Up in the Air Articles
James Cameron, Scott Cooper, Mark Boal at WGA Panel
George Clooney in Up in the Air The Writers Guild of America’s "Beyond Words" panel will be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, two days before the announcement of the 2010 WGA Awards. Confirmed panelists include: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire), [...]
UP IN THE AIR Wins Scripter Award
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, and author Walter Kirn won USC’s 2010 Scripter Award for the socially conscious comedy drama Up in the Air this past Saturday. The Scripter Award goes both to the screenwriter(s) of an adapted screenplay from a literary work and to the author of the source material. Directed by Reitman, and starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick, Up in the [...]
Box Office: Oscar Nominations Help Only a Little
Vera Farmiga, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount); Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron in The Blind Side (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros.) (middle); Meryl Streep, Steve Martin in It’s Complicated (Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal) (bottom) On Tuesday, James Cameron’s Avatar once again topped the North American box-office chart, with $2.688m, a minuscule 0.4 percent drop from the day [...]
Oscar 2010: Best Picture Nominees Box Office Grosses
James Cameron’s Avatar (top); Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw in The Blind Side (middle); Carey Mulligan in An Education (bottom) To shore up the Oscar ceremony’s dwindling television audience, the Academy wanted bigger fare at the 2010 Oscars. So, they expanded the Best Picture category to include ten films, hoping that some blockbuster or other would get a nomination. Indeed, it’s true that several of the [...]