Things just ain't the same. At least, that's the mantra for studios attempting to play best picture game this year. After two years of expanded play after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in...
Things just ain't the same. At least, that's the mantra for studios attempting to play the best picture game this year. After two years of expanded play following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci...
Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" is still one of the great unknowns of the season. Touchstone Pictures smartly stirred some mid-summer buzz by dropping a teaser trailer for the film in advance of the Oscar sea...
Linked in today's round-up is a piece from Nathaniel Rogers about the fact that there are simply no locks for Oscar in the earliest stages, certainly not for films that are still unseen. Though it wasn't his...
While she's never quite descended to "whatever happened to..." levels of invisibility, it's certainly been a quiet couple of years for Emily Watson. The London-born actress's film career started relatively l...
The recently announced track listing for the soundtrack to "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1" will give fans a peek at what music Edward, Bella and Jacob are digging these days.
While Bruno Mars ...
One of the great unknowns of the season still is Steven Spielberg's "War Horse." Having already bowed a trailer soaked in Oscar bait (which some accused of being incredibly forced) in the summer, t...
Like politics or business, the best picture race is dictated and many times identified by trends. One year it can be all the contenders opening in December. Another year it's about debuting in October for the lo...
Welcome back. Today marks the beginning of the sixth year of Tech Support here at In Contention. I am delighted about the new collaboration with HitFix, which will doubtless result in even more comprehensive awards co...
Back in the summer I called the upcoming Oscar season, in all likelihood, "The Year of The Beard." More than any other year I can recall, 2011 seems to be slathered with the presence and influenc...
