2012 Articles

Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (top); Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds (middle); Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver in Avatar (bottom) Two The Weinstein Co. releases are the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s top nominees for the 2009 Critics Choice Awards. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall’s Nine lead the race with ten nominations each. James Cameron’s soon-to-be blockbuster (how big a blockbuster remains to be [...]

2012 by Roland Emmerich (top); Star Trek by J.J. Abrams (middle); Avatar by James Cameron (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for 2010 Academy Awards. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: Angels & Demons Avatar A Christmas Carol Coraline District 9 G-Force G.I. Joe: The [...]

The Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner (above), was the weekend’s #1 box-office hit both domestically and internationally. Directed by Chris Weitz, and adapted by Melissa Rosenberg from Stephenie Meyer’s novel, New Moon tells the story of a teen girl (Stewart) who is caught between a hunky vampire (Pattinson) and an equally hunky werewolf (Lautner). Somehow, this multispecies love-lust [...]

Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side (middle); John Cusack in 2012 (bottom) The Twilight Saga: New Moon stormed to the top spot at the North American box office this weekend with a phenomenal $140.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Chris Weitz-directed sequel to Twilight scored an average [...]