New Riddick movie: Vin Diesel. New ‘Riddick’ movie: Vin Diesel has underwhelming domestic debut Universal’s distribution chief Nikki Rocco may have called Riddick‘s opening-weekend figures “a great result,” but an…
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Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Disappointing box office pairing. Denzel Washington Mark Wahlberg movie 2 Guns: Below par box office receipts Aug. 3: A limp “low $20…
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Green Zone box office: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass have gone from two hit Bourne movies to this commercial Iraq War disaster.
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Sandra Bullock. Best Actress Sandra Bullock’s Oscar acceptance speech “Did I really earn this or did I just wear you all down? I would like to thank the Academy for…
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SAG Awards: British Dames Julie Andrews and Helen Mirren are top winners + immigration and identity theft drama wins Sundance + Gong Li leads Hong Kong.
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Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.
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What Are the Golden Globes? Quality-oriented + multinational and multiethnic awards show embracing ‘diversity’ (especially of the British kind)?
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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The Dixie Chicks vs George W. Bush + Freedom of Speech Issue surprising awards season wins + San Diego Film Critics reject groupthink selections.
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Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
Crips and Bloods: Made in America. In the 1980s and into the first half of the 1990s, gang violence in American urban centers grabbed nightly news headlines with a distant…
WGA Awards go for populist + outlandish screenplays while last year’s Maurice Richard leads Genie nods and Storm thriller among Guldbagge contenders.
National Board of Review Winners: First Foreign-Language Best Film in almost 6 decades shows key World War II battle from the Japanese side.