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Jennifer Lawrence Makes Oscars History (Again) With ‘Joy’ Nomination
Two years ago, Jennifer Lawrence made Academy Awards history when at 23 she became the youngest performer to collect her third nomination, which came for her role in American Hustle. The previous record, according to AwardsWatch, belonged to Jennifer Jones, who scored acting noms over four consecutive years (1944-47) and was 27 when she landed the last one. Unlike Russell’s last few efforts — The Fighter, Playbook, and Hustle — Joy divided critics and didn’t have much of a pulse heading into a
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'Star Wars' Smashes Christmas Day Record; 'Daddy's Home,' 'Joy' Looking Joyful
Christmas Day is heralding yet another record for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Disney’s space saga is smashing the Christmas record with at least $40 million at 4,134 U.S. theaters on Friday. Paramount’s Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddy’s Home looked likely to lead the rest of the pack at U.S. multiplexes with as much as $30 million.
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence Sing (Again) Onscreen in 'Joy'
Jennifer Lawrence keeps a pretty low profile about her singing chops, but the 25-year-old Oscar winner really does have some impressive pipes. Filmmakers have been using her melodic warblings ever since Lawrence did a car-radio singalong with Chloë Grace Moretz in 2008’s The Poker House.
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Watch David O. Russell Newbie Virginia Madsen in Hilariously Heated 'Joy' Scene
Following team-ups in Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and Bradley Cooper appear in their third David O. Russell film with Joy, in theaters Christmas Day. The film spans four turbulent decades in the life of Joy Mangano, the tenacious single mother who invented, marketed, and sold the self-wringing Miracle Mop.
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Melissa Rivers on Playing Her Late Mom Joan in 'Joy' — Watch the First Clip!
Melissa Rivers became overwhelmed with emotion during a sit-down with ET on Tuesday, in which she opened up about the honor of playing her late mother in Joy. Melissa is the spitting image of her mother Joan Rivers in the movie, not only with her physicality but also vocally. “I worked hard on her speech pattern, but not so much the accent because I didn’t want it to be an imitation or a caricature,” Melissa told ET.
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'Joy' Review: Another Lively, Chaotic American Hustle
For sheer wackiness and functional dysfunctionalism, the family in the venerable farce You Can’t Take It With You is given a good run for its money by the clan at the center of Joy. David O. Russell’s third film in a row to have the good fortune of starring Jennifer Lawrence is nominally a story of perseverance and tenacity over ridiculous odds but spends much of its time examining the paralysis caused by the myriad vicissitudes and irrationalities of its madly neurotic, self-involved characters
