Film: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015). Young Actress: Willow Shields, age 14.

It’s funny how young adult film franchises work out sometimes. Take Harry Potter, for example: while mostly decent to good, the eight films had ten years and four directors between them and were all over the place stylistically. Now that the Hunger Games ( Read more... )

As with Mockingjay: Part 1, the premieres for this movie started in Europe and moved westward. After premieres in Berlin, London, Madrid, and Paris (where press was canceled due to the recent terrorist attacks on the city), the American premiere for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 was finally held in Los Angeles on November 16 ( Read more... )

...here are a few young actresses out and about at different events.


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Here are the former young actresses who attended the 30th Annual Independent Spirit Awards, held February 21, 2015, on the beach in Santa Monica, and co-hosted by Kristen Bell and Fred Armisen.


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A week after its premiere in London, the third installment of The Hunger Games films made its Los Angeles premiere at the Nokia Theatre on November 17. The look of the premiere recreated Panem's Capitol, with gold and white pillars, cauldrons of fire, armored Capitol guards, and a glossy white walkway in place of a red carpet ( Read more... )

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died suddenly of an alleged heroin overdose on February 2, 2014, in his Manhattan apartment. He was 46. In his twelve years of acting, Hoffman earned three Academy Award nominations (for Charlie Wilson's War, Doubt, and The Master) and a Best Actor win for Capote. Last year, he starred alongside Jennifer ( Read more... )

A former child star, Jena Malone declared “emancipation” from her parents at age 14, so she’s no softie. But until Sucker Punch, the 25-year-old actress never made a movie that required so much physical toughness and overt sexuality. Jena and her Sucker Punch castmates (including two other former child actresses, Emily Browning and Vanessa Hudgens) ( Read more... )

If you're a young actress in Hollywood, then odds are that Susan Sarandon has played your mom at some point. Just kidding. But here's a list of Sarandon's most memorable maternal roles, from oldest to most recent, and all the young actresses who've played her daughters.

Pretty Baby (1978), Brooke Shields, 12. Set in 1917 New Orleans, the film ( Read more... )

The 36th People's Choice Awards.
Held January 6, 2010, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Hosted by Queen Latifah.


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I was absolutely shocked when I read this article. I don't think any young actress has ever had a more selfish, self-righteous, pushy nightmare of a stage mother than Jena Malone. True, she didn't force Jena into acting (Jena wanted to do it), and she never physically abused her. But did she steal all of Jena's money away? And how! Here, broken ( Read more... )