HURT LOCKER Sweeps Oscars

On March 7, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards®, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, for her film The Hurt Locker. In addition to Best Picture, the movie picked up a total of six awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Leading Role [...]

HURT LOCKER Producer’s Oscars Invitation Revoked

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) issued a statement late Tuesday announcing that, should Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker win Best Picture, producer Nicolas Chartier would not be invited to receive the award with his colleagues.
According to the press release, Mr. Chartier engaged in campaigning activities the Academy deemed a violation [...]

THE LAST AIRBENDER – Trailer

It appears that Paramount has dropped “Avatar” from the title of M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming adventure film, based on the 2005 animated television series, to distance their project from the monolithic presence of James Cameron’s 3D epic—now a cultural phenomenon.
Watch the new trailer (below) for The Last Airbender, written, directed and produced by Mr. Shyamalan. [...]

82nd Academy Awards® Nominees Announced

Today, nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards® were announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2008 nominee Anne Hathaway.
Twentieth Century-Fox’s Avatar, directed by James Cameron, and Summit Entertainment’s The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, led the pack with a staggering nine nominations each including Best Picture, [...]

New AC/DC video with IRON MAN 2 Clips

Marvel Studios, Columbia Records and AC/DC have collaborated on the soundtrack to Iron Man 2. Pre-orders on Amazon.com begin today for the CD+DVD deluxe edition and two vinyl LP’s. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film opens wide on May 7, 2010.
Pre-orders begin today, January 26th at Amazon.com for the deluxe version [...]

AMPAS Narrows Foreign Language Contenders for Oscars

Out of the sixty-five foreign language films originally selected for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®, nine have been selected to move forward in the next round of voting for the 82nd Academy Awards®.
Notes from the Academy press release:
Foreign Language Film nominations for 2009 are again being determined in two phases.
The [...]

Cameron and AVATAR Lead Golden Globes

James Cameron won Best Director for his science-fiction/action film Avatar, which also won Best Motion Picture-Drama, beating other critics’ favorites, Inglourious Basterds, Precious and Up In The Air. Best Motion Picture – Comedy was awarded to Warner Bros. Pictures’ absurdist road-trip, The Hangover.
Disney/Pixar’s animated geriatric adventure Up won Best Animated Feature Film, edging [...]

AMPAS Announces Scientific and Technical Awards

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the fifteen scientific and technical achievement awards to be received by forty-six recipients at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation, Saturday, February 20, 2010, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.
In contrast to other Academy Awards to be distributed in other categories, a body of work [...]

AMPAS Selects Best Visual Effects Candidates

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the seven contenders for Best Visual Effects in the 82nd Academy Awards®: Twentieth Century-Fox’s $400 million gamble, Avatar, Tri-Star’s alien allegory to Apartheid, District 9, Warner Bros. Pictures’ releases Terminator Salvation andHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Paramount Pictures’ rebooted Star Trek, DreamWorks’ [...]

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