Posted 1/30/12 12:45 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Casting Call
Rooney Mara has replaced Blake Lively as the troubled lead in Steven Soderbergh's "The Side Effects," marking her first project since "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" hit theaters. Meanwhile, Sarah Jessica Parker has officially replaced Demi Moore in "Lovelace," Tom Hiddleston joined an upcoming vampire flick and Michelle Williams could be taking a break from acting.
It's January 30, and you're tuning in for today's casting call.
Posted 9/27/11 3:37 pm EST by MTV Movies Team in News
FROM NEXTMOVIE: For women, breaking into comedy is a tough enough nut to crack without the chauvinistic "women aren't funny" comments. Not only is it not true, but with a male-dominated writers' field in Hollywood (73 percent of the WGA's film writers are men) it's only too clear that if women aren't funny on-screen, it's probably because the only funny thing they had to do in the script was fall down and go boom boom.
The widely accepted paradigm in movies (not to mention TV) is having an out-of-shape or mildly attractive but funny husband and his hot, not-as-funny wife. And it's getting stale, baby. In order for a woman to go against that grain takes massive ovaries, the ability to generate her own material, and absolutely no fear of looking stupid.
Here are our picks for the 20 funniest women working in movies today.
Posted 6/15/11 5:00 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Trailers
Paul Rudd may be "Our Idiot Brother," but he's also a guy we love to love.
A new theatrical trailer has hit the web for his upcoming flick "Our Idiot Brother," and it's definitely a lot more charming than the teaser we saw back in April. Rudd plays a good-hearted goofball whose kindness gets in the way of his brains most of the time, to humorous but disastrous results. Co-starring Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer and Zooey Deschanel as his sisters who are forced to take him in, the new trailer showcases the Rudd we all find so endearing more than previous promotional material has.
Posted 5/19/11 2:20 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Twitter-Wood
Lars von Trier has caused quite the stir over controversial comments he made at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He's been condemned by Cannes officials and now he's getting similar abuse from film industry peers on Twitter, with a heaping amount of tongue-in-cheek jabs coming from Eli Roth.
In more pleasant news, the world got its first look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games" yesterday, and one of her co-stars — Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket — was especially blown away by Lawrence's new look.
I'm @roundhoward and there's all that and more in today's Twitter-Wood for May 19, 2011.
Posted 4/28/11 2:52 pm EST by Travis Helwig in Twitter-Wood
Why does Twitter exist, you ask? So that we can get instantaneous access to awesome breaking news. Like the fact that Elizabeth Banks has officially confirmed that she'll star in "The Hunger Games" as Effie Trinket, for instance. May the odds be ever in her favor!
Even as "Hunger Games" ramps up, the "Harry Potter" movies start winding down — but not without releasing one heck of an epic trailer for "Deathly Hallows Part 2," and Twitter users across the world fell head over heels with the new movie.
I'm @TravisHelwig, and this is Twitter-Wood for April 28, 2011.
Posted 4/19/11 12:15 pm EST by Aly Semigran in Casting Call
District 11, meet your new "Hunger Games" representatives: Amandla Stenberg and Dayo Okeniyi.
If those names don't exactly ring a bell, they most certainly will soon. Hollywood Crush has the scoop that newcomers Amandla Stenberg and Dayo Okeniyi are taking on the roles of Rue and Thresh, a pair competing in the Hunger Games, for the big screen adaptation of the immensely popular series. And they may soon be joined by Elizabeth Banks, who is reportedly eying the role of Effie Trinket, a flashy handler who works closely with the "Hunger Games" heroine Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence.)
Check out the rest of Tuesday's biggest casting news, including Ryan Gosling's quick departure from "The Lone Ranger" and Chris Klein's "American Reunion."
Posted 1/23/11 9:05 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in Sundance 2011, Video
There are plenty of things to be worried about for an actor when their film is about to premiere, but it's a whole different ball game when their film is about to premiere at a movie festival. Studios are there to purchase the actors' independent films, judges either criticize (or love) their film, and there are interviews upon interviews to conduct to promote the film.
The lovely female stars of "My Idiot Brother" -- Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer -- all have done their fair share of indie films, but they all admitted to MTV's Josh Horowitz that they got a bit nervous when they had to premiere their film into a large theater of people.
"I was really nervous last night," Mortimer said. "I sort of forgot to be nervous in the run up to coming. I was too worried about my outfits and what shoes to bring and what parties we were going to get invited to and then you get here..." Read More...
Posted 1/20/11 11:00 am EST by Tom DiChiara in Sundance 2011
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off in snowy Park City, Utah, today, bringing with it the promise of high-wattage celebrity sightings, single-digit temperatures and the best independent films the movie biz has to offer.
As in years past, the MTV News crew will be on the scene on Main Street, which during the festival just might boast the highest number of celebrities per square foot of any place in the world (yes, including Hollywood). We'll be reporting back with reviews of the fest's most anticipated films, covering red carpet premieres, interviewing A-list stars and hitting up all the biggest parties and swag suites. In short, we'll be your eyes and your ears on the snow-covered ground in Park City.
Among the actors and filmmakers jetting into town to promote buzzed-about films are Paul Rudd, Tobey Maguire, Ed Helms, Elizabeth Banks, Demi Moore, John C. Reilly and Kevin Smith.
Posted 1/19/11 5:29 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in Interviews, Sundance 2011, Video
Paul Rudd didn't look like his usual, clean-cut self when we visited him on set during his last day of filming the indie comedy "My Idiot Brother" this summer. In fact, sporting long hair, a bushy beard, cutoff shorts and a pair of bright orange Crocs, he looked like either a homeless man or the kind of guy who would follow Phish around on tour. That's because Rudd is playing the title character in the film and not, as you may have originally suspected, the idiot's less idiotic sibling. Check out what Rudd had to say about the film, which was directed by Jesse Peretz and debuts as this year's Sundance Film Festival, in the video below.
"I immediately go to jail for selling marijuana to a uniformed police officer," Rudd said of his character, an idealistic organic farmer who, in the wake of his incarceration, is forced to stay with each of his three sisters in turn. "However, the character is not dumb. The character just kind of appeals to everybody's higher angels and thinks that if he throws goodness out there, it will in turn come back." He's not exactly correct, as his attempts to sow happiness ultimately end up reaping a healthy amount of havoc. Read More...
Posted 1/3/11 6:16 pm EST by Tom DiChiara in Casting Call, News
Olivia Wilde: so hot right now.
Fresh off a butt-kicking turn in Tron: Legacy" and with a trio of promising films already due in 2011, the in-demand actress has landed a role in writer Alex Kurtzman's eagerly anticipated directorial debut "Welcome to People," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"People" stars Chris Pine as a young businessman who, after the death of his estranged father, must deliver $150,000 to the alcoholic sister (Elizabeth Banks) he never knew he had, as well as her 12-year-old son. Reluctant to part with the money, Pine's character reaches out to his sis and nephew... but without revealing who he is. Wilde will play Hannah, the Pine character's girlfriend. Read More...
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