Oscars’ Box-Office Bump: TITANIC – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire received a phenomenal boost during the year-end awards season, especially as a result of its eight Academy Awards nominations and subsequent eight wins. Fourteen Oscar nods and eleven wins certainly didn’t hurt James Cameron’s Titanic, either, while Rob Marshall’s musical Chicago collected nearly two-thirds of its grosses and Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby amassed more than 90 percent of its income after they were nominated for, respectively, thirteen and seven Academy Awards, according to figures found at Hollywood.com.
The Hollywood.com Oscar’s Box-Office Bump chart includes the last ten Best Picture winners, showing the amount they earned before and after the Academy Award nominations were announced. Obviously, movies [...]
by Michelle Hutton | March 3, 2010
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Tags: Academy Awards, Box Office, Crazy Heart, No Country for Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire, Titanic
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN d: Joel and Ethan Coen
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: The Pros
The Cons:
I was unable to either relate to or care about any of the "good" characters. Josh Brolin’s Llewelyn Moss is supposed to be the "ordinary guy" who acts the way ordinary guys would act under similar circumstances. Well, perhaps it’s true that the average guy is really stupid, selfish, and greedy, but there’s nothing ordinary about the way the Vietnam veteran uses a firing weapon to shoot both animals and his pursuer. Worse yet, Llewelyn’s deadly foolhardiness — innocent bystanders get slaughtered because of him — had me rooting for Chigurh to come and eliminate that tough-talking health hazard fast.
The final battle [...]
by Andre Soares | December 26, 2009
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Tags: Broken Embraces, Film Reviews, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men, Pedro Almodóvar, Roger Deakins, Tommy Lee Jones
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Direction: Joel and Ethan Coen
Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen; from Cormac McCarthy’s novel
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men (Richard Foreman / Miramax Films)
Synopsis:
West Texas, 1980: A hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon numerous dead bodies, a stash of heroin, and $2 million in cash lying about in the region’s arid wasteland near the Rio Grande. He takes the money and runs, but is followed by a cold-blooded killer (Javier Bardem). All the while, the aging local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) tries to find both the hunter and the killer.
The Pros:
Javier [...]
by Andre Soares | December 26, 2009
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Tags: Cormac McCarthy, Film Reviews, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men, Oscar 2007, Oscar Movies, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson
Nastri d’Argento 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(“*” denotes the winner in each category)
Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]
by Andre Soares | June 14, 2008
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Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Whole Life Ahead, Abdellatif Kechiche, Across the Universe, Agente matrimoniale, Alba Rohrwacher, Alessandro Gassman, Alina Marazzi, Amore bugie e calcetto, Andrea D’Ambrosio, Andrea Molaioli, Ang Lee, Angela Finocchiaro, Anita Caprioli, Anna Bonaiuto, Anna Negri, Antonello Grimaldi, Antonia Liskova, Antonio Albanese, Arnaldo Catinari, Atonement, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Bianco e nero, Biùtiful càuntri, Brad Bird, Caos calmo, Carla Vangelista, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Mazzacurati, Carlo Poggioli, Caroina Crescentini, Carolina Crescentini, Catia Dottori, Cemento armato, Chris Kraus, Civico Zero, Claudio Collepiccolo, Claudio Piersanti, Colpo d'occhio, Come tu mi vuoi, Cover boy, Cristian Mungiu, Cristiana Capotondi, Cristina Comencini, Daniel Silverman, Daniele Luchetti, Daniele Silvestri, Daniele Vicari, Dante Ferretti, Davide Marengo, Domenico Procacci, Doriana Leondeff, Eduardo Crespo, Elio Germano, Elisabetta Montaldo, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ennio Morricone, Esmeralda Calabria, Fabio Bonifacci, Federica Pontremoli, Film Awards, Four Minutes, Francesca Calvelli, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Francesca Marciano, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Maselli, Francesco Piccolo, Gianna Nannini, Gianni Zanasi, Giorgio Diritti, Giorni e nuvole, Giulia Calenda, Giuliano Gemma, Giuliano Montaldo, Giuseppe Battiston, Hotel Meina, I demoni di San Pietroburgo, I Viceré, I'm Not There, Il mio paese, Il vento fa il suo giro, Ilaria Fraioli, Into the Wild, Io l'altro, Irina Palm, Isabella Ragonese, Jason Reitman, Joe Wright, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julian Schnabel, Julie Taymor, Kasia Smutniak, Kazuko Kurosawa, La giusta distanza, La graine et le mulet, La ragazza del lago, La seconda volta non si scorda mai, La Vie en Rose, Le ferie di Licu, Lele Marchitelli, Lezioni di cioccolato, Lezioni di felicità, Lionello Cerri, Luca Lionello, Luca Lucini, Lucia Ragni, Lust Caution, Maddalena Ravagli, Marco Chimenz, Marco Pettenello, Marco Stabilini, Margherita Buy, Marina Confalone, Mario Venuti, Marjane Satrapi, Massimo Ghini, Massimo Zamboni, Michele Pellegrini, Milena Canonero, Mio fratello è figlio unico, Mirco Garrone, Mohsen Melliti, Nanni Moretti, Nastri d'Argento, Nastri d'Argento 2008, National Union of Italian Film Journalists, Nelle tue mani, Nero bifamiliare, Nessuna qualità agli eroi, Nicola Pecorini, Nicola Piovani, Nicoletta Ercole, No Country for Old Men, Non pensarci, Notturno bus, Olivier Dahan, Paolo Virzì, Parlami d'amore, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peppe Ruggiero, Persepolis, Peter Del Monte, Piano solo, Piera Degli Esposti, Piero De Bernardi, Pino Daniele, Questa notte è ancora nostra, Ramiro Civita, Ratatouille, Riccardo Tozzi, Riprendimi, Roberto Cimatti, Sabrina Ferilli, Sam Garbarski, Sean Penn, Sergio Rubini, Seta, Shekar Kapur, Sidney Lumet, Signorina Effe, Silver Ribbons, Silvio Muccino, Silvio Soldini, Sonetàula, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Secret of the Grain, The Simpsons Movie, There Will Be Blood, Tideland, Tim Burton, Tiro Mancino, Todd Haynes, Toni Servillo, Tonino Zera, Tre donne morali, Tutta la vita davanti, Valerio Mastandrea, Vier Minuten, Vincent Paronnaud, Vittorio Moroni, Vittorio Storaro, Vogliamo anche le rose, Wilma Labate
Cinema Audio Society Awards 2008
2008 Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards
2008 Cinema Audio Society nominations: January 9, 2008
2008 Cinema Audio Society winners: Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 16, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men (Richard Foreman / Miramax Films)
Motion Pictures
The Bourne Ultimatum
Production Mixer Kirk Francis, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Scott Millan, CAS, David Parker
Into the Wild
Production Mixer Edward Tise
Re-recording Mixers Michael Minkler, CAS
Lora Hirschberg
* No Country for Old Men
Production Mixer Peter Kurland, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Gregg Orloff, CAS
300
Production Mixer Patrick Rousseau
Re-recording Mixers Chris Jenkins, CAS, Frank Montano
Transformers
Production Mixer Peter Devlin, CAS
Re-recording Mixers Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 20, 2008
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Tags: 300, Cinema Audio Society Awards, Craig Berkey, Film Awards, Gregg Orloff, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Peter Kurland, Skip Lievsay, The Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers