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)

Casting

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Chris O’Donnell in MAX PAYNE

You remember him. He was in VERTICAL LIMIT and I think he did a comic book character once. Hmmm.

 
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No April Fool’s! Scott Bakula finds a good role.

Bakula to play an FBI agent in Stephen Sodbergh's darkly comic thriller THE INFORMANT.

 
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Mos Def is Chuck Berry in CADILLAC

He walked the fine line between brave acting and just plain annoying in both BE KIND REWIND and 16 BLOCKS but if he screws up Chuck Berry, his career might not survive.

 
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Mears is Jason for FRIDAY THE 13TH PART II: REMAKE

He looks like Kane from the WWE but Mears gets to play his own monster in the Platinum Dunes remake.

 
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Radha Mitchell joins SURROGATES

Silent Hill actress joins Bruce Willis in Jonathan Mostow's cool sounding sci-fi thriller. But then again, his movies always do look good on paper!

 
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Elizabeth Banks jumps from Seth Rogen’s bed, into the Whitehouse!

Talented comedic actress Elizabeth Banks to play the first lady in Oliver Stone's biopic of George Bush.

 
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SAW V hits the Benz!

RAMBO actress will be this year's main Jigsaw victim.

 
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Role of Alfred in JUSTICE LEAGUE MORTAL is a DOOZY!

Ned... Ned Ryerson? Is the figure from Bill Murray's past in GROUNDHOG DAY the new Alfred Pennyworth?

 
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Tony Soprano is the Mayor of New York!

James Gandolifini joins Tony Scott's timely remake of THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123!

 
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Marsden, Keener & Morgan get NAILED too!

David O'Russell's movie follows the clueless Congressman Jake Gyllenhaal who uses the sexually rampant Jessica Biel for his own gain.