Best in film in 2009: BAFTA Award nominees, long list
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has released the long list of the nominees for this year’s Orange British Film Academy Film Awards, the BAFTAs. The short list will be announced on January 21.
Here are the nominees:
BEST FILM
Avatar
District 9
An Education
Gran Torino
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Moon
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Road
A [...]
Best in film in 2009: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association released the list of the top 10 films in 2009 and their top picks across the individual categories. Here they are:
BEST FILM
Up in the Air
TOP 10 FILMS IN 2009
Up in the Air
The Hurt Locker
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Up
An Education
A Serious Man
Inglourious Basterds
District 9
Avatar
The Fantastic [...]
The Dark Knight breaks midnight showings record
The Dark Knight is off to a great start. The Batman sequel premiered yesterday and immediately broke its first record, the one for a 12:01 a.m. film opening. The movie earned $18,489,000 at the box office from midnight showings alone, as Warner Bros’ Domestic Distribution president Dan Fellman reports.
Better yet, it is currently rated as [...]
The Dark Knight makes motion picture history in IMAX theatres on July 18th
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the studio’s highly anticipated and technologically unprecedented summer movie, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, and directed by Christopher Nolan, will open in a record 94 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on July 18th in conjunction with the film’s wide release. The film will also [...]
