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Casting Net: Amanda Seyfried in talks to join Noah Baumbach film; Plus, Gael Garcia Bernal to star in Jon Stewart film
10 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Amanda Seyfried may have started out playing teenage bombshells, but she’s defied the trap of typecasting and translated those beginnings into an interesting and diverse career including the high-profile Les Miserables and the upcoming porn-star biopic Lovelace. Now, she’s in talk to join director Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha) next project While We’re Young, alongside Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts (The Impossible), and Adam Driver (Girls). Seyfried would play Driver’s partner in the film, about an older couple who befriends a younger, more free-spirited duo. [The Wrap]
• Jon Stewart has cast Gael Garcia Bernal (No) as the lead in Rosewater, »
- Lindsey Bahr
Naomi Watts: Gorgeous At Cannes — Get Her Exact Hair & Makeup
13 hours ago | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
Naomi looked absolutely stunning at a party at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19 — we got her hairstylist and makeup artist to spill on her exact look!
The Impossible star Naomi Watts looks amazing on every red carpet, but we especially loved the retro glamour look she rocked in France on May 19. Here’s how you can get her exact look as described by the artists who created her magnificent beauty!
Naomi Watts’ Cannes Beauty — Get Her Wavy Hair Look
Celebrity hairstylist Giannandrea created the hairstyle and breaks down the look below:
“Begin by applying Ecru New York Marine Thickening Balm throughout wet hair to create overall volume. Create a deep side part and blow dry the hair on the side with the part backward and the other side forward toward the face.
Once hair is dry, divide it into small sections and use a small curling iron to create waves. »
- Dory Larrabee
Cannes: EOne Announces Itself As Player In U.S. Distribution By Acquiring Naomi Watts-Starrer ‘Diana’
18 hours ago | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Entertainment One has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Diana, the Oliver Hirschbiegel-directed drama about a secret love affair that Princess Diana had shortly before her tragic death. With Naomi Watts as the princess, this was one of the higher-profile pictures shopped at the Cannes Film Festival and eOne bought the rights from Embankment Films and Ecosse Films. eOne will also distribute with major releases in the UK, Canada and Spain with the U.S. film coming in Oscar season later this year. Hirschbiegel helmed the Oscar-nominated Downfall, and screenwriter Stephen Jeffreys wrote The Libertine. Watts, coming off an Oscar nom for The Impossible, stars with Naveen Andrews (best known for ABC’s Lost and The English Patient) in this drama about Diana’s covert love affair with Dr. Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani heart surgeon. This happened in the last two years of her life, before she met Dodi Fayed, »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
'Twilight' dominates Teen Choice Awards nominations
21 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The sun has set (or risen?) on Summit Entertainment’s venerable vampire series — but even though it, like Robsten, is officially kaput, Twilight still holds a hypnotic power over people of a certain age. (That age is “young.”)
The last installment of the blood-sucking saga dominates the “first wave” of nominees at this year’s Teen Choice Awards, which single out the movies, TV series, music, fashion, comedians, athletes, and performers that resonate most with today’s 13- through 19-year-olds. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 snagged seven nods, nine if you include star Taylor Lautner’s individual nominations for »
- Hillary Busis
Teen Choice Awards Nominees Announced!
22 May 2013 11:38 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In exciting news this week, the first wave of 2013 Teen Choice Awards nominees has been revealed, combining the forces of some of the most awesome celebs from movies, TV, music, fashion, sports, comedy and the web. (Read: T-Swift, One Direction, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Gabby Douglas potentially hanging out together in one room -- which all you basically want out of an award show, right?)
The special is set to air on Sunday, Aug. 11, 8-10:00 p.m. Et, on Fox. For a sample of a nominees and their respective categories, check out some highlights below. For the full list of nominees, head over to the official TCA site.
Will you be tuning into the TCAs this summer? Who will you be rooting for? Tell us in the comments, or tweet @HuffPostTeen!
Movies
Choice Movie: Action
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation"
"Skyfall"
- Taylor Trudon
Teen Choice Awards 2013 nominees: 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' and 'The Vampire Diaries' score
22 May 2013 11:08 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Fox has rolled out the list of nominees for the 2013 Teen Choice Awards, and fans shouldn't be too surprised to find that "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" was the most nominated. Up for seven awards total including Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie and Choice Romance Movie, the final "Twilight Saga" movie is sure to dominate the annual awards show. Meanwhile star Taylor Lautner also got nominated in two non-Movies categories: Choice Male Hottie and Choice Smile.
In terms of television, fan-favorite "The Vampire Diaries" ended up walking away with five nominations. Also scoring big were Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift. Check out the full list of Teen Choice Awards nominees below.
Movies
Choice Movie: Action
"Skyfall"
Choice Movie Actor: Action
Christian Bale, "The Dark Knight Rises"
Robert Downey, Jr., "Iron Man 3"
- editorial@zap2it.com
Teen Choice Awards 2013: First wave nominees in full
22 May 2013 9:51 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
The full list of the first wave of nominees for the Teen Choice Awards 2013, to be held on August 11, is as follows:
Movies
Choice Movie: Action
GI Joe: Retaliation
Choice Movie Actor: Action
Christian Bale - The Dark Knight Rises
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - GI Joe: Retaliation
Choice Movie Actress: Action
Anne Hathaway - The Dark Knight Rises
Adrianne Palicki - GI Joe: Retaliation
Rachel Weisz - The Bourne Legacy
Choice Movie: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Beautiful Creatures
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Teen Choice Nominations: ‘Breaking Dawn,’ ‘The Vampire Diaries’ & More
22 May 2013 9:28 AM, PDT | HollywoodLife | See recent HollywoodLife news »
It’s a battle of vampires at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards. The first wave of nominations have been announced — find out if your favorites made the cut!
There are so many categories at the Teen Choice Awards, but two of HollywoodLife.com‘s favorites, The Vampire Diaries and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, received the most nominations! On August 11, they’ll get a chance to battle it out. Keep reading to find out who else was nominated.
Teen Choice Award Nominees 2013 — First Wave Announced
Movies
Choice Movie: Action
“Skyfall”
Choice Movie Actor: Action
Christian Bale, “The Dark Knight Rises”
Robert Downey, Jr., “Iron Man 3”
Dwayne Johnson, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
Choice Movie Actress: Action
Anne Hathaway, “The Dark Knight Rises”
Adrianne Palicki, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
- Christopher Rogers
Oscar Alert: Julia and Judi, and Meryl Too
20 May 2013 11:30 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County: Duel of the Oscar winners [See previous post: "Oscar 2014 Watch: Harvey Weinstein Cannes Film Festival Coming Attractions."] More Oscar 2014 bait: August: Osage County, directed by John Wells, and starring three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, The Iron Lady) and Oscar winner Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich). Is it mere coincidence that Streep’s seventeenth Oscar nomination and third win was for her portrayal of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady — distributed by The Weinstein Company two years ago? Either way, Streep’s Oscar 2014 competition should be fierce, as Julia Roberts doesn’t seem to be wearing any makeup in the family drama. (Photo: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in August: Osage County.) Adapted by Tracy Letts from his own play, besides Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, August: Osage County also features Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Dermot Mulroney, Star Trek Into Darkness‘ Benedict Cumberbatch, »
- Andre Soares
Spain’s Recession Calls for Creative Film Financing
18 May 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Since September, Spain has unleashed two of its three biggest movies ever: Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible with a $172.5 million gross worldwide and Andy Muschietti’s “Mama” at $135.8 million gross and counting.
Only Alejandro Amenabar’s “The Others” ($203.9 million) has grossed more.
These box office watermarks come, however, as Spain suffers its worst recession in decades. Piracy, on top of an 8% to 21% hike in sales taxes on cinema tickets, has withered cinema attendance, down 2.5% in the first quarter of 2013, while leaping 12.5% in Germany and 11% in the U.K.
In 2012, 163 Spanish movies were shot, down 15% from 2010. And the number of high-end films, offering big paydays, has plunged far more steeply, slashing shoot costs.
In April, Alta Films closed Alta Classics, Spain’s biggest arthouse/crossover distributor.
“With Spain’s piracy, a 21% cinema tax, 6.2 million unemployed and broadcasters not buying your films, you simply can’t survive,” says Alta’s Enrique Gonzalez-Kuhn. »
- John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
Petra Nemcova: The Impossible made me shake
17 May 2013 7:02 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Petra Nemcova was left 'shaking' while watching 'The Impossible'. The Czech supermodel suffered horrific injuries during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami - which occurred on December 26 in Thailand - and her photographer fiancé Simon Atlee was killed. Petra has revealed it was incredibly difficult to relive the tragedy when it was retold on the big screen in the Oscar-nominated movie starring Naomi Watts. Speaking exclusively to Bang Showbiz at the F&F autumn/winter 2013 fashion show on Thursday (16.05.13), she said: 'It was hard to see because the film is [set] in the same hotel where I was and the same beach where I was, and the first half of the film was 90 per cent of »
The Impossible - Blu-ray Review
13 May 2013 7:10 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Christmas 2004 a huge tsunami hit Thailand leaving behind death and destruction that horrified the world. This movie is based on the real life story of Maria Belon and her family and their experiences during this time. Shockingly real, The Impossible is a film that portrays a disaster and its aftermath in detail, focusing on one family.s experiences, but incorporating the horrors that all in the area suffered. Maria Bennet (Naomi Watts) her husband Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), Tomas and Simon are on vacation in Thailand when the unexpected tsunami hits. Maria and Lucas are swept away from Henry, Tomas and Simon, and must overcome hurdles to reunite. Naomi Watts received »
- June L.
Benjamin Walker Set To Board Ron Howard’s ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’
8 May 2013 3:10 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
One film released last year that received a mountain of criticism was Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. A bonkers tale of the legendary 16th Us President’s extracurricular (supernatural) activities that I blooming well loved. I think it’s sometimes forgotten that you visit the cinema, more often then not, for a fun time and I was certainly rewarded with that even if others didn’t feel the same.
We now have word that that films lead, Benjamin Walker, is in final negotiations to join Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Tom Holland (The Impossible) in director Ron Howard’s In The Heart Of The Sea, currently in pre-production over at Warner Bros. It will be an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick’s fact-based 2000 novel about the infamous whale attack on The Essex, which was the true story that inspired Herman Melville’s best-seller Moby Dick.
Walker will play a character named George Pollard, »
- Craig Hunter
Benjamin Walker in talks for Ron Howard's 'In the Heart of the Sea'
7 May 2013 7:46 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter's Benjamin Walker is in talks to join In the Heart of the Sea.
The film will be directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard.
Walker is slated to play the character George Pollard, and will appear opposite Chris Hemsworth and The Impossible's Tom Holland, Deadline reports.
In The Heart Of The Sea is adapted from the Nathaniel Philbrick book of the same name.
Pollard is described as the privileged son of a whaling family, and was captain of the Essex, a ship which was attacked and sunk by a whale in 1820. The incident is said to have inspired Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
The script for the movie has been written by Blood Diamond's Charles Leavitt.
Watch a trailer for Ron Howard's forthcoming movie Rush - which stars Chris Hemsworth - below: »
The Impossible Blu-Ray Review
7 May 2013 5:39 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Director Juan Antonio Bayona delivers a tear-jerking powerhouse of a film with The Impossible. Unlike most dramatic films, The Impossible sets itself up as a disaster film, but slowly unfolds as a drama about a family finding the courage and hope to remain strong in a time of death and chaos. The film features remarkable special effects sequences, that when combined with the on-screen drama make for a truly horrifying, yet impressive experience. But none of that would have mattered had it not been for Naomi Watts, who gives one of her best performances of her career, filling the film with so much fearlessness and unshakable motivation. The Impossible isn’t an easy film to digest, but it’s one of the most inspirational tales of survival that I’ve seen in years.
The film follows Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor), who are vacationing with their three young boys in Southeast Asia. »
- Jeremy Lebens
DVD Review - The Impossible (2012)
7 May 2013 1:33 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Impossible, 2012.
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona.
Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland.
Synopsis:
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
When The Impossible hit cinemas earlier this year, the hype surrounding it was insane. Not only where there reports of people fainting while watching it, but there was a lot of hubbub about the change in the protagonist’s nationality. With the film now hitting DVD shelves, the questions now are – does the film hold up without the ‘cinema experience’ and, does it really matter that the family is British?
Based on true events, The Impossible tells the story of a tourist family who sadly were caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and split apart from each other. The movie then follows this separated family as they ride along an emotional journey of survival and hope. »
- luke-o
Ben Walker Spies In The Heart Of The Sea
7 May 2013 1:12 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
He was last seen on the big screen battling the undead in the distinctly mixed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now it seems Benjamin Walker will need to find his sea legs, because his next foe could well be an angry whale and the cruel logic of survival if he joins the cast of Ron Howard’s In The Heart Of The Sea.Howard already has Chris Hemsworth and The Impossible’s Tom Holland set to star in the based-on-truth tale of the Nantucket whaling ship the Essex, whose tragic fate served as the inspiration for Moby Dick.In possibly the worst thing to happen to something called Essex until The Only Way Is Essex arrived, the ship was destroyed in 1820 by a vengeful sperm whale.Stranded in a lifeboat thousands of miles from home, 20 of the surviving crew (the survivors included the captain and first officer) planned to make for an isolated tropical island, »
Ewan McGregor set to take the Villain Role in Jane Got a Gun
7 May 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The stories surrounding the production of Jane Got a Gun will not be soon forgotten, but thankfully it looks like things are finally falling into place for the anticipated film.
Details remain unknown as to why director Lynne Ramsey exited the project as production was starting, and since then, there has been a spiral of knock-on effects that have threatened to bring the film to its knees. But producers Scott Steindorff and Natalie Portman have remained resilient, and have been working incredibly hard to pull off the herculean feat of seeing the film through to production.
Following Ramsey’s exit, the filmmakers brought in Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) to replace her in the director’s chair.
But then the production lost its main villain in the form of Jude Law, who had initially signed on because of his interest with working with Ramsey. In his place came Bradley Cooper, who »
- Kenji Lloyd
DVD Review: 'The Impossible'
7 May 2013 12:02 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★☆☆ Based on the harrowing true story of one family caught up in the 2004 tsunami, Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) returned to screens last year with The Impossible (Lo imposible, 2012), a gruelling yet uplifting tale of human endurance amidst a cataclysmic natural disaster. Much was made at the time of Bayona's decision to change the aforementioned family's nationality from Spanish (Belón) to British (Bennett), presumably to make the film more saleable in English-language territories. Claims of 'white-washing' still remain slightly misplaced, but there is something missing from this well-intentioned drama.
Maria (Naomi Watts), husband Henry (Ewan McGregor) and the married couple's three sons (Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast) are en route to a popular Thai coastal resort for a much-needed winter vacation. After spending an idyllic Christmas Day together, the holidaymakers begin their Boxing Day relaxing around the complex's pool. Suddenly, a terrifying roar rises up from the direction of the beach, »
- CineVue UK
Ewan McGregor Loads His Guns To Take Over Villain Role In ‘Jane Got A Gun’
6 May 2013 7:04 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: The resilient indie Western Jane Got A Gun finally has its bad guy. Ewan McGregor is negotiating to play the pivotal role of the leader of an outlaw gang in the film that Gavin O’Connor is now directing. Natalie Portman plays the wife of an outlaw (Noah Emmerich) who leaves that gang after he gets shot up, and returns home. Knowing his former outlaw mates will come to finish him off and destroy her farm, Jane is forced to rekindle a relationship with a past love (Joel Edgerton), a capable gunman who can help her. This is the role that Jude Law originally was going to play, but he exited when original director Lynne Ramsay abruptly left the night before production began. After O’Connor came on to replace Ramsay behind the camera, they got Bradley Cooper to play the part, but his schedule is so impossibly busy »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
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