MTV Continues Movie Awards Mania with an Exclusive Clip from The Art of Getting By and LIVE Q&A with Emma Roberts,
Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser and Director Gavin Weiss

TONIGHT at 11pm ET on MTV and MTV.com

MTV is bringing the summer movie season to a full sizzle with the second night of its “2011 MTV Movie Awards Sneak Peek Week.” The Art of Getting By stars Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano and Elizabeth Reaser will introduce a new exclusive clip from the film tonight at 11pm ET/PT on-air and treat fans to an extended LIVE Q&A with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz and director Gavin Weiss on MTV.com. Fans can get in on the action immediately via Twitter using the @MTVNews handle and hash-tag #SPW or MTV.com to submit questions.

Each night is building anticipation toward who will take home the golden popcorn statues during the “2011 MTV Movie Awards” broadcasting LIVE from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA on Sunday, June 5 at 9pm ET/8pm CT.

The Art of Getting By (Fox Searchlight) Film Summary: The Art of Getting By stars Freddie Highmore (Finding Neverland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who’s made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, who is befriended by Sally (Emma Roberts – Scream 4), a beautiful and complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

Michael’s got a new movie! It’s called “The Brass Teapot”, starts shooting in July and co-stars fellow rising star Juno Temple. Can’t wait!

EXCLUSIVE: White hot Juno Temple and Michael Angarano will star in The Brass Teapot, a darkly comic morality tale packaged by Gersh Agency that TF1 is selling internationally and is being fast-tracked for a July start in New York.

Gersh’s film fund Northern Lights Films is financing the project, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials director Ramaa Mosley and follows a broke young couple who steal a brass teapot that produces cash whenever someone feels pain. Tim Macy wrote the screenplay.

Gersh represents North American rights and the company’s P Jennifer Dana packaged the project with Jay Cohen and reunites with her production team on Fox Searchlight’s Sundance hit The Art Of Getting By (formerly Homework).

Northern Lights president Kirk Roos produces with Dana’s producing partner Darren Goldberg and James Graves. Diane Nabatoff will serve as executive producer.

“We were excited to produce Brass Teapot when it was simply a great script and an ambitious director,” Roos said. “So, it was a super bonus to land an amazing cast on top of an already sexy and smart dark comedy.”

“The movie is fresh,” TF1’s vp of international sales and acquisitions Gregory Chambet said. “It’s been a long time since there’s been a film with that mix of dark comedy and fantasy and we feel Juno is the next big thing.”

Temple stars in upcoming US releases Dirty Girl and Little Birds and will also appear in The Three Musketeers. Angarano’s credits include The Art Of Getting By and Kevin Smith’s Red State.

Dana and Cohen put together A Little Something For Your Birthday in Cannes starring Malin Akerman and James Marsden for Parlay Films and Anonymous.

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“The Art of Getting By”, formerly “Homework” now has its first trailer on HollywoodCrush. You can watch the trailer below and view screen captures in the gallery.

019 x Movie Roles – “The Art of Getting By” Theatrical Trailer #1 Screen Captures

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Michael Angarano has been acting since the age of 8, so you could take his collective filmography, as he jokes, as a “well-kept home video” of his life captured on screen. For much of that documented life he’s been a steadily-rising young performer amassing a wide range of credits (Almost Famous, Sky High, The Forbidden Kingdom, Gentlemen Broncos), but 2011 marks an important turning point; with roles in Max Winkler’s Ceremony (in theaters), Gavin Wiesen’s Homework, Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, and Kevin Smith’s Red State, Angarano is in the midst of carving out a fascinating adult career for himself.

Max Winkler’s debut film Ceremony (in limited release) finds Angarano playing a role originally filled by Jesse Eisenberg (who vacated the project to tackle The Social Network with Winkler’s blessing). As Sam, the posturing, willfully pretentious young writer who coerces his former BFF (Reece Thompson) on a weekend getaway in order to ruin his ex-lover’s (Uma Thurman) wedding, Angarano is a measured, manic bundle of ironic affectation. He’s at once irksome and adorable, which is partially why Thurman’s Zoe remains involved in their May-December affair; eventually, however, the realities of adulthood, friendship, and ill-timed love hit Sam, and hard.

Movieline spoke with Angarano about the closeness he developed with his Ceremony director and co-stars, where he drew inspiration from for his portrayal, his upcoming films with Wiesen, Smith, and Soderbergh, and finally, his recollections of the very first screen credit he ever earned — playing the son of a famous actor on Saturday Night Live.

One gets the impression that the Ceremony shoot was a relationship-builder. You’ve all since become close, it seems.
We shot the film last fall, and Max and I have become very good friends. Reece and I were inseparable for a while. We’ve all become very close. I think that’s what happens when you do a movie like this, which is very personal and kind of important for everybody, you know? Not only personally but for their careers. It’s kind of a bonding experience. And we also lived together on set for six weeks; we lived on the estate in different houses — me, Reece, Jake Johnson, and Lee Pace all lived in the same house. Max and the producer lived in the same house. So it was a very familial energy on set.

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Ceremony hits our sweet spot: young, hip director makes low-budget movie about misguided love, starring young, hip actors and Uma Thurman. We’ve been on this picture like a model on a scale, publishing interviews with its director, Max Winkler, and with one of its stars, Reece Thompson. Here, in the final installment of our informal, fanboy Ceremony series, another of the film’s stars, Michael Angarano, talks about Jesse Eisenberg, catharsis, and making movies in your 20s.

How did you get involved with the film?
I met with Max, read the script, and thought it was a very unconventional type of romantic comedy. It was very well written and very witty, and reminded me of a Billy Wilder movie or something. Originally I was going to play Marshall, and when Jesse Eisenberg had to drop out I spoke with Max and we thought I was kind of in the right place to play Sam.

It would have been such a different movie had Jesse been in it.
Yeah, Jesse’s amazing, I think he’s one of the best actors of our generation and it’s just so interesting to think about what it could have turned out to be.

Could you relate to your character?
Sam was 23 years old and Max wrote it when he was 23 and I was 21. It’s that time in your life when you feel so impressionable by everything around you—the latest book you read, or the latest movie you see, basically defines your wardrobe or how you talk the next day. Sam has this utterly romanticized idea of love and life, and imagines himself to be a Cary Grant or a character out of some old movie, and he’s just not that guy. His references kind of build him up to be this person he’s not, especially with the woman he loves.

My favorite thing was watching Sam go from pompous to a really deconstructed mess.
It’s so obvious he’s not that guy. He’s really just overly sensitive, and very insecure and deeply flawed, and that’s his realization, and it takes a smack in the face by the woman he loves to realize that this is not reality. What I do relate to is Sam’s idea of love, really. I think this is the question that the movie poses: Is Sam’s love for Zoe the right kind of love? It’s kind of unbridled, unmitigated, unconditional puppy love that’s completely untainted by real life. Is that real love?

What was it like working with Max?
This whole experience has been so personal and cathartic for both of us, it was like a therapy session. He wrote it in a stage of heartbreak, and I acted in it in a stage of heartbreak. It’s just two young guys coming together and creating art, and channeling their emotions in art.

Do you ever want to make your own films?
I’ve always said that that’s a goal of mine. My idols in life are Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers, people that really kind of create themselves and then manifest it on the big screen. Watching Max, such a young guy write and direct something, it was incredibly inspiring.

This is the first time a lot of audiences are seeing you as an adult. Is that something that was important to you?
I hadn’t worked for about a year and a half before this movie, and I felt like a completely different person, like a young adult and that’s what it is. So I was dealing with all these issues and it felt natural. I’m excited for people to see it because I do feel that it’s different from things that I’ve done.

Blackbook.

Michael Angarano really likes pizza.

But not just any pizza. The 23-year-old actor, who stars alongside Uma Thurman in the recently released film “Ceremony,” loves the thick, square Sicilian pies from L&B Spumoni Gardens on 86th St. in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

“This pizza makes you hungrier the more you eat,” says the baby-faced Brooklyn native as he polishes off his third piece. “They just make it so good. The cheese is underneath the pasta sauce and the crust is like butter when it comes out of the oven. You can’t find pizza like this in L.A.”

Which is why Angarano is so happy to be back near his old neighborhood, where his mother runs the Reflections in Dance studio on Bath Ave.

“I was born in Bensonhurst and raised in Staten Island,” he says between bites. “I moved out to California when I was 12, but I still consider myself a New Yorker. I root for the Mets. What could be more New York than that?”

This New York background helped Angarano — who has also appeared in a wide variety of movies including “Almost Famous,” “Lords of Dogtown” and “Seabiscuit” — with the role of Sam, a lovesick Brooklyn kid who fools his best friend into helping him break up a wedding in the Hamptons to regain the love of Zoe, played by Uma Thurman.
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Michael and the cast of “Red State” finished up their country wide tour with the movie in Los Angeles yesterday. Photos from the event can now be viewed in the gallery.

025 x Public Appearances – 04.09.11: “Red State” National Tour Finale – Los Angeles

This week Michael appeared on NBC’s “The Today Show” and MTV’s “The Seven” to promote his new film “Ceremony” and now a bunch of stills of him looking completely adorable on both shows have been added to the gallery.

021 x Public Appearances – 04.06.11: MTV’s “The Seven”

012 x Public Appearances – 04.08.11: “The Today Show”

Michael, along with Lee Pace and Director Max Winkler, literally took the promotion for “Ceremony” to new heights today with a visit to the Empire State Building.

023 x Public Appearances – 04.06.11: “Ceremony” Cast Visit The Empire State Building