Ahh… Oscar Season
Six short months from now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hold the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony. It’s fitting then that this official end of summer is also the official start of Oscar season. Yes, now that the summer is over, the grown-ups can enjoy the cinemas again. We’re already getting a taste of things to come with the Venice and Telluride film festivals underway. Toronto starts in just three days. The buzz is certainly building. So before we go into buzz overdrive, I though I’d post my first Academy Awards predictions of the 2009-2010 Oscar season. Of course, the yea-round Oscar watching that goes on these days means some pictures are already on there way to Oscar. What struck me as I put together my predictions is that this year there’s a chance that...
Read MoreMad Man Preview: Season 3, Episode 4 – The Arrangements
Unlike a certain show on HBO, Mad Men is new this Sunday. Those guys (and Peggy) at Sterling Cooper just don’t stop working. So what’s in store for our mad men? From TV.com: A new wealthy client is excited to be working with the firm. Elsewhere, Don has another run-in with his father-in-law and Peggy looks for a new roommate. Mad Men airs Sundays at 10/9c on...
Read MoreTyler Perry to adapt ‘For Colored Girls’ – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Lionsgate’s cash cow Tyler Perry is set to write, direct, and produce an adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 stage play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. The film will begin shooting in November for a planned 2010 release. (Variety) In Other News: Disney has set the release date for Tron Legacy, putting the sequel up against The Green Hornet on Dec. 17, 2010. (Variety) Opening Today: Extract Gamer All About Steve...
Read MoreGuy Ritchie set for Lobo – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Warner Bros. must be pretty happy with what they’ve seen of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. The studio has now hired Ritchie to direct an adaptation of the DC Comics character Lobo. (THR) In Other News: The U.K. drama series Prime Suspect is getting an American makeover. NBC is planning to adapt the British detective program, which starred Oscar and Emmy winner Helen Mirren, for the States. (Variety) Another threequel for Martin Lawrence? After news broke that Bad Boys 3 is in the works, Fox has announced that it is planning a Big Momma’s House 3. Truthfully, I’m more excited about Momma. (Variety) Jeff Foxworthy will voice Babe the Blue Ox in an upcoming animated retelling of the Paul Bunyan story titled Bunyan & Babe. (THR)...
Read MoreFavreau to direct ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Jon Favreau has lined up his next directing gig, which should be a total geek-gasm. The Iron Man helmer will direct his Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr., in Cowboys & Aliens, a comic book adaptation for DreamWorks. Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are executive producing and are also working on the script with Lost producer Damon Lindelof. (THR) In Other News: HBO has given the greenlight to Martin Scorsese’s drama series Boardwalk Empire. (Variety) Sony Picture Classics will distribute Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs in the U.S. The film will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 15. (Variety)...
Read MoreRecord Setting Summer Box Office Already – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: The Summer of 2009 may not have had a Dark Knight, but it still turned out to be the biggest summer ever at the domestic box office. Even before Labor Day weekend, $4.17 billion dollars were brought in, beating the previous record from 2007 of $4.16 billion. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in the most money of any film this summer with a domestic gross of $399 million. Now the question is: Will this be the first $10 billion year at the box office? All signs point to yes. (Variety) In Other News: Oscar’s 10 Best Picture nominees will be voted on in a different way this year. Scrapping the previous just pick your fave voting style, the Academy has opted for a preferential voting system. Voters will rank their choices 1 through 10, just as...
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