I’ll tell you the biggest challenge is just, he’s a smart guy and if you’re going to do a show about Da Vinci, that comes hand in hand with, presumably, the show is going to be smarter or part of the fun of the show is that we’re going to put Da Vinci in these ridiculous situations and have him sort of figure his way out of them. It’s stuff like I said, with an actor, it’s hard to fake being smart. Sometimes we really wrack our brain.
There’s episode seven, for instance, coming up which is when we actually get to the Vault of Heaven, where presumably the Book of Leaves is. This doesn’t give too much away, but that whole episode is kind of this … I don’t know … series of death traps and things like that. We spent a really long time figuring out each one. There’s a series of puzzles that Da Vinci has to circumvent, and we just spent a really long time trying to figure out some really, hopefully, clever ones.”
When you create these things like that, do you ever worry that the audience can’t follow how you’re connecting points A and B?
“We try our best, but no. [Laughing] I mean, it makes sense in our heads, hopefully.”
Adam Lambert and Queen (Photo Credit: Christie Goodwin)
Adam Lambert and Queen (Brian May and Roger Taylor) will be kicking off a North American summer tour on June 19, 2014 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. The upcoming much-anticipated tour will wrap up on July 20th in Washington, DC. Tickets for 2014 summer tour, which includes 19 dates, will go on sale on March 14 at livenation.com.
Queen and Adam Lambert earned rave reviews when they performed together at the 2013 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. The success and critical reception of that performance led to this upcoming tour. They’ve also performed together on American Idol, the 2011 MTV European Music Awards, and they did a series of shows in Europe.
“Let’s ROCK those beautiful arenas JUST ONE MORE TIME!” said Brian May.
“I’m completely in awe of the Queen phenomenon,” added Lambert. “The thought of sharing the stage for a full set in North America is so beautifully surreal. I’m honored to be able to pay my respects to Freddie’s memory; he’s a personal hero of mine, and I am deeply grateful for the chance to sing such powerful music for fans of this legendary band. I know this tour will be a huge milestone for me, and with the support of Brian, Roger and the rest of the band, I feel like magic will be on display.”
Queen + Adam Lambert 2014 North American Tour Dates
6/19 Chicago at United Center
6/21 Winnipeg at MTS Centre
6/23 Saskatoon at Credit Union Centre
6/24 Edmonton at Rexall Place
6/26 Calgary at Scotiabank Saddledome
6/28 Vancouver at Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
7/1 San Jose at SAP Center
7/3 Los Angeles at The Forum
7/5 Las Vegas at The Joint
7/6 Las Vegas at The Joint
7/9 Houston at Toyota Center
7/10 Dallas at American Airlines Center
7/12 Detroit at The Palace of Auburn Hills
7/13 Toronto at Air Canada Centre
7/14 Montreal at Bell Centre
7/16 Philadelphia at Wells Fargo Center
7/17 New York at Madison Square Garden
7/19 Uncasville, CT at Mohegan Sun Arena
7/20 Washington, DC at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Tye Sheridan (left), Jacob Lofland (middle) and Matthew McConaughey (right) star in Jeff Nichols’ ‘MUD’ – Photo credit: James Bridges
2013 was a year when the Academy Awards picked from the smallest pool of films ever despite an expanded number of Best Picture nominees. That means a lot of stellar films were completely overlooked by Oscar. Here are the 10 Most Unfairly Overlooked Films and what they should have been nominated for.
Short Term 12
Destin Cretton’s exquisite indie film does everything right. It deservedly won recognition from critics groups and film festivals but got the cold shoulder from Oscar. It should have received nominations for Cretton for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (from his own short), Brie Larson for Best Actress, and Nat Sanders for Best Editing.
Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn’s film is a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of human behavior at its ugliest. This film kicks ass on all the craft categories and puts to shame those nominated for Editing, Cinematography, Score, and Production Design. Kristen Scott-Thomas also deserved a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues to prove he can do no wrong. His feature writing and directing debut delivers a funny, warm, and surprisingly honest look at contemporary relationships. Gordon-Levitt’s acting and writing were worthy of nominations, as was Julianne Moore’s supporting performance.
Berberian Sound Studio
Peter Strickland’s film focuses on a frumpy Englishman (Toby Jones) who proves to be a magician in the sound department. The clever conceit of the film is that we never see the Italian horror film he is creating sound effects for, we only hear his work. It makes us hear horror in a new way and for that it deserved both a Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing nomination.
Antiviral
David Cronenberg’s son Brandon proves he had his dad’s genes but that he isn’t an exact clone. His futuristic tale about an industry built on selling celebrity viruses creates a similar kind of body horror as his dad but with a distinctly different style. With just his opening shot he establishes that we are not in the world we know and that’s a credit to the production design, which should have been recognized by Oscar.
Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley’s documentary about truth and lies within her own family pushes the conventions of traditional non-fiction cinema with charming audacity. Her film deserved both a Best Documentary and Best Editing nomination.
We Are What We Are
Jim Mickle’s remake of the Mexican horror film Somos lo que hay proves that there is such a thing as a good remake. Mickle delivers a beautiful tale of horror that should have reaped nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and Make Up Effects.
Mud
Matthew McConaughey’s drastic weight loss for Dallas Buyers Club made that film a more obvious choice for a Best Actor nod but his work was equally good here as a fugitive who enlists the aid of two young boys. McConaughey’s performance was Oscar-worthy as was the supporting work from Tye Sheridan as one of the young boys and the screenplay from Jeff Nichols.
Stoker
Director Park Chan Wook’s American film debut was elegant perfection. Chillier than his Korean films and perhaps more heartless, Stoker serves up a meticulous portrait of a highly dysfunctional American family. The film is flawlessly executed and should have been recognized for Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, and Sound.
Escape From Tomorrow
Randy Moore shot his film guerrilla style at the happiest place on earth and managed to release it without Disney issuing a cease and desist. The film was clever and refreshing. It deserved an awards category all its own for pure audacity and ingenuity.
Go behind-the-scenes of Noah with this new “Ark” featurette from Paramount Pictures. Among the bits of ark trivia revealed in this informative video are that the design process took over a year and it took the construction team six months to actually build the ark. Director Darren Aronofsky and his production team provide insight into all aspects of making the centerpiece of Noah look like as authentic as possible.
Noah stars Russell Crowe, Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, and Logan Lerman, and will open in theaters on March 28, 2014.
The Plot:
Noah is a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark. In a world ravaged by human sin, Noah is given a divine mission: to build an Ark to save creation from the coming flood.
Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres had a camera following her around continuously in the days leading up to the big show as well as backstage at the 86th Academy Awards. And, once again, it’s Jennifer Lawrence who steals the behind-the-scenes show. After Ellen tells her that their selfie broke records on Twitter, JLaw says the only way it could have been bigger was if someone flashed a boob.
Norman Reedus during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on March 5, 2014 (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)We had you at “The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus”…didn’t we? Reedus, who plays Daryl on the addictive zombie apocalypse series, was tasked with reading romantic texts on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s March 5, 2014 episode. The romantic texts were introduced as part of a special app (‘BroApp’) that helps out guys who need to send romantic text messages to their girlfriends.
Have the MTV Movie Awards just become a little more respectable? The annual awards show used to be referred to as the Twilight Awards (those sparkling vampires and hunky shirtless werewolves ruled the show for years), but now it appears the show’s grown up some with this year’s pack of nominees led by American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street. Not even Jennifer Lawrence and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire could match the eight nominations earned by Hustle and Wolf, although it did come close with seven.
This year’s awards will be hosted by Conan O’Brien and will air live on MTV on April 13th.
Voting is now open at MovieAwards.MTV.com. Voting in all categories other than Movie of the Year will close on April 12th.
2014 MTV Movie Awards Nominees
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Director: Steve McQueen
Producers: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas, Bill Pohlad, and Arnon Milchan
American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Director: David O. Russell
Producers: Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Director: Peter Jackson
Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Zane Weiner,
The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland, Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Riza Aziz
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Amy Adams – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Jennifer Aniston – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
Sandra Bullock – Gravity (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Liam James – The Way Way Back (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Company)
Will Poulter – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
Margot Robbie – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Miles Teller – The Spectacular Now (A24 Films)
BEST KISS
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson – Don Jon (Relativity Media)
James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens – Spring Breakers (A24 Films)
Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller – The Spectacular Now (A24 Films)
Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Will Poulter – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
BEST FIGHT
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Paramount Pictures) – Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Steve Carell vs. James Marsden vs. Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Kanye West vs. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vs. Jim Carrey and Marion Cotillard vs. Will Smith vs. Liam Neeson and John C. Reilly vs. Greg Kinnear
Identity Thief (Universal Pictures) – Jason Bateman vs. Melissa McCarthy
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros. Pictures) – Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly vs. Orcs
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate) – Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin vs. Mutant Monkeys
This is the End (Columbia Pictures) – Jonah Hill vs. James Franco and Seth Rogen
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Kevin Hart – Ride Along (Universal Pictures)
Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Johnny Knoxville – Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Paramount Pictures)
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat (20th Century Fox)
Jason Sudeikis – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE
Rose Byrne – Insidious: Chapter 2 (FilmDistrict)
Jessica Chastain – Mama (Universal Pictures)
Vera Farmiga – The Conjuring (New Line Cinema)
Ethan Hawke – The Purge (Universal Pictures)
Brad Pitt – World War Z (Paramount Pictures)
BEST ON-SCREEN DUO
Amy Adams and Christian Bale – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker – Fast & Furious 6 (Universal Pictures)
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart – Ride Along (Universal Pictures)
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE
Jennifer Aniston – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
Sam Claflin – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Zac Efron – That Awkward Moment (Focus Features)
Chris Hemsworth – Thor: The Dark World (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
#WTF MOMENT
Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Paramount Pictures)
The Channel 4 News Team’s afternoon is no longer a delight as their speeding van filled with bowling balls, scorpions and hot oil takes a tumble on the highway.
Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nicoll –Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Paramount Pictures)
Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nicoll manage to strike fear into a room full of unsuspecting beauty pageant-loving parents thanks to a bump n’ grind dance routine to a Warrant classic.
Cameron Diaz – The Counselor (20th Century Fox)
Having sex in a car is pretty much a rite of passage, but having sex with a car? Cameron Diaz’s Malkina gets down and dirty with a bright yellow Ferrari to show the world how it’s done.
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Leonardo DiCaprio’s iconic portrayal of excessive Wall Street player Jordan Belfort takes a turn for the insane when he takes his Lamborghini for a spin.
Danny McBride and Channing Tatum – This is the End (Columbia Pictures)
Danny McBride shows an apocalyptic world, and uncomfortable theater-goers everywhere, that there’s no better pet than a scantily-clad Channing Tatum.
BEST VILLAIN
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips (Columbia Pictures)
Benedict Cumberbatch – Star Trek into Darkness (Paramount Pictures)
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mila Kunis – Oz The Great and Powerful (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Donald Sutherland – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
BEST ON-SCREEN TRANSFORMATION
Christian Bale – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
Orlando Bloom – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
BEST MUSICAL MOMENT
Backstreet Boys, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson – This is the End (Columbia Pictures)
Spoiler alert! Backstreet Boys reunite in heaven to perform “Everybody” with signature boy band moves and flair for this unforgettable apocalyptic ending.
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Lawrence cleans and dances her frustrations away as she mouths the words to 70s classic “Live and Let Die.”
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
During his wedding reception, DiCaprio’s fraudulent Jordan Belfort pops and locks it to Bo Diddley’s “Pretty Thing.”
Melissa McCarthy – Identity Thief (Universal Pictures)
To ease the tension of stealing Sandy’s identity, McCarthy’s Diana shows her musical range as she attempts to sing along with the car radio — and even hits that high note in “Barracuda.”
Will Poulter – We’re the Millers (New Line Cinema)
With eyes wide shut, Poulter’s Kenny Rossmore throws it back to the 90s with a hilarious rendition of TLC’s “Waterfalls.”
BEST CAMEO PERFORMANCE
Robert De Niro – American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Paramount Pictures)
Kanye West – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (Paramount Pictures)
Joan Rivers – Iron Man 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Rihanna – This is the End (Columbia Pictures)
BEST HERO
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent – Man of Steel (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man – Iron Man 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Chris Hemsworth as Thor – Thor: The Dark World (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Channing Tatum as John Cale – White House Down (Columbia Pictures)
Yes, the time has finally come for Columbia Pictures to show off the first official trailer for Annie. Yes, that Annie. The hit Broadway musical is once again being brought to the big screen, this time contemporized and with Jamie Foxx playing a billionaire named Will Stacks rather than Daddy Warbucks.
Beasts of the Southern Wild‘s Oscar-nominated young star Quvenzhané Wallis takes on the lead role and Cameron Diaz gets to play one of the film’s lead villains, Miss Hannigan. Or at least we assume she’ll be a villain; the plot seems to have shifted a bit from the original story. What hasn’t shifted is that the new version of Annie will feature fan-favorite songs from the original musical, including “Tomorrow” and “Hard Knock Life.”
Annie was co-written and directed by Will Gluck (Easy A). Columbia Pictures has set a December 19, 2014 release date for the musical.
Quvenzhané Wallis stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they’d be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Diaz).
But everything’s about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Foxx) – advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he’s her guardian angel, but Annie’s self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it’s the other way around.
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