 With Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables about to seen by the first set of eyes this coming Friday, many pundits predict this could be the first musical nominated for Best Picture since Rob Marshall’s Chicago (2002).
The question I pose to our readership today is which movie musical would you have nominated for Best Picture but sadly was not in any given year? Read more on Oscar Question of the Day – The Movie Musical…
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Not to be outdone by the recent headlines broken by his former company, Michael Eisner has joined with Universal Pictures in a multi-year worldwide distribution agreement. In the deal, Eisner’s Tornante Company will fully finance films which Universal will market and distribute globally. After his purge from the Walt Disney Company in 2005, he’s invested heavily in digital media as part of his plan to return to movie-making.
Read more on Michael Eisner Signs Multi-Year Distribution Deal with Universal…
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 With the success of juke box musicals, this new phenomenon of using pre-existing pop and rock tunes and plunking them into a story, building the plot around the music, films such as Mamma Mia! (2006) and Rock of Ages (2012) have enjoyed both popularity and solid box office success. I say new, however this type of film has been around for some time, as far back as the many Elvis Presley films and the work of Richard Lester and A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and the animated Yellow Submarine (1968). Audiences seem to enjoy hearing these old tunes once again being belted out by movie stars, and in the right story, they conjure up memories often long dormant of our own pasts. Music is instant nostalgia, sweeping us at once into our own past, allowing for a few moments to relive that time in our life when we were younger and had our lives ahead of us. Listening to Meryl Streep belt out The Winner Takes it All took me back to the late seventies, early eighties, and Susan, the girl I went with for much of high school and through a year of college finally outgrowing one another. We liked ABBA, call me crazy. I remember long summers in Port Perry, a small town in Ontario, Canada, walking the streets after work, getting ice cream, hearing the music from the cars, with that ABBA hit often on blaring into the night for all to hear. With that however comes the memory of the pain of the break up, as though I would never find someone like her, though I did of course, meeting the love of my life six years later. It is a moment in time I will never get back other than in memory and hearing the song again. The moment I hear Ben E. King sing Stand By Me, I am swept to my wedding day, as that was our first song, and defined the relationship I had with Sherri for twenty-five wonderful years. I cannot hearing it without tearing up. Read more on Historical Circuit: Across the Universe (****)…
 So here we are…the end of the Top Ten Greatest Films of All-Time Series. My outstanding group of writers brought forth some wonderful films to highlight. The argument has been made among the community, and even the staff, asking what this series really is? Is it the “best” made films of all time? Is it my “favorite” films of all time? Is there a difference? Is there a right answer? Read more on 10 Greatest Films of All-Time (Clayton)…
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