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Quiz: The money behind Oscar 2013 nominees
Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...
Tags: The King's Speech (movie), Entertainment, Google Inc., Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Entertainment Events
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Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: Memento (movie), Entertainment, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Entertainment Events
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Oscar predictions: Vegas lays odds, and the best bet goes to ...
Are you feeling certain, like most, that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the lead actor Oscar on Sunday for his title turn in "Lincoln"? If you want to put some money behind that belief, you can, but, given his sure-shot status, you'd better be...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Jeff Bridges, Amour (movie)
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Oscars 2013: Here's what to look for on Oscar night [video chat]
With the 85th Academy Awards set for Sunday night, the question on many's minds is whether "Argo," Ben Affleck's drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis, will cap off its awards season run with a best picture win. But there are many other things to...
Tags: Octavia Spencer, Entertainment Events, Christopher Plummer, Amour (movie), Les Miserables (musical)
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Dining guide: Oscars 2013 viewing parties and specials
Watch the Oscars on your couch again this year, or get out for some Champagne and oysters, or chips and guacamole, or a three-course dinner with wagyu beef and Dover sole? If you're thinking the latter, here are some options, including free pizza:Â ...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Chocolate Cake, Ice Cream, Restaurants
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Oscar predictions 2013: Calling the visual crafts awards
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He looked at the shorts categories here and the sound races here. Now he looks...Tags: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Prometheus (movie), Robert Richardson, Entertainment, Anna Karenina (movie)
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Ang Lee, Les Miserables (movie), Cloud Atlas (movie)
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Death comes to town in "Malaria"
Every once in a while, you come across a storyteller that really knows how to dazzle you. Last night my fellow geek journo Marc Bernardin shared a link this this video on Twitter with the following description: "I don't know what to call this short film,...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Malaria
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'Django Unchained' is Tarantino, undisciplined ★★
In "Django Unchained," which has its moments of devilish glee in and among dubious wallows in numbing slaughter, writer-director-trash compactor Quentin Tarantino delivers a mashup of several hundred of his favorite movies, all hanging, like barnacles,...
Tags: Franco Nero, Kerry Washington, Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ku Klux Klan
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First Step May Be Realizing We're In Love With Violence
The Hartford CourantHow can we make sure that violence always feels real — truly real — to us? This is the question that underlies so many of the questions we are asking about violence today in the aftermath of the horror of Newtown. When we ask, "Are violent...Tags: Suicide, Quentin Tarantino, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Pakistan
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What to expect from Seth MacFarlane's debut outing as Oscar host
A year after Billy Crystal helmed the Oscars for approximately the 40 millionth time, hosting duties fall to “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, who’s directed a grand total of one movie and had a minor role alongside Dwayne Johnson...
Tags: Entertainment, Quentin Tarantino, Entertainment Events, Microsoft Corporation, Jack Black
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‘Saturday Night Live’: It might have been better in German
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThis weekend's “Saturday Night Live” presented Alabama Shakes, a thrilling musical guest. Unfortunately, the NBC series delivered one of its weakest episodes this season. The writers continually let down Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz, the...
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