The likelihood of Jumanji winning a fourth week at the top of the box office charts is unlikely, especially since the Maze Runner films have all opened over $30 million and Jumanji‘s third weekend was about $20 million. Even if Death Cure underperforms, it’s unlikely to underperform to $15 million, which is what Jumanji would…
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Our contributors have been hard at work assessing the nominations and deciding just which films and individuals have the best chances at winning. Below are our first post-nominations predictions. Looking over what we’ve predicted to start, we have agreed on the winner in nine categories out of twenty-four. We have completely different takes on Production…
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Now that 2017 is in the rear view mirror, it’s time to look honestly at the films that are going to be releasing in the calendar year 2018. Some weekends have already passed, but those films, plus a raft of others, await eager audiences hoping for something grand to help them forget their miseries if…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Page Revisions: (January 21, 2018) Original (March 11, 2018) New Release Date (changed from 4/27/18) (April 8, 2018) New Poster (#2) Release Date: April 13, 2018 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Eight college friends head to a “Haunted Rental” for Halloween. But when they replay the game that made the house infamous, they awaken an evil spirit…
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New This Week Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner was itself based on Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Hampton Fancher, who was one of three screenwriters on the earlier film, as was Dick, was one of two on the new one. Amazingly, you…
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And there you have the full list of Oscar nominees. The Shape of Water, failing to get an expected Visual Effects nomination, falls one shy of tying the record. With 13 nominations, however, the film becomes the most nominated R-Rated film in history. Some of the big surprises this year: Martin McDonagh fails to carry…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Den of Thieves…?
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New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#2) Love, Simon, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Announcing nominations in a number of categories, the guild that represents sound editors and which closely mirrors the Sound Editing award have given three nominations to each of four films, all of which should be considered heavy favorites for nominations. The two films that got two each could be thought as contenders, but the Sound…
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As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). The final week before the Oscar nominations and before we shift in earnest into the business of predicting…
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Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: Dunkirk Christopher Nolan has been…
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FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. After last year’s switch-up of the nominations announcement, we return to something akin to the prior two years’ announcements. All categories will be announced, once again in separate blocks. This time, they are announcing most of the categories regular audiences aren’t as…
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As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. And so we come to our…
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