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Live Oscar Bait

This year’s Oscars are still two weeks away, but Variety is so bored with the race that Justin Chang is already sticking his finger into the air to see which way the winds are blowing for 2008.
Basically this means he lists all the projects for 2008 involving previous nominees or winners.
For an idea of how successful [...]

Eisner: The strike is over. Finke: Not so fast.

Regarding the ongoing WGA strike, former Disney Mouseketyrant Michael Eisner told CNBC that “A deal has been made, and they’ll be back to work very soon.”
On the other hand, Nikki Finke points out that the language of the agreement hasn’t been drafted and the membership still hasn’t voted on it. Finke’s line seems to be that, until [...]

LiC Goes to 11: It’s one louder, isn’t it?

This is apropos of absolutely nothing, but due to a miscalculation last week by one of the Living in Cinema math monkeys, the tie in the Top 10 readers poll temporarily appeared to be in the 10th spot instead of the 9th which would’ve led to a Top 10 list of eleven movies. I was [...]

Coming February 13th…

O.K., it’s not the ultimate in alien terror,
but it’ll do until the alien terror gets here.

Weekend Forecast: 2/8/08

Israel’s The Band’s Visit
Just in time for your movie-watching weekend, it’s another Weekend Forecast. Here are this week’s wide releases: 

Fool’s Gold. It’s Romancing the Stoner starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. How long ago did Kate burn through all the good will she earned for Almost Famous? Was it gone by Le Divorce or was [...]