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Top Story: Apparently tweens sided with Miley after her breakup with Nick Jonas. While Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience took all the 3D screens away from Coraline this past weekend, the short, short picture (76 minutes) didn’t do the $30-40 million in business folks were expecting. And it was well short of the $31 [...]
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TFC Morning Report – March 2, 2009 – Jonas Brothers not as big as Miley
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on March 2nd, 2009
TFC Morning Report – Monday, Feb. 16, 2009 – Slumdog looks to sweep after ASC and ACE wins
Posted by Dan Stasiewski 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 [...]
2009 Best Picture Nominee Box Office Totals
Posted by Dan Stasiewski 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 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: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on December 29th, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)–**** Zemeckis, an undisputed master of film technology, shows off an equal aptitude for vivid storytelling in bringing Winston Groom’s picaresque novel to screen. –Rita Kempley’s 1994 Washington Post review of Forrest Gump Seriously? I hated Forrest Gump. Hated, hated, hated Forrest Gump, as Roger Ebert would say. Every [...]
2008′s Creative Dearth
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on October 27th, 2008
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 [...]
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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, [...]