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Sort-Of New Hunger Games Stills Released

Lionsgate has done all of us a heavy and released a mostly fresh batch of The Hunger Games stills to ogle. While the countdown to March 23 continues, we’re pretty much champing at the bit to get out hands on it, so we’re excited about the “new” photos Lionsgate released this week, even if we’re pretty sure we’ve seen them all before. There are some photos that were previously exclusives with other magazines and sites, like the one of Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen in a scene that we know is going to make us bawl — when Katniss volunteers herself instead of Rue — as well as one of Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson and Josh Hutcherson as Cinna, Haymitch and Peeta discussing strategy, and a behind-the-scenes shot of Jennifer in the forest. There are also stills of what we’ve seen in the trailer, such as the one of Amandla Stenberg as Rue, warrior Katniss holding a bow, and Katniss and Liam Hemsworth‘s Gale in the meadow and the one we included above, of Katniss being led to the arena. But yeah, so what if it’s all familiar territory? We don’t want the whole darn movie spoiled for us!

[Photos via Lionsgate]

Hunger Games Posters: An In-Depth Eye-Shadow Analysis


Well, no one’s on fire and no one is being stung by tracker jackers, but we’re sure Hunger Games fans are buzzing with excitement about the eight new posters showcasing the eight main characters. After you’ve calmed yourselves down a bit, let’s take another look at these profiles:

Katniss (debuted on Yahoo! Movies): She looks a bit softer than I picture the tough District 12 tribute — like the camera caught her thinking about her mother and Prim back home. But there’s still something to the set of her jaw that hints at her unfailing strength. Also, very subtle how they made Katniss face to the right while all the others face to the left.

Peeta: As our friend Amy at Hollywood Crush (where this poster debuted) says, “Peeta appears determined and yet somehow vulnerable, all at the same time. (Not to mention he looks so young, right?!)” He certainly doesn’t look like a kid who’s ever fought for his own survival, like Katniss has.


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Woody Harrelson Through The Years: From Cheers To The Hunger Games

Back in the 80s, we had a wee bit of a crush on Woody Harrelson. He was so hunky on Cheers — so clueless, so sweet, so with hair. Who would have thought he’d go on to become an acclaimed, Oscar-nominated movie star? (Answer: not us.) From White Men Can’t Jump to The People vs. Larry Flynt to Zombieland and The Messenger, Woody never settles for doing the same thing on-screen. This summer he co-stars alongside Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis in the comedy Friends With Benefits, and he’s currently filming The Hunger Games, in which he stars as the moody drunk Haymitch. Yes, Woody as Haymitch is pretty much our dream casting; we’ve been fantasizing about him shouting at Katniss and Peeta with booze and lamb stew dribbling out of his mouth for months.

Because we can’t get enough of Woody, we’ve got the best photos of the actor through the years in our gallery below. Enjoy!

TheFABLife Book Club And Tweetstakes Debuts With The Hunger Games!

We’re about to get all Oprah on you! TheFABLife is starting an online book club and twitter sweepstakes and we want you to join in. We’ll be kicking off on Monday, May 23rd with The Hunger Games, right as the movie version of the book goes into production. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson are starring in the film, which shoots in North Carolina. Over eight weeks we’ll recap the eight biggest moments from the book with a new discussion post each week. Participate on Twitter by following us at @thefablife and using the hashtag #vh1reads. Every person who does so will be eligible to win either the Grand Prize (a hardcover copy of The Hunger Games signed by author Suzanne Collins, plus a box set of the trilogy) or the First Prize (a box set of the trilogy).

For those of you already on Team Katniss — we’ll be reading the book for the second time, so there’s really no excuse for you not to join us. Don’t you want to relive Peeta’s sweetness all over again? Yeah, we thought so. We’ll meet you all back here in one week with our kick off post and first “reading assignment!” Down with the Capital—up with reading!

Talk to us at @thefablife on Twitter. Don’t be shy. The official rules are listed below.

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Woody Harrelson Signs On To Play Haymitch In The Hunger Games

Finally, The Hunger Games has its Haymitch! Woody Harrelson has been tapped to play the bumbling booze-hound with a heart of gold, and we could not be more excited. Harrelson is insanely talented (and admittedly, kinda hot in that stoner DILF way) and rounds out an already stellar cast. Woody is one of those Holllywood dudes who flies under the radar a bit – when he’s not working he seems to spend most of his time playing soccer with Owen Wilson in Hawaii. But don’t let his mellow facade fool you, he’s been nominated for an Oscar twice (The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Messenger) and he made Zombieland one of the best movies of the last decade. Also—Cheers. One of the most iconic sitcoms ever. Nuff said.

[Photo: Splash News Online]

Julianne Moore’s First Photo As Sarah Palin Released

It’s not Tina Fey uncanny, but it might do. The HBO movie Game Change, about the 2008 Presidential Election, begins production today, with the network releasing a photo of Julianne Moore in costume as former VP nominee Sarah Palin. Ed Harris will de-sexify himself to play John McCain, while Woody Harrelson takes on campaign manager Steven Schmidt, who you might remember as the cueball who didn’t have much nice to say about Palin after the election. Hilariously, a photo of Moore as Hilary Clinton (she was set to play the Secretary Of State in HBO’s The Special Relationship before scheduling conflicts) hit the web earlier this month. Do you think she would have got this part if she’d stuck with that one?

Check out photos of Palin and Moore in the gallery below.

[Photos: WENN/HBO]

2010 Oscars Viewing Party: The Hurt Locker Wins Big

The horse race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker ended tonight, with The Hurt Locker coming out on top. Katherine Bigelow beat out her ex-husband James Cameron to become the first female to ever win an Academy Award for Best Director. Other top prizes went to Jeff Bridges for Best Actor (Crazy Heart) and Sandra Bullock for Best Actress (The Blind Side). Relive the 2010 Oscars blow by blow by entering our viewing party below.

FABlife’s DVD Pick Of The Week

Zombieland

Zombies go with anything. Read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies lately? So this horror comedy will be remembered less for its rotting undead than the funny misadventures of a quartet of misfits in post-apocalyptic America. Jesse Eisenberg fills in as the poor man’s Michael Cera, Woody Harrelson does his funny redneck routine, Abigail Breslin is not annoying and Superbad‘s Emma Stone comes into her own as a sexy loner. They pick off the flesh-eaters on the way to the Pacific Palisades theme park like National Lampoon’s Vacation with a thirty-ought-six. There’s also a surprise appearance by … well, that would be telling. Load up on the popcorn and see for yourself.

Extras: Deleted scenes, FX documentary, making of featurette and commentary from cast and crew.

- By C. Bottomley

Check out the DVD bonus footage above, “Creating The Zombies.”

Woody Harrelson’s Vegan Cure

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Screw Proactiv! Woody Harrelson is a celebrity willing to endorse a whole new acne treatment: veganism. Harrelson told Maxim recently that he owes his perfect complexion to some advice he got from a stranger on a bus twenty years ago, who told him to go vegan to help clear his skin. Harrelson said, “I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later. By God, she was right.”

If that’s not a script worthy of a 30 minute infomercial reenactment, we don’t know what is. Ahem.

“Excuse me, is this seat taken? Me and my hemp backpack need to take a load off.”
“By all means, please sit, “Cheers” star Woody Harrelson.”
“Thank you, stranger on a bus. Hey, I have acne.”
“Yes, I noticed, and if there’s one thing I know about, it’s how to cure acne.”
“That’s lucky.”
“Yes.”
“So….”
“Dairy. The answer is dairy. If you give up the milk your skin will be like silk. I just made that up. Hey, can I meet Ted Danson?”
“Thank you, you have changed my life. And no, Ted Danson just started dating Whoopi Goldberg, so he’s taken.”
“Seriously?”
“Yes, I think it will last. Anyway, this is my stop. Thanks for the advice, stranger on this bus!”

End Scene. Cue piano music and 800-number. [Photo: GettyImages]

Owen And Woody: Bromance On The Italian Riviera

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The sky is blue, the water is warm, and bromance is filling the air in Portofino, the beautiful Italian Riviera town, where Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson are vacationing together. If it weren’t for their luxurious yacht, the two would look more like teens playing a game of King of the Wet N’ Wild Raft than Hollywood royalty. What are these kids doing at night? Playing spin the bottle with Eva Mendes? We kind of hope so. [Photo: Splash News Online]