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Who Wants To Be A Game Show Movie? Revisiting ‘Quiz Show,’ ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ & ‘The Running Man’ [Be Reel]

September 12, 2019 3:00 pm

Barring a Stephen Soderbergh wonkfest about how James Holzhauer money-balled “Jeopardy” before our eyes, the game show movie may actually be a dead genre—a Hollywood relic about a time when more people ogled th...

Music From ‘Dunkirk’ And ‘Halloween’ Among Selections For 2018 Oscars Concert

Gregory Ellwood

February 1, 2018 3:42 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

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Four years ago the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the "first" Oscars Concert at UCLA. It was wonderfully staged and featured live performances of all of the nominated scores and original songs...

Watch: Watch: 12-Minute Video Explores Danny Boyle’s Energetic Filmography

Nicholas Laskin

October 2, 2015 4:56 pm

News

Watch: Watch: 12-Minute Video Explores Danny Boyle's Energetic Filmography

‘Scouting Book For Boys’ Director Tom Harper Will Direct ‘This Is England’ Sequel, ‘Cheerleaders’, More

Oliver Lyttelton

March 19, 2010 2:39 pm

News

We've been talking up "The Scouting Book For Boys" ever since we fell hard for it at the London Film Festival, and with good reason -- it's one of the freshest, most original British films of the past few years...

Baz Luhrmann To Team With A.R. Rahman, Reveals Ambitions To Film In India

Simon Dang

February 4, 2010 2:51 pm

News

In another case of a director-musician teaming, Baz Luhrmann has revealed that he is in discussions to collaborate with composer A.R. Rahman of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame as well as noting his own ambitions to ...

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ & ‘Up’ Top The Soundtrack Categories For the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

Rodrigo Perez

February 1, 2010 2:48 pm

News

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God, how can music critics (and some of us are former music crits) stand the Grammys? They're like 5,000 years behind the time and the eligibility period is completely out of wack. Last night of course was the ...

Danny Boyle To Direct ‘Frankenstein’ On Stage

Oliver Lyttelton

January 21, 2010 11:21 pm

News

It's not that well known a fact, but Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle started his career as a theater director, starting at Joint Stock (a company founded by writer David Hare and legendary director Max Staff...

Schrader Takes Down ‘Slumdog’, Preps ‘Xtreme City’ And Looks For A Leading Man

Kevin Jagernauth

January 4, 2010 1:51 pm

News

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"In other films, my goal was art...this time, my goal is commerce and I am clear about that," director Paul Schrader recently told India Today as he was in Mumbai prepping his Bollywood film, the spelling chall...

Danny Boyle Confirms Next Project Is Aron Ralston Survival Tale, Now Called ‘127 Hours’

Rodrigo Perez

November 5, 2009 4:59 am

News

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We guessed as much a few weeks ago.Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle has settled upon his next project and yes, it's the Aron Ralston survival mountain tale which now has a name in, "127 Hours."Ralston is the ...

Danny Boyle Wants Ryan Gosling For Lead Role In Proposed Aaron Ralston Survival Tale

Rodrigo Perez

September 10, 2009 2:53 am

News

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Weird. Just earlier today we were saying that it's been seven-some odd months after sweeping the Oscars with "Slumdog Millionaire," and director Danny Boyle has still not decided on a follow-up project.That may...

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