Avatar, Hurt Locker Lead 82nd Oscar Nominations
Get excited! The nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were just announced, with a cascade of mostly foregone conclusions rolling over the cliffs at the Samuel…
Freebie Sells
The microbudget dramedy The Freebie was officially the last deal of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, with Katie Aselton's feature debut closing a deal with Phase 4 Films…
6 Snubs and Surprises to Expect From This Year's Oscar Nominations
After two or three months of observing the generally inert culture around the 2009 Oscar race, it's not too difficult to predict who or what will remain standing when…
Transformers 2, Land of the Lost Stink Up Razzie Nominations
Despite Movieline's best attempts to parse and/or salvage each film, the mega-hit Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the mega-flop Land of the Lost led the crop of…
New Why Did I Get Married, Too? Trailer: Still Crazy After All These Months
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry have unveiled the final trailer for their sequel to the director's hit Why Did I Get Married?, cannily (if nonsensically) entitled Why Did I…
Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar Odds Spike with Big DGA Win
Talk about peaking at the right time: Days after The Hurt Locker took home the Producers Guild of America prize for Best Picture, helmer Kathryn Bigelow hit the jackpot…
Hollywood Ink: Rhapsody in Quinto
· Zachary Quinto is said to top the list of candidates to play George Gershwin in a forthcoming biopic of the composer; upping the stakes is the likelihood that Steven…
Friday Box Office: Waning Avatar Clings to First
As January winds down, so, too, does Avatar's box-office momentum -- not enough to cost the blockbuster first place in the weekend sweepstakes, but quite possibly enough…
Dance! Dance! Dance!
Altitude sickness, sleep deprivation, burning eyes, one broken computer and a few extra pounds aside, our Sundance orbit this week resulted in one of the most sweeping…
And the Sundance Audience Award Goes to... Our Sponsors
Please find herewith a grateful shout-out to all our sponsors during Sundance Week, without whom your festival experience as a reader would largely have relied on…
Say Whaaaa? Sarandon Spanks, Murphy Lecters and More of the Week's Absurdities
It's that time again, dear reader: Time to break out the mic, scan the headlines and join together in another rousing chorus of Say Whaaaa? We found several of this…
Meet Zeina Durra, Sundance's Most Fascinating Filmmaker
From its lengthy introductory shot of the nude protagonist fussily mixing feminism, art and vanity to a cryptic, haunting closing shot I shouldn't spoil, a number of…
Hollywood Ink: Miramax is Dead. Long Live Miramax!
· Despite the obituaries and condolence notes making their ways around the industry this morning, surely nobody actually believes Miramax Films -- which shuttered its…
Attractions: We Know the Feeling, Mel
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or acutely nauseating at the movies. This week, an old pal of the box office…
Fockers Bumped, Pilgrim Locked
The new-ish Universal regime has pushed Little Fockers out of summer blockbuster season and into the holiday frame, announcing a new Dec. 22 release date for one of its…
