SAG Awards 2010: Predictions – Best Ensemble
James Cameron’s Avatar: best long-toothed ensemble blue cast
The nominations for the 2010 SAG Awards will be announced tomorrow morning by Michelle Monaghan and Chris O’Donnell. As usual, expect some surprises.
In the past, SAG voters — only a relatively small group of SAG members vote on the nominations — have made unexpected choices such as Dev Patel for best supporting actor in Slumdog Millionaire, best actress nods for Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha and Patricia Clarkson in The Station Agent, and best ensemble nods for 3:10 to Yuma, Hairspray, and Hustle & Flow.
My SAG Award predictions are probably as accurate as the ones I made for the Golden Globes a while back. In [...]
by Andre Soares | December 16, 2009
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Golden Globes 2010 Predictions – Best Supporting Actor
2010 Golden Globe Predictions – Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats (with Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges)
A man with a (goat-)killer stare
Matt Damon, Invictus
A rugby player attempts to Save His Nation
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy, wine-drinking radical ideologue
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
A man with some serious issues
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
A Nazi colonel fluent in four languages
Considering the lack of stand-out supporting male performances — in terms of buzz, that is — the Golden Globe field in the Best Supporting Actor category remains wide open.
Apart from Christoph Waltz, winner of the best actor award at Cannes and probably the most widely praised supporting male performance of the year to date, the actors listed above [...]
by Andre Soares | November 24, 2009
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Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns
A pathological liar helps the US government nab a nefarious agribusiness conglomerate.
Julie & Julia (above, with Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci), d & scr: Nora Ephron
Julia Child starts cooking decades ago, while in the early 21st-century blogger Julie Powell decides to boil and broil every single recipe found in Child’s first book.
The Men Who Stare at Goats (above, with Kevin Spacey), d: Grant Heslov; scr: Peter Straughan
US military "intelligence" and its use of paranormal activities.
Nine (above, with Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson), d: Rob Marshall; scr: Michael Tolkin, Anthony [...]
by Andre Soares | November 20, 2009
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Tags: Film Awards, Golden Globe Predictions, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2010, It's Complicated, Julie and Julia, Nine, The Informant, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Proposal, Up in the Air
2012 Smashes Box Office
Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic actioner 2012 destroyed its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $65 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Sony’s 2012 opened at 3,404 locations Friday, scoring an explosive average of $19,095 per theater while easily beating the $35.8 million opening gross of Emmerich’s previous film 10,000 B.C.
Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, and Danny Glover, 2012 follows a group of individuals trying to survive a series of cataclysms as the world is about to come to an end.
Pirate Radio, this week’s other wide release, made it only to No. 11, with $2.8 million from ticket sales [...]
by Franck Tabouring | November 16, 2009
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Tops Box Office; THIS IS IT in 2nd Spot
As expected, Walt Disney’s A Christmas Carol took the No. 1 spot at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $31 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Jim Carrey (above), the Robert Zemeckis-directed 3D motion-capture adventure tale based on Charles Dickens’ classic opened at 3,683 locations and scored an average of $8,417 per theater, enough to crush its competition.
At No. 2, Michael Jackson’s This Is It delivered another strong performance, earning $14 million at 3,481 locations. Sony’s documentary about the late pop star’s planned concert series lifted its total gross to an impressive $57.8 million.
New entry The Men Who Stare at [...]
by Franck Tabouring | November 8, 2009
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Tags: A Christmas Carol, Box Office, Cameron Diaz, George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Michael Jackson, Mo'Nique, Precious, Robert Zemeckis, The Box, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare at Goats, This Is It