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'Life of Pi' wins two Motion Picture Sound Editor Awards
"Life of Pi" won two awards Sunday evening at the 60th Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards. The adventure fable, which is nominated for 11 Academy Awards, won for sound editing: music in a feature film and sound editing: dialogue and ADR...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music, Les Miserables (movie), Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Last Call at the Oasis (movie)
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Oscars and American history: True, or true enough?
A modest proposal: Movies exploring some aspect of American history, such as “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” should leave off the “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events”...
Tags: Kathryn Bigelow, Alan Arkin, Argo (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), John Goodman
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Judge approves interim loan for Rhythm & Hues
A federal judge approved a $17-million loan from two movie studios to keep the lights on at troubled Rhythm & Hues, the award-winning visual effects company that worked on the Oscar-nominated “Life of Pi.” Rhythm & Hues, based in El Segundo,...
Tags: Malaysia, Job Layoffs, Trials, Unemployment, Labor Disputes
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Check It Out: Reading up before the Oscars
On Feb. 24, the 85th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre in Hollywood. The show has grown considerably from its humble origins in 1929 as a private banquet for 270 guests at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. This...Tags: George Stevens Jr., Services and Shopping, Argo (movie), ABC (tv network), Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Rhythm & Hues to file for bankruptcy protection
The award-winning visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues, considered one of the industry's leaders, is laying off 200 employees as it files for bankruptcy protection, sources close to the studio said. The layoffs come as the L.A. company, which worked...
Tags: India, Malaysia, Job Layoffs, United Kingdom, Unemployment
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Case of the blues for Rhythm & Hues! Starz and Sony renew vows.
After the coffee. Before getting my own output deal with Starz. The Skinny: If I knew the pope was stepping down, I would have gotten my resume together. It's never too late for a career shift, right? Tuesday's headlines include the challenges that...
Tags: Major League Baseball, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., The Walt Disney Co., Spring Training, Viacom Inc.
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'Skyfall's' Deakins wins ASC: Will overdue Oscar come his way?
Go to Roger Deakins' IMDB page and you'll see that the celebrated cinematographer has won 65 awards. And IMDB hasn't yet updated the page to include Sunday night's victory at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards, where he took the top prize for...Tags: Randy Newman, Entertainment Events, No Country for Old Men (movie), The Big Lebowski (movie), Revolutionary Road (movie)
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'Argo' wins USC Libraries Scripter Award for writing
"Argo" continues to rack up prizes: On Saturday evening, Ben Affleck's drama set during the Iranian hostage crisis picked up the 25th annual Scripter Award, which honors the best adapted screenplay, as well as the author of the material on which it was...Tags: Flight (movie), Golden Globe Awards, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Argo (movie), The Descendants (movie)
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Big names tout kudos pics: Obama, Clinton, Carter and more endorse pics this Oscar season
VarietyPoliticians scramble to earn celebrity endorsements, but the situation is reversed this Oscar season, as Hollywood seeks the nod from the political elite. If they weren't blatantly saying "go see this film," they have helped elevate the profile of...Tags: Daniel Day-Lewis, Golden Globe Awards, U.S. Senate, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Argo (movie)
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Oscar's burning questions: Could 'Argo' win best picture but little else?
VarietyThe burning question for this year's Academy Awards has changed. It had been "How can 'Argo' win best picture without a director nomination for Ben Affleck?"; now it's "Where did all that early Oscar support for 'Lincoln' come from -- and how much of it...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Golden Globe Awards, Christoph Waltz, Robert De Niro, The Departed (movie)
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'Warm Bodies' heats up box office with $20 million
NEW YORK (AP) — The love-struck zombies of "Warm Bodies" swarmed the box office on Super Bowl weekend with a $20 million opening. On a weekend that Hollywood largely punts to football, the PG-13 film from Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment easily...
Tags: Flight (movie), Services and Shopping, A Good Day to Die Hard (movie), Miley Cyrus, Al Pacino
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40th Annie Award nominees and winners list
Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" was named best animated film of 2012 at the 40th Annie Awards on Saturday evening at UCLA's Royce Hall. Rich Moore also was named best director for the animated comedy about a video game villain who dreams of being a hero, and ...
Tags: Piracy, Religious Festivals, Halloween, Archer (tv program), Adam Young
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