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- NewsMeriah Doty
Oscar Hopefuls Share Their Favorite Films of 2014 (So Far)
As awards-season buzz ramps up, Yahoo Movies caught up with an assemblage of film stars in attendance at last Saturday night’s Governors Awards. ”Foxcatcher, Whiplash — andMichael Keaton is great in Birdman.
- NewsMeriah Doty
Matthew McConaughey's Costars Tell Some Epic Tales at the American Cinematheque Honors
Matthew McConaughey celebrated his American Cinematheque honors as he was meant to: taking swigs of Miller Lite from a special beer bucket at his table. The suds came courtesy of the evening’s host, Jimmy Kimmel, who joined McConaughey’s family members and pals in paying tribute to the 44-year-old actor at the Beverly Hills Hilton on Oct. 21. In addition to performing an excellent rendition of McConaughey’s drawl, she also described the time they and some other friends were on a backwoods vaca
- NewsMeriah Doty
Matthew McConaughey Angles Toward the Answer in New 'Interstellar' Poster
It’s no huge secret that Mackenzie Foy, seen alongside Matthew McConaughey in our exclusive poster for Interstellar, plays the younger version of Jessica Chastain in the hotly anticipated Christopher Nolan epic. Foy and McConaughey, who play daughter and father, say it all in the poster with their upward glances, earthbound on their rural property: The answer is up there, in the stars.
- NewsMeriah Doty
How Al Pacino Gave Jessica Chastain Her First Big-Screen Break
The past decade has been good to Jessica Chastain. The film which co-stars Al Pacino (who also wrote and directed) is an adaptation of a stage production, for which the star cast the then unknown actress, after a friend of his caught her performance in a low-profile off-Broadway play. “I was actually in Australia and I got a call from my agent saying, ‘We have a call for you to audition for the lead in Salomé opposite Al Pacino.’ I thought, ‘How did this happen?’ because I wasn’t getting great
