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I posted this last year because we all have to remember the real reason for Oscar: the Oscar bounce. The box office boost was in full effect when Slumdog jumped 80 percent at the box office this weekend. In fact, all the nominees grabbed more cash, including The Reader, which lost 50 theaters. Last year [...]
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2009 Best Picture Nominee Box Office Totals
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 25th, 2009
Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 21st, 2009
Will The Dark Knight get its Best Picture nod? Will Slumdog nab the most nominations? Will Woody Allen spoil the day for another director? Will Kate Winslet get the two nods she deserves? What’s going to happen?! Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST/5:30 p.m. PST the Academy will announce the Oscar nominees. Anyone who has watched [...]
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No Comments »DGA Nominees 2009
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 8th, 2009
And the DGA nominees are: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Gus Van Sant, Milk DGA and PGA match five for five. Will Oscar follow? The last time the two guilds matched up was in 1998, the same year Titanic was [...]
Posted in Random Tags: amistad, frost/nixon, milk, slumdog millionaire, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, titanic No Comments »WGA Nominees 2009
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 7th, 2009
And the WGA Nominees are: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures ADAPTED [...]
PGA Award Nominations 2009
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 5th, 2009
And the PGA nominees are: Slumdog Millionaire Milk Frost/Nixon The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight To all of you who keep freaking out over The Dark Knight actually appearing on this list, may I present you with a great big helping of so the f what. The facts are these: The PGA is the [...]
Movie Review: ‘Doubt’ & ‘Frost/Nixon’
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on December 28th, 2008
Doubt — *** Frost/Nixon — ***1/2 The differences between Doubt, an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s stage play directed by the playwright, and Frost/Nixon, an adaptation of Peter Morgan’s play directed by Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard, reveal two approaches to theatrical adaptations. Doubt looks like a stage production forced to be a movie, while Frost/Nixon [...]
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2008′s Creative Dearth
As someone who fancies himself a bit of a film critic, I try to manage my own expectations despite my genuine love of cinema. (That sound pretentious, but bear with me.) Before this year, I would generally see anything that was thrown in front of me because I would rather watch a bad movie than [...]