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‘The Hurt Locker’ takes 6 Oscars, including Best Picture
Oh, let’s start with the positive. The irony of the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner of all time coming in a year when the Academy did everything it could (right down to a hopelessly baiting horror...
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Michael Moore on ‘Hurt Locker’ politics
One of the most common lines (usually used in praise) on our newly-crowned Best Picture winner is that it’s deliberately apolitical, taking no sides in the Iraq conflict as it aims simply to present...
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SUNDAY CENTS: ‘Dragon’ slays
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. I trust your dragons have been sufficiently trained. Despite sounding like a codename for masturbation amongst middle schoolers, “How to...
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Hurry, only 319 days until…
We have less than a month left until Cannes likely triggers the first mass Oscar chatter of the year. (More so if Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” is included in tomorrow’s Official Selection...
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Got a chuckle out of me
There’s zero extras! There’s so few extras that you put it in, you push play, and the movie starts. There are no trailers, there’s no bullshit at the beginning that you have to endlessly go through. I...
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SUNDAY CENTS: For real this time, ‘Dragon’‘Back-Up’ to #1
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. No photo finishes and no Monday recounts needed. “How to Train Your Dragon” has definitely topped the chart this weekend, four weeks after...
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Never knowingly undersold
Spotted this on the homepage of online retailer Zavvi and had to share. Move over, Mr. Welles.
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Ebert versus the third dimension
By now, you may have read Roger Ebert’s lengthy nine-point diatribe against 3D in Newsweek — it has certainly generated a substantial amount of online conversation in the last few days. On the face of...
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COMIC-CON: Wrapping it up…are we getting through?
My Comic-Con experience ended a bit sooner than I expected this morning when I woke up and decided whatever was on the Sunday docket wasn’t as fetching as a three-hour ride in traffic back to LA....
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‘Avatar: Special Edition’ trailer
You didn’t think you were out of the 2009 awards season woods yet, did you? No way. James Cameron and 20th Century Fox are gonna squeeze the “Avatar” cash cow until the milk stops flowing, surely....
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FRIDAY FORECAST: End of the Road
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. It’s the last full weekend of the summer, the last weekend of me being 27, and the last weekend for Friday Forecast on InContention. A...
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SUNDAY CENTS: Photo finish!
*All historical figures cited are adjusted to today’s dollars. One last bit of excitement before the summer ends and Tapley starts posting random Redskins photos on Sundays. We have a dead heat race...
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10/20 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: ‘Complete Metropolis’ coming to TCM, buzz for Leo,...
• Jeffrey Wells reminds of the forthcoming TCM airing of the restored “Metropolis” and one hour documentary “Metropolis Refound.” I’ll…be…there. [Hollywood Elsewhere] • Steve Pond conveys positive...
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10/28 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Youngest Best Actresses, seeking Oscar journos,...
• AMPAS and mtvU launch the third annual “Oscars Correspondent Contest” for college journalists. [Oscars.org] • Across the pond, Stuart Heritage counts down the ways “Rabbit Hole” could be an Oscar bet...
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11/4 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Sit-down with Swinton, ‘Megamind’ using social...
• Pete Hammond talks “I Am Love” with dark horse Best Actress contender Tilda Swinton. [Deadline] • How DreamWorks Animation is using social gaming to boost “Megamind.” [Hollywood Reporter] • Meet the...
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OFF THE CARPET: Dolla billz, y’all!
A reader comment got me thinking on box office and Oscar as the usual blockbuster and genre fare led the way in ticket sales this weekend. It dawned on me that pickins might be extra slim when it...
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11/17 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: The death of Oscar bait, ‘How Do You Know’ nails a...
• Guest blogging for Nathaniel Rogers, Michael C. writes up the apparent death of “Oscar bait” as it pertains to Best Picture winners. [The Film Experience] • Steve Pond chats with “The Kids Are All...
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CINEJABBER: Way out in the water, see it swimming
Catch up with the idea behind these weekend posts here. The photo to the right represents the early haul on screeners this year. Usually this time of year I find myself delighting in second and...
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Extended ‘Avatar’ is the home video event of the year
The most exciting Blu-ray/DVD release of the year (perhaps more so than the Criterion release of Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line”) might be the three-disc Extended Collector’s Edition of James...
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WEEKLY WRAP: Holiday cheer and seasonal grousing
• Calmed by the holiday spirit, this week’s Off the Carpet column took stock of the season, and gave thanks where appropriate. • The Long Shot looked at the number of one-time rebel auteurs in this...
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