As a refutation of The Help Netflix phenomenon, actress Bryce Dallas Howard gave alternate viewing suggestions and says "we can all go further."
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Meryl Streep prevented the cast and crew of The Artist from a total sweep of the major categories at this year's British Academy Film Awards, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and commonly called the BAFTAs. Streep won Best Actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The…
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The Oscars aren't for a few weeks but the BAFTA's are Sunday February 12. And while the Oscars are usually symbolized by that iconic gold statue, each year the BAFTA's let artists interpret their Best Picture nominees. This year is no different. After the jump, check out the five images designed by Eda Akaltun & StudioSmall…
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One more win for The Artist. Last week the film took the PGA award, director Michel Hazanavicius was honored by the DGA for directing the film over the weekend, and last night Jean Dujardin was awarded Best Actor in a motion picture by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The guild also gave several awards to…
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Here's your best indicator yet as to what the crop of nominations for the Best Picture Oscar is likely to be. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced its nominations for 2011 awards, which will be doled out on January 21. The ten films nominated for the PGA's top honor include expected pictures such…
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We've posted the directors, actors, actresses, writers and now it's time for the people who bring them all together. Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty…
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Gerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones, and Sofia Vergara got up extra early this morning to announce the nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 69th Golden Globes Awards, which will be televised on January 15, 2012. Returning host Ricky Gervais (called a "naughty, naughty schoolboy" this morning by Aida Takla-O’ Reilly, the president of…
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We're getting into the full swing of the awards season for 2011, and this evening four organizations announced their picks for best achievement in film in 2011. The biggest group is the American Film Institute, which released a simple unranked list of ten 'movies of the year,' which includes Bridesmaids, The Girl With the Dragon…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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In the 1980s, Kenny Loggins was the king of the movie soundtrack. The soft rocker did the theme songs to Top Gun (Danger Zone), Caddyshack (I'm Alright), Footloose (Footloose) and more over a few short years in addition to being a very successful solo and group artist. To this day, those songs both help and…
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The Help isn't the platonic ideal of a summer movie -- actually, it's kind of the opposite. But thanks in a large part to the cast, it's one of the upcoming films I'm most curious about. Tate Taylor's adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel follows a young writer named Skeeter (Emma Stone) who causes an uproar…
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We can thank the MTV Movie Awards for the bounty of new videos today -- in addition to that new Breaking Dawn trailer, which I'm sure you all loved, we also have brand-new clips from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and The Help. See them…
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The trailer has landed for The Help, the Tate Taylor-scripted and directed adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name. The story follows Skeeter (Emma Stone), a young college grad who, incensed by the treatment of the women who work as maids in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, decides to write a book from…
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It is the second day at CinemaCon, the Las Vegas based movie theater convention formerly known as ShoWest. This morning DreamWorks Studios held their presentation, showcasing footage and talent from Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Shawn Levy's Real Steel, Craig Gillespie's remake of Fright Night and the big screen adaptation of The Help. After the jump you can…
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In addition to offering up quite a few new images of Captain America, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has first looks at many other films. There's the first image from The Help, starring Viola Davis and Emma Stone in what is sure to be one of the prestige pictures of fall 2011. There are…
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It’s always feast or famine with that Steven Spielberg. He goes on stretches where he releases two films a year - like in 1993, 1997, 2002 and 2005 - then there are long periods where he gives the director’s chair a rest, like the last five years (I’m still trying to erase 2008's Indiana Jones…
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Elias Koteas has never been one of the more high-profile character actors out there, but he's always one of my favorites. (Not because of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he played Casey Jones, but for films like Crash and The Adjuster.) Directors like David Fincher and Martin Scorsese have started using Koteas, which has…
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Buried director Rodrigo Cortés will next direct Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights, in which she'll play Margaret Matheson, "a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years." What are the chances her character is named after author Richard Matheson? Pretty good. Cortés told Bloody…
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I was thrilled a couple weeks ago to see that Oren Moverman will rewrite and direct Rampart, based on a story and script by James Ellroy. The film covers the scandal that engulfed the Rampart Division of the LAPD in the '90s and now, perhaps appropriately, Ice Cube is in the cast. The guy went…
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A day can't go by in the past week without another name being added to the cast of the comedy/satire Butter. Now it's Hugh Jackman's turn. He'll be "an old flame" for Jennifer Garner's character. Not sure how large a role this will be, but I like the idea of Jackman turning up in smaller…
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Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is in early talks to star in the big screen adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel The Help for DreamWorks. The story follows a black maid in 1960's Mississippi who breaks "the unspoken code of behavior governing Southern households" when she speaks candidly about her experiences. Tate Taylor, a childhood friend…
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