Do you think you’re a great predictor of the weekend box office? Put your skills to the test as Cinema Sight presents its Summer Box Office Prediction Contest. The contest will be held over a span of 16 weeks from this coming weekend, May 14-16 through the last weekend of August, Aug. 27-29. Each week,
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New This Week [EDITOR’S NOTE: Today marks the beginning of Peter’s 4th year writing The DVD Report for Cinema Sight. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Peter for his wonderful work these past three years. Your insights and commentary have been an invaluable asset to me and to our readers and we wish
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Irving Berlin (101 at death) {Oscar Winner: Song; Oscar Nominee: Original Story,Motion Picture Story, Song – 9 Noms, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1892: Margaret Rutherford (80 at death) {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actress – 1 Nom, 1 Win} [Pictured] 1914: Haroun Tazieff (83 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Documentary
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Every year, box office pundits celebrate the arrival of summer. The biggest profits of the year are often posted during the summer months as teens and young adults are out of school and ready to spend their parents’ hard-earned money on frivolous entertainment. So why is this summer any different from past seasons? It isn’t.
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Another week, another results list. Some good work by our participants. Game: Identify the Poster For the posters game, Lallolupo was our winner for this game, correctly identifying both America’s Sweethearts (our foreign lingo entry) and Dr. Strangelove (the negative image, also pictured in full original color at right). Game: Film Mash-Up Lallolupo was also
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This one hits especially hard for me. She was a wonderful singer and presence, always proving to be one of my favorites. Her husky voice was one of her many attributes. She had compassion, strength and courage, standing up against stereotype and prejudice while winning over the hearts of millions. Legendary singer, actress Lena Horne
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Max Steiner (83 at death) {Oscar Winner: Scoring, Drama/Comedy Score;Oscar Nominee: Original Score, Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score, Musical Score –26 Noms, 3 Wins} [Pictured] 1890: Clarence Brown (97 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Directing – 5 Noms, 0 Wins} 1894: Dimitri Tiomkin (85 at death) {Oscar
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Life gets terribly busy and we don’t get nearly as caught up as we expect. This week’s update is fairly small. I added a small number of backlog pieces in, but there are still several to go. I’ll get to them eventually, but I don’t expect to finish off the backlog until probably mid-Summer. But,
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1895: Richard Barthelmess (68 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: Richard Day (76 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color); Oscar Nominee: Art Direction, Art Direction (Black-and-White),Art Direction (Color) – 20 Noms, 7 Wins} [Pictured] 1898: Dewey
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Rating Director Samuel Bayer Screenplay Wesley Strick, Eric Heisserer Length 95 min. Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, Lia Mortensen MPAA Rating R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: John Meehan (64 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Writing, Screenplay – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1897: Henry Ginsberg (82 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Picture – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1903: Walter Thompson (72 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Editing – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1906: Roberto Rossellini (71
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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 1887: Benjamin Glazer (68 at death) {Oscar Winner: Writing, Original Story;Oscar Nominee: Adaptation, Original Story – 2 Noms, 2 Wins} 1897: Otto Siegel (65 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Color) – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1901: Gary Cooper (60 at death) {Oscar Winner: Lead Actor, Special/Honorary;Oscar
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1897: Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast (70 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Original Story – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1902: Max Ophuls (54 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Screenplay, Art Direction (Black-and-White) –2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1907: Walter Bullock (46 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1908:
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(Updated 5/5/10 @ 2:40p – Tripp’s contribution) Whatever happens this weekend, Iron Man 2 will be declared a sensation, for good or bad. Below are our thoughts on the upcoming releases for the weekend of May 7-9, 2010. There are two wide releases and two limited releases on the schedule. Please note that at the
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