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Okay, so the Oscar nominees have already been announced and a lot of these scripts weren’t nominated, but today I have for you three major scripts that were nominated and three of them are the three major scripts from the year. The screenplay for The Social Network has been online for a while, and I have linked to it…

As this year is the debut of our newest feature in RopeofSilicon’s Award Central, the Oscar Oracle competition, we thought we would make the 2005 Golden Globe Awards a little more interesting by taking a look at six major Oscar categories and compare them to their Golden Globe counterparts to see if we can actually use Sunday night’s…

Variety has posted an article discussing New Regency’s upcoming development slate in which it includes a one-line item mentioning Flying Tigers, a film scripted by Valkyrie scribe Christopher McQuarrie with Tom Cruise attached to star. On top of that it mentions the project is on “the immediate horizon.” What Peter Bart’s article fails to mention is Flying Tigers will be directed…

I am not sure how many of you took part in the trailer contest put on by Universal Pictures for their box-office bust Slither, but I think Warner Bros Independent is hoping their little knock-off contest will fare better. I was sent information on this little contest on Friday, but I wanted to put together my…

I recently caught The Cove as part of the Seattle International Film Festival and boy is it a dark little documentary as it centers on a small cove in Japan where the daily slaughter of thousands of dolphins takes place. As you will see in the recently released trailer, the filmmakers had to use some insane tactics…

Paramount Pictures, New Regency and Plan B Entertainment officially announced the cast of Adam McKay‘s The Big Short today and it’s an impressive cast to say the least. Based on Michael Lewis‘ best-seller “The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine” about the housing and credit bubble of the 2000s, the film will star Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt and joining them…

Well folks, it appears the promotion machine for Summer 2009 is about to get started. Universal has debuted the new trailer for Fast and Furious and it appears we are going back to the roots of it all and attacking big rigs only this time the goal is an oil tanker? It appears there are a lot…

I am not a huge Bob Dylan fan so I don’t get the obsessive behavior of most with regard to the artist. However, I am a huge Prince fan and follow most everything the little guy does so I can understand people being infatuated with a musician, but since Dylan isn’t a name that pops…

The first Riddick teaser trailer has arrived as Vin Diesel reprises his role as the antihero Riddick we’ve seen previously in Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. Riddick finds the escaped convict left for dead on a sun-scorched planet he soon finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for…

Winters Goes Smurfing: 84-year-old Jonathan Winters (It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World) is set to provide his voice to that of Papa Smurf in the Columbia Pictures’ The Smufs, the CGI adaptation of the 1981 NBC cartoon, which originates from the 1958 Belgian comic strip. [UGO] Browning is a Beauty: Emily Browning (The Uninvited) gives good reason for…