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Five days into the new year and the movie awards season is in full swing. A chance to celebrate all of the cinematic gold bestowed upon us by filmmakers over the last 365 days, the majority of awards bodies veer towards the positive. The good, the great and the outstanding movie achievements. Of course, you can’t have yin without yang, and that customary glint of deviousness amidst the showers of compliments will soon be upon us, in the shape of the The Annual Golden Raspberry Awards.

Known informally as The Razzies, the achievements are dished out based on how bad the category nominees performed, and this year’s nominees have now been announced. Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways To Die In The West beat out its closest competitors for the esteemed honour of most nominations with a whopping eight altogether. Recent limelight comedy, The Interview, also snagged four nominations across three categories.

The Interview has been performing well in its limited theatrical and online VOD release, taking in more than $15 million from online sales and rentals. The comedy has already expanded to cable VOD, Playstation, Vudu and more theaters nationwide. Despite its early success, The Interview has not been received well by at least one organization, The Golden Raspberry Awards, a.k.a. The Razzies, which has released its "short list" of nominees. The Interview is listed in several categories including Worst Picture, Worst On-Screen Combo (James Franco and Seth Rogen) and Worst Actor (both James Franco and Seth Rogen). Voting for the Razzie Awards ends on January 10, with the nominations to be announced January 14, one day before The Academy Awards nominations are announced.

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, which was already voted the worst movie of all time by IMDb users, is also prominently featured on the short list, with nominations for Worst Picture,...

David Bordwell's posted another round of book recommendations, among them, volumes on Hou Hsiao-hsien and Henri Langlois. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Graham Greene's 1952 open letter of support for Charles Chaplin, Grady Hendrix on Anthony Chen’s "quiet domestic drama," Ilo Ilo (2013), Design Observer co-founder Rick Poynor on the posters Hans Hillmann designed for films by Jean-Luc Godard, Penny Lane (Our Nixon) on James Manera’s Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?, an interview with Pawel Pawlikowski, a celebration of Tom Graeff—and more. » - David Hudson...

David Bordwell's posted another round of book recommendations, among them, volumes on Hou Hsiao-hsien and Henri Langlois. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Graham Greene's 1952 open letter of support for Charles Chaplin, Grady Hendrix on Anthony Chen’s "quiet domestic drama," Ilo Ilo (2013), Design Observer co-founder Rick Poynor on the posters Hans Hillmann designed for films by Jean-Luc Godard, Penny Lane (Our Nixon) on James Manera’s Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?, an interview with Pawel Pawlikowski, a celebration of Tom Graeff—and more. » - David Hudson...

Unless you’re a diehard Libertarian or the ghost of Ayn Rand herself back from the great beyond come to haunt us all in the spookiest of fashions, you probably haven’t spent that much time paying attention to the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy. If you’re suddenly inspired to trek to the theater and explore the role of man’s mind in existence, the third and final installment of the series — which attempts to answer the all-important question of “Who is John Galt?” — has arrived. The first trailer for the aptly titled Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?, directed by James Manera and written by Manera and Harmon Kaslow, promises epic romance, war and all the Ron Paul the silver screen can handle. It’s somewhat of a miracle that the film even exists. After Atlas Shrugged: Part I was a bonafide flop, only managing to bring in lukewarm $4.6 million at the box office, its...

I'm not sure who exactly saw Atlas Shrugged: Part I in 2011, but it only ended up making $4.6 million at the box office. In 2012 Atlas Shrugged: The Strike was released and only made $3.3 million at the box office. Now, the third and finale film in the trilogy is hitting theaters after resorting to Kickstarter for additional funding, that film is Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galtc and the first trailer is here for you to absorb. Directed by James Manera, the film stars Stephen Tobolowsky, Rob Morrow and Eric Allan Kramer and will be hitting theaters on September 12. Here's the ominous plot: Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way.

• Ron Paul will make his acting debut as a “commentator” in Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?, the third installment of the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy based on the novel by Ayn Rand. The book, and subsequent films, tells a story of a withering U.S. economy as a result of taxation and over-regulation. The former congressman and three-time presidential candidate will be joined by conservative personalities Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in the film, directed by James Manera. [The Hollywood Reporter]

• Alison Brie (Community) is in talks to star in the New Line comedy How to be Single. Based on the Liz Tuccillo novel,...