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P38-39 Layout 1 lifestyle TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 AWARDS MTV Movie Awards big Hollywood studio plug-fest Actors Peyton McCormick, Dave Franco, Sandra Daubert, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Tiffany Luce speak onstage.—AP/AFP photos ast year, the MTV Movie Awards in two possible summer hits, Channing Actor Josh Hutcherson accepts the Movie of the Year award moved up its broadcast date from Tatum will appear in both the buddy cop for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ from actor Johnny June to April to incorporate a sum- comedy “22 Jump Street,” out June 13, Depp onstage at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards at Nokia L mer movie plug-fest. Sunday night’s show with Jonah Hill (who picked up the best Theatre LA Live on April 13, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. cemented that change, as clips from comedic performance award for “The anticipated blockbusters debuted at the Wolf of Wall Street”), and sci-fi fantasy madcap ceremony. In its 22nd year, the “Jupiter Ascending,” out July 18, with Mila MTV Movie Awards show has become an Kunis (who scored the title of best villain important event for Hollywood studios. for “Oz the Great and Powerful”). And oh yes, there were some awards, too. Both Kunis, looking very pregnant in a At last year’s show, which saw an average short, loose black dress, and Hill present- of 3.8 million viewers, up from 3.2 million ed Tatum with his Trailblazer Award. And for the previous year’s telecast, included not to be missed was Josh Hutcherson’s new footage from “Iron Man 3” and the mention of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who world premiere of “The Hunger Games: died on Feb 2 from a combination of Catching Fire” trailer, which was intro- heroin, cocaine and other drugs. Hoffman duced by one of the films’ stars, Liam appeared in “The Hunger Games: Hemsworth. Catching Fire,” which earned the evening’s Sure, an abundance of golden pop- top prize of movie of the year. “If Philip corn-shaped prizes were again presented were here he would think this was really for fun fair, like the award for best shirt- cool,” said Hutcherson, one of the stars of less performance, which Zac Efron “Hunger Games” and the best male per- Actor Johnny Depp poses with actors Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin, winners of accepted, well, shirtless. But it’s the sum- formance recipient. “To have him in our the Movie of the Year award for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’. Josh Hutcherson poses with his best male performance award and mer movie teasers - and the stars movie was one of the coolest things,” movie of the year award for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’. attached to them - that really make the show. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone (who will also appear in Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight,” July 25) and Jamie Foxx, star in the seventh installment of Sony’s “Spider-Man” franchise, which kicks off the summer movie season on May 2. The trio introduced a clip of the film showing Spider-Man (Garfield) and the sparkling blue villain Electro (Foxx) battling in New York’s Times Square. Also expected to dominate at the box office, Fox’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past” was touted with an intro by one of its new stars, Ellen Page, who will take on the role of Shadowcat. The upcoming film, out May 23, sees the X-Men joining forces with their younger selves and introduces a number of new mutants - Blink, Will Poulter poses in the press room with breakthrough per- Sunspot, Warpath and Bishop. There to formance award. present the award for best fight was Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the star of Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla,” which opens May 16. A short clip of the film, showing the mon- ster preparing to wreak havoc, aired before Taylor-Johnson appeared on stage. Seth Rogen, Dave Franco and Efron, who lead Universal Pictures’ comedy “Neighbors,” out May 9, also presented (From left) Actor Adrian Grenier, actor Kevin Dillon, model Rhea Durham, honoree Mark Wahlberg (holding the MTV the award for best kiss together. Generation Award) and actor Jerry Ferrara attend the 2014 MTV Movie Awards. Hutcherson said. “We think about him Looking very pregnant every day on set. This definitely goes out No clip was shown for Disney-Marvel’s to him as well.” opted against showing a clip of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part “Guardians of the Galaxy,” a bit of a super- 1” will release later this year. No MTV hero spoof set in space, this yea. But Chris awards show would be complete without Pratt, the star of the film, out August 1, a few music numbers. Ellie Goulding sang Orlando Bloom poses in the press room with the award for best checked in at the show as well with a long “Beating Heart,” while Zedd took the fight for “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”. speech encouraging viewers to vote for stage for “Find You.” Both tracks appear on their favorite nominees online. First-look the “Divergent” soundtrack. Host Conan footage from Fox’s “The Fault in Our Stars,” O’Brien kicked off the ceremony, which starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel aired live from the Nokia Theatre, with a Elgort, showed the beginnings of the challenge to gain 50 celebrity cameos for onscreen couple’s romance in the heart- his opening segment. And of course he felt comedy. came through with many stars like Paul Mark Wahlberg, who received the gen- Rudd and Adam Sandler, who have films eration award at the show, touted his expected in the coming months. The MTV upcoming “Transformers: Age of awards had some stiff competition from Extinction,” saying the Paramount other networks on Sunday night, includ- Pictures’ flick would be the biggest movie ing the latest installment of HBO’s popu- of 2014. Some of the crew of the hit HBO lar “Game of Thrones” and the final season show “Entourage” presented Wahlberg premiere of AMC’s “Mad Men.”—AP with his award and the presence of Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Actor Jonah Hill accepts the Best Actor Zac Efron accepts the Best Shirtless Performance award Dillon reminded us that the “Entourage” Actress Mila Kunis poses with the Best Comedic Performance award for ‘The for ‘That Awkward Moment’ from singer Rita Ora onstage. movie is being readied for 2015. Starring Villain award. Wolf of Wall Street’ onstage..
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