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1.27.2011

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World: 7/24/2010


That’s the day Oscar-winning director Kevin McDonald (Last King of Scotland) and Hollywood icon Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) asked the people of the world to document what they did that day and send their video chronicles to YouTube. The result? More than 80,000 submissions from 192 countries. The basis for the world’s biggest documentary. McDonald and team edited it down to about 90 minutes. That crowdsourced final cut debuted tonight at Sundance. Early reports: Reaction among festivalgoers ranged from hilarity to unabashed weeping. Watch the teaser below. The actual film will be live-streamed again (outside the United States) on YouTube on Friday at 7 p.m. in your time zone. Wherever your time zone is on this blue jewel of the planet we call home. 


  
Photo: Life in a Day poster © 2011 Scott Free, et al.

1.26.2011

1.25.2011

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Speech balloon


So much for the smart money: The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper’s study of the personal agonies of King George VI, wins 12 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, eclipsing early (and all-but-anointed) favorite The Social Network, which won eight nominations. A surprise: The Coens’ True Grit picked up 10 nods.


The full nominees’ list (Go.com)
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The King's Speech poster: © 2010 The Weinstein Company
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Oscars: Suddenly, it’s a race


The 2011 Oscar derby may not be the Facebook cakewalk to the stage we’ve been led to believe. That’s the assessment and intelligence of Steve Pond at TheWrap, who thinks The Social Network could be a victim of some backlash, and its own phenomenal early success. Presumed outliers The King’s Speech and The Fighter are thought to be gaining. The big winners on Feb. 27th may come down to demographics: older vs. younger. Check out Pond’s analysis in TheWrap

   

Image credit: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

1.23.2011

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1.20.2011

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Park City: Sundance tones it down
Amid the frenzy of cineastes elbow to elbow in a very small Utah town, the 2011 edition of the Sundance Film Festival kicks off tonight. Quality matters, but this year’s model is about tweaking expectations of big payouts for indie films. In a phrase: Downsize Me. Buyers are looking for quality with a cold eye on the bottom line. Says one producer: “The $3-million-budgeted movies of five years ago are the under-$1-million movies of today.” Brooks Barnes of The New York Times explains.
You gotta have faith: A small but potent number of films to be screened at Sundance will explore religion and spirituality. Piet Levy of Religion News Service checks in.
More on Sundance in Movies
Photo: Eric Tsou/Sundance Film Festival

1.17.2011

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Social, Fighter top Globes


On Sunday, the social network called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestowed top honors on a movie about another one. The Social Network won motion-picture awards for Best Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills. The Fighter, the gritty Mark Wahlberg boxing drama, won for Best Supporting Actor and Actress (Christian Bale and Melissa Leo). In television, cable programming dominated — Boardwalk Empire won for best dramatic series, while stars from Sons of Anarchy and The Big C won in other categories — but broadcasters CBS (The Big Bang Theory) and Fox (Glee) didn’t leave empty-handed. See the full list in Movies                                                                            
Photo: Hollywood Foreign Press Association via The Huffington Post

1.15.2011

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All in for Lights Out


Holt McCallany shines as Patrick (Lights) Leary, a former heavyweight champion grappling with his inner demons, juggling a family, a mansion he can't afford, and a gnawing sense of his own mortality. If the premiere is any indication of what’s coming when the regular season starts Tuesday on FX, Lights Out is already a contender. More in Television.

Photo: FX Networks

1.11.2011

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Michael Douglas bounces back


After receiving a provisional clean bill of health from his doctors, the Oscar-winning actor did an interview with TODAY's Matt Lauer, proclaiming victory over stage-four throat cancer, with the help of rigorous chemo and radiation. But "it's not total euphoria," he said. Here's excerpts from the interview, which airs on Dateline NBC  on Jan. 23. 


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1.09.2011

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The Cape swoops in


It could be the midseason’s biggest infectious, guilty pleasure or the midseason’s most extravagant bomb. Either way, NBC is betting big on The Cape to shake us from winter doldrums. The superhero fantasy drama stars David Lyons as Vince Faraday, a cop framed and believed dead. Keith David is Max Malini, his mentor, who retrains him and arms him for battle in a crime-ridden “Palm City.” It debuts tonight on the Peacock, with an encore on Monday night.



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1.07.2011

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January 7, so soon? Where did the time go? The year’s just started and we’re already behind.

What's up? In the short term, there’s the Consumer Electronics Show, in full swing through Sunday in Las Vegas. And what goes on there won’t stay there; the word’s out that the tablet is the CES object of the moment (like we couldn’t have guessed that):

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.



This slow movie weekend, Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman (he of FX’s Sons of Anarchy) star in Season of the Witch, a supernatural actioner directed by Dominic Sena. It opens Friday. Not much buzz on this Crusader-era epic, but hey, it’s only January.



Next Tuesday, Southland continues its just-started third season,  on TNT. The L.A. ensemble police series created by Ann Biderman (Public Enemies) won a well-deserved new life after being offed by NBC. Here’s a preview of Tuesday’s new episode:






Image credit: Fireworks: via mirror.co.uk

1.04.2011

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David Gerber. Casey Johnson. Tony Clarke. Donal Donnelly. Art Clokey. Ed Thigpen. Erich Segal. Robert (Squirrel) Lester. Louis Auchincloss. J.D. Salinger. Aaron Ruben. Sir John Dankworth. Alexander McQueen. Doug Feiger. Lionel Jeffries. Steffi Sidney. Tom (T-Bone) Wolk. 



Barry Hannah. Big Tiny Little. Lolly Vegas. Corey Haim. Jerry Adler. Jean Ferrat. Junior Collins. Peter Graves. Alex Chilton. Brownie Ledbetter. Marva Wright. Jim Marshall. Herb Ellis. June Havoc. Elliot Willensky. David Mills. Ronnie James Dio. Dennis Hopper. Gary Coleman. Ali-Ollie Woodson. Rue McClanahan. Marvin Isley. Malcolm McLaren. Harold Dow.

Mikhail Roshchin. Robert Goodnough. David M. Bailey. Eddie Platt. Roy Ward Baker. Colette Renard. Solomon Burke. Barbara Billingsley. Tom Winslow. Leo Cullum. Gregory Isaacs. Hotep Idris Galeta. Michelle Nicastro. Shirley Verrett. Amos Lavi. Gloria Stuart. Leslie Nielsen. Blake Edwards. Billy Taylor.

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