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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Matt Damon & Josh Brolin will show TRUE GRIT for the Coens?

Damon to play the Texas Ranger, and in a No Country for Old Men reversal... Brolin has nabbed the part of the murderous villain.

 
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Universal’s BOURNE IV gets a “parallel script”

According to The Free Dictionary, the grammar definition of the word "parallel" is...  "having identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases".…

 
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Soderbergh’s THE INFORMANT is actually a comedy? Trailer here…

Wow, I didn't expect the adaptation of Kurt Eichenwald's nonfiction bestseller about a guy who spilled the beans on a price-fixing scandal at a grain processing conglomerate to…

 
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Frank Marshall says BOURNE IV will be Summer 2011

The first draft of Greg Nolfi's (The Bourne Ultimatum) script for a fourth Bourne movie has come in a little later than expected and producer Frank…

 
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Mandela’s life deserves better…

Should Eastwood be making something more adventurous than The Human Factor to celebrate the life of the world's greatest humanitarian?

 
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First look at Eastwood’s THE HUMAN FACTOR

Touted from day one as possibly the favourite for this year's Best Picture Award at the Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood's next movie is THE HUMAN…

 

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…

 

BOURNE 4 might be based on…

The oddly titled THE PARSIFAL MOSAIC, a spy thriller written by the original author/creator Robert Ludlum which DID NOT involve the character of Jason Bourne…

 

Universal may go back to Ludlum after all for BOURNE IV?

Last we heard, Universal were planning to move forward with a fourth BOURNE movie based on an original screenplay and story from George Nolfi, one…

 

TORSO “probably” next for David Fincher

David Fincher's next film will probably be TORSO, the adaptation of the Image Comics series that revolves around the real life investigator Elliot Ness, solving…