Taylor Kitsch Saves Mars With MTV First: John Carter!

The year ahead of Taylor Kitsch would be considered a big one for any actor. With "John Carter" and "Battleship," he's leading the charge on two big-budget adventure movies, but then he'll also work with one of the most revered directors of all time, Oliver Stone, for "Savages." But before all of that, he'll be taking your questions as a part of "MTV First: John Carter." On Thursday, March 1, Kitsch will sit down with MTV News' Josh Horowitz to present a never-before-seen clip from "John Carter" on MTV at 7:56 p.m. ET. Immediately after, their conversation will continue on MTV.com, where Kitsch will take questions from you. All you have to do is send in your questions via Twitter, using @MTVNews and the hashtag #MTVFirst or #AskKitsch. And there's definitely a lot to ask him. As his first big year in movies, Kitsch will have a lot of eyes on him, as the lead in two summer movies. Long gone are the quaint days in Dillon, Tim Riggins and "Friday Night Lights." This summer, Kitsch makes the jump to full-blown action star. "John Carter" and "Battleship" rank among the summer's biggest movies, and they share a star in Kitsch. Actors consider themselves lucky if they find themselves in one big summer movie, nonetheless two. But that's ignoring July's crime drama "Savages," based on Don Winslow's novel and directed by Oliver Stone. In the movie, Kitsch will play Chon, a pot grower who must rescue his girlfriend, played by Blake Lively, after she's kidnapped by the Mexican drug cartel. So that's the 2012 Kitsch will have, but what will you ask him? Does he ever throw on the 3s and relive the glory days as a Dillon Panther? What was it like wearing a loin cloth for most of the movie in "John Carter"? What would you like to ask Taylor Kitsch? Let us know by tweeting @MTVNews using the hashtags #MTVFirst or #AskKitsch. Then be sure to tune into MTV at 7:56 p.m. ET on March 1 to see the never-before-seen clip from "John Carter."

Homeland Actress Could Make Another Killing

Is Cougar Town's Grayson departing Jules? Josh Hopkins has grew to become part of the cast of Lady Pals, Kari Lizer 's NBC pilot. Pilot Season: Have the scoop! Inside the comedy, two female pals, Nicole (Andrea Anders), who apparently gets the perfect existence, and Jen, who can't have the symptoms of it together, can't do without each other. Hopkins may have... Discover More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Danny ComdenJosh HopkinsAndrea AndersRachel DratchKari LizerBill LawrenceThe New Adventures of Old ChristineIn Plain SightCougar Town

TiVo: Jennifer Lopez Starred In Oscar Nights Most-Seen TV Moment

Billy Very-Situated Oscars Seen By 39.3 Million, Up From A Year Ago Nikki Finke: Live-Snarking The Oscars It’s amazing simply how much TV audiences be worried about somewhat show of nipple. No less than that seems to explain why Jennifer Lopez’s joint appearance with Cameron Diaz to supply the award to find the best Costume Design and Makeup was most likely probably the most-seen moment among TiVo Digital video recorder clients who seen last evening’s Oscars live or around 12 several hours after it broadcast.Their look had 14.1% more viewings in comparison to average for your relaxation in the show, TiVo states based on data from 300,000 of the clients.The business counts the quantity of occasions one minute is carried out or re-carried out — therefore it might be inflated by multiple viewings around the handful of Televisions. Messages showing that Lopez’s dress revealed greater than audiences generally see in primetime spread through Twitter together with other websites right after her appearance. The second-most-seen moment, at 13.5% above average,came nearly an hour or so approximately later when Robert Downey Junior. and Gwyneth Paltrow presented the award to find the best Documentary.Meryl Streep’s victory asBest Actress was close behind, with 13.3% more viewings than average. For minimal-seen moments, they were the acceptance speeches for Appear Mixing (9.8% low quality), Original Score (-8.2%), and VisualEffects (-7.3%).

Trujillo eyes transition

Focusing on French scribe Jean-Claude Carriere, Juan Carlos Rulfo's 'Carriere, 250 Meters' was one of 14 docs chosen from 56 entries. Whenever a large festival experiences a change in leadership, as was the case last year with the Guadalajara fest, the operative word is "transition." This was more the case than ever in 2011, when Ivan Trujillo took over the helm from Jorge Sanchez, and when the festival's center of gravity and activity shifted from the Hotel Fiestamericana at the city's bustling Plaza Minerva to the more expansive convention center facilities of Expo Guadalajara. Along with program director Gerardo Salcedo, Trujillo is working to establish his own stamp on the event, keeping his eyes equally on its festival and market dimensions. "We're very driven to provide market attendees with facilities, installations and an environment that's focused and extremely convenient," says Trujillo, who notes that the main cinema venues are now with exhibitor Cinepolis and are "new and revamped." Good news for festgoers as last year's edition experienced some growing pains, including problems with nearby cinema venues and a screening room built by the festival inside the convention hall that was, diplomatically put, less than optimum. Some fest vets missed the Fiestamericana as an ideal meeting place. Artistically, the festival could boast that it was the launch pad for Mexico's best received 2011 doc, Tatiana Huezo's "The Tiniest Place," but was perceived to be embarrassed when the film was ignored by the official jury, and yet scored the grand prize just a week later at one of the world's top doc fests, Cinema du Reel. Trujillo observes that the fest "learned from last year's challenge of building a cinema inside the Expo. Now, we have more space, allowing for a second cinema, and we've had a full year to work out the technical issues, including the sound problems that people complained about." The festival's well-established competition programs for narrative and non-fiction remain in place, with the doc side featuring new work from such leading Mexican docmakers as Juan Carlos Rulfo ("Carriere, 250 Meters") and Mercedes Moncada ("Magic Words") and recent fest hits such as Jose Alvarez's "Canicula," which preemed in Morelia. "There were some very hard decisions for our programing team this year," says Trujillo, with a healthy national film production trend reflected in facts that 13 Mexican narrative competish titles were culled from 45 completed films, while 14 docs were plucked from a pool of 56. A potentially intriguing sidebar comprises a selection of Mexican melodramas curated by veteran helmer Jorge Fons ("Midaq Alley"), while the fest is promoting a focus on British cinema, topped by a spotlight on Mike Leigh. "It's amazing how little industry relations Mexico has with the U.K.," says Trujillo, "so we want this event to be the start of an opening for new projects, as well as a way to study the U.K.'s system of film support, such as the lottery system, and development, such as the high standards applied for selecting screenplays."HIGHLIGHTS Leading Mexican director Rodrigo Pla's "The Delay" unspools in the Mexican feature narrative competition. Directors Milagros Mumenthaler ("Back to Stay"), Vicente Amorim ("Coracoes sujos"), Isaki Lacuesta ("The Double Steps"), Eryk Rocha ("Transeunte") and Andres Wood ("Violeta Went to Heaven") pepper the Ibero-American feature narrative competition. Mike Leigh will be honored, and his films are the subject of a nine-pic retrospective. Leigh will also give a master class, as will Michael Nyman, Rodrigo Pla and Gabriel Retes. New U.K. films, including Terrence Davies' "The Deep Blue Sea," "The Iron Lady" and Terry Gilliam's short, "The Wholly Family," are part of a Brit pic focus. Another highlight is Jorge Fon's curated survey of melodramas, including films by Lars von Trier, David Lean, Walter Salles, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar Wai, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Capra, Francois Truffaut, Vittorio De Sica, V.I. Pudovkin, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Luchino Visconti, Pedro Almodovar, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Nikita Mikhalkov. The sixth edition of the Guadalajara Construction works-in-progress section has expanded its brief to include all of Latin America. Other honorees include actor Demian Bichir and director Retes, who is receiving a career achievement award. The fest has added another award, the Maguey Prize, to honor the best LGBT film.Spotlight: MexicoMexican prods target growing U.S. aud | Hollywood crossover no easy leap | Boiling overRegional pay TV sales up in MexicoFest Traveler: Guadalajara Film Festival Trujillo eyes transition Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

OSCARS: Indie Animation Upstart GKIDS Guns For Rango And DWA

Talk about the minis slaying the majors! It doesn’t get much more defined in those terms than in the financial divide between the nominees for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. In one corner you have Paramount, which in addition to their own first big foray into the ‘toon competition with front-runner Rangohasa distribution deal with Dreamworks Animation, which landed both of their 2011 films –Puss In Boots and Kung Fu Panda 2 –in the hunt. In the other corner you have tiny upstart GKIDS. Who? The small NY outfit that became a distribution offshoot of the NY International Children’s Film Festival incredibly has the other two animated feature nominees with their indie pickups Chico & Rita and A Cat In Paris. Counting their initial foray into the Oscar race two years ago with The Secret Of Kells, this tiny distrib now has three ‘toon nominees in just a couple of years. Not bad. Left feeling shell-shocked are Disney/Pixar, a perennial nominee and winner in this category for the past four years running; Sony Pictures Animation, which touted Aardman’s Arthur Christmas;and 20th Century Fox’s Rio from Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age) — not to mention Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson’s intial animated effort, the motion capture The Adventures Of Tintin. Eric Beckman, founder of GKIDS and thekidpic festival that spawned it, was hoping for one nomination this year but almost didn’teven reallydream there could be two. “I won’t dare to lie: We had the hopes, if not expectations of getting at least one, having been down this road before with Kells, so we had planned onopening Chico & Rita in NY with that hope,” he says. “But I will completely fess up to the fact that when I was watching the Oscar nominations at 8:30 AM that morning and the first one that came up was Cat In Paris and the second one that came up was Chico & Rita I started spontaneously screaming around the room, and I had to rewind on TiVo to find out who the other actual films were because I was fucking floored. To have the Academy give us such a resounding endorsement made me really happy.” Beckman isn’t an Academy member so he can’t vote for his films, and when Kellswas nominated two years ago he couldn’t even get a ticket to the ceremony to cheer on the filmmakers — how times have changed. He says he doesn’t even believe in this kind of competition, comparing it to pitting Picasso vs. Van Gogh, but the marketing value is unmistakable. “For us our whole purpose is to help open the market up and expand the market for what I find both artful and thoughtful, sophisticated animated films for both adults and kids, an art form that exists with more economic success outside the U.S than inside,” he says. Indeed, both his nominees this year are international in nature. Chico & Rita is from Oscar-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba and is a musical love story set initially in 1940s Cuba and spanning many years. It was first seen in the U.S.at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival but took over a year before a distribution deal could be set in motion. A Cat In Paris is a French ‘toon noir from first-timers Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol, a novelist who specializes in crime stories. GKIDS hope to use the Oscar nomination to launch the film in the U.S. in late spring after it is dubbed into English, possibly with star names — “If Matt Damon or Tina Fey are reading this now, please call,” Beckman laughs. Meanwhile Chico opened in NY a couple of weeks ago and received rave reviews and decent business with plans to slowly expand the adult ‘toon. Beckman hadn’t even met the directors until earlier this month; they had been doing everything by phone and email. In terms of finding films, Beckman says he hasa distinct advantage as Artistic Director of theNY Children’s Fest because, as he puts it, he looks at a “gazillion” films and has early tabs on stuff. Ironically, he first saw Cat In Paris because he was out at Pixar doing a promotional thing for 2009 festival winner Mia And The Migoo,which GKIDS distributed.Folimage, the French outfit behind it, was there and askedhimand the Pixar crowd to look at 15 minutes of the then-unfinishedCat In Parison DVD. Beckman loved it, waitedfor it to be finished and bought last year before Berlin. As fortrying to compete against the big-budget Oscarcampaigns of Paramount andDreamWorks Animation, Beckman is realistic. “I don’t think that double-fold wrap-around advertising or tweet, whatever, convinces someone to like a film,” he says. “I think it gets them to watch a film. Maybe it does shape their opinions in some way, shape or form. But our challenge is just getting the film into the hands of the Academy and getting them to put the damn thing in the DVD player. We’re an indie film company; we’re not going to spend a half million dollars on an awards campaign — we can’t. But we are spending something and we got a big shot in the arm from the NY critics (withChico). Beckman says he has several projects in the pipelinewith the basic goal of being the go-to home for Oscar-caliber independent animation, something the Academy members who vote in this category clearly appreciate. GKIDS is right in the thick of it now. And Beckman definitely has tickets for the Oscars this time.

The famous host oprah Winfrey to become listed on Due To Jimmy Kimmel on Publish-Academy awards Show

Beverly Kim After re-entering your competition following her Last Chance Kitchen victory and generating a place within the final four, Beverly Kim's second Top Chef stint found a fast finish when she lost the 3 models within the Olympic games-inspired tasks. "I had been removed two times! The number of people know that? It was simpler to look at this time around, however it was still being very heartbreaking for me personally,Inch she informs TVGuide.com. "I truly did wish to win and that i certainly took it completely. I wasn't all set to go so early the very first time. I believe this time around was OK. I wished for more, but because of the conditions, I gave my best. I am really glad which i managed to get far enough to exhibit my cooking, now people can easily see who I'm.Inch However the Chicago-based chef could not showcase her culinary style completely within the challenges which were more Top Athlete than Top Chef. Does she think the difficulties were unfair? And does she hold any grudges toward Sarah, Lindsay and Louise? Discover below.Top Chef's Erectile dysfunction: What's the purpose of Last Chance Kitchen?Have you think standing there it would be you going home?Beverly: I had been certainly thinking to myself, "There's a high probability it will likely be me since the tastes were good, however they were not my usual tastes which make my food punch." I did not have elements which i wanted. However, like a great chef, you need to use that which you have. Tom pointed out it had been just a little overcooked and that i understood that would be considered a really large reason to transmit me home, and so i really was nervous at that time. The very first time I checked the arctic char, it had been undercooked and also the second time, it had been overcooked, so at that time, I could not do anything whatsoever about this. Sarah did a fantastic job. Her tastes really labored and I am happy on her.I believe most fans were rooting for you personally, particularly to consider lower Lindsay and Sarah. Even Padma appeared sad getting rid of you. Have you believe that support, especially returning to film the finale following a break?Beverly: I certainly felt the fan support. I believe there is a great deal that even Padma could connect with beside me, as being a working mother not only is it an Asian-American lady. Sometimes you receive misinterpreted, originating from another culture. Despite the fact that I had been born here, becoming an adult, people just totally did not understand some things. My lunch was always a bit diverse from everybody else's lunch or my mother wasn't involved with PTA. Why was I likely to chapel for fun on saturday rather than hanging out with everybody? It had been each one of these cultural stuff that were difficult to explain and also the pressure - you buy a b, and [the fact is] "Why is not it a b+?" [Laughs] Then going home and seeking to describe to my parents what went down in school, they would not comprehend it either. I believe that stuck-in-between-two-cultures factor pushes you to definitely convince your folks and also the world who are around you who you're really, which explains why I seem like Padma had some link with me. That being stated, it is a cooking competition also it comes lower towards the last dish.You have together with mostly everybody, aside from Sarah, Lindsay not to mention Louise. Getting return, would you pinpoint why they'd such an issue with you? Maybe it was really just your personality?Beverly: I simply think women certainly work in a different way than males. I was raised with three older siblings, and so i understand what it's like being misinterpreted and being undervalued. There's certainly lots of competition. I believe it is a sociological study about women together and just how we compete. We are very competitive toward one another, however i think we always wish to stick out, less the very best lady chef, but because the best chef. During my personal expertise, dealing with males in the kitchen area, they've an simpler time letting go of things. You receive inside a fight together and subsequently day they are fine. I'm not sure if that is a part of their DNA not to believe that deeply [Laughs], whereas women overanalyze everything. Maybe which has something related to it. I had been cringing watching the way they treated you. I can not imagine what it really was like dealing with it.Beverly: It certainly wasn't fun. [Laughs] However I never was mad their way. I usually attempted to pay attention to myself and my food. For me personally, it's all regulated water underneath the bridge. I do not hold any grudges or anything against them. It's over.Top Chef's Grayson: I wasn't looking forward to Last Chance KitchenDid you are feeling any pretty much bitterness returning for that finale? Sarah vowed to become a better person after which she cuts you off within the vehicle.Beverly: [Laughs] It had been better. We'd return from time from the competition and time heals. And that we were returning from getting seen the episodes, and so i think there is lots of reflection without a doubt. For me personally at that time, I wasn't there on their behalf I had been there for my loved ones. Watching the things they did on their own finish, I totally respect them. I really hope they think exactly the same way about me.What have you think about the difficulties? I really like the Olympic games, but I'd prefer to help you prepare than almost kill yourself attempting to compete inside a biathlon. Beverly: [Laughs] Clearly it can make for excellent TV. I can not enter into the producers' heads, however it was certainly more extreme than I'd seen before. Could it be fair? I am talking about, I registered for everything. I registered for anything! The part you need to accept is the fact that you will find stuff that are from your control and you've got to beat them. It had been hard. The ice-pick challenge - I believe they did research and examined how lengthy it might take to obtain the ice damaged. I believe on that day was cooler compared to what they had expected also it only agreed to be very hard to cope with it. Psychologically it plays several you. However I had fun simultaneously. If only I'd gone further and labored with elements that displayed my style.Clearly you're a fan of Last Chance Kitchen, but many people don't believe it's fair because everyone don't compete within the same challenges because the chefs who're still on the program do. What's your undertake it, if you're able to be impartial?Beverly: Basically might be impartial, the only real factor I'd have to say is that Erectile dysfunction should have also were built with a second chance. He's the only person who did not get to get it done. I had been really considering that prior to the finale, like maybe there can be another twist and that he would participate that as well. It had been an unexpected to many of us, however i think this is when I thrive - when I am open and merely get lower into it. For me personally, it had been awesome. It had been another type of test. It examined your psychology once you were removed. Will you crumble once you totally thought you had been from it or will you rise towards the occasion? I certainly understand them thinking they experienced more physically using the challenges, such as the Pee Wee Herman one. It had been an excellent concept, I believe. Nyesha went home for something which wasn't her fault. It gave people an chance to determine what else a chef needed to offer. Returning a week ago, I certainly needed to fight again to earn my place within the final. I believe the idea requires a little fine-tuning, but It works. Top Chef's Chris Johnson: I'd a poor feeling about everythingDo you've still got that sheet of paper saying you are likely to win Top Chef?Beverly: I actually do really. I truly do seem like it is going to return in my experience in different ways. I believe you've dreams and you will map it, however it does not always exercise this way. ... Maybe it had not been intended to be for me personally this way. But that ambition and drive to win Top Chef, I have that within me. I am likely to display to the world what I have got. Whether it's a positive thing. It can make me wish to continue to work harder and prove and earn it. I believe that it is going to go an enormous means by my career. And perhaps you'll return for those-Stars.Beverly: [Laughs] Maybe! I am available to everything. Every chance, I'd go and seize it.

Oscars 2012: Why '50/50' Deserved A Best Picture Jerk

Nine films are nominated for top Picture within the Academy awards this year, pleading the question: who deserved a tenth perfect that list? Oscars 2012: 10 Place solutions that question, since the MTV Movies team highlights numerous 2011's finest films and argues why they deserved a jerk since the tenth Best Picture nominee. Director Jonathan Levine's affecting "50/50" might be worth recognition if, for few other reason, than transcending a unlucky shorthand (It's a cancer comedy!) to earn its place just like a well-regarded as as little bit of cinema. Why may be the dramedy truly Oscar-worthy (together with a made a decision snub for that Academy) is it is film a lot more than the sum its (excellent) parts, mentioning to some buffet of styles (existence, dying, love) without any oft-requisite side of stinky cheese. Inspired by his real-existence fight getting an uncommon kind of spine cancer, film author Will Reiser introduces us to 27-year-old Adam (Ernest Gordon-Levitt), who's facing their very own diagnosis and 50/50 odds. As well as the youthful man's support method is a motley crew understandably—well-meaning nearest friend Kyle (Seth Rogen), high-set up mother Diane (Anjelica Huston) and counselor-in-training (and potential love interest) Katherine (Anna Kendrick). Though Kendrick offers an serious performance much like her Oscar-nominated submit "Up in mid-air,Inch it's Gordon-Levitt who's the tortured pressure behind "50/50." The actor is actually much everyman Adam it's sometimes hard to remember he isn't really Adam. Even when improvising—like he and Rogen did for your memorable mind-shaving scene—he wears Adam's strife like it's a bespoke suit. And it is no wonder taking into consideration the well-measured material he must use. Reiser offers a script that masterfully toes the street between comedy and tragedy (and just what a little difference it might be). Whether it's a light-hearted scene through which Adam tries to use his diagnosis to obtain a lady or possibly a morose moment in which a fellow cancer patient's chair in treatment techniques are tragically empty, Reiser knows when you employ humor then when to permit the emotion as soon as possess a scene. For a number of, "50/50"'s Adam works like a type of surrogate for your cancer patient in their own personal existence, delivering some empathy and catharsis handful of films can. "The Descendants" is an additional such film that affects so excellent plus it by divine intention acquired a jerk within the Academy. Where's "50/50"'s? The MTV Movies team gets the 2012 Oscars covered! Stay with us for all that you should know just before the honours show, and also on Sunday, February 25, we'll placed you round the red-colored-colored carpet and convey everyone the individuals who win.

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