Welcome once again to Film Fun Friday where we want you to have fun. If you have further suggestions on how we can improve, ideas for other games you’d like to see or just want to tell us how much fun you’re having, feel free to drop us a Comment. If you would like to
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1875: Albert E. Smith (83 at death) {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary – 0 Noms, 1 Win} 1904: Alvah Bessie (81 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Motion Picture Story – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1907: Rosalind Russell (69 at death) {Oscar Winner: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award;Oscar Nominee: Lead Actress –
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It’s Week #4. Time to submit your predictions for this weekend’s box office. For a reminder of the rules, follow this link: Contest Rule Submit the Following for this Week Guess the #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Guess the highest grossing new release and how much it will make This Week’s Wide
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Although she never had quite the success of Bea Arthur, Betty White or Estelle Getty, she was still a grand and impressive part of one of the most influential programs of the 1980s. Betty White is now the sole remaining member of the original cast and I’m sure it can’t be easy to outlive those
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1889: Jack Okey (73 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White) –2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1903: Ted Tetzlaff (91 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Black-and-White) – 1 Nom,0 Wins} 1907: Paul Rotha (76 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Documentary Feature – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1910:
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We have four new wide releases to look at this week and they are accompanied by a limited release. Here’s what we are thinking: Consensus We agree 100% on the following: Killers: Not an Oscar contender. Get Him to the Greek: Not an Oscar contender. Marmaduke: We won’t be watching it and it’s not an
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1904: Ellsworth Fredricks (89 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1921: Frank Van der Veer (60 at death) {Oscar Winner: Visual Effects – 0 Noms, 1 Win} 1935: Anthony Powell (75) {Oscar Winner: Costume Design – 6 Noms, 3 Wins} 1937: Sally Kellerman
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Week three is history. We had some surprise results this weekend with Shrek hanging on to #1 for a second week and neither Sex and the City 2 nor Prince of Persia dominating the weekend. It was a closer race than expected, but winners must be selected. The 3-day and 4-day new release winners were
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New This Week Almost as impressive as the year that preceded it, all ten films nominated for Best Picture of 1940 are available on DVD. Two of Hollywood’s most legendary directors, John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, both had two films nominated for Best Picture and they themselves were both nominated for Best Director. Hitchcock’s Rebecca
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Frank Morgan (59 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor, Supporting Actor – 2 Noms,0 Wins} [Pictured] 1899: Werner Janssen (91 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Score, Scoring,Drama/Comedy Score – 6 Noms, 0 Wins} 1901: John Van Druten (56 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Screenplay – 1 Nom,
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We had only a handful of responses this week, but we had quite a few right answers. Game: Identify the Poster The correct answers were: My Man Godfrey (Negative Poster, shown at right) and Taken (Foreign Poster). Lallolupo was the only one to get both posters right, but to be fair the Negative Poster was
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Ernest Haller (74 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) – 7 Noms, 0 Wins} 1908: Don Ameche (85 at death) {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1916: Bert Haanstra (81 at death) {Oscar Winner: Documentary Short; Oscar Nominee: Documentary
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And I’ve cleared the backlog. Since I have an extra day of “rest” this week, I thought I would take the opportunity to clear things out. Instead of 14 new trailers, I’ve put together this week’s update with 29, 28 are films I’ve never reviewed before and one is for a film which has produced
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Howard Hawks (81 at death) {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary; Oscar Nominee: Directing – 1 Nom, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1912: Hugh Griffith (67 at death) {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actor – 2 Noms, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1920: Franklin J. Schaffner (69 at death) {Oscar Winner: Directing – 1 Nom,
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By Todd Leopold (CNN) – Dennis Hopper, the one-time Hollywood enfant terrible who portrayed such indelible characters as “Easy Rider’s” biker Billy, “Blue Velvet’s” huffing villain Frank Booth and “Hoosiers’ ” forlorn Shooter Flatch, died of prostate cancer Saturday morning at his home in Venice, California, his wife said. He was 74. There was Dennis
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