The Academy in its fourth year of awards, honoring films released in Los Angeles between August 1, 1930 and July 31, 1931, completely snubbed the two films most of us consider the two best films of the year – City Lights and The Blue Angel, and almost completely ignored the two we consider the next…
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My Sunday was quite booked, so I have a smaller update this week than previously. The backlog will have to continue waiting. Twelve new trailers have been posted along with a new poster. Poster Highlights: More blandness in the poster department. Accidents Happen is the lone standout with Stolen a distant second. Trailer Highlights: Easier…
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From The Hollywood Reporter: Final episode of action drama will air in May By James Hibberd March 26, 2010, 08:00 PM ET Tick, tick, tick … and done. After eight seasons, Fox’s “24” is coming to an end. The groundbreaking action drama will air its final real-time episode in May, the victim of a confluence…
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From The Hollywood Reporter: Ridley Scott’s film to screen out of competition May 12 By David Morgan March 26, 2010, 01:21 AM ET Universal’s “Robin Hood,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, has been selected as the opening-night film for the upcoming Festival de Cannes.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Rating Director Michael Bay Screenplay Ehren Kruger, Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman Length 150 min. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Ramon Rodriguez, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Isabel Lucas MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and…
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From Variety: Thesp to star in three Marvel films, in addition to ‘Avengers’ By MARC GRASER Chris Evans will don the star-spangled superhero suit to play Captain America for Marvel Entertainment. Evans accepted an offer made by the comicbook publisher late last week, beating out a number of thesps who test-screened for the high-profile role.…
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From BBC News: Shooting of the long-awaited film version of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is set to begin in New Zealand in July. Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who reprises his Lord of the Rings role as Gandalf the Grey, revealed casting is taking place in LA, London and New York. Mexican-born film-maker Guillermo del Toro…
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An interesting piece on the Technicolor donation and what it means to the film world. Link to the Full VARIETY Article Transfer of ‘priceless’ collection signals company’s changing direction By DAVID S. COHEN A treasure trove of Hollywood history has found a new home. Technicolor is to announce today that it has donated its archive,…
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Below is the press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences detailing the key dates for the 83rd Academy Awards. These dates will be added into our calendar in the sidebar by the end of the day. Beverly Hills, CA (March 25, 2010) — The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be presented…
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A Serious Man Rating Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Screenplay Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Length 106 min. Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Peter Breitmayer, Brent Braunschweig, David Kang MPAA Rating R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review The Coen Bros. take…
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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Robert Culp, the actor who rose to fame as secret agent Kelly Robinson on the groundbreaking 1960s TV series “I Spy” and later played Ray Romano’s father-in-law on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” has died. He was 79. Culp died of a fall in a Los Angeles park, said his publicist, Dick…
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It’s been nearly eighty years since audiences first beheld Lewis Milestone’s film of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, yet the anti-war classic remains as powerful today as it was then. The film’s narrative follows a young German student, who with six of his classmates, joins the Kaiser’s Army in World War…
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This week’s update pulls in over dozen preview pages I missed updating over the last two months as well as a few new trailers released this week and a couple of previously-posted films getting new trailers. There are 27 updates this month for 2010 films. Most are March or April releases, but we have a…
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(Updated 3/20/10, 8:30a: corrected tribute links)After a lot of research and collation, I’ve finally gotten together the Tributes for January, February and the first half of March of 2010. Jean Simmons (pictured at right), 81, was the most Oscar recognized of the bunch, but she is only one of the 76 important people listed herein.…
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Faubourg 36 Rating Director Christophe Barratier Screenplay Christophe Barratier, Julien Rappeneau, Pierre Philippe, Frank Thomas, Reinhardt Wagner, Jean-Michel Derenne Length 120 min. Starring Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder, Pierre Richard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maxence Perrin MPAA Rating PG-13 for some sexuality and nudity, violence and brief language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Review In a…
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