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It feels like a logjam has recently been kicked loose, and we're finally seeing projects reach the screen that have been lingering in development for what seems to be a preposterous amo...
It may not officially be in the main park yet, but Disney's $4.3 billion acquisition of Marvel is about to pay dividends in Downtown Disney. Disney.com announced that Marvel merchandise including T-shirts and to...
Steven Soderbergh has been trying to get the commercial side of his career back on track after a long drought of hits. It didn't work out with Brad Pitt and the baseball drama "Moneyball," but now &quo...
Gina Carano is getting some help for her big screen debut. Director Steven Soderbergh has cast the mixed martial artist in his new action flick "Knockout" and he's recruited three impressive actors to ...
Looking back over the past decade, no awards show gained more credibility in this period than...the Oscars? Yes, it's true. The venerable organization expanded its membership base, got younger (relatively)...
Previous nominations or wins: None.
Pros: His role as a gay man dealing with the death of his longtime lover during the 1960s has already won him the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award. Firth's performance...
It's no exaggeration to proclaim the advent of the new 10 nominations rule has completely changed the Oscar race. Films that wouldn't have had a stone's throw of being seriously considered when there were ...
Head scratcher of a weekend at the box office. Industry tracking showed that the CG animated "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" would win the 3-day frame, but no one expected the Megan Fox horror comedy "Jennif...
Scott Bakula is, by all accounts, a good guy.
Maybe I should capitalize that. A Good Guy. The kind they don't make a ton of, and certainly not the kind you typically encounter interviewing actors. T...
True-life stories rarely make great movies.
Oh, sure, you can probably read me a list of big important Oscar-winning based-on-a-true-story movies without even trying, and I'll happily admit there are exceptions to th...
