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Hereafter: Matt Damon (top); director Clint Eastwood (bottom) ARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Far Surpasses Expectations: Box Office Directed by Jeff Tremaine, and featuring Johnny Knoxville and numerous idiotic stunts, early fall sensation Jackass 3D pulled in another $21.6m ($6,943 per theater) at no. 2 in North America, as per studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Despite a seemingly steep 57.4% drop — remember, last weekend's [...]

Partial list of nominees & winners Picture of the Year: Villon’s Wife (Kichitaro Negishi) * The Unbroken (Setsuro Wakamatsu) Zero Focus (Isshin Inudo) The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Daisaku Kimura) Dear Doctor (Miwa Nishikawa) Outstanding Foreign Language Film * Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) The Changeling (Clint Eastwood) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) Red Cliff – Part 2 (John Woo) Animation of [...]

A PROPHET: Césars for Best Picture, Director, Actor Emmanuelle Devos was the Best Supporting Actress César winner for Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning, a well-received drama that also played at Cannes. In the film, Devos plays the mayor of a small town in the north of France suffering from high unemployment rates. A teary-eyed Mélanie Thierry was the Best Female Newcomer for her young alcoholic [...]

2009 Nastri d'Argento National Union of Italian Film Journalists' 2009 Nastri d'Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 29, 2009 2009 Nastri d'Argento winners: Taormina Film Festival, Sicily, on June 27, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Toni Servillo (center) as Italian prime-minister Giulio Andreotti in Paolo Sorrentino's scathing political comedy-drama Il Divo. At the Nastri d'Argento awards ceremony, Sorrentino remarked that if he [...]