The list of nominees has been released for the Teen Choice Awards (TCA’s), which will air on August 10th, and we are very pleased to see that Theo, Divergent, and the Divergent family has been nominated for several. Below is the list of nominees for Divergent (click on the images for the link to vote):
Theo James – Divergent – Actor Action
Shailene Woodley – Divergent – Actress Action
Divergent – Action
Non-Divergent related but part of the Divergent family nonetheless, Shailene, Ansel and The Fault In Our Stars (TFIOS) has been nominated as well (click on the pictures for the link to vote):
TFIOS – Drama
Ansel Elgort – TFIOS – Actor Drama
Shailene Woodley – TFIOS – Actress Drama
The rules state you can only vote once per day, be a U.S. resident, and be under 19 to vote, which is a bummer for those of us who are fans but part of an *coughs* older *coughs* generation. What are you waiting for? GO VOTE!
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The fourth TODAY Book Club pick is "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Share your thoughts about Green's beloved young adult novel by joining the TODAY Book Club community, a fresh and interactive discussion series, and tweeting with #TFiOSTODAY.
The cast of "The Fault in Our Stars" will also be answering questions and sharing photos and videos on TODAY's social media accounts, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine, beginning today through Friday, May 9. Fans can start the conversation with stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff and author John Green on Twitter today from 5-6 p.m. ET using #TFiOSTODAY.
It has the ingredients of many a page-turner: with teen love and tragedy, John Green’s novel “The Fault in Our Stars” has sold seven million copies and is set to make its film debut in June, starring new Hollywood darling Shailene Woodley. And to top it all off, the novel is the latest read for TODAY’s Book Club.
“The Fault in Our Stars” tells the story of 16-year-old Hazel Lancaster, a teen with incurable cancer who meets and falls in love with another patient. The tale was inspired by some of Green’s experiences working at a children’s hospital as a student chaplain.
“I was only 21. It was very difficult. I saw a lot of kids die,” Green told Willie Geist at his office in Indianapolis. “I spent time … with their parents. It was really difficult for me to be hopeful in that. It kept coming back to me. I kept wanting to write about it.”
Green finally did write about it after meeting Esther Earl, a 15-year-old fan battling cancer. She died a year later.
“Once I understood that a short life can also be a good life, it kind of became possible to write the story,” Green said.
This is the fifth novel for Green, 35, who is no stranger to tackling teen romance in the face of adversity. In addition to “The Fault in Our Stars,” his books “Looking for Alaska,” “Paper Towns” and “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” all debuted on the New York Times best-seller list.
And despite legions of screaming fans who follow him to book signings (Green “humble brags” he’s signed his name 150,000 times), the author says he’s still starstruck when it comes to the new film.
“At no point did I have a poker face,” he said about being on set. “The director would be debating, ‘Was this take better than this take?’ And I would just be, like, ‘Guys, let's calm down for a second and think about how awesome this is. Shailene Woodley is in our movie. This is awesome!”
It’s indeed awesome, particularly for a guy who considers himself a nerd and spreads the message that being a nerd is cool. Green connects with his young fans, dubbed “Nerdfighters,” via four video series, including one called the “Vlog Brothers,” in which he and his brother Hank cover everything from foreign affairs to goat mating.
“I want to celebrate intellectualism,” he said. “We only get to be here on this planet for a little while, and we have the chance to pay attention or we can choose to be distracted. And when we pay attention is when I think we're really fulfilled and happy and excited.”
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that 'The Fault in Our Stars' tour is coming to several cities around the country to promote the movie. The book was fantastic the movie is slated to be amazing, I mean how could it not Shailene is starring in it as Hazel Grace.
We have been thinking what if we could sit down and talk to the stars and the author and ask them any questions, what would they be, like...
With the subject matter, Cancer, was the set kept light in between takes?
Had you read the book before getting cast in the role?
What was your reaction to being cast?
Knowing each other from that other famous movie, {grins} did that help with the connection between you both on set, I mean working so closely with each other not on one, but two movies.
Shai - What lessons did you if any did you learn from Hazel?
Ansel - Did you take anything away from playing Gus?
I know if I could sit down with Hazel and Gus what I would want to know, but alas Gus and Hazel are just the characters in this amazing story.
So if you could sit down with Shai, Ansel and of course the amazingly talented writer John what would you want to ask them about the book, or the movie.
In a new video posted by MTV, Shailene Woodley can be seen crying as she gets her long and luscious locks chopped off for her role as cancer-stricken teen Hazel Grace Lancaster in the upcoming flick, based on the best-selling young adult novel by John Green.
In the clip, Woodley is clearly emotional as her hair stylist takes a scissor to her thick locks. "I have to see it! I have to see it!" she shouts as her stylist hands her chunks of hair. "Oh my God! I might cry so hard you guys."
Get ready for the feels... The book was amazing and the trailer hits on all the points we need to see in this soon to be released movie.
If you haven't read the book, go run and grab it NOW and read it. There is still time and the book is a must read. It's a heart warming, must be told story. That has you thinking, feeling and wanting to live...
The Fault in Our Stars is a contemporary teen romance in the way that Paris is a city in Europe and ice cream is a type of dessert. It tells the story of Hazel Grace and Augustus, Midwestern “cancer kids” who meet at a support group and connect over their fatalistic sarcasm and mutual attraction. They've both been maimed by their illnesses—Augustus has had a leg amputated, and Hazel needs oxygen tubes to support her damaged lungs—and though they delight in mocking the usual cancer narratives of “miracle” drugs and stoic, saintly patients, their story doesn't dodge the cruelties of juvenile disease. It’s not all grim: There’s fumbling teen sex in hospital beds and friends who do and don’t understand, and a pickled literary recluse in Amsterdam whom the two cash in a Make-a-Wish Foundation gift to visit.
More than 7 million hardcover copies of Fault (a paperback was released in March) have circulated widely—among middle school English classes, from teen to tween, from child to parent to grandparent, and beyond. A movie adaptation is coming out in early June, further initiating anyone not yet familiar with the tale and its author, John Green, a 36-year-old writer who lives in Indianapolis. If you know what to look for, you’ll find Fault references everywhere in the teen/tween universe: on Instagram, in school lockers and libraries, on T-shirts and text sign-offs.
The Newcomers: As Augustus Waters in the film version of bestselling 'The Fault in Our Stars,' Ansel Elgort of 'Divergent' finds himself on a new level of fandom.
Actor Ansel Elgort, from the film "The Fault in Our Stars," at the Four Seasons Hotel. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / April 14, 2014)
Having already gone through the social media wringer when he was cast in the young-adult franchise "Divergent," Ansel Elgort thought he had a pretty good idea about how passionate and protective readers can be about their favorite books. Then he won the role of Augustus Waters, the love interest in the movie adaptation of John Green's bestselling romance "The Fault in Our Stars," and the 20-year-old actor realized he had crossed into an uncharted realm.
Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them -- and us -- on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, based upon the number-one bestselling novel by John Green, explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love.
