The Hurt Locker Articles

Kathryn Bigelow thanked a whole array of uniformed U.S. personnel when she accepted her Academy Award statuettes for Best Director and Best Picture for the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker back in early 2010. Now, I can't recall her thanking Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver (photo). Shortly before the 2010 Oscar ceremony, Sarver sued the Hurt Locker producers, including Bigelow and Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal, claiming [...]

Below is an e-mail sent by Nicolas Chartier (right), best known as the Hurt Locker producer who was barred from the Academy Awards ceremony earlier this year after sending out e-mails requesting votes for his film and not for that other big-studio flick (that's James Cameron's Avatar). The latest Chartier missile-missive was directed at a Toronto-based BoingBoing reader who wrote the producer to "politely register [...]

Avatar's Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron are in Brazil promoting both the release of the sci-fi blockbuster on DVD and Blu-ray in that country, and the Earth Day Network/Fox Home Entertainment effort to have 1 million trees planted around the world. In this photo, Weaver and Cameron can be seen planting — or at least posing as if they're planting — a pau-brasil tree in [...]

Robert Pattinson, Tate Ellington Remember Me Is the Robert Pattinson's vehicle Remember Me a true "independent film" or not? One commenter wrote the following about Remember Me: "Some of the posters need to look up ‘indie’. … To be truly indie you need a budge [sic] of less than ten mil, not to ever open on more than 500 screens, and have less than three [...]