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Veteran's Day Honored, Hollywood-Style

17 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Today is Veteran's Day. It is a time when we step back for a moment to honor the bravery and sacrifices of our nation's soldiers. Men and women who give everything, up to and including their lives, all in the name of protecting this country and all that it represents. Also known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, the holiday always falls on November 11, commemorating the anniversary of the 1918 armistice that brought an end to World War I.

The history of film is rife with stories pulled straight from the front lines. War stories make great cinema, both because they serve up gripping tales of heroism and because they honor those who take on such acts in the real world. So today, in honor of the veterans from wars past and wars ongoing, we give you this small selection of classics to spend some time with. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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'Near Dark?' Hell Yeah!

10 November 2009 11:02 AM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

'Hell Yeah!' is an ongoing series in which horror filmmakers, critics and fans share their take on movies they love. This month: vampires! When I was asked to submit my own piece for FEARnet's 20 Days of Vampires, I faced an extra-special challenge: I don't particularly care for vampires.  There are a few movies that I wholly enjoy from the genre for various reasons, but as a whole I think the majority are just one big blood-sucking cliché.  This makes Kathryn Bigelow's sorely overlooked Near Dark all the more satisfying for me, as it's a vampire movie for people who don't like vampires.  I'll explain more after the jump! Near Dark was released in 1987, just a few... »

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Frugal Christmas arrives early for Disney at UK box office

10 November 2009 9:04 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It's only November and A Christmas Carol is already No 1, albeit with a lacklustre £1.92m. The box-office feast will only truly start next week with 2012 and the Twilight sequel

The chart-topper

Knocking Michael Jackson's This Is It off the top spot, Robert Zemeckis's motion-capture animation A Christmas Carol can at least be satisfied with its chart position. As for its opening gross – £1.92m – that's another matter entirely.

In the first place, it's behind the openings of the previous two motion-capture films from the Zemeckis stable: Polar Express earned £2.14m from its first weekend of wide play in 2004, and Beowulf debuted with £2.2m in November 2007. (And bear in mind, there were fewer than 60 3D screens in the UK when Beowulf opened, compared with 260 now.) Second, A Christmas Carol's debut is well behind that of 2009 big-hitters Bolt, Monsters Vs Aliens, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Up. It's even »

- Charles Gant

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Contender Countdown: Are 'Precious,' 'Hurt Locker' and 'Up in the Air' Best Picture locks?

8 November 2009 3:03 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

As awards season storms into November the pool of Best Picture candidates is finally starting to solidify.  If the new ten picture system has done anything, it's established a small handful of films that are almost sure things to make to the dance.  Every prognosticator has their own favorites, but a consensus at Movie City News' Gurus of Gold (which Awards Campaign participates) finds Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air," Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on Push a Novel by Sapphire" and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" as pretty much sure bets at this early date. This isn't just wild speculation.  The... »

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A Christmas Carol (review)

6 November 2009 12:51 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »

There’s something about Jim Carrey that I find highly intriguing, and it’s the something that’s very dark and bleak in him. It’s not a quality of his that often gets played to -- in fact, I first noticed this about him in the otherwise terrible psychological thriller The Number 23, a few years back, in which he portrayed a man descending into insanity, because it seemed as if the film was terrified of unleashing that aspect of Carrey. It struck me then that almost everything we’ve ever seen Carrey do -- comedy and drama alike -- has been terrified of what looks to me like rage in him, and so it gets corralled into a grinning, hyper mania that is somehow perceived as “safe” because it’s “just” “funny.” I’d love to see what Carrey would do with the Joker for a director who »

- MaryAnn Johanson

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People's Choice Awards nominate Bright Star, Hurt Locker, and True Blood

5 November 2009 1:00 AM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

The incredibly inane, but nevertheless mainstream representative, People's Choice Awards have nominated some impressive women and films in their categories this year;

Abbie Cornish, of Bright Star, for fave breakout star; Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jane Campion's Bright Star for fave independent films; Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight as fave film; and the Barrymore-directed Whip It's Ellen Page, Eve and Kristen Wiig as best onscreen pairing. Not to mention the Charlaine Harris-created True Blood, the Eliza Dushku-produced Dollhouse, and female-watched Ghost Whisperer as fave sci-fi/fantasy shows. True Blood, not surprisingly, appears in the TV Obsession category.

Did you know You can vote right here? You're people, and you can choose stuff.

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- Superheidi

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Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar

3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.

More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]

[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]

New York

92YTribeca

In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration »

- Stephen Saito

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The Hurt Locker Comes to DVD and Blu-ray on January 12th

2 November 2009 8:55 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

You can bring home one of the most highly regarded films of the year on DVD and Blu-ray early next year. The Hurt Locker will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 12, 2010. The standard DVD will be priced at $26.99 Srp while the Blu-ray will cost $34.99 Srp. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Finnes and Guy Pearce.

The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival Signis Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the world's most dangerous places. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Eod) squad battle insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad-in order to try and make the city »

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Soldier at Savannah Film Fest Rave-Reviews 'The Messenger'

1 November 2009 2:02 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

The Messenger opened the 12th Savannah Film Festival with a bang: a sellout crowd, international press, and Hollywood stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in attendance to rub elbows all night. Even without the glitz, though, Savannah was a smart place to screen the Iraq drama. Oren Moverman's film is a character study about a soldier (Foster) dealing with the aftermath of war, but like Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq film The Hurt Locker, it's about the personal toll Iraq leaves on soldiers who survive and the families of those who don't; the politics of war are hardly an issue. And so, in a city that supports two military bases and the men and women who serve them, The Messenger played like gangbusters.

Foster stars as William Montgomery, a recent Iraq returnee dealing with serious leftover issues and a new assignment to play out his final three months of service: »

- Jen Yamato

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Savannah Film Fest: Where Indie Meets Oscar

31 October 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I'm in Savannah, Georgia to spend a week as a guest blogger for the Savannah Film Festival, an eight-day fest hosted in the historic Southern town by the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad). [Read my entries in the "Voices from the Fest" section on the festival website.] As the town prepares to kick off the 12th annual festivities with the Iraq film, or rather post-Iraq film, The Messenger, I'm wondering how Sff's growing success might reflect or even influence the rise of film festivals that similarly fall somewhere in between the biggies (Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Venice) and the little guys.

For starters, a brief look at Sff's line-up and star-studded guest list. The festival begins today, October 31, with The Messenger, a Sundance entry that has Oscar possibilities but more likely will make a run at the Indie Spirit Awards. Stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster will be in attendance. (I will be attempting to run into them at the local Starbucks or »

- Jen Yamato

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Early Best Picture Predictions: Invictus & Hurt Locker Lead

30 October 2009 10:14 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

I know we've still got a good two months left in the year and most of the heavy-hitting films haven't even been seen by anyone yet, but it's never too early to talk about the Oscars. Over the past week, Tom O'Neil of the La Times' Gold Derby blog polled some 16 Oscar pundits and film critics to get an early pulse on what they think are top contenders right now for Best Picture. Those polled include well-known film critics like Erik Davis, Pete Hammond, Peter Travers, Jeff Wells, and Susan Wloszczyna. And the list of their top picks might not exactly be what you're expecting. Or maybe it is? Read on for their picks and to tell us your own! The two films that are leading the race, according to these 16 people, are Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Both of those films got a »

- Alex Billington

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Mira Nair, We Still Love You

29 October 2009 4:45 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Yesterday, innocently walking cross town, I was suddenly struck by a bolt of sympathy for director Mira Nair. It's totally turned into the Year of the Female Director (yay!) but she hasn't been able to join the party that Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Lone Scherfig (An Education), Jane Campion (Bright Star), Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) and others are undoubtedly enjoying. Not with the critical drubbing that Amelia has taken at least.

I don't like what she did with Amelia at all (my review) but I definitely wish Nair well her next time behind the camera.

I remember being totally moved by her narrative feature debut Salaam Bombay! (1988) the second of only three films from India's massive film industry to have ever received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. [Trivia: It was up against another great 80s picture, Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, but they both lost to Denmark's Pelle the Conqueror]. It's a good underseen rental option the next time you're in the mood for street urchins. Step away from Oliver! »

- NATHANIEL R

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7 Directors Who Could Handle ‘Dune’

28 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

With the riveting news that Peter Berg is hopping off Dune and with Paramount's search for a new director come the names Neill Blomkamp and Neil Marshall being tossed around. Clearly, Paramount is contractually obligated to hire a director named Neil (which explains why Berg probably left). However, we here at Fsr are never content with the obvious. Instead, we'd like to throw out a few directorial talents we think could turn the new adaptation of Dune and make it something special. Hopefully, a few of the names will surprise, and you should be warned that we haven't consulted the Bene Gesserit with any of these names. So here they are, in no particular order: 7. Martin Campbell The Pitch: Despite not being named Neil, Campbell blew everyone away with Casino Royale. So much so that he nabbed the job directing Green Lantern, and people still don't realize he directed GoldenEye. He's »

- FSR Staff

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'Star Trek' Collects Hollywood Movie Award

28 October 2009 1:03 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

After taking home a number of kudos from 2009 Scream Awards, "Star Trek" has added another award to its collection. On Monday, October 26 at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival which was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, the J.J. Abrams-directed sci-fi was unveiled to be the winner of Hollywood Movie Award.

Collecting the most votes from Yahoo! Movies visitors, the Zachary Quinto-starring film bested over "District 9", "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra", "The Hangover", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Inglourious Basterds", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Up" among others. Upon receiving the prize, Quinto said, "Gee, I'm shocked the online community chose to honor Star Trek."

"Star Trek" wasn't the only winner on the special night. Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" won the Hollywood World Award. Quinto, Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Christoph Waltz, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan and »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Precious Is A Double Winner At Hollywood Awards

27 October 2009 12:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Tyler Perry's gritty new drama Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire has landed double honours at the annual Hollywood Awards.

The film, about an abused teenage girl, produced by Perry and Oprah Winfrey, has wowed critics on the festival circuit in recent months, and was awarded the treasured People's Choice accolade at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada in September.

It went on to claim gold at Monday's Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles, where filmmaker Lee Daniels was named Breakthrough Director and actress Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe walked away with the New Hollywood Award.

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Hilary Swank claimed Best Actress for her portrayal of iconic aviator Amelia Earhart in the new biopic Amelia and Robert De Niro scored the Best Actor prize for upcoming comedy/drama Everybody's Fine.

Inglorious Basterds star Christoph Waltz was named Best Supporting Actor, Julianne Moore took home the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in A Single Man, and Kathryn Bigelow earned the Best Director accolade for hard-hitting war drama The Hurt Locker, which has emerged as an Oscars favourite. »

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Paul Greengrass’ Green Zone Trailer Starring Matt Damon

27 October 2009 11:44 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Bourne in Iraq... that's the three word summary that's going to sell this movie for most people, but with any luck the latest collaboration between Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon will be something even more than that. Green Zone is inspired by the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a non-fiction look at the American attempt to set up a transitional government in Iraq. The movie uses this as a jumping off point for a fictional thriller about a group of army inspectors in search of weapons of mass destruction. When I first heard about this film, it was being described in the same vein as Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, but after seeing the trailer it seems more reminiscent of Ridley Scott's Body of Lies... which to me, is a lot less exciting. Still, with a cast that includes Matt Damon, »

- Sean

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DVD Review: Ambitious ‘The Objective’ Sustains Interest, But Ultimately Fails

21 October 2009 1:33 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – While adult comedies continue to rake in the big bucks at the box office, adult dramas continue to plunge in popularity, particularly dramas centering on the war in Iraq. When a brilliant edge-of-your-seat thriller like Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” or a galvanizing documentary like “Taxi to the Dark Side” can’t even manage to find an audience, a tiny horror picture like “The Objective” doesn’t stand a chance.

DVD Rating: 2.5/5.0

“The Objective” opened in a few theaters earlier this year, performed badly, and has now been unceremoniously dumped into stores. Not an impressive feat for “The Blair Witch Project” co-director Daniel Myrick. At least the new film by his “Witch” partner, Eduardo Sanchez, was chosen for the latest “Ghost House Underground” collection.

The Objective was released on DVD on October 13th, 2009.

Photo credit: IFC Films

But while Sanchez’s “Seventh Moon” was a boring misfire, Myrick »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Wartime With 'Hurt Locker' Writer Mark Boal

20 October 2009 12:09 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Steve Pond

Mark Boal has been talking about “The Hurt Locker” for months now, and he’d really like to get back to work on his new screenplay. But when you’ve written (and co-produced) one of the best movies of the year -- a tense, wrenching Kathryn Bigelow-directed action drama that came out in June but will clearly be in the thick of the awards race into next year -- there’s always more work to do.

So Boal, a mid-30s journalist who covered conflict and culture for Rolling Stone, Playboy and the New York Times before writing the screenplays to “Hurt Locker&... »

- Steve Pond

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The avatar of James Cameron is exposed by The New Yorker

20 October 2009 8:08 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

I had a moment wondering whether I should file this story about the man making Avatar under "film" or "celebrity" until I came to the realization that, when you're talking about the unstoppable juggernaut that is James Cameron, you file it underneath the category that he tells you to file it under.

We're two months out from the release of Cameron's Avatar, which some are calling the world's most expensive video game clip ever made. The New Yorker magazine's Dana Goodyear has published an article about the man whose creative vision is costing 20th Century Fox upwards of $300 million dollars to realize (a budget that Fox has never confirmed but that is whispered as being the minimum cost for Avatar.) And if you thought that time had mellowed the man whose legendary perfectionism on the sets of The Abyss, True Lies and Titanic have become the ghost stories whispered to »

- Patrick Sauriol

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Nominees of 2009 Gotham Awards Announced

20 October 2009 12:01 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

On Monday, October 19, the Independent Filmmaker Project has announced the nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, unraveling the dominance of "The Hurt Locker" and "Big Fan". Both feature films received the most nominations with three gongs each, and will battle it out in two categories, Best Feature and Breakthrough Actor.

In the Best Feature category, the two are up against Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka", Sebastian Silva's "The Maid" and the Coen brothers' "A Serious Man". As for the actor title, "Hurt Locker" enlisted Jeremy Renner and "Big Fan" put Patton Oswalt in competition with Ben Foster, Catalina Saavedra and Soulemane Sy Savane.

The third nod "Hurt Locker" collected is for Best Ensemble Performance, placing it to compete against "Adventureland" and "Cold Souls" among other movies. Meanwhile, "Big Fan" lands its third nomination for its director Robert Siegel. In the particular category, Siegel is listed against Cruz Angeles, »

- AceShowbiz.com

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