Hypocrisy alert! A couple of weeks back, The Daily Beast did a story about how Hollywood studios are slashing star salaries left and right—for reference, they brought up Iron Man 2, for which Scarlett Johansson is earning a “measly” $250,000 to squeeze into latex tights as The Black Widow. It certainly makes sense: in Read More
The best part about the 81st annual Academy Awards on Sunday night—y'know, besides Zac Efron, OMG!—is that once it's over, we'll never have to think about Slumdog Millionaire again. Not to join the obvious chorus of backlashers, but a warmed-over Dickensian fable dressed up to look like a prestige version of a Tony Scott Read More
Fresh off his completely ridiculous snub from the Academy Awards (not that we're still bitter), Christopher Nolan is ready to make another picture. And if you had selected "sequel to The Dark Knight", you lost! The director and his Dark Knight studiomates, Warner Brothers, have agreed to what Variety calls a "whopping seven figure Read More
It's nice to know that even in a crappy year for movies, the Academy Awards can still manage to screw up their nominations. You have to respect that kind of commitment. It is now 24 hours later and we have yet to finish stewing over The Dark Knight's snub in favor of The Reader. How Read More
While receiving a nomination from the Producers Guild of America is a very good sign for a film hoping to land in one of the five Best Picture slots at the Academy Awards, it doesn't necessarily mean all of the nominees announced yesterday should get too comfortable. The last time the PGA nailed the Read More
Looking for an early Christmas present to rip open with the fervor of an 11-year-old? Dig into Julian Sancton's recent post over at Vanity Fair's Oscar blog "Little Gold Men" highlighting the potential nominees for Best Original Score. It's always been one of our favorite categories on the Academy Awards telecast and the options for this year make Read More
It’s the end of the year as we know it, which can only mean one thing: top 10 lists! Now, we can’t lie—we haven’t seen absolutely everything. (We’re still waiting on Gran Torino, Seven Pounds, and a few others. Also, we will never watch Wall-E. Never!) But we did see an awful (awful) lot in Read More
As the song says, this is truly the most wonderful time of the year. There's all the Christmas stuff, natch; but for us, ‘tis the season for recognizing the year in film! What can we say? We love lists and awards! With the New York film critics set to reveal their top choices in a Read More
With it looking more and more likely that The Dark Knight will have a large role in what happens at the Academy Awards, isn't it about time someone caught up with Christopher Nolan? Thankfully the LA Times got to sit down with the director, presumably before everyone there was fired. In the first part Read More
It’s a sad day in Gotham—The Dark Knight has finally fallen. After an unprecedented nine weeks in Manhattan’s box office top ten, Christopher Nolan’s landmark film fell from seventh place to the hinterlands beyond the tenth spot. Though the film did manage to hang on nationally, dropping from seventh to ninth place while pulling in Read More
Ok, so we loved The Dark Knight like everyone else. We saw it at the IMAX at an ungodly hour and all that. And we agree with all the early Oscar blather for Heath Ledger as the Joker, etc. But, just in case anyone missed it, or if certain people might forget it, Warner Bros. Read More
We find it hard to believe that Summer will draw to a close this weekend. Normally we're a bit melancholy at this time of year; it must be the remnants of our youth, when seeing Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day Telethon on Channel 9 meant the school year was just around the corner.
This year Read More
The Observer is starting to get a little weary of all these comic book movies --do we really need when we've got franchises for Batman and Superman? -- but when we caught The Dark Knight opening weekend at the IMAX near Lincoln Square, we couldn't help but get pretty psyched about Zack Snyder's adaptation of Read More
Could it be time for The Dark Knight to step down from number one? Variety thinks so, reporting that the Dreamworks/Paramount big-budget comedy Tropic Thunder, out today, should be able to unseat the Batman prequel-sequel from its long-held top spot fairly handily. It should also beat out Pineapple Express, the Apatow-produced pot comedy Read More
More box office records crumbled as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight continued its vertiginous climb. Heath Ledger's psychotic Joker seduced viewers nationwide to the tune of $75.6 million this weekend, making his movie the country's favorite once again—and by a $45.6 million margin. Here in Gotham's real-world counterpart, The Dark Knight claimed $1.1 million in sales—a Read More
