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The other day I was talking to a documentary filmmaker I admire quite a bit and mentioned how I thought Searching For Sugar Man was a lock for Best Documentary in this year’s Oscar race. He cocked his head and gave me a funny look. “Do you really think so?” he asked, pointing out how the viewer doesn’t really…

All this recent talk about Watchmen had journalists forgetting to ask Zack Snyder about anything else during the press rounds for his upcoming film 300 but it seems Snyder has a little something else up his sleeve. The Hollywood Reporter tells us the director has set up his first project with Warner Bros. Pictures under his new deal with the studio and…

This time of year most everyone in the film world is talking about Oscar contenders, movies like Boyhood, Birdman, and Selma, which get more press each week as awards season marches on. However, I’m here today to provide a recommendation for a film you likely haven’t heard of, which you can check out right now on VOD. The film is called Layover,…

I would traditionally ignore a story regarding a book getting purchased for film rights, but this one came through as Breaking News from Variety and involves some big names and a blockbuster idea as Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to “Angelology” the first novel by Danielle Trussoni. The interest in the project was apparently sparked once…

#1The Artist Updated (1/20/12 at 9:56 AM): With wins at the Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards, The Artist has definitely made the leap toward being the Best Picture front-runner, but I don’t see it as far ahead as some others. Updated (12/19/11 at 12:59 PM): Since the last time I updated my comments here The Artist has been named the best film of the…

As we inch ever so close to the release of Paramount / DreamWorks’ Transformers the excitement level continues to grow. One thing to take into consideration as a whole new generation will be introduced to the Transformers for what could be the very first time it is important to look back at where these robots in disguise…

It’s a marketing onslaught for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel/Disney; 4/4) as a new poster, new pictures and now a ten second trailer teaser has arrived as the first full trailer will be online tomorrow. After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), aka Captain America, living quietly in…

So now we now Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar will not only be 169 minutes long, but it will yet again be a PG-13 rated film from the director of The Dark Knight trilogy, not that that’s much of a surprise and the rating reason itself isn’t exactly all that exciting. Also in today’s bulletin we have a pair of PG-rated animated…

The Age has new details on the Sex and the City 2 sequel that to this point has had its story details kept mum. Word is “the proposed story line for Samantha [Kim Cattrall] will be her having to downsize her big-spending life after some of her investments get wiped out. You will see her having to survive…

Production Weekly is reporting that writer/director Eli Roth has planned a September shoot for Hostel 2 as the production will make its way to Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Karlovy Vary and other locations around the Czech Republic. Roth told PW, “We’re also going to shoot some other places, like Rome, and kind of expand just a little bit it outside. And if…