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For Your Consideration With A Straight Face: ‘Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen’ For Best Picture & ‘Brüno’; Plus More FYC From The Studios

November 23, 2009 7:41 pm

Today many are noting, some making a fuss, that that Warner Bros. are pushing "The Hangover" for Best Picture consideration in ads that are running on Variety (see below). However, it's not really that odd. St...

Weekend Box Office: Audiences Run To ‘2012’ Like John Cusack Running From A Fireball

Gabe Toro

November 15, 2009 6:00 pm

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People complain about quality control at the cinemas, but in the end, audiences like what they like. And they REALLY like watching Roland Emmerich end civilization. On one level, you really have to wonder abo...

Weekend Box Office- No One Gives A Shit About ‘A Christmas Carol’ In November

Gabe Toro

November 8, 2009 6:21 pm

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Well, ok, that's quite the misleading headline, no? Some people cared. More than ten. Less than twenty. Needless to say, "A Christmas Carol" was not the knockout punch Disney was expecting, its numbers coming i...

Oscar Predictions Blogger Diagnosed With Ludicrousness

Rodrigo Perez

November 4, 2009 11:34 pm

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Dunno about you, but the day we put out asinine predictions like this (and we're not even "Oscar bloggers," obviously) we're getting completely out of the game. Obviously senility has set in here. Shouldn't he ...

Weekend Box Office- ‘This Is It?’ Asks Sony

Gabe Toro

November 1, 2009 6:00 pm

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Gather around, children, for a VERY spooky story...Let this be a scaaaary lesson for all you boys and girls this Halloween season. Do not DARE to offend the dead by exploiting them for your own gaaaaaain! Son...

In Theaters: ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ (Stay Home)

Hunter McClamrock

October 30, 2009 7:10 pm

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If you have any sense in the world you’re probably got a weekend worth of haunted houses and spooky hay rides ahead of you and will avoid theaters this weekend. Good call. Michael Jackson should be have no prob...

Review: ‘This Is It’ Mixes the Magical & The Macabre Into A One-Of-A-Kind Rock Doc

Rodrigo Perez

October 29, 2009 8:51 pm

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"This Is It" is a weird movie to review. The first question, of course, is what, exactly is "This Is It?" Well, it's a concert movie, sort of. And it's a documentary, also sort of. It's both magical and morbid,...

Kenny Ortega Kicks Off His ‘Footloose’ Director’s Shoes; Leaves Production Citing ‘Rest’ After ‘This Is It”

Katie Walsh

October 29, 2009 5:45 pm

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Tweens everywhere must be feeling RLY :( right now in the wake of the news that legendary choreographer/questionable film director Kenny Ortega has stepped down as director of the remake of "Footloose" schedule...

‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ Doc, Breaks Record, Grosses $12 $4.4 Million In Two Days

Rodrigo Perez

October 29, 2009 3:37 pm

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In this perverse world, Roman Polanski is a vilified cretin for a crime he admitted to, yet Michael Jackson, who was involved in two child sexual abuse allegations (one that he essentially bought his way out of...

Trailer Round Up; ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Everybody’s Fine’, ‘A Single Man’

Oliver Lyttelton

September 16, 2009 7:41 pm

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- A bunch of trailers have gone up in the last few days, and we've stuck them all in one handy post, to protect you from that carpal tunnel syndrome you've got coming on... First up is "Disney's A Christmas Car...

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