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Tiger Woods: Golf superstar and now, thanks to Nike, Internet meme. Sure, this wasn’t what I had planned for my first blog entry in days. The PR pro in me wanted to write something insightful about Nike doing proper damage control because it has more invested in Tiger than Tiger does. Eh, whatever. A Dirk Diggler monologue over the [...]
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Tiger Woods Nike Commercial Parodies
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on April 9th, 2010
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No Comments »The Billion Dollar Bat
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on February 21st, 2009
It may have taken 218 days, but The Dark Knight finally crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide on Friday. Who needs a Best Picture nomination when you have a cool billion in the bank, right? (Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, and Chris Nolan all shoot me a dirty look.) Okay, an Oscar nod would have been [...]
Posted in Random Tags: academy awards, crash, oscar, pirates 2, spider-man 3, the dark knight, the lord of the rings, titanic No Comments »TFC Morning Report – Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2008 – Ang Lee takes on Life of Pi
Posted by Dan Stasiewski 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 »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 [...]
Posted in Random Tags: academy awards, angelina jolie, anne hathaway, brad pitt, burn after reading, changeling, christopher nolan, clint eastwood, danny boyle, david fincher, dev patel, doubt, frank langella, frost/nixon, frozen river, gran torino, gus van sant, heath ledger, james franco, josh brolin, kate winslet, marisa tomei, melissa leo, meryl streep, mickey rourke, milk, penelope cruz, philip seymour hoffman, rachel getting married, revolutionary road, richard jenkins, robert downey jr., sean penn, slumdog millionaire, taraji p. henson, the curious case of benjamin button, the dark knight, the visitor, the wrestler, tropic thunder, vicky cristina barcelona, viola davis, wall-e, woody allen No Comments »Golden Globe Winners 2009
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 11th, 2009
Slumdog may have took top prize, but Kate Winslet was the queen of the Golden Globes. That long-overdue Winselt Oscar looks like a real possibility. The winners: Best Picture – Drama Slumdog Millionaire Best Actor – Drama Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler Best Actress – Drama Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road Best Picture – Comedy/Musical [...]
Posted in Random Tags: bruce springsteen, colin farrell, danny boyle, happy-go-lucky, heath ledger, in bruges, kate winslet, mickey rourke, revolutionary road, sally hawkins, slumdog millionaire, the dark knight, the reader, the wrestler, vicky cristina barcelona, wall, wall-e, waltz with bashir No Comments »Slumdog takes Best Picture at Critics’ Choice Awards
Posted by Dan Stasiewski on January 8th, 2009
No real surprise as Slumdog Millionaire takes top prize (and 4 others) at the BFCA Critics’ Choice Awards. (Sorry, The Dark Knight fans.) All signs continue to point to Slumdog as the Best Picture favorite. Damn me for not having cable television. I’d would have liked to seen some of these acceptance speeches, especially Kate [...]
Posted in Random Tags: anne hathaway, bruce springsteen, danny boyle, dev patel, doubt, heath ledger, john adams, kate winslet, man on wire, meryl streep, milk, oscar, rachel getting married, sean penn, slumdog millionaire, the dark knight, the reader, the wrestler, tropic thunder, wall-e, waltz with bashir 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 [...]
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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, [...]