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See Stars Party During Super Bowl Weekend!

Super Bowl 2013 attracted plenty of stars to New Orleans, and even if they didn't make it to NOLA, celebrities took part in festivities around the country.
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Super Bowl 2013 attracted plenty of stars to New Orleans, and even if they didn't make it to NOLA, celebrities took part in festivities around the country. The VIP bashes, house parties, and other events are all leading up to the big game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers and the coach-off between brothers Jim and John Harbaugh.

Channing Tatum partied with Ashley Greene at his bar, Saints & Sinners, while Sofia Vergara and Stacy Keibler linked up at the Audi party at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Josh Hutcherson, and more got competitive during the celebrity beach bowl and Justin Timberlake was joined by Jay-Z on stage for a live performance at DIRECTV's Super Saturday Night party in New Orleans.

Lots more action went down, so click through to see all the star-studded Super Bowl party pics!

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Emily VanCamp Cast in Captain America Sequel
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Emily VanCamp Will Be Captain America's Love Interest and More of This Week's Biggest Casting News

There's some fun casting news this week, including the exciting word that Revenge's Emily VanCamp will be the latest leading lady in a superhero franchise.
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There's some fun casting news this week, including the exciting word that Revenge's Emily VanCamp will be the latest leading lady in a superhero franchise. But that's not all: Zac Efron is set to get mysterious, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 recruited an Oscar nominee, and Jessica Chastain will match wits with Colin Farrell. Check out this week's biggest movie casting news and let us know which roles you're most excited to see these actors in.

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AACTA Awards 2013: Celebrity Red Carpet (Pictures)
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Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett Show Their Aussie Pride at the AACTAs

Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett showed support for their fellow Australian actors when they attended the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards in Sydney yesterday.
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Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett showed support for their fellow Australian actors when they attended the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards in Sydney yesterday. Nicole walked the red carpet in a yellow Erdem dress with nude Brian Atwood sandals while Cate turned up the glamour factor in a red Armani gown. The ladies joined host Russell Crowe and AACTA president Geoffrey Rush at the event, marking the first time that all four actors — who have each won an Oscar, BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and an AFI Award — were in the same room at the same time. At the event, the Australian film The Sapphires won the biggest awards of the night, including best film, best direction, and best actor for Chris O'Dowd.

Although the official AACTA Awards took place in Australia, there was a special AACTA Awards lunch held in LA over the past weekend. At the lunch, we caught up with honoree and Aussie actress Jacki Weaver who talked about playing Bradley Cooper's mom in Silver Linings Playbook. Jacki also revealed at the AACTA lunch that her costar Jennifer Lawrence is battling pneumonia, although Jennifer pulled it together to attend the SAG Awards on Sunday.

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Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters Review
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Isn't a Great Movie, But . . .

Not every movie can be Schindler's List-caliber, but would we really want that, anyway?
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Not every movie can be Schindler's List-caliber, but would we really want that, anyway? Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a preposterous movie, but the blood-soaked fairy tale is more than aware of its silliness and embraces it. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the titular brother-and-sister duo, but the classic characters are a little different than you may remember. Their tale begins traditionally, with their miraculous escape from a witch who lures them in with her candy-coated cottage. Now grown, the siblings' childhood nightmare has catapulted them to fame as the most successful witch hunters in the land. The movie picks up when they are commissioned by a village to investigate the disappearance of children. It's not the most imaginative concept, but that doesn't mean the film lacks creativity. Read on to find out why Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters may be more amusing than you think.

  • The acting isn't genius. Wry one-liners and overblown dialogue are status quo here, and for the most part, this isn't a brilliantly acted work of art.
  • But . . . Watching Oscar nominee Renner spit out lines like "If you're gonna kill a witch, set her *ss on fire" is worth the price of admission. There's something fantastic about the way he clearly doesn't take himself too seriously to do a film like this, and it's a pleasure to watch him as the grumpy, suspicious Hansel.
  • It's ridiculous. The project is produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, so that should be an indicator that this film is no ordinary thriller. Hansel is diabetic because of all the sugar the witch made him ingest when he was a kid, and the leather-wearing hunters have homemade medieval versions of machine guns and defibrillators. The latter is used to bring a fallen troll back to life.
  • But . . . It's the perfect antidote to all the three-hour dramas flooding theaters during award season. Hansel and Gretel take their jobs seriously, but audiences know better than to take this movie seriously.

To find out the other ups and downs of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, just read more.

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Salma, Rashida, and Jeremy Get Into the Award-Season Spirit

Salma Hayek made a bright entrance to the Spirit Awards brunch at BOA Steakhouse in LA yesterday.
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Salma Hayek made a bright entrance to the Spirit Awards brunch at BOA Steakhouse in LA yesterday. She was on hand to announce the winners of the organization's filmmaking grants alongside cochair Jeremy Renner. Jeremy posed with Nikki Reed on his way into the event, which also honored the 2013 nominees. Young Quvenzhané Wallis got a best actress Spirit Awards nod for Beasts of the Southern Wild, an honor that she took home at Thursday's Critics' Choice Awards. Jack Black, who is up for best male lead at the Feb. 23 show, goofed around on the carpet, while best first screenplay nominee Rashida Jones chose a ladylike look for the event.

It was just one of many award-season happenings around LA on Saturday, including the BAFTA Tea event, Art of Elysium bash, and the LA Film Critics Association Awards. The fun continues today with the Golden Globes, so make sure to check back today at 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST for our LIVE red-carpet Golden Globes viewing party!

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Jeremy Renner SNL Promos
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Watch Jeremy Renner's SNL Promos, Complete With Pretty Woman Montage

Jeremy Renner is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he's got the bar set high for him after Anne Hathaway's musical monologue last Saturday.
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Jeremy Renner is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he's got the bar set high for him after Anne Hathaway's musical monologue last Saturday. So how is he gearing up for the big night? By shooting his promos in a bar and going shot for shot with Kenan Thompson. The real fun is at the end of the clip, though, when Renner shows off some of the "looks" he's hoping to wear on the episode.

Check out the promos when you read more

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Ben Affleck Celebrates Argo's Cast and Their Winning Box Office Weekend

Ben Affleck was among the stars who turned out for last night's Casting Society of America's Artios Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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Ben Affleck was among the stars who turned out for last night's Casting Society of America's Artios Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He walked the carpet alongside other actors like Armie Hammer and Anna Kendrick. Ben was on hand to accept honors for the big-screen stars he assembled for his latest directorial project, Argo. His leading man from another endeavor, The Town's Jeremy Renner, was there to present Ben's statue.

We caught up with Ben before the award-giving commenced, and he dished all about Argo being No. 1 at the box office. Ben told us, "I was very excited, to be honest. I'm usually insecure, skeptical, or try to find the worst about it — but this was just a really nice thing. A lot of people worked really hard. Dramas like this don't really work well at the box office. Usually, it's more high-concept things. I was just really happy. I cut out and pasted a copy of the web page to keep it. Next time I want to make a movie like this, I want to say, hey look — you can be successful with movies like this."

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Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters Trailer
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Jeremy Renner Takes Violent Revenge in the Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Trailer

Everyone seems to be hunting something supernatural these days.
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Everyone seems to be hunting something supernatural these days. Abraham Lincoln's staking vampires, nobody likes zombies, and now classic fairytale characters Hansel and Gretel are gunning down witches with crossbows. In Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, the once-innocent siblings (Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton) are all grown-up and working through their past trauma (that whole gingerbread house ordeal) by slaying witches who inhabit their area. Townsfolk turn to them when children start disappearing, but they realize they may be dealing with a creature far more dangerous than a run-of-the-mill witch.

I like fairytale-fantasy mashups just as much as the next person — which is to say I regard them with a sort of amused skepticism — but this is just silly. The trailer almost immediately reminded me of 2005's The Brothers Grimm, a film with a similar "darkness lurks in the forest" vibe, but not in a good way. Maybe I'm being too harsh; make up your own mind when you watch the trailer after the break.

The Bourne Legacy Review
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The Bourne Legacy: Not Bourne Again

Jeremy Renner begins a new chapter in the franchise Matt Damon left behind with The Bourne Legacy, an unremarkable follow-up to the popular action series.
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Jeremy Renner begins a new chapter in the franchise Matt Damon left behind with The Bourne Legacy, an unremarkable follow-up to the popular action series. This installment picks up somewhere in the middle of 2007's The Bourne Supremacy and introduces new hero Aaron Cross (Renner). Though Jason and Aaron's paths don't cross, Jason's presence is riddled throughout the film. A couple of familiar characters make brief appearances, but for the most part, The Bourne Legacy showcases an entirely new cast. Writer/director Tony Gilroy is also new to directing the Bourne series (though he wrote the screenplays for the first three) and seems to be attempting to capture the same frantic energy of the prior films, but instead he falls flat, strapped with snooze-inducing material and a story that takes way too long to get to the point.

Like Jason, Aaron is part of a top-secret government program, but is left out to dry when it gets shut down. Agents start dropping like flies all over the globe, all except Aaron, who is isolated on some "bullsh*t scavenger hunt" in the mountains. He realizes the mission he's on is no longer routine and life is in danger shortly after a missile destroys his cabin. Unfortunately, Aaron can't sever ties with the agency just yet; he needs the mysterious strength-building pills that its pretty scientist Dr. Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz) has been supplying him with. The fact that we never find out what will happen to Aaron if he fails to take these pills is just one of the issues I have with this movie. To find out what else I thought, just keep reading.