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The Hunger Games wins big at The Empire Cinemas Alternative Movie Awards


'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' triumphed at The Empire Cinemas Alternative Movie Awards.
Jennifer Lawrence won Sexiest Actress and Best Film Hero for her portrayal of Katniss Everdeen in the second installment of the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' trilogy.
The 23-year-old star also picked up the gong for Best On-Screen Kiss for her smooch with Liam Hemsworth who stars as Gale Hawthorne while the sci-fi adventure picked up a further award for Best Sequel.
Jon Nutton, Marketing Director for Empire Cinemas, said: "It's obvious that Jennifer Lawrence has captured the hearts, and funny bones, of the public and can do no wrong as her character Katniss Everdeen. Here at Empire Cinemas we're also glad to be awarding Leonardo DiCaprio a much deserved award and overdue credit for his incredible work these last 12 months."
Thor: The Dark World was another big winner - picking up a hat-trick of awards for Best Screen Fight as well as Chris Hemsworth's Sexiest Male Actor prize and Best Film Villain for Tom Hiddleston.
Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio has been honoured for his role in 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' and last year's 'The Great Gatsby' with a People's Choice Award after losing out on in the Best Actor category at this year's Academy Awards.
The award's winners are voted solely by movie fans with DiCaprio picking up a huge 60 per cent of the public vote, beating stiff competition from '12 Years A Slave' actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and 'American Hustle' star Lawrence.

The full list of awards as follows:

Best On-Screen Kiss: Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best Film Villain: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) - Thor: The Dark World

Sexiest Actor: Thor (Chris Hemsowth) - Thor: The Dark World

Sexiest Actress: Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) - The Hunger Game: Catching Fire

Best Film Hero: Jennifer Lawrence - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Best On-Screen Partnership: Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) - Gravity

Best Fight Scenes: Thor: The Dark World

Funniest Film: Despicable Me 2

Best Sequel: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The People's Choice Award: Leonardo Di Caprio

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James McAvoy: Filming X-Men was ‘more like a sex scene’


James McAvoy felt like he was filming a sex scene on his first day on the 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' set.
The 35-year-old actor plays a younger version of Charles Xavier, who was first portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart in the original 'X-Men' trilogy, and when the pair were on set together he felt like he was in an initiation ceremony where the legendary actor was handing over the "baton".
However, since there was few cast and crew around, unlike the usual bustle, it was like they were preparing to shoot intimate scenes.
Talking on XFM radio station, McAvoy said: "Although I'd previously played Charles in one other movie, it still did feel like I was being initiated and that there was a baton being handed over. It was a very kind of ceremonial scene, in a very sort of ceremonial location. We were in a monastery, and the set was very quiet, and the director made sure that... It was much more like a sex scene.
"You know that when we do sex scenes we make sure there's nobody on set. It's just the boom operator, the camera man, and you don't have loads of people staring at you... usually we do!
"And it was a bit more like that. Clearing the set, making it very quiet, very reverent, that was kind of cool. It felt like I was being initiated into some kind of superhero sect!"
McAvoy joked about raunchy scenes with Stewart being a part of his "wish list".
show host Jon Holmes asked: "You didn't worry that they were clearing the set, thinking, 'Is this a sex scene I hadn't red in the script, with me and Patrick'...?"
And McAvoy replied: "A sex scene with Patrick Stewart would be exceptional. Tick that one off the wish list!"
Tune in to XFM radio station's X-Men FM from 6am-7pm.

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Benedict Cumberbatch for Whitey Bulger biopic


Benedict Cumberbatch has replaced Guy Pearce in the upcoming Whitey Bulger biopic.
The 'Star Trek Into Darkness' actor has been signed up to replace the 'Prometheus' star in the untitled project starring Johnny Depp as convicted murderer and organised crime figure Bulger, who is currently serving two life sentences in an Arizona prison.
Cross Creek Pictures president Brian Oliver told Variety that Pearce had to drop out of the biopic, which had been titled 'Black Mass' and began shooting in Boston yesterday (21.05.14), because of scheduling issues, saying: "We were not able to make it work with Guy."
Cumberbatch will now portray Whitey Bulger's law-abiding brother and Massachusetts State Senator Bill Bulger, while Joel Edgerton will play disgraced FBI agent John Connolly, who aided Whitey Bulger and was sentenced to 40 years in prison despite maintaining his innocence.
Jesse Plemons, known for playing Todd in 'Breaking Bad', will take on the role of Bulger's long-time partner in crime Kevin Weeks, while Sienna Miller will play his lover Catherine Greig.
Dakota Johnson has been cast as Bulger's ex-girlfriend and the mother of his only child.
The film's script, penned by Mark Mallouk, is based on the book 'Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob', which was written by the Boston Globe newspaper reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.

Channing Tatum: I felt like a fat kid at a buffet with movie offers


Channing Tatum felt like a "fat kid in at a buffet" when he was offered four "great" movies.
The 34-year-old actor has been working hard for the past 18 months while he was busy filming 'White House Down', 'Foxcatcher', 'Jupiter Ascending' and '22 Jump Street' and although he knew it was going to be hard he was determined to take on all the projects.
Talking to US GQ magazine, he explained: "I feel like I was definitely the fat kid at the buffet. There were four really great projects, and I was 'I wanna do them all.' They're like, 'You know doing four movies back-to-back is going to kill you?' and I'm, 'Yeah, but that's something I can take. That's just going to be tiring, and tired doesn't kill you.' "
He emphasised: "Zero breaks."
While he was in England shooting 'Jupiter Ascending' Tatum's wife, Jenna Dewan, gave birth to their first child, nine-month-old Everly, and although he admits they didn't think it "through" they are delighted with the way things have turned out.
He added: "Then we had sort of a crazy, harebrained idea to try to have a kid, and it happened the first time, basically. And I don't think we thought it all the way through, we were happy as hell about it."

Channing Tatum’s ‘crazy’ strippers’ conventions


Channing Tatum says it gets "zany and crazy" at strippers' conventions.
The 34-year-old actor is currently working on a sequel to 'Magic Mike' which was loosely based on his experience as an 18-year-old stripper in Tampa, Florida.
'Magic Mike 2' is inspired by two "absolutely insane" strippers' conventions he attended, one of which was in Raleigh, North Carolina where they danced for 3,000 women.
Talking to US GQ magazine, he said: "The women would come from miles and miles around.
"Then you lock the doors and you say all bets are off. It gets zany and crazy, and it's a wild ride. It's an incubator for insanity. It doesn't matter almost what you do onstage. I don't want to put anything in black and white on a page, but if you've been to one, you know how crazy it gets, and now pour kerosene on that. You've seen 'Magic Mike' -- now multiply that. Mob mentality. It's just exponentially crazier. I thought it was absolutely insane."
Tatum has tried to convince Steven Soderbergh - who directed the original - to helm the follow-up but he's not going to do a u-turn on his recent retirement from movie directing and instead his longtime producing partner, Greg Jacobs, will take on the project.
He added: "It's super complicated, in my opinion, why he wanted to stop doing film. I lobbied probably harder than anybody else--we had many, many nights of heated debate. I was, 'I don't f***ing get it! Why?' And he's like, 'I don't need it.' "

Star Wars fans chance to appear in Episode VII


Star Wars' fans can win a chance to appear in Episode VII.
Director J.J. Abrams is backing Star Wars: Force for Change, a campaign which will raise funds and awareness for the United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Innovation Labs and fans can contribute to the cause between May 21 - July 18 through Omaze.com/StarWars.
For each $10 contribution made eligible participants will be entered into the draw for the incredible prize which will also include airfare and accommodation in London, behind-the-scenes access on the closed set and the opportunity to meet the A-List cast.
Abrams explained: "The 'Star Wars' fans are some of the most passionate and committed folks around the globe.
"We're thrilled to offer a chance to come behind the scenes as our VIP guests and be in Star Wars: Episode VII."
Star Wars: Force for Change aims to help the world's most vulnerable children and create sustainable solutions to issues including nutrition, water, health, and education.
Meanwhile, 'Star Wars: Episode VII' will see former stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher return alongside newcomers John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Andy Serkis, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow.
Filming began in Abu Dhabi last week and is then expected to continue at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
The movie, which has a screenplay written by the director and Lawrence Kasban, opens worldwide on December 18, 2015.

Simon Kinberg thinks X-Men: Apocalypse will be even ‘bigger’


Simon Kinberg says 'X-Men: Apocalypse' will be even "bigger" than the franchise's seven previous films.
The producer behind 'X-Men: First Class' (2011) and 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014) - the latest in the Marvel comic book-based series - believes the next installment of the movie franchise will top all previous efforts.
He told Collider.com: "Apocalypse, because of the nature of apocalypse and all of the roll and emeric style destruction that comes with it, felt like it was a bigger movie and felt like it was an opportunity to follow our main 'First Class' characters in the next step of their lives.
"It'll pick up after Days of Future Past, in the past, it'll be a few years later."
Although the 40-year-old screenwriter and producer has no doubts about the movie's potential for success he admitted his team struggled to come up with a story worthy of following 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.
He said: "We're at the beginning of the scripting phase. We've already been working on the story since we were shooting 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' and we were on set, Brian [Singer] and the other producers Lauren and Hotch Parker we all talked about what the next chapter of the X-Men would be.
"It's a hard movie to follow because you're never really going to get all the cast back together. The event of 'Days of Future Past' is almost like our 'Avengers'. So it's, how do we take the story forward and in some ways build on the scope and scale of the franchise with mass characters."
'X-Men: Apocalypse' - starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult and James McAvoy - will be directed by Bryan Singer and although plot details are yet to be released the film is set to hit cinemas in 2016.

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