The 84th Annual Academy Awards were held in Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre (or as host Billy Crystal quipped – the Chapter 11 Theater) on Sunday night and there were few surprises.

Crystal was his usual affable, likable self; the ratings were up slightly from last year but there were no really big wow moments to the 2012 Oscars.

The biggest winners of the night were Martin Scorsese‘s Hugo and Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Artist – each taking 5 wins, although The Artist won the biggest nods of Best Director, Best Feature and Best Leading Actor among it’s accolades.

The Help star Octavia Spencer had a very sweet moment at the podium when she was genuinely overcome with emotion as she accepted her Best Supporting Actress gold statue.

Chistopher Plummer and Meryl Streep were also very engaging during their thank you speeches and Jean Dujardin shared a moment with Uggie, the Jack Russell terrier of The Artist that has become a fan favorite.

Viola Davis and George Clooney were hot contenders for Best Actress and Actor categories, respectively, but both walked away empty handed.

Among the presenters for the evening: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz, Tina Fey, Michael Douglas, Bradley Cooper, Chris Rock, Melissa Leo, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph and Emma Stone.

Below is the full list of winners:  (Read the article)

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The trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close hit today.

It’s from the 2005 best selling novel by Johnathan Safran Foer; the story of a young boy who loses his father in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and his citywide search for the lock that fits a key his dad had.

Newcomer Thomas Horn (a Teen Jeopardy! winner) is Oskar, the onscreen son of Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks, who works his way through his grief meeting others shell-shocked by tragedy as he tries to discover what that key held.

Costarring Viola Davis, John Goodman, Max von Sydow and Jeffrey Wright, the Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott, The Hours, The Reader) directed film opens on Christmas Day then goes into wide release on January 20th.

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The big screen adaptaion of Cloud Atlas just got another big name added to it’s growing cast.

Hugh Grant has signed on to the century-spanning story based on the novel by David Mitchell.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw and Chinese actress Zhou Xun are already signed on to the Tom Tykwer, Andy & Lana Wachowski directed film. Yes, three directors.

The six interlocking stories are woven around the progression of one soul that travels through time and space spanning from the 19th century in the South Pacific to a post-apocalyptic future.

Filming will begin in Glasgow next week and continue in Spain and Germany.

Grant hasn’t made a film since the 2009 comedy Did You Hear About The Morgans with Sarah Jessica Parker.

Looking forward to Hugh back on the big screen.

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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, July 9th, including:

1942 – Richard Roundtree, actor
1942 – Edy Williams, actress
1945 – Dean R. Koontz, author
1947 – O.J. Simpson, former football player
1951 – Chris Cooper, actor
1952 – John Tesh, TV host
1955 – Jimmy Smits, actor
1956 – Tom Hanks, actor
1957 – Kelly McGillis, actress
1964 – Courtney Love, musician
1973 – Enrique Marciano, actor
1975 – Jack White, musician
1976 – Fred Savage, actor
1991 – Mitchel Musso, actor
1995 – Georgie Henley, actress

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Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks have teamed up for the summer romantic comedy Larry Crowne and both stars hit the red carpet at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles yesterday.

Roberts, 43, chose a menswear inspired dark suit for the movie premiere and had her swept back in an elegant up do. No one does this look as chic as Julia does.

Hanks wife, Rita Wilson donned a black jacket and dress with sequined skirt and she looked fabulous too.

The movie, directed by Hanks and co-written by Nia Vardalos and Tom, reunites the costars of Charlie Wilson’s War for another crack at big screen magic.

The two have a genuine fondness for each other and Roberts even joked with reporters that Hanks tried to off her with a Vespa.

“He almost killed me,” Roberts said. “He almost took one of my legs off – The good leg!”

The two are charming together so I hope this movie is better than the trailers.

More photos are below. (Read the article)

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Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks cover W magazine for the June issue and talk about how their careers and the roles they’ve chosen have changed as they get older.

Hanks, who made his name off his romantic comedies like Splash, Big, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail wanted to segue into films where his character had more complicated conflicts like The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away.

“I told my agents that I wasn’t going to play pu***es anymore,” Hanks told the magazine. “I was tired of playing, ‘Oh, boo-hoo–I was in love, but oh, boo-hoo-hoo.’ There comes an age when you can’t do that anymore. I wanted to play men instead of boys. In your mid-30s, it’s time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise.”

Roberts has tried to find roles that challenge her as an actress and that she can identify with.

“I think it’s called growing up. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger,” she said. “But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.”

For their new film Larry Crowne, people might think on first glance it’s supposed to fall into that romantic comedy genre, but Hanks, who wrote and directed the film, wants people to take away more.

“The movie is about combating cynicism. People are naturally optimistic, but you have to choose to walk away from cynicism,” he explains. “You have to say, I am going to combat cynicism today. I had this idea about a unique guy who loses his job and then, at the end of the movie, realizes that it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He thought he was going to die, but it turned out great!”

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Here’s the trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy Larry Crowne starring Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks.

Ok, so is it just me or does this movie just look like a rehashed repackaged cheesy romantic comedy? Julia Roberts seems bitchy and annoying and Tom Hanks seems like he’s taking a page from Forrest Gump here. I couldn’t have less desire to see this.

Source: Trailer Addict

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The third Robert Langdon film that started with The Da Vinci Code entitled The Lost Symbol has a screenwriter to adapt the book.

Columbia Pictures has finally decided to step up development of the big screen adaptation of Dan Brown’s latest book, and Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol.  The studio has hired Steven Knight, whose credits include Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, who also penned drafts of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The third adventure is a 12-hour race to the finish quest set in Washington, DC, following mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon unravel Freemason conspiracy theories using hidden codes.  The film franchise already accounts for over $1.24 billion in worldwide box office.

Yet another mediocre book to mediocre movie translation, at least this writer is very talented. Even though he’s good, I’m not excited about this overly hyped next chapter. In any case, I’m sure Tom Hanks will return for the paycheck.

Source: /Film

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Julia Roberts showed that she really is awesome last night at the Film Society of Lincoln Center event honoring Tom Hanks. When I read this morning that people were honoring Tom I thought he was dead. I’m so glad he’s not!

Julia mustn’t have got the memo that it wasn’t a roast but a tribute night. When Julia said something about her Charlie Wilson’s War co-star she just had this to say…

“Alright well, it’s late and I’m paying my babysitter overtime and I have to pee,” she began. “So Tom, everybody f—–g likes you. All my bits are gone.”

I can’t believe that Julia couldn’t afford a babysitter overtime for one night? I know I would pay mine triple just to honor Tom.

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Tom Hanks was treated to the full Toy Story 3 experience, now he’s ready to get to work on it!

Hanks reveals to Empire Magazine that he sat in a theater with Tim Allen and John Ratzenberger and watched an “a complete story reel of the entire movie.” The reel was comprised of moving storyboards, voices recorded by Pixar animators with some temp music and sound effects.” His reaction was “‘This is great, let’s get to work!’” And work he has. Hanks has already had three complete recording sessions for the film, and will probably have one more.

This movie is obviously going to be good, it’s Pixar! Toy Story 3 is due out on June 18th, 2010. 

Source: /film

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