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 WOLF MAN verdict

Tonight, I can jump in my car around 9pm-ish, drive 60 minutes to my nearest Cineworld cinema and see The Wolf Man, a Universal horror…

 
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THE WOLF-CGI but partly man!

It's fair to say old Wolf Man has had his troubles. I know it's an old thing to discuss but the loss of director…

 
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Paul Giamatti is Larry in THE THREE STOOGES but Jim Carrey bails as Curly

I said back in June that Paul Giamatti was the best actor to replace Sean Penn when he dropped out of playing Larry in…

 
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Universal burying THE WOLF MAN

The Wolf Man has been delayed by Universal YET AGAIN, the third major release change for the movie and the studio will be quick…

 
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Penn comes to his senses and pulls out of THE THREE STOOGES

"Career suicide" is the term I mused back in March when Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Jim Carrey had bizarelly signed up to star in…

 
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Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Jim Carrey in THE THREE STOOGES!

On April 1st every year there are usually a flurry of bullshit and wildly imaginative stories of impossible Hollywood castings, not so much to fool…

 
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See Benicio Del Toro transform into THE WOLF MAN, shot by shot…

Oscar winning special effects make-up artist and werewolf extraordinaire Rick Baker has released conceptual design images of Benicio Del Toro's transformation into THE WOLF MAN! Universal's remake…

 

Mike ponders the end of CHE in PART TWO

After the heady successes and awesome guerrilla scenes of CHE PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE in the States) I was hugely looking forward to the second…

 

Scorsese, Day-Lewis, Del Toro, Bernal. Nuff said.

How does Daniel Day-Lewis re-teaming with his GANGS OF NEW YORK director Martin Scorsese sound? Variety say the legendary director is "determined" to make an…

 

THE WOLFMAN won’t howl till November!

It was true. Universal have yanked THE WOLFMAN from it's first quarter 08 release slot and moved it to November, where the nights are colder…