Kicking off the 6th Annual Nike Basketball 3ON3 Tournament Presented by NBC4 at L.A. LIVE, Josh Hutcherson will host the 3rd annual Josh Hutcherson Celebrity Basketball Game Benefiting Straight But Not Narrow (SBNN), an ally organization that prepares and trains young adults on how to become allies of their LGBTQ peers.
Hosted by Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire), celebrity participants scheduled to appear include: Terrell Owens (Former NFL Star), Clark Gregg (The Avengers), Kyle Massey (That’s So Raven), Sasha Vujacic (Professional Basketball Player), Romeo Miller (Rapper/Actor), Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives, Dallas), Karrueche Tran (Host/Model), Arlen Escarpeta (Into The Storm, Whitney Houston Biopic), Cisco Adler (Musician), Christopher Minzt-Plasse (Super Bad), Frankie Delgado (Actor), Jarod Einsohn (Project X, Eagle Eye), Greg Finley (Actor), B.J. Britt (Transfer, Peaceful Warrior), Hayley Orrantia (Goldbergs), Bracin Skywalker (Top Track & Field Athletes in the Nation), Ben Lyons (Entertainment Reporter), Manny Streetz (KIIS-FM), Landry Bender (Sitter) Ryan Riess (Professional Poker Player), Chris Brochu (Actor/Singer), Darrell Atkins (Dutch Hollow), Wes Chatham (In the Valley of Elah) and others. Talent for the Josh Hutcherson Celebrity Basketball Game has been booked by 10 Fold Entertainment.
It all takes place at Nokia Plaza L.A. LIVE, 777 Chick Hearn Ct. in Los Angeles, CA 90015 on Friday, August 8, 2014 at 7 p.m.
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Josh is among the 271 artists and executives who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, meaning he could contribute to next year’s Academy Awards balloting. Actors Ben Foster, Sally Hawkins, Michael Fassbender, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong’o and Jason Statham and directors Gavin O’Connor, Paolo Sorrentino and Jean-Marc Vallee are also on the membership list with Hollywood’s top casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, make-up artists, animators, producers, moguls and documentary makers. New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in September.
According to the list of guests published on the 2014 MTV Movie Awards website, Josh is going to be in attendance, and he is going to be seated right next to his ‘Catching Fire’ co-star Sam Claflin (see photo below). There is a good chance we’ll also be seeing him on stage since there are tons of Catching Fire-related nominations! Don’t miss the award ceremony this Sunday, April 13th at 9/8c!
MTV has announced the nominations for its 2014 Movie Awards. The ceremony will take place at Hollywood’s Nokia Theatre on Sunday 13 April.
Josh and The Hunger Games are nominated in the following categories:
Movie of the Year
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Male Performance
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Best Fight
Jason Bateman Vs Melissa McCarthy – Identity Thief
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Sam Claflin Vs Mutant Monkeys – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jonah Hill Vs James Franco & Seth Rogen – This Is The End
Orlando Bloom & Evangeline Lilly Vs Orcs – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Everyone – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
You can submit your votes here.
Deadline reports that Josh has signed with CAA (Creative Artists Agency). He has been in play since recently leaving ICM, the agency that repped Josh since he was 11 years old and which booked him into The Hunger Games and Journey To The Center Of The Earth franchises as well as The Kids Are All Right. CAA is thought to be one of the top agencies in film with a client list that includes Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, and many others.
