Congratulations to’The Help’ on getting nomination for Golden Globe for ‘Best Motion Picture, Drama’ catergory.

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
The Descendants
Moneyball
The Help
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The Ides of March
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Thousands of film fans responded to the survey, which was posted on Fandango.com during the first weeks of December. According to male moviegoers, the most anticipated blockbuster of 2012 will be Warner Bros’ The Hobbit, while for females, it’s Summit’s Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2. When it comes to remakes, men are most anticipating Sony’s Total Recall while women are most looking forward to Warner Bros’ The Great Gatsby. Several studios are missing from these lists, so it looks like some marketing departments have to play catch-up in the coming months:

THE MOST ANTICIPATED REMAKE IN 2012:

According to Men:
1. Total Recall (Sony)
2. The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony)
3. The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros)
4. Snow White And The Huntsman (Universal)
5. Mirror Mirror (Relativity)

According to Women:
1. Snow White And The Huntsman (Universal)
2. The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros)
3. Mirror Mirror (Relativity)
4. Total Recall (Sony)
5. The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony)

Source: Fandango

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are madly in love — and they don’t care who knows it!

The Amazing Spider-Man costars — who have been dating since the spring — walked hand-in-hand through New York City’s East Village on Sunday, marking the first time the couple has shown affection in public. See more pictures of the couple on Just Jared.

(Though Garfield has attended a handful of events with Stone in the past week, the couple refuses to be photographed together on the red carpet.)

On Saturday, the pair was even seen buying jelly donuts and kissing each other at the Donut Pub, a source tells Us Weekly.

What makes Garfield, 28, such a perfect match for Stone, 23?

“Andrew is one of the most giving actors I’ve ever worked with,” The Help star told Teen Vogue in September. “If I needed to get to a place of love or sadness in a scene, he’d leave messages on my phone to replay, or slip in lines off camera for a different reaction than what was scripted. He gave me so much to react to.”

Source: US Magazine

Happy 23rd birthday Emma!

Fans around the world and Emma Stone Web staffs wishes you a best year ahead!

Emma Stone recently came to London to premiere The Help and talk to the press. Luckily, I got to sit down with her, and talk about a lot of good, chewy stuff.

Not only is she the most consistently engaging young actor in studio films right now, Stone gives great interview too.

As The Help is out today in UK cinemas, it’s the perfect time to share some of what she told me.

Explosions are fun, but face the facts

Everything in Hollywood seems to be increasingly stereotypical and increasingly watered down. Look at movies from the seventies. One of my favourite movies is Network. That movie would never be made now.

We don’t want to call people out on their crap. You’re sitting in your little room and you’re looking at your TV and that’s what you believe. You want to hear that that’s important to read your websites, and it’s important to watch your TV shows, and that it’s important to stay in your own little world and escape. This is the stuff you don’t want to hear and don’t want to be confronted with.

Explosions are fun, and I’m not saying that’s bad. I love explosions. I love my websites. I love TV.I just think we need to face the fact that we’re afraid to face ourselves a lot of the time.

There’s so much censorship it’s insane. I’ve experienced so much censorship, even in comedy. Even in terms of not being able to curse or to cover something.

I went to see Fast Times at Ridgmont High for the first time two weeks ago.  That movie would never be made now. A fifteen year old having sex with a thirty year old? You would never see that in a movie now. And this was twenty five years ago.

It’s increasingly and increasingly that you take an R rated movie and you make it PG-13. There’s not as much censorship on the BBC, I know that, or when you go to Canada, but in the States everything is either bleeped, blurred or cut early.

Learning curves and turning points

I am just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I’m just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. The Help was a huge turning point in my life, in terms of how I look at acting, how I look at being involved in this job and living my life and prioritising and learning every day.

I learn from every single person [on a film set] all the time, take things from every single person, soak and soak and soak and soak. I feel like all I’m able to be at this point in my life is a sponge. React react react react. I’m only as strong as the other person, ever, and I’m still not going to be as strong as the other person, so I’m just taking in as much as I can.

I don’t believe that everyone cares what I do all the time. I think you have to follow your own path and your own heart and not worry about what everybody else wants you to do. They should be worried about what they’re going to do. I’m not worried about what everybody else chooses to do next, I trust that you’ll figure it out on your own. And I hope that people trust that I will too.

The pressures of playing Skeeter in The Help

From the very beginning I thought there was a little bit of pressure because it’s my Mom’s favourite book. She made that very clear. So the pressure started at home. She was like “I don’t see you as Skeeter, but maybe you’ll surprise me” – no, I’m just kidding. I like being hard on her in public, for all those times she went up into my room, I can finally get her back for it.

I think I felt the responsibility. It’s a beloved book. But then you kind of have to put that aside and play the character in the best way you know how, and do what you need to do to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people who would weigh in.

For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit here and tell you why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer.

I’m learning this process of “Let me tell you why you shouldn’t see Skeeter this way”, or “You’re coming in with this judgement of it being a white character” but I’m focused on playing the character to the best of my ability.

I can’t tell the audience how to feel. I can’t tell reviewers how to feel. As an actor you just have to think about the truth of your character, and the way you know it needs to be played in your heart. This is why you were hired. So it’s hard for me to sit here and say “See Skeeter this way” or “See Skeeter that way” and it’s hard for me to fight for it.

If it doesn’t speak for itself, we can’t control that.

The Help is in UK cinemas now and headed to DVD and Blu-ray in the US on December 6th. It’s an impressively zippy film, with some great bits of visual storytelling and, as you’d expect, a good handful of strong performances. More on that later, though…

Source: Bleeding Cool

Emma Stone felt “pressured” for ‘The Help’ to do well because it is based on her mother’s favorite book.

The 22-year-old actress plays Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan’ in the forthcoming movie, which is based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel and admits the fact people are such fans of the literary work raises expectations which she had to force herself to ignore.

She said: “There’s an extra-weight of responsibility [because the book is so popular]. To make matters worse, it’s my mom’s favorite book. That’s the definition of pressure, right there.

“But you have to put all this aside and forget about the millions of people out there waiting to say, ‘Huh, I didn’t see Skeeter like that! Why didn’t they get X to play the role?’ If you obsess about what these people might think, you’d never get out of bed.”

Despite the expectations, Emma enjoyed filming the movie and says she learned a lot from her co-stars, including viola Davis and Jessica Chastain.

She said: “I learned so much from the other cast members. I’ve only been acting for five years so when I’m around more experienced actors, I feel like a sponge, just soaking up whatever I can from them.

“With ‘The Help’ I think one of the reasons we had such fun filming was because we were surrounded by women and didn’t have to worry about how we looked to men.”

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

EMMA Stone is “addicted” to reading about herself in newspapers and magazines.

The 22-year-old actress is also obsessed with the internet, but she is “terrified” of saying something in an online environment that she will later live to regret.

“I’m not one of these people that must disassociate themselves from it or has to cut it off. Other than I get addicted to it, so I have to do it in moderation!” she said.

“I get addicted to the internet. I have a twitter account. I look at it a lot but I don’t tweet. I’d be terrified that I’d say something and never be able to live it down.”

However, the Help actress admits she finds it “alienating” when her fans recognize her when she’s out and about because it makes her feel like a “zoo animal”.

“When people say something, it’s really nice. But when people whisper or point, and you feel like you’re a zoo animal, then it’s scary and odd, because it’s alienating,” she said.

Source: Showbiz Spy

Emma Stone is scared to use Twitter… in case she says the wrong thing.

The 22-year-old actress is happy to read about herself online though – in fact, she’s addicted.

“I’m not one of these people that must disassociate themselves from it or has to cut it off. Other than I get addicted to it, so I have to do it in moderation!” she said.

“I get addicted to the internet. I have a twitter account. I look at it a lot but I don’t tweet. I’d be terrified that I’d say something and never be able to live it down.”

Source: Flecking News UK

1 Gorgeous Emma Stone (22) is Hollywood’s newest leading lady and takes the main role in the eagerly awaited movie The Help, the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel about African-American maids working in white households.

Opening here next week, Stone plays Skeeter Phelan, a journalist living in Mississippi in the 1960s.

2 Emma’s full name is Emily Jean Stone. But there was already an Emily Stone registered at the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG).

3 Emma confessed to People that when she has down time, she prefers to do nothing: “I’m lazy beyond belief — my favourite thing to do when I’m not working is sit around.”

4 She convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood and pursue acting by making a PowerPoint presentation with Madonna’s song Hollywood as the soundtrack.

5 Emma has gushed about her favourite guilty treat being the meatball and mozzarella-flavoured microwave turnovers, Hot Pockets.

6 The Help is Emma’s first movie adapted from a book. Her film Easy A has a similar theme to the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 romantic novel The Scarlett Letter, but is not a true adaptation.

7 Emma dropped out of high school at 15 to pursue acting full-time. She eventually finished her studies via home schooling.

8 Stone shies away from social networking. She deleted her Facebook account “I got addicted to FarmVille, so had to get off,” Emma has said. Looking for Emma Stone’s Twitter? She doesn’t have one of those either.

9 Emma and her mum wanted to get matching tattoos based on her mum’s favourite song Blackbird. Emma wrote a letter to Paul McCartney telling of her mother surviving breast cancer, and he sketched a bird feet design and sent it back to them.

10 ”My hair grows out of my head blonde, but I usually dye it red,” Emma has said. After Judd Apatow suggested she go red for his movie Superbad, she liked it so much she stuck with it. Yet you can see her blonde locks when she plays Gwen in the new Spiderman blockbuster. >suzy belton

Source: Herald.ie