"Why don't people send this stuff to me?!" Bryan Singer cries through laughter, watching YouTube parodies of his films, including X-Men, The Usual Suspects, and Jack the Giant Killer. It's kind of adorable. Welcome to the internet, Bryan Singer!
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Amber Tamblyn (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret) always seemed like a girl with moxie, and I'd guess you don't fall in with a guy like David Cross without one wicked sense of humor, but even so the depths of awesome that she went to in pranking Tyrese Gibson deserve applause. And boy, what a prank: After receiving an e-mail from the Transformers/Fast 5 star proposing a future collaboration after he mistook her for model Amber Rose on a mutual friend's email message, Tamblyn reportedly had some fun with the musician-actor with a series of original "Awareness Raps."
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Next month brings the launch of The Hunger Games, one of the most-anticipated releases of the 2012 calendar and the first installment of a hopeful franchise based on Suzanne Collins's bestselling young-adult adventure trilogy. In selling their film, studio execs at Lionsgate have ramped up all manner of marketing to immerse fans in the experience — and, in doing so, have made the least-populated jursdiction on the planet a financial beneficiary.
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