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Big Year Ahead for TWC's Festival Darling 'Fruitvale Station' (See New Poster)
The first poster for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Fruitvale Station" has been unveiled. TWC's indie drama has already proven to be a festival darling, as the film will screen in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar, before the film hits theaters July 12.
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Academy Isn't Hiring Oscar Hosts Quite Yet
It might be logical to speculate that because the motion picture Academy is happy with the ratings of the last Oscar show, and therefore wanted to bring back musically-oriented producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, that their Oscar host Seth MacFarlane would be part of that package. But not so fast.
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Seth MacFarlane Asked To Return To Host The Oscars
Not longer after his gig hosting the Oscars this year -- an effort which produced mixed results, at best -- Seth MacFarlane was asked on Twitter if he would like to do it again, to which he replied, "No way. Lotta fun to have done it, though." But regardless, it looks like the Academy want him back...
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After High-Rated Oscars, Academy Brings Back Zadan and Meron to Produce Next Year's Show
Truth is, producing and hosting the Oscars is a thankless task. Alec Baldwin says it's a miracle they can get anyone to do the "flabby, tired show." Sure, occasionally someone can pull it out, but most of the time the media just piles on the Oscars. As they did last year with host Seth MacFarlane--w...
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Get Ready For A (Slightly) Longer Season: Next Year's Oscars Scheduled For March 2, 2014
It's hard to believe, but just about a month ago we were still in the the wake of the Oscars. We analyzed the Seth MacFarlane hosted ceremonies, and didn't waste any time making some early, what-the-hell-why-not predictions for the contenders next year in the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor,...
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Academy Picks Key Award Season Dates, Pushes Back Awards Ceremony for 2014, Moves It Up in 2015
At first I wanted to praise the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for choosing a reasonably late March 2 date for the next live Oscar ceremony, the 86th, on ABC TV in 2014. This unseemly rush to move the ceremony earlier only jams up all the other awards ahead of it and prevents Academy vo...
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Weinsteins Pick Awards-Friendly December Date for Kidman-Starrer 'Grace of Monaco,' UPDATED
UPDATE: The Weinstein Company finally confirmed their acquisition of US distribution rights to Olivier Dahan's "Grace of Monaco," starring Nicole Kidman in the title role. The film is set for an Oscar-friendly December 27 release.
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Risk-Taking James Franco In Risk-Free 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
Flying moneys, good. Flying baboons, bad. That's one difference between the classic, 1939 'Wizard of Oz' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful,' Disney's pricey new extravaganza with James Franco as the pre-wizard carnival con man. More important: don’t go on comparing them. The new 'Oz' is loaded ...
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ABC Takes Miniseries Rights to Oscar-Nominated AIDS documentary 'How to Survive a Plague'
ABC Studios has bought the rights to David France's Oscar-nominated documentary "How to Survive a Plague" in hopes of turning it into a mini-series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Premature Predictions: The 2014 Best Director Nominees
In recent years, trying to predict the Oscar nominees in the Best Director category has been especially tricky. In the past, you could just translate over your Best Picture nominees, maybe swap one out for a better-known or showier filmmaker, and you were relatively likely to be correct. But ever si...
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