 In case any of you missed it, our great Awards Circuit community chose their favorites for the year 2000. In case you’re new to our site, ACCA (or Awards Circuit Community Awards) gives all the readers an opportunity to vote for their favorite films and performances of the year. As we move forward during our present time, we have been going back in time to vote on years in the past.
What makes this round of voting exciting is Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which leads nomination tally with fourteen, the most nominated film in ACCA history, could become the first foreign language film to take the award. The film will have tough competition behind Ridley Scott’s Gladiator and Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, which have thirteen and eleven nominations respectively. Is there a deep love for Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous or Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic that can rule the day? You decide.
You can click on the “ACCA Voting” button on the sidebar or you can click here to go directly to the page. Voting will stay open until Friday, July 20 (the day a certain Caped Crusader film opens). Winners will be announced on the following Sunday’s podcast. Read more on ACCA 2000 final ballots are open!…
 Comic-Con has been a great resource for those who want to see advanced previews from the tv shows and movies they’re interested in. Knowing this, the programmers have put several “Trailer Parks” in between and in front of some of the highly anticipated panels. Today they screened the following: Dredd 3D, Finding Nemo 3D, Despicable Me 2, Hotel Transylvania, Resident Evil: Retribution, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift and Rise of the Guardians. Of these trailers ,Dredd 3D played to the most cheers from the crowd and given the advanced word from the screening yesterday it should play well once it’s released. I’ve posted most of the trailers after the jump so take a gander!
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 This was a panel I never thought I’d get into for a myriad of reasons. Sleeping in line for Hall H overnight wasn’t an option nor was fighting a twihard for a seat. But even with getting in line at 10 am for this 12:45 panel, there was plenty of time to find a decent seat and take in this unique Comic-Con experience of attending a Twilight panel. It was a very nostalgic affair with the cast sharing favorite memories, jokes and sadness that the show was coming to an end. The panel opened with the main trio of Kristen Stewart, Robert Ptattinson, and Taylor Lautner, as well as newcomer Mckenzie Foy and writer Stephanie Meyer being introduced. After sitting down on stage, the moderator, Eric Morro of Wikia.com, introduced a video clip from Bill Condon who told the estatic audience that we would be seeing the first 7 minutes of the next film.
Read more on Comic-Con Panel: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2…
 Could this upcoming Disney film be a spoiler in the Best Animated Feature race at the Oscars? or even better yet, Best Picture? Read more on New “Wreck-It Ralph” Images…
 There’s some cautious optimism out there for Sam Raimi’s ‘Oz The Great and Powerful’. It’d be an easier sell for most if not for the bad taste that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ left in the mouthes of many, but here we are nonetheless today with the debut of the first trailer for the flick in my inbox from Disney. I looked it over, and overall I think it looks visually stimulating and an interesting vehicle for James Franco, but I need to see more of the story before I can get excited for it. Either way, after the jump you can see the trailer and decide for yourself. It likely won’t be boring, that’s for sure. Take a gander at it below…
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It’s looking that way, as the current star of NBC’s The Office is in final negotiations to play Rusty Griswold, son of Clark (Chevy Chase). Rather than a fifth sequel for the franchise that began with the Harold Ramis-directed/John Hughes-written comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation, the film apparently will reboot the series with a fresh take on family excursions. The original Rusty was played by Anthony Michael Hall, if you remember.
Read more on Ed Helms to play Rusty Griswold in the ‘Vacation’ Reboot?…
 When the Los Angeles Film Critics Association gathered in December to announce their annual awards, it began an extraordinary movement that would see the film they honored go all the way to the Oscars. Their film of choice was Clint Eastwood’s powerful western Unforgiven (1992), a summer release, which took awards for Best Film, Best Director (Eastwood), Best Actor (Eastwood), Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman), and Best Screenplay. Though the film had been highly praised by critics upon release, there was genuine surprise when the picture grabbed top honors from the LA scribes. Their choice would begin a movement that would sweep the film into the Oscar circle, earning awards for Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. In many ways critics played a huge part in allowing audiences to discover the film, and with these early season awards played a huge part in the Academy Awards campaign, something Eastwood mentioned in his Oscar acceptance speech. The wins from the LA critics would cause Warner Brothers to throw all their support behind Unforgiven (1992) seemingly forgetting they also had Spike Lee’s superb Malcolm X (1992) in the race, something that did not please the film’s director and producers (rightly so). Read more on Unforgiven — 20 Years Later…
 Hello good people! Terence here reporting from Comic-Con for the first time in sunny San Diego. It’s been a whirlwind day for this first time visitor as the day got off to a rough start for me with bad weather in Houston canceling my original flight and forcing me to scramble for a new flight plan, but I made it to San Diego at about 3 PM. Then it was a quick shuttle to The Sofia Hotel, where the entire staff was dressed in costume, and off to the convention center. The line to get badges was pretty crazy but they made up for it with the humungous bag for posters and stuff you buy during the convention.
Read more on Comic-Con Diary: Day 1…
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks turns a young 56 this week. The two-time Academy Award winner was born on July 9th, 1956 in Concord, California. He studied theatre at Chabot College before transferring over to California State University. After moving to New York City, Hanks made his film debut in a low-budget horror film titled He Knows You’re Alone (1980). The following year he earned a lead role on the ABC television pilot of Bosom Buddies, where he played an advertising man who (along with Peter Scolari) dressed as a woman in order to stay in an affordable all-female hotel. The show only ran for two seasons, but gave Hanks enough attention to move on into larger roles in movies.
Read more on Circuit 3: Tom Hanks…
 “If God could do the tricks we can do, he’d be a happy man.”
- Eli Cross (Peter O’Toole), The Stunt Man (1980)
One of the most exciting actors of his generation, and well beyond that time, Peter O’Toole has made the decision to retire from film and the stage after an extraordinary career. Nominated for a whopping eight Academy Awards as Best Actor, without ever winning, O’Toole received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar a few years ago, presented to him by marvelous Meryl Streep. How can an actor this gifted, with such an array of stunning performances never win the Oscar? Read more on Farewell Sweet Prince – Peter O’Toole Retires from Stage and Screen…
Let’s face it: the 1990′s were a pretty haphazard decade for a great majority of things, mass media the most unfortunate victim of all. Whether it was the substandard live-action television shows, the criminally high number of terrible movies amongst some brilliant ones, and music that might have scared everyone off to Mars if we had the technological means to do so, the 90′s was a decade we couldn’t move quickly enough away from. As Mickey Rourke’s The Ram so eloquently put it in Darren Aronfsky’s The Wrestler, “90′s sucked.” But…my friends, amidst the rubble, amidst the mildew and dilapidated sewage of the 1990s arose something nobody expected, something I fear a great many adults overlooked because, after all…animation is child’s play to many a parent. That’s correct, the shining beacon of the 1990′s was Animation. With films like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Prince of Egypt, and Ghost in the Shell; and television programs such as Rugrats, Ducktales, Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers, Gummi Bears, Spongebob Squarepants, and Ren & Stimpy, how could you possible argue against the fact that the 1990′s greatest contribution was the often unjustifiably undervalued animation genre? But amongst all that, there was one show that successfully merged all that a child’s eye into adulthood could ever want, all an adult’s nostalgic longing for being a kid again could ever need — that, my fellow readers, is Batman: The Animated Series. As I embark on my historical circuit review on what I consider to be the greatest animated series of all time, I thought I’d get us in the mood by reminding you of that now infamous intro-sequence of the Emmy-winning program, now in HD below: Read more on Historical Circuit: Batman: The Animated Series (****)…
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