http://www.mail.com/people/71918-tom-hooper.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/71918-tom-hooper.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1909592-adele-les-miserables-cast-sing-oscar-stage.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was an extra starry, musical day at the Dolby Theatre. Adele took the stage first Friday, followed by the cast of "Les Miserables," singing together of the first time. Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, along with co-stars Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham-Carter, Sasha Baron-Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit... Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:12:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1909592-adele-les-miserables-cast-sing-oscar-stage.html 2013-02-23T04:12:17Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1901384-les-miserables-musical-broadway-bound.html NEW YORK (AP) — Someone is dreaming the dream: "Les Miserables" is coming back to Broadway. Producer Cameron Mackintosh said Tuesday that the national tour of the epic musical about life in 19th-century France will make a stop on Broadway in March 2014 at a Shubert theater. The move comes on the heels of the Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation directed ... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:17:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1901384-les-miserables-musical-broadway-bound.html 2013-02-19T19:17:23Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1880344-hathaway-eyes-musicals-les-miserables.html BERLIN (AP) — Anne Hathaway says she'd like to do more musicals after the Oscar-nominated "Les Miserables" — but don't expect her to launch into a singing career. Director Tom Hooper on Saturday presented his movie, an adaptation of a Broadway musical based on Victor Hugo's novel, at the Berlin film festival. Hathaway's role as an outcast mother reduced t... Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1880344-hathaway-eyes-musicals-les-miserables.html 2013-02-09T18:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1867262-director-oscar-nod-problem-hooper.html NEW YORK (AP) — If director Tom Hooper, who won the best-director Academy Award in 2010 for "The King's Speech," is bothered by not getting a nomination this year for "Les Miserables," he's not letting on. Instead, the British director says he's relishing the musical's many other accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe wins, n... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:52:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1867262-director-oscar-nod-problem-hooper.html 2013-02-04T13:52:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1864080-afflecks-argo-wins-directors-guild-top-honor.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ben Affleck has won the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for his CIA thriller "Argo," further sealing its status as best-picture front-runner at the Academy Awards. Saturday's prize also normally would make Affleck a near shoo-in to win best-director at the Feb. 24 Oscars, since the Directors Guild recipient nearly alw... Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1864080-afflecks-argo-wins-directors-guild-top-honor.html 2013-02-03T07:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1849362-argo-lawrence-day-lewis-win-sag.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The CIA thriller "Argo" continues to steamroll through awards season, winning the top honor for overall cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. SAG's lead-acting honors Sunday went to Jennifer Lawrence for her role as a troubled widow in a shaky new relationship in the lost-souls romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and Daniel ... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1849362-argo-lawrence-day-lewis-win-sag.html 2013-01-28T03:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1833346-chastain-films-take-top-2-spots-box-office.html NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Chastain easily outmuscled Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg over the weekend, topping the box office with both her supernatural horror film "Mama" and the Oscar-nominated Osama bin Laden hunt thriller "Zero Dark Thirty." "Mama" opened well above expectations with a box-office topping $28.1 million for Universal Pictures, acc... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1833346-chastain-films-take-top-2-spots-box-office.html 2013-01-20T20:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1818284-bits-its-after-party-time.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Show Bits brings you the 70th annual Golden Globes awards through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item. Jodie Foster's acceptance speech drew warm praise at one of the night's post-show parties. "It was my... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1818284-bits-its-after-party-time.html 2013-01-14T06:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1817464-argo-les-miserables-win-best-pic-globes.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Argo" is in big with the Golden Globes, but not so much with the Academy Awards. "Lincoln" is sitting pretty with the Oscars but was mostly left out in the cold at the Globes. Sunday's Globes left the Feb. 24 Academy Awards picture still muddled, with the Iran hostage thriller "Argo" winning for best drama and director for Be... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1817464-argo-les-miserables-win-best-pic-globes.html 2013-01-14T04:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1816832-golden-globe-nominees-celebrate-tea-party.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Bon Jovi, Hugh Jackman and other Golden Globe nominees celebrated their good fortune with a cup of tea. They were the guests of honor at the annual British Academy of Film and Television Arts annual Awards Season Tea Party at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, where the agenda was merely to min... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 03:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1816832-golden-globe-nominees-celebrate-tea-party.html 2013-01-13T03:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1810478-spielbergs-oscars-bigelow-affleck.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Steven Spielberg had a great day at the Academy Awards nominations, where his Civil War saga "Lincoln" led with 12 nominations. It was not so great for Kathryn Bigelow, Tom Hooper and Ben Affleck, whose films did well but surprised — dare we say shocked? — Hollywood by failing to score directing nominations for the three filmm... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1810478-spielbergs-oscars-bigelow-affleck.html 2013-01-10T19:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1811500-oscar-snubs-musical-chairs-directors-seat.html NEW YORK (AP) — In this year's Oscar nominations, the director's seat was the hot seat. In the now heavily analyzed awards season, unequivocal snubs have become less common as the field is more accurately predicted. But on Thursday morning, the motion picture academy provided the genuine article: a somewhat shocking and unexpected brush off to one whom it... Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1811500-oscar-snubs-musical-chairs-directors-seat.html 2013-01-10T16:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1808192-lincoln-leads-race-british-academy-awards.html LONDON (AP) — Historical biopic "Lincoln" leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, with 10 nominations including best picture and best actor — but nothing for director Steven Spielberg. Epic musical "Les Miserables" and boy-meets-tiger saga "Life of Pi" received nine nominations each Wednesday for Britain's equivalent of the Oscars. James Bond ... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1808192-lincoln-leads-race-british-academy-awards.html 2013-01-09T16:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1806852-spielberg-earns-11th-directors-guild-nomination.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Steven Spielberg has extended his domination at the Directors Guild of America Awards, earning a nomination Tuesday for his Civil War epic "Lincoln" to pad the record he already held to 11 film nominations from the guild. Also nominated were past winners Kathryn Bigelow for her Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty"; Tom Hooper for... Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1806852-spielberg-earns-11th-directors-guild-nomination.html 2013-01-08T19:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1802752-award-season-hopefuls-palm-springs.html PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — The Award Season Express made its first stop of the new year in the middle of the desert a couple hours east of Hollywood at the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gala. A blast of Golden Globe nominees and Oscar hopefuls walked the press gauntlet Saturday night, including Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Helen Hunt... Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1802752-award-season-hopefuls-palm-springs.html 2013-01-06T19:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1792080-the-hobbit-stays-atop-box-office-third-week.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week and capping a record-setting $10.8 billion year in moviegoing. The Warner Bros. fantasy epic from director Peter Jackson, based on the beloved J.R.R. Tolkien novel, made nearly $33 million this weekend, according to... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1792080-the-hobbit-stays-atop-box-office-third-week.html 2012-12-31T12:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1779514-review-hoopers-les-miserables-relentless.html Tom Hooper's extravaganza, big-screen telling of the beloved musical "Les Miserables" is as relentlessly driven as the ruthless Inspector Javert himself. It simply will not let up until you've Felt Something — powerfully and repeatedly — until you've touched the grime and smelled the squalor and cried a few tears of your own. It is enormous and sprawling ... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1779514-review-hoopers-les-miserables-relentless.html 2012-12-25T04:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1781658-with-les-miz-kind-speech-hooper.html NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hooper, the director of intimate character studies like the Oscar-winning "The King's Speech," the HBO miniseries "John Adams" and the TV drama "Longford," would not seem the sort of chap likely to make a sprawling adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical. "I've always had an epic filmmaker within me clamoring to get out," explains the... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1781658-with-les-miz-kind-speech-hooper.html 2012-12-21T14:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1764410-salmon-fishing-where-globes-snubs-surprises.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is known for what you could call a certain quirkiness in its selection process. Any group that would see fit to nominate "Patch Adams" and "The Tourist" for best picture certainly marches to its own beat. But in the nominations announced Thursday, the Golden Globes didn't throw too many wrinkles into... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1764410-salmon-fishing-where-globes-snubs-surprises.html 2012-12-13T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1765120-golden-globe-nominees-excited-fey-poehler.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Golden Globe Awards are known for being a great party, and nominees this year are already looking forward to new hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The comedians preside over a boozy reunion of the top stars of film and television and nominees from both spheres say they're excited to see their comedic antics. "I know they're going to h... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1765120-golden-globe-nominees-excited-fey-poehler.html 2012-12-13T20:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763056-globes-big-with-heavy-lineup-studio-films.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A fairly predictable Golden Globes lineup has one thing that's become rarer in awards season: a solid presence of big studio favorites to balance the independent films that have come to dominate the competition in recent years. Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln," with no fewer than three major studios behind it, led t... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1763056-globes-big-with-heavy-lineup-studio-films.html 2012-12-13T17:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1760992-lincoln-les-mis-playbook-lead-sag-awards.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Civil War saga "Lincoln," the musical "Les Miserables" and the comic drama "Silver Linings Playbook" boosted their Academy Awards prospects Wednesday with four nominations apiece for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. All three films were nominated for overall performance by their casts. Also nominated for best ensemble cast were the I... Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1760992-lincoln-les-mis-playbook-lead-sag-awards.html 2012-12-12T15:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1756524-zero-dark-thirty-lincoln-afi-top-10-list.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty," Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln" and Christopher Nolan's superhero tale "The Dark Knight Rises" are among the American Film Institute's top-10 movies of the year. Also on the AFI top-10 announced Monday: Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-crisis drama "Argo;" Benh Zeitlin... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1756524-zero-dark-thirty-lincoln-afi-top-10-list.html 2012-12-10T19:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1746128-nbr-awards-zero-dark-thirty-best-film.html NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of the year. The board is the second notable group to name "Zero Dark Thirty" best film, following the New York Film Critics Circle. The two early awards suggest the film may be the... Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1746128-nbr-awards-zero-dark-thirty-best-film.html 2012-12-05T20:07:00Z