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 Producers Guild of America nominations = Oscars' front-runners
Producers Guild of America nominations = Oscars' front-runners
There were no jaw-droppers among the nominees for best picture by the Producers Guild of America: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Dark Knight," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire." A winner will be announced on Jan. 24. Most of the ...
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 Watch This: TCM's Tribute to the Departed of 2008
Watch This: TCM's Tribute to the Departed of 2008
Every December, Turner Classic Movies produces a lovely montage honoring the actors and filmmakers who died that year, and here's the one for 2008. Apparently they released it around Dec. 10, then updated it to include Van Johnson, who died Dec. 15, ...

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PGA unveils film nominations - Entertainment News, Web Exclusive, Media
The Producers Guild of America has tapped the producers of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Dark Knight,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire” as the nominees for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award. The ...
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 For Your Consideration: MAN ON WIRE For Best Picture
For Your Consideration: MAN ON WIRE For Best Picture
For weeks now, film reviews, writers and Oscar prognosticators have lamented that 2008 was not the great year for cinema that was 2007. Further, some suggest that most of this year's crop of Oscar hopefuls wouldn't stand a chance in...
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 Classic DVD: The Apartment
Classic DVD: The Apartment
Billy Wilder is one of those tough unsentimental directors whose films get better with time. Years later, they still feel contemporary. And the Oscar-winning The Apartment, reviewed here on video by the NYT's A.O. Scott , is on my All-Time Top Ten ...
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 Yoji Yamada set to film 'Otouto'
Yoji Yamada set to film 'Otouto'
BANGKOK -- Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada will begin shooting the family drama "Otouto" in mid-January, with stars Tsurube Shofukutei as the "otouto" or younger brother and Sayuri Yoshinaga as his older sister. Written by Yamada and Emiko ...
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 Slumdog Millionaire Wins D.C. Critics
Slumdog Millionaire Wins D.C. Critics
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics have added more heat to the Slumdog Millionaire awards juggernaut, awarding four prizes to the film including Best Film and Best Director. Here are the winners: Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire/Fox ...
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For Your Consideration: “Kirk Lazarus” For Best Supporting Actor
One of the potential nominees for Best Supporting Actor Academy is Kirk Lazarus…I mean Robert Downey Jr. As we know Oscar season is approaching and Parmount Pictures are pushing their reminder of Downey’s work in “ Tropic Thunder ” who underwent a controversial ...
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 Why Australia is a Dud
Why Australia is a Dud
Well, Australia's second-weekend drop indicates that it isn't doing well enough with adult audiences to ever make it into a success here. Here are some of the reasons this movie couldn't make it. The heart of the movie--the part that ...
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 Gomorra Dominates European Film Awards
Gomorra Dominates European Film Awards
Gomorra , the Italian submission for the Oscars, won five prizes at the 21st European Film Awards held on December 6 in Copenhagen. The gangster movie based on a novel by Roberto Saviano won best film, best actor (Toni Servillo) and best director ...
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 Australian Release Schedule
Australian Release Schedule
I was discussing Milk with somebody today and bemoaned the fact that we here in Australia aren't being allowed to see it until January 29 - lovely, no? - and then started wondering when all the other notable 2008 movies are to be released. The ones ...
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 Hollywoodizing Revolutionary Road
Hollywoodizing Revolutionary Road
In her Variety column today, Anne Thompson contrasts Sam Mendes’ star-studded, Oscar-positioned, somewhat tonally revisionist adaptation of Revolutionary Road with the work and life of author Richard Yates. Thompson reminds what unlikely ...
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 Did The Academy Reverse Their Decision To Disqualify The Dark Knight Score?
Did The Academy Reverse Their Decision To Disqualify The Dark Knight Score?
Yes, another Dark Knight news posting — but this time it’s not just another third film rumor or “Christopher Nolan is still considering a Dark Knight sequel” report. In November, the Executive Committee of the Academy of ...
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 "Look at that. You blew out my light"
"Look at that. You blew out my light"
It's a comic line from Sister Aloysius that Streep sells gamely in film and trailer ( Doubt opens this weekend in several major markets) ... but offscreen there's no blowing Meryl Streep 's light out. The woman has charisma to spare. She could ...
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“$9.99″ Trailer
Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards . One of them is “ $9.99 ” a stop motion animated movie for grown-ups based on the Short Stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret .
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Jerry Lewis to be honored at Oscars - Entertainment News, Oscar News, Media
Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards. The AMPAS board of governors will bestow an Oscar statuette to the comedian at the Feb. 22 ceremony. "Jerry is a legendary comedian who has helped thousands upon ...
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Golden Globe Nominations
Refresh your screen for more details. It has begun. I always forget that there's lots of TV stuff. Recount, Doris and Bernard, Mad Men, In Treatment, etcetera Comedy Actor Bardem -Vicky, Farrell -In Bruges, Franco -Pineapple EXpress, Gleeson -In ...
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 For Your Consideration: Kirk Lazarus for Best Supporting Actor
For Your Consideration: Kirk Lazarus for Best Supporting Actor
Dreamworks has launched their Best Supporting Actor campaign for Kirk Lazarus, the character that Robert Downey Jr plays in Tropic Thunder. Dreamworks is also pushing Downey Jr. for the same award in real life. I wonder if viral web marketing ...
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 Kate Winslet’s Oscar Chances: It’s Up to Her to Make a Distinction
Kate Winslet’s Oscar Chances: It’s Up to Her to Make a Distinction
Kate Winslet’s performance as a concentration camp guard in The Reader has been the subject of much debate over the past week, though little of the discussion has actually concerned her craft. The argument lies in whether or not this specific ...
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 OSCARS WANT HUGH JACKMAN TO HOST: He'll Accept If Academy Show "Different"
OSCARS WANT HUGH JACKMAN TO HOST: He'll Accept If Academy Show "Different"
EXCLUSIVE: I reported yesterday that the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had chosen someone "way outside the box" to host the 81st Oscars on February 22nd. Today, I've learned that the person is not just outside the box but outside ...

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