Thanks to Craig over at LiC for the tip-off that first, Steve Pond (Oscar guy who wrote for The Envelope – often has the inside scoop on the goings on within the Academy, and almost always pro-Academy, in my opinion, not that there’s anything wrong with that) has written that there will be a change in Oscar’s final vote for Best Pic – it all makes...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Richard Roeper has named (500) Days of Summer his number film of the summer. As follows: Best movies of the season: 1. “(500) Days of Summer” 2. “Inglourious Basterds” 3. “Up” 4. “The Hurt Locker” 5. “District 9″ Honorable mention: “Public Enemies,” “Julie and Julia,” “Harry Potter...
In a deal worth $4 Billion, thousands of Marvel superheros, sidekicks and villains are being blended into the Disney family. THR has details: Disney acquires ownership of 5,000 Marvel characters to be overseen by Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter, who is charged with cherry-picking when and where they’ll show up within Disney’s vast empire, including online and in...
Why Film Awards Are Still Important As Oscar season wakes up from its long nap, there are yet still more voices, every day more voices, flooding the niche. Can the niche hold? It seems as though the beast that is the “Oscar blogger” has not scaled back – most film bloggers and journalists are now Oscar bloggers somehow. It’s the contest, no, it’s...
It seems strange that the American Cinematheque would be honoring Matt Damon with a Lifetime Achievement award already, yet that is exactly what they’re doing. This is probably going to be Matt Damon’s year in that he’s got two big films coming out – The Informant and Invictus, now that the Green Zone has been pushed to next year. The Informant...
The Broadcast Film Critics Association may provide one of the more reliable pools from which the year’s 10 Best Picture nominees will be drawn. We’ll update this chart whenever a new film ranks high enough to be named ‘Critics Choice’ — with a score higher than 85. (If there’s a title I’ve forgotten, let me know so we can insert...