Yesterday, Lionsgate Vice Chairman, Michael Burns, stopped by the CNBC studios and spoke about the buzz around The Hunger Games. Burns spoke about the books increasing popularity (there are 13.9 million more books in circulation since production started), the hype, marketing, social networking…
(Source: video.cnbc.com)
Plenty of Oscar snubs yesterday, but perhaps most egregious is the Academy’s woefully unenlightened cold shoulder toward Best Supporting Actor Lumière. Don’t they realize that the farther they walk away from his eternal flame, the less they will be able to see? What’s it like, Oscar voters, to live inside a great big gilded castle of DARKNESS?
Well said, EW. Well said.
(via thispopculture)
What District are you guys? The maps I’ve seen have me in 13 or underwater haha :)
Duh.
The anticipation for the girl on fire outfit is killing me.
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Oscar snubs Michael Fassbender, Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Tintin’: Which omission hurts the most?
Shame, indeed. Despite being one of the biggest breakout stars of 2011, thanks to his mesmerizing performance as a sex addict in the harrowing drama Shame, Michael Fassbender was surprisingly not called among the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards. Long considered a shoo-in for a Best Actor nominee, Fassbender was edged out by first-time nominee Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and dark horse nominee Demián Bichir for A Better Life. (EW’s Dave Karger hoped Oscar voters would take notice, and it seems like they most certainly did.)
But Fassbender wasn’t the only shocking snub in the Best Actor category. Ryan Gosling was a triple threat in 2011 with his acclaimed turns in Drive, The Ides of March, and Crazy Stupid Love. (Though the latter would have been in the Best Supporting Actor race.) Between breaking up street fights, being a good sport about your, uh, supporting actor, and of course, turning in great performances, fans of Gosling and Fassbender are no doubt wondering this morning, ‘Jeez, what’s a guy have to do to get an Oscar nomination?!’
Joining Fassbender and Gosling in the notable snubs in the acting races are Golden Globe and SAG nominee Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar (Best Actor), Gosling’s Drive co-star Albert Brooks (Best Supporting Actor), and We Need To Talk About Kevin‘s Tilda Swinton, who lost her spot in the Best Actress race to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo‘s Rooney Mara.
As if awards show perennials like DiCaprio and Swinton getting left out weren’t surprising enough, there were plenty of other baffling snubs in other categories. A Golden Globe nominee, Will Reiser’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical 50/50 was omitted from the Best Original Screenplay race. Hollywood legend and three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg was snubbed from the Best Director category for War Horse. While The Adventures of Tintin won the Globes’ Best Animated Feature trophy, it was no match for out-of-left-field choices like A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita. And lest we remind Harry Potter fans, the Deathly Hallows — Part II was left out of all of the major categories.
Mmmmm. Fassbender.
Mockingjay-pin poster (SIGNED BY JOSH HUTCHERSON) giveaway!
Okay so some of you may know that I had the extreme privilege of attending Josh’s Journey 2 premiere red carpet in Melbourne last week, and he very graciously signed some stuff for me, including this poster, which I have decided to give away! The poster is the on-fire Mockingjay pin, and Josh has signed it in the flames in the top right corner of the pin (he’s signed his name ‘Josh H’ and then written “Peeta” next to it which is just so goddamn adorable I can’t). The poster is the one from the recent edition of Empire magazine, so it’s on (the reasonably thin) magazine paper, and is approx. 40 x 55 cm (which, according to my converter, is about 16 x 22 inches). It also needs a small disclaimer: the poster isn’t brand new. I got it for Christmas and had it hanging on my wall for a couple of weeks, and then took it down for the premiere. It’s still in near-perfect condition, there’s just a small tear in the top right-hand corner from the blu-tac, and a small smudge on the bottom of Josh’s signature, but they’re both barely noticeable - hopefully that doesn’t make a difference, but I just thought I’d let you know anyway. So, here are the rules:
- You don’t have to be following me (although that would be nice!)
- You need to have your ask box open/be easily contactable
- You can reblog this no more than 3 times, and likes don’t count
- I will ship anywhere in the world (well since I live in Australia, it is highly likely I will need to ship overseas hahaha!) and will pay for shipping
- The winner will be reaped (by random.org) on February 11th, Australian time
MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR!
I want it.
Mockingjay-pin poster (SIGNED BY JOSH HUTCHERSON) giveaway!
Okay so some of you may know that I had the extreme privilege of attending Josh’s Journey 2 premiere red carpet in Melbourne last week, and he very graciously signed some stuff for me, including this poster, which I have decided to give away! The poster is the on-fire Mockingjay pin, and Josh has signed it in the flames in the top right corner of the pin (he’s signed his name ‘Josh H’ and then written “Peeta” next to it which is just so goddamn adorable I can’t). The poster is the one from the recent edition of Empire magazine, so it’s on (the reasonably thin) magazine paper, and is approx. 40 x 55 cm (which, according to my converter, is about 16 x 22 inches). It also needs a small disclaimer: the poster isn’t brand new. I got it for Christmas and had it hanging on my wall for a couple of weeks, and then took it down for the premiere. It’s still in near-perfect condition, there’s just a small tear in the top right-hand corner from the blu-tac, and a small smudge on the bottom of Josh’s signature, but they’re both barely noticeable - hopefully that doesn’t make a difference, but I just thought I’d let you know anyway. So, here are the rules:
- You don’t have to be following me (although that would be nice!)
- You need to have your ask box open/be easily contactable
- You can reblog this no more than 3 times, and likes don’t count
- I will ship anywhere in the world (well since I live in Australia, it is highly likely I will need to ship overseas hahaha!) and will pay for shipping
- The winner will be reaped (by random.org) on February 11th, Australian time
MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOUR!
I want it.
Word on the street is that Justin Bieber wants to be the next Mark Wahlberg. Justin is apparently telling people that he wants to play Mark’s role in a Fear remake, “hoping that it will give his image and career the same edge it gave Mark”. Movieweb is also reporting that Justin plans to pursue the rights to remake the movie so he can progress to feature film acting. I love Justin to bits, but him trying to be the next Mark? Hmm.
Oh lord. This has disaster written allllll over it.
