This Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, the best big-screen buddies face off for a chance at Best On-Screen Duo. By Kevin P. Sullivan Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook” Photo: The Weinstein Company
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Idris Elba could be basking in Oscar gold next year . The Weinstein Company recently acquired the North American rights to “Mandela: Long Walk To…
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Slaves for sale! Django Unchained Slave Action Figures Released Via NewsOne reports: The criticism levied at Quentin Tarantino for his so-called humorous take on slavery in “ Django Unchained ” has been intense as critics claim that he is exploiting a traumatic, ugly period in this nation’s history so far reaching, that the effects are still felt today. Last fall, the National Entertainment Collectibles Association, Inc. (NECA), in tandem with the Weinstein Company, announced a full line of consumer products based on characters from the movie. First up are pose-able eight-inch action figures with tailored clothing, weaponry, and accessories in the likeness of characters played by Foxx, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Remar and Christoph Waltz. The dolls are currently on sale via Amazon.com. Do you find these action figures off the chain or just plain ole’ offensive??
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The lessons of Quentin Tarantino’s interview with Terry Gross on NPR? He has a high tolerance for “viscera” and a low tolerance for questions that attempt to connect Sandy Hook and other incidents of actual violence to the kind found in movies. The Django Unchained director became audibly peeved when Gross asked him the question that every reporter feels compelled to ask filmmakers in the wake of the Connecticut shootings. Here’s NPR’s transcript of the awkward, testy exchange. I’ve taken the liberty of putting Tarantino’s comments about how linking Sandy Hook to violence in movies is “disrespectful” to those who died. I agree with Tarantino. Connecting the shooting to movie-making trivializes what happened in Connecticut, which, as Ross A. Lincoln pointed out in his post on The Hollywood Reporter ‘s poll on media violence, doesn’t bring this country any closer to figuring out how to prevent tragedies like Sandy Hook and Aurora from happening. GROSS: So I just have to ask you, is it any less fun after like the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, like, do you ever go through a period where you lose your taste for movie violence? And movie violence is not real violence, I understand the difference. But still, are there times when it just is not a fun movie experience for you – either to be making it that way or to be in the audience for something like that? TARANTINO: Not for me. GROSS: So it’s so completely separate, that the reality of violence doesn’t affect at all your feelings about making or viewing very violent or sadistic… TARANTINO: Sadistic? I don’t know. I do know what, I don’t know. I think, you know, you’re putting a judgment on it. GROSS: No, no, no… TARANTINO: You’re putting a judgment on it. GROSS: The characters are sadistic. The characters are sadistic. I’m not talking about, you know, the filmmaker. I’m talking about the characters. I mean, the characters are undeniably sadistic. TARANTINO: Mm-hmm. When you say after the tragedy, what do you mean by that exactly? GROSS: Well, like… TARANTINO: Do you mean like on that day would I watch “The Wild Bunch?” Maybe not on that day. GROSS: Or in the next few days, like while it’s still – while it’s still really fresh in your – while the reality – yeah. TARANTINO: Would I watch a kung fu movie three days after the Sandy Hook massacre? Would I watch a kung fu movie? Maybe, ’cause they have nothing to do with each other. GROSS: You sound annoyed that I’m… (LAUGHTER) TARANTINO: Yeah, I am. GROSS: I know you’ve been asked this a lot. TARANTINO: Yeah, I’m really annoyed. I think it’s disrespectful. I think it’s disrespectful to their memory, actually. GROSS: With whose memory? TARANTINO: The memory of the people who died to talk about movies. I think it’s totally disrespectful to their memory. Obviously, the issue is gun control and mental health. Although it’s not in the transcript t hat NPR posted, at an earlier point in the interview, Tarantino explained that he did tone down some of the violence in Django Unchained . As Samuel L. Jackson mentioned during my interview with him in December, his favorite scene in the movie, which was cut, involved his character burning off the captured Django’s nipples with a hot poker. The Playlist also points out that another scene that was briefly glimpsed in the trailer but excised from the movie, involved the rape of Broomhilda. (You can find these scenes in Tarantino’s script for the movie, which the Weinstein Company has posted here .) When Gross asked Tarantino, “What are your limits for..what’s your sensibility for how much splatter, how much violence, how much sadism” in a movie “feels right, like it’s part of the genre” and how much feels like “exploitation,” the filmmaker replied: “I could handle a lot more than I put in this movie,” adding: ” I have a tolerance for viscera, more than the average person.” But, he explained that after screening earlier, more brutal cuts, “I traumatized the audience” when his goal was to have them “cheering Django” at the movie’s end. “If you don’t cheer at the end, I haven’t done the job,” he said.
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Director Quentin Tarantino explains his foray into original music with John Legend, Rick Ross. By Amy Wilkinson, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Leonardo DiCaprio in “Django Unchained” Photo: Weinstein Company
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Emily Blunt, Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain also share how ‘elated’ they are to receive nominatiosn from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. By Kara Warner Leonardo DiCaprio in “Django Unchained” Photo: Weinstein Company
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Critics can’t get enough of Quentin Tarantino’s latest irreverent offering and its ‘bloody stew of history and hysteria.’ By Kevin P. Sullivan Jamie Foxx in “Django Unchained” Photo: The Weinstein Company
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The Screen Actors Guild unveiled its nominees for outstanding performances in 2012 in film and television Wednesday morning. Nominees were named in five film and eight primetime television categories in Los Angeles. Les Misérables , Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook lead the theatrical motion picture nominations with four each, while Argo , The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , The Sessions and Skyfall followed with two each. [ Related: ‘Lincoln’ And ‘Les Misérables’ Lead Critics Choice Award Nominees ] The Screen Actors Guild Awards styles themselves as the only ones “selected solely by actor’ peers in SAG-AFTRA.” Two nominating panels — one for television and one for film — each composed of 2,100 randomly selected union members from across the United States chose this year’s actor and stunt ensemble honors nominees. Final voting information will be mailed via postcard on Friday, Dec. 31, 2012. The eligible SAG-AFTRA membership across the country, numbering approximately 100,000 actors, may vote on all categories. [ Related: Oscar Index: ‘Zero Dark’ Domination & McConaughey’s ‘Magic’ Moves ] The following nominations include information provided by SAG-AFTRA. 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Theatrical Motion Pictures Nominations: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role BRADLEY COOPER / Pat – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company) DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Abraham Lincoln – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures) JOHN HAWKES / Mark – “THE SESSIONS” (Fox Searchlight) HUGH JACKMAN / Jean Valjean – “LES MISÉRABLES” (Universal Pictures) DENZEL WASHINGTON / Whip Whitaker – “FLIGHT” (Paramount Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role JESSICA CHASTAIN / Maya – “ZERO DARK THIRTY” (Columbia Pictures) MARION COTILLARD / Stephanie – “RUST AND BONE” (Sony Pictures Classics) JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company) HELEN MIRREN / Alma Reville – “HITCHCOCK” (Fox Searchlight) NAOMI WATTS / Maria – “THE IMPOSSIBLE” (Summit Entertainment) [ Related: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Takes Top National Board Of Review Honors ] Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role ALAN ARKIN / Lester Siegel – “ARGO” (Warner Bros. Pictures) JAVIER BARDEM / Silva – “SKYFALL” (Columbia Pictures) ROBERT DE NIRO / Pat, Sr. – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company) PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Lancaster Dodd – “THE MASTER” (The Weinstein Company) TOMMY LEE JONES / Thaddeus Stevens – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role SALLY FIELD / Mary Todd Lincoln – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures) ANNE HATHAWAY / Fantine – “LES MISÉRABLES” (Universal Pictures) HELEN HUNT / Cheryl – “THE SESSIONS” (Fox Searchlight) NICOLE KIDMAN / Charlotte Bless – “THE PAPERBOY” (Millennium Entertainment) MAGGIE SMITH / Muriel Donnelly – “THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL” (Fox Searchlight) Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture ARGO (Warner Bros. Pictures) BEN AFFLECK / Tony Mendez ALAN ARKIN / Lester Siegel KERRY BISHÉ / Kathy Stafford KYLE CHANDLER / Hamilton Jordan RORY COCHRANE / Lee Schatz BRYAN CRANSTON / Jack O’Donnell CHRISTOPHER DENHAM / Mark Lijek TATE DONOVAN / Bob Anders CLEA DUVALL / Cora Lijek VICTOR GARBER / Ken Taylor JOHN GOODMAN / John Chambers SCOOT McNAIRY / Joe Stafford CHRIS MESSINA / Malinov [ Related: LA Film Critics Name ‘Amour’ Best Picture, Boost ‘The Master,’ Jazz Up Oscar Race ] THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (Fox Searchlight) JUDI DENCH / Evelyn Greenslade CELIA IMRIE / Madge Hardcastle BILL NIGHY / Douglas Ainslie DEV PATEL / Sonny Kapoor RONALD PICKUP / Norman Cousins MAGGIE SMITH / Muriel Donnelly TOM WILKINSON / Graham Dashwood PENELOPE WILTON / Jean Ainslie LES MISÉRABLES (Universal Pictures) ISABELLE ALLEN / Young Cosette SAMANTHA BARKS / Eponine SACHA BARON COHEN / Thénardier HELENA BONHAM CARTER / Madame Thénardier RUSSELL CROWE / Javert ANNE HATHAWAY / Fantine DANIEL HUTTLESTONE / Gavroche HUGH JACKMAN / Jean Valjean EDDIE REDMAYNE / Marius AMANDA SEYFRIED / Cosette AARON TVEIT / Enjolras COLM WILKINSON / Bishop LINCOLN (Touchstone Pictures) DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Abraham Lincoln SALLY FIELD / Mary Todd Lincoln JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT / Robert Todd Lincoln HAL HOLBROOK / Preston Blair TOMMY LEE JONES / Thaddeus Stevens JAMES SPADER / W.N. Bilbo DAVID STRATHAIRN / William Seward SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (The Weinstein Company) BRADLEY COOPER / Pat ROBERT DE NIRO / Pat, Sr. ANUPAM KHER / Dr. Cliff Patel JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany CHRIS TUCKER / Danny JACKI WEAVER / Dolores [ Related: NY Film Critics Circle Spices Up Oscar Race With ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Best Picture Pick ] SAG AWARDS HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Columbia Pictures) THE BOURNE LEGACY (Universal Pictures) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Warner Bros. Pictures) LES MISÉRABLES (Universal Pictures) SKYFALL (Columbia Pictures) LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Screen Actors Guild 49th Annual Life Achievement Award) DICK VAN DYKE (Television nominees follow on the next page)
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Crime thriller from director Andrew Dominik has critics split. By Kevin P. Sullivan Brad Pitt in “Killing Them Softly” Photo: The Weinstein Company
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