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Posted 5/27/12 at 5:26 PM
The Hunger Games

Robert Pattinson Is Not Playing Finnick in The Hunger Games Sequel

Several days ago, Movie Fanatic circulated a rumor that the Twilight star might play the part of steely-abbed Finnick Odair, the trident-wielding District 4 mentor-turned-tribute from the next installment in The Hunger Games trilogy, Chasing Fire,. So when Pattinson woke up yesterday, he called his agent about what he was reading online. "[My agent] was like no one's going to offer you that part," Pattinson told USA Today. "I was like, thanks for the reassurance." Maybe his YA days are finally behind him?

Posted 5/27/12 at 2:00 PM
Movies

From Space to South Africa: Idris Elba on Prometheus and Playing Mandela

By Jada Yuan

For almost a year, Idris Elba's home has been his suitcase. Not literally, because at nearly six-foot-three, he wouldn't fit. But for the first time in his career, the 39-year-old, best known for playing The Wire's Stringer Bell, is shooting back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back movies, and the luggage he's been carting around the world is the only thing providing him any sense of comfort and stability.

Charlize Theron Is a Go the F--- to Sleep Mommy

Speaking to MTV News recently, Charlize Theron, new mother and Evil Queen (in the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman) described her oh-so-sensible parenting strategy.

A lot of people have sent me these children's books, and there's this amazing book, a best-seller Go the Fuck to Sleep. This book was fantastic for me because it made me realize that I don't need to judge myself right now ... [Jackson] doesn't understand anything right now, and so he just wants my face to look a certain way.

Bleep away Charlize!

Check Out This Catwoman Poster From Dark Knight Rises

Posted 5/26/12 at 12:51 PM
Steve Jobs

Pixar’s Brave Remembers Steve Jobs As a Friend and Mentor

After seeing an early cut of Pixar's upcoming Brave, The Wall Street Journal reports that "one of the most emotional moments" is when former Pixar co-founder and Apple genius Steve Jobs's name appears during the end credits, which remember him as a partner, mentor, and friend. Fittingly, Jobs's name is accompanied onscreen by a will-o'-the-wisp, ethereal creatures that are said to lead people to their destinies in Brave.

Posted 5/26/12 at 11:23 AM
Matt Zoller Seitz

TV Review: HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn Is Silly and Smart

By Matt Zoller Seitz

"There's nothing to writing, Gellhorn," Ernest Hemingway tells journalist Martha Gellhorn, his lover and muse, in HBO's Hemingway &
Gellhorn. "All you've got to do is sit down at your typewriter and bleed." The line would be easy to dismiss as Hollywood b.s. if it weren't an actual Hemingway quote, rephrased slightly by screenwriters Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner, and spat out like a plug of chewing tobacco by the film's costar Clive Owen. Within minutes of Hemingway's pronouncement, which is meant to push Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) past a bout of writer's block while she's covering the Spanish Civil War for Collier's Magazine, bombs fall on the city. Their hotel shudders under the impact. Hemingway gropes Gellhorn while shielding her body from shards of glass, and the two scribes end up naked on a bed, rutting hungrily while explosives flash in a window just beyond Gellhorn's upraised heels.

Barry Sonnenfeld Explains Why Justin Bieber Is an Alien

By Jennifer Vineyard

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 23: Director/producer Barry Sonnenfeld attends the "Men In Black 3" New York Premiere at Ziegfeld Theatre on May 23, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

In the previous two Men in Black movies, the MiB video surveillance zoomed in on famous people who were in fact aliens (or suspected aliens): In the first film, the list included Isaac Mizrahi, Danny DeVito, Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg. In MiB3, which opens this weekend, the Men in Black are monitoring new celebr-E.T.s (trademark ours), including Lady Gaga (of course), Justin Bieber, the Dalai Lama, Shaun White, and Tim Burton. So when Vulture ran into director Barry Sonnenfeld at the premiere party on the Intrepid flight deck on Wednesday, we had to ask: What makes these people aliens?

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Posted 5/25/12 at 1:30 PM
Cannes 2012

How to Behave at Cannes’s Elite Yacht Parties (If You Get In)

By Jada Yuan

P Diddy invites celebrities and friends for a party on a yacht in Cannes. Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Michelle Rodriguez, Tara Reid, Benito Del Toro and more were seen aboard.
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If there's one defining difference between the celebrities and the little people at Cannes (you know, besides having won the genetic lottery), it's the ability to get one's self on a yacht. Sure, there are some yacht owners who dock near the Palais and welcome anyone friendly and daring enough to climb onboard, offering them a glass of Champagne no matter how mid-priced their wardrobe. But we're talking about the elites-only megayachts — the ones so big that they don't fit in no stinkin' harbor; the ones whose flashing lights and cheery revelers you watch from the beach each night, anchored just far enough out to sea to make it clear that you will never be able to board one. Like Roberto Cavalli's or — the mother lode — Paul Allen's yacht, on which he threw his annual special-people-only party on Tuesday, and where, special people tell us, a spontaneous band formed with Allen on guitar, Jeremy Irons on harmonica, and Cyndi Lauper on vocals. (Allen's guest list is, however, extremely respectful of the film festival, and he invites every director in competition to come ... the lucky, talented bastards).

I grilled some yacht veterans for some do's and don'ts about life at a big boat bash.

Posted 5/25/12 at 12:30 PM
Cannes 2012

Cannes: Robert Pattinson Talks Wasted Talent and the End of the World

By Kyle Buchanan

"I'm hungry for something thick and juicy," growls Robert Pattinson at the start of Cosmopolis, and one can imagine Pattinson issuing the same order to his agents after years spent sinking his vampire teeth into wan Twilight flicks. His team earned their keep by landing Pattinson this David Cronenberg–directed movie and a berth at Cannes (where Kristen Stewart's On the Road premiered just a few days before). And yes, he's good in it.

"I always had the feeling that he'd never seen any of my movies."

Posted 5/25/12 at 12:00 PM
Exclusive

Watch an Exclusive Clip From Michelle Williams’s Take This Waltz

By Amanda Dobbins

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In Sarah Polley's new film, Michelle Williams grapples with the following question: Should she give in to her intense feelings for handsome neighbor Daniel (Luke Kirby), or should she remain faithful to her loving husband (Seth Rogen)? You, like Michelle's character, will want to weigh all the evidence before forming an opinion, so Vulture now presents an exclusive clip from the movie, in which Williams seems very much in love with her cookbook-author husband. She even dances (and as we know from Blue Valentine, dancing is the true measure of Michelle Williams's affection). Take a look for yourself; Take This Waltz is in theaters on June 29 and on VOD today.

Take a Sneak Peek of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Tomb

Posted 5/25/12 at 9:45 AM
Casting Couch

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 23: Director/executive producer Jon Favreau attends the Premiere of Universal Pictures "Cowboys & Aliens" during Comic-Con 2011 at San Diego Civic Theatre on July 23, 2011 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Jon Favreau Will Still Act in Iron Man 3

Jon Favreau, director of the first two Iron Man films and not-director of the third one for quite a while, will reprise his onscreen role as Tony Stark's bodyguard fellow in Iron Man 3. "It is unclear how big the role is in the third movie but having Favreau return as Hogan seems like a sign of solidarity on Favreau and Marvel’s part and an endorsement of [new director Shane] Black," THR writes. Endorsed!

Posted 5/25/12 at 1:53 AM
New Names

Warner Bros. Hires Ad Director to Helm Sci-Fi Film

Nic Mathieu, a well-respected commercials director, will be making his big-screen directorial debut with The Wind, a new Warner Bros. sci-fi project by Men in Black 3 scribe David Koepp. While very much "under-the-radar," according to the Hollywood Reporter, we do know the picture's set in a space colony. Going by this Zenith flat screen ad Mathieu directed, Wind should be old hat for him.

Posted 5/24/12 at 10:21 PM
Castings

CENTURY CITY, CA - MAY 26: Actor Eric Stonestreet attends a star-studded party hosted by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution at the Fox Lot on May 26, 2011 in Century City, California. The party marks the culmination of Fox's week-long LA Screenings events. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Twentieth Century Fox Television)

Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet Joins Identity Thief Comedy

No word yet on whether Modern Family's in-house clown Eric Stonestreet gets the call to play a Kentucky baddie in FX's Justified, but if he does, he might not have time in his schedule: He's just been cast in Universal's Seth Gordon–directed comedy, Identity Thief. Stonestreet will play Big Chuck, a real estate broker who clashes with Jason Bateman's identity theft victim and Melissa McCarthy's "mess of a woman," as the Hollywood Reporter describes her character. Guess who's the identity thief in all this.

Posted 5/24/12 at 10:18 PM
Castings

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 20: Actor Mads Mikkelsen attends the "Jagten" Premiere during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 20, 2012 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Mads Mikkelsen in Talks to Play Thor 2 Villain

Not content to sit back and enjoy the breeze coming off its ka-ching-ing runaway hit The Avengers, Marvel announced today that it's in negotiations with Mads Mikkelsen to star opposite Chris Hemsworth in Thor 2. Mikkelsen, who plays blood-weeping Bond villain Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, will join Tom Hiddleston's Loki in the Norse villain's circle. No news yet on Mikkelsen's character—although Surtr, the fire-sword-wielding giant, is still available.

Posted 5/24/12 at 5:15 PM
Casting Couch

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: Actor Taran Killam attends the 2011 American Museum of Natural History gala at the American Museum of Natural History on November 10, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Taran Killam Cast in Steve McQueen Movie

Taran Killam, poised to take over SNL any day now, is adding some dramatic work to his résumé: Deadline reports that Killam has joined the cast of Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. He joins Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the true story of a New York man (Ejiofor) who's abducted and sold into slavery in Louisiana in 1841. Killam will play the troubadour who does the abducting, which is a pretty big departure from playing a gay Prince Charming or an enthusiastic J-pop fan.

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Posted 5/24/12 at 3:30 PM
Casting Couch

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Comedian Kevin Hart visits the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the Ziegfeld Theatre on April 18, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Kevin Hart May Join Kevin James in Valet Guys

Comedian Kevin Hart, who is already attached to a remarkable-sounding buddy-cop comedy with Seth Rogen and recently starred in Think Like a Man, is now negotiating to join Kevin James in Valet Guys. "They play two valet guys at a high-end hotel who lose a pricey sports car and have 48 hours to retrieve it," writes Deadline. Suggestion: Give both their characters the same first name, too.

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