On Tuesday, the WGA finally put their new contract with the AMPTP to an official vote and it was approved by 93.6% of the membership. This is great news, but unfortunately there are still storm clouds on the horizon and they spell: SAG.
After the WGA pact was a done deal but before it had been made [...]
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First check out the Best Picture Also-Rans, movies that didn’t make the cut but which had vocal support from one of the voters (Mine’s at the bottom).
And finally we come to the Golden Muriel for Best Film. Each of the top 5 get their own moment in the spotlight:
5th place…
4th place…
3rd place…
2nd place…
And the winner [...]
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After 40 years as an independent film studio, New Line Cinema is now little more than a carbuncle on the ass of multimedia behemoth Time Warner.
Over time, while other large indies like Orion, Carolco and Cannon all folded, New Line survived to be purchased by Ted Turner in 1994. When Turner Broadcasting was absorbed by [...]
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We take a passive approach to pimping and whoring here at Living in Cinema, however letting the content speak for itself will only get you so far. The LiC monkeys keep telling me they want to turn it up to eleven and, since things run more smoothly when the monkeys are happy, I’m letting them have their [...]
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Click through for the latest Muriel Award.
Also check out some of the voters chiming in on performances they felt were unfairly overlooked.
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Chop Shop: This week’s best bet, but only if you live in NY
Open wide and say…ZzzzZZzzZzzzz
Semi-Pro. Tired of watching Will Farrell playing clods yet? No? Then this might be the movie for you. This time he’s a player on a basketball team in the soon-to-be defunct ABA in the 70s. I’m guessing lots of leisure [...]
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Melonie Diaz and Jack Black on the set of King Kong in Be Kind Rewind
Imagine a world where it is accepted fact that legendary Jazz pianist Fats Waller was born in Passaic, New Jersey instead of Greenwich Village and that a video store operating in the tenement where Waller supposedly lived could survive well into the [...]
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50th Anniversary Award: The Seventh Seal
25th Anniversary Award: Blade Runner
10th Anniversary Award: Boogie Nights
Cinematic Breakthrough: Ben Affleck – Director, Gone Baby Gone
Best Body of Work: Josh Brolin – Actor, No Country for Old Men / Grindhouse / American Gangster / In the Valley of Elah
Ensemble: No Country for Old Men
Music: Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
Cinematography: [...]
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We’re back from Portland and Muriel keeps on trucking with the Best Director award.
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Mr. Nicholas Plowman correctly predicted 17 of 24 Oscar winners in the informal LiC Oscar Pick ‘Em contest so if he ever finds himself in the same city as me, I owe him a movie.
You may recall that Nick also won the Oscar nominees contest of a month ago. Congratulations Nick! Next year I’m copying [...]
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