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)

Ideas

Cinema cell-phone complainer gets it in the neck

The L.A. Times yesterday finally got around to reporting on a two-week old gruesome stabbing of a guy in the Cinemark 22 theatre in Lancaster, California. …

 

3-D truth

On the eve of what turned out to be a tremendous weekend for Disney's profits with Alice in Wonderland, Rope of Silicon's Brad Brevett mused;…

 

Apocalypse by virus

It'll be interesting to see how Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns tackle the apocalypse by virus issue some 15 years after Outbreak, as the…

 
NightOfTheLivingDead

Zombie 101

Matt Zoller Seitz explains why zombie films are often the most misunderstood of genres in cinema today.