Movies

Hefty Casting Update: “The Hunger Games”

It’s old news that Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, and Jennifer Lawrence will star in the upcoming adaptation of The Hunger Games,
with Lawrence leading the film. However, it’s been a while since we at
Player Affinity discussed the feature, so here’s what you may have
missed in casting news!

Entertainment Weekly
reveals that Willow Shields, a relative unknown at this point in her
small career, has been cast to play Prim, Katniss’s sister. In the
novel, she’s initially chosen for death-match fighting, but Katniss
steps in for her. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the mother of the two girls will be played by Paula Malcomson.

Five Unlikely Movie Romances that Worked

We often scrunch up our faces and scowl at certain pairings in romantic films at first glance, but we’re sometimes rewarded with the final product. The chemistry itself plays into it, but there’s something even more special about the film when we didn’t see it coming.

Will Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon end up being a success in the romantic genre, or will this Water for Elephants end up being this decade’s equivalent of Swept Away? We’ll find out soon enough, but we at Player Affinity came up with a list of the unexpected couples in cinema that actually worked quite nicely.

Box Office Wizard (4.22.11)

Welcome to Box Office Wizard, Player Affinity’s premiere movie box office prediction competition that you ignore every week because you don’t hath the stones of a real wizard. Entering is and always has been simple, so why not get your beard on and give it a try? Just read through this post and leave a comment with, in order, what you think the top five box office finishers will be this weekend. Finish out 2011 on top and you will win something COOL.

Sports Movie Madness: Championship – Vote Here!

It began with 64 films just one month ago; 64 films that represented seven different major sports (and one region of assorted sports). You voted (for the most part) week in and week out and now we are left with the last two standing. Who will take home the title of Best Sports Movie of All Time as decided by Player Affinity? That’s up to you friend. Vote by leaving a comment below. Polls close Sunday night when the clock strikes midnight.

Trailer Tracker: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and More

Get your hands of my
trailer, you damn dirty ape! Our featured trailer this week, is the awkwardly
titled Rise of the Planet of the Apes
starring Andy Serkis and James Franco as ape and human respectively. Taylor
Lautner deviates from his shirtless Twilight origins to a likely shirtless
follow-up in Abduction, a Taken­-inspired thriller. The zombie
genre gets crossed with the now-popular vampire genre in the creepy indie
horror flick, Stake Land
and finally Emma Stone goes back to the less-than-accepting days of the 1960’s
exploring African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi.
We’re very accepting here on Player Affinity, let’s all hold hands and watch
some great clips, it’s Trailer Tracker.

Ryan Gosling possibly The Lone Ranger?

TheWrap.com is reporting that Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine, Half-Nelson) is in talks to star as the titular hero of Disney’s upcomingThe Lone Ranger. Gosling is currently set to star in the upcoming remake of Logan’s Run, a burgeoning tent pole project for Warner Bros. 

Gosling’s current involvement with Logan’s Run could put a wrench in his involvement as the gunslinger as the sci-fi remake is scheduled to start shooting this fall, but “Ranger” is likely to not film until 2012. Should Gosling be cast, he would star alongside Johnny Depp as Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s trusted Native American companion.

Cotillard and Gordon-Levitt “Dark Knight Rises” Roles Revealed

Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have been linked to Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Dark Knight Rises for months now, but it was never official nor were their parts known. Now, Warner Bros. has confirmed both actors will rejoin their Inception director in the upcoming project.