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)

Michael Fassbender

Viggo Mortensen replaces Christoph Waltz in THE TALKING CURE

The only niggle I have with David Cronenberg's adaptation of Chris Hampton's (Atonement) psychoanalytical play which deconstructs the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his pupil…

 

Stephen Soderbergh secures a KNOCKOUT cast!

Obi-Wan Kenobi, a film critic turned Nazi spy, Gordon Gekko & General Hawk all hired for his spy thriller!

 

Cronenberg takes Knightley & two BASTERDS for THE TALKING CURE!

Cronenberg's next is a Psychoanalysts wet dream of a movie!

 
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Criterion February 2010

Fassbender's Hunger strike, Ophuls' last movie, Criterion's own Revanche (which looks amazing) and a 1937 silent American drama.

 
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Once Upon A Time in Cannes… Simon saw INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Most people will have now started to hear the early buzz around Tarantino's latest (thank God for Twitter eh?), and read my frankly profane initial…

 
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First look at Olga Kurylenko in Neil Marshall’s CENTURION!

Empire have an exclusive first look at Bond girl Olga Kurylenko in CENTURION, the new movie from THE DESCENT, DOOMSDAY and DOG SOLDIERS director Neil…

 
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INTERVIEW: James Watkins on his Brit horror film EDEN LAKE

Writer/director James Watkins talks exclusively to OWF about his creepy Brit thriller in U.K. cinema's from Friday.

 
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EDEN LAKE

Enough menace and scares to be recommended

 
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THE SWEENEY is put into custody

Fox Searchlight's adaptation of the popular 70's Brit detective series won't lense till next year.

 
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Michael Fassbender joins INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

Replacing Simon Pegg in Quentin Tarantino's ensemble war picture.