 Comedy…something the Academy Awards haven’t normally warmed up to in its 83 year history. When Oscar goes for comedy it’s usually in a “dramedy” or “smart comedy” sort of fashion. Look at last year’s The Kids Are All Right. They’ve never went for slapstick or raunchy that typically makes big box office. It’s not them. It’s not necessarily a complaint but an observation as the Academy goes for genre films like Westerns and since the year of ten, Sci-Fi or Action. The “comedy” that AMPAS has embraced the past few years has been films like Alexander Payne’s Sideways which won only one Oscar for Adapted Screenplay after being nominated for a just mere five Oscars. The Academy thought too unconventional to reward Thomas Haden Church for his funny but at times unlikable “Jack” or Virginia Madsen as the beautiful and smart “Maya.” Note, this is the year Clive Owen blazed up the screen in Mike Nichols’ Closer and Morgan Freeman won his long overdue Oscar in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby. Sideways nearly swept the critics’ awards winning over seventy five critics’ awards, many as Best Picture of the Year including the Golden Globes and the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
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Categories: Article, Editor Tags: 2011 hopefuls, 50/50, alan arkin, Article, Bridesmaids, Comedy, comedy films, Crazy Stupid Love, Editor, i heart huckabees, little miss sunshine, mark wahlberg, Midnight in Paris, Oscar hopefuls, sideways, Thomas Haden Church, We Bought a Zoo, Young Adult
 Christian Bale FYC? At the very least, this certainly seems in play for Best Foreign Language Feature:
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 New posters have hit the web in the past week. Martin Scorsese’s Hugo gets a new poster. Disney Nature’s newest release Chimpanzee looks as cute as ever. A teaser poster for Chronicle looks Cloverfield-like. A beautiful Kirsten Dunst is front and center in Melancholia. And finally a full poster for Sam Levinson’s Another Happy Day. Check em’ all out after the jump. Read more on Poster Round-Up…
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 As the Oscar Predictions are being updated this weekend, I thought an updated Golden Globe Prediction would be in order. Even though I thoroughly believe The Artist will be a huge Oscar player, the Golden Globes haven’t chosen the Oscar winner in the past few years. With that said, HFPA will likely go with something like War Horse or J. Edgar. They’ve gone with either consensus or just plain ole’ doing their own thing (The Social Network, Atonement, Babel, The Aviator). Include your own predictions in the comment section or discuss on the FORUM.
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 My esteemed staff of writers have updated their Oscar predictions. The rest of my predictions will be updated periodically throughout the weekend but the staff have made some bold picks in their choices. Many of them are very high in hopes for Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn while others are thinking outside the box with choices like Moneyball for Best Picture, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part II as a Best Picture nominee, Michael Shannon beating out DiCaprio, Dujardin, and Clooney in the Best Actor race for Take Shelter or Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris taking it all the way. Discuss their picks in this thread or discuss it on the FORUM along with your own predictions.
Go HERE and click on their respective names or movie photo or just go to the Staff menu tab up top. Read more on Staff Update Oscar Predictions…
Categories: Staff Tags: academy award predictions, academy awards, armie hammer, harry potter and the deathly hallows part II, J. Edgar, jean dujardin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon, Michelle Williams, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, My Week With Marilyn, oscar predictions, Oscars, staff predictions, Take Shelter, the artist, Woody Allen
Apologies for the delay in reporting the newest films this weekend, readers, but the Navy will be requiring a lot from me in the next few weeks. I’ll do my best to keep up with you, but it will be difficult for a while. Please bear with me:
I’ve never been a huge fan of the Paranormal Activity franchise, but I will always be grateful to it for dethroning the execrable Saw films as the annual Halloween movie event. This third installment has Catfish duo Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost directing a prequel story about how Katie and Kristi first made contact with the supernatural entity that would eventually destroy them both. Critics – including our own Mike Ward – seemed to have enjoyed the surprising thrills and atmosphere, implausible as some of them may be. There’s really no other film that has a shot at conquering this weekend. Midnight screenings have already topped the previous film’s record, and I’m fairly confident in predicting a $40-45 million opening. Read more on Weekend Openings (October 21-23)…
Categories: Weekend Openings Tags: based on a true story, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, crimes against art, Johnny English Reborn, Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, oranges and sunshine, Oscar contenders, Oscar hopefuls, Paranormal Activity 3, The Mighty Macs, The Three Musketeers, Weekend Openings
Read the press release:
(LOS ANGELES, CA) Acclaimed composer Alexandre Desplat has signed on to score the drama “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” for Paramount. Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel and directed by Stephen Daldry, the film stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and newcomer Thomas Horn. The film tells the story of a nine-year-old boy who searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks.
Desplat recently completed scoring Ides of March; which marked his third time working on a George Clooney project, but his first as a director /composer collaboration.. Previously, Desplat worked with Clooney on 2005 “Syriana” and 2009 “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” For which Desplat received an Oscar® and Golden Globe nomination.
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