The 2012 MTV Movie Awards Nominations have been announced and “The Hunger Games” and its cast are up for eight awards! Fans can begin voting online Tuesday May 1 at 8am EST, until the awards show airs on June 3 on MTV!

Voting takes place at http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/2012/

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Bridesmaids
The Hunger Games
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Help
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Emma Stone – Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
Kristen Wiig – Bridesmaids
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
Channing Tatum – The Vow
Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 50/50
Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games
Ryan Gosling – Drive

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Elle Fanning – Super 8
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Liam Hemsworth – The Hunger Games
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Shailene Woodley – The Descendants

BEST CAST
21 Jump Street (Sony Pictures) – Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Ellie Kemper, Brie Larson
Bridesmaids (Universal Pictures) – Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Warner Bros. Pictures) – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton
The Help (DreamWorks) – Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain
The Hunger Games (Lionsgate) – Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz

BEST ON-SCREEN TRANSFORMATION
Colin Farrell – Horrible Bosses
Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games
Johnny Depp – 21 Jump Street
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST FIGHT
Channing Tatum & Jonah Hill vs. Kid Gang – 21 Jump Street
Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig – The Hunger Games
Tom Cruise vs. Michael Nyqvist – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Tom Hardy vs. Joel Edgerton – Warrior

BEST KISS
Channing Tatum & Rachel McAdams – The Vow
Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
Rupert Grint & Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone – Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Collider is reporting that the Peter Farrelly/Charles Wessler comedy anthology film (sometimes known as “Movie 43″) has been pushed back in release until January 25, 2013.

Finally, Peter Farrelly and Charles Wessler’s comedy anthology will continue to sit on the shelf, which is a little odd since the movie’s got famous faces to spare. Here’s the cast:

Johnny Knoxville, Gerard Butler, Anna Faris, Seann William Scott, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Halle Berry, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Kate Bosworth, Kate Winslet, Terrence Howard, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Banks, Justin Long, Kristen Bell, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, Jason Sudeikis, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Merchant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer, Kieran Culkin, and Chris Pratt.

All of the actors star in a series of interconnected stories. For whatever reason, Relativity doesn’t believe there’s a date left in 2012 that’s right for the movie. On January 25, 2013 it will face the action thriller Parker starring Jason Statham, and the break-dancing drama Battle of the Year: The Dream Team (formerly titled Planet B-Boy).

The first trailer for the film “People Like Us” was just released – check it out below! The movie comes out on June 29th.

Previously known as Welcome to People, the familial drama from debut director Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek) is now titled, People Like Us. Written by Kurtzman, Roberto Orci (Star Trek) and relative newcomer Jody Lambert, People Like Us stars Chris Pine (Star Trek) as a man who inherits $150,000 upon his father’s death, but must deliver the money to a sister he has never met. Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games) stars as the sister in question, an alcoholic with a 12-year-old son, who Pine’s character befriends. Olivia Wilde (Cowboys and Aliens) also stars in People as Pine’s girlfriend, Hannah. Pine spoke on the project during a previous interview, as did Mark Duplass (The League) in a more recent interview that you can read here. Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns) also stars as Pine’s widowed mother. The DreamWorks picture, partially set up by Steven Spielberg himself, will open June 29th of this year.

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Elizabeth Banks, who stars in this weekend’s Man on a Ledge with Sam Worthington, has joined the star-studded cast of Frank or Francis, Charlie Kaufman’s musical satire about Hollywood.

Banks joins a roll call that includes Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell, Catherine Keener and Kevin Kline in a story that follows a battle of wills between Frank, an intellectual film director (Carell) and Francis, an online blogger (Black) who still lives with his parents and who delights in attacking the other man’s films.

Cage plays an actor who is famous for his high-concept films, while Kline will play the director of the world’s top-grossing movie as well as that character’s brother, who turns into an animatronic head. (Yes, it’s a Charlie Kaufman film.)

Banks will play a highly-regarded actress making formulaic comedy bombs who is having an affair with Carell’s Frank.

Anthony Bregman of A Likely Story is producing.

Banks, repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham, will also appear in Lionsgate’s Hunger Games, which opens March 23.

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If Elizabeth Banks took a day off in the last year, we’re not aware of it. In the past 12 months, she’s wrapped the first installment of The Hunger Games (love the accent, Effie), shot a movie with the blue guy from Avatar (the Sam Worthington-starring Man on a Ledge), and snuck in What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Speaking of which, she also had a baby. Now she’s hiding out in Baton Rouge, where she’s going behind-the-scenes, producing Pitch Perfect*, a big-screen comedy about, of all things, competitive collegiate a cappella groups, along with her husband, producer Max Handelman. The film stars the Oscar-nominated Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson (otherwise known as Kristen Wiig’s bizarre, tattooed roommate in Bridesmaids). A cappella music? Um, yeah. Banks explains.

*Full disclosure, I wrote the book that Pitch Perfect is based on. More embarrassing: I sang in an a cappella group myself at Cornell.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: A movie about collegiate a cappella? Let’s get this out of the way: Is this a Glee knock-off? How will you respond to those comparisons?
You could compare it to Rock of Ages. You could compare it to Mamma Mia!, because it’s being made by the same studio. Yes, there is some singing and dancing in our movie. But essentially, we’re making a coming of age comedy — a very classic tale.

Nice. Did you have a magical a cappella experience in college? I mean, some people are horrified the first time they see 12 dudes making music without instruments.
Quite the opposite. The big group on our campus then was the Penn Six-5000 [Banks attended the University of Pennsylvania]. I went to one of their shows and I remember watching this guy sing “Rocket Man” better than Elton John, and thinking, This is the most amazing version of “Rocket Man” I’ve ever heard in my life.

Were you an a cappella groupie?
No, I was not a groupie. But I knew the guy vaguely and he was not some studly dude. He attracted a certain type of girl. He had a guitar. He fit a certain mold. But he was not a rock star. And yet, when they were on stage, they acted like rock stars.

Did you want to try out yourself?
I’m afraid of a cappella. I don’t read music and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I’m a melody singer only.

Do you sing karaoke?
Of course. The book of Irene Cara. Anything off the Flashdance soundtrack.

How did this cast come together? You’ve got Rebel Wilson coming off of Bridesmaids, Anna Kendrick was an Oscar nominee for Up in the Air…
We’re definitely catching our actors at such amazing points in their career. I liken it to when I did Wet Hot American Summer. As a young actor, this is the exact type of movie you want to do. It’s like going to camp with a bunch of your friends and making each other laugh and singing and dancing. There’s nothing better than that.

Rebel plays a character called Fat Amy. Did you see every slightly overweight girl in Hollywood for the role?
It’s harder than you would imagine to get young actresses to audition for a role called Fat Amy. But we wanted Rebel from the get-go. And she came in and nailed it. It was a no-brainer. She was one of the very first people we cast.

Has she made you laugh out loud with any improv?
My favorite thing she said is, “She’s the best singer in Tasmania. With teeth.” Like a lot of great quirky people — like Christopher Walken or Robin Williams or Kristen Wiig — she’s a natural clown. I say that with the utmost respect. I’m a huge clown fan.

Let’s talk Hunger Games: Where did you come up with Effie’s voice?
It’s a combination of The Philadelphia Story and Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame.

Really?
Rosalind Russell is just amazing. It’s one of my favorite performances ever. I wanted Effie to be really theatrical. I just wanted to make sure she didn’t sound too British. She needed to be a little highfalutin.

Which fans are more intense: A cappella fans or Hunger Games fans?
I would bet there’s a ton of crossover.

Would Effie Trinkett have been in an a cappella group?
Sure. There might be a cappella groups in the Capitol. That’s probably allowed. I think the Capitol wouldn’t find that too threatening.

But not in District 12, right?
They probably do a little barbershop in District 12. They need something to keep their spirits up.

Any chance you’ll go back to 30 Rock?
There’s definitely a chance. I mean, I know essentially what the storyline is. Mary Steenburgen is playing my mom. And that’ll be really fun. And she comes on pretty quickly.

That sounds definite.
They start to deal with it pretty quickly. That I’m there — and they need to get me back. It will be resolved.

You’re producing on Pitch Perfect and are mostly behind the camera. Is it a relief to come to set and not have to go into hair and make-up?
It’s the best.

The local bar in Baton Rouge, the Cove, apparently stays open late for the cast. What goes on there?
I’ve never been.

I don’t believe you.
I’m f—ing exhausted! Every night we go home and I have to do script work. When you’ve been a mom for eight months and you’ve had a couple of those mornings where you drank too many margaritas the night before and you’re trying to deal with your kid in the morning, you quickly realize it’s not worth the late night.

When are you going to direct your own movie?
I have no idea. I have no immediate plans. I directed a porno last night, which was funny.

I’m sorry?
Yeah, we play this ridiculous porn on the TV in the background of the Treble House [a set piece that the all-male a cappella group in the film call home]. And we came up with a really ridiculous idea. I directed it last night at the Crown Plaza.

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