 It’s days like today that I really miss Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV; this casting news would have been the perfect setup for having Marvel and Fox duke it out. Today, Bryan Singer took to Twitter to announce that Evan Peters (American Horror Story) would be playing Quicksilver in the next film in the X-Men franchise. If the character name sounds familiar it might be because rumors have been swirling about that Quicksilver would make an appearance in the sequel to Marvel’s The Avengers. Read more on Evan Peters cast as Quicksilver in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’…
Categories: News Tags: Anna Paquin, Daniel Cudmore, Ellen Page, Fan Bingbing, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Omar Sy, Patrick Stewart, peter dinklage, Shawn Ashmore, X-Men: Days of Future Past
AMPAS has added a few more names to their list of presenters, all of which are former winners in the Lead Actress category. Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon join a growing list of stars that will be in attendance at the 85th Academy Awards. Have a look at the official press release and see who else is presenting after the jump.
Read more on Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon to Present at the Oscars…
 I’ve never before considered giving a film zero stars. Normally I believe in never going there for any reason (since movies generally are still made with good intentions and are only meant to please) and receiving the half star rating for only the most blatantly atrocious works that are insults to humanity. I’ve never yet been compelled to go that low with a review while at The Awards Circuit. No evidence in recent cinematic history has ever driven me to that point. Well, ladies and gentlemen…I’ve found Exhibit A. Movie 43 is frankly among the worst things I’ve ever seen, and I briefly considered going down to zero. Dear readers, I’ve never given a lower rating to a review than I am here. A “comedy” made up of one unfunny skit after the other that’s all the worse because of its inexplicable star-studded cast, it really defeats the purpose of a review. All I can do here is list the culprits of this crime against cinema and make sure their names are here for blame to be assigned. I usually try to avoid mean reviews, as you all know…but I’m making an exception here. If there’s any worse films still to come in 2013, I’ll have to seriously re-evaluate my profession. At a certain point, it’s just not worth it. Yes, ‘Movie 43′ has even made me question my love of film and passion for criticism. I had this to say immediately after seeing it:
‘Movie 43′ has convinced me that either there is no god (since nothing this bad should ever be allowed) or that there must be one and that this is some sort of punishment. I just can’t decide which.
I stand by those words, so that should really tell you something.
Read more on Movie 43 (½)…
Categories: Film Reviews Tags: Anna Faris, Bobby Cannavale, Brett Ratner, chloe grace moretz, Chris Pratt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Common, Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Banks, emma stone, Gerard Butler, Greg Kinnear, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Jack McBrayer, James Gunn, Jason Sudeikis, Johnny Knoxville, Josh Duhamel, Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Kristen Bell, Liev Schreiber, Movie 43, naomi watts, Richard Gere, Seann William Scott, Seth MacFarlane, Terrence Howard, Uma Thurman
Does it every cross your mind what persuaded someone to pick a certain outfit to wear on the red carpet? Over the years I’ve grown to love fashion, and if I had the money to dress better I would, but alas I do not. Although, it’s free to judge our many famous celebrities on what they choose to wear. Sunday at the Golden Globes the stars sported many different trends. Take a look at my list of the Worst Dressed women at the Golden Globes.
Read more on The Golden Globes: Worst Dressed…
Cloud Atlas, easily being the heavy-hitter this week, will probably handily oust its currently seated and incoming rivals out of the park. Another video game adaptation offers a serving of seasonal spooks, but will it make the cut onto the list of best video game movies? You decide…
Read more on Weekend Openings: 10/26/2012…
Categories: Weekend Openings Tags: Andy Wachowski, Carrie-Anne Moss, chelsea handler, David Mitchell, Elisabeth Shue, Entertainment/Culture, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Josh Schwartz, Lana Wachowski, Lorraine Levy, Luis Prieto, Malcolm McDowell, Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Silent Hill, The Black Tulip, tom hanks, Tom Tykwer
 Terence Johnson (****)
Watching movies can provide you a range of experiences. There are films that make you question them, films that are just for enjoyment and films that make you feel. While a certain studio has coined the latter for most of its Oscar fare, those films barely scratch the surface of the power that film has. Cloud Atlas, the mesmerizing film from the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, is a cinematic force of nature that jolts you out of your reverie and gives you reaffirmation of what it means to live. Tracking six storylines that span from the 1850s to sometime around 2250, this film effortlessly blends the separate, yet interconnected parts, into an incredible whole.
Read more on Cloud Atlas (Multiple Reviews)…
 The studios have started activating their “FYC (For Your Consideration)” websites and listing their contenders for each film for the 2013 Academy Awards. Some interesting things already happening is Anne Hathaway’s turn in The Dark Knight Rises will be campaigned as a Lead performance by Warner Brothers. The same company will also push Tom Hanks and Halle Berry in Lead categories in Cloud Atlas. As everyone knows, the Weinsteins are the first official company to get out screeners. Many said Richard Linklater’s Bernie was the first but was deemed ineligible as a campaign. The Weinsteins sent out screeners for The Intouchables earlier this week to all Academy members.
Read more on For Your Consideration Sites and Campaigns Gear Up!…
Categories: Article, Editor Tags: Anne Hathaway, Business, Dreamworks, Entertainment, Entertainment/Culture, FYC (For Your Consideration), Halle Berry, Paramount Pictures, Screener, the 2013 Academy Awards, tom hanks
 There are few things more fun than watching celebrities behave badly. Whether it’s in a film or in real life, there’s great glee to be had when buttoned up individuals let loose. Movie 43, a compilation of vignettes that show A-list actors doing bad things (like blowing out a random blind kid’s candles out) or just being generally foul-mouthed, took 12 directors and 4 years to make but it sure looks like their labor paid off. The flick will arrive January 25, 2013 and stars Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Hugh Jackman, Terrence Howard, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Richard Gere, Liev Schreiber, Uma Thurman, and Halle Berry. Check out the NSFW trailer after the jump!
Read more on Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and Emma Stone do NSFW things in trailer for ‘Movie 43′…
Categories: Trailer Tags: Anna Faris, chloe grace moretz, Chris Pratt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, emma stone, Entertainment, Entertainment/Culture, Film, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber, Movie 43, Richard Gere, Seann William Scott, Terrence Howard, trailers, Uma Thurman
 A new and shorter trailer has premiered for the upcoming Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. The film is directed by The Wachowski Siblings (The Matrix, 1999) and Tom Tykwer (Perfume: The Story of a Murder, 2006).
The new trailer showcases a possible strong turn from Oscar winner Berry, who’s hasn’t turned in too many “worthy” performances since Monster’s Ball (2001). The question lingering is will the entire cast be pushed on a Supporting campaign or will they try to capitalize on a weak Best Actress field?
The film will be shown at the Toronto Film Festival as well as the New York Film Festival this month. The film opens October 26, 2012.
Check out the trailer after the jump. Read more on Halle Berry shines in the new trailer for “Cloud Atlas”…
Categories: Trailer Tags: American film directors, Cloud Atlas, Entertainment/Culture, Film, Halle Berry, Monster's Ball, Oscar, the New York Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, tom hanks, Tom Tykwer, trailer
Our frontrunner?
Trying to sand down the rough slate that is the Actress categories is an intimidating task. The past few years, the category has produced the likes of Natalie Portman in her career-topping performance in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Marion Cotillard’s transformation like no other in the Foreign Language film, La Vie en Rose.
It’s August. Summer’s coming to an end. Eight months have passed and we have one, count, one, Best Actress contender on the chart. Quvenzhané Wallis is more and more looking like the little engine that could for her heartbreaking turn in Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. While many are shouting from the rooftops that she could be the one to hold the Oscar, barely reaching the microphone, and being a Cinderella story for the millennium, there’s no one to challenge her as of now.
In the past week, Carey Mulligan has dropped off due to the “sudden” push of The Great Gatsby to summer 2013. Was that telling of something? We’ll discuss on this week’s episode of Power Hour if it was. With Mulligan out, we are struggling to find spots filled from performances coming down the pike.
Read more on “Best” Actress Award or “Whatever We Have Left Over”…
Categories: Article, Editor, Oscar Circuit Tags: Amy Adams, Anna Karenina, Anne Hathaway, Carey Mulligan, Darren Aronofsky, david cronenberg, emily watson, Emmanuelle Riva, Greta Gerwig, Halle Berry, Helen Hunt, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Joe Wright, Julianne Moore, Keira Knightley, La Vie En Rose, Laura Linney, Lost in Translation, Maggie Smith, Marion Cotillard, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Haneke, naomi watts, nicole kidman, olivia colman, Olivia Williams, Oscar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Pride & Prejudice, Rob Marshall, Robert Lorenz, Rose Byrne, Scarlett Johansson, The Great Gatsby, The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, To the Wonder
 The second half of the year is upon us. The race is about to heat up with big Oscar hopefuls coming down the pike. Our John Foote will be in attendance at the Toronto International Film Festival and many films will be unveiling themselves to critics alike. There is a very unclear yet still feasible shape to the race looking from ten thousand feet.
There are internet jitters building for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. With the trailers released and now the film being pushed up to September, it looks as though we may be in store for a master class in filmmaking. Phoenix also looks to be a lead contender for his first Oscar after delivering in his previous nominated works, Gladiator (2000) and Walk the Line (2005). Phoenix does have tough competition ahead of him including what looks to be a critical darling-type performance coming from John Hawkes in Ben Lewin’s The Sessions. Early word is very positive for the film and the turns by Hawkes along with co-stars Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. Since Hawkes’ initial nomination two years ago for Winter’s Bone, he hasn’t shown any signs of letting up. He was arguably left off last year in Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and will be seen later this year in Julia Dyer’s The Playroom and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. There seems to be a tremendous following and support for him in his current state. Speaking of Spielberg, we’re still awaiting some type of marketing material for his upcoming Lincoln biopic. No poster or trailer has been released with very few stills leaked online. One starts to think if it will even be ready in time.
Taking a look at the next couple of months, the circuit will begin to reveal itself.
Read more on Oscar Circuit: “It’s the time of the season”…
Categories: Article, Editor, Oscar Circuit, Oscar Predictions Tags: Amour, Amy Adams, ang lee, Anna Karenina, Anne Hathaway, Arbitrage, Argo, Ava DuVarney, Ben Affleck, Bill Murray, Bradley Cooper, Brave, bryan cranston, Carey Mulligan, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Walken, Clint Eastwood, Cloud Atlas, Colin Farrell, Daniel Barnz, Daniel Day-Lewis, David O. Russell, Django Unchained, Editor, Elizabeth Olsen, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Flight, Fun-Size, Great Expectations, Halle Berry, Helen Hunt, Hyde Park on Hudson, jamie foxx, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Wright, John Goodman, John Hawkes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, judd apatow, Justin Timberlake, kathryn bigelow, Killing Them Softly, Laura Linney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Les Miserables, Liam Neeson, Liberal Arts, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Logan Lerman, Looper, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martin McDonagh, Michael Haneke, Middle of Nowhere, Moonrise Kingdom, nicole kidman, Not Fade Away, olivia colman, Olivia Williams, Oscar Circuit, oscar predictions, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, Richard Gere, Rise of the Guardians, Roger Michell, Russell Crowe, Rust and Bone, Sam Rockwell, Seth Rogen, seven psychopaths, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Steven Spielberg, the dark knight rises, The Grandmasters, The Guilt Trip, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Impossible, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Sessions, tom hanks, Trouble with the Curve, Viola Davis, Woody Harrelson, Wreck-It Ralph, Zero Dark Thirty
 With the 5-minute trailer premiering this past week, this simple poster has hit. Do we have an Oscar contender on our hands? We shall see. Comment and see the full poster after the jump. Read more on Poster for “Cloud Atlas”…
 Directed By: Andy and Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Written By: Andy and Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Cast: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Wishaw, Jim Broadbent
Synopsis: “An epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution.”
Read more on Awards Profile: Cloud Atlas…
 I have absolutely no clue what to expect with the film ‘Cloud Atlas’, a joint venture between the Wachowskis (Lana and Andy…formerly Larry and Andy) and Tom Tykwer. Based on the highly praised novel by David Mitchell, it’s a layered and bizarre sounding work that could either go horribly wrong or dazzlingly right. We won’t know that until the film comes out, but word has spread from the Cannes Film Festival in an article from The Playlist here that the movie is coming out on December 6th. I’ll share details of the novel after the jump (without spoiling things for the movie, of course), but hey…at least we now know when we’ll be able to see the flick.
Read more on Cloud Atlas will be unleashed on audiences this coming December!…
 It begins. 2011 film year is behind us and we saw Octavia Spencer crowned Best Supporting Actress for her work in “The Help.” As we embark on the 2012 film year together, I will be breaking down each category individually throughout the month of March. I will also unveil the Awards Circuit Staff Predictions one at a time for all of you to enjoy. Trust me, we all have different takes on what the 2012 season will bring.
We break down the Supporting Actress category first. Any supporting category is difficult to analyze because you never know who will hit it out of the park with a mere eight minute screen time or what borderline Lead performance will be pushed in another category. The rankings of the Supporting Actress are ordered #1 through #25 as you see them on the predictions page but there are outside contenders that could just as easily make the lineup given a strong showing with critics and audiences.
Looking into a crystal ball, Amy Adams will be starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” and with three prior nominations (“Junebug,” “Doubt,” and “The Fighter”), Adams could finally score an Oscar. She also has a role in the long-awaited “On the Road” directed by Walter Salles which could catch on. Co-star Kristen Stewart can return to what we loved about her in “Into the Wild.” The question seems to be, is Oscar aching to reward Adams or does she need to be accepted as a leading lady? Have the “Twilight” franchise ruined Stewart forever? Perhaps.
Read more on Oscar Circuit: The Return of the Suffering Wife – Supporting Actress Predictions…
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 Read the Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA – Academy Award®-winning actress Halle Berry will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today.
Berry won an Oscar® in 2001 for her lead performance in “Monster’s Ball.” She was recently seen in “New Year’s Eve” and will be seen next opposite Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant in “Cloud Atlas.” Berry’s other film credits include “Frankie & Alice,” “Things We Lost in the Fire,” “Die Another Day,” “Swordfish,” and the first three “X-Men” films.
Read more on Halle Berry to Present at 84th Academy Awards® on Oscar Sunday…
Elizabeth Olsen follows a long line of battered Best Actress winners.
This weekend sees the release of the highly anticipated thriller (and possible Oscar contender) Martha Marcy May Marlene. Many pundits, including our own Anna, Mike, and myself are predicting that Elizabeth Olsen will be among the nominees for Best Lead Actress. Beyond starring in an acclaimed indie gaining serious publicity momentum, Olsen is also young and pretty, which as we all know the voters love. But is there another element to her performance that would give her an Oscar-baiting advantage? Well, in the film, Olsen plays a young woman plagued by memories of her time spent with an abusive cult in the Catskill Mountains, and there’s her additional advantage. When a large portion of a young woman’s performance is in explicit pain, Oscar usually isn’t far behind.
Looking at the past ten years of Best Actress nominees, over half of them were for characters that go through overt forms of physical and/or mental torment. The last lineup was a very comprehensive example of this. Collectively, you had depression, poverty, physical assault, marital woes and public humiliation spread among the four nominees. The winner, Natalie Portman, spent almost the entirety of Black Swan in perpetual distress from a laundry list of inward and outward ailments including possible incest. Read more on Best Actress: Make Sure They See You Suffer…
Categories: Article Tags: Best Actress, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Olsen, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, incredibly unpleasant films, La Vie En Rose, Marion Cotillard, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Million Dollar Baby, Monster's Ball, nicole kidman, Oscar bait, oscar predictions, the hours
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