One major new wide release this week, one minor one. Toy Story 3 is undoubtedly going to dominate the weekend and Jonah Hex is going to struggle to make much in its wake. I Am Love and Cyrus are this week’s limited releases. Consensus We agree 100% on the following: Toy Story 3: It’s both…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Jack Eaton (80 at death) {Oscar Winner: One-Reel Short Film – 5 Noms, 1 Win} 1890: Stan Laurel (74 at death) {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary – 0 Noms, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1895: Lew Pollack (50 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: Frank…
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In celebration of Sunday night’s Tony Awards and this year’s celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday, I have reviewed the three big screen adaptations of Sondheim musicals that have to date been created: 1966’s A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, 1977’s A Little Night Music and 2007’s Sweeney Todd. Although Sondheim…
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New This Week World War II raged on the screen in 1942 just as it raged in reality. No less than half of the year’s Best Picture contenders were about the war, culminating in an astonishing total of thirty nominations and ten wins. The British home-front in the early days of the war served as…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Sidney Mitchell (53 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1894: Robert Russell Bennett (87 at death) {Oscar Winner: Musical Score;Oscar Nominee: Original Score, Musical Score – 2 Noms, 1 Win} 1895: Fay Babcock (75 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction…
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Week five of our contest has come to a close and it’s a higher weekend than we’ve had in awhile. Come back Thursday and submit your votes. Here is the original article and the rules: Summer Box Office Prediction Contest #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: Karate Kid Mike Furlong and…
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Results are in for Week #9 of Film Fun Friday. Game: Identify the Poster The correct answers were: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Negative Poster, shown at right) and Dark Passage (Foreign Poster). Peter was our sole response this week and he correctly answered the Foreign poster, but the negative image managed to stump everyone.…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1898: Harold Lipstein (76 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Color) – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1899: Joseph Kish (69 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction (Black-and-White);Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Black-and-White), Art Direction (Color) – 5 Noms, 1 Win} 1905: Steve Broidy (85 at death) {Oscar Winner: Jean…
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Ten new film previews posted this week including one from 2011. In addition, there are new posters reviewed for three films and a new trailer for two. In addition, we have five films with new release dates. Beastly moves to 2011 while the remaining three shift around from a couple of days to an entire…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1892: Basil Rathbone (75 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} [Pictured] 1902: John Meehan (60 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color) – 3 Noms, 3 Wins} 1903: Frederick Stephani (59 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Motion Picture Story – 1…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Alexander Tansman (89 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Drama/Comedy Score – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1901: W. M. Dalgleish (73 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1910: Bill Naughton (81 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Adapted Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1916:…
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Welcome once again to Film Fun Friday where we want you to have fun. If you have further suggestions on how we can improve, ideas for other games you’d like to see or just want to tell us how much fun you’re having, feel free to drop us a Comment. If you would like to…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1889: Wesley Ruggles (82 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Directing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} [Pictured] 1890: James Basevi (71 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction (Black-and-White);Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White), Art Direction (Color) –5 Noms, 1 Win} 1903: Sheridan Gibney (84 at death) {Oscar Winner:…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1889: Sessue Hayakawa (84 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} [Pictured] 1891: Al Dubin (53 at death) {Oscar Winner: Song – 3 Noms, 1 Win} 1892: Hattie McDaniel (60 at death) {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actress – 1 Nom, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1901:…
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It’s Week #5. Time to submit your predictions for this weekend’s box office. For a reminder of the rules, follow this link: Contest Rule Submit the Following for this Week Guess the #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Guess the highest grossing new release and how much it will make This Week’s Wide…
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