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As Gawker’s Richard Rushfield reminds us, “September Is the Month to Make Bad Oscar Predictions”:: Over the next weeks Hollywood gets its first look at many of the Oscar heavyweights at the Toronto, Venice and Telluride film festivals. But that doesn’t hold back the pundits from weighing in today on who owns this race. In … more…
green light (definitely check it out): Revolutionary Road: Suburbia is nasty. [Amazon U.K.] [now available at Amazon U.S.] Che: Viva la revolution. [Amazon U.K.] Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway as a cranky bitch, and we like her. [Amazon U.K.] [now available at Amazon U.S.] Wendy and Lucy: A girl and her dog. [Amazon U.K.] [now … more…
green light (definitely check it out): The International: Clive Owen is even sexier when he’s taking down unscrupulous bankers. TARP me, baby. [Amazon U.S.] [preorder at Amazon U.K.] Nobel Son: Alan Rickman is a mean ol’ meanie. So he’s stretching here, you see. [Amazon U.S.] red light (not worth your time): Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood, … more…
It’s all capes and vigilantism on the other side of the Atlantic, too: 1. Watchmen: £3.2 million (NEW) 2. Slumdog Millionaire: £1.3 million 3. Gran Torino: £1.2 million (3rd week; down 10%) 4. The Young Victoria: £1 million (NEW) 5. Bolt: £.98 million (4th week; drops 25%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Overall business in the … more…
Looks like even the big football game could not interrupt the mainlining of movies we’re all doing of late in an attempt to comfort and/or inebriate ourselves in these tough times: 1. Taken: $24.7 million (NEW) 2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop: $13.9 million (3rd week; drops 36%) 3. The Uninvited: $10.3 million (NEW) 4. Hotel … more…
If it’s January, it must be time for the platforming awards bait to start making a splash in wide release: 1. Gran Torino: $29.5 million (NEW in wide release) 2. Bride Wars: $21.1 million (NEW) 3. The Unborn: $19.8 million (NEW) 4. Marley & Me: $11.4 million (3rd week; drops 53%) 5. The Curious Case … more…
Oh my god, it’s finally happened: Someone made *Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn: The Motion Picture.*
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… I’m gonna see this movie today, so I figured I might as well get a gander at what I’m in store for. Looks like Dirty Harry’s gotten too mean and too old for the real world. His son wants to put him in a home; a … more…
No official “press” screenings for me this week — it’s all FYC screenings. That is, “for your consideration.” These are specialty screenings that the studios hold for members of critics’ organizations, AMPAS (the “Academy” that awards the Oscars), and other industry guilds who will be voting on their year-end acclaims in the early weeks of … more…
This I will concede: I finally get what the big deal is about Angelina Jolie.
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