Never, ever underestimate the power of movies that appeal to every single type of audience. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is on track to score $70 million over the long Friday to Monday Memorial Day weekend. Terminator Salvation, meanwhile, will likely make $52 million over the same period and $65 million over [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 1, 2009
It’s funny what starring in a stoner movie and an Oscar-baiting human rights movie in the same year can do for your career. The Hollywood Reporter notes that James Franco has been fielding a number of high-profile projects over the past few months, some of which he’s had to turn down. Biggest among those is a role [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Christopher Nolan is taking a much-deserved break from the Batman franchise with Inception, a project we still don’t know anything about except the official studio line: that it’s “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.” Nolan wrote the script himself, and has now found his lead: Leonardo DiCaprio, who will appear in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Marvel Studios has been getting most of the superhero attention with its high-profile line-up including Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and an eventual Avengers movie — but after the success of The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. has started seriously eying other D.C. Comics properties ripe for adaptation. They’ve just firmed up release dates for their [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
As last year’s Oscars were the lowest-rated ever thanks to the lack of any “big films”, and this year’s Oscars seemed to be in the same boat following the lack of Best Picture or Director nominations for The Dark Knight, the producers behind this year’s ceremony aimed to combat the ratings decline by revamping the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire won eight Academy Awards last night including Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Song. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button followed with three awards of its own — Makeup, Visual Effects, and Art Direction — while Milk won two, both in the “major” categories: Sean Penn for Best Actor (upsetting sentimental favorite Mickey [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
The Academy Awards telecast airs in just two days: Sunday night at 8 p.m. on ABC. The producers have promised a new approach to the ceremony to make it less, uh, boring for all the non-Oscar fanatics — starting with hiring Hugh Jackman to host and hiding the list of all-star celebrity presenters — but [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
In a show of respect for the recently deceased, a collective of Heath Ledger fans are banding together to demand that the Joker be permanently retired from all future installments of Batman film. An online petition is already making the rounds and has garnered, at last report, over twenty five hundred names. One of the petitions [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 12, 2009
…will not be a third Batman. Instead, it’s called Inception, and it’s based on an original script by Nolan himself. Variety describes it as “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.” So in other words, we don’t know much about it. Between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Nolan made The Prestige, so [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
Definitely the worst part about The Dark Knight’s massive success has been the lack of any reputable news about a potential follow-up — in the midst of a daily slew of ridiculous made-up rumors. No, Johnny Depp has not signed on to play The Riddler. Neither has Eddie Murphy. And no, Cher is not playing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
Despite already coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray, The Dark Knight returns today to 143 IMAX theaters here in the U.S. and 29 more abroad in the wake of its eight Oscar nominations. This has been the plan ever since Warner Bros. realized Knight would be a major Oscar contender. (It would’ve helped if it had [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
Well, folks–the comic book geeks out there, like myself, are no doubt rolling with glee at the news that, indeed, Heath Ledger is up for a posthumous Oscar for his mind-bending portrayal of perennial Batman nemesis The Joker in The Dark Knight. Competing for the slot of Best Supporting Actor are Ledger, Josh Brolin for Milk, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
As a follow-up to the Oscar nomination announcements this morning, we figured we’d run down the high-profile list of films and celebrities who didn’t get nominated, but whom many were predicting would: THE DARK KNIGHT AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Most people thought The Dark Knight would be nominated for Best Picture and Christopher Nolan would be nominated for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Dark Knight was snubbed out of Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay nominations, replaced each time by surprise nominee The Reader - of which Kate Winslet was nominated for Best Actress for, when everybody thought she was in the Supporting Actress category. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button led with 13 nominations, followed by [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Forest Whitaker will join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences president Sid Ganis to announce the Academy Award nominations tomorrow morning at 5:30 a.m. PST. We’re no experts — okay, we are, but strictly in a “beat all our friends in the annual Oscar pool because we read Oscar blogs” kind of way — [...]
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