In today’s round-up, Steve McQueen’s “Shame” receives the NC-17 rating we were expecting, Rodrigo Garcia talks “Albert Nobbs” and Alex Baldwin launches a new podcast.
Oscarweb Round-up: 'Shame' lands the expected NC-17
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:05 am · October 26th, 2011
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Almodóvar's film selections for AFI Fest revealed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:09 pm · October 25th, 2011
AFI Fest has announced Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar’s selections for a sidebar program. Films include “Le Cercle Rouge,” “Eyes without a Face” and the director’s own “Law of Desire.”
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A 'Drive' poster that makes sense
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:14 am · October 25th, 2011
A privately-made poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” manages to capture the film better than anything FilmDistrict put out on it.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Protesting 'Anonymous'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:45 am · October 25th, 2011
In today’s round-up, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is protesting “Anonymous” in a curious fashion, Steve Jobs is on a list of potential writers of a Steve Jobs biopic and “The Artist” takes yet another audience award.
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'Harry Potter,' George Clooney, Michelle Williams honored with Hollywood Film Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:02 pm · October 24th, 2011
The Hollywood Film awards were held tonight, marking the first awards ceremony of the season. All honorees were previously announced. George Clooney and Michelle Williams won top acting honors while the public-voted Hollywood Movie Award went to “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
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Alexandre Desplat tapped for 'Extremely Loud'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:47 pm · October 21st, 2011
Alexandre Desplat is one of the hardest working quality composers in the industry. And he’s just been announced as “quietly” working on the score for one of the season’s most anticipated contenders: Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 66 — Gotham Awards, NYFCC's FIRST! move, 'Tintin,' London fest and more
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:00 am · October 21st, 2011
In this week’s Oscar Talk podcast Anne and Kris are joined by Guy Lodge from London, who is taking in the London Film Festival and saw Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” recently. We also dig in on the Gotham Award nominations announcement and the NYFCC’s recent surprising twist on the season.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Altair and Ezio find a home at Sony
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:07 am · October 21st, 2011
In today’s round-up, the film rights for “Assassin’s Creed” land at Sony, the “Martha Marcy May Marlene” crew makes the press rounds and Jude Law sticks up for investigative journalists — despite playing the worst of their kind in “Contagion.”
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Announcing the grand re-opening of The Contenders!
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:40 pm · October 20th, 2011
We’re happy to reveal our newly revamped Contenders section at In Contention. Each category features a ranked list of 30 Oscar hopefuls. And once again, we’ll be charting the ups and downs of players throughout the season.
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John Orloff talks his new gig: writing 'Battlestar Galactica'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:50 am · October 20th, 2011
“Anonymous” screenwriter John Orloff has been announced as the scribe for Bryan Singer’s “Battlestar Galactica” reboot. He recently talked to us about his chance to finally write in the genre he loves.
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'Descendants,' 'Martha Marcy' lead the way for Gotham Award nominees
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:44 am · October 20th, 2011
The nominations for the 21st annual Gotham Awards are in, and Fox Searchlight led the way with eight nominations for its films “The Tree of Life,” “The Descendants,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Another Earth.”
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Taking questions for 10/21 Oscar Talk
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:18 am · October 20th, 2011
Offer up your burning queries.
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Oscarweb Round-up: 'Dark Knight Rises' prologue to accompany 'Mission: Impossible?'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:11 am · October 20th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Warner Bros. is reportedly planning to attach a prologue of “The Dark Knight Rises” to IMAX versions of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” River Phoenix’s last film will finally see the light of day and Mike Judge offers up a rare exhibition of “Beavis and Butt-Head” voices.
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NY film critics preempt NBR this year
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:41 am · October 19th, 2011
The New York Film Critics Circle has always held its vote sometime in mid-December, but no more. An announcement today that the group will hold its vote on November 28 signals an even earlier start to the precursor circuit as it preempts the National Board of Review.
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Interview: Elizabeth Olsen and John Hawkes talk 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:04 am · October 19th, 2011
With “Martha Marcy May Marlene” in limited release this Friday, we sit down with two of the film’s stars, the weathered and veteran character actor John Hawkes and the breakout young actress Elizabeth Olsen.
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James Cameron talks 'Avatar' sequels
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:53 am · October 19th, 2011
James Cameron is toiling away on the screenplays for his two “Avatar” sequels. He recently revealed a few nuggets about the film that fans will certainly be interested in: the oceans of Pandora will be featured extensively and there will be “other planets” brought into play as well.
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Stan Lee tapped for Visual Effects Society's Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:04 am · October 19th, 2011
Stan “The Man” Lee’s creations, from “X-Men” to “Iron Man” and everything in between, have sparked the imagination of visual effects artist in the film industry for years. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that he be awarded the Visual Effects Society’s lifetime achievement honor.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Cameron Crowe's music-in-film picks
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:02 am · October 19th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Cameron Crowe picks his favorite music-in-film moments, an eager blogger sets about fundraising for “Tyrannosaur” and “The Dark Knight Rises” looks like it might film at Occupy Wall Street.
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