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Just in time to help you make those picks in your office Oscar pool, Reelz movie expert Richard Roeper is here with his predictions in all 24 Academy Award categories — including the more obscure sound mixing and best documentary — in one race-to-the-finish clip. After that check out his more detailed looks at the Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories and the odds-on favorites in each.
watch Roeper's Oscar predictions >> Posted 02.23.12 by reelz -
Back by popular demand, Billy Crystal... And our Academy Awards BINGO. Print out a set for your Oscar party and watch as they enliven your living room. Use them as a way to ignore that friend who saw only two movies in 2011 (X-Men: First Class and Harry Potter) yet has an opinion on every movie up for best picture. We can’t guarantee every one of these events will happen, but we have a sneaking suspicion you won’t have much difficulty using these cards for a game of Blackout BINGO.
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The race to the Oscars is now set with big wins for The Help and The Artist at Sunday's Screen Actor Guild Awards. The Help's Viola Davis won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and Octavia Spencer won Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The movie's cast won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
The Artist took home honors for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Jean Dujardin. And continuing his awards streak (and all but securing an Oscar), Christopher Plummer won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Beginners.
Dick Van Dyke presented Mary Tyler Moore with Screen Actors Guild’s highest honor, the 48th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed tribute. Meryl Streep introduced a filmed “In Memoriam” tribute to the actors we have lost in the past year.
Watch full coverage of SAG and DGA in today's Hollywood Dailies, at 5:30 PM ET/ 2:30 PM PT. ReelzChannel is on DirecTV channel 238, Dish Network channel 299, and available on your cable or satellite system.
Read the full list of winners >> Posted 01.30.12 by reelz -
Brad Pitt's been wanting to bring the novel Peace Like a River to the big screen since 2002, when his production company Plan B bought the rights. The story follows an 11-year-old boy suffering from severe asthma as he embarks on a journey with his sister and father across the country in search of his older brother, who was charged with murder.
Production on the movie is now underway, with The Help's writer and director, Tate Taylor, helming the project. Pitt spoke about the movie at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, explaining the delay to Entertainment Weekly.
The first one was The Departed. The second one was this one, and it's just taken awhile for it to gestate and find the right guy to tell it.
Despite Pitt's enthusiasm for producing, don't expect him in the director's chair any time during his career. When asked if this was a possibility, he responded:
Hell no. Not interested. Not my thing.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press was seemingly nostalgic this morning, handing out six nominations to the black-and-white silent movie The Artist. Tying for second place with five Golden Globe nods each are The Help and The Descendants. Top nominees in the TV categories include new shows Homeland (with best actor, actress, and drama series nods) and New Girl.
In one of the funnier moments, Woody Harrelson — who announced the nominations along with Gerard Butler, Sofia Vergara, and Rashida Jones — used the airtime to plug his upcoming police drama. Pausing after reading the best dramatic movie list he said, "Rampart... opens January 27, but I don't see it on the list here."
The 69th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held January 15 and broadcast on NBC. Morgan Freeman is scheduled to receive the Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement Award. Tune in to Hollywood Dailies for full coverage of the upcoming awards show, as well as the full red carpet season.
see the full list of Golden Globe nominations >> Posted 12.15.11 by reelz -
This morning the Screen Actor's Guild announced its nominations for outstanding performances in five movie and eight primetime television categories. The Help led the movie category with four nominations, including outstanding performance by a female actor in a lead role (Viola Davis), two nods for female actor in a supporting role (Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer), and outstanding ensemble cast. The Artist was the next most recognized movie, with three nominations.
On the TV side, Greg Kinnear is up for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his portrayal of JFK in The Kennedys. The other nominees in his category are Laurence Fishburne (Thurgood), Paul Giamatti (Too Big to Fail), Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce), and James Woods (Too Big to Fail).
see the full list of SAG nominees >> Posted 12.14.11 by reelz -
| Title | Weekend | Total | Analysis |
| The Help | $14.3M | $96.6M | Make it three straight for The Help as all potential challengers bomb |
| The Debt | $9.7M | $9.7M | Helen Mirren espionage thriller has highest per-screen average of the weekend |
| Apollo 18 | $8.7M | $8.7M | Brutal reviews ground space flight horror pic |
| Shark Night 3D | $8.6M | $8.6M | Poor-man's Piranha 3D fails with lack of R-rated skin |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $7.8M | $160M | One of the summer's biggest successes still in Top 5 in fifth week |
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| Title | Weekend | Total | Analysis |
| The Help | $20.5M | $71.8M | Relatively low-budget drama ($25M) turning heads as Oscar buzz keeps buzzing |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $16.3M | $133.8M | Easily the most cerebral summer blockbuster still strong after three weeks in release |
| Spy Kids | $12M | $12M | Fourth Spy Kids movie modestly exceeds expectations |
| Conan the Barbarian | $10M | $10M | $10 million opening on a $90 million budget puts Conan remake into "biggest bomb of 2011" running |
| The Smurfs | $8M | $117.7M | In fourth week, blue '80s remnants will not go away. Sequel set for 2013. |
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