Madonna Drops The N-Bomb On Instagram, Apologizes (UPDATE)

January 18, 2014, 10:36 am

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Madonna is in hot water after dropping the N-bomb in an Instagram caption yesterday (Jan. 17).

The singer posted a photo of her 13-year-old son Rocco boxing and captioned it: "No one messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out! #disni--a," reports TMZ. Her over one million followers soon took to comment on her use of the offensive term, which prompted Madge to take down the troublesome photo.

But leave it to Madonna to stand up to her critics: Not long after, she posted the same photo with a different, more combative caption: "Ok let me start this again. #get off of my dick haters!"



This isn't the first time Madonna has received flack for posting a photo of her teenage son. Earlier this month, the 55-year-old posted a photo of underage Rocco surrounded by liquor bottles. After her many critics voiced their disdain, Madonna fought back on Instagram, according to Us Weekly, writing: "No one was drinking we were just having fun! Calm down and get a sense of humor! Don't start the year off with judgement!"

UPDATE: Madonna has apologized for her use of the N-word, telling E! News in a statement: "I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the N-word on Instagram. It was not meant as a racial slur ... I am not a racist."

She added: "There's no way to defend the use of the word. It was all about intention ... It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white. I appreciate that it's a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression. Forgive me."

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'Suits' Season 3 Trailer Filled With Lies, Punches And Black-And-White Drama

January 18, 2014, 10:37 am

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USA's "Suits" returns from its Season 3 hiatus with all new episodes on March 6, and the trailer promises threats, sex and thrown punches.

In the trailer above, Gabriel Macht's character Harvey Spector says, "Winners always want to win more," and don't these guys know it.

According to show creator Aaron Korsh, who spoke at the Television Critics Association press tour, Scottie will come into Harvey's world and he will have to deal with being in a relationship with someone he works with. Someone's life is in danger and loyalties will be challenged.

"Suits" returns to USA on Thursday, March 6 at 9 p.m. EST.

Who do you think is in trouble? Catch up on "Suits" in the photos below.

What Happens When A 'Hannah Montana' Fan Becomes A Starbucks Barista, And Lily Truscott Walks In

January 18, 2014, 10:52 am

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We'll go ahead and speak for the barista who served Emily Osment (aka the actress who played the greatest BFF in Disney Channel history) when we say: ZERO regrets.

Kristen Stewart's 'Camp X-Ray' Role Was Originally Intended For A Man

January 18, 2014, 11:00 am

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Kristen Stewart is earning praise for her turn as a newly hired guard at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp's U.S. prison in the Sundance movie "Camp X-Ray," but it turns out the part was originally intended to be a male role.

During a Q&A session after the movie's premiere on Friday (Jan. 17), writer/director Peter Sattler -- whose past work includes art-department credits on "Walk the Line" and "Star Trek" -- revealed that he rewrote the part to be a female character after his wife became pregnant with a girl, Vanity Fair reports. He began to contemplate gender roles and was inspired to explore a story of female growth through the lens of Guantanamo Bay.

It looks like Sattler's switcheroo paid off. Following Friday's premiere, Stewart has garnered acclaim for her performance, which the festival's attendees note is a marked departure from fare like "Snow White and the Huntsman" and the "Twilight" series. HuffPost Entertainment senior writer Mike Ryan was at the premiere and called Stewart's role a "good career choice," while The Hollywood Reporter's David Ronney labeled her performance "perhaps her best screen work to date."

The film centers largely on Stewart's character's developing friendship with a detainee played by "A Separation" actor Payman Maadi. Stewart revealed during the Q&A that the cast prepared by watching "multiple documentaries" and spending time with a Marine.

Damon Lindelof And Marc Cherry Moved From Network To Cable And Never Looked Back

January 18, 2014, 11:24 am

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Creators of two of the most indelible dramas on network television last decade, "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," are making programs for cable networks now, and they speak with the zeal of the happily converted.

"Now that we're all here together, we can definitively agree that cable is far superior to network," said Damon Lindelof, who worked on ABC's "Lost" and is making a similarly complex new program for HBO, "The Leftovers." The changing balance of power — and how proud broadcasters are fighting back — is the subtext to meetings with television industry leaders and reporters in Pasadena this month. Nowhere is that more clear than in the field of dramas.

Once often content to air reruns, cable networks are busy establishing themselves as creators. There are 180 scripted original series on cable this year, up from 22 in 2002, said John Landgraf, FX network chief. Services like Netflix are jumping in, too.

More important than numbers is the perception that cable is the place to turn for quality. It started with "The Sopranos," and continues with awards and critical attention showered on the likes of "Mad Men," ''Homeland" and "Breaking Bad." The idea is reinforced when many of television's key creative minds argue that cable is the place to be.

Marc Cherry, creator of "Desperate Housewives," said that making the soap "Devious Maids" for Lifetime "has been just a joyous creative experience." To be fair, Cherry took "Devious Maids" to ABC first and was rejected. Now he revels in the creative freedom, saying he gets less second-guessing.

Cherry said he has more time to work on the writing, and can include more intricate details. After acknowledging now that he went into the critically drubbed second season of "Desperate Housewives" with no plan, he learned he needs to have an idea of what will happen in a second season before beginning the first.

Cable offers a measure of security that broadcasters, with more intense commercial pressures, can't match. A cable series is rarely canceled in the middle of a season.

The grind of a typical broadcast schedule, requiring some 22 episodes a year, also wears on creators — particularly now that they see an alternative. Most cable "seasons" are half that, or less. That improves quality, Lindelof said.

"You're not needing to fill weeks of story that are non-essential," he said. "So, hopefully, every episode of 'The Leftovers' will feel like it needs to exist versus it's just this very kind of fibrous bridge that exists between two essential episodes which all of us as TV fans, you know, really find incredibly frustrating to watch."

Before one conference last week, producers of several CBS dramas admitted grumbling backstage about their workload.

"That's an insatiable appetite," said Jonathan Nolan, "Person of Interest" executive producer, "which is a great thing that the audience wants more of what you're making, but it is very difficult. I feel like that number is probably calibrated ... not to the length of the season or production schedules, but to the exact point at which a showrunner (producer) will have a nervous breakdown."

What Nolan finds exciting about being on CBS is the immediacy, writing a scene and seeing it on the air a few weeks later.

It's not like broadcasters are bereft. CBS' "The Good Wife," NBC's "The Blacklist" and ABC's "Scandal" are popular and creatively strong. Broadcasters still have a reach that cable networks can't match. Television's most popular show, "NCIS" on CBS, has roughly 20 million viewers for each new episode, twice as much as AMC's buzz worthy "The Walking Dead."

"It's a privilege to reach an audience the size that we're able to reach in broadcast," said "NCIS" executive producer Gary Glasberg. "The fact that we're in our 11th season and we have the viewership that we do, 18 million Facebook fans, that's crazy. And, you know, that's because I'm on broadcast."

Networks are now looking for more limited-run series. Over the past year, CBS, NBC and Fox have each assigned executives to look specifically for these types of projects. Veteran producer Mark Burnett and his wife, Roma Downey, successful with "The Bible" miniseries on History last year, signed with CBS to adapt "The Dovekeepers" to television for a miniseries.

Kevin Reilly, Fox entertainment president, said he's doing away with broadcast's traditional pilot season, where networks make test episodes of dozens of prospective series and choose among them during a furious couple of weeks in the spring. That's a nod to cable: Reilly wants to take more time developing series to work out kinks and have a better idea of how it will work.

Not everyone fully agrees with him, but change is in the air.

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David Bauder can be reached at dbauder@ap.org or on www.twitter.com/dbauder. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/david-bauder.

Oliver Stone Exits MLK Biopic After Studios Reject Script Referencing Alleged Extramarital Affairs

January 18, 2014, 1:06 pm

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Controversial director Oliver Stone has been circling a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic for months, but he took to Twitter on Friday -- just three days before MLK Day -- to announce that his involvement with the project has come to an end.

Sad news. My MLK project involvement has ended. I did an extensive rewrite of the script, but the producers won’t go with it.

— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014

The script dealt w/ issues of adultery, conflicts within the movement, and King’s spiritual transformation into a higher, more radical being

— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014

I’m told the estate & the ‘respectable’ black community that guard King’s reputation won't approve it. They suffocate the man & the truth.

— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014

I wish you could see the film I would've made. I fear if ‘they’ ever make it, it’ll be just another commemoration of the March on Washington

— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014

Martin, I grieve for you. You are still a great inspiration for your fellow Americans—but, thank God, not a saint.

— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014

Jamie Foxx was reportedly attached to the role of King before DreamWorks and Warner Bros. rejected Stone's latest script.

The news marks another wrinkle in the King estate's tight grip on the civil-rights leader's namesake. The studios were working in tandem with the family, who granted the right to use King's copyrighted speeches, but now seems to have raised eyebrows at Stone's approach. The family could damage the credibility and success of the movie if they express disdain.

Stone has been criticized for taking factual liberties in his previous historical features, namely 1991's "JFK," which implied that Lyndon B. Johnson staged a coup d'etat prior to President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Still, regardless of what could be seen as the director's iffy credibility, it's clear that the King estate is unwilling to back a biopic that shines any sort of negative light on MLK.

Director Paul Greengrass ("United 93," "Captain Phillips") faced a similar predicament in 2011 with "Memphis," another biopic that mentioned King's alleged extramarital affairs. Universal nixed "Memphis" after the estate reportedly told the studio it would condemn the movie if it enters production. (Greengrass has since said the film will "definitely" still be made.) Lee Daniels ("Precious," "The Butler") received the same pressure a few years ago regarding his script for voting-rights docudrama "Selma," which also contained references to sordid details about King's life. "Middle of Nowhere" director Ava DuVernay has taken over that project.

Deadline.com spoke with one of King's closest confidants, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, in 2011, after he contacted Universal to refute the claims made in Greengrass' script. When asked why he and the estate refused to submit to the standard warts-and-all approach that is often better received than biopics containing only sycophantic depictions of their subjects, Young said:

"My only concern here is honoring the message of Martin Luther King’s life, and how you can change the world without killing anybody. ... It’s not wrong if the warts are there. But we had the most powerful and understanding wives in history: Coretta, my wife Jean, and Ralph Abernathy’s wife Juanita. These women were more dedicated and enthusiastic in pushing us into these struggles than anybody, and the inference Coretta might have been upset about Martin being gone so much or them having marital troubles, it’s just not true. Maybe I’m piqued because nobody read my book, and I tried to be honest, and I was there. We were struggling with history that we didn’t even understand, but somehow by the grace of God it came out right. We were trying to change the world -- not by any means necessary, but by being dedicated to loving our enemies and praying for those who persecuted us."

What do you think of Stone exiting the project? Use the comments section below to weigh in.

The Best Of Bill Murray's Surprise Reddit AMA, A.K.A. The Internet's Dream Come True

January 18, 2014, 1:08 pm

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"OK, I'll TALK! I'll TALK!"

That's how the legendary Bill Murray began his surprise Reddit AMA on Friday evening in which he opened up to fans like never before.

You can thank his upcoming movie "Monuments Men" for prompting him to interact with Redditors and answer questions about everything from his body of work to his love of golf to legalizing marijuana and even the current cast of "Saturday Night Live."

Check out 15 of the most interesting things we learned from his candid online chat, including the hilarious reason he wound up doing the "Garfield" movies, below. Head over to Reddit to read the full thing.

Keira Knightley's 'Laggies' And Other Breakout Films From The First Weekend Of Sundance

January 18, 2014, 3:43 pm

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The first weekend of Sundance is kind of like starting a new job over and over again every year. You can figure out where to be and what to wear, but you don't know any of the details. At Sundance, we don't know which films will live up to the pre-festival hype, which will quickly deflate and which might sneak under the radar and explode like confetti in the sky after the first screening. As the years stack, you learn to keep an open mind and a fluid schedule so that you can jump on the next "Beasts Of The Southern Wild" or "Fruitvale Station" as soon as possible.

Here are three films from the opening weekend of Sundance that caught our eye -- not only for the filmmaking, but for the dazzling movie stars in them:

"Laggies"



It takes a hell of a lot to get someone excited for an 8:30 a.m. screening on a Saturday morning, but Sundance queen, filmmaker Lynn Shelton ("Humpday," "Your Sister's Sister"), did exactly that. Billed as a coming-of-age story starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell, I figured the coming-into-age would center on Moretz, 16. Instead, it's a quarter-life-crisis kind of movie that leaves our hearts pounding for Keira Knightley in a way that we haven't quite experienced since "Bend It Like Beckham." The late-20s drifter she plays is lost, certainly, but is also full of grace, kindness and love. After becoming engaged to her high school boyfriend, she puts off eloping and instead takes a week on her own (after lying about going to a conference) and spends it with unlikely new friends: a teenage girl and her lawyer father -- played by a compelling and understated Sam Rockwell.

Accompanying the teenage Moretz to visit her estranged mother (played by a spot-on Gretchen Mol), Knightley inspires the most compelling line of the film. Mol, in speaking about herself as a mother, says, "You treat somebody bad enough, you just assume they'll be happy to let you go." Director Lynn Shelton's finesse with dialogue, body language and her character's ranges is a staple of why she dominates Sundance.

"Locke"



Sitting quietly inside a movie theater in an exercise in human patience. The performances, action, cinematography and score can inspire movie patrons to laugh, cry, sit on the edge of a seat or sometimes, even fall asleep. Sitting inside a quiet movie theater can feel claustrophobic, especially if the film focuses on themes of isolation -- either physical or emotional, or both.

Filmmaker Steven Knight, who previously wrote 2007's thriller "Eastern Promises," takes on a challenging attempt at isolation filmmaking. "Locke" is 85 minutes of a man driving through the outskirts of London. That is it. This man, Ivan Locke, played by the ever-intense English actor Tom Hardy ("The Dark Knight Rises," "Inception") is our sole focus; our everything. While driving, Locke makes a series of phone calls (in a soothing, lullaby-ish Welsh accent) to characters we grow to know more about. Slowly, we begin to piece together where Locke is driving, what he is leaving, and how his actions threaten the very fibers of his identity as a man.

I'll never forget someone telling me that the 2010 thriller "Buried" was 95 minutes of Ryan Reynolds in a box. Mystified that people were loving the film, I went to see 95 minutes of Ryan Reynolds in a box -- and it was incredible. More recently, Sandra Bullock shot off into space and spent 91 minutes (a little less if you count George Clooney's scenes) alone in the deep, dark, black theater of the universe.

Isolating a character for the entirety of a film in a single object ("Buried": a box, "Gravity": a space shuttle, "Locke": a BMW) truly tests he power of a film's narrative. Locke becomes increasingly distressed the longer he drives, and his internal dialogue, much like Reynolds' and Bullock's, gets turned inside out as we get to witness an emotionally compelling and surprisingly suspenseful journey.

"Frank"



At a sold-out premiere of "Frank" Friday night at the biggest theater in Sundance, we were told that never has the festival tracked, followed and waited for a project to come to fruition like they have for "Frank." Starring Michael Fassbender (wearing a giant fake head), Maggie Gyllenhaal and the likable newcomer Domhnall Gleeson ("About Time"), this film is one of the strangest to screen at Sundance.

Gleeson plays a questionably talented keyboardist who fatefully crosses paths with the questionably insane Frank (Fassbender) and the questionably violent Clara (Gyllenhaal) -- two members of an eccentric pop band about to record an album. After locking themselves away in a remote cabin, the band attempts to make art and instead spends most of their time building bizarre instruments and trashing rooms in violent, short-bursted fits. The biggest enigma of the film is Frank. Why does he wear the fake head, what does he look like underneath, and why -- why -- would someone cast the handsome Michael Fassbender in a film and then cover his face the whole time? These questions and others arise in the off-beat but strangely endearing film that had audiences laughing in true Sundance fashion. A quick turn to darker beats grounded the film's ending in a cloudy question about mental illness and the masks we all wear.

Sasha Bronner is the Los Angeles editor at The Huffington Post. You can contact her directly on Twitter.

For thoughts on "Whiplash," "Camp X-Ray" and "Hellion," click over to Mike Ryan's review here.

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SAG Awards 2014 Winners List: Screen Actors Guild Honors Best In Film & Television

January 18, 2014, 4:15 pm

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The Screen Actors Guild handed out awards for the best acting in film and television from 2013 on Saturday night in Los Angeles.

Early winners included Lupita Nyong'o, who won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for "12 Years A Slave" and Jared Leto who took home Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for "Dallas Buyers Club." Both actors are expected to win those awards at the 86th annual Academy Awards on March 2.

The SAG Awards, which turned 20 this year, announced its nominations in early December of last year. "12 Years A Slave" led all films with four nods, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the SAG Awards' equivalent of Best Picture. ("Dallas Buyers Club" and "August: Osage County" followed "12 Years A Slave" with three nominations each.) On the television side, "Breaking Bad" earned four nominations, including Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, to pace all series.

Last year, Ben Affleck's "Argo" won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, one of three top guild honors the film earned in its lead up to winning Best Picture at the 2013 Oscars. ("Argo" also earned wins at the Producers Guild Awards and Directors Guild Awards.)

Other early 2014 SAG Awards winners included the stunt ensembles from "Lone Survivor" and "Game of Thrones." An updating list of the SAG Awards winners is below.

FILM



OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

"12 Years A Slave"
"American Hustle"
"August: Osage County"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"Lee Daniels' The Butler"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years A Slave"
Tom Hanks, "Captain Phillips"
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Forest Whitaker, "Lee Daniels' The Butler"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"
Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years A Slave"

OUTSTANDING ACTION PERFORMANCE BY STUNT ENSEMBLE MOTION PICTURE

"Lone Survivor"

TELEVISION



OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES

"Boardwalk Empire"
"Breaking Bad"
"Downton Abbey"
"Game of Thrones"
"Homeland"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES

"Modern Family"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"
Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Anna Gunn, "Breaking Bad"
Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story"
Maggie Smith, "Downton Abbey"
Kerry Washington, "Scandal"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINISERIES

Matt Damon, "Behind the Candelabra"
Michael Douglas, "Behind the Candelabra"
Jeremy Irons, "The Hollow Crown"
Rob Lowe, "Killing Kennedy"
Al Pacino, "Phil Spector"

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINISERIES

Angela Bassett, "Betty and Corretta"
Helena Bonham Carter, "Burton and Taylor"
Holly Hunter, "Top of the Lake"
Helen Mirren, "Phil Spector"
Elisabeth Moss, "Top of the Lake"

OUTSTANDING ACTION PERFORMANCE BY STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A TELEVISION SERIES

"Game of Thrones"

One Direction's Liam Payne Under Fire For Tweet Supporting 'Duck Dynasty's' 'Family Values'

January 18, 2014, 4:40 pm

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One Direction's Liam Payne came under fire on Saturday afternoon after he sent a tweet to "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson praising him for upholding "family values."

@williebosshog huge love to you/your family huge respect for your business prosperities and the family values you still all behold. big fan

— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 18, 2014

A&E's "Duck Dynasty" was thrust into the national spotlight in December after Willie Robertson's father, Phil Robertson, compared homosexuality to bestiality in an interview with GQ.

Backlash to the tweet was swift, with One Direction fans rallying to Payne's defense and gay rights supporters denouncing him. As of 7 p.m., the tweet had been retweeted more than 10,000 times.

Gay rights YouTube personality Taylor Oakley took to Twitter to express his disapproval.

Wow. Very confused and disappointed by this @Real_Liam_Payne tweet. This literally changes everything... pic.twitter.com/aQajQdJhfQ

— Tyler Oakley (@tyleroakley) January 18, 2014

An hour after posting his original tweet, Payne sent another tweet to clarify his comment.

Being a fan of someones show and the way they still hold a family together doesnt mean i am ok with all they say.

— Liam Payne (@Real_Liam_Payne) January 18, 2014

After months of negative headlines, Duck Dynasty may be in some trouble. According to TV Line, 8.5 million people tuned in for the fifth season premiere of the reality show this week, drastically down from last year.

Anna Gunn's Breaking Bad Clutch Is The Best Accessory Of The Night (PHOTOS)

January 18, 2014, 4:41 pm

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The red carpet had just begun, but already Anna Gunn had blown the other celebs away with her accessory choice of the night. For the 2014 SAG Awards, "Breaking Bad"'s Gunn walked the red carpet carrying a black clutch emblazoned with the "Breaking Bag" logo with the elemental symbols "Br" and "Ba."

Has there ever been a more badass purse? We think not. Check out the SAG Awards nominee and her kickass bag in the pics below.

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Zoe Saldana, 'Infinitely Polar Bear' Star, On Losing Her Father At Age 9

January 18, 2014, 4:41 pm

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Zoe Saldana is an international movie star, having played lead roles in "Avatar," the "Star Trek" reboot and countless other films. But it's her role as a mother struggling with two young daughters and a bipolar husband, played by the fantastic Mark Ruffalo, that perhaps reflects the most emotion from Saldana's heart. Having lost her father at a young age, she connects deeply to the material in first-time filmmaker Maya Forbes' "Infinitely Polar Bear." The title of the film, by the way, is taken from a line from the youngest daughter in the movie. She says "dad is a polar bear," and her older sister corrects her stating, "he's bipolar."

The Huffington Post sat down with Saldana at a lodge in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival to hear about why this film is so incredibly close to her heart.

Highlights from our conversation below (warning: spoilers about "Infinitely Polar Bear" are sprinkled throughout):

How did you become involved in this film? What was the casting process like?
Mark Ruffalo’s manager, who was my manager at the time, went to school with [writer/director] Maya Forbes. It was all very incestuous, conveniently. But it was so beautiful that we were all just three degrees of separation from each other. So that’s how I read the script. There’s something about fathers and daughters that really lives in a very special and sacred place for me. I was deeply moved by the script.

What was it like playing the role of a mother?
It was great. The girls are beautiful and so wonderful. Everything felt effortless. Maya is a very good director. We had had so many conversations throughout the years before making this movie and I had met Peggy, her mom, and saw pictures and videos. So I almost felt by the time we got to set, that I had grown up right next door to them. I was very familiar with their story, and who wouldn’t be moved by it? I had a lot of compassion for how they grew up, but so much admiration that they never lost their resilience.

Mark Ruffalo’s character is bipolar and/or manic-depressive and we are so drawn to him. He has such love for his daughters. What do you think this film adds to the larger conversation about mental illness?
There’s one scene that always choked me up and it’s when he calls my character in the middle of the night. He’s obviously restless and hasn’t slept and hasn’t taken his medication. But he calls his wife when he’s sewing the skirt for his daughter. In that moment, everything that takes place between these two individuals, you understand both sides. You understand her being a little scared because this is a repetitive cycle of his; they’ve been there before. It’s not the first breakdown he’s had. It always starts like that -- he becomes restless, doesn’t sleep, drinks a lot, and then ends up having a breakdown and is hospitalized. How do you remove yourself from that emotionally and still get what you need done without harming the person and still take care of your children? But at the same time, you put yourself in his shoes and you go he’s trying the best he can with the resources that god has given him.

In that scene, Mark’s character says to you, “How many fathers are up right now at 5 a.m. sewing a skirt for his daughter?” And he’s right.
In society we are very hard on men when it comes to fatherhood. It’s either you’re in or you’re out. And he was there. That’s the message that resonated most with me when I met Maya. They lived as hoarders and their outfits weren’t always all sewn together, but they were loved.

That last scene with the daughters walking away and looking back at their father was so emotional and beautiful.
Are you kidding me? I couldn’t go up on stage today right when the film ended. I saw it for the first time two months ago. My sister and my assistant and some family members were with me and we went afterwards to dinner and everybody’s lower lip was just trembling because we were so moved. Especially for my sisters and me, because we lost our father when we were very young. It hits home. You feel that you were wronged.

Do you remember your father?
Oh my god, absolutely. I was 9. Now that I’m 35, throughout the years, I’ve probably embellished the only nine years that I had with him. I fantasize -- is that the right word? Fantasía -- I go directly to Spanish! Now he’s this big, larger than life character. His laugh was louder, his smell was sweeter. But I get to live vicariously through someone else’s experience and kind of imagine what it could have been like. It allows you to feel. We’re always so tense about feeling. It’s like “Oh! We shouldn’t, we have makeup on.” But for me, it’s like –- fucking cry. Feel. Be in her shoes. And yes, if it’s a good movie, applaud it and embrace it.

Jennifer Lawrence SAG Awards Dress 2014 Comes Complete With 'Armpit Vaginas' (PHOTOS)

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Because God forbid an awards show passes without Jennifer Lawrence committing some hilariously goofy snafu, the 2013 SAG Awards saw Lawrence walk right into what appeared to be a "wardrobe malfunction" with her navy Dior dress. (It looked like it had ripped, although Dior reps said "it was the design of the gown.")

At the 2014 SAG Awards, Lawrence actually was graceful and elegant in her sequined Christian Dior strapless gown. But when E!'s Giuliana Rancic asked the glowing J.Law to discuss her dress, Lawrence quipped self-consciously, "I know I have arm pit fat, it's OK... it's armpit vaginas."

It's cool, J.Law -- we're all insecure about something. And your dress looked amazing.

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The Best Behind-The-Scenes Style Of The SAG Awards Happened On Instagram

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One of the best parts of awards shows are the red carpet interviews, obviously. But even better? The behind-the-scenes antics... captured on Instagram.

For Saturday night's 2014 SAG Awards, it was also the perfect source for any style moments we missed (Brad Pitt's faux-hawk anyone?!) and everything leading up to the red carpets. For instance, Mindy Kaling is officially our favorite person ever, and if you haven't checked out her Instagram, go do it now.

Scroll down for Helen Mirren's first selfie, a precious moment between Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita Nyong'o and more Insta goodness.























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8 SAG Awards Instagrams That Will Make You Smile

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Squeezed in somewhere between the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Grammys, our favorite celebrities are also honored at the oft forgotten SAG Awards. The event is low profile, but last night's (Jan. 18) red carpetlooked just as fun. Here are 8 Instagrams of the ceremony that will make you smile.

Michael Douglas ...



... Julia Louis-Dreyfus ...



... Helen Mirren ...



... And Lupita Nyong'o admitting who they forgot to thank.



Kerry Washington ...



... And Tony Hale on the red carpet.



Sofia Vergara ...



... And Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet with their statues after the show.

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Ben Affleck And Jennifer Garner Wow At The SAG Awards

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Ben Affleck had a big award show season last year, but in 2014, it's all about his wife Jennifer Garner, who is a part of the "Dallas Buyers Club" cast.

Garner, who was nominated alongside her "Dallas Buyers Club" co-stars for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, walked the red carpet on Saturday (Jan. 18) at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards in a Max Mara custom gown.



Inside the Shrine Auditorium, Garner sat with her handsome husband Affleck, who looked dapper in a tuxedo. The pair chatted with each other before meeting up with Affleck's best friend Matt Damon.







Although the cast of "American Hustle" took home the best cast award, both Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won SAG Awards for their performances in the Jean-Marc Vallée film.

“It was a really hard movie to shoot. We shot it in 25 days which is insane ... there was no time to chat or catch up ... and it was kind of good that way because I just wanted it to be done, so those guys could eat," Garner told Ryan Seacrest in November, adding, "but they gave these incredible beautiful performances.”

'Ride Along' Box Office Wins Out, Topping 'Lone Survivor'

January 19, 2014, 10:07 am

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Ride Along" arrived in first place at the weekend box office.

The buddy cop comedy featuring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube debuted with $41.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The strong opening for "Ride Along" marks the biggest opening for a film released during Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend and puts it on track to top the $46.1 million record set by "Cloverfield" in 2008 for the biggest opening of January. Universal's Navy SEAL drama "Long Survivor" starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster earned $23.2 million in second place in its second weekend in wide release.

Open Road Films' animated film "The Nut Job" featuring the voice of Will Arnett opened in third place with $20.5 million.

Cate Blanchett Slams Matthew McConaughey At The SAG Awards

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When Cate Blanchett took to the stage to accept her SAG Award for Best Actress, her acceptance speech was almost instantly cut off by a teleprompter informing her she had run out of time.

"I've been away from the film industry for a long time making theater ... 29 seconds?! Matthew McConaughey spoke about Neptune and I think I can have five seconds," she scoffed, to much applause.

Blanchett was primarily taking aim at the ceremony procedures, but McConaughey's speech was certainly a bit off-the-cuff.

When he accepted the statue for Best Actor, in addition to talking about Neptune, McConaughey told a story about a man who escaped Russia and built a boat.

Blanchett won a Golden Globe just three days earlier and beat out Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Sandra Bullock and Emma Thompson for the SAG award. Watch her whole speech here.

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January 19, 2014, 10:26 am

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The worlds of "Parks and Recreation" and "Orange is the New Black" are about to collide.

NBC has announced that they have ordered a new comedy pilot from Amy Poehler, "Old Soul," starring Natasha Lyonne.

TV Guide tweeted:

#NBC also orders Amy Poehler pilot Old Soul starring Natasha Lyonne #TCA14

— TV Guide (@TVGuide) January 19, 2014

Deadline reports that the series is about "a young woman who works as an aid to old opinionated people," and was compared to "The Golden Girls" during the announcement.

The new series is part of a new three-year deal that Poehler has signed with NBC, which TV Guide also reported.

Needless to say we're pretty excited about this.

'Parks And Recreation' Renewed For Seventh Season By NBC

January 19, 2014, 11:14 am

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The Pawnee gang are coming back!

That's right, today NBC announced that they have renewed "Parks and Recreation" for a seventh season.

Deadline reports that at the Television Critics Association panel, NBC president Robert Greenblatt bluntly said “'Parks and Recreation' is going to have a seventh season.”

Whether this is part of Poehler's new deal she just signed with NBC is unclear, but the only thing we care about right now is that Leslie Knope and her Parks team will be back for another season.

Now go eat some waffles in celebration!