Starting this week, we’ve got a new weekly feature. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between…
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Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of…
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The Iron Lady Rating Director Phillida Lloyd Screenplay Abi Morgan Length 105 min. Starring Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Iain Glen, Harry Lloyd, Richard E. Grant, Olivia Colman, Alexandra Roach, Roger Allam MPAA Rating PG-13 for some violent images and brief nudity
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When the most prizes you give out is to a film shot in your local area, some of your choices become a bit suspect. That is, if Take Shelter hadn’t already received a handful of prizes elsewhere. This list is fairly straightforward with only Attack the Block coming out of nowhere to earn prizes. It’s…
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Return Links Best Picture Poll Archive Best Original Song Poll: 1974 – 1978 Which Original Song winner is best? Public OpinionView Results
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Joss Whedon puts on his producer’s mantle for this new take on a standard horror cliche. Cabin in the Woods Plot Summary: A group of friends go off the beaten path to a secluded cabin in the woods where their mental and physical fortitude will be tested by unseen hands, manipulating their every reaction. Release…
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Here are the results of last week’s poll. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) The Elephant Man (1980) Ed Wood (1994) Heart Like a Wheel (1983) Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) The Hoodlum Priest (1961) Yankee Doodle Dandy wins and goes into my queue.
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Born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the young tomboy was discovered by director Allan Dwan at the age of 12 and cast as Monte Blue’s sister in 1921’s A Perfect Crime under her original name. She was Carol Lombard throughout the 1920s and Carole Lombard by 1930’s The Arizona…
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The Adventures of Tintin Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish (Comics: Hergé) Length 107 min. Starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Daniel Mays, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Joe Starr, Enn Reitel, Mackenzie Crook MPAA Rating PG for adventure action violence, some drunkenness and brief smoking
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For a full list of rules, click here: 2011 Oscar Season Box Office Predictions Game Rules. Submit Your Predictions for This Week Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least. Individual monetary predictions for each film. Top limited release film and its per screen average.…
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Can Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien franchise be godsend franchise fans have been waiting for? Prometheus Plot Summary: Ridley Scott returns to the franchise that launched a noted career in this prequel to his legendary sci-fi horror film Alien. Release Date: June 8, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: B Commentary: Sometimes a simple image works…
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The poster, pictured small at right (click it to make it bigger) features scenes from eight Oscar winning films spanning eight decades. If you want to try to guess which films, click the image and guess away before reading the official press release below, which reveals the answers (and the paragraph after this since I’m…
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With no new wide releases, it comes down to the battle between Meryl Streep and Iranian foreign language film A Separation. I think Streep will have the higher box office debut, but A Separation will nab the best per screen average of the two. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to…
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