Surprising no one who has been on the Internet recently, the star most credited for the industry’s record year of domestic box office sales is Jennifer Lawrence.

The ”Hunger Games: Catching Fire” and “American Hustle” actress was voted the top money-making star of 2013 in Quigley Publishing Company’s annual poll of motion picture theater owners and film buyers. Sandra Bullock, who costarred in “The Heat” and “Gravity” this year, was second and Lawrence’s “Hustle” costar, Bradley Cooper (who also appeared in “The Hangover III” this year) came in third.

Lawrence and Joseph Gordon Levitt were Quigley’s Stars of Tomorrow in 2012. This is the first time an actor has gone from the top of that poll to top money maker in a year. This year’s Stars of Tomorrow are Amy Adams, another “Hustle” costar, and James Franco.

Because of her ability to transition between blockbusters and adult dramas, Variety also named Lawrence one of the most influential people of 2013.

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Young actresses prove to be better value for money for big film studios than male stars according to Forbes’ Best Actors for the Buck list

The lack of gender equality in the film industry was again apparent in Forbes’ 2013 Best Actors for the Buck list, with women making up the top 40 per cent of the list.

Emma Stone, Mila Kunis, Jennifer Lawrence and Natalie Portman were found to give the best return to studios on account of what they were paid to star in blockbuster films. Forbes calculated the average amount earned by each star’s last three films based on box office data and DVD sales. They then set this aside the research for their Celebrity 100 list, which calculates the salaries of the rich and famous.

Young women top the list because they don’t command the seven-figure salaries awarded to their male counterparts and older female stars, despite the fact that some of these actresses have become some of the most reputable in the industry.

Stone, 25, was found to be the best value for money, earning the film studios which hired her $80.70 (£49.17) for every dollar she was paid. Stone appeared as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012, which earned $752 million (£458 million) at the box office. Her co-star, Andrew Garfield, who played her love-interest superhero, didn’t make the list, despite being paid a relatively slim $500,000 for the film. Forbes speculates that Sony will be paying Stone more for the forthcoming The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Oscar-winning Lawrence was ranked third best value with a return of $68.60 (£41.79) for her performances in blockbuster The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook, which won her the Best Actress Academy Award in 2012. Lawrence was paid $500,000 plus bonuses for The Hunger Games, which took $691 million (£419 million) at the global box office. Like Stone, Lawrence’s stock increased considerably – to a reported $10 million – for the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, but was not counted by Forbes for this list.

Bond actor Daniel Craig was in sixth place, returning $25.60 (£15.23) for every dollar paid for his appearances in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2011 and 2012’s Skyfall, whose £3.45 billion global box-office takings made it the highest- grossing film of all time in the UK.

Hollywood’s Best Actors For The Buck

1. Emma Stone $80.70
2. Mila Kunis $68.70
3. Jennifer Lawrence $68.60
4. Natalie Portman $31.30
5. Dwayne Johnson $31.10
6. Daniel Craig $25.60
7. Russell Crowe $25.60
8. Kristen Stewart $25
9. Robert Pattinson $23.50
10. Taylor Lautner $21.40

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
American Hustle
Her
Lleywn
Nebraska
The Wolf Of Wall Street

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”

J. Law tells MTV News normally wears bras, but had to forgo them for David O. Russell’s 1970s-era film.

“American Hustle,” David O. Russell’s latest directorial effort following last year’s critically acclaimed “Silver Linings Playbook,” is notable not only for its script and performances from the likes of Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, but also for its bananas aesthetic. Set in New York and New Jersey of the 1970s, the cast is decked out in the full finery of the era, which means they’re often short on supportive undergarments.

MTV News’ Josh Horowitz caught up with the film’s stars this weekend in NYC, where Lawrence made it known that she was aware of how memorable her costumes would turn out to be.

“I normally wear bras,” Lawrence deadpanned.

Asked if she liked being done up in big hair and ’70s garb, the Oscar winner was similarly dry: “I wouldn’t say that it’s ever exciting to see yourself without a bra in a dress that’s three sizes too small for you.”

And since the costumes were period-appropriate, she said, she couldn’t make character rationalizations that would have her donning an underwire. “Exciting, I don’t know,” she said of going braless. “It was freeing.”

Of course, since it doesn’t count as a conversation with Lawrence unless she gets some goofs in, she ribbed Horowitz when he admitted that in his notes while watching the film, he “wrote ‘hair’ and I wrote ‘boobs’.”

“That was just you zoning out,” the star teased Horowitz. “And I bet it said ‘boobies,’ not even ‘boobs.’ ”

“American Hustle,” starring Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, hits theaters Dec. 20.

Jennifer Lawrence (Supporting Actress Nominee for American Hustle): “Wow. Such great news. Congratulations to the other nominees and to my fellow cast members for the film’s ensemble nomination.”

Female Actor, Supporting

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Cast in a Motion Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Dallas Buyers Club
Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the biggest names in the industry right now, but that doesn’t stop the butterflies in her stomach.

Regardless of being a big shot, J. Law tells E! News that she continues to get anxious for everything she does in her career and that having fame does nothing to change that.

“No, I’m always just very nervous,” she tells E! News at the American Hustle junket. “I never feel like, ‘I’ve got this.’ I’m always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I’m on top of it or I know what I’m doing…so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.”

But her costar Christian Bale thinks otherwise.

“I don’t believe that it scares her,” Bale tells E! News of Lawrence being afraid. “I think she seems to comes alive; she seems to live in front of interviews and everything.” He continues, “It scares when you understand that you can be misunderstood so easily. I don’t mind myself being misunderstood, but I hate it when people are asking me questions about other people and they misunderstand what I’m saying, it just fills me with guilt.”

But if Bale was to say anything snarky about Lawrence, it would be to her face. “She loves nothing more than a good fight,” he tells us. “She’s up for it. She’s a tough cookie. And she talks like a sailor and so I enjoy those conversations with her.”

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Actress Jennifer Lawrence topped IMDb’s ‘Top 100 Stars of the Year’ by a wide margin, while the late Paul Walker was one of the online movie database’s ‘emerging stars’ because of a surge in interest after his tragic death.
Jennifer Lawrence is No. 1 with an arrow.

The “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” star finished in the top spot on IMDb.com’s list of the Top 100 Stars of the Year — receiving 89% more page views than second-place Chloë Grace Moretz, USA Today reported.

Full list here

GQ has unveiled an end-of-the year list titled “Year in Babes” and, well, it’s pretty hard to argue with these choices. But rather than just simply roll out the names of several lovely ladies, the magazine has also acknowleged what helped make them so memorable in 2013. (Other than looking really good.)

For example, Jennifer Lawrence was recognized for the “Sexiest (Possibly Fake) Pratfall of the Year,” referring to her slight stumble as she made her way to the podium to accept her Oscar.

Sexiest (Possibly Fake) Pratfall of the Year: Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence didn’t just win best actress this year—she upped the awesome and ate shit on her way to the podium. If it had happened to anyone else, the Internet would’ve cast down its eyes to maintain her dignity in the face of gravest embarrassment. But Lawrence, who had won the infatuation of men and the be-my-BFF-ness of women, was in fact accused of doing it on purpose. It was an extension, they claimed, of her brassy anti-class: the young woman who had visited old-lady strip clubs in ATL on off-shooting nights, peed herself when laughing too hard, still got beat up by her brothers, and apparently couldn’t move in a gown. We’re here to tell you: She didn’t stage it—not thinking shit out is what makes her different from every other actress in movies. Sometimes crazy happens. Like Jack Nicholson hitting on you backstage at the Oscars—the creepy cherry on top of the whole evening. George Stephanopoulos (on hand interviewing her) was horrified; Jennifer Lawrence was all unfazed bliss.

See the full list here 

American Hustle was named best picture by the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday.

The movie also topped all other winners with a total of three awards, including best screenplay for David O. Russell, who also directed, and Eric Singer. In addition, Jennifer Lawrence was named best supporting actress.

Last year, the NYFCC chose Zero Dark Thirty as its winner for best picture.
Other 2013 winners included best actress Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), best actor Robert Redford (All Is Lost), best supporting actor Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) and best director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave).

A complete list of winners follows:

Best Picture: American Hustle
Best Actor: Robert Redford, All Is Lost
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Best Screenplay: Eric Singer & David O. Russell, American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises
Best Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Best First Film: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station
Best Foreign Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Best Nonfiction Film (Documentary): Stories We Tell
Special Award: Frederick Wiseman

Founded in 1935, the organization’s membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines and qualifying online general-interest publications. Every year in December, the group meets in New York to vote on awards for the previous calendar year’s films.

In addition to the regular categories, which include best picture, director, actor and actress, special stand-alone awards are given to individuals and organizations that have made substantial contributions to the art of cinema, including producers, directors, actors, writers, critics, historians, film restorers and service organizations.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is keeping it’s top title and has scored the top slot at the Thanksgiving weekend box office!

In the most prosperous Thanksgiving box office weekend ever, the Jennifer Lawrence-starrer grossed $110.2 million over the five day weekend, with $74.5 million earned over the actual weekend. The film has now earned $296.5 million domestically and $573 million internationally, according to THR.

Catching Fire became the top Thanksgiving movie of all time!

Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that being a celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in her latest interview with Empire magazine, she explained how she can relate to the Hunger Games heroine, Katniss Everdeen.

It’s something people can spend a lifetime chasing, but for Jennifer Lawrence, fame has come at a high price: her morning cup of coffee.

In an interview with Empire magazine, the 23-year-old actress admitted that it’s the small things like visiting a coffee shop with her friends that she misses the most now she is an international celebrity. “My personal life is now ruined.”

She explained: “I’ve had to create a new one and get used to this new life. It’s hard and it takes time, but I’m sure I will get it.I’m just mourning my old life. I miss that. I don’t want to forget what it’s like going to a coffee shop and people looking at me like a normal person. A part of me can’t get used to it and it makes me sad.”

Ms Lawrence meteoric rise to stardom is largely due to her Oscar winning performance on the indie flick Silver Linings Playbook, co-starring Hollywood hottie Bradley Cooper. However, arguably, Jen has found most of her fans through the hugely popular Hunger Games trilogy. Her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen, a feisty character who is equally thrust into the limelight, has made her recognisable to millions of teenage fans worldwide.

The beautiful actress has described the experience as somewhat cathartic as she explained to Empire: “It’s hard to say you identify with someone who’s facing life and death and war, it’s not like, ‘Oh my God that’s, like, totally how I feel.'”

“But there is the connection in that she doesn’t feel like just part of the town anymore,” she continued, “Now everyone treats her as a celebrity…Whereas she still feels like she’s part of them.”

So with all the fame and fortune in the world, how does this young starlet remain so grounded? Luckily, Jennifer has sensible parents behind her. She told Fabulous magazine: “My family is not the kind of family that would ever let me turn into an a***h**e or anything like that, so I am fortunate to have them,”

We never spot Jen falling out of clubs at 3am, something she also attributes to keeping her humble personality, as Lawrence added that she is only friends with people “who know me, like my close friends who I have known forever.”

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Josh Hutcherson’s kiss with Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games was the 21-year-old star’s first lip-lock on the big screen.

The actor admitted to the 23-year-old and the rest of the world that his debut smooch in cinema was with the Oscar-winning star in the first flick from the book trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

Josh confessed the news when Jennifer revealed that he is a good actor to smooch as she’d had some negative experiences in her work before.

“I haven’t had any bad ones,” Josh told J-Law in an interview with CNN. “You’re my first real big kiss in a movie.”

The information led Jennifer to ask if she was gently and comment that she may have been slobbery.

The witty people continued to exchange banter with Josh claiming she was harsh.

“It was a little abrasive, if I’m being honest. A little shocking,” he added.

Jennifer plays Katniss Everdeen and Josh is Peeta Mellark in the second film of the series Catching Fire, out from November 22.

Kentucky-born Jennifer admits she tried to shop at the Whole Foods supermarket back home when the initial Hunger Games flick was released.

However she had to call in cops when the response to her stardom was immediate.

“Literally the day the movie was released, I had no idea I was famous yet or that anybody had seen the movie,” she said. “I don’t think actually I knew the movie came out that day,” she admitted.

“[Whole Foods] had to call the police and I had to go down the cargo elevator and I was crying. And I saw my ex-boyfriend there and he’s like, ‘How’s your life?’ And I was like, ‘Really bad.’ It was the worst.”

The actress used to avoid going out in public so she wouldn’t have to face up to her fame. However now she has learned to cope with attention, it has made her a stronger person. “Sometimes I’m nice, sometimes I’m in a bad mood,” Jennifer said.

“Like if I’m at dinner and I’m eating and somebody wants me to stand up and take a picture – that’s actually helped with my anxiety, knowing that I don’t have to say yes and I can say no. … It is hard because you don’t want to feel rude, but at the same time, I have to defend my life and my mental wellness.”

Jennifer Lawrence has slammed E! panel show Fashion Police, saying it promotes “all the wrong values”.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire actress hit out at the series – which sees Kelly Osbourne, Joan Rivers, George Kotsiopoulos and Giuliana Rancic judge celebs on their fashion choices – claiming it gives “unrealistic expectations for women”.

During a Q&A session for Yahoo, J-Law stated: “The world has this idea that if you don’t look like an airbrushed perfect model… You have to see past it. You look how you look, you have to be comfortable.

“What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That’s just dumb.”

She went on: “There are shows like Fashion Police that are just showing these generations of young people to judge people based on all the wrong values and that it’s okay to point at people and call them ugly or fat.”

“They call it ‘fun’ and they say ‘welcome to the real world’ – and that shouldn’t be the real world. It’s going to continue being the real world if we keep it that way. We have to stop treating each other like that and stop calling each other fat.”

Lawrence concluded: “There are unrealistic expectations for women, it’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire. It’s something that really bothers me – because I love to eat.”

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Josh Hutcherson plays Peeta in the “Hunger Games” franchise, a coveted role for a variety of reasons. Not only is it a lead part in the highly profitable film series, but Hutcherson’s role also affords him the opportunity to kiss the most desirable woman in the world, Jennifer Lawrence.

Hutcherson recently opened up about his love scenes with Lawrence, who plays Katniss in “Hunger Games,” in an interview with Cosmopolitan.

“For me, she’s like a best friend and a sister, so it’s a little bit incestuous,” Hutcherson said, “But she’s a great kisser — so, yup, the bar is high!”

This isn’t the first time that Hutcherson has praised his “Hunger Games” co-star’s kissing skills. Late last year when asked to rate Lawrence’s kissing ability, the 21-year-old actor said, “Twelve out of 10, 100 percent.”

Hutcherson and Lawrence will return to the big screen this month with the release of the second film in the series, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

Source: Huffington Post

Catching Fire #GlobalFanDay is Wednesday, November 6!

You can interact with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and director Francis Lawrence throughout the day on Google+, Twitter, Yahoo, Tumblr, Facebook, and Instagram! Find out details below:

11AM PT – GOOGLE+ HANGOUT
Six lucky fans will get the exclusive chance to participate in the ‘Hangout On Air’ with Jennifer, Josh, Liam and Francis & ask their questions directly to the cast, but anyone can attend from home and ask questions LIVE via their Google+ account or on YouTube!

 

Apply to participate here: http://hungrgam.es/GGHsignup
Submit your questions now & RSVP: http://hungrgam.es/GPLUS

 

2PM PT – TWITTER TAKEOVER
Peeta and Gale take over Twitter! Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth will answer your questions LIVE on @TheHungerGames’ official Twitter account! Tweet your questions with #TwitterCatchingFire and follow @TheHungerGames now:https://twitter.com/TheHungerGames/

 

2PM PT – YAHOO/TUMBLR FIRESIDE CHAT
Join Jennifer Lawrence and director Francis Lawrence in a fireside chat and Q&A on Tumblr! Ask your questions at: http://hungrgam.es/TumblrAsk

 

4:15PM PT – FACEBOOK FAN EVENT
Jennifer, Josh, Liam and Francis debut an EXCLUSIVE ‘Catching Fire’ clip and answer your questions in a Facebook Fan event! Start submitting your questions now in the comments below or on Instagram with #FacebookCatchingFire…