Mirror and Cache index - Entertainment: Movies
209 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 21:31:37 by amprather | 16 comments
Win yourself a Nobel Prize, and you know you just scored roughly 1.4 million U.S. dollars. Get a
Pulitzer Prize, and you can count on $10,000. But win an Oscar? Your cash prize is more of a
crapshoot. When signing on for films that are possible Oscar contenders, actors often have
award-triggered bonuses built into their contracts that vary
244 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 03:53:50 by bixby1 | 36 comments
Hollywood Reporter - Universal shot out the new trailer for "Robin Hood" today, and it's better than
the previous one with focus on story and character...
288 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 16:27:31 by archivedigger | 92 comments
“Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan, viewed by some as the
Hitchcock of superhero cinema after his two Batman films, is “godfathering” a reboot of the Man
of Steel, acting as producer and mentor to an as-yet-unnamed-director who will be making a movie
based on a story by Nolan and David S. Goyer.
266 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 21:24:58 by ohnoerino | 60 comments
Gary Busey? Bat-shit crazy? No! (He really gets going toward the end)
200 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 20:21:26 by gankige | 33 comments
Taylor Lautner's werewolf abs aren't really his own.
256 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 15:48:01 by HALNINETHOUSAND | 43 comments
Trainspotting scribe John Hodge is attached to write the script.
220 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 19:58:15 by internetisscary | 13 comments
There are plenty of bad commentary tracks out there, but there are plenty of bad movies out there
too; the trick is to find the good ones.
221 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 01:13:44 by RagingReid | 21 comments
Greedo is everything a bounty hunter shouldn't be.
223 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 21:10:47 by Turkman182 | 57 comments
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Boondock Saints as well as the DVD release of Boondock Saints
II: All Saints Day, a few actors from the film: David Della Rocco (Rocco), Bob Marley (Detective
Greenly), and Brian Mahoney (Detective Duffy) joined writer/director Troy Duffy, to discuss the
film’s cult appeal and how awesome their fans are.
230 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 18:30:24 by Mizzy | 86 comments
This was the year the Academy expanded the number of Best Picturecontenders to 10, largely to give
more popular films a chance. YetJames Cameron's Avatar, history's biggest box-office performer,
lostthe top prize to The Hurt Locker, the lowest-grossing movie to winBest Picture in recent times.
Here is why Avatar got left out.
346 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 17:35:25 by openthink | 50 comments
Quentin Tarantino "lost" in the Oscar race -- and now he's being sued by a man who claims Q.T. stole
his concept and character to create 'Kill Bill'...
610 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 18:39:26 by gvoakes | 216 comments
We’re well aware of the old canard “the book is better than the movie.” But, every once in a
while, the movie wins.
321 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 15:31:56 by ChrisSaybo | 32 comments
Unless you’ve been living in the moron cave on Retard Mountain, you’ve probably noticed that
romantic comedies are big business. Movies like The Proposal, The Ugly Truth, that one with Matthew
McConaughey and the treasure; they’re out there earning two and three hundred million dollars.
548 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 01:17:44 by CB810 | 79 comments
Morgan Freeman didn’t deserve his Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing Nelson Mandela in
Invictus. Call it blasphemy if you want, but the Academy simply mailed it in on that one.
487 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 09:11:52 by RoddSerling | 307 comments
'Hurt Locker' overcame several hurdles to win best picture
496 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 21:46:39 by jaybol | 99 comments
Sean Penn's introduction of the Best Actress category was another big "WTF?" moment during the
Oscars last night. Sean Penn's brain is a strange place to be.
379 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 22:56:23 by CB810 | 37 comments
The script follows the downward spiral of a wealthy Chicago family who loses everything and moves to
the sticks.