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The 10 Most Unfairly Overlooked Films of 2013

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Beth Accomando
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Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey in Mud
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.

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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.

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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.

Noah Shows Off a New Video on the Making of the Ark

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Rebecca Murray
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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.
 
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Behind the Scenes at the Oscars with Ellen DeGeneres

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Rebecca Murray
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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.

The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus Reads Romantic Text Messages

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Rebecca Murray
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Norman Reedus Reads Romantic Text Messages
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.
 
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‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Top the MTV Movie Awards Nominee List

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2014 MTV Movie Awards Nominees

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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Producers: Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik

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)



It’s a Hard Knock Trailer…Errr…Life in ‘Annie’

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Rebecca Murray
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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.

Annie Movie Poster
Poster for ‘Annie’ (Photo © Columbia Pictures)

The Annie Plot:

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.




Exclusive Interview with Singer/Songwriter Meital

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Rebecca Murray
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Meital Dohan Interview
Meital (Photo supplied by the artist)

>Meital has worked out a way to balance singing, acting, and writing while climbing the charts with hit singles. The electronic dance music artist hit the top 10 on Billboard’s Club Chart with her new single “Give Us Back Love” which has also been getting a lot of love on YouTube and Vimeo. “Give Us Back Love” has over 1.8 million views and shows no signs of slowing down.

Meital’s currently busy working on her next single and working on a new TV series that’s in development. She couldn’t say much about the series during our exclusive interview but did reveal an interesting tidbit. “It’s going to be very funny, and you might see my pet tiger in the show,” said Meital.

Exclusive Interview with Meital

How do you know when a song is right for you?

“I have to like it, of course. I have to feel like it’s within the vein of what’s going on right now, what’s hot, and then I make it mine. Usually, I co-create the songs from scratch so I kind of choose the subject of the song altogether.”

Does a song ever go in a direction you didn’t anticipate when you first started working on it?

“Yeah, many times. Like when we created the ‘Yummy Boyz’ song, that was just kind of a joke. [Laughing] We put it together and it became a silly song and then people, for some reason, thought it was cool.”

Does it surprise you sometimes what it is that audiences like?

“I really try to think about something that I can identify with as well. Like, I’m trying to put myself in the place of the audience. I think that people in general, even if some things in pop culture are less quality, some are more quality and all that, I think the audience surprises us and shows us that they support quality and interesting projects. That’s always good to know.”

Do you get something different out of performing live as opposed to being in the studio or filming a music video?

“I think that live performances are all about what you give to the audience. It’s all about the back-and-forth with the audience, so it’s definitely a different experience. When you shoot or work in front of a camera, it’s more that I want to make sure I put out everything I want to put out and I relay all the messages I wanted. But it’s a very different dynamic.

I feel like usually – I’m saying usually but there are always different situations – but usually the easiest thing is to actually do the work, if it’s within a music video or within a performance. Just doing the actual work of performing, that’s the easiest part. The harder part is outside of the performance, to live and to function. Doing paperwork, that sort of thing.”

Do you feel that making music is more of a collaborative process than acting?

“Well, music is definitely very collaborative. I always co-write the lyrics and the melody with the people I’m working with. As an actress, it really depends on what type of director you’re working with. Some directors are very much…it’s always a collaborative process because you kind of bring in your ideas to the character and your journey with the characters, but some directors like to play their own vision.”

How does the process of co-writing a song work?

“Sometimes I just have ideas coming out of the blue, so then I will record them. They will have tons of recordings with all kinds of soundbites and ideas that I will have. Sometimes I will get a beat, and I’ll come up with a melody or a song to the beat. Sometimes I collaborate with a person who already has something ready. Usually, I collaborate in the early stages or just towards the end by the time I’m finishing the track.

Even if I don’t relate in the beginning, I usually add or change things around so I can relate to it. Otherwise I don’t go forward. I don’t want to be part of something I don’t relate to.”

Who are your musical influences?

“You know, I grew up on soul singers like Nina Simone and Dinah Washington. I like old music. I really like Fleetwood Mac. Later I liked Poison and Beth Gibbons’ album – her solo album. Then I also love Jay-Z and Kanye West. It’s really like different types of music.”

Acting, writing, singing, performing, how do you manage to balance everything?

[Laughing] “I don’t know. I just concentrate on one thing at a time. Every project that I have I’m just focusing on it and give it the effort and focus on what I want to talk about within the project.”





VH1 Announces a Huge Slate of New Programs

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Rebecca Murray
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VH1 is expanding their lineup by greenlighting a bunch of new shows. The new original series moving forward at VH1 include Hindsight, Drumline: A New Beat, LeAnn & Eddie, Suave Says (working title), Naked Dating (working title), Make Or Break: The Linda Perry Project, I ♥ Nick Carter, Untitled K.Michelle Project (working title), Swab Stories, Walk of Shame Shuttle, This is Hot 97, and White Girls of Rap.
 
“With these greenlights, we are delivering a diverse mix of bold, big-hearted programs that will reflect and expand on our signature mash-up of music, pop culture and nostalgia,” said Susan Levison, EVP of Original Programming and Production. “From scripted, to docuseries to humor to reality, we are superserving our audience with a wide array of cut-through programming.”

Details on the New Series

Hindsight ± Premiering Early 2015
 
The series begins with Becca (Laura Ramsey) on the eve of her second wedding. It all seems perfect this time around, but she is still plagued by doubt. What if she could fix everything, and make the ‘right’ choices this time? Becca finds herself thinking about her former best friend Lolly (Sarah Goldberg), with whom she had a falling out many years ago. If only she could talk to her once again… Suddenly, after a freakish elevator ride, Becca gets the opportunity to do just that as she wakes up in New York City on the morning of her first wedding day in 1995. She’s about to marry Sean (Craig Horner), a bad-boy artist who is all wrong for her – and she knows her first move must be to reconnect with Lolly to re-live that day. Can she ‘make it right’ by living her life all over while readapting to life in New York City in the 90’s – a time of smoking in bars, carrying pagers, having an AOL email address? Becca will soon discover there’s no sure-fire way to make the right choices in life – even knowing everything she thinks she knows now.
 
I ♥ Nick Carter + Premiering Summer 2014
 
Growing up in front of the camera as the most popular member of the Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter has lived a charmed life. Known for being the only single member of the band, Nick was deemed ‘America’s Most Eligible Bachelor’ and reveled in the title. But now, all that’s about to change – after years of playing the field (and the occasional bad romance) Nick Carter has finally found love, and is getting prepared to take the long walk down the aisle. Nick’s fiancée Lauren Kitt is a smart, self-possessed woman who has become the center of his universe. But no one said love would be easy. Lauren may be the apple of Nick’s eye, but his devoted fans aren’t too pleased to see their idol snatched away by ‘another woman.’ Add to the mix Nick’s demanding career, as well as both Nick and Lauren’s outrageous families, and suddenly ‘happily ever after’ seems a whole lot more difficult to achieve. I ♥ Nick Carter will follow Nick and Lauren as they chart the sometimes rocky path to ‘I Do.’ Will their love prove strong enough to overcome all the obstacles that stand in their way?
 
Untitled K.Michelle Project + Premiering Summer 2014
 
It looks as if Love & Hip Hop star K.Michelle finally has everything she’s ever wanted. Success, fame, a hit album – but is it all it’s cracked up to be? VH1 will follow K. as she learns to balance life, relationships, and bona fide superstardom with the help of a dynamic group of friends. It may appear like she has it all together, but nothing is as it seems in K’s crazy world. Notorious for her red hair, razor sharp wit and fiery tongue, K.Michelle navigates New York City and her life with a renewed dedication to her son, her friends, and her career. K.Michelle has the life she’s always dreamed of, but will it ever be enough? Find out when the Untitled K.Michelle Project premieres on VH1 Fall 2014.
 
Swab Stories + Premiering Summer 2014
 
VH1’s new series Swab Stories follows entrepreneur Jared Rosenthal, the owner of “Who’s Your Daddy,” a mobile DNA testing service based in New York City. Part lab, part therapist, part arbiters of conflict, Jared and his team travel neighborhood to neighborhood to give people the chance to answer potentially life-altering questions about who they are, where they came from, and how they fit into their loved ones’ lives. The “Who’s Your Daddy” RV serves as an icebreaker, and allows people to take DNA tests right on the spot with one simple swab of the mouth. Swab Stories is a captivating new series about a process that reveals the truth behind people’s most fundamental questions– easing their minds or potentially breaking their hearts.
 
Walk Of Shame Shuttle + Premiering Summer 2014
 
The morning-after “walk of shame” is an inevitable part of today’s college experience. But where others simply saw hungover students trudging home following a night of drunken festivities, undergrad-turned-entrepreneur Kellyann Wargo found a business model – the opportunity to make some money while providing an essential service. And so, the Walk Of Shame Shuttle was born. For five dollars, Wargo will provide students and other hard-partying clients with a ride back to their dorm or apartment, along with a bottle of water and a complimentary high-five to cheer them up. On VH1’s Walk Of Shame Shuttle, we rig Wargo’s car with cameras and document every hilarious ride. Along the way, Wargo dispenses her own unique advice and tough love to her captive audience. On this series, Kellyann Wargo provides the ‘cheapest therapy sessions’ for these sometimes guilt-ridden students – and finds out why sometimes the morning-after stories are better than the ones from the night before.
 
This Is HOT 97 Premieres March 31 AT 10:30PM
 
Known as the place “Where Hip Hop Lives,” New York’s globally recognized #1 radio station HOT 97 is teaming up with VH1 to take viewers on a behind-the-scenes look into the Big Apple’s go-to destination for Hip Hop and R&B with the debut of This Is HOT 97. Premiering on VH1 March 31 at 10:30 PM ET/ PT, This Is HOT 97 is a 30-minute unscripted comedy series that gives viewers a look inside this iconic radio brand. HOT 97 is the global mecca of Hip Hop and R&B music, and this crew functions more as a family than a group of coworkers – they go hard for each other, but above all they live, eat and breathe HOT 97. The series will also feature cameos from the well-known celebrities who regularly visit HOT 97 as on-air guests including Kanye West, Macklemore, Rick Ross, Mack Wilds, Wale and many more. Each episode of This Is HOT 97 will draw upon the ambitions, rivalries and quirky personalities of the cast to capture all of the comedic and sometimes downright awkward moments that happen at the station on a daily basis.
 
White Girls Of Rap (working title) + Premiering Fall 2014
 
VH1 in partnership with Ryan Seacrest Productions will follow five up-and-coming white female rappers (Yep, we said it, white female rappers) as they hustle to establish credibility in an industry that isn’t known for being the most welcoming. These girls are facing near-impossible odds and will do anything to break into the rap game and establish a name for themselves.

‘The Voice’s Tessanne Chin To Sing at the White House

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Rebecca Murray
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Tessanne Chin to Perform at the White House
Tessanne Chin appears on NBC News’ ‘Today’ show (Photo by: Peter Kramer/© NBC Universal, Inc.)

Tessanne Chin’s about to visit one of the most famous residences in the world. The Jamaican singer with the gorgeous voice and the huge fan following thanks in large part to her time spent on The Voice is confirmed to perform at the White House.

Chin was invited to be a part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Women of Soul concert series. Chin will perform on March 6, 2014 as part of a lineup that includes Aretha Franklin, Ariana Grande, Jill Scott, Patti LaBelle, Melissa Etheridge, and Janelle Monáe.

For those who didn’t get the invitation to attend (it was probably lost in the mail, right?), the Women of Soul concert will be streamed live at WhiteHouse.gov/live beginning at 7:30pm ET. It will also be broadcast on April 7, 2014 at 9pm ET on PBS stations.

Chin was the winner of season five of NBC’s The Voice as a member of Team Adam (Levine). Check out this video of one of her best performances:

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Cast Members to do Signings in Support of the DVD Release

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Rebecca Murray
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire DVD Cast SigningsWillow Shields, Meta Golding, Bruno Gunn, Stephanie Leigh Schlund, and Lynn Cohen will be helping fans celebrate the release of the second Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, on Blu-ray and DVD with in-store autograph signings at select Walmart locations. The Catching Fire cast members will be in stores the evening of Thursday, March 6th, with the Blu-rays/DVD arriving on shelves at midnight. In addition to the stores that will have cast members on hand, 2,000 Walmart locations will have special giveaways for HG fans.
 
Orange County, California
Who: Willow Shields (“Primrose Everdeen”)
Where: Walmart
2300 N Tustin St.
Orange, CA 92865
When: Thursday, March 6
Signing: 11pm – 1 am
 
Chicago Area, Illinois
Who: Meta Golding (“Enobaria”) and Bruno Gunn (“Brutus”)
Where: Walmart
1100 S. Randall Road.
Elgin, IL 60123
When: Thursday, March 6
Signing: 11pm – 1 am
 
Secaucus, New Jersey
Who: Stephanie Leigh Schlund (“Cashmere”) and Lynn Cohen (“Mags”)
Where: Walmart
400 Park Place
Secaucus, NJ 07094
When: Thursday, March 6
Signing: 11pm – 1 am
 
The Blu-ray combo pack’s extras include a commentary track by director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson, deleted scenes, and extensive behind-the-scenes Making Of featurettes.
 

 
Source: Lionsgate
 
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