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‘The Hunger Games’ And ‘The Muppets’ Top Grammy Awards Movie Nominees

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Hunger Games , The Dark Knight Rises , The Muppets , Midnight In Paris and even last year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, The Artist are up for awards this year, but this time it’s for the 55th annual Grammy Awards. Theatrical titles dominated this year’s Grammy categories dedicated to visual media with The Hunger Games receiving two nominations for Best Song (“Abraham’s Daughter”) and Taylor Swift’s “Safe & Sound.” The Muppets also scored two nominations, including Best Song for “Man Or Muppet” in addition to a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack. Others in the category include this year’s Marley documentary and 2011’s The Descendants and Midnight in Paris . Trent Reznor received a Best Score nom for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with Hans Zimmer for The Dark Knight Rises and John Williams for The Adventures of Tintin – The Secret of the Unicorn . The Black Keys’ “Lonely Boy,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” Fun’s “We Are Young” Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout Your” and Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” are the Grammys’ nominees for Record of the Year. The Grammy Awards ceremony will be broadcast February 10th on CBS. 55th Grammy Awards’ Visual Media-related nominees follow with information provided by the Recording Academy (for other categories, visit the Grammy’s website ). Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media : The Descendants (Various Artists) [Sony Classical/Fox Music] Marley (Bob Marley & The Wailers) [UMe/Island/Tuff Gong] Midnight In Paris (Various Artists) [Madison Gate Records, Inc.] The Muppets (Various Artists) [Walt Disney Records] Rock Of Ages (Various Artists) [WaterTower Music] Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media : The Adventures Of Tintin – The Secret Of The Unicorn John Williams, composer [Sony Classical] The Artist Ludovic Bource, composer [Sony Classical] The Dark Knight Rises Hans Zimmer, composer [WaterTower Music] The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, composers [Null/Madison Gate] Hugo Howard Shore, composer [Howe Records] Journey Austin Wintory, composer [Sony Computer Entertainment America] Best Song Written For Visual Media : Abraham’s Daughter (From The Hunger Games ) T Bone Burnett, Win Butler & Régine Chassagne, songwriters (Arcade Fire) [Universal Republic; Publishers: Régine Chassagne, Absurd Music, Win Butler, Henry Burnett Music, Baffle Music] Learn Me Right (From Brave ) Mumford & Sons, songwriters (Birdy & Mumford & Sons) [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publisher: Pixar Talking Pictures] Let Me Be Your Star (From Smash ) Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, songwriters (Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [Columbia; Publishers: Winding Brook Way Music, Walli Woo Entertainment] Man Or Muppet (From The Muppets ) Bret McKenzie, songwriter (Jason Segel & Walter) [Walt Disney; Publisher: Fuzzy Muppet Songs] Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games ) T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars) [Big Machine Records/Universal Republic; Publishers: Sony ATV Tree Publishing, Taylor Swift Music, Sensibility Songs, Absurd Music, Shiny Happy Music, Baffle Music, Henry Burnett Music] [ Source: Yahoo ]

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‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ First Look: Dane DeHaan Is Your New Harry Osborn

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fanboy movie news is out of control today. If this were the 1930s we’d need a massive montage of spinning newspaper headlines. First, talk of Darkseid in Justice League , then the (extremely uninspired) poster from Star Trek Into Darkness , and new art from Man of Steel . Not to be outdone, Marc Webb , readying The Amazing Spider-Man 2 , has thwipped a tweet our way with the first glimpse of our new Harry Osborne – Dane DeHaan. Dane DeHaan, whose ten letter name makes economic a mere three consonants and two vowels, was said to be in the running for Spidey’s new foe against other young men like Alden Ehrenreich (a good actor, but too many letters), Brady Corbet, Eddie Redmayne , Boyd Holbrook, Douglas Booth and Sam Claflin . DeHaan, if you recall, was the main character in the surprisingly effective found-footage superhero (or was it supervillain ?) film Chronicle . Harry Osborn, the son of OsCorp’s Norman Osborn, was played by James Franco in the original Sam Raimi trilogy. DeHaan certainly has that weight-of-the-world sulk down pat, which is a key part of Webb’s Spider-Man aesthetic. The gals who flock to see skinny high school aged white boys will have their needs met, despite DeHaan actually being nearly 27. (That’s okay, Andrew Garfield will be over 30 when The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes out, which leads me to think that I should probably be rubbing some of that sticky, milky Spidey substance all over my pores.) In the first Amazing Spider-Man 2 look Tweeted today by Webb, DeHaan has a bit of a scrappy look (don’tcha just want to tussle his hair?) but there’s something ominous in his eyes… as if off in the distance he sees an epic climax involving well known New York City landmarks and an inordinate amount of computer generated imagery. Be sure to follow @MarcW for more surprise news about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ! Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Academy Names 15 As Best Documentary Oscar Contenders; ‘Central Park Five’ Snubbed

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fifteen docs advanced to the final stages for Oscar consideration Monday. While the films making the cut are, of course, notable, some others that did not are also. Today’s winner of the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Non-Fiction film of 2012, Central Park Five , which made headlines recently because New York City officials attempted to gain access to the film’s outtakes related to a pending civil suit, did not make the cut. Other high profile docs also left out were Toronto’s West of Memphis and Sundance’s Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present as well as Magnolia’s The Queen of Versailles . While distributor IFC Films will likely be disappointed by the CP5 omission by the Academy, it will celebrate the inclusion of How To Survive a Plague , an AIDS doc that opened quietly, but to acclaim for its bravery. The distributor also had its Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in the list. [ Related: Movieline’s Central Park Five coverage ] Tribeca’s Bully , which opened to controversy for its R-rating from the MPAA to pushback from distributor The Weinstein Company, also made the cut. The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies (information provided by AMPAS):

     Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , Never Sorry LLC
    Bully , The Bully Project LLC
    Chasing Ice , Exposure
    Detropia , Loki Films
    Ethel , Moxie Firecracker Films
    5 Broken Cameras , Guy DVD Films
    The Gatekeepers , Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
    The House I Live In , Charlotte Street Films, LLC
    How to Survive a Plague , How to Survive a Plague LLC
    The Imposter , Imposter Pictures Ltd. 
    The Invisible War , Chain Camera Pictures
    Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God , Jigsaw Productions in association with 
Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
    Searching for Sugar Man , Red Box Films
    This Is Not a Film , Wide Management
    The Waiting Room , Open’hood, Inc.

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The A-List Goes Indie: Spirit Awards Nominations Heavy On Hollywood Alpha Males

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

When the Independent Spirit Awards  take place in Santa Monica on the Saturday before the Academy Awards  next February,  there should be plenty of A-list testosterone coursing through the event tent.  The slate of nominations for the 2013 honors , which celebrate independent film, is studded with box-office friendly male actor who’ve carried studio films. And Jennifer Lawrence .  Best Male Lead Jack Black ( Bernie) , Bradley Cooper ( Silver Linings Playbook ) and Matthew McConaughey ( Killer Joe ) , who’ve all starred in studio pictures,  count for three of the six Best Male Lead nominations. John Hawkes ( The Sessions ) , who’s on the verge of leading-man status, Wendell Pierce ( Four ) and Thure Lindhardt ( Keep The Lights On ) round out the category. That’s a considerably more Hollywood pack than last year’s nominations, of which there were only five: The biggest studio star in that bunch was Ryan Gosling ( Drive ), whose fellow nominees were, respectively French and Mexican actors, Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ) and Demián Bichir ( A Better Life ) and Woody Harrelson ( Rampart )  and Michael Shannon ( Take Shelter ), who are best known for excellent character work. Best Female Lead The Female Acting categories are not so larded with heavy hitters, but they do include   The Hunger Games star Lawrence, nominated for Best Female Lead based on her performance in Silver Linings Playbook , and Helen Hunt, who nabbed a Best Supporting Female nomination for her portrayal of a sex therapist in The Sessions . Best Supporting Male Actor The Best Supporting Male actor category also has two A-listers: Bruce Willis , for his work in Wes Anderson ‘s Moonrise Kingdom, and, nominated in his second category, McConaughey  for his inspired pelvic thrusting in Magic Mike . As far as I’m concerned, Sam Rockwell, who’s nominated for Seven Psychopaths , is an A-lister, too, even if he hasn’t anchored a tentpole movie. With the indie film market growing increasingly choked with product, big-box-office actors populating independent movies — and getting honored for their work — probably isn’t going away any time soon since A-list names help draw investors and distributors to small projects. In terms of reading the Oscar tea leaves, five Spirit nominations for Moonrise Kingdom , including Best Film and Best Director, bodes well for Wes Anderson’s Academy Award nomination chances. Hawkes and Hunt’s actor nominations could provide the spark that The Sessions needs to get back into the Oscar derby. Multiple nominations for Silver Linings Playbook should intensify the film’s already golden Oscar glow, while nods to  Beasts of the Southern Wild   and its child star  Quvenzhané Wallis  are making the film look like one strong dark-horse candidate. Who wasn’t nominated for a Spirit Award is also interesting.  Despite fine performances in both Hyde Park on Hudson and Moonrise Kingdom , longtime studio-star-turned-indie-darling Bill Murray got bupkis, and, though Channing Tatum got the lion’s share of the press when  Magic Mike  was released — in part because he produced the picture and brought his real-life experiences as a stripper to the story — his G-string came up empty. RELATED:  ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ ‘Beasts’ & ‘Keep the Lights On’ Lead Spirit Awards Nominations Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Justin Bieber: Shirtless, Nearly Pantsless in New Twit Pic

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Justin Bieber won the Diamond Jubilee Medal over the weekend, accepting the honor while donning an adorable pair of overalls. And soon after receiving the honor from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Bieber dropped trou and was donning nearly nothing at all in an especially sexy Instagram photo. See for yourself: Justin Bieber Underwear Alert! Justin Bieber Underwear Alert! Clearly following the lead of many revealing Rihanna Twit pics , Bieber included the caption “Back in the Gym” along with this image. Yet one can’t help but wonder: might this be a message for Selena Gomez ? Is Justin trying to give the artist an idea of what she’s missing? It wouldn’t be the first time a picture of Justin Bieber shirtless was intended for this purpose.

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PSY’s “Gangnam Style” Becomes Most Watched Video In YouTube History [VIDEO]

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

O-O-O-O-O-Oppa Gangnam style! PSY’s Gangnam Style Becomes The Most Viewed YouTube Video Ever 34-year-old Korean Pop sensation, PSY, over took Justin Bieber as the artist with the most watched video in the history of YouTube with “Gangnam Style.” PSY rocketed to fame since his “Gangnam Style” video, which at one point was the #1 rap single in the country, became a worldwide hit following its release in July. Saturday it overtook Bieber’s hit single, “Baby” from his debut album, My World. Read more at Hip Hop Wired

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Justin Bieber Pulled Over, Ticketed in Ferrari

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

While Justin Bieber tries to figure out from whom he ought to pull out, the singer was pulled over in Los Angeles last night. Justin was cited by a police officer in West Hollywood around 6:30 p.m., with law enforcement officials confirming to TMZ that Bieber did, indeed, receive a ticket this time around. Bieber isn’t the best driver on the planet. He’s gotten in trouble with the law on multiple occasions for driving mishaps and illegal maneuvers, though it’s unclear what this violation was for. It’s been a rough week overall for JB. He broke up with Selena Gomez a few days ago, with many of her co-stars coming out to bash the artist over Twitter. Other reports, meanwhile, have linked Bieber with Barbara Palvin and state that he’s become so smitten with Victoria’s Secret models that he wants to live the life of a wild bachelor.

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Rihanna Goes Topless (AGAIN!), Smokes Cigarette

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show taped in NYC last night, with models from Miranda Kerr to Erin Heatherton walking around in lingerie. But who would have guessed Rihanna would be the one to show the most skin? Once again, the singer took to Instagram and posted a photo of herself topless, this time backstage at the event with a cigarette dangling from her lips. “And that’s a wrizzap,” Rihanna wrote as a caption to the following image: What is up with all these desperate cries for attention from the artist, who recently released a preview of her new collaboration with Chris Brown, ” Nobodies Business ?” We have no idea and we sort of worry about Rihanna. But we also enjoy staring.

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Lady Gaga on Weight Gain: What About Adele?!?

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

About a month ago, Lady Gaga admitted: she’s gained a little weight. It’s an issue that has tormented the singer for her entire life. In response, Gaga has started a “Body Revolution” on her Little Monsters website, asking fans to embrace their curves and inner beauty. Speaking to Stylist UK about the movement, she referenced another artist and compared the reception Adele has received versus the one that’s recently plagued Gaga. “Adele is bigger than me,” Gaga said . “How come nobody says anything about it? She’s so wonderful and I think her confidence is something I have to match. She has set the bar very high for a lot of woman. I need to be a confident woman and just say politically active things when I can that are helpful to young people.” And while it might help to shelve those lasagna recipes , Gaga says the true key to self-confidence comes from within – and without. “We should all make an effort to be nice to one another all the time,” Gaga says of women around the world.

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Cinema Eye Honors Fete 2012 Documentaries With 6th Annual Nominees

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Documentary nominees take the deserved spotlight with 2012 non-fiction nominations unveiled by organizers of the Cinema Eye Honors Friday at AFI Fest with The Imposter and Searching for Sugar Man each receiving five nominations. Six films will compete for Cinema Eye’s Outstanding Achievement in Non-fiction Feature Filmmaking prize. Included are Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras , Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia , Bart Layton’s The Imposter , Matthew Akers’ Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims’ Only the Young and Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man . The 6th Annual Cinema Eye Honors will take place January 9 as Cinema Eye at New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking 5 Broken Cameras , directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi   Detropia , directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Produced by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady and Craig Atkinson   The Imposter , directed by Bart Layton Produced by Dimitri Doganis   Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers; Produced by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff   Only the Young , directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims Produced by Derek Waters   Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul Produced by Simon Chinn Outstanding Achievement in Direction Detropia , Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady   The Law in These Parts , Ra’anan Alexandrowicz   Only the Young , Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims   Planet of Snail , Seungjun Yi   Tchoupitoulas , Bill Ross and Turner Ross   ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Victor Kossakovsky Outstanding Achievement in Production Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , Alison Klayman and Adam Schlesinger   Big Boys Gone Bananas!* , Margarete Jangård   The Imposter , Dimitri Doganis   Searching for Sugar Man , Simon Chinn   ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Heino Deckert Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Chasing Ice , Jeffrey Orlowski   The Imposter , Erik Alexander Wilson & Lynda Hall   Only the Young , Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims   Samsara , Ron Fricke   ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Victor Kossakovsky Outstanding Achievement in Editing 5 Broken Cameras , Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot & Guy Davidi   Detropia , Enat Sidi   How to Survive a Plague , T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk & Jonathan Oppenheim   Room 237 , Rodney Ascher   Tchoupitoulas , Bill Ross Audience Choice Prize 5 Broken Cameras , directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi   Beauty is Embarrassing , directed by Neil Berkeley   Bully , directed by Lee Hirsch   How to Survive a Plague , directed by David France   The Imposter , directed by Bart Layton   Jiro Dreams of Sushi , directed by David Gelb   Kumaré , directed by Vikram Gandhi   Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers   Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul   Trash Dance directed by Andrew Garrison Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , directed by Alison Klayman   How to Survive a Plague , directed by David France   Marina Abramović The Artist is Present , directed by Matthew Akers   Only the Young , directed by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims   Room 237 , directed by Rodney Ascher   Searching for Sugar Man , directed by Malik Bendjelloul   The Waiting Room , directed by Peter Nicks Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score Detropia , Dial.81 The Imposter , Anna Nikitin   Into the Abyss , Mark De Gli Antoni   Room 237 , Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson, The Caretaker (James Kirby)   ¡Vivan las Antipodas! , Alexander Popov Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation Beauty is Embarrassing , Neil Berkeley, Anthony Maiuri   Herman’s House , Nicolas Brault, Tom Hillman   Indie Game: The Movie , James Swirsky   Room 237 , Carlos Ramos   Searching for Sugar Man , Oskar Gullstrand, Arvid Steen   Urbanized , Brooklyn Digital Foundry/John Szot Spotlight Award Argentinian Lesson , directed by Wojciech Staroń Bestiaire , directed by Denis Côté   Downeast , directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin   Meanwhile in Mamelodi , directed by Benjamin Kahlmeyer   Vol Special (Special Flight) , directed by Fernand Melgar Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking Cutting Loose , directed by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall   Family Nightmare , directed by Dustin Guy Defa   Good Bye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima)  , directed by Robert-Jan Lacombe   Into the Middle of Nowhere , directed by Anna Francis Ewert   Paradise (Paraíso), directed by Nadav Kurtz

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