New This Week Jack Warner paid the then astronomical sum of $5,000,000 for the screen rights to Lerner and Lowe’s smash Broadway musical, My Fair Lady. His dream star cast consisted of Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Cagney in the roles created by Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway. Both Grant and Cagney
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Ray Binger (81 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Special Effects – 3 Noms, 0 Wins} 1890: Max Terr (60 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Drama/Comedy Score – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: Lawrence Tibbett (63 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1903:
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Tonight, we have a quintet of updates with three new trailers and two new posters. Our new trailers are for 2010’s Country Strong and No Problem, and 2011’s Winnie the Pooh. The new posters are for 2010’s True Grit and 2011’s Gnomeo & Juliet. WINNIE THE POOH Plot Summary: The classic A.A. Milne stories of
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The Band Wagon Rating Director Vincente Minnelli Screenplay Betty Comden, Adolph Green Length 112 min. Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell, Robert Gist MPAA Rating Passed (National Board of Review); Approved (PCA)
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Stagecoach Rating Director John Ford Screenplay Dudley Nichols (Story: Ernest Haycox) Length 96 min. Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler MPAA Rating Approved
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Paths of Glory Rating Director Stanley Kubrick Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson (Novel: Humphrey Cobb) Length 88 min. Starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joseph Turkel, Susanna Christian MPAA Rating Approved
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The Academy has announced the 15 films submitted for consideration for this year’s Academy Awards. With this announcement, the number of nominees in the category is limited to three, so the jockeying now begins to fill the third slot with How to Train Your Dragon and Toy Story 3 solid bets for nominations. Here are
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Opening to a smaller audience than The Hangover, Due Date was eclipsed by family friendly animated flick Megamind, which handily won the weekend. Don’t forget to come back Wednesday to submit your predictions for Week 9. Original rules can be found here: Game Rules. #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: Megamind,
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Back to the movie grind stone likely form now through the beginning of the year. With preparations for the Online Film & Television Association Hall of Fame Selection Committee to year-end awards screeners, I’m going to be a busy man. That won’t stop me from putting time in on TV shows when I can find
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Results are in for Week #31 of Film Fun Friday. Game: Identify the Poster The correct answer is: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. No one was able to identify the poster. Game: Six Degrees of Oscar Separation Peter was our lone responder and he made the connection in three. Note: And after three weeks
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1879: Lewis Stone (73 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1893: Grover Jones (46 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Story, Screenplay – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1905: Frank Tuttle (63 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction,Art Direction (Black-and-White), Art Direction
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All-in-all, we had 22 updates this week evenly split between 2010 and 2011. Of those, two were new posters for existing previews and the rest were either new trailers or new previews. Poster Highlights: Two posters managed to top this week’s batch. Both 2011’s African Cats and 2010’s Blue Valentine were the best of the
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Aaron Copland (90 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Drama/Comedy Score;Oscar Nominee: Original Score, Scoring, Drama/Comedy Score – 6 Noms, 1 Win} 1911: F. R. Crawley (75 at death) {Oscar Winner: Documentary Feature – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1920: Irving Ravetch (90) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Adapted Screenplay
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Oscar News Two time Academy Award winner Robert DeNiro will receive the 2011 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes. DeNiro will accept the lifetime achievement award at the January 16, 2011 awards ceremony. Hugh Jackman has reportedly turned down the opportunity to return as Oscar host this year. No word yet on who
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: E. H. Hansen (67 at death) {Oscar Winner: Sound/Sound Mixing, Special Effects –14 Noms, 2 Wins} 1901: Perry Ferguson (62 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction,Art Direction (Black-and-White) – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1903: Paul Sheriff (56 at death) {Oscar Winner: AArt Direction (Color) – 2
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