The nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced today.

Into the Wild earned nominations for supporting actor Hal Holbrook and supporting actress Catherine Keener. It was also included among the films nominated for best ensemble cast.

The other four films nominated for best ensemble cast were 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Hairspray and No Country for Old Men.

No Country for Old Men also scored two nominations in the supporting-actor category: for Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones.

In addition to Emile Hirsch, leading-actor nominations in film went to George Clooney for Michael Clayton, Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood, Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl, and Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises.

Charlie Wilson’s War is generating a decent amount of Oscar buzz.

But does it deserve it? Let’s find out what a cross section of critics are saying about this Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts vehicle:

- A pleasant enough film, but I simply didn’t see what all the awards talk is about. – Hollywood Report Card

- Tells a momentous story - a story every American should know - in a boisterous, lickety-split style that makes the history lesson go down easily. — New York Magazine

- When Charlie Wilson’s War is on target - pretty much every time Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman appear on-screen together - it’s a really enjoyable movie. — The Arizona Republic

- Charlie Wilson’s War is a journalistic satire of realpolitik in which our jerry-rigged alliances, which looked strategic at the time, end up biting the U.S. in unforeseen ways. — Entertainment Weekly

Forget who will be playing in Super Bowl XLII (airing February 3 on FOX). Most people just wanna know one thing:

What commercials will be showing?

Specifically, movie goers are curious about the ads for major films they’ll see for the first time during the big game. While some studios have opted to buy ads during the Super Bowl’s pre- or post-shows, as Paramount is doing with the comedy Drillbit Taylor (pictured), others will showcase features during breaks in the action.

Variety reports that commercials for Iron Man and Will Smith’s action adventure Hancock will be aired at some point during the game. Also, look for Adam Sandler comedy Don’t Mess With the Zohan, as well as Will Ferrell’s Semi-Pro.

Disney said it was still considering which movies to offer, though Pixar’s WALL•E is a contender, as is The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo have signed on to star in the movie adaption of The Secret Life of Bees.

The film is based on the Sue Monk Kidd novel that was published in 2002.

Dakota Fanning is in negotiations to star as the 14-year-old girl who flees her home and is taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters.

Alicia Keys is also rumored to join the film, whose plot follows:

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees centers on Lily Owens (Fanning), who escapes her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father by running away with her caregiver and only friend (Hudson) to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past.

Latifah, Okonedo and Keys would play the three sisters.

Shooting is scheduled to begin January 9 in North Carolina.

Director Guillermo del Toro recently spoke to USA Today about his follow-up to Hellboy.

When asked about a sequel, the director said he didn’t hesitate. He had fallen in love with the cigar-smoking, red-bodied superhero with devil horns shaved to the nub to help him blend in with the public.

“I was surprised when they called,” del Toro says. “It was not a smashing success. But it did very well on DVD, so people were finding out about it.”

As for Hellboy II: The Golden Army - which will revolve around a world of elves, goblins and trolls forced out of the woods and into city sewers and tunnels due to urban sprawl - del Toro talked specifically about his vision for the film.

“This isn’t going to be Narnia-esque,” he said. “It won’t be a golden world. It will be a very tarnished, underworld magic kingdom. These beings are outcasts. I’m drawn to those sort of lived-in worlds.”

The director was also quick to add that Hellboy won’t lose its sarcastic sense of humor.

“I’ve always loved that Hellboy has a blue-collar mentality. He carries himself like an ordinary guy. He’s somebody who is constantly trying to prove that he can be who he chooses to be in spite of his perceived destiny.”

Amy Ryan might very well hear her named call during the Academy Awards.  Her performance in Gone Baby Gone is generation serious Oscar talk.

For now, though, the actress is simply talking to Entertainment Weekly about her career:

Entertainment Weekly: How has your life changed since Gone Baby Gone opened?
Amy Ryan: It’s gotten busier, and I’ve run out of adjectives. Even my mother is complaining that she has no more adjectives. She sent me an e-mail this morning and she just wrote ”Woo-hoo!” [Laughs] And then on the practical side, I’m starting to get invites to the bigger table at Thanksgiving. I don’t have to sit at the folding card table anymore, with the leg between my knees! [Laughs] That’s the best part of it, that there’s access to better material, directors, and actors.

EW: So you’re already receiving better scripts?
Ryan: Oh yeah, for sure. Being an actor, we’re so dependent on the writers. That’s why I’m like, God, I hope the strike ends. My big break during the writers’ strike! Oh, crap.

EW: What do you make of the Oscar buzz?
Ryan: I have to keep scratching my ass. You know when people say ”Knock on wood”? I met this woman who said, ”Scratch your ass,” which is what my grandmother said. It made me laugh so hard that I’ve been scratching my ass for, like, a month. I did some interview online, and I found myself very subtly reaching around. I think I’m caught on tape somewhere, scratching my ass.

EW: Your next movie is The Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood. Between him and your Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead director Sidney Lumet, you’ll have worked with two masters.
Ryan: It’s great. I’m really lucky. Clint works very similarly to Sidney Lumet in, like, be very prepared because you’re only going to get two takes. Both have, I think, very rich personal lives they want to get home to. I met Clint for the first time on set.

You audition on videotape, so we were getting ready to do the scene and the first thing he said to me was, ”I read you worked with Sidney Lumet.” I said, ”Yeah.” He said, ”So you’re used to doing two takes. Good.” [Laughs] Half-compliment, half-threat.

EW: Who do you play in The Changeling?
Ryan: I befriend [a character played by] Angelina Jolie. Both characters end up in really dire situations. And I kind of teach her how to survive. I help her through her darkest hour because I’ve been there a little longer than she has. But if I tell you where, it gives away a plot point.

Read the full interview with Ryan now.

CHUD.com has released a few spoilers for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

According to movie news source, the character of John Connor - already set to be played by Christian Bale - has a minor role in the film, which is meant to kick-start a brand new trilogy of films set in the future of the Terminator world.

The main character of Terminator Salvation is reportedly named Marcus, a man who was “put out of commission” before the machines take over on Judgment Day and is just waking up as the film begins.

The film is set in the future, approximately 15 years before the future scenes of the original Terminator movie. The Connor character appears only peripherally, but will supposedly have a bigger part in the planned second film.

Here’s a major name for the new Dragon Ball movie: Chow Yun-Fat has been cast in a leading role.

Chow will portray Master Roshi, an ancient martial arts master and a mighty, powerful warrior.

Chow Yun-Fat made his name in John Woo’s Hong Kong action spectaculars, including Hard Boiled and The Killer. He also earned well-deserved critical acclaim for his turn as an aging warrior in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Following the confirmed castings of Mathieu Amalric and Anatole Taubman in Bond 22, Mexican actor Jaquin Cosio says he has landed the role of a Latin American General called “General Medrano.” in the film.

“There are various enemies, and I’m one of them. I’m General Medrano, Bond’s enemy in Latin America, but there are other enemies waiting in Europe for Bond”, the actor told Mexican newspaper El Diario.

“I’m really pleased to be chosen to participate in such a huge film, it’s a great achievement that the film will feature a Mexican actor,” he added. “I still don’t know much of the script, I don’t really know what my scenes will be like, but I know that I’m going to film in Panama, Bolivia and London.”

Korean star Byeong-Heon Lee will play Storm Shadow, while Rachel Nichols will portray Shana “Scarlett” O’Hara in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie.

The two join Sienna Miller and Ray Park in the film, which opens August 7, 2009.