Author: Mark Johnson May 20, 2013
For all of those hoping for a sequel to the hit number, “We Saw Your Boobs,” this might be a bit of a disappointment. While producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are set to return, Seth MacFarlane – who hosted the 85th Academy Awards earlier this year – has officially taken his name out of the running for next year’s presentation. See what the man behind The Family Guy tweeted after the jump. Read more on Seth MacFarlane Will Not Be Hosting the Oscars Next Year… Comments: 3 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson May 17, 2013
Link(s) of the week: Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon previews the Cannes Film Festival by listing the ten films he is anticipating the most. Meanwhile, Pete Hammond at Deadline wonders if this year’s fest will have the same impact on Oscar as the last two. And finally, Scott Beggs at Film School Rejects gives you everything you need to know about the films playing there. Read more on Around the Circuit: May 11 – 17… Categories: Around the Circuit
Tags: Academy Awards, AMPAS, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, oscar predictions, Oscars, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Great Gatsby Comments: Leave a Comment |
Oscar Circuit – The Studio Assessment Part 1A look at the rest of the awards year, studio-by-studio...Author: Clayton Davis May 14, 2013
Down below, why don’t we start taking a look at the slate by each studio and assess where their money will and should go throughout the season. Read more on Oscar Circuit – The Studio Assessment Part 1… Categories: Article, Editor, Oscar Circuit, Oscar Predictions
Tags: 2014 Oscar Predictions, Academy Awards, Alfonso Cuarón, American Hustle, August: Osage County, Before Midnight, Ben Stiller, Blue Jasmine, Bruce Dern, Cameron Diaz, Captain Phillips, Dane DeHaan, David O. Russell, Editor, Ethan Hawke, Foxcatcher, George Clooney, Gravity, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Wells, Julie Delpy, Kill Your Darlings, Kristin Wiig, Leonardo DiCaprio, Man of Steel, Maria Bello, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaughey, melissa leo, Michael Fassbender, Mud, Nebraska, Oscar Circuit, Pacific Rim, Paul Greengrass, Penelope Cruz, Peter Jackson, Prisoners, Richard Linklater, Ridley Scott, Ryan Gosling, Sarah Polley, Shirley MacLaine, Sony Pictures Classics, Steve Carell, Steve McQueen, Stories We Tell, The Counselor, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Seventh Son, The Way Way Back, The Wolf of Wall Street, tom hanks, Twelve Years A Slave, Viola Davis, Woody Allen Comments: 3 Comments |
2014 Oscar Predictions Updated! – The Year for Ridley Scott?Veterans Bruce Dern and Oprah Winfrey are deemed frontrunners....Author: Clayton Davis May 13, 2013
Quick thoughts. Staying with Ridley Scott’s The Counselor for the time being in Best Picture and Director. Bruce Dern jumps to the top for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska while Naomi Watts remains the one to beat for Diana. Michael Fassbender’s villainous role in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is the one to beat while the great Oprah Winfrey jumps to #1 for Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Make sure to include your own thoughts and predictions down at the bottom. Looking forward to discussing it all with you. Read more on 2014 Oscar Predictions Updated! – The Year for Ridley Scott?… Categories: Editor, Oscar Predictions
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Author: Mark Johnson May 10, 2013
Link(s) of the week: Kris Tapley of In Contention has seen The Great Gatsby and now assesses the film’s chances at being an awards player later this year. Read more on Around the Circuit: May 4 – May 10… Categories: Around the Circuit
Tags: Academy Awards, AMPAS, Iron Man 3, Leonardo DiCaprio, oscar predictions, Oscars, The Great Gatsby Comments: Leave a Comment |
2014 Oscar Predictions – Is ‘Stories We Tell’ Our First Best Picture Contender?Why haven't Documentary Feature films made the Best Picture cut yet?Author: Clayton Davis May 9, 2013
As we get ready to get into the summer months, no film has presented itself as a strong Best Picture contender unless you believe in the odds for Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines with Ryan Gosling. A long shot at best, all the films listed on the TRACKER, haven’t been released for audiences to gander upon just yet. We know that Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station will have strong possibilities depending on how the rest of the year shapes up. Read more on 2014 Oscar Predictions – Is ‘Stories We Tell’ Our First Best Picture Contender?… Categories: Article, Editor, Oscar Circuit
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Author: Mark Johnson May 3, 2013
Link(s) of the week: The LA Times’ Nicole Sperling looks at the mostly-male-mostly-white-mostly-older members in the Academy and reports on whether AMPAS will diversify its ranks or not. Read more on Around the Circuit: April 27 – May 3… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 26, 2013
Link(s) of the week: Deadline’s Pete Hammond explains why there is no truth to the Oscar rumors surrounding Seth MacFarlane’s return as host as well as why AMPAS brought back last year’s producers. While The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg feels the man behind The Family Guy should return for an encore. Read more on Around the Circuit: April 20 – 26… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 26, 2013
Read more on Awards Profile: Grace of Monaco… Categories: Award Profile
Tags: Academy Awards, Grace of Monaco, nicole kidman, Olivier Dahan, oscar predictions, Oscars, the weinstein company Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: Clayton Davis April 22, 2013
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Tags: Academy Awards, ACCA, ACCA 1999, Adult World, Almost Christmas, American Hustle, Awards Circuit Community Awards, Awards Circuit Power Hour, Bluebird, Cannes Film Festival, David O. Russell, Emma Roberts, Fruitvale Station, Idris Elba, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Man of Steel, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Monster's University, Oscars, Paul Giamatti, Podcast, Podcasts, Star Trek Into Darkness, Superhero, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, The Great Gatsby, The Immigrant, Tribeca Film Festival Comments: 7 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson April 19, 2013
Link(s) of the week: At The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw examines the 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup, from the films expected to big players (The Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis and Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby) to some lesser-known gems. Read more on Around the Circuit: April 13 – April 19… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 18, 2013 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has officially announced December 12th as the date for the 71st Golden Globe Read more on 2014 Golden Globes Will Be Held Before Oscar Nominations Are Revealed… Categories: News
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Relativity Media Announces 2013 Releases!Could their be a dark horse in their 2013 film slate...?Author: Clayton Davis April 17, 2013
Last year, the company managed an Oscar nomination in Costume Design for the posthumous work of Eiko Ishioka for Mirror Mirror (2012). They also had the indie hit Haywire (2012) with Gina Carano which many, including our own Joseph Braverman, really loved. But for every good film, there’s a bad one in their midst. So far in 2013, the company handled the abysmal Movie 43, Lasse Hallstrom’s Safe Haven, and the comedy 21 & Over. The rest of the year looks rather promising for the studio. Not looking so much like an awards player, in August they’ll release the thriller Paranoia with Liam Hemsowrth and Oscar-nominee Gary Oldman. Read more on Relativity Media Announces 2013 Releases!… Categories: News
Tags: 2013 releases, 2014 Oscar Predictions, Academy Awards, Amy Poehler, Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Don Jon, forest whitaker, Free Birds, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, liam hemsworth, Malavita, Michelle Pfeiffer, news, Oscars, Out of the Furnace, Owen Wilson, paranoia, Relativity Media, Robert DeNiro, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Cooper, Studios, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 17, 2013 The 86th Academy Awards – which will air live on ABC on Sunday, March 2, 2014 – will once again be produced by Craig Read more on Craig Zadan and Neil Meron Return to Produce the Oscars®… Comments: 1 Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 12, 2013
Link(s) of the week: It’s Opening Day (week) for baseball! After witnessing Terence’s damned Yankees clobber my beloved Indians on Opening Day in Cleveland, Ohio, my spirits were a little dampened. But the staff at The Playlist knew just how to ease my pain by ranking the top 15 best baseball movies (just in time for this weekend’s new release of 42). I wish they would have put them in order, because the 15 films chosen are damn near perfect. Read more on Around the Circuit: April 6 – 12… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson April 12, 2013
AMPAS has unveiled the layout (along with a lot more details) for their new museum/theater, to be located in downtown Los Angeles. The building will be dedicated to “preserving, presenting, and celebrating” film in all forms, and will contain over 290,000 square feet of state-of-the-art galleries, theaters, educational areas, special event spaces, and more. The structure was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano and contemporary architect Zoltan Pali. Have a look at a few more images and concept art after the jump. Read more on The Academy Is Building a New State-of-the-Art Museum!… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Clayton Davis April 8, 2013
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The final two of Circuit Madness came and went. Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List faced off against Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. One of them is about to be named the “Best” Best Picture Winner of All-Time! Which one will it be? You have to listen to find out. Trailer Talk is up next and we speak about the stylistic promises of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas. Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby gets a similar conversation but with less enthusiasm. What are some problems we see for the upcoming adaptation are also discussed. Finally, the less than stellar trailer for the upcoming remake of Carrie with Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore has almost no faith in most of the writing staff. We play an exciting horror edition of “Do, Dump, or Marry?” – Terence brings up quite a bit from the The Omen to having the staff choose between the scream queens of cinema. What would you do? The MTV Movie Awards are airing LIVE this Sunday and is being hosted by Rebel Wilson, star and nominee of Pitch Perfect (2012). We go over their “better-than-usual” slate of nominees and try to discuss who and what will win at the ceremony. It’s not the Awards Circuit Power Hour without Oscar talk. Last week, we spoke about high-profile writers that have something to deliver this year. This time around, the directors are our focus. Going down the line from Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity to Richard Linklater for Before Midnight, even an outside shot for a documentary director like Sarah Polley for Stories We Tell is toyed with. Terence makes a new plea to Hollywood in this week’s edition of Stop! Making It Happen and it circles around NBC’s newest show “Hannibal.” Finally, ACCA 1999 is almost set to begin this week and we discuss Year 1999 and what it had to offer as well as playing “Give Them an Oscar.” Categories: Podcasts
Tags: 2014 Oscar Predictions, Academy Awards, Awards Circuit Power Hour, Before Midnight, Circuit Madness, Gravity, MTV Movie Awards, oscar predictions, Podcast, Podcasts, RIP, Roger Ebert Comments: 2 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson April 6, 2013
Link(s) of the week: With The New York Times reporting that Academy members were meeting to discuss the future of the Oscars, Sasha Stone of Awards Daily gave five suggestions for AMPAS to keep in mind when they get together. Read more on Around the Circuit: March 30 – April 5… Comments: Leave a Comment |
First Quarter Round-Up – Are There Any Oscar Contenders?The Oscar Tracker gets its first update...Author: Clayton Davis April 2, 2013
There’s no super-duper “out there” contender that looks like it can go all the way as of today with the exception of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. While the film is an absolute marvel, it won’t be determined until the autumn if it can sustain throughout the summer and become a leading contender like last year with Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Obviously, the latter was the only film to crack the Best Picture lineup but if we’re in store for a change like AMPAS going back to five Best Picture nominees, as some have speculated, a small indie film like Linklater’s could get lost throughout the summer and fall months. As of now, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy could show up with Linklater in Adapted Screenplay but on their performances alone, they will warrant some consideration. Both are superb in their roles and will have their champions throughout the year. Read more on First Quarter Round-Up – Are There Any Oscar Contenders?… Categories: Article, Editor, Oscar Circuit, Oscar Predictions
Tags: Academy Awards, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, AMPAS, Before Midnight, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, Chris O'Dowd, Dane DeHaan, Derek Cianfrance, Editor, Ethan Hawke, Fruitvale, Julie Delpy, Kill Your Darlings, Matthew McConaughey, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Mud, Octavia Spencer, oscar predictions, Oscar Tracker, Oz the Great and Powerful, Richard Linklater, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Sarah Polley, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Stories We Tell, The Iceman, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Sapphires Comments: 5 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson March 30, 2013 Voting has already begun for the Elite 8, so be sure to vote today and tomorrow so that your favorites advance to the Final 4. You Read more on Circuit Madness Sweet 16 Round Results… Comments: 2 Comments |
Author: Mark Johnson March 29, 2013
Link(s) of the week: The big news of the week centered around the March 2 2014 date for the 86th Academy Awards. Pete Hammond at Deadline gives his analysis on why the date was pushed back rather than moved forward. Read more on Around the Circuit: March 23rd – March 29th… Comments: Leave a Comment |
Author: Mark Johnson March 26, 2013 Directed By: Joel and Ethan Coen Read more on Awards Profile: Inside Llewyn Davis… Categories: Award Profile
Tags: Academy Awards, Carey Mulligan, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Justin Timberlake, oscar isaac, oscar predictions, Oscars Comments: 7 Comments |
Author: Clayton Davis March 25, 2013
In 2015, Oscar will be back in February. There is still no word on whether they will be having their Best Picture nominees go back to five films. In 2009, AMPAS expanded their Best Picture nominees to ten and then two years later, created a sliding scale in which any number of films ranging from five to ten can be nominated. Some in the industry have speculated that this could be a possibility moving forward but no word has been confirmed yet. Check out the full timeline and press release after the jump. Comments: 2 Comments |
Author: Clayton Davis March 25, 2013
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