***New Trailer for SUPER 8; New Clips from HARRY POTTER and THE HELP ***Five Best Moments From The 2011 MTV Movie Awards ***2011 MTV Movie Award Winners: Complete Results

New Trailer for SUPER 8; New Clips from HARRY POTTER and THE HELP

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 5th, 2011

The MTV Movie Awards are a time for fans to gather round, vote for their favorite massive franchise, and give it a bucket of golden popcorn that’s like an Oscar except no one cares.  No one ever got more clout or more box office from an MTV Movie Award.
It’s also a time to give new looks at upcoming films that will most likely be nominated for awards the following year.  At tonight’s MTV Movie Awards, viewers got a new trailer for Super 8 and new clips from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and The Help.  The Super 8 trailer is more action-heavy than the previous ones, but I’m glad that they’re still not showing the alien.  The Harry Potter clip is short but intense (is it July yet? No? Damn.) and the clip from The Help doesn’t have spectacle, but I’m always happy to watch performances from Emma Stone and Allison Janney.  Hit the jump to check out the trailer and the clips.  Super 8 opens this Friday.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 opens in 3D on July 15th.  The Help opens August 12th. http://collider.com/super-8-trailer-harry-potter-deathly-hallows-2-clip-help-clip/94855/

Five Best Moments From The 2011 MTV Movie Awards

published: 2011-06-05 21:51:29 Author: Eric Eisenberg
I’m going to take this moment to be brutally honest: tonight’s MTV Movie Awards were just plain awful. Host Jason Sudeikis, who is normally pretty damn funny, relied on repetitive Arnold Schwarzenegger jokes for cheap laughs, the skits were awful and every single award was predictable and/or awful (the exception being Emma Stone’s win for Best Comedic Performance). Needless to say, finding five positive moments in tonight’s show was a struggle.

Below you will find a list of the only events from tonight’s show that didn’t cause viewers severe brain damage. It’s worth noting that all five moments, when totaled together, probably equal less than five minutes of the two-hour-plus program. We call them the best moments, but really it’s all relative. Check out our selections below. For a complete list of winners (the people who took home the golden popcorn) and losers (all of us), head over HERE.

 

Justin Timberlake And Mila Kunis Grope Each Other

Presenting the first award of the night, Best Male Performance, the Friends With Benefits co-stars began by mentioning that they aren’t dating and are, instead, just really good friends. Then the two actors proceeded to make both male and female members of the audience jealous as Timberlake reached out to grab Kunis’ sweater puppies while she returned the favor by grabbing his twig and berries. The moment was almost ruined by Timberlake’s clichéd falsetto voice, but let’s be real here: public genital grabbing always gets a pass.

Foo Fighters Performance

No, their performance didn’t have anything to do with movies directly, but since when are we writing off the Foo Fighters because of technicalities (also, the band was featured in a pretty sick documentary earlier this year). Performing “Walk,” the new single off of their album Wasting Light, the Foo Fighters rocked the house. What is the only sad thing about their performance? They were playing for a crowd of Twilight fans who wouldn’t recognize a great group like the Foo Fighters if the band stood behind them and pelted them with rocks.

Harry Potter Clip

The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was the definition of epic, and the clip shown at tonight’s MTV Movie Awards was no different. The scene begins with Voldemort waiting in the woods for Harry to come face him, but believes he is a no-show. That is, until he walks out of the woods to face his fate. “The boy who lives has come to die”: amazing.

Reece Witherspoon’s Advice To Young Girls

On stage to accept this year’s generation award, Witherspoon began her speech by mentioning the infamous kiss between Sandra Bullock and Scarlett Johansson (which made this list last year), but made her own memorable moment as well by delivering a bit of advice. Presumably speaking about the recently leaked pictures of Blake Lively, Witherspoon offered the following: "Hide your face if you're gonna send naked pictures." It’s something the young starlets might want to keep in mind.

Gary Busey In A Hamster Ball

Sure, he was there to present an award to Twilight, but this is still Gary Busey we’re talking about. Arriving to present the award for Best Picture of the Year (according to MTV viewers), Busey rolled on stage in a giant plastic bubble saying that he only accepted the job because the bubble fit through the doors. Sure, it was scripted and not natural Busey-crazy, but he may actually believe that something is wrong with his immune system and stay in that ball for the rest of his life.
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2011 MTV Movie Award Winners: Complete Results

published: 2011-06-05 17:44:05 Author: Mack Rawden
The MTV Movie Awards are like a televised drinking game for celebrities. It doesn’t even matter who wins or loses. No one remembers who won a beer pong game from five years ago, just like no one remembers who took home that popcorn statue. The whole point is for movie stars is to show up, have a few laughs with their friends and then call it a night. It sort of sounds like an insult said so overtly like that, but in actuality, it isn’t. There are literally dozens of awards shows every year. The Academy Awards matter. The Golden Globes and Emmys sort of matter. The Independent Spirit Awards have a nice off-beat charm to them. Everything else is mostly a pretentious waste of time, except the MTV Movie Awards that put up no pretense whatsoever. They know exactly what they are, and they’re fine with it. So am I.

Check out the complete list of 2011 MTV Movie Award winners below. Or skip down to the bottom to replay our interactive live blog of the event, in which Cinema Blenders hugged it out while Twilight ran away with everything.

2011 MTV Movie Award Winners
Note: Winners for each category will be highlighted in red as they are announced.

BEST MOVIE (voting stays live throughout the 2011 Movie Awards ceremony)
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception
The Social Network
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jennifer Aniston – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)Natalie Portman – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Zac Efron – Charlie St. Cloud (Universal Pictures)

BEST BREAKOUT STAR
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit (Paramount Pictures)
Jay Chou – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
Olivia Wilde – TRON: Legacy (Walt Disney Pictures)
Xavier Samuel – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Adam Sandler – Just Go With It (Sony Pictures)
Ashton Kutcher – No Strings Attached (Paramount Pictures)
Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)Russell Brand – Get Him to the Greek (Universal Pictures)
Zach Galifianakis – Due Date (Warner Bros. Pictures)

BEST LINE FROM A MOVIE (New Category)

Alexys Nycole Sanchez – Grown Ups (Sony Pictures) “I want to get chocolate wasted.”Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)
Amanda Bynes: “There is a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.”
Emma Stone: “Tom Cruise?”
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network (Sony Pictures) “If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”
Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield – The Social Network (Sony Pictures)
Justin Timberlake: “…a million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool?”
Andrew Garfield: “A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.”
Tom Hardy – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures) “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.”

BEST VILLAIN
Christoph Waltz – The Green Hornet (Sony Pictures)
Leighton Meester – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
Mickey Rourke – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures)
Ned Beatty – Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Tom Felton – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST FIGHT
Amy Adams vs. The Sisters – The Fighter (Paramount Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz vs. Mark Strong – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Death Eaters – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Hallway Attacker – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
BEST KISS
Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis – Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)

BEST JAW-DROPPING MOMENT
James Franco – 127 Hours, Cuts Off His Arm (Fox Searchlight)
Justin Bieber – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Performance Spectacular (Paramount Pictures)Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page – Inception, Paris Café Scene (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Natalie Portman – Black Swan , Mutilation: Pulls The Skin Off Her Finger (Fox Searchlight)
Steve-O – Jackass 3D, Port-A-Potty Bungee Stunt (Paramount Pictures)

BEST SCARED-AS-SH**T PERFORMANCE
Ashley Bell – The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate)
Ellen Page – Inception (Warner Bros. Pictures)Jessica Szohr – Piranha 3D (The Weinstein Company)
Minka Kelly – The Roommate (Screen Gems)
Ryan Reynolds – Buried (Lionsgate)

BIGGEST BADASS STAR
Alex Pettyfer – I Am Number Four (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass (Lionsgate)Jaden Smith – The Karate Kid (Sony Pictures)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Inception (Warner Bros.)
Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man 2 (Paramount Pictures) 

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**Mark Wahlberg May Star in Action-Comedy BAIT AND SWITCH **New Set Photos from HICK Starring Chloe Moretz and THE IDES OF MARCH Starring George Clooney

Mark Wahlberg May Star in Action-Comedy BAIT AND SWITCH

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 5th, 2011

Universal has picked up Matthew J. O’Neill’s spec script Bait and Switch as a possible starring vehicle for Mark Wahlberg.  According to Variety, Wahlberg will produce along with Scott Stuber, John Jacobs, and Stephen Levinson.  Plot details are being kept under wraps but I hope it concerns straight-laced detective Reginald Bait and his loose-cannon partner Larry Switch.  Then the movie becomes a costume drama.

Wahlberg is about to start shooting on the Seth MacFarlane R-rated comedy Ted with Mila Kunis and Joel McHale.  He’s also attached to star in David O. Russell’s adaptation of the video game Uncharted.

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New Set Photos from HICK Starring Chloe Moretz and THE IDES OF MARCH Starring George Clooney

by Matt Goldberg   Posted: April 5th, 2011

New unofficial set photos from the dark coming-of-age indie Hick and George Clooney’s political drama The Ides of March have gone online.  Hick stars Chloe Moretz as a runaway teen who flees her neglectful parents in Nebraska and tries to make her way in Las Vegas.  The film also stars Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis.

As for Clooney’s latest directorial feature, The Ides of March stars Ryan Gosling as a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics.  Clooney will play the candidate who apparently has no problem re-appropriating Shepherd Fairey’s famous Obama sign.  The film also stars Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood.  The Ides of March is set for release on October 14^th.  Hit the jump to check out the set photos.

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**New Trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II **Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in Talks for SEEKING A FRIEND AT THE END OF THE WORLD **Ryan Reynolds in Talks to Voice World’s Fastest Snail in DreamWorks Animation’s TURBO **Chloe Moretz to Join Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS

New Trailer for THE HANGOVER PART II

by Jason Barr    Posted: March 31st, 2011

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for The Hangover Part II. Overall, I’m pretty happy with this new trailer. It gives a solid sense of setting, does a good job of setting up the obstacles without giving too much away, and makes use of a track from the new Kanye album (always a plus, for me). Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel as if the trailer is a little too self-referential to the original (i.e. Alan’s love of terrible toasts and penis jokes, and Stu’s fear of once again breaking his teeth). Just my opinion, though.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  Directed by Todd Phillips, The Hangover Part II stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Jeffrey Tambor, Mike Tyson, Justin Bartha, and Ken Jeong.  The film opens May 26th.

....more; http://collider.com/hangover-2-trailer/81147/

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley in Talks for SEEKING A FRIEND AT THE END OF THE WORLD

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: March 31st, 2011

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley are in negotiations to star in the romantic comedy Seeking a Friend at the End of the World, which follows “a search by one man (Carell) for a meaningful connection amid the end times.”  The film will be the directorial debut of Lorene Scafaria, the writer of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and lover of long titles.  Scafaria is a member of the femme screenwriter collective the “Fempire” with Diablo Cody, Dana Fox, and Liz Meriwhether.  (I like the group, but I’ll chip in $20 for the word “fempire” to go away.)  THR reports that principal photography is scheduled for May in Los Angeles.

Following his departure from The Office after seven seasons, Carell looks to film Great Hope Springs and Burt Wonderstone later this year.  He will next be seen opposite Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love, due July 29.  Knightley recently wrapped production with Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender on the Sigmund Freud/Carl Jung biopic A Dangerous Method.  Knightley is set to reunite with director Joe Wright (Atonement) for an adaptation of Anna Karenina.

....... more; http://collider.com/steve-carell-keira-knightley-seeking-friend-end-of-the-world/83461/

Ryan Reynolds in Talks to Voice World’s Fastest Snail in DreamWorks Animation’s TURBO

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: March 31st, 2011

Ryan Reynolds is a busy man — his schedule is currently mapped out clear into 2014. In the next few years, Reynolds will portray characters in three comic book adaptations (Green Lantern, R.I.P.D. and Deadpool) and voice a character in the DreamWorks Animation flick The Croods. DreamWorks must have liked working with Reynolds as Variety reports the studio is in final talks with the Green Lantern star to voice Turbo, the world’s fastest snail.

David Soren (Merry Madagascar) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After).  Turbo is schedule for release on June 7, 2013.  Hit the jump for the full synopsis for Turbo.

..........more; http://collider.com/ryan-reynolds-turbo/83474/

Chloe Moretz to Join Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS

by Adam Chitwood   Posted: March 31st, 2011

Chloe Moretz is the latest actress to join the burgeoning cast of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. The cast now includes Johnny Depp in the lead role, with Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jackie Earl Haley, Helena Bonham Carter and Bella Heathcote among those already on the project. Deadline reports that Moretz is in talks to play the daughter of Pfeiffer’s character.

Just the other day, Thomas McDonell joined the cast as the younger version of Depp’s character, and Michael Sheen is rumored to be in contention to play the father of Gulliver McGrath’s (The Lovely Bones) character. The film is a remake of the 1960’s gothic soap opera of the same name.

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**Blake Lively to Star in HICK with Chloe Moretz, Confirms She’s NOT in SEX AND THE CITY Prequel **Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Amalric Join David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS? **Summit to Release Cancer Comedy 50/50 Starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt This September

Blake Lively to Star in HICK with Chloe Moretz, Confirms She’s NOT in SEX AND THE CITY Prequel

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 17th, 2011

Since her dark turn in Ben Affleck’s The Town, Hollywood has started to see Blake Lively as more than just a pretty face, and it looks like she’ll take on yet another dark role in Hick. Adapted from the Andrea Portes novel of the same name, Hick tells the story of young Nebraska girl who runs away to Las Vegas from her neglectful parents. Derrick Martini (Lymelife) is set to direct the coming-of-age drama, with Chloe Moretz attached to star as the young girl. Lively broke the news that she’ll portray the thirteen year-old’s meth-addicted mother. Kirsten Dunst recently signed on for the project, but it’s not yet known if Livley is replacing her or if Dunst is simply playing another role in the film.

In the same interview with ITN, Lively confirmed earlier reports that she will not be playing a young Carrie Bradshaw in a Sex and the City prequel, contrary to previous rumors. Hit the jump for the synopsis of Hick.

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Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Amalric Join David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS?

by Jason Barr    Posted: February 17th, 2011

The revolving door that is David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel Cosmopolis may once again be in motion. C7enma [via The Playlist] seems to think that both Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) and Mathieu Amalric (Quantum of Solace) have joined a cast that currently features Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamatti. Although details on their prospective roles are non-existant at this time, the report does confirm that Cosmopolis is set to commence its nine-week shoot in Toronto on May 24th of this year.

For those just tuning in, Cosmopolis tells the story of a newlywed billionaire (Pattinson) who loses his entire fortune (not to mention his blushing new bride) over the course of one really bad day. Prior to Pattinson’s involvement, Colin Farrell was set to star alongside the now happily pregnant Marion Cotillard in the film. As it stands, the role of Pattinson’s wife has yet to be filled (given her age, I would be surprised to see Binoche here) although previous rumors have placed Keira Knightley in that spot. Of course, we’ll keep you up to date with the latest Cosmopolis news as it becomes available.

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Summit to Release Cancer Comedy 50/50 Starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt This September

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: February 17th, 2011

The long talked about Seth Rogen-starred “cancer comedy”, previously called I’m With Cancer, finally has a title and a release date. Summit plans to release 50/50 on September 30^th of this year. This is fantastic news (via The Wrap) given the caliber of talent of the film’s cast which includes Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Angelica Huston and Phillip Baker Hall. Based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own experiences getting cancer in his 20’s, the film was originally set to star James McAvoy in the lead role until the actor had to bow out for personal reasons. Gordon-Levitt stepped in to take on the lead after McAvoy left. Jonathan Levin (The Wackness) directed the dramedy.

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***Set Photos of Megan Fox and Adam Scott in Jennifer Westfeldt’s FRIENDS WITH KIDS ***First Look at Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorsese’s HUGO CABRET

Set Photos of Megan Fox and Adam Scott in Jennifer Westfeldt’s FRIENDS WITH KIDS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 8th, 2010

On her Facebook fan page, Megan Fox has posted some photos from the set of her new movie, Friends with Kids.  Written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein), the plot centers on a pair of thirtysomething best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then date other people.  The set photos show off Fox along with co-star Adam Scott.  As we previously reported, Scott plays the husband of Westfeldt’s character and Fox plays a woman he begins to date.”
Hit the jump to check out the set photos.  Friends with Kids also stars Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig.  It’s slated to open in April 2011.
Images via Megan Fox’s Facebook fan page.




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First Look at Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley in Martin Scorsese’s HUGO CABRET

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 8th, 2010

Back in August, we got our first look at Chloe Moretz (Let Me In) and Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) in Martin Scorsese’s 3D family film Hugo Cabret.  Now the Facebook page for the site has provided us with a first look at costars Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley.  As we previously reported, Cohen is playing a train station inspector while Kingsley plays famous silent film director and cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès.
Hit the jump to check out the images.  Hugo Cabret also stars Jude Law, Ray Winstone, and Christopher Lee.  It’s set to open on December 9, 2011.

Images via Facebook [via The Playlist]

Here’s the official synopsis for Hugo Cabret:

Hugo Cabret, Scorsese’s first film shot in 3D, tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station.   When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.

http://www.collider.com/2010/12/08/hugo-cabret-movie-image-set-photo/

***Chloe Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley, and Bailee Madison Join Kristen Bell in DANCE OF THE MIRLITONS ***Exclusive: Nicolas Cage Talks GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE and KICK-ASS

Chloe Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley, and Bailee Madison Join Kristen Bell in DANCE OF THE MIRLITONS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 30th, 2010

In August, we reported that Kristen Bell has signed on to the dark indie ballet comedy Dance of the Mirlitons.  Today, THR is reporting that Chloe Moretz, Jackie Earle Haley, and Bailee Madison (Brothers) have joined the cast.  Per THR, the story centers on “an ambitious, slightly overweight ballerina (Madison) with an overbearing mother (Bell) who will stop at nothing to become a star. The girl enters a Mean Girls-type environment when she has to prove her worth in class.”  Moretz will play the Madison’s nemesis and the star ballerina of the class while Haley is “a subtly sadistic Russian ballet teacher of the highest order.”  Evan Greenberg wrote the script and will direct.

The project sounds like it could be a lot of fun.  It’s currently trying to close down the final piece of funding for a shoot next year.  Hit the jump for a refresher on the other projects these actors are currently attached to.

Moretz has the busiest schedule as she’s attached to Hick, David O. Russell’s Old St. Louis, a live-action adaptation of Emily the Strange, and The Rut.  She’ll be seen next year in the thriller The Fields and in Martin Scorsese’s 3D family film Hugo Cabret.

As for the other two new additions to the cast, Haley can currently be seen on the new season of Fox’s Human Target, while Madison will be seen next year in the Guilermo del Toro-produced horror film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and the Adam Sandler comedy Just Go with It.

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/dance-of-the-mirlitons-chloe-moretz/

Exclusive: Nicolas Cage Talks GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE and KICK-ASS

by Christina Radish    Posted: November 30th, 2010

Earlier today, Collider got an exclusive interview with Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage, who’s promoting his upcoming supernatural drama Season of the Witch, opening on January 7, 2011. The film is about a 14^th century Crusader, named Behman (Cage), and his closest friend, Felson (Ron Perlman), who return home after decades of fierce fighting, only to find their world destroyed by the Black Plague. Soon after their unexpected return, the local Cardinal (Christopher Lee) sends the men on a dangerous mission to accompany a young woman (Claire Foy) accused of being a witch to where she will stand trial, and Behman becomes convinced that she is merely a convenient scapegoat, destined to be condemned.
While we will be posting the portion of the interview where he talks about what it was like to live out his childhood fantasy of being a knight and working with the iconic Christopher Lee closer to the film’s release, we did want to post what he had to say about how the filming of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is going, how much it means to him to reprise the role of Johnny Blaze and what it’s been like to work with directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on the project. He also talked about Kick-Ass.  Check out what he had to say after the jump.

You’re currently filming Ghost Rider 2. How has that been going, and what has it been like to return to that character again?
NICOLAS CAGE: It’s been a lot of fun. I’m really enjoying my experience with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. They’re not like anybody I’ve worked with before. They’re total originals. Mark Neveldine is doing things with the camera that are just brand new. He’s on rollerblades. He’s hanging off of wires at 300 feet. He’s just doing things that are combination stuntman and camera operator/director that are quite shocking and quite risky. And Brian Taylor is just a philosopher when it comes to movies. You can talk to him about Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, and you can go into Ishiro Honda’s The War of the Gargantuas, in the same sentence. He’s definitely giving me a chance to bring a lot to the character. His idea to have me play Ghost Rider as well was inspired. We’ve been coming up with a lot of interesting things to do in the abstract, to help support the supernatural aspect of the character. He is the most supernatural superhero of all, after all.
Knowing how much you love the character, did you ever think you might not be able to make a sequel? What does it mean to actually be filming it right now?
CAGE: It means a lot to me. I have high hopes for it. I’m very confident that something special is going to come out of this experience. You can just feel it on the set.
What should fans be excited about seeing with the sequel?
CAGE: I don’t want to give anything away, but I know that the Ghost Rider character will definitely mess with their minds.
There are a lot of people taking photos of the set, with the paparazzi constantly being around. Do you pay attention to what people post online, or are you just focused on the movie and your work?
CAGE: Oh, it’s impossible not to have it come to my attention, one way or another. I try not to take anything personally. So far, everything seems to be pretty positive, though.
Everyone loved Kick-Ass, especially your work as Big Daddy. Looking back on that, are you surprised with the response, or did you always know you were making an awesome movie?

CAGE: It was a complete alignment of the stars that worked out for me, in that way. I knew Matthew Vaughn’s work and I was a fan of his talent, but I wasn’t that familiar with the comic book. I really just gave myself over to the experience in London, and I felt very fortunate with the results. I had a great cast to work with. Chloe [Moretz] was wonderful. So, it was one of those things that just happened, almost by accident.
At this stage of your career, what do you look for in projects and characters?
CAGE: I have to be challenged by it. I have to feel like I’m going to learn something, in some way, or I have to feel that I can commit to the character, like Behman in Season of the Witch, and really believe in that person and believe in myself, in that role.
With as long a career as you’ve had in this business, do you still have the same passion and love for the craft that you did when you started, or do you have times where you have to take a step back and recharge, in order to be creative, as an artist?
CAGE: I do have times where I need to recharge, but I can’t afford those times right now, so I don’t take them. But, I am just as passionate as I always was because I’m eclectic and I like to keep interested, and the way to keep interested is to do new things. That’s why you’re seeing me make so many movies right now that are in the fantastical and supernatural realms because I haven’t really done it before.
http://www.collider.com/2010/11/30/nicolas-cage-interview-ghost-rider-spirit-of-vengeance/

***Kevin Smith Finds his HIT SOMEBODY Lead in Nicholas Braun ***Kirsten Dunst and Chloe Moretz Starring in HICK ***Mark Wahlberg May Star in Director Allen Hughes BROKEN CITY

Kevin Smith Finds his HIT SOMEBODY Lead in Nicholas Braun

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: November 29th, 2010

While Kevin Smith recently wrapped filming (and completed a first cut) of his horror film Red State, he’s also looking ahead to his hockey-centered film that will be his follow-up. Hit Somebody is a script that Smith has been working on for a while, that’s based on the Warren Zevon song of the same name, with lyrics written by Mitch Albom.  Via his most recent edition of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast with Ralph Garman, Smith revealed that he’s found his lead in actor Nicholas Braun, who Smith recently worked with on Red State. In fact, Smith said that he found “so much of [his Hit Somebody] cast making Red State,” so expect to see a few familiar faces once Hit Somebody rolls around (including podcast co-host and Red State cast member Garman, Smith confirms). Smith had this to say about casting Braun as his lead:

He’s this really really great actor who I love to death and he is the perfect lead for this script…he’s such a good guy, he’s a sweetheart and he’s fuckin so dope in [Red State]

Braun’s credits include Sky High and the short-lived TV series 10 Things I Hate About You. He’ll next be seen in the upcoming high-school dramedy from Disney, Prom.  Seann William Scott was previously attached to star in Hit Somebody after working with Smith on Cop Out, but chose to star in Jay Baruchel’s hockey comedy Goon instead when Smith decided to film Red State first.  For more on Smith’s upcoming projects, including more info on the plot of Red State, hit the jump.
While I’m not that familiar with Braun’s work, I like the idea of Smith casting a younger newcomer in the lead role of the flick. Fingers crossed he’ll nab a good deal of the young cast from Red State, given the pedigree of actors involved (Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, and Matt L. Jones). The song from which Smith’s screenplay is based tells the story of an aspiring hockey player named Buddy, who’s not the greatest when handling the puck, but has a knack for “beating people up.”  Smith said that he plans to start shooting the film in “July, August, [or] September” of 2011.
Smith recently submitted Red State to Sundance and hopes to sell the film to a distributor at the festival in January. In fact, he recently told Slashfilm that he plans to sell the flick right in the room at Sundance, auction style.  Smith is currently running a podcast mini-series on his Smodcast network specifically about Red State, on which he said the film is essentially about sex, religion and politics.  “The first 17 minutes of the movie are about sex,” Smith said, “the next 45 minutes to an hour…are about religion, and then the last third of the movie is pretty much about politics.” Entitled “Red State of the Union”, the podcast series is a self-described “film school” of sorts, wherein Smith brings on a member of the cast or crew from Red State each week to screen footage and discuss the filmmaking process on the flick. Recent guests included Red State producer Jon Gordon, and Director of Photography David Klein. For anyone interested in the ins and outs of filmmaking, the podcast is a definite must-listen.
http://www.collider.com/2010/11/29/kevin-smith-hit-somebody-nicholas-braun/

Kirsten Dunst and Chloe Moretz Starring in HICK

by Ramses Flores    Posted: November 29th, 2010

Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man) will star in the upcoming adaptation of Andrea Portes’ novel, Hick.   ThePlaylist reports that Dunst will be joining Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) in the film, who will be playing a “13-year-old Nebraska girl who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away to Las Vegas.”  Derrick Martini (Lymelife) is set to direct the coming-of-age drama, which has been adapted to screen by Portes.
Dunst can currently be seen alongside Ryan Gosling in All Good Things.  She is also set to star in Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries) adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and earlier this year she replaced Penelope Cruz in Lars Von Trier’s (Antichrist) upcoming sci-fi disaster film Melancholia. You can hit the jump to read the full synopsis for Hick.

Here’s the synopsis via Amazon:

Portes’s chilling debut tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl’s hard-going life on the road. Young Luli knows losers—her “aging Brigitte Bardot” mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas.
A crooked man (literally; he “looks like an italic,” says smart-alecky Luli) named Eddie picks her up briefly before throwing her out of the car. Next comes cocaine-snorting grifter Glenda, who enlists Luli as an accessory to a robbery that goes awry. Glenda takes Luli under her wing. The two cross paths again with Eddie, who rapes Luli and ties her up in a secluded motel. Glenda comes to her rescue, but the confrontation with Eddie ends badly.

http://www.collider.com/2010/11/29/kirsten-dunst-hick-chloe-moretz/

Mark Wahlberg May Star in Director Allen Hughes BROKEN CITY

by Ben Brown    Posted: November 29th, 2010

Funny thing about being a movie star–one year, you can earn nothing but complete critical and commercial success for your work, and then another…well, you don’t. Perhaps not an actor working today has ridden the ladder of ascension and descent quite as drastically as Mark Wahlberg; 2006 saw such well-regarded turns in Invincible and The Departed, the latter of which he managed to snag a Best Supporting Actor nod out of. Of course, as we all know, Wahlberg followed up his newfound success with such cinematic delights as Max Payne, The Lovely Bones, Shooter, and the grandturkey of them all, The Happening (a project he himself came to bash).
Thankfully for Wahlberg, 2010 is looking a bit more like 2006 than 2007, 2008, or 2009– aside from turning in nice comedy work in hits such as Date Night and The Other Guys, Wahlberg’s also been stirring up a bit of Oscar talk for his turn in David O. Russell’s upcoming The Fighter. And now, just to keep things interesting, it looks as if Wahlberg is eyeing a return to the land of action: in an interview with MTV, Wahlberg re-expressed his interest in the Allen Hughes-helmed Broken City. Hit the jump for more of Wahlberg’s quotes, as well as some of my brief thoughts.
Says Wahlberg to MTV:

“There’s this other thing, ‘Broken City,’ that I want to do… at the end of next year with Allen Hughes directing. It’s on the Black List. It’s one of the best unproduced screenplays… It’s an amazing piece of material that should attract amazing talents. Hopefully we’ll get that thing together.”

The script, penned by Brian Tucker, would entail Wahlberg’s Billy Taggart, an ex-cop and low-rent private investigator, being hired by a shady mayoral candidate to investigate his wife’s infidelity. As is the case with any good noir, sex, corruption and secrets ensue.
Consider me psyched. Hughes, along with his brother Albert, is the man behind both 2001’s From Hell and earlier this year’s The Book of Eli, two of the more interesting and (I would argue) rather under-appreciated genre gems of the past few years. To see as star as charismatic and likable as Wahlberg team with such a visually energetic and unique vizualist sounds…well, tantalizing, to say the least.
And come on–you have to admit this sounds a bit more interesting than that other action-fest Wahlberg just signed on to…
http://www.collider.com/2010/11/29/mark-wahlberg-broken-city-allen-hughes/