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Remember When... by The Hot Blog

August 28, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES AND WARNER BROS. PICTURES TO JOIN FORCES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE OF DANNY BOYLE’S “SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE” LOS ANGELES, CA August 28, 2008 – Fox Searchlight Pictures President Peter Rice...
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A Shout Out... by The Hot Blog

To TJ Simers... who has long been one of the few reasons to pick up the LA Times... for naming names and speaking his truth . And Ken Turan... for speaking his truth , even if he smeared the internet and not the real source of ugliness in his own yard...
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The Oscar Ratings... by The Hot Blog

Up in overnights... we'll see what the finals are. Still... irrelevant to the issue of whether the show worked. Very relevant as to whether the producers this year created, with The Academy, a sense of anticipation that has been missing in recent...
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The First Modern Era Oscars by The Hot Blog

The Boo Birds are out on the Oscar show last night. And really… they couldn’t be more wrong. The main reason I think they are so wrong is not because we hold different opinions, but because so much of the criticism I read or hear comes back to the same...
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Best. Oscar. Show. Ever? by The Hot Blog

More way later...
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Hugh Know He Wants It To Work by The Hot Blog

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Choking On Oscar Predictions by The Hot Blog

God... and I thought it was a long season for the last couple of months... now, everyone and their sister, brother, octoplet or monkey is coming out of the frickin' wordwork looking for someone to promote their predictions. With due respect to those...
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R.I.P. Loki by The Hot Blog

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Oscar Bump Redux by The Hot Blog

Thanks to Patrick Goldstein for waiting two full weeks before rewriting my piece on the extreme lack of an Oscar bump this year . Looks like he read the blog on Saturday for even more detail about what films have done what so far. Unfortunately, he didn't...
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Peter Gabriel To The Academy: Unplugged by The Hot Blog

Here is the full text of the letter... "I was delighted when Down to Earth was nominated for an Oscar. I was also pleased to have been asked to perform the song in the Oscar ceremony. However, in recent discussions with the Producers, it became clear...
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And The Best Oscar Nominated Shorts Are... by The Hot Blog

Shorts International and Magnolia do a great job getting out the Oscar nominated shorts each year. The show of all ten nominees (not including the doc shorts) opens here in Los Angeles on February 6, will make it to at least 60 US markets in the next...
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Important News... Or Irritating Spoiling? by The Hot Blog

Congratulations to the NY Times... they ruined a few Oscar night surprises. Is this a good thing? We are now getting into the short weeks that will lead to Oscar and every hack in the gossip/journalism game will try to garner attention by "previewing"...
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Whatever Happened to The Oscar Bump? by The Hot Blog

The most surprising numbers were not those garnered by the success of a quite bad direct-to-DVD title sold brilliantly by Fox. The most surprising numbers were 2126, 1633, 882, 1105, and 1002. Those are the screen counts of Button, Slummdog, Milk, FroNx...
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Hmmm... by The Hot Blog

Why is Variety - in the form of two leading bloggers on the .com page - selling the absurd notion that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is chasing Slummy's tail closely? It is my considered opinion that both Frost/Nixon and Milk have much stronger...
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Guess The Nominee! by The Hot Blog

I am thrilled for everyone who got nominated this morning. But let's face it... the quotes seem all the same, quote after quote after quote. Honored... thankful... unexpected... yadda... yadda... yadda... So as they come in, I will post some of the...
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