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NEW YORK, April 19 (UPI) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino says after working with Christoph Waltz on 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds,” he found himself writing a role specifically for Austrian actor in “Django Unchained.”
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
The MTV Movie Awards aren’t the most highly viewed awards in the biz, nor are they the most fashionable. But the event still manages to produce memorable pop culture moments each year, from Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’ swoon-worthy onstage kiss in 2005 to Beyonce’s solo statement in that corseted yellow Versace dress in 2003.
So it is with high hopes that we’re tuning in to this year’s MTV Movie Awards, hosted by Rebel Wilson. The film nominees include “Django Unchained,” “Ted” and “The Dark Knight Rises” but we’re obviously a bit more interested in the award for “Best Kiss.”
Oh, and the fashion. Check out the red carpet style below and tell us whose looks you love!
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
LOS ANGELES — The MTV Movie Awards are as much about the anticipated movies of the upcoming summer season as they are about the winning films of last year.
Rebel Wilson is hosting the Sunday night ceremony at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Calif. “Django Unchained” and “Ted” are the top nominees in the irreverent competition, where fans vote online for the winners in categories such as best fight, best kiss and best shirtless performance.
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NEW YORK, April 13 (UPI) — A re-edited “Django Unchained” is expected back in Chinese cinemas after it was abruptly pulled the day of its release, The New York Times reported.
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Even after re-editing the film’s gore and violence in order to appease Chinese censors, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was pulled from theaters in China on its opening day Thursday for reasons that remain mysterious. The move is a blow as China is now the world’s second largest film market.
“We regret that Django Unchained has been removed from theaters and are working with the Chinese authorities to determine whether the film can be rescheduled,” the film’s overseas distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a statement.
While no official reason for China‘s decision was given, the New York Times claims “there was talk among some people in the industry that brief nudity in one or two scenes had offended Chinese officials. The move comes after some scenes were reported to have already been edited to conform with the wishes of Chinese censors.”
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Syfy has announced they are launching a new anthology horror series from Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx. Foxx will serve as executive producer and one of the writers on the currently untitled series, which launches in October with a five-episode run.
At their Upfront event this week, the network also revealed several new projects in development, including No Place, from Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) about a high-tech community cut off from the rest of reality; High Moon, from Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) about Earth establishing colonies to mine the Moon’s resources and discovering a new form of life; and Clandestine, from The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd, about a group of spacefaring bandits who pose as Coalition officers while continuing their criminal ways.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/11/syfy-announces-horror-anthology-series-from-jamie-foxx
BEIJING, April 11 (UPI) — Quentin Tarantino’s bloody revenge western “Django Unchained” was abruptly pulled from Chinese cinemas the day of its release, The Hollywood Reporter said.
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By Simon Montlake, Forbes Staff
A toned-down cut of Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning slavery movie ‘Django Unchained‘ opened Thursday in China. But not for long. In an embarrassing setback for Sony Pictures, Chinese regulators abruptly pulled the film from rotation, in some cases just minutes into the day’s first screenings. China Film Group, the state-owned distributor, ordered theatres to suspend the film due to a “technical problem” (a catch-all excuse). Director Tarantino had reportedly signed off on minor tweaks to his violent movie, including a darker shade of blood, though not the drastic cuts that other Western films have suffered in China. That makes it all the more bizarre that China Film Group and its political masters decided to pull the plug at the last minute, since the film’s violence and sexual content was already known to them. Hollywood studios usually jump through hoops to satisfy Chinese sensitivities and make sure that their blockbuster films get into cinemas. Sony was apparently caught flat-footed by the 11th-hour cancellation of Thursday’s screenings.
BEIJING, April 10 (UPI) — Sony Pictures says some of the gore in Quentin Tarantino‘s blood-soaked, 19th century epic “Django Unchained” is to be toned down for its release in China.
By David Lauterborn Django earns the handle “fastest gun in the South,” even if director Quentin Tarantino spends too long in the saddle getting him there.
Oscar-winning screenwriter, foot fetishist and shutter-down of butts, Quentin Tarantino turns 50 this week; a birthday that ages all who remember him being labelled “the hottest young director in Hollywood”. Tarantino has gifted cinema dozens of classic characters in his half century, from Reservoir Dogs through Django Unchained – plus, of course, via movies he wrote, like True Romance and Natural Born Killers. It’s easy to forget the wealth of talent that has at some point agreed to be QT‘s mouthpiece – Pitt! Clooney! Willis! De Niro! Oldman! – so whether or not the quality of Quentin’s output decreases as he begins the backslide into old age as he predicted, let’s just be grateful that for now, the Tarantino universe boasts an unforgettable cast of heroes, villains and everyone in between.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Famed director Quentin Tarantino turns the ripe old age of 50 on Wednesday, March 27. Tarantino made his name with bold, boundary-pushing films such as 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs,” 1994’s “Pulp Fiction,” and 1997’s “Jackie Brown.”
Tarantino was nominated for Best Director for “Pulp Fiction” at the 1995 Oscars, but he won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the ceremony. In 2010, “Inglourious Basterds” earned Tarantino Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, while 2013’s Best Picture-nominee “Django Unchained” also won Tarantino the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
In celebration of Tarantino’s 50th birthday, we’ve compiled 50 of the best quotes from his films. Click through below and let us know your favorites in the comments.
By Kris Zane
For many of us, Rand Paul’s filibuster was a surreal moment in time, beckoning back to better days when Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was considered a masterpiece of film because it embodied the values of our nation. Today, “violence porn” films like Django Unchained are considered the top of the heap because they, sadly, embody our corrupt and violent society.
“Old Bull” Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham thought Rand Paul’s filibuster was stupid and irrelevant. That it was ridiculous to think that Barack Hussein Obama, who has from almost Day One of his presidency spurned the rule of law—often blathering about “if Congress won’t act, I will”—would drop a hellfire missile on an American sitting in a cafe.
But this wasn’t some manufactured issue, as the Left is famous for. Michael Isakoff uncovered a secret DOJ memo last month that gave the Obama administration the authority to kill any U.S. citizen, at any time, anywhere, without proof, without due process, accountable to no one.
And in fact, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was taken out by a drone for basically being a propagandist for Al-Qaeda. Whether, being an American citizen, he should have been given due process is debatable. But two weeks after al-Awlaki was killed, his sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman, also an American citizen, was killed with a drone. His crime was being related to an identified terrorist. And in fact, then-Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs blamed al-Awlaki’s son for “not having a more responsible father” for his being vaporized by a missile.
And then there was the news that the Obama administration had ordered a fleet of “public safety” drones, able to pick up cell phone traffic, able to identify whether the target—that is, an American citizen—is armed or not—with the ability to be easily outfitted with missiles. Experts estimate this fleet of “public safety” drones to reach 30,000 by the end of Obama’s “third term.”
This in itself would have remained innocuous enough, but there was this odd “War on Domestic Terrorism” that the Obama administration was waging against conservatives.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security published a study titled “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, which identified potential domestic terrorists as those who are “reverent of individual liberty.” Those who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority.” Those who believe there is a “grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
This of course sounds very much like beliefs espoused by conservatives, specifically the Tea Party, so it was valid for conservatives to be concerned.
Rand Paul, more pointedly, cited in his filibuster further ludicrous “behaviors” of potential domestic terrorists: Those who have guns with high capacity magazines and weatherized ammunition. Those who have more than a seven day supply of food. Those who pay in cash. And probably the most ludicrous: Those who are missing fingers.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Leonardo DiCaprio says filming violent scenes like in “Django Unchained” doesn’t deter him from wanting his movies to be great art.
The bloody revenge film about slavery before the U.S. Civil War has fueled some of the debate about whether Hollywood shows too much on-screen violence. DiCaprio portrays a ruthless plantation owner encountered by a freed slave and bounty hunter (Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz).
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NEW YORK, March 6 (UPI) — The blood-soaked, 19th century American epic “Django Unchained” and stuffed-bear comedy “Ted” have each been nominated for seven 2013 MTV Movie Awards.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
LOS ANGELES — Just as Oscar host Seth MacFarlane set his sights on a variety of targets with a mixture of hits and misses, the motion picture academy spread the gold around to a varied slate of films. “Argo” won best picture as expected, along with two other prizes. But “Life of Pi” won the most awards with four, including a surprise win for director Ang Lee.
“Les Miserables” also won three Academy Awards, while “Django Unchained” and “Skyfall” each took two.
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Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Bradley Cooper and more stars celebrated Hollywood’s biggest night on Feb. 24 at the Oscars. (An Academy Awards winners list for 2013 can be found below.)
Hosted by Seth MacFarlane (“Ted”), the 85th annual Academy Awards included a wide array of box office hits. For the first time ever, the Best Picture category included six films with grosses over $100 million, including “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln” and “Silver Linings Playbook.” “Zero Dark Thirty,” another Best Picture nominee, was in striking distance of nine figures as well. (The other Best Picture nominees, “Amour” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” were limited releases.)
The history making didn’t end there. The Oscars 2013 ceremony also included opportunities for Day-Lewis and Affleck to enter the record books. Day-Lewis, nominated for “Lincoln,” won his third Best Actor Oscar, an Academy Awards record. Affleck, meanwhile, became only the fourth director in the 85-year history of the Academy Awards to see his film win Best Picture without a subsequent nomination for Best Director. (The last time this happened was at the 1990 ceremony when “Driving Miss Daisy” won.)
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The complete lst of winners for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane, will be updated throughout tonight’s telecast, so please keep refreshing this page throughout the ceremony. You’ll also be able to follow along with the IGN Entertainment editorial team via the Twitter feed below:
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
After months of competition, debate and conjecture, it’s finally time for Hollywood’s biggest night: the Oscars. (Live updates from the 85th annual Academy Awards can be found below.)
The 2013 Oscars ceremony, held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and hosted by “Ted” director Seth MacFarlane, ends an awards season that started all the way back in January of 2012 when “Beasts of the Southern Wild” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. (“Beasts of the Southern Wild” earned four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Benh Zeitlin, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress for child star Quvenzhane Wallis.)
“Beasts” and eight other films were nominated for Best Picture — “Amour,” Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Miserables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Zero Dark Thirty” — but the race had focused down to “Lincoln” and “Argo” as the Oscars approached. The former film led the pack with 12 total nominations, but it was “Argo” that has dominated the awards stage since early January.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
The year’s Oscars quotes included many a zinger, but perhaps none more controversial than host Seth MacFarlane’s Chris Brown and Rihanna joke.
MacFarlane called “Django Unchained” “unspeakably violent,” then quipped, “or date night for Rihanna and Chris Brown.” The reference to Brown’s 2009 assault of Rihanna drew gasps from the audience in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Rihanna and Brown are now once again an item.
On “Argo,” MacFarlane dinged Ben Affleck by saying, “The film’s director is unknown to the Academy.”
