The MTV Generation Award “is given to an artist who has shown us a variety of impressive roles, a personal and professional flair and of course, an awesome level of talent.” This year’s recipient is “Django Unchained” star Jamie Foxx.
Jamie Foxx to receive the MTV Generation Award at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:47 am · April 11th, 2013
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Jeff Nichols on puppy love and writing 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey over a decade ago
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:49 am · April 11th, 2013
“It’s been a long wait,” writer/director Jeff Nichols says about his upcoming film “Mud,” and indeed it has, on so many levels.
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On Roger Ebert and Terrence Malick
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:40 pm · April 10th, 2013
It is somehow fitting that the last word Roger Ebert would ever have on the movies concerned filmmaker Terrence Malick, whose sixth feature, “To the Wonder,” opens in theaters this weekend. Ebert has always been in awe of Malick, his reviews of the director’s films consistently revealing a tone of appreciation. And it all came to an apex last year when Ebert chalked up Malick’s “The Tree of Life” on his list of the 10 greatest films of all time for the decennial Sight & Sound poll of critics and filmmakers.
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With 'To the Wonder' on the way, the top 10 performances in Terrence Malick films
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:50 am · April 9th, 2013
Rarely viewed as an ‘actor’s director,’ Malick has nevertheless brought out some great work.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber will raise his goblet of rock with 'School of Rock' stage adaptation
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:40 am · April 9th, 2013
He recently revealed he’s acquired the rights to Richard Linklater’s 2003 comedy.
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Kristen Stewart, 'Terminator 2,' Jim Carrey: 10 fun facts about the MTV Movie Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:00 pm · April 8th, 2013
The MTV Movie Awards are coming up this weekend (April 14), and the slate of nominees wasn’t as terrible as it has been in recent years, so it might actually be a fun watch. Last year I went back in time for a retrospective on the inaugural edition from 1992, and I plan to go back to the 1993 awards in an upcoming piece. In the meantime, here’s something different.
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David Geffen donates $25 million to the Academy, gets a theater named after him
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:52 am · April 8th, 2013
Lots of rumblings from the lab over at the Academy these days. Details have surfaced on what to really expect from that big May 4 membership meeting and today the organization has announced that entertainment industry magnate David Geffen has donated $25 million to the Academy’s ongoing Museum of Motion Pictures project, which is enough to land his name on the big theater planned for the space.
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Tell us what you thought of 'Jurassic Park 3D'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:36 pm · April 5th, 2013
Steven Spielberg’s post-conversion dino adventure hits theaters today.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessica Chastain and Emma Stone line up for Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:51 am · April 5th, 2013
“Pacific Rim” has allowed director Guillermo Del Toro the chance to break out something like “Crimson Peak,” a haunted house picture that could use the success of something like “Pacific Rim” to find its footing. And people are lining up to be a part of it, as Deadline today reports that Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessica Chastain, Emma Stone and Charlie Hunnam have all signed on to star. Hunnam also stars in “Pacific Rim.”
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Barbra Streisand returns to the director's chair with Bourke-White/Caldwell love story
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:42 pm · April 4th, 2013
After inking a deal with worldwide sales firm Aldamisa International in February to tackle her first directorial endeavor since 1996’s “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” Barbra Streisand has settled on a project: a love story based on the relationship between photographer Margaret Bourke-White and author Erskine Caldwell.
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Roger Ebert on my favorite movies
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:39 pm · April 4th, 2013
I always found that my taste tended to line up quite a bit with Roger Ebert’s, particularly when it came to our favorite movies of all time. His list of the 10 best ever overlapped with mine in three instances, while other films he loved — such as “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” — were certainly among those I held sacred.
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Roger Ebert mattered
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:32 pm · April 4th, 2013
There will be countless appreciations of the late film critic Roger Ebert today, plenty of them here at HitFix. And you can bet they will, each of them, be full of unique insights and takeaways from the critic’s life and times. He had such an invaluable impact on so many in this world of film commentary and criticism that the words will come like a landslide. And that very fact will reveal so much of his legacy.
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Ryan Gosling wants to fight in the trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Only God Forgives'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:31 pm · April 3rd, 2013
Will we see this one at Cannes?
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20 years on 'Jurassic Park' is still quintessential Spielberg spectacle
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:09 am · April 3rd, 2013
The film’s upcoming 3D release reminds why it is one of his greatest achievements.
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Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein come together for 'Big Eyes' with Waltz and Adams
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:55 pm · April 2nd, 2013
Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have apparently been trying to get their project, “Big Eyes,” about feuding artist couple Walter and Margaret Keane for years. They’ve finally secured a progressive track, reports Deadline, with Tim Burton set to direct and The Weinstein Company closing a deal to fund and distribute. Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams, fresh off awards attention in the Weinstein-distributed “Django Unchained” and “The Master,” will star.
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The Academy's membership meeting: Is one-term president Hawk Koch just making waves?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:52 pm · April 2nd, 2013
Over the weekend, The New York Times broke the news that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited its 6,000-strong membership to a May 4 session to be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to discuss…something. “Please join us for a special event: The future of the Academy,” the invite read, somewhat mysteriously.
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Bill Clinton, Pierce Brosnan and more set to fete Chaplin Award recipient Barbra Streisand
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:09 am · April 2nd, 2013
Event is set for April 22 in New York.
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Peggy Siegal on Oscar's build: Hathaway's Valentino snub, Clooney's Dujardin revenge
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:35 am · April 1st, 2013
I read Peggy Siegel’s Oscar weekend diary at The Huffington Post with the expected mixture of fascination and disgust. You find yourself smiling at the gluttony of Hollywood during awards season until you don’t, as the cup of excess runneth over. And Siegel’s diary is a perfect record of all that superficiality.
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