I’ve added 20 photos of Chris from the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival which took place earlier today in France. Chris, alongside his ‘Rise of the Guardians’ cast and filmmakers sat in for a Q&A session.

Gallery Link:
- 2012 > 05/16/2012 – 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival "Rise of the Guardians" Q&A With Talent And Filmmakers

Source: Deadline.com

Check out the all new sizzle reel, aka new featurette for ‘People Like Us’ – In Theaters June 29th!

Check back for the captures of the new featurette which I’ll be adding to the gallery later tonight, and stay tuned to our Twitter page for the latest news.

“I do know about ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ because Alice Eve, who’s in our film, [the ‘Star Trek’ sequel], has been reading it like crazy, so yeah, I’ve heard about it,” he told Access Hollywood at CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas on Monday.

When asked if he’d play the novel’s Christian Grey, the square-jawed hunk didn’t say no.

“It’d be a hell of a choice for me, I think,” he smiled. “It sounds like an interesting film.”

Chris is currently reprising his role as James T. Kirk in the J.J. Abrams helmed “Star Trek” sequel, and he said the film is going to impress.

“Of course I’m gonna tell you I think it’s gonna be better,” he laughed. “You pick up the characters from where they left off, and the development of the characters — I think — is just as exciting as the first one.

“And it’s relentless,” he added. “I think that’s the best adjective I can use.”

Chris said the team is actually close to wrapping up the second installment in the sci-fi reboot.

“We’re almost done,” he told Access. “It’s wrapping up very soon. It’s just as action-packed as the first one.”

You can check out the interview in full over at AccessHollywood.com

Lending his voice to Jack Frost in the upcoming animated film “Rise of the Guardians” has given Chris Pine a new appreciation of the secrecy surrounding J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.”

“Rise of the Guardians,” is a 3-D DreamWorks Animation movie featuring folklore characters like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; it’s set for release near Thanksgiving. It might not seem to have much in common with “Star Trek,” but Pine, 31, says working on “Guardians” has given him a better understanding of why “Star Trek” director Abrams is so adamant about keeping the plot of his films a mystery.

“J.J. is super-secretive. The scripts are color-coded, and walking to and from set we have to wear coats and everything,” the actor said at the CinemaCon convention of theater owners in Las Vegas, where he was on hand to promote “Guardians.” “It’s such a pain in the [butt], but I think about how awesome it is, because what he’s protecting is the magic of the unknown.”

With the advent of the Internet, Pine says it’s harder to preserve a sense of wonder among audiences, including children. Can the fantastical “Guardians” work for kids who are jaded at an early age?

“I think probably there’s a certain amount of earlier cynicism because of technology and stuff — they can look Santa Claus up online, and they’ll find a blog post from some hater about he doesn’t exist,” he said. “I do think there’s something genetically programmed in the brain of a child that wants to believe.”

DreamWorks Animation screened roughly 15 minutes of the new movie to theater owners at the Caesars Palace Coliseum on Monday night, and director Peter Ramsey showed illustrations of each of character and described them in elaborate detail. Pine gave an earnest speech about how his imagination ran wild as a kid. It seems the actor took his work on “Guardians” quite seriously. While Chris Rock told 24 Frames he finds doing voice work on the “Madagascar” films an easy gig, Pine said he agonizes over his delivery of every line.

“I do the voice for BMW too, and I’m always thinking, how do you paint a picture with words when the subtle nuances of just you and I sitting here together you can’t display?” he said. “I’ll go in sometimes and think I did a great job and hear it back and think, ‘Well, that’s not what I was trying to do.’ It’s the worst art form for an OCD perfectionist like me.”

Source: LATimes.com

I’ve added 92 photos of Chris at Day 1 of CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada which took place yesterday.

Gallery Link:
- 2012 > 04/23/2012 – CinemaCon 2012 – Day 1

MTV News: What was it that attracted you to the script originally?

Chris Pine: What attracted me to the film was just the quality of the writing. I was really interested in doing a film that was smaller scope than the films that I had done previously in the past couple years. This one was an intimate family drama, and I thought even the anomalous experience of someone finding out that their father had a completely separate family, everybody’s got family dramas of their own. Certainly, though I can’t relate to that specific experience, I can relate to having stuff in the family. This one takes place in the moment where all the stuff that’s been brewing for years and years and years finally comes to a head and has to be dealt with.

MTV: How does making the film’s central relationship a brother-sister one affect the overall movie?

Pine: Clearly it’s going to progress in a way that can’t be a love story between a sister and brother. It is in a sense that these two people get to know one another and find that they love one another because they’re the only two people that can relate and understand the experience of living in that family with that father and that mother. And because they’ve been so traumatized by the lies that their family has told for so many years, they find solace in one another’s mutual understanding. I think it’s refreshing because I don’t think people have seen something like this specific story in cinema before, at least in the States. There’s a quality of the film that kind of reminded me of one of my favorite films, “Kramer vs. Kramer,” and it kind of has the depth of something like “Ordinary People” and the humor of a comedy. It’s just — for the lack of a better term — very human.

MTV: Did it strike you as interesting that the film lacks the central romance that drives most dramas?

Pine: Not really because there are many stories in your own life that you lead that have nothing to do with a romantic other, whether it be work or dealing with your family. Oftentimes, many of the most pivotal stories that we play out in our own life don’t have anything to do with a girlfriend or a lover or a husband or a wife. That didn’t pose a problem for me because I thought that this was a story more about a man really becoming an authentic adult and learning how to deal honestly with those people in his life, his father and his mother and his girlfriend and his newfound sister.

MTV: With the relationship with Elizabeth Banks’ character being so central, what was your relationship with her like on set?

Pine: It was a pretty intense filmmaking experience. We had a lot of fun on set, and I love Elizabeth to death. She’s incredibly smart and doesn’t suffer fools. I appreciated her work ethic and just shooting the sh– on set. It was a film that demanded a lot of our attention and a lot of protecting our respective characters. I felt very protective of Sam. The piece, as it progresses forward, clearly because of the lies Sam tells along the way, there’s a lot of resentment from Elizabeth’s character. There were times when we would have these blowout discussions on set among Alex, myself and Elizabeth about what we felt the scene needed to be in the context of the arc of our characters.

MTV: Alex Kurtzman has said in the past how important this movie was to him. Was there a sense of that on the set?

Pine: From what Alex told me, this is a very important story that was very important for him to tell, and we both bonded over the fact that our careers had taken a particular path toward making larger films, while in our beginnings, we both thought we’d be making different kinds of films. It was nice to finally make one that we both really, really had a lot of investment in. Not that I don’t have investment in the films I do now — I’m saying it was nice to do something that we always wanted to make. I think it is exciting that Alex gets to show his fans that he is capable of doing a different kind of film entirely.

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I was recently contacted by the young but very talented Gabe Eggerling, whom is a voice actor. He had the chance to meet with Chris at the April 15th 3rd Annual Milk And Bookies Story Time Celebration event. He had nothing but great things to say about Chris, and wanted me to share his photo with all of you.

I’m an 8 yr old voice over actor (official voice of Schroeder/Peanuts) and had the coolest time hangin’ with Chris yesterday at the Milk and Bookies event talking about how to get the kids attention when reading storybooks.

You can find out a little more about Gabriel below.

Here’s a unique definition of a superhero from a young philanthropist… Mission Code: HERO: Helping Everyone Read Out loud.

It all started with a made-from-scratch cape and mask at the age of 3, which led to a photograph, then a Warner Brothers movie set. Now 8 years old, Gabriele Eggerling is taking his accomplished acting chops and voice over experience to story tell to kids in schools around Southern California. He is motivating kids to see the fun in reading through handmade puppets and silly voices. Earlier this year, he joined forces with the nonprofit Milk + Bookies to host a “You can be a Superhero Too” party. Dress up as a superhero, bring a book to donate to disadvantaged children and feel great for giving! All donations benefitted CHOC Children’s and to help build a library for the children in Borja, Peru. This past Sunday, Gabriele attended and was honored at the 3rd annual Milk + Bookies star studded fundraiser with his own poster and quotes about the importance of reading displayed for all to see in the Reading Room. Moreover, he had a chance to talk with actor Chris Pine about using voices to engage a young audience.

Gabriele has received recognition for his work as the youngest member of the SAG Foundation’s Children’s Literary Initiative, BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literary in Schools). He will join Michelle Obama and Goldie Hawn in 100makingadifference. A segment of the documentary “Heroes Don’t Wear Capes” follows Gabriele’s work and will be released Summer 2012. You can listen for his voice as the voice cast of Peanuts Schroeder in several projects this year.

Details of future events and how to participate can be followed at gabesays.net. Photos, resume and more stories are available upon request. I look forward to working with you to set up an interview with this captivating and charming young man

I’ve added 51 photos of Chris attending the 3rd Annual Milk And Bookies Story Time Celebration which took place yesterday, April 15th.

Gallery Link:
- 2012 > 04/15/2012 – 3rd Annual Milk And Bookies Story Time Celebration

I’ve added 99 HD captures of Chris from the Official movie trailer for his upcoming film ‘People Like Us’ which was originally titled ‘Welcome To People’ until recently. Also be sure to check out the official stills as well!

The film hits theaters this summer on June 29th!

From DreamWorks Pictures comes ‘People Like Us,’ a drama/comedy about family, inspired by true events, starring Chris Pine (‘Star Trek’) as Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father’s estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father’s last wishes, Sam uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down: He has a 30-year-old sister Frankie whom he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks). As their relationship develops, Sam is forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about this family–and re-examine his own life choices in the process

Gallery Link:
- People Like Us (2012) > Movie Trailer #1
- People Like Us (2012) > Official Photography