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Move Over, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale Wants to Make an ‘Everest’ Movie Too
In a movie climate that’s mostly concerned with alien invasions and superhero showdowns, we haven’t gotten a good, old-fashioned man vs. nature disaster movie in a while. So, in tribute to the summer...
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Rupert Wyatt Might Wrangle Denzel Washington For ‘The Equalizer’
The Equalizer was originally one of those cheesy action shows from the ’80s: think MacGyver or The A-Team. It starred Edward Woodward as an ex-CIA operative who had quit the company and was living out...
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Justified: Raylan May Partake in a ‘Money Trap’ and Boyd and Ava Swing!
On the latest Justified, we learned that real men can enjoy an ice cream cone while they drive (Raylan)… but not drink red margaritas (Boyd). This piece of information is, of course, contingent on...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Production Design
It’s got a new name! Best Art Direction is now Best Production Design, in keeping with the equivalent change of the Academy branch. Of course, the name change doesn’t have any practical impact on the...
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‘Kiss of the Damned’ Trailer Makes Blood Sucking Sexy Again
Kiss of the Damned looks like a daytime soap opera graduated, lived in its parents’ basement for a few years and decided the only career it needed was doing body shots at a dank nightclub. Whether...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Cinematography
Cinematography, like many technical awards, is an incredibly difficult art form requiring years of experience, an encyclopedic knowledge of light and color, and an impossible ability to adapt to an...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Oscar Winning Directors
You know how sometimes your favorite series will do a clip show, or how a popular radio broadcast might replay old segments that tie-in thematically in order to take a vacation? Well, I’m using the...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects. Over the years, this award has been called a number of things. In 1928, it was given as the award for Best Engineering Effects to the World War I flying drama Wings. It has...
View ArticleSFotD: Oscar Winner ‘The Wrong Trousers’ is Animated Madcap Perfection
Why Watch? There is never a wrong time to enjoy some Wallace & Gromit. This particular short, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1993, is especially good for walkies. Aardman Animation...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Film Editing
Just yesterday, word spread about a new iPad app that will offer professionals and hobbyists alike around 90% of the tools that an editor would use on a blockbuster movie. It’s an exciting...
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David O. Russell to Hit the Jennifer Lawrence Hat Trick With ‘The Ends of the...
Director David O. Russell hasn’t even found a new title for his next project, the formerly named American Bullshit, yet, and already he’s hashing out what he’s going to be working on next. According...
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Shane Acker Scares Up Another Animated Outing With Adaptation of ‘Beasts of...
Though Shane Acker hasn’t made a movie since the 2009 adaptation of his own short film, 9, the filmmaker has been steadily lining up new animation projects that have yet to come to fruition just yet....
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’6 Souls’ Trailer Pits Julianne Moore vs. Satan In a Battle of Redheads
Co-directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s 6 Souls was filmed all the way back in 2009, so it’s been sitting on the shelf without U.S. distribution for quite a while now. It’s highly unlikely that’s...
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Weirdly, Justin Lin Doesn’t Just Want to Do ‘Fast and Furious’ Movies Now,...
Much as we’d like for director Justin Lin to just keep churning out Fast and Furious films forever and ever, the filmmaker appears to have a hankering for a some slightly different fare. Deadline...
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Everyone Is Exclusively Serious In These New ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Images
It’s quite serious. That’s the one thing that FilmDistrict seems to want you to know based on these new images from Olympus Has Fallen, released exclusively to Film School Rejects this morning. It’s...
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‘Dark Skies’ Star Keri Russell Talks Alien Invasion, ‘The Americans,’ and a...
Keri Russell became a pop cultural fixture in 1998, when she starred as the title character on Felicity, perhaps one of TV’s finest coming-of-age dramas. So much the pop cultural fixture, there was an...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Foreign Language Film
More so than every other category at the Academy Awards, the winners of the Best Foreign Language category are rarely the actual best film. That’s due as much to the Academy’s voters as it is to the...
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Dying Hard: Will Hollywood Action Movies Evolve or Become Extinct?
In the summer of 2002, an action film was released that declared itself a new kind of spy movie. It said goodbye to the archaic days of Pierce Brosnan’s tired, nostalgia-mining James Bond in favor of...
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20 Things We Learned From the ‘Argo’ Commentary
Ben Affleck‘s Argo is probably going to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards this coming Sunday, but even if it somehow loses out to Lincoln or Zero Dark Thirty the film remains a tremendous...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Documentary Feature
At first, it seems like this is an odd year for Best Documentary Feature. A lot of the early favorites weren’t nominated, and some of them didn’t even make the shortlist. I’m thinking of Central Park...
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