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Top Ten Lists - First Look by The Hot Blog

It is an odd moment when I realize that I have not looked at our list of Top Ten lists this year . This is the first year that I have not been hands-on, posting and tallying. Ahhhhhhh.... Anyway, not too many surprises here. But there is The Oscar Thing...
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Imitation... The Sincerest... by The Hot Blog

Frost/Nixon took the lesson from Doubt this weekend and have come out swinging with new, much more aggressive spots for the film. Forget the subleties of Nixon trying to manage Frost and decided just how much he wanted to fall on his sword. This is now...
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11 Weeks To Oscar by The Hot Blog

The Greatly Settled Every year, I quote Bill Condon's notion - which has more resonance with his Oscar gig this year ... and less - of The Great Settling. All the critics' awards and nominations are laid out. Screeners are in every Oscar voter's...
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Timing, Timing, Timing... by The Hot Blog

Wow… I must have been distracted by all the blood in the streets around here… BFCA is having its televised awards show on a Thursday night… because, presumably, the Sunday on which people were returning from the holiday vacation or the Monday after seemed...
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Hugh Jackman by The Hot Blog

Nice. Even in concept, the list was short. But Jackman was, once it went to The Academy for approval, the first choice. And everyone was good with it. Clooney, Jackman, and... uh... who else? There are many names that many people like or think would be...
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12 Weeks To Oscar: The No Awards Awards by The Hot Blog

I held off writing this week’s column until after the Golden Globes nominations… and then… well… who cares? Every year, we all beat the heck out of the HFPA members and then mine their nominations like we are going to find nuggets that matter. But we...
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Why Do Studios Do Cocktail Events For Press? by The Hot Blog

Someone asked me this last night at the Dark Knight event, which was very pleasant and saw all players in a lovely mood. (Mr. Nolan and I had a great chat about digital cameras and IMAX and the like... and somehow never felt compelled to ask about who...
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Why Gran Torino Is Well Served By Awards Screener DVDs by The Hot Blog

Because comedies usually play better on television.
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Another Trip To The 4 Seasons by The Hot Blog

My second trip to the Four Seasons today offered two interesting things. One was a chat with John Patrick Shanley, with whom I discussed Amsterdam as much as other things. But good stuff... The other thing was finding out the the new Punisher film is...
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20 Weeks : The Fate Of The Frontrunner by The Hot Blog

Along with, ”May you live in interesting times,” a new curse has developed into undeniable undesirability… “May your film run at the front of the Oscar pack!” Dreamgirls, Flags of Our Fathers, Cold Mountain, 21 Grams, Charlie Wilson’s War, Sweeney Todd...
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Bagger Goes (A Little) Native by The Hot Blog

My favorite person to read during Oscar season is David Carr. Too tired of it all to press his nose up against the glass, he sees the dirt in the corner of the panes and keeps it all in perspective. And then, his first two Hollywood missives of the season...
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Documentary Short List by The Hot Blog

I was away when the list of 15 was released by The Academy… “At the Death House Door” “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” “Encounters at the End of the World” “Fuel” “The Garden” “Glass: A Portrait of...
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That Would Be The Butt, Ben by The Hot Blog

So.... as everyone is clamoring about Brad Pitt being chased into his Benjamin Button SAG NomCom screening last night, a tiny bit more insight. When asked what making this movie was like, David Fincher responded, in his Fincheresque glory, "It was...
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Reading Is TubDemental by The Hot Blog

The Wesintein Co sent out invites to The Reader this afternoon, starting with screenings the Monday before Thanksgiving...
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Paramount Pushes 2 Oscar Movies Around by The Hot Blog

A few sentences to start... and then more later... Bard Grey or John Lesher leaked news of he move of The Soloist (to March) and Defiance (to early 2009, with a qualifying run in late December) to their favorite mouthpiece, Nikki Finke, before his team...
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