I am ABC News’ go-to girl for Oscar predictions…
…at least in this piece just up over at ABC News’ Web site, where I get to be all experty and stuff. Enjoy.
Oscars
trailer break: ‘The Warrior’s Way’
This looks so terrible that it might cross over into the accidentally genius.
James Franco takes on ‘Three’s Company’; making the pilgrimage to Middle Earth; ‘The King’s Speech,’ awards bait; more: leftover links
Plus, Tyler Perry, misunderstood genius; from Winter’s Bone to X-Men; cable subscribers flee; more…
how ‘Caprica’ should end; why Roger Ebert hates lists; what the frak is Roland Emmerich up to?; more: leftover links
And: John Landis disses Inception; Foursquare in space; Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster; more…
Agora movie review: condemned to repeat it
Once upon a time, a film this epic, this relevant, this emotional would have been celebrated as a great entertainment and important storytelling with something vital to say about the world today.
Fox doesn’t understand the Internet, or its audience, or the state of TV today
Back in March, I bitched about how ABC had pulled its broadcast feeds from Cablevision, my cable provider, over fee disputes. And now the same thing is happening again, with Fox…
the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
trailer break: ‘Carlos’
With a long miniseries version debuting on TV and a shorter cut opening in theaters, Olivier Assayas’s epic about the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal should be an interesting test in new movie-release paradigms.
trailer break: ‘Conviction’
It must be awards season, when the studios are dragging out all the Incredible True Stories and the casts full of Oscar winners and nominees.
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
