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Below is an interview excerpt of “The Hunger Games” star, Josh Hutcherson talks about dethroning Robert & Kristen for “Best Kiss Catergory” at the MTV Movie Awards. Do you think that you and Jennifer Lawrence are going to dethrone Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the Best Kiss category at the MTV Movie Awards this

Josh Hutcherson is a household name thanks to a little movie called The Hunger Games, but the 19-year-old actor's rise to the top didn't come out of nowhere. While other kids his age were playing little league, Hutcherson was honing his skils in films like The Polar Express, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Kids Are All Right.

His latest indie flick, Detention, is a high-energy, genre-bending thriller that mixes together elements of The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, and Scream to create something wholly unique and a little undefinable. Hutcherson, who co-executive produced the movie, plays Clapton Davis, a music-obsessed skateboarding teen with a '90s pop culture reference for every occasion.

Zimbio recently chatted with Josh about Detention, what he wants to do next as an actor, and whether he thinks he and Jennifer Lawrence have a chance to steal this year's Best Kiss trophy away from Robsten at the MTV Movie Awards.

Detention is a fast-paced movie that mixes horror, science fiction, and comedy. What was that like for you as an actor?
It was a challenge sometimes. You know, you have scenes where you are jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time and you're trying to make that seem real [laughs]. But for me, I think that I'm a person who has a pretty wild imagination so I just let that run wild and did the best I could to not feel stupid. You kinda just gotta go for it and not hold back. Because once you start holding back or second guessing yourself, that's when it will actually starts to look ridiculous.

What are some of your favorite pop culture things from the '90s?
I was a huge boy band fan back in the day. Like N*Sync and Backstreet Boys and Hanson and all that stuff. I also liked the '90s cartoons on Nickelodeon like Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and Rocco's Modern Life. Those are some of my favorites.

Are you a skateboarder in real life or did you have to learn for the movie?
It helped that I had some skateboarding history for the film, but I definitely stepped it up quite a bit when it came to the film. But actually I also had to learn how to unicycle for the movie! There's one shot where I unicycle down the hallway of the high school so I took a few weeks of really training hard to get that unicycle down pat.

What was it like to work as both an executive producer and an actor on Detention?
It was awesome for me. I've always kind of grown up on movie sets and wanted to get behind the camera, so for [director] Joseph [Kahn] to give me that opportunity was awesome. My biggest involvement was with the casting process at the beginning, as well as nailing down the story stuff and on set just helping with the logistics of things and making sure everything ran smoothly. So it was cool and for me it was something that I would like to do a lot more of.

Did you ever get detention?
Well I stopped going to school in 5th grade — I was home schooled after that so I didn't really have much opportunity, but I'm sure I would have been in detention very often. Probably for talking more than anything. [laughs] I was actually expelled once from elementary school. It was a big miscommunication in all honesty. There was this kid who was a friend of mine who was in the boy's bathroom and these two kids were bullying him and it looked like they were going to beat him up so I stepped in and I was like, 'Don't worry guys, I'll take it from here' — trying to be all badass at the age of 10 — and so they left and as they were leaving I pushed the kid up against the wall to make it look like I was actually going to hurt him. And then he ran off and told the principal so I got expelled from school. But I wasn't — I was trying to help the kid but it was just a miscommunication, that's all.

You've done a lot of different kinds of films. Is there any genre of film you're looking to explore further or parts that you are itching to play?
For me I just want to do different types of movies and Detention definitely falls into that category. I want to do movies that people haven't really done before or things that people haven't seen before and then challenge myself as an actor. So anything that's different than what I've done before is what I'm into doing next. As an actor, one of the most important parts of having a long career is being versatile and changing the kinds of roles you can play. I just want to keep on switching it up.

You said you were home schooled. If you had gone to a regular high school, what would have been some of the things that you would have liked to do?
Let's see, if I were in high school… I think that something that's really important to me and really important to a lot of people in high school are gay/straight alliances. I think if I was in high school I would try to be heading gay/straight alliances to give people a safe place to come and talk about who they are as people. Also I would try to be Prom King because I think that would be the coolest.

Since Detention is a horror film, what scares you?
I hate spiders. I'm pretty good at being not afraid of almost everything except for spiders. They just scare the crap out of me [laughs].

Your character Clapton is really into music. What kind of music do you personally like?
I listen to everything. Literally. I love dub step and electronic music and '60s rock and roll and hip hop and indie rock. I literally listen to every genre that exists. I'm pretty much all over the place. Schizophrenic, more or less, in the music department. Right now I'm listening to this song called "Promises," it's a Nero/Skrillex remix song and it's so good. It's so catchy. The beat is just absolutely incredible.

Do you think that you and Jennifer Lawrence are going to dethrone Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the Best Kiss category at the MTV Movie Awards this year?
[laughs] It was a good kiss, I'm not gonna lie. So we'll see what happens.

Any highlights of your Hunger Games tour?
The mall tour was absolute madness. Seeing all the fans firsthand and how passionate they were. That was definitely the highlight for me.

As someone who is sort of becoming a cultural icon of our generation, what do you think when people say, 'Oh Generation Y or the Millennials have a short attention span and they can't focus.' Or that we're not as good as other generations?
I think it's a double edged sword. I think our shorter attention span does two things — I think we can obviously be a little scatterbrained, but at the same time I think we have the ability to focus on multiple things at once and our level of understanding and comprehension is growing. I think that now more than ever we're more bound to other people and I think we're more compassionate because the world is so small. Because through one tweet someone in Africa can talk about their life and you can learn about it. So while I think that there are downsides to [technology], where you have less human to human interaction, I think that in a way it's making us more compassionate as people. [laughs] I don't think we're all a waste. I think we'll be okay.

Detention is currently in limited release nationwide.

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Warning, Twihards: Robert Pattinson does not shimmer in his upcoming movie, Cosmopolis.

But he does cruise around Manhattan in a limousine, encountering various people along the way played by such major names as Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche.

An eccentric, intense millionaire named Eric Packer, Pattinson anchors the film, which is based on a novel by Don DeLillo and which is as significant a departure from the role of Edward Cullen we can imagine.

Following the release of a brief, 30-second Cosmopolis teaser last month, the first full-length trailer for the drama has hit the Internet and it’s worth a viewing for any Pattinson fan. How come? Consider the following line, uttered at the actor’s character:

I smell sex all over you.

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Guimarães – Capital Europeia da Cultura will have an unprecedented turnout on May 28, when the English actor Robert Pattinson, idol of millions of movie fans, will attend the premiere of ‘Cosmopolis’, directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Paulo Branco, days after learning if they won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Major flooding

After Gary Ross’s departure, what problems await Francis Lawrence, the newly announced director of Catching Fire?

Spoiler alert: Do not read if you have not yet seen The Hunger Games or read the novel and would like to do either without knowing their outcomes.

The Hunger Games has turned out to be one of 2012′s most welcome surprises: a popcorn movie with enough satirical clout to satisfy those keen on dystopian scenarios. It also stands almost alone in the pantheon of blockbuster 2012 movies as a film which actually has something to say about modern society. Avengers Assemble is about a team of unlikely superpowered demigods, The Dark Knight Rises will be about an equally outlandish masked vigilante with rather too much money and time on his hands and Prometheus is about a slightly spurious search for extra-terrestrial life. The Hunger Games, even if it wears its satire lightly, examines the potential for governments to control their populations via an age-old mechanism: entertainment. The Roman emperors who spent fortunes on colosseum entertainments knew all about such Machiavellian manoeuvres, and mankind doesn’t seem to have developed much resistance in the subsequent millennia. Television remains the drug of the nation, the opium of the masses: as the late great Bill Hicks once said: “Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch these pituitary retards bang their f**king skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”

Yesterday it was announced that Francis Lawrence, director of the middling 2007 post-apocalyptic Will Smith vehicle I Am Legend, has been handed the directorial reins for The Hunger Games’ sequel Catching Fire, based on the second book in Suzanne Collins’s bestselling young adult fiction series. Lawrence also directed last year’s Water for Elephants, a depression-era drama about a struggling circus which the film-maker kept pleasingly afloat despite the presence of a detached Robert Pattinson in the lead. While he’s presumably the man who made the fateful decision to depict I Am Legend’s plague-stricken vampires in astoundingly unrealistic CGI, Lawrence seems like a reasonable choice for studio Lionsgate given that Hunger Games’s Gary Ross passed on returning. But has he taken on a poisoned chalice? Ross has said that he could not make the film in the time Lionsgate wanted to see it finished, and there may be other obstacles in the way of the new man in charge. Here are five challenges Lawrence will have to face if he hopes to make Catching Fire as successful as its predecessor.

1. Time
“As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule,” said Hunger Games’s Gary Ross earlier this month after walking away from its sequel. Lionsgate got a huge stock market boost from the spectacular box office success of the first film which requires it to get the followup into production pronto. Coupled with star Jennifer Lawrence’s commitment to a second X Men: First Class film, that means a pretty preposterous August start date for the Catching Fire shoot, requiring Francis Lawrence to hone a completed screenplay by Slumdog Millionaire’s Simon Beaufoy in just a few months. This is a far cry from the kind of room for manoeuvre which directors such as Christopher Nolan and JJ Abrams have been handed with regard to the latest Batman and Star Trek films, and provides a very different environment to that experienced by Ross for The Hunger Games. The latter approached (and says he was allowed to approach) the film from an auteurish standpoint, taking on both directing and writing duties (alongside Collins) to ensure that the final product emerged as a unified vision. The new director will not have the same luxury, but at least a lot of the prep work has already been done and a screenplay, cast, and many of the locations are already in place (or can be recycled) from the first film.

2. Maintain the pace
The Hunger Games throws the audience almost straight into the action as Katniss Everdeen is forced to volunteer for the lethal tournament in place of her younger sister within just a few pages. Catching Fire takes rather longer to get going as it deals with the aftermath of Everdeen’s joint victory with Peeta Mellark. Much of the slack before we return to the action is taken up with fairly vital background on the emerging anti-Capitol movement in various districts, and Francis Lawrence won’t be able to excise it because it has ramifications for the rest of the series. The second Hunger Games novel is no longer just about the tournament itself: there are wider intrigues taking place, but the new director will have to find a way of showing this without departing from the blitzkrieg-paced tournament scenes for too long.

3. Create room for Gale
The Hunger Games was flagged as the new Twilight prior to its release partly because of the love triangle at its centre. Yet one corner of that triangle was barely present in the first book and is almost as absent in part two. Gale, Everdeen’s hunting partner and best friend, finds himself sent off to the District 12 mines in Catching Fire, and while the pair do have the odd romantic moment they are not exactly joined at the hip. Audiences will be expecting to see more of a character upon whom the entire series’ dynamic depends, but Gale is a little thinly drawn in the books and may need some help from the screenwriters. Fortunately Liam Hemsworth did such a good job in the first film that it wasn’t hard to see why our heroine might be drawn to him.

4. Keep away from the Twilight
Speaking of Twilight Collins never sinks to the lovelorn level of Stephenie Meyers’ sickly sweet vampire romance series, with its protagonist Bella Swan, in Catching Fire. Yet the novel, which once again is told in the first person from Everdeen’s standpoint, does feature its fair share of teenage angst. Ross and Jennifer Lawrence did such a fabulous job of presenting Everdeen as a tough, independent young woman that it would be a pity to see her transformed into a swooning little flower in the sequel. Fortunately, Collins makes it clear that her heroine is fairly interested in romance but really rather more bothered about staying alive and keeping her family from being throttled by the powers that be. There’s no need for Catching Fire to doff its cap to the Twilight crowd, and we must hope the new director realises he has a more wholesome proposition on his hands.

5. Find the political satire within
While The Hunger Games showed us a society of haves and have-nots in which all are transfixed by the riotously entertaining (and compulsory) tournament of death at its apex, much of the political commentary was insipid to say the least and was outshone by Katniss’ personal struggle for survival. Catching Fire offers us a wider glimpse of Panem society, its cruelty and its overconfidence. In the decade of the Arab spring and the ongoing protests in Russia, here is a film with a real opportunity to reflect our changing global political arena. There are far worse things than The Hunger Games going on in parts of our world: a brave director would find a way to shine a spotlight on them via a movie which will probably be shown in many authoritarian countries, or will at least become widely available on illegal DVD. It might sound a little over-ambitious to expect a blockbuster Hollywood movie to act as a Trojan horse for anti-authoritarian polemic, but a Catching Fire without a few satirical nods to real-life events would be an opportunity sorely missed.

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