Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
I was digging under the cushions of my couch and I found some awards that went down over the weekend! Imagine that.
Art Director’s Guild
Period Film: Sherlock Holmes
Fantasy: Avatar
Contemporary: The Hurt Locker
American Cinema Editors
Drama: The Hurt Locker
Comedy: The Hangover
Documentary: The Cove
The Muriels:
Best Web-Based Criticism (Muriel voters ineligible): Glenn Kenny, Some Came Running
Best Body of Work 2009: [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Catching up with TYSON as DAYBREAKERS and YOUTH IN REVOLT disappoint. Meanwhile, AVATAR keeps rolling.
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Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
As AVATAR crosses $1 billion worldwide in just 17 days, is TITANIC’S $1.84 billion within reach?
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Posted on December 29th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Action on the movie front is reduced to a crawl between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and it leaves my brain open to having songs like the above stuck in it. I don’t want to go quietly insane by myself, so I’m sharing it with you. Enjoy!
Elsewhere, things are so slow that folks are posting [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
I hope you loved Avatar because there aren’t going to be many places to hide from it between now and March 7 when it wins multiple Oscars.
With pretty unanimous praise from the top critics (I wish I had some of whatever was in the Kool-Aid they drank when they watched this thing last week), general [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
James Cameron’s AVATAR takes a step forward in 3D visuals, but a step backward in 2D storytelling
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Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Avatar will be sequelized. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Here’s I SEE YOU, Leona Lewis’ artificially heartfelt single for James Cameron’s AVATAR. Ugh. The fan boys will have a high time crapping on this one
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Marketers often tailor trailers to play to specific audiences, but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the line drawn so clearly and distinctly as in these two recent Avatar TV spots. One of them played during The World Series and the other one played on kids’ network Nickelodeon. See if you can tell which one [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
20th Century Fox is hoping to get the word about about AVATAR in a big way during Fox NFL Sunday this weekend.
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