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Top Story: Tyler Perry will release two more pictures with Lionsgate. The deal comes after Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail scored Lionsgate’s biggest weekend opening in the distributor’s 12-year history. Another Madea project, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, will be released later this year and Why Did I Get Married Too will hit [...]
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TFC Morning Report – Thursday, March 4, 2009 – Tyler Perry and Lionsgate announce two more pictures
Posted by TheFilmChair on March 5th, 2009
TFC Morning Report – Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 – Slumdog takes Best Picture
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 23rd, 2009
Top Story: Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars at the 81st annual Acadamy Awards last night, including Best Picture and Best Director. Sean Penn won his second Best Actor Oscar for Milk, while Kate Winslet finally took home the Best Actress trophy for her role in The Reader. Supporting Oscars went to Heath Ledger and Penelope [...]
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No Comments »TFC Morning Report – Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2008 – Ang Lee takes on Life of Pi
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 18th, 2009
Top Story: Ang Lee will direct and adaptation of award-winning novel Life of Pi for Fox 2000. (Variety) In Other News: Aston Kutcher is in negotiations to star in the football film Traded. (Variety) Slumdog wins one more. The costume designers guild gave out its awards last night, honoring The Duchess for period film and [...]
Posted in Random Tags: ang lee, arnold schwarzenegger, slumdog millionaire, the dark knight, the duchess No Comments »TFC Morning Report – Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 – Slumdog looks to sweep after ASC and ACE wins
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 16th, 2009
Top Story: Slumdog Millionaire took home the editing (ACE) and cinematography (ASC) awards this weekend underscoring its frontrunner status ahead of next Sunday’s Oscars, Variety’s Awards Central reports. It now looks like Slumdog has a chance to win in all nine categories for which it is nominated after locking in so much pre-Oscar support. The film has 10 nominations, including [...]
TFC Morning Report – Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 – ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 9th, 2009
Top Story: Benderspink has tapped Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain to adapt the Red 5 comic ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, according to HR. The comic follows a group of elite soldiers sent to the Middle East to clean up after the undead weapons that have gone out of control. In Other News:Slumdog Millionaire picked [...]
WGA goes for Slumdog, Milk
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 8th, 2009
The Writers Guild of America gave out its awards last night, making the Best Picture race even less interesting as the inevitable Slumdog win becomes crystal clear. Slumdog now has the DGA, PGA, SAG, and WGA (Adapted Screenplay) awards. Yes, that’s every major guild prize. In other news, Milk took home the WGA original screenplay [...]
Danny Boyle wins DGA
Posted by TheFilmChair on February 1st, 2009
The most important precursor went to Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle last night. Boyle deserved this. Nothing stopping the Slumdog train now.
2009 Best Picture Nominee Box Office Totals
Posted by TheFilmChair on January 25th, 2009
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 [...]
Final Oscar 2008-2009 Nomination Predictions
Posted by TheFilmChair 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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Year in Review – Top Ten Films of 2008
One of the problems with living in a place like Cleveland (or Erie, Pa. before this) and not in NYC or LA is that you don’t get to see all the movies of 2008 until it’s 2009. I’ve always given myself an extra month to catch up. Considering the lackluster year it’s been for movies, [...]