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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 and Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov...
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on Tue, Feb 24 2009
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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. And to the LA Times readers... a committed group...
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on Tue, Feb 24 2009
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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 years. I wish the ratings obsession and the shallow...
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on Mon, Feb 23 2009
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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 old problem… it’s the Oscars, stupid. It's not...
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on Mon, Feb 23 2009
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More way later...
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on Sun, Feb 22 2009
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Posted to
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on Fri, Feb 20 2009
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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 of you who I do respect - you probably don't...
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on Thu, Feb 19 2009
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Posted to
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on Wed, Feb 18 2009
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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 read carefully enough and decided, in his...
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on Mon, Feb 16 2009
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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 that despite there being only three nominees...
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on Thu, Feb 12 2009
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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 few weeks, and will be available on iTunes on February...
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on Wed, Feb 4 2009
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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" the evening, which the new producers are...
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on Tue, Feb 3 2009
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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 and Reader, A year ago, the analogous screen counts...
Posted to
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on Mon, Feb 2 2009
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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 constituencies than Button at this point. Is it...
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on Thu, Jan 29 2009
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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 quotes and tell you who said them after the jump...
Posted to
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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I am a big proponent of the notion that Phase II of the Oscar season - post-noms - is a second race. And there may be some big surprises this year... but probably not. In the Top 8 categories, the nominations fell in such a way to make it even more clear in most categories than it was before. For instance...
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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Getting a look at the rest of the nominations, a few more comments... The cynical view that dead jews are tough to beat in The Academy was sustained by The Reader , a movie with limited ad budget, a conflicted lead actress, and very mixed reviews pushing right past the mega-movie and the hard push for...
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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As expected, the biggest surprises were in the supporting categories. As unexpected, the biggest surprise of all was The Reader , which not only saw Ms. Winslet once nominated for Lead for that film, but got a Best Picture nod ahead of both Doubt and The Dark Knight (another black eye for WB as they...
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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The Foreign Language Short List is in and the one real surprise on it is that absence of Gomorrah . The new set up has an executive comittee with 3 selections aside from the straight committee votes on the other six candidates. The Italian mob movie was expected to be an exec committee lock. It wasn't...
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on Tue, Jan 13 2009
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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, which seems to happen every year. The critics...
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on Mon, Jan 5 2009
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