Jennifer Lawrence is tough, resourceful yet compassionate in The Hunger Games. Katniss is not a doll…until now.
Who needs Ken? This new Katniss Everdeen Barbie doll is ready to empower girls to take down the Capitol!
Entertainment Weekly scored this exclusive first look at the Katniss Everdeen Barbie from Mattel. You can pre-order now at BarbieCollector.com.
The new 007 movie is packed with Oscar power including director Sam Mendes and Judi Dench as M. Javier Bardem plays the villain in Skyfall. The Oscar-winning actor talked with Spanish network TVE about his character and experience on the new 007 movie.
“It’s a very beautiful and fun adventure,” says the lead Skyfall villain. “yesterday I was on set with Albert Finney, with Judi Dench, with Daniel Craig.”
“It’s cool, and the coolest thing and what’s most important is the material. When I got it and saw the character, immediately you forget a little that it is a James Bond film and you realise that it is a great film and that’s what attracted me. I said, “man this gives you a lot of possibilities”. Obviously it’s a James Bond film and it has everything you expect from a Bond film.”
Bardem explained his approach to the character and he connects to Daniel Craig’s 007.
“I’m completely decided to give him a hard time and the truth is that I get to do it. Doing it in the set is a different thing [to reading it in a script]. The character puts Bond into some curious and interesting difficulties and one has to do it [for real], to give the idea that you are the villain. Otherwise there is no point in doing it. You have to put the actor in a difficult situation, that’s the objective. In that sense Sam is helping a lot, he’s an amazing director. And I’m delighted to be working with Daniel, he’s a guy with balls, he’s a really hard-working guy, super-compromised with what he’s doing. For him it’s strenuous, six months of shooting everyday, in addition with a lot of physical demand and the guy holds on super-committed.”
Thanks to MI6 for the story. There’s more of Bardem’s interview to enjoy at that link provided.
A God. A Super Soldier. A Genius in a High-Tech Suit of Armor. But Earth’s Mightiest Heroes need more than just the big guns to get it done. When the Avengers need stealth and razor-sharp focus – they can count on Black Widow and Hawkeye.
Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson play the Avengers born without super powers but are still power players on a mission. The two stars are featured in a new interview on Marvel.com
“We are humans with high skill sets,” Renner said. “[Hawkeye and Black Widow] fight well together…and they complement each other.”
“Both of us fight hand-to-hand…but we’re fighting in a different way than everybody else. We do a lot of fighting on the ground,” added Johansson.
For the entire story here’s the Marvel.com link.
In the comics, Hawkeye and Black Widow are currently starring in Rick Remender’s Secret Avengers. Hawkeye leads the covert team. Both characters will appear in Avengers Vs. X-Men and AvX: Vs.
The countdown to Prometheus is escalating. Michael Fassbender tells The Sci Fi Show in a new interview how the cast including Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba and Charlize Theron became part of Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction.
“There’s always politics within, and that’s why, I think, this cast got together. The tempo, the pace, the intelligence of the script; each person has got their own agenda on that ship and it’s each a very individual agenda. Some people are there for the pay. Other people are there to get answers. Other people are there to hopefully attain some sort of secret. Others are there in somewhat of a spite journey. You’ve got all these collective relationships, individuals and motivations and that’s what makes quite intriguing even before the shit hits the fan.”
I wanted to share this quote from Fassbender on the theme of the epic.
“It’s basically about trying to find out if there was intervention in the birth of civilisation on planet Earth by other beings, which we come to know as Engineers, and whether they had a master plan in mind for us.”
Thanks to Dark Horizons.
Disney and Marvel announce the Captain America sequel will hit April 4, 2014.
Cap’s second solo adventure will “pick-up where the highly anticipated Marvel’s The Avengers (May 4, 2012) leaves off, as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world.”
Chris Evans will reprise his role as Steve Rogers.
For the entire press release here’s the Marvel.com link.
A Geek’s Hope: I really hope Marvel/Disney will use Ed Brubaker’s The Winter Soldier epic as the inspiration for the modern-day set sequel. This would mean Sebastian Stan returning as a very different Bucky Barnes. Plus the introduction of the Red Skull’s daughter Sin and her lover/enforcer Crossbones.
Marvel recently revealed they’ve narrowed down their list of directors.
The starmap is just one the many geek freakout inducing images coming from Prometheus, the Ridley Scott directed return to the Alien universe. Now an awesome collection of images from the film can be found on a facebook app with an interactive starmap. Thanks to Dark Horizons for capturing.
Charlize Theron plays a Weyland corporate officer named Meredith Vickers.
The Prometheus crew explore the alien vessel from Alien?
Idris Elba as the Captain (?) of Prometheus
Michael Fassbenderder as the android David of Prometheus.
The Prometheus landing on the alien planet
Michael Fassbender explores the alien ship in Prometheus.
“Barton’s been compromised.”
With that line Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) explodes into action in a new scene from Marvel’s The Avengers. Does the passionate response from the superspy signal that the Widow and Hawkeye aka Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) are more than fellow SHIELD agents? He’s a lucky guy as you’ll see below.
Thanks Dark Horizons.
MI6 reports that Greek actress Tonia Sotiropoulou will join the cast of the new James Bond film Skyfall and begin filming on location in Istanbul, Turkey later this month.
“This is the happiest day of my life so far! I feel very lucky and blessed, but basically, I am very grateful that this happened, for my family and my friends who believe in me and support trying to do. I will do the best, I am very proud because somehow it might be something that will advertise in Greece and I am happy about it,” the actress said to local press in her home country.
Sotiropoulou auditioned for the role of Severine but went to Berenice Marlohe.