Also in Tuesday morning’s round-up of news briefs, Emmy winner Danny Strong is rumored to be the writer for the final installments of a big franchise. A study of men and women using mobile devices in choosing their movies gives its findings. And the upcoming 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival gives some details for its upcoming event. 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival to Fete Three Diverse Directors Finland’s Aki Kaurismaki ( Le Havre , Iran’s Bahman Ghobadi ( No One Knows About Persian Cats ) and Germany’s Andreas Dressen ( Cloud 9 ) will be celebrated at the upcoming Thessaloniki International Film Festival, taking place in Greece November 2 – 11. Around the ‘net… Seth MacFarlane is ‘Ecstatic’ About Oscar Hosting Job The Family Guy creator said he can’t remember if it was before or after his successful turn at hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live September 15th, but said the Academy approached him around then. MacFarlane said he was excited and has done a fair amount of hosting in the past, but nothing as huge as this. “I was, very, very pleasantly surprised,” Deadline reports . Beatles Unseen Magical Mystery Tour Footage Goes Online Previously unseen footage of the Beatles sharing fish and chips during filming of their 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour has surfaced on The Space . “”Few people have seen Magical Mystery Tour in its entirety and the material in the chip shop has never been shown anywhere,” explained Arena editor Anthony Wall. “It captures perfectly the fabulous world of The Beatles at this time.” BBC reports . [ Related, check out Gallery Images of the Unseen Magical Mystery Tour on Movieline ] Game Change Writer Danny Strong To Write Hunger Games: Mockingjay Finale A final deal is still pending, but the two-part finale to The Hunger Games will likely go to Strong, who wrote the HBO movie which placed strong at the Emmys. Mockingjay is the third book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy, which will be split into two features, Deadline reports . More Men Than Women Use Mobile Phones to Choose Movies, Watch Trailers Seventy-one per cent of men said they use their phone to help them choose a film, versus 69 per cent for women and more men (38 per cent) than women (33 per cent) turn to social media to check what people are saying about a film, THR reports .
Actress and husband Will Kopelman celebrated the birth of their first child on September 26. By Jocelyn Vena Will Kopelman and Drew Barrymore Photo: Rabbani and Solimene Photography/ Getty Images
Emmy-winning ‘Game Change’ scribe Danny Strong reportedly beat out tough competition to write two-part series finale. By Kara Warner Jennifer Lawrence in “Hunger Games” Photo: Lionsgate
The Real Housewives of New Jersey opens with its first of three “Reunion” shows and Andy needs a whip and a chair to keep these women from tearing one another apart. We’ll recap how the claws come out in our THG +/- review. The Housewives haven’t been in the same room together since the fateful night before last year’s reunion when the Posche fashion show episode was filmed. Since then Teresa has sold yet another cookbook. That’s three so far and they are all New York Times best sellers. Minus 10 . Who are you people buying these things and why? Caroline is writing her own book. Minus 9. Just what the world needs, another book from a supposed real housewife. Kathy’s had some work done. Nose job and lip injections. I’ll give her a plus 5 . She looks good but I’m with Andy on the flashing yellow light. It’s too easy to take these things too far. She needs to stop now. Unfortunately Jacqueline’s news isn’t so cheery. Her beautiful son Nicholas has been diagnosed with autism and at the moment he’s regressing and no longer speaking. It’s absolutely heartbreaking and brought me to tears…until Teresa opened her big mouth. Minus 13. Teresa simply doesn’t know when to stay quiet. I almost couldn’t blame Caroline when she told her “Listen, you in your f*ckin’ Christmas pageant dress, sit back and shut the f*ck up. We’re talking about this kid.” And I have to agree. The strange, sparkly green dress was outlandish. Minus 8. Everyone at this reunion has had enough of Teresa and they all tell her so but watching Jacqueline finally take the blinders off is the most satisfying. Plus 11 . Jacqueline was Teresa’s lap dog for so long that it’s great to see her stand up for herself. It only took Teresa blaming Jacqueline for setting up Melissa. Unbelievable! Teresa takes no responsibility for anything and blames the stripper debacle on everyone else. Whenever Teresa doesn’t like what someone else is saying, which is pretty much whenever they open their mouths, she calls them a liar and tells them to shut up. This prompts Caroline to say that if no one can speak she’d like to go home. She’s hungry. Hilarious. Plus 10 . Then Lauren joins them looking like a walking ad for the Lap Band. She’s lost 35 lbs and is looking good. Plus 7 . She looks so good that I wonder if she’s gone to Kathy’s guy to have a little work done on her face as well. Perhaps it’s just the weight loss and better makeup. Hard to tell. Teresa says she’s apologized to them all…in In Touch magazine. But to their faces she calls them names. She calls Caroline an old hag and says Kathy is Caroline’s puppet. But even Melissa seems to be old news to Teresa as her main focus is on fighting Jacqueline. Jacqueline admits that Teresa didn’t want Melissa and Kathy on the show. Jacqueline even claims that Teresa prodded her to leak the information about Melissa’s supposed stripper days. Teresa calls her a liar and swears she never said Melissa was a stripper when we’ve all seen her say it on camera more than once. Minus 15. It seems the best Teresa has for Melissa tonight is to accuse her of wearing the same eye shadow Teresa wore last year because of course Teresa cornered the market on sparkle shadow. Minus 10 . Yes, Teresa, millions of women out there are copying you, not just your sister-in-law. But once Teresa and Kathy turn on one another things get down and dirty between the cousins. Teresa says her mother told her that Kathy almost divorced Richie causing Kathy to call Teresa’s mother a liar and her father a coward. Minus 12 . Ladies, can we keep the parents out of this? Apparently not. Teresa bad mouths Kathy’s deceased father. Little does she realize that Rosie’s back stage and now wants her dead. Is Rosie lost, running around back stage? Is she so enraged she doesn’t know where she’s going? I’m sure no good comes of this but to find out we’ll have to tune back in next week for part two. Episode total = -44! Season total = -482!
Let The Hunger Games begin again! Next November, that is. With over a year to go until Katniss and company return for Catching Fire , Lionsgate has gone ahead and revealed the final new cast members for this wildly anticipated sequel in one joint announcement. Who will be joining new additions such as Sam Claflin and Alan Ritchson ? None of them will be feature players, but here’s a look at other Tributes we’ll meet in Catching Fire : James Logan – District 5 Tribute Boy Ivette Li-Sanchez -District 5 Tribute Girl Justin Hix – District 6 Tribute Boy Megan Hayes – District 6 Tribute Girl Bobby Jordan – Blight John Casino – Woof Elena Sanchez – Cecelia Daniel Bernhardt – District 9 Tribute Boy Marian Greene – District 9 Tribute Girl Jackson Spidell – District 10 Tribute Boy Tiffany Waxler – District 10 Tribute Girl Take note: for all your movie news , bookmark our friends at Movie Fanatic!
In celebration of their new Push and Shove album, No Doubt sat down with MTV News to tackle questions sent in by their fans. By James Montgomery No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani Photo: MTV News
With Elizabeth Banks’ comedy out in limited release on Friday, Hobnobbing imagines what songs Katniss and co. could sing a cappella. By Amy Wilkinson John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks in “Pitch Perfect” Photo: Universal Pictures
I fucking love Curry…I love it with meat whether chicken or goat or beef or lamb…I love it with vegetables and potatoes…I like it in my thai stir fry….with coconut milk and I like it in my ROTI…..I just don’t like it when it is a low level attention seeking slut…even though I love low level attention seeking sluts….I just hate when they have egos and don’t realize they are low level crap…but then again when she’s posting pics of her ass to twitter…you gotta think she knows she’s hurting for hits…..and it’s not even a great ass, but it’s ok, it does make me kind of hungry, but as an emotional eater who is always hungry, that’s not saying much, maybe it is cuz of her last name and MY STEPFAMILY POSTED SOME PICS OF HER TOPLESS IN THE FORUM her naked…is beter than her in a dirty shit stained thong…but still fucking garbage
On the Emmys red carpet, ‘Sucker Punch’ star tells MTV News she’s ‘in the thick of’ training for the follow-up to ‘The Hunger Games.’ By Kara Warner Jena Malone Photo: MTV News
Max Thieriot began his career opposite Twilight ‘s Kristen Stewart (in 2004’s Catch That Kid ), and this week he finds himself romancing Hunger Games ‘ Katniss Everdeen herself, Jennifer Lawrence — albeit against the advice of her mother, the neighborhood, their classmates and, perhaps, insidious forces that linger in secrets and shadows in The House at the End of the Street . In recent years the former child actor has navigated his way toward increasingly interesting projects (Atom Egoyan’s Chloe , Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow , the Toronto entry Disconnect , and the upcoming Bates Motel series on A&E) — and one thing that helped was making a conscious decision to live outside of Hollywood, as Thieriot told Movieline recently. The 23-year-old actor, who made his biggest recent mark starring in Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take , grew up in Northern California (where his family once owned the San Francisco Chronicle) and still lives there. “I always told myself that no matter what happened, how famous I became, I didn’t want to change the person that I am,” Thieriot explains. He spoke about the challenges of revealing just enough information to the audience in House at the End of The Street , if he really is in a genre phase right now, what he’s looking forward to in the Hitchcock-based Bates Motel , and the single best perk of growing up the scion of a newspaper family. You live in Northern California – tell me about the decision to stay there instead of Los Angeles. I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn’t need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor. And I spend so much time away from home anyways, filming and stuff, that I might as well make home base somewhere I want to be. I grew up swearing that I’d never move to L.A. and yet here I am. L.A.’s fine! But I don’t know, I love Northern California. Jennifer Lawrence describes you as an unconventional actor type – you spend time in your trailer listening to country music, not really concerned with typical showbiz stuff. Do you feel like your approach to the industry is drastically different from the norm? I’d say so. Different from your typical actor, for sure. I don’t know – it’s just the way I was raised. As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn’t something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star. So when it happened I just took it as it came and always told myself that no matter what happened, how famous I became, whatever, I didn’t want to change the person that I am. That’s one of the reasons I still live in Northern California – it helps me stay grounded and to remember all those things. That must be all the more important given that you started acting so young. Exactly. But I definitely take it seriously. Well, Jen Lawrence also compared you to Paul Newman, so you must. [Laughs] I take it seriously, but at the same time I don’t let it get to me. You’ve got House at the End of the Street coming out but your last mainstream film was horror film, My Soul To Take . Next you’ve got Bates Motel . What’s behind this run of genre fare, and what do you feel like is pulling you toward this material? Honestly, I don’t even know. It’s funny, when I started acting I watched some horror films but I generally didn’t like the acting in them. I’d never thought about doing one, and then I did My Soul to Take and for that was like, well, if I’m going to do a horror film Wes Craven’s the guy to do it with. When this came along, to me it plays so much more as a thriller and not a horror film, and it’s a very different movie for the genre. The character was a character that I wanted to play, as opposed to just getting into this type of film. It’s tricky to talk about because we don’t want to spoil anything, but even as the story goes on the script reveals more and more to the audience. How tricky was that line to walk as a performer, conscious of what information is in the viewer’s mind at any time? It’s definitely hard to play because by the end of the film you hope that the audience goes, ok, and they look back at things that took place, or different expressions, and go, wow – got it! That’s why this happened. That’s why they made that face. It’s a tough line to walk as an actor to try and have that in scenes without giving away something. You know too much. You do. I know too much, but at the same time I want to show them something without having them notice that I’m showing it to them. It’s all about secrets, showing them a secret that they don’t even see until the end. You started your career with Catch That Kid , which was also one of Kristen Stewart’s first films. How did being a child actor influence your later choices? Well, Haley Joel Osment had some and Dakota Fanning had some roles that were very different and extremely challenging, but other than that the norm was these kind of normal sort of roles which to me weren’t that challenging. There wasn’t a whole lot of variety, you know? So once I got to an age where that started to change I made a decision to try and do a little bit of everything to not stay stuck in one category. How old were you when you were first conscious of trying to mix it up? 17 or 18. And since then it seems like I keep doing all this horror thriller genre stuff but that’s just the stuff that’s been in the public’s eye the most, because I’ve done like three movies that are waiting to come out that are all so different. In this Nick Cassavetes film Yellow I have a Southern accent in Oklahoma in the late ‘80s selling drugs and I have all these tattoos, and I put on a bunch of weight and got all buff, and in Foreverland I play a guy who has cystic fibrosis. Disconnect , which was just at Toronto and Venice, I play an internet webcam stripper, so I got buff and lost a bunch of weight and got all shredded for that, the way I felt an internet webcam stripper should look. [Laughs] I’ve really been trying to mix it up a lot since My Soul To Take. And we filmed House at the End of the Street two years ago, and since then I’ve done four movies or something. I only recently considered doing television and this last year I did a pilot for ABC for Roland Emmerich, so I’m open to that now and that’s how this Bates Motel thing came up. Alfred Hitchcock is so iconic in this business and in general and it seemed like a great opportunity to be a part of something that’s a 10 episode show, on A&E, for great producers, with Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore who are great actors. And yours is a new role we haven’t seen portrayed before – Norman Bates’ brother. It’s exciting too because as cool and fun and challenging as it is to play a character who’s never been played, it’s also fun to play something like this in such an iconic film now turned into a prequel to a TV show, because he’s unknown. You kind of know what you’re getting with Norma and Norman, but Dylan is this unknown guy thrown into the mix. Yeah, how messed up must that guy be? We know he doesn’t make it to the house later, but what happens in between? But honestly, this has all happened in the past few days, since like Friday. [Laughs] That’s when it all became official. I met with the team via Skype about a week ago, and we talked and all of a sudden the deal was happening. What was it like growing up with your family owning the San Francisco Chronicle, having such a history with institutions like that? It was interesting – I grew up actually hating the fact that my family owned the newspaper, because I was teased a lot at school as being the rich kid whose family owned the newspaper. It was hard because it wasn’t like the Press-Democrat, it was the San Francisco Chronicle. As a kid it seems people used to tease people over anything, and it seems like such a stupid thing to get upset, to get bummed out over something like that, but when you’re little it was like that. So I was happy when we sold the company. Like, great – now people aren’t going to give me shit. But it’s definitely something I appreciate and find to be fascinating, and obviously I’m just born into it, but I look at the history of it all and how it came to be. My great-great-grandfather started the paper in 1865 or something, and when the 1906 earthquake happened he separated himself from the Hearst family who owned the Examiner, and when the earthquake happened he was the only person to release a paper that day. He started it by literally typing it at home and selling it on the street corner. His last name was De Young and he had like four daughters so now there are no more De Youngs that are direct descendants from him… it’s interesting and kind of funny, and my family’s been doing stuff in San Francisco forever. It was also neat as a kid because the company sponsored the local sports teams, like the 49ers. I noticed from your Twitter feed that you’re a bit of a Niners fan. I’m obsessive about the Niners! One of my buddies from Sonoma County just got signed by them this year, so I’m like, yes – now I get to go to some games. That was probably my favorite part as a kid – we sponsored them, and the Giants, and the Golden State Warriors, so we always had company tickets and I took full advantage of that as a kid. There was a petition to get you cast in The Hunger Games as Finnick, which would have been a reunion with Jennifer Lawrence. How far did that actually get? They had specific people and they wouldn’t let others audition, so I didn’t get a chance to audition or anything. You’d think making out with Jen Lawrence for what seems like forever in House at the End of the Street would give you an edge of some sort. You’d think! I can shoot a bow better than anyone in that movie. But I’m over that now. I found a quote you gave in what must have been one of your first interviews, for Catch That Kid , in which you give the following sage advice: “Just be yourself and try not to be too over the top.” Nice. Does that still apply? Yeah! I think that’s still valid. Those are two very important pieces of advice for this industry. [Laughs] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
