AVATAR’S surge

All Time Domestic Figures (07.01.01)

12. Spider-Man $373,585, 825
13. The Passion of the Christ $370,782,930
14. Avatar $367,536,685.
15. Jurassic Park $357,067,947
16. LOTR: Two Towers
$341,786,758

Oscar Picks

BEST PICTURE

Public Enemies
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Up
A Serious Man
Broken Embraces
Funny People
In The Loop

BEST DIRECTOR

Mann (Public Enemies)
Reitman (Up in the Air)
Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Bigelow (Hurt Locker)
Coens (A Serious Man)

BEST ACTOR

Clooney (Up in the Air)
Freeman (Invictus)
Depp
(Public Enemies)
Rockwell (
Moon)
Stuhlberg (A Serious Man)

BEST ACTRESS

Mulligan (An Education)
Cruz (Broken Embraces)
Ronan (Lovely Bones)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Capaldi (In the Loop)
Molina (An Education)
Gandolfini (In the Loop)
Tucci (Lovely Bones)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Weisz (Lovely Bones)
Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)

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The Burning Issue # 5 – Scorsese’s still got it

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Mike Fleming followed up his scoop with news that Chloe Moretz (Hitgirl from Kick-Ass, and leads the upcoming Let The Right One In remake) and Brit…

 

Matt says you must be criminally insane not to visit SHUTTER ISLAND

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New PRINCE OF PERSIA images

Empire have a couple of brand new and exclusive images from next May's Disney tentpole, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as part…

 
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Scorsese goes Sam Raimi & WICKER MAN-ish with SHUTTER ISLAND trailer!

My time on the internet has been so small lately that it's taken me the best part of a week to talk about the trailer…

 
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Review: FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING

The political situation of Ireland has proved fertile ground for an array of superb films that have engraved themselves on popular consciousness for depicting without…

 
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Raimi talks SPIDER-MAN 4 and future of EVIL DEAD franchise

I actually think Sam Raimi is a little further along in pre-production on SPIDER-MAN 4 than he lets on to IGN this weekend and I translate…

 

Simon goes TRANSSIBERIAN…

Release Date: 02/03/09 TRANSSIBERIAN, a mongrelised version of an oft-used format, is obsessed with the idea of people being something counter to what they appear;…

 
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UPDATED: Arnie joins Stallone’s THE EXPENDABLES!

UPDATED: Latino Review have the scoop that Danny Trejo (ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, MACHETE) has a role in the movie. For a "home…

 

Stallone says he expects to recruit Sir. Ben Kingsley for THE EXPENDABLES

OWF writer Simon Gallagher insists that when I mention Sir. Ben Kingsley's name, it must have his title attached at the beginning. Which is fine…