Month: January 2009

Oscar nominees announced

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The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced earlier today. Here is the complete list: BEST PICTURE "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Frost/Nixon" "Milk" "The Reader" "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, "Changeling" Melissa Leo, "Frozen River" Meryl Streep, "Doubt" Kate Winslet, "The Reader" BEST ACTOR Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon" Sean Penn, "Milk" Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin [Read more...]

Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins enter Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods

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Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford have signed on to star in The Cabin in the Woods, a new film co-written and produced by Joss Whedon. Very few details about the horror flick are known at this point, but Whitford and Jenkins will reportedly play “white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the titular cabin.” Whedon co-wrote the feature with another familiar face from the Buffy and Angel ‘verse, Drew Goddard, whose credits also include Alias, Lost and Cloverfield. Cabin will be [Read more...]

Korean western leads nominations for Asian Film Awards

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The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society announced the nominees for this year's Asian Film Awards on Wednesday. Korean western The Good, the Bad, the Weird leads the race with eight nominations. The winners will be announced at the AFA ceremony in Hong Kong on March 23. Here is the complete list of the nominees: BEST FILM "Forever Enthralled" "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" "The Rainbow Troops" "Red Cliff" "Tokyo Sonata" BEST DIRECTOR Feng [Read more...]

Visual Effects Society announces VES Awards nominees

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Visual Effects Society has revealed the nominees for this year's VES Awards. Iron Man leads the pack with five nominations, followed by The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cloverfield and Hellboy II: The Golden Army with four nods each. Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jericho and Pushing Daisies were among the shows nominated in the television category. Here are all the VES Awards nominees: OUTSTANDING VISUAL [Read more...]

Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner closes deal with Lionsgate

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AMC's Golden Globe winning series Mad Men has got its showrunner back. After several months of negotiations, Matthew Weiner and Lionsgate TV inked a two-year, seven-figure deal that will keep Weiner on board as showrunner and executive producer of Mad Men. Under the deal he will also develop new projects for the network, including a feature film. Weiner said: "Since the beginning, the show has been a charmed experience, made possible by my partnership with AMC and Lionsgate. I am proud to [Read more...]