New TV spot for The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games has released a new TV spot ahead of the film's release at the end of the month. Some of the footage on display has been seen before, but there are enough new snippets in there to pique our interest.For example, we see a little more of an exchange between Katniss and her sister Primrose, in which the younger girl beseeches her sibling to, "just try to win."Then there's a scene with Lenny Kravitz's stylist Cinna, who encourages Katniss before the contest begins. "I'm not allowed to bet," he begins, "but if I could, I'd bet on you."Take a look at the new spot below... Exciting stuff, particularly that brief glimpse of a chase sequence in which Katniss is confronted by a massive burning branch. Much of the actual action has remained impressively under wraps, meaning despite the proliferation of trailers and teasers, there's still plenty to anticipate ahead of the film's great unveiling.The Hunger Games opens in the UK on 23 March 2012. We can hardly wait...

Kraft Philly Cream Cheese Yanks Ads From GCB

If you could recognize Kanye West's "Runaway" from that first tinkling piano note in the Bud Lite Platinum Super Bowl commercial, then you might be in luck. FremantleMedia has secured the rights to the classic game show Name That Tune for a reboot, Vulture reports. The company has a good track record for reviving game shows such as Family Feud and Let's Make a Deal. Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Name That TuneKathy Lee GiffordKanye West

Jean Dujardin or Happy Joe Lucky: Who Has the Kid-Pleasingest Cigarettes?

This new Funny or Die bit featuring reigning Oscar king Jean Dujardin pushing a fictional brand of cigarettes in the suavest, most charming and youth-enticing way possible is pretty good ("And now in Cotton Candy and Snickers Bar!" I LOL'ed). Still, when it comes to animated/live-action smoke pushers, Dujardin and his partner in crime have pretty formidable competition in the infamous Happy Joe Lucky. Right down to the accordions! Who's got the kid-pleasingest cigarettes around? Dujardin's video calls for a rummage through the YouTube wilds, where we find the animated Lucky Strike mascot dueting with Your Hit Parade star Gisele MacKenzie. What an era! Smoke if you got 'em! BRB, etc. Jean Dujardin's Cigarettes from Jean Dujardin Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie

Conceptual designer Ralph McQuarrie, who created the looks behind Darth Vader, Cewbacca, R2 D2 and C 3PO has died at his home in Berkeley, CA at 82 BBC reports. He is survived by his wife Joan. In addition to helping George Lucas create the Star Wars look he designed the original Battlestar Galactica television series, E.T., Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Jurassic Park and others. In 1986 he shared an Oscar win for Best Visual Effects for Cocoon. McQuarrie’s work with Star Wars may nevertheless be his most memorable. He worked as the conceptual designer on sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, but he later declined to work on the Star Wars prequels. A notice on McQuarrie’s website reads: “It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the passing of Ralph McQuarrie. People say you should never meet your heroes. Ralph was the exception to that rule. We were all fans of his amazing art long before we were blessed with his friendship. But once you got to know Ralph it was impossible not to become a fan of Ralph the manHis influence on design will be felt forever. There’s no doubt in our hearts that centuries from now amazing spaceships will soar, future cities will rise and someone somewhere will say, ‘that looks like something Ralph McQuarrie painted.’”

Julianna Margulies To Co-Star In Action Dramedy Stand Up Guys

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ Good Wife is hooking up with some Stand Up Guys. Julianna Margulies, the Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG-winning star of CBS’ legal drama The Good Wife, has joined Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in Stand Up Guys, an action dramedy feature, which is being directed by Fisher Stevens, Oscar-wining producer of The Cove. The project centers on two aging hitmen who have one last night of wildness before one has to murder the other. In the film, written on spec by Noah Haidle, Margulies will play Arkin’s daughter Lila who works as a nurse in the hospital and takes care of Al Pacino when he ODs on Viagra. Playing a nurse a familiar territory for WME-repped Margulies who shot to stardom with her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on NBC’s long-running medical drama ER. She will film Stand Up Guys during her hiatus from The Good Wife, which is expected to return for a fourth season next fall. Filming is scheduled to begin next month in Los Angeles. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is producing in association with Lakeshore, with Lionsgate distributing domestically.

Redford Might Have The Prettiest Time

Diane Keaton also up for that Christmas picYou understand what is a really underserved genre recently? Holiday-designed films with large ensembles. Yes, you are able to most likely hear the sarcasm in each and every strike from the secrets there. But although the latest effort, Garry Marshall's New Year's Eve, did not benefit from the most warm critical reception, it did go onto make around $142 million worldwide, therefore the tide of treacly periodic comedy won't stop at this time. Especially since Robert Redford and Diane Keaton are circling the leads in The Prettiest Time.P.S. I really like You/Stepmom author Steven Rogers has develop the idea, which, based on Deadline he describes being an "Amelie-esque story about individuals who live for future years or hold onto yesteryear, which prevents them from residing in as soon as, and never appreciating what's at the front of these.Inch Err... Yay?Redford and Keaton are most likely onto take part in the leads inside a plot which will feature multiple strands interlinking and lots of heart-warming Christmas cheer. Which director Jessie Nelson will most likely gather on the soundstage in the center of a sweltering This summer summer time. Nothing states Christmas like needing to stop the environment conditioning to shoot!

LA Occasions Like Duh! Academy Voters Study

Allow theLos Angeles Occasions to provide us yet more ‘Like Duh!’ film coverage.No wonder whythe newspaperis now irrelevant within the Hollywood community. So its study finds that Academy Of Movement Picture Arts & Sciences people arenearly 94% whitened and 77% male and also have a median chronilogical age of 62.However the paper does not hit difficult on how that’s since the forces-that-be running the film industry — in the moguls towards the agents towards the guilds –are minimal diverse on the planet. That will took balls.