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  • AP names Jennifer Lawrence ‘Entertainer of the Year’

    AP names Jennifer Lawrence ‘Entertainer of the Year’

    MUMBAI: The battle for the Associated Press (AP) entertainer of the year came down to the Girl on Fire and the Queen of Twerk.

    Jennifer Lawrence edged out Miley Cyrus by one vote in the Associated Press annual survey of its newspaper and broadcast members and subscribers for “Entertainer of the Year”.

    There were 70 ballots submitted by US editors and news directors. Voters were asked to consider who was the most influential on entertainment and cultural front in 2013. Lawrence won 15 votes, Cyrus had 14, Netflix was a close third, earning 13 votes for altering the TV landscape with its on-demand format and hit original series.

    However, Lawrence, who started the year with an Academy Award for best actress, hit it big all through the year first with The Hunger Games Catching Fire and wrapped 2013 with a critically acclaimed performance in David O. Russell’s American Hustle that has just earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

    Lawrence was a favourite of many because of her diverse roles as well as her  Academy Award for Best Actress. She has since been nominated for both a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for American Hustle.

    The second in the list – Miley Cyrus also made headlines in 2013, but for many different reasons. She made her first splash in August  during the MTV Video Music Awards, but kept her twerking ways for the rest of the year. Cyrus later smoked pot onstage in Europe, continued to undress in many different situations and went through a very public break up with fiancé Liam Hemsworth.

    She also made fashion headlines with her pixie haircut.

  • Robert Knepper cast as Antonius in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – parts 1 & 2′

    Robert Knepper cast as Antonius in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – parts 1 & 2′

    Prison Break’s Robert Knepper will play President Snow’s minister Antonius in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Parts 1 & 2, Lionsgate announced recently.

     

    Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss opposite Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta in the final two franchise sequels. Julianne Moore also joined the cast as Alma Coin along with Natalie Dormer, Stef Dawson, Lily Rabe, Patina Miller, and Wes Chatham and Elden Henson.

  • American Hustle gets ensemble award from Palm Springs Film Festival

    American Hustle gets ensemble award from Palm Springs Film Festival

    The cast of David O. Russell’s fictional movie based on the 1970s Abscam scandal will be feted 4 January during an Awards Gala at the  Palm Springs International Film Festival.

     

    The Ensemble Performance Award celebrates the film’s cast, which includes Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K., Michael Pena and Alessandro Nivola.

     

    “David O. Russell has created a viscerally powerful film,” said PSIFF chairman Harold Matzner. “American Hustle grabs you from the start and is populated by a group of eminently believable characters as brought to life by this brilliant cast.” The festival’s 25th edition runs January 3-13.

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire collects $307.7 million in the opening weekend

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire collects $307.7 million in the opening weekend

    MUMBAI: The Jennifer Lawrence starrer The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has set a new record after topping the weekend movie charts, setting the US and Canadian record for November ticket sales and hauling in a huge $ 307.7 million around the world. Catching Fire collected an estimated $ 161.1 million from Thursday night through Sunday in the United States and Canada, a first for the month of November.

     

    Playing in 65 markets around the world, the sequel to the hit The Hunger Games also grabbed $ 146.6 million in foreign sales through Sunday, reports distributor Lions Gate Entertainment.

     

    Fans of the franchise poured in large numbers to watch Jennifer Lawrence portray the heroine Katniss Everdeen, of Suzanne Collins’ young adult series, the skilled archer who becomes a symbol of hope for the oppressed citizen of the fictional country of Panem.

     

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins with Katniss returning home after winning the 74th Hunger Games along with Peeta. However, it’s not over for them as the devious Capitol prepares for the 75th Annual Hunger Games – The Quarter Quell. As the victors get ready to participate in the Capitol’s latest shenanigans, elsewhere in the districts a rebellion is brewing – the inhabitants are growing more agitated everyday with the absolute tyranny of the Capitol.

     

    The first film of the series The Hunger Games earned $ 691.2 million worldwide in 2012.

     

    After the critical success worldwide, the movie is all set to release in India on 6 December, 2013 in more than 600 screens nationwide in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
     

  • David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ to close Dubai Film Fest

    David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ to close Dubai Film Fest

    MUMBAI: David O. Russell’s American Hustle, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis CK and Robert De Niro has been chosen to close this years’ Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).  The fest runs between 6-14 December.

     

    The 10th edition of DIFF, which is being held under the patronage of UAE vice president, prime minister and ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum will be the first festival to screen  American Hustle.

     

    Italia Films will release the Sony Pictures-backed film in the Middle East.

  • Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross team up for East of Eden

    Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross team up for East of Eden

    MUMBAI: A deal has been finalised between Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer with the John Steinbeck estate to recreate the novel ‘East of Eden’ written by John Steinbeck.

    It will also see ‘Hunger Games’ team of Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross together again.

    Apparently, two movies will be made on the book. The pair is also going to be seen together in ‘Burial Rites’. The picture will go on floor for production after Ross directs his movie ‘Peter and the Starcatchers’. Lawrence also has two movies lined up- ‘The Hunger Games: Catching fire’ and ‘American Hustle’.
    The film’s executive producer is Anna Culp. The book deal was made by RWSG’s Agency’s Geoff Sanford, Jill Gillett and Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein.

  • Jennifer Lawrence reunites with Susanne Bier for ‘The Rules of Inheritance’

    Jennifer Lawrence reunites with Susanne Bier for ‘The Rules of Inheritance’

    MUMBAI: Silver Linings Playbook‘s Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence has been roped in to star and produce the film adaption of The Rules of Inheritance, based on Claire Bidwell Smith‘s acclaimed memoir and will see Jennifer‘s Serena director Susanne Bier at the helm as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
     
    The film will be financially backed by Glen Basner‘s Film Nation and will represent foreign rights. The prominent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) that also represents Lawrence has packaged the entire project and will handle the film domestically. Smith too is represented by Wendy Sherman Associates in association with CAA.
     
    The film adaption will see Jennifer Lawrence reuniting with her Silver Linings Playbook producer Bruce Cohen while the adapted script will be written by Abi Morgan who is also doing the screenplay of The Invisible Woman which is in its post production phase.
     
    Commenting about the project, Basner and FilmNation‘s Aaron Ryder commented, "We are thrilled to be working with the dream team of Jennifer Lawrence, Susanne Bier, Abi Morgan and Bruce Cohen. We have no doubt that this inspirational and hopeful book will be turned into an emotionally powerful movie that audiences around the world will fall in love with."
     
    Adding to it, Bohen mentioned "Jennifer, Susanne, Abi and I are incredibly excited to be working on this extraordinary project together. We all believe this film can strike a deeply resonant chord with audiences, just as Claire’s riveting memoir has."
     
    Smith who is a therapist in Los Angeles specialising in grief has herself had a traumatic past. She was the only child, who, over a seven-year period as a young adult, lost both her parents to cancer. While struggling to cope, she propelled herself into many romances, adventures and travels in an inspirational, emotionally charged and surprisingly humorous journey that celebrates life.

  • Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper set to star again

    Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper set to star again

    MUMBAI: After their association in Silver Linings Playbook, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are due to come together in a yet untitled film to be directed by David O Russell.

    The film, written by Eric Warren Singer (The International) and O Russell, centers on a 1970‘s FBI sting operation by the name Abscam. The operation, set up by a con artist, ultimately led to the conviction of several elected officials including a US senator and five members of the House of Representatives.

    Lawrence will play the wife of co-star Christian Bale‘s character. Also in the star cast are Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams and Louis CK.

    The new film also reunites O Russell and Bale, the pair having worked together earlier for The Fighter.

    Lawrence, Cooper and O Russell have all received Oscar nominations for Silver Linings Playbook.

  • Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence handed Golden Globe award in acting category

    Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence handed Golden Globe award in acting category

    MUMBAI: Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Lawrence have won the best actor and best actress awards respectively at the Golden Globe awards.

    While Jackman won the best actor trophy for his role in Les Miserables, Lawrence beat veterans like Meryl Streep and Judi Dench to win the best actress trophy for Silver Linings Playbook.

    Jackman piped Jack Black for Bernie, Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook, Ewan McGregor for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Bill Murray for Hyde Park on Hudson. On tne other hand, Lawrence turned out to be one of the early winners in the Best Performance in a Motion Picture – musical or comedy category.

    Lawrence played a troubled widow opposite Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook”, which also starred Indian actor Anupam Kher in a key role. She is also in the race for the best actress trophy at the Oscars on February 24 for the David O Russell directed movie.

    The best supporting actress honour was lapped up by Anne Hathaway for her portrayal of a dying prostitute Fantine in Les Miserables while Christoph Waltz won the supporting actor trophy for his role as Dr King Schultz in the Western drama Django Unchained.

    Ben Affleck won the best director Golden Globe for Argo, an Iranian hostage drama of US diplomats in 1979. The director beat out competition from Steven Spielberg civil war story Lincoln, Ang Lee‘s Life Of Pi, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty and Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained.

    Tarantino beat Argo to win the best screenplay Golden Globe for Django. The other nominees were Tony Kushner for Lincoln, Russell for Silver Linings Playbook and Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty.

    Austria‘s Amour won the Golden Globe for best foreign language film beating competitors like Rust and Bone, The Intouchables, A Royal Affair and Kon-Tiki. The Michael Haneke directed film is also a strong contender at Oscars.

    The best Animated Feature Film Globe was lapped up by Brave.

  • Lionsgate to release The Hunger Games in China

    Lionsgate to release The Hunger Games in China

    MUMBAI: Lionsgate has been green lighted to release The Hunger Games in China in the first half of June. The film, starring Jennifer Lawrence has already grossed $620 million in worldwide box office.

    China watchers were likely surprised by the smooth entry of the Lionsgate blockbuster into China, given the film‘s anti-authoritarian themes and the current politically sensitive climate in the country.

    “China is already one of the leading territories at the international box office, and the launch of The Hunger Games in this key market is another sign of the franchise‘s continuing emergence as a truly global phenomenon,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-chairs Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman said in a statement.

    The moves comes as a surprise as the Suzanne Collins books on which Hunger Games is based has not sold as widely overseas as in North America.

    Now, with Hunger Games set for release in China, Lionsgate is hopeful that the Catching Fire sequel would also get approval for a release in China.

    The Hunger Games release, in both dubbed and subtitled prints, will be executed by The China Film Group and Lionsgate partner Talent International.

    The Hunger Games will be among the first major Hollywood films to be released in China under the landmark revenue sharing agreement announced in February that allows foreign distributors to collect up to 25 per cent of a film‘s receipts in China.

    Back in 2010, Avatar, the highest grossing movie in China ever, was unexpectedly pulled early from 2D screens amidst reports that propaganda officials had deemed the film‘s domestic market dominance undesirable and its storyline too similar to a sensitive issue of the day: the forced eviction of Chinese villagers to make way for civic and commercial development.