Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Posts
David Brown, a theater and film producer who brought hits like "Jaws" and "The Sting" to the big screen, has died. He was 93.
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Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Gabourey Sidibe, and Carey Mulligan talk about how to get over nerves, being typecast, how the Internet has changed fame, and the challenges of portraying real people on screen.
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Tiger Woods’ troubles had nothing to do with the toppling of his carefully crafted good-guy image — at least, that’s what musician-turned-pop-culture-pundit John Mayer believes.
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Hollywood's new moms are shaping up faster than ever, but sometimes their motives to get in shape aren't exactly pure.
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At the hospital over the past few days to visit her "Nana," who had a tumor removed Jan. 29, Jessica Simpson has been passing the hours admiring the "cute doctors" — and it looks like they are returning the attention.
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Justin Mentell, 27, was killed when his car went down an embankment in Wisconsin and hit two trees.
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More than 75 mega-stars gathered Monday to re-record the 1985 charity anthem "We are the World" in the same Hollywood recording studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.
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Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Long a popular favorite, Bullock's change of gear in "The Blind Side" has brought her a slew of honors, including a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award.
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As Oscar shoo-ins Mo’Nique, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges and Christoph Waltz all scored their nominations, the real race is in the best picture category.
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The science-fiction sensation and the war-on-terror thriller lead the pack with nine nominations each; Bullock, Bridges, Mo’Nique, Waltz lead acting contenders.
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HBO is developing a biopic of former beauty queen, singer and celebrity pitchwoman Anita Bryant, who is known mostly for her work as an anti-gay activist.
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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to the Dutch film "Winter in Wartime" from High Point Films, the theatrical division of Carey Fitzgerald's London-based High Point Media Group.
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Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Panamanian director Abner Benaim's hit feature "Chance."
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Lakeshore, the production-financing outfit behind the "Underworld" movie series, is readying what it hopes will be its next action-horror franchise, "I, Frankenstein."
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Olivia Wilde is in negotiations to star opposite Daniel Craig in the sci-fi Western "Cowboys & Aliens," which Jon Favreau is directing for DreamWorks Studios.
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AFP - Science-fiction epic "Avatar" and gritty Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" will battle for supremacy at the Oscars after topping the nominations with nine nods each here Tuesday.
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Orlando Bloom will play the lead in "The Good Doctor," an indie drama for which Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons are in negotiations to co-star.
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After 20 years, Sandra Bullock is finally thinking of herself as a good actress. And Hollywood seems to agree.
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In June, when Sid Ganis, then president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made the surprise announcement that Oscar's best picture race would expand to 10 nominees this year, he was flanked by a couple of poster boards listing the 10
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Sony Pictures was the biggest winner of Oscar nominations this year, reaping 18, the most it has scored in many years, if not ever.
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David Brown, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, "Jaws" and "The Sting," has died. He was 93.
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The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the war-on-terror thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for former spouses James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow.
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Germany's award-winning "The White Ribbon," which took the top prize at Cannes last year, will compete with another prize winner, the melancholy Peruvian drama "Milk of Sorrow," and three other films from Israel, Argentina and France for the Oscar for
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North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees:
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Interesting oddities, facts, figures and trivia related to this year's Academy Awards nominees:
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Sandra Bullock may be the front-runner for the best-actress Oscar, but for her, awards season is more about camaraderie than competition with her fellow nominees. Except Meryl Streep.
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In an Oscar year defined by inclusion, fewer movie folks than normal spent nominations morning feeling snubbed.
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Fantasy "Avatar" and war movie "The Hurt Locker" claimed nine Oscar nominations each on Tuesday, including best film, pitting the two against one another as front-runners for the world's highest film honors.
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What they said upon learning of Tuesday's Academy Award nominations:
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Carey Mulligan, the 24-year-old star of "An Education," prepared herself for Oscar nominations in a peculiar way: She watched a film about drug addiction: "Requiem for a Dream."
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