Tonight, we’ve got three new trailers and two new posters. The new trailers are for Kung Fu Panda 2, No Strings Attached and White Material. The posters are for African Cats and Rio. KUNG FU PANDA 2 Plot Summary: Everyone’s favorite food-loving kung fu-fighting panda returns in his second big screen feature. Release Date: May
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The Best Man Rating Director Franklin J. Schaffner Screenplay Gore Vidal (Play: Gore Vidal) Length 102 min. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy, Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Kevin McCarthy, Mahalia Jackson, Howard K. Smith, John Henry Faulk, Richard Arlen MPAA Rating Approved
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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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This week’s Feed the Queue review is for the Henry Fonda political drama The Best Man. The rest are all television programs, including a second viewing of the miniseries Harper’s Island, the final episode of the fourth season of Dexter and the more episodes of the first season of Psych. So, here is what I
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Results are in for Week #30 of Film Fun Friday. Game: Identify the Poster The correct answers are: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Thief of Bagdad (1924). No one was able to identify the poster. Game: Site Search The Answer: 50 nominations between the 10 individuals as follows: #1 – Katharine
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Emmet Lavery (83 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Story and Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1909: George Wells (91 at death) {Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1913: Robert Strauss (61 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor –1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1921:
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We had a large number of new trailers and posters this week, plus a slightly pushed ahead release date for True Grit. For a better count, there were 8 new 2010 trailers and 8 new posters; and there were 5 new 2011 trailers with 1 new poster. Here’s what I thought were the best of
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Oscar season is officially upon us. Although I received my first screener a few weeks ago, another batch arrived in the mail Friday. From this point until the end of the screener season, I’ll be posting the interesting tidbits I get in the mail. You’ll get pictures of the discs and the inserts that show
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Herman J. Mankiewicz (55 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Original Screenplay;Oscar Nominee: Original Screenplay, Screenplay – 2 Noms, 1 Win} 1903: Ary Barroso (60 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1903: Dean Jagger (87 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor –
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Oscar News The Santa Barbara Film Festival will give its American Rivera Award to Annette Bening. Last year, the award went to eventual Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock, while Oscar winners Forrest Whitaker and Philip Seymour Hoffman won the award the same year as their Oscar (along with eventual nominees Mickey Rourke and Diane Lane).
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Gus Kahn (54 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Scoring; Oscar Nominee: Song,Scoring – 3 Noms, 1 Win} 1897: Rowland Brown (65 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Story – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1911: Stephen Bosustow (69 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Animated Short Film;Oscar Nominee: Documentary
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Oscar nominee Jill Clayburgh has died at 66 By Mark Englehart IMDB – Jill Clayburgh, the Oscar-nominated actress whose portrayal of suddenly single women in the 1970s helped define feminism in movies and reshape the role of leading lady, died today at her home in Lakeville, Conneticut; she was 66. A stage actress who started
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Tonight, we wrap things up with our biggest update of the week. Six new trailers (Beneath the Dark, Hall Pass, Just Go With It, Navidad S.A., Regresa and Zookeeper) and six new posters (Never Let Me Go (#5), Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Tron Legacy (a triptych composed of posters #3, #4 & #5) and
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On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their responses are posted below. Wesley Lovell 1. Which of the three new wide releases would
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It’s another week, time for more games. We have two returning games, one more recently employed than the other: blended posters and site search. (Please use the [.spoiler] [./spoiler] tags. Just put your answer between the two bracketed tags and remove the periods. Let everyone have some fun without getting their answers spoiled) Game: Identify
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