Production has just barely begun in Chicago for the young adult adaptation Divergent , and already there’s an image! Shailene Woodley stars in the first Divergent image as Beatrice “Tris” Prior. Take a look: The film takes place in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions, each based on a different virtue. On their sixteenth birthday, everyone must choose whether to stay in the faction they were born in, or be initiated into a new one. Ashley Judd, Jai Courtney, Kate Winslet, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Tony Goldwyn, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen also star. Divergent is based on the first novel in the series by Veronica Roth. It will hit theaters March 21, 2014.
Ashley Judd has landed a mother of a role. The actress – who will not be running for Kentucky Senate – has been cast in Divergent as Natalie Prior, the parent of Shailene Woodley’s Tris. Divergent will be released on March 21, 2014 and is based on Veronica Roth’s dystopian bestseller. Production got underway this week in Chicago, with Aaron Eckhart on board as Judd’s fictional husband; Jai Courtney as Eric ; and Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews. The movie will tell the story of a female teenager hoping to break free from her homogeneous society, a society that separates people based on human traits.
Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards have come in with Lincoln and Beasts of the Southern Wild making strong showings in the initial list of noms Thursday morning. (More to come). Best Motion Picture of the Year “Amour” Nominees to be determined “Argo” Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers “Django Unchained” Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers “Les Misérables” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers “Life of Pi” Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers “Silver Linings Playbook” Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers “Zero Dark Thirty” Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers Achievement in Directing “Amour” Michael Haneke “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Benh Zeitlin “Life of Pi” Ang Lee “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg “Silver Linings Playbook” David O. Russell Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook” Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln” Hugh Jackman in “Les Misérables” Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master” Denzel Washington in “Flight” Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin in “Argo” Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook” Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master” Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln” Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained” Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty” Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook” Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour” Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Naomi Watts in “The Impossible” Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Amy Adams in “The Master” Sally Field in “Lincoln” Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables” Helen Hunt in “The Sessions” Jacki Weaver in “Silver Linings Playbook” Animated Feature Film “Brave” Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman “Frankenweenie” Tim Burton “ParaNorman” Sam Fell and Chris Butler “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” Peter Lord “Wreck-It Ralph” Rich Moore Achievement in Production Design ” Anna Karenina ,” Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer ” The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ,” Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright ” Les Misérables ,” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson ” Life of Pi ,” Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock ” Lincoln ,” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson Achievement in Cinematography “Anna Karenina,” Seamus McGarvey “Django Unchained,” Robert Richardson “Life of Pi,” Claudio Miranda “Lincoln,” Janusz Kaminski “Skyfall,” Roger Deakins Achievement in Costume Design “Anna Karenina,” Jacqueline Durran “Les Misérables,” Paco Delgado “Lincoln,” Joanna Johnston “Mirror Mirror,” Eiko Ishioka “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Colleen Atwood Best Documentary Feature “5 Broken Cameras,” Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi “The Gatekeepers,” Nominees to be determined “How to Survive a Plague,” Nominees to be determined “The Invisible War,” Nominees to be determined “Searching for Sugar Man,” Nominees to be determined Documentary Short Subject “Inocente,” Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine “Kings Point,” Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider “Mondays at Racine,” Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan “Open Heart,” Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern “Redemption,” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill Achievement in Film Editing “Argo” William Goldenberg “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres “Lincoln” Michael Kahn “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg Best Foreign-Language Film of the Year “Amour” Austria “Kon-Tiki” Norway “No” Chile “A Royal Affair” Denmark “War Witch” Canada Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling “Hitchcock,” Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane “Les Misérables,” Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) “Anna Karenina,” Dario Marianelli “Argo,” Alexandre Desplat “Life of Pi,” Mychael Danna “Lincoln,” John Williams “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman Music Original Song “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice,” Music and Lyric by J. Ralph “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted,” Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi,” Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri “Skyfall” from “Skyfall,” Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables,” Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil Best Animated Short Film “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee “Fresh Guacamole” PES “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”” David Silverman “Paperman” John Kahrs Best Live Action Short Film “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura “Buzkashi Boys” Sam French and Ariel Nasr “Curfew” Shawn Christensen “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele “Henry” Yan England Sound Editing “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn “Django Unchained” Wylie Stateman “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson Sound Mixing “Argo,” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia “Les Misérables,” Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes “Life of Pi,” Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin “Lincoln,” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins “Skyfall,” Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson Visual Effects “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White “Life of Pi” Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott “Marvel’s The Avengers” Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick “Prometheus” Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill “Snow White and the Huntsman” Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson Adapted Screenplay “Argo” Screenplay by Chris Terrio “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin “Life of Pi” Screenplay by David Magee “Lincoln” Screenplay by Tony Kushner “Silver Linings Playbook” Screenplay by David O. Russell Original Screenplay “Amour” Written by Michael Haneke “Django Unchained” Written by Quentin Tarantino “Flight” Written by John Gatins “Moonrise Kingdom” Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola “Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal http://www.youtube.com/user/Oscars?v=cM3-uj3rOns
“It was a very difficult meeting and one I will tell you that Skip handled very professionally and very classy as he always does,” Woolard said during a news conference. “It was a matter of just not having the production that we needed to have over the last couple of years on the field. … Every program experiences highs and lows on the way to national prominence. Brighter days are ahead.” Skip Holtz was fired as South Florida#39;s football coach after two straight losing seasons in which the pr
Let us weep for Rainbow the miniature Hobbit pony, whom animal wranglers on Peter Jackson ‘s Hobbit trilogy say was the first of 27 animals to die while being housed on a production farm filled with “death traps.” “When I arrived at work in the morning, the pony was still alive but his back was broken. He’d come off a bank at speed and crash-landed,” wrangler Chris Langridge told the AP. “He was in a bad state.” Langridge and fellow former and current Hobbit animal wranglers aim to blow the lid off of what they allege were unsafe housing conditions for their animal charges, up to 150 of which were kept at the same Wellington, NZ farm during Hobbit filming. The American Humane Association monitored animal safety on set and investigated the farm following the first few animal deaths, making safety recommendations that were subsequently employed by the production company. Still, it’s hard to ignore the gruesome details of how some of the Hobbit horses, goats, and chickens died. Pour out some mead for these poor creatures, who are grazing for eternity in the Middle Earth in the sky: – Rainbow the miniature, euthanized after suffering a broken back – Claire the horse, who was found with her “head submerged in a stream after it fell over a bluff.” – Zeppelin the horse, whose records say died from natural causes, but: “Smythe said the horse was bloated and its intestines were full of a yellow liquid; he believes it died of digestive problems caused by new feed.” – Six goats and six sheep who perished “after falling into sinkholes, contracting worms or getting new feed after the grass was eaten.” – Twelve chickens who were mauled to death by dogs. – Doofus the horse and Molly the horse, who actually survived after cutting themselves on fencing. Jackson’s camp, meanwhile, is downplaying the death toll. “We do know those deaths were avoidable and we took steps to make sure it didn’t happen again,” said Jackson’s rep. PETA is planning protests at the Hobbit premieres in New Zealand later this month and in the U.S. and the U.K. prior to the December release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey . [AP via EW ]
Also in Wednesday evening’s round-up of news briefs: MoMA unveils its Awards-centered Contenders series; Under the Bridge heads to U.S. theaters; Ridley Scott teams with Focus on a series of low-budget thrillers; And New York may have cancelled its Halloween Parade in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but the Film Society of Lincoln Center is up and running with Halloween and other events this week. Hey New Yorkers, Halloween Going On at Lincoln Center! The city cancelled the annual Halloween Parade, but if you’re itching to get out of your apartment and leave this Sandy business behind for a few minutes, check out the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Scary Movies” including Maniac with Elijah Wood (director Franck Khalfoun will be there for a Q&A Wed. night) and the North American premiere of Stitches , just perfect for all who are scared of clowns. The Film Society will also be hosting more events this week including a screening of Anna Karenina and a post-screening discussion with director Joe Wright. The group is also screening Brooklyn Castle and The Revisionaries in its first-runs at the Film Center. MoMA Presents its Annual Contenders Series NYC’s Museum of Modern Art will host a series of screenings of titles from the past 12 months that will figure in the Awards Season race. The series opens October 31st with the U.S. premiere of the 3-D animated feature A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman which will be released theatrically November 2nd. Last year’s Contenders at MoMA garnered 64 Oscar nominations. The series continues through January 14. For more information, visit their website . Under the Bed Heads to U.S. Theaters Starring Jonny Weston ( Chasing Mavericks ) and Gattlin Griffith ( Green Lantern the the thriller tells the story of two brothers who team up to battle the monster living under their bed. XLrator Media, which picked up U.S. rights to the film ahead of the American Film Market, which gets underway in Santa Monica, will release the film in theaters next summer. The deal was negotiated by Ehud Bleiberg and Giulia Prenna on behalf of Bleiberg Entertainment and by Gordon on behalf of XLrator Media. Around the ‘net… Sarah Jessica Parker Joins Mixtape The film chronicles a girl who accidentally destroys a mix tape that once belonged to her deceased mother. Tom Vaughn will direct the music-based comedy, Deadline reports . Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer to Star in Elsa & Fred Remake MacLaine and Plummer have signed on to star in the romantic comedy, which Il Postino filmmaker Michael Radford will direct. MacLaine plays a lively retirees in New Orleans who gets an unwanted straight-laced widower as a new neighbor in her apartment, THR reports . Ridley Scott Partners with Focus Features on Low-Budget Genre Pics The Oscar-nominated director and producer will work with Orchard Media and Focus Features International on a slate of six genre low-budget feature films over three years, Deadline reports .
Emma Watson captured the situation succinctly. On Sunday, the actress, who stars opposite Russell Crowe in Darren Aronofsky’s post-apocalyptic adaptation of Noah , tweeted, “I take it that the irony of a massive storm holding up the production of Noah is not lost.” T he Los Angeles Times reported that shooting on the movie, which is currently taking place in the New York metropolitan area, was postponed on Monday due to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. Even more ironic: one of the un-seaworthy replicas of the ark that the film’s production crew had built was in danger of getting smashed to hell by the storm. Two massive arks have been built for filming. Presumably the one constructed inside a Brooklyn soundstage is safe, but a second, that, the Times reported, is in Oyster Bay, NY was in the path of Sandy. (Aronofsky tweeted the picture of one of the arks above.) The Black Swan director’s spokeswoman had yet to get back to us on the fate of the Oyster Bay ark at post time — I’ll update if an answer is forthcoming — and the filmmaker’s Twitter feed gives no clue either. Aronofsky’s last tweet was on Oct. 30 when he sent a picture illustrating the survival tactics of New Yorkers who were left without power because of the storm. “at chase bank squatting electricity,” Aronofsky tweeted , along with a photo of a laptop, possibly his, charging in the lobby of a bank. On Oct. 29, when Sandy was ravaging New York, Aronofsky also tweeted: “just lost my chimney, really”. I don’t have a chimney, Darren, but now that I’m on my second day of living in NYC without any power, I feel your pain. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Donnie Wahlberg has given fans a look inside what remains of his East Coast home. Decimated by what has been dubbed “Superstorm Sandy,” the residence is completely flooded, with appliances simply floating around. “Don’t worry about me,” Wahlberg says. “Material things are meaningless. Check in with those you know in the storm! Stay safe!! Donnie Wahlberg Apartment Flood While millions suffer without power and federal aid comes rushing into the boroughs, famous people from around the country have sent their thoughts and prayers via Twitter: Piers Morgan : “Got to hand it to New Yorkers, they’re tough as old boots. loads of people out in Manhattan today, carrying on as normal. #Sandy” Khloé Kardashian : “Praying for the victims of hurricane Sandy! Praying for everyone who is affected!!! My heart goes out to all of the families. Praying” Justin Bieber : “everyone dealing with the hurricane up north be safe” Kevin Nealon : “This morning, in New York City, Sandy begins her walk-of-shame, from everyone’s apartment. #Sandy” Carrie Underwood : “Wow…Sandy is one mean lady! Lots of thoughts, prayers and love going out to all in her path…you guys stay strong! Emma Watson : “I take it that the irony of a massive storm holding up the production of Noah is not lost @DarrenAronofsky@russellcrowe @MattyLibatique” NOTE: Would you like to help? Text REDCROSS to 90999 ($10 donation) or visit http://redcross.org for more information.
