Joining McCarthy on the February 1st SNL episode will be musical guest Imagine Dragons. The Grammy-nominated band will be making their SNL debut.
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Stumble It! The Walking Dead Season 4 New Mid-Season Trailer Arrives
“I know we’ll never get things back to the way they used to be,” says Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln), stating the obvious in the new trailer for the second half of season four of The Walking Dead. The series picks up where it left off when it returns for more zombie action on February 9, 2014 at 9pm on AMC.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live: Lie Witness News: 2014 Oscar Noms
After the Oscar nominations were announced, Jimmy Kimmel sent his reporter out on the street to get reactions from movie fans. However, a lot of people were caught lying about their knowledge of who was nominated this year. One poor unsuspecting victim was even asked what she thought of Adam Sandler’s fourth nomination and offered up an opinion. Sandler? Really? I don’t think I know anyone who would fall for that question.
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Daryl is Actually Afraid of Zombies – Or at Least Norman Reedus Is
Nick Santonastasso, The Walking Dead superfan and acclaimed Zombie Prankster on Vine, had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo to scare the pants off of Norman Reedus (‘Daryl’). Santonastasso was part of The Walking Dead‘s Ultimate Zombie Prank along with co-conspirators Andrew Lincoln (‘Rick Grimes’) and executive producer/zombie creator Greg Nicotero.
The Walking Dead gang was in Japan promoting season four of the series, and as part of the new “#getFOXed” campaign set up to create “unmatched fan experiences,” Santonastasso had the opportunity of a lifetime to see if Reedus is as fearless in the face of zombies as his character Daryl.
Per Fox: 17-year-old Nick was born with a rare syndrome called Hanhart and has only one arm and no legs. His determination and infectious zest for life have enabled him to overcome countless obstacles, and he has now become an inspiration for many kids and adults. Because of his outspoken love for The Walking Dead, Nick was the perfect fan to launch the “#getFOXed” campaign.
The Walking Dead returns on Fox on February 10, 2014.
‘NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 49’ Songs and Artists Details
The bestselling music series continues with NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 49 dropping on February 4, 2014. The latest edition of the NOW That’s What I Call Music! features songs by Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, One Direction, Drake, and many others, as well as five up-and-coming artists. ZZ Ward, Natalia Kills, G.R.L., Alex Aiono, and Morning Parade were chosen as the hot new artists to be included on the 49th CD of the series.
The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series has sold more than 200 million albums and every single numbered album in the series has made it to Billboard’s Top 10 (16 have hit #1).
NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 49
1. Pitbull w/ Ke$ha – “Timber”
2. Lorde – “Royals”
3. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
4. Katy Perry – “Unconditionally”
5. One Direction – “Story Of My Life”
6. A Great Big World w/ Christina Aguilera – “Say Something”
7. Imagine Dragons – “Demons”
8. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
9. Drake – “Hold On, We’re Going Home”
10. Lady Gaga w/ R. Kelly – “Do What U Want”
11. Britney Spears – “Work Work”
12. Ellie Goulding – “Burn”
13. Zedd w/ Hayley Williams – “Stay The Night”
14. Justin Timberlake – “TKO”
15. Bruno Mars – “Gorilla”
16. Luke Bryan – “Drink A Beer”
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17. ZZ Ward – “Last Love Song”
18. Natalia Kills – “Trouble”
19. G.R.L. – “Show Me What You Got”
20. Alex Aiono – “Doesn’t Get Better”
21. Morning Parade – “Alienation”
Movie Review: ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’
2013 saw the unfortunate passing of author Tom Clancy. His uber-successful book series about Jack Ryan, an ex-Marine turned CIA analyst (ultimately leading to two terms in the Oval Office) spawned four previous films. In 1990, Alec Baldwin first stepped into Ryan’s shoes in The Hunt for Red October. Harrison Ford would then take on the mantle in Patriot Games (’92) and again in Clear and Present Danger (’94). Eight years later Ben Affleck took part in an attempt to restart the film franchise from the ground up with The Sum of All Fears.
Now, nearly 12 years from that, Chris Pine is rebooting the series once again with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. The key difference this time around is that Clancy didn’t write the source material. He’s credited with creating some of the characters, and for the most part, they are given fairly canonical back-stories by the screenwriters (of which there are many over the years as this project has been kicking around for some time due to scheduling issues). However, to no great surprise for anyone who was a fan of the books (and some of the movies), what ends up on screen in 2014 feels like a generic Hollywood formula that borrows details from established work in order to generate interest and hopefully add credibility.
Pine was actually cast before audiences ever saw him in the Captain’s chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise so I can’t really begrudge him for taking on the role. And although he’s in his mid-thirties, he comes across as much younger, and it led to the same problems with his take on the character as when Affleck gave it a shot (though I think Pine keeps his mouth closed more during takes so take that for what you will). By contrast, Ford was far too old for the role, and unfortunately, for whatever reasons that actually kept him from continuing in the series, Baldwin really was the best of the bunch for the role but audiences didn’t get the chance to see him develop the character over multiple films as they should have.
Sitting down to write this, I realize I could probably take each major character and just over-analyze how they did/didn’t work throughout the film adaptations but what you’re probably reading this review for is to find out whether you should spend your time and money to see this latest incarnation.
First, let’s keep in mind that the powers that be had so much faith in the movie they released it in January … the year’s biggest dumping ground for projects that have lost the faith of their studios. This is made even more suspect in this case considering you have a lead actor with an already successful rebooted franchise under his Starfleet uniform and it comes from the director of Thor (Kenneth Branagh, who also plays the film’s baddie). Capitalizing on those two ideas alone should net you enough positive advertising to create a strong opening weekend in a more respectable release period (which is all that matters anymore when it comes to these generic thrillers anyway).
I will give Shadow Recruit some credit, as the first act is done fairly well. It gets the basic details generally right in accordance with Clancy’s writing but updates things for an entirely new generation. I’m not a fan, however, of the creation of a new character named William Harper played by Kevin Costner, which essentially usurps the role of James Greer (played by James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman in past films).
Although I’m semi-excited about the notion of the next intended film which will also include Coster (Without Remorse) as it returns to using Clancy’s actual books and is the origin of John Clark who is the real badass of the Clancy-universe (portrayed prior by Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber), I’m not sure why they had to create the new character. It’s a REBOOT. You’re already screwing around with things enough, just recast for Greer.
I feel a rant coming on … and honestly, I just don’t care enough about Shadow Recruit to take the time to write it all out (or to figure out the reason for the dumb title). It’s a generic spy film that is short on mystery, overplays the sappy moments, and underplays the tradecraft of being a CIA operative – instead going for the predictable action setups (including a hand-to-hand fight in a bathroom in case you were missing Jason Bourne) and somehow making sure its lead character is at the center of it all despite how improbable or unfeasible an idea that should be. What promise is provided in early scenes is unraveled by the final acts and I’d honestly rather have seen a sequel to This Means War (with Tom Hardy rumored to be in the running for the role of John Clark in Without Remorse, it could end up one anyway).
If you just need to see a movie out in theaters right now to escape whatever horrifying weather condition is in your neck of the woods, make it Mandela, Her, or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Most other films are either far too overrated, justifiably scorned, or so falsely advertised you may think the Golden Globes folks actually understand what it means to be a Musical/Comedy. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit isn’t terrible, but it’s also something you can wait to see when it hits the home market. Even if you’ve been counting the days since the last Jack Ryan movie, what’s another few months at this point?
GRADE: C-
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opens in theaters on January 17, 2014 and is rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and intense action, and brief strong language.
‘Nurse 3D’ Offers a New Trailer and Photos
Nurse 3D – because a two-dimensional nurse film apparently just doesn’t cut it – heads to theaters on February 7, 2014 with Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, and Corbin Bleu in starring roles. And for those super anxious to find out what a 3D nurse movie is about, Lionsgate’s just released this trailer and a couple of photos from the film.
The Plot:
By day Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, someone you wouldn’t hesitate to trust your life with. But by night, her real work begins…using her smoldering sexuality she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are. When a younger nurse starts to suspect Abby’s actions and compromises her master plan, Abby must find a way to outsmart her long enough to bring the cheater you’d least expect to justice.
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Penny Dreadful Gets a Premiere Date and New Teaser Trailer
The new psychological thriller Penny Dreadful will debut on Showtime on Sunday, May 11, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT. And in addition to announcing a premiere date, the network also unveiled a new super-creepy trailer. The series is described as a “frightening psychosexual thriller” and was created by John Logan (Hugo, Gladiator). Logan also executive produces along with Sam Mendes (Skyfall) and Pippa Harris.
Season one will consist of eight episodes.
The Plot:
In Penny Dreadful, some of literature’s most famously terrifying characters – including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly reimagined in a whole new light – have become embroiled in Victorian London. The series stars Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to Kill) and Eva Green (Casino Royale). Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger) and Danny Sapani (The Bill) also star.
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Critics’ Choice Movie Awards – The Winners
Overall, the big winner of the night was Gravity which set a new record for the most Critics’ Choice Movie Awards wins by a film with seven (Inception and Avatar had held the record with six). American Hustle earned four awards while 12 Years a Slave picked up three big wins, including Best Picture.
19TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS NOMINEES AND WINNERS
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
WINNER: 12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
WINNER: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford – All Is Lost
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
WINNER: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
WINNER: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game
WINNER: Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Liam James – The Way Way Back
Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief
Tye Sheridan – Mud
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
WINNER: American Hustle
August: Osage County
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eric Singer and David O. Russell – American Hustle
Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine
WINNER: Spike Jonze – Her
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Bob Nelson – Nebraska
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
Billy Ray – Captain Phillips
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – Philomena
WINNER: John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis
Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska
Roger Deakins – Prisoners
Sean Bobbitt – 12 Years a Slave
BEST ART DIRECTION
Andy Nicholson (Production Designer), Rosie Goodwin (Set Decorator) – Gravity
WINNER: Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator) – The Great Gatsby
K.K. Barrett (Production Designer), Gene Serdena (Set Decorator) – Her
Dan Hennah (Production Designer), Ra Vincent (Set Decorator) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adam Stockhausen (Production Designer), Alice Baker (Set Decorator) – 12 Years a Slave
BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
Christopher Rouse – Captain Phillips
WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger – Gravity
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush
Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson – American Hustle
WINNER: Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby
Bob Buck, Lesley Burkes-Harding, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks
Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave
BEST MAKEUP
WINNER: American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Rush
12 Years a Slave
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
WINNER: Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises
BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
WINNER: Lone Survivor
Rush
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Henry Cavill – Man of Steel
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 3
Brad Pitt – World War Z
WINNER: Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
WINNER: Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3
BEST COMEDY
WINNER: American Hustle
Enough Said
The Heat
This Is the End
The Way Way Back
The World’s End
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale – American Hustle
WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
James Gandolfini – Enough Said
Simon Pegg – The World’s End
Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
WINNER: Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – The Heat
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said
Melissa McCarthy – The Heat
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Conjuring
WINNER: Gravity
Star Trek into Darkness
World War Z
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER: Blue Is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Stories We Tell
Tim’s Vermeer
WINNER: 20 Feet from Stardom
BEST SONG
Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
WINNER: Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby
BEST SCORE
WINNER: Steven Price – Gravity
Arcade Fire – Her
Thomas Newman – Saving Mr. Banks
Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave
Joel Siegel Award
Forest Whitaker
Louis XIII Genius Award
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater for trilogy Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight
Hollywood’s Hottest Star
Benedict Cumberbatch
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The Affair and Happyish Join Showtime’s Primetime Schedule
Showtime’s continuing to add original programs to its slate, with The Affair and Happyish the latest projects to pick up season orders. The one-hour dramatic series The Affair will star Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, and Joshua Jackson; Happyish is a half-hour comedy starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathryn Hahn, and Rhys Ifans. Both shows were given 10 episode orders according to David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc.
“The Affair is a beautiful pilot. It is an intense exploration of two marriages and the affair that disrupts them – with great acting and a very clever, deeply observed script by the marvelously talented Sarah Treem,” said Nevins. “Shalom Auslander and Phillip Seymour Hoffman make for a formidable and unusual comedy team. The chance to get one of the truly great actors of our time into such an incisive and current comedy was totally and completely irresistible.”
Details on The Affair:
The Affair explores the emotional and psychological effects of an extramarital affair. The provocative, one-hour drama will be told separately from the male and female perspectives – using the distinct memory biases to both misdirect and intrigue. Wilson plays Alison, a young woman waiting tables at a popular Hamptons diner, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy. Her husband, Cole (Jackson), struggles to keep it all together, with his wife and with the financially strained ranch that has been in his family for generations.
Their emotionally charged marriage becomes even more complicated when Alison begins an affair with Noah (West), a New York City public school teacher and aspiring novelist who is spending the summer at his in-laws’ estate out on the island. Tierney plays Helen, Noah’s college sweetheart, best friend, mother of his children, lover and wife of 17 years.
Award-winning playwright and writer/producer Sarah Treem (House of Cards, In Treatment) wrote the original script from a story co-created with Hagai Levi. They first worked together on the American adaptation of Levi’s show In Treatment. Treem and Levi will both serve as executive producers, along with director Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights).
Details on Happyish:
Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in the SHOWTIME comedy Happyish, a dark examination of our pursuit of happiness, a pursuit that might just be the very thing causing our unhappiness in the first place. Thom Payne (Hoffman) is 42, his new bosses at work are half his age and they say the words ‘digital’ and ‘social’ far too often. His mentor and boss, Jonathan (Ifans) tells him to “rebrand” himself, his corporate headhunter tells him happiness is a myth, and Thom’s not sure if his Viagra will interfere with his Prozac, or vice versa.
Acclaimed actress Kathryn Hahn stars as Lee Payne, Thom’s wife, who is looking for a larger goal, a purpose, a meaning. Good luck with that. Happiness? In this world? Happiness after all is pretty high bar; in a world as absurd as ours, maybe the best anyone can hope for is happyish.
Created, written, and executive produced by author and This American Life contributor Shalom Auslander, Happyish was developed by Ken Kwapis, who will executive produce, and Alexandra Beattie, who will co-executive produce, under their In Cahoots banner. John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) directed the pilot. Philip Seymour Hoffman will also executive produce under his Cooperstown Productions banner.
Source: Showtime
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