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When a Hollywood actor is big and making lots of movies, it kind of feels like they'll stick around forever. There are plenty who do, but so often a familiar face will enjoy a hot streak before vanishing from the limelight. Back in the '90s we had a number of such actors. Alicia Silverstone, Meg Ryan, and Bridget Fonda all hit their peak during the decade and became household names thanks to their hits. And then they were gone, either suffering from a string of poor choices (Silverstone), taking a break from acting (Ryan), or retiring altogether (Fonda). Another Hollywood star who enjoyed her heyday in the '90s before vacating our multiplexes was Rene Russo. But why exactly did she disappear from Hollywood?

Russo was one of several models who crossed over into acting during the '90s. Some made a big splash in their breakthrough roles, like...

Frank Hildebrand, a producer and production manager who most recently worked on Fear the Walking Dead, has died. He was 73.

Hildebrand’s family confirmed to Deadline through a statement from his rep that he died following a brief illness on November 21, a little more than a week before his 74th birthday.

Born and educated in Zurich, Switzerland, Hildebrand began his filmmaking career in the UK before moving to Hollywood in the 1980s, working on such indie films as Vice Squad (1982) and Once Bitten (1985).

He then went on to line produce and supervise on such films as Triumph of the Spirit (1989), Freeway (1996), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Into the Wild (2007), The Runaways (2010), Fair Game (2010) and The Tree of Life (2011). In recent years, Hildebrand served as a producer on the last seven seasons of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead.

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Throughout his career, Hildebrand also held various heads of production...

When it comes to renowned director Doug Liman, no one can question his bold choices and visionary take on filmmaking. Even when he ventured into the dark side of American patriotism with the Tom Cruise-led American Made (2017), Liman surprisingly managed to justify his opinion behind the narrative that many dubbed as “anti-Top Gun”.

Tom Cruise in a still from American Made (2017) | image: Universal Pictures

Despite highlighting the questionable ethics of U.S. foreign policy during the 1980s and how the CIA dealt with things, Doug Liman called his movie extremely patriotic and quite American in its essence. Further, challenging the conventional notions of American heroism, Liman admitted that this movie was deeply personal on many levels.

Doug Liman justified the patriotism behind Tom Cruise’s American Made

Back in 2017, when Tom Cruise led the true story of Barry Seal, a Twa pilot who became a drug smuggler and government informant,...

Leah Remini has broken her silence around the death of Mike Rinder, a Scientology whistleblower who earned an Emmy for exposing the secret organization, and recently died.

“On Sunday, we lost a giant, and I lost a man who was more than a friend—he was family,” Remini said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Remini and Rinder co-hosted the A&e docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath and the podcast Scientology: Fair Game as they exposed the organization.

The actress called Rinder her “trusted partner” in Scientology, to whom she turned when she herself left the secretive group in 2013.

“Mike saved my life and the life of my daughter and he stood by me through battles that felt insurmountable. I haven’t come to terms with the reality that I can’t call him and hear his voice anymore. I am shattered in ways I never thought possible. I...

Leah Remini is remembering her Scientology and the Aftermath co-host Mike Rinder with an emotional tribute. Rinder died Jan. 5 at the age of 69.

“On Sunday, we lost a giant, and I lost a man who was more than a friend—he was my family,” Remini wrote in a statement on social media. “It’s impossible to imagine the last 13 years of my life without Mike Rinder. He was my anchor, my trusted partner, and my closest confidant. The thought of moving forward without him feels unbearable.”

Remini and Rinder teamed on Scientology and the Aftermath, which ran for three seasons from 2016 to 2019. Rinder was nominated for two Emmys for his work, winning one.

“When I left Scientology, Mike was one of the first people I turned to. From that moment, he became my lifeline,” she continued. “Together, we embarked on an incredible journey that included The Aftermath and our podcast,...

Leah Remini mourned the death of Mike Rinder, co-host of her Emmy-winning A&e Network docuseries “Scientology and the Aftermath.” She called his passing “unbearable” in a social media post Tuesday.

“On Sunday, we lost a giant, and I lost a man who was more than a friend — he was my family,” Remini wrote in an X post, which was coupled with a photo of the two embracing. “It’s impossible to imagine the last 13 years of my life without Mike Rinder. He was my anchor, my trusted partner, and my closest confidant. The thought of moving forward without him feels unbearable.”

On Sunday, we lost a giant, and I lost a man who was more than a friend—he was my family.

It’s impossible to imagine the last 13 years of my life without Mike Rinder. He was my anchor, my trusted partner, and my closest confidant. The thought of moving forward without him feels…...

Picture the mid-80s. The United States are halfway through the Reagan era and Sylvester Stallone has just set his sights on Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Beverly Hills Cop. Hellbent on starring in a crime thriller, the Rambo and Rocky veteran goes so far as to rewrite the script in order to replace most of the humor with even more extravagant action scenes. Rather unsurprisingly, Paramount ends up rejecting Stallone’s costly version of the film – a decision that would ripple throughout time and lead to the production of one of the most infamous B-movies ever made.

Often referred to as the dumb man’s Dirty Harry, 1986’s Cobra is mostly remembered as a humorous misstep in Stallone’s vast filmography. However, with modern cinema’s disappointing (albeit understandable) lack of over-the-top crime thrillers that pit rogue cops against sensationalized threats pulled directly rom the headlines, I think this is the...

New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment’s five selections reflect the month of July 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a snake thriller, a giallo, and more.

Death Walks on High Heels (1971)

Death Walks on High Heels (1971)

Directed by Luciano Ercoli.

For fans, July is dedicated to gialli. And one giallo that doesn’t come up too often in discussions is Death Walks on High Heels (La morte cammina con i tacchi alti in Italian). After Nieves Navarro‘s character’s father — a jewel thief — is murdered, the masked assailant comes after the daughter. The protagonist flees to England, however, her pursuer won’t stop until he gets what he seeks.

Death Walks on High Heels never quite reaches the heights of its contemporaries,...

Sean Penn is giving his take on straight actors playing roles of gay men, saying in a recent interview that he would not play Harvey Milk today.

Penn portrayed the openly gay politician in 2008’s Milk and earned his second Oscar for the film.

“I went 15 years miserable on sets,” Penn told The New York Times. “Milk was the last time I had a good time.”

He continued, “It could not happen in a time like this. It’s a time of tremendous overreach. It’s a timid and artless policy toward the human imagination.”

After starring in the film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, Penn went on to star in films like Fair Game (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), This Must Be the Place (2011), Gangster Squad (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), The Gunman (2015), The Professor and the Madman (2019), Licorice Pizza (2021), and many more.

New spy thriller TV series, The Agency, starring Michael Fassbender and produced by George Clooney, is in development. Fassbender excels in thriller roles, making him ideal for lead role in The Agency. The Agency team, including Clooney and Fassbender, consists of seasoned professionals, raising expectations.

A new spy thriller TV series starring Michael Fassbender and produced by George Clooney is now in development. Both Fassbender and Clooney are A-list actors, with the former best known for roles in Shame and X-Men: First Class, and Clooeny's notable roles include parts in ER, Gravity, and Up in the Air. Recently, Fassbender's work has included roles in Next Goal Wins and The Killer, while Clooney has dedicated his talents to If and Ticket to Paradise.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, a new thriller series involving Clooney and Fassbender has now been announced. The series will be called The Agency, and it is set...

Fresh off his show-stealing performance in Oppenheimer, Alden Ehrenreich has joined the cast for Zach Cregger's upcoming film Weapons, his follow-up to 2022's Barbarian.

According to Empire, Alden Ehrenreich has been cast in New Line Cinema's Weapons, which already has quite the star-studded cast featuring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner. Specific details about the film aren't known as of yet but the film has been described as, "an interrelated, multistory horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia." Ehrenreich will also be seen in Marvel's upcoming Disney+ miniseries Ironheart, which is expected to be released in 2025.

Related Alden Ehrenreich Hails Oppenheimer Co-Star Robert Downey Jr., Reveals Their On-Set Friendship Alden Ehrenreich was full of praise for former Iron Man actor and Oppenheimer co-star Robert Downey Jr. Pedro Pascal Was Previously Cast in Weapons

While Alden Ehrenreich has joined the cast, Pedro Pascal was originally attached to...

Director Joe Wright and writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth have all boarded the upcoming Paramount+ series “The Department.”

The Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios series, which was announced with a straight-to-series order in February 2023, is based on the French drama series “Le Bureau des Legendes” created by Eric Rochant. Wright will direct the first two episodes and executive produce, while the Butterworths will writer and executive produce all episodes. George Clooney was originally announced as directing the series. He and Grant Heslov remain onboard as executive producers via Smokehouse Pictures.

“Joe Wright is a visionary director with a gift of focusing on intricate details to craft immersive and visually striking stories,” said Chris McCarthy, President and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. “And, Jez and John-Henry are masterful writers whose witty and emotionally charged language dives deep into their characters’ moral complexities, while simultaneously creating a propulsive narrative. Bringing these powerhouse...

Ellen Burstyn returns as Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist: Believer after 50 years, reflecting on acting and ageism in a recent interview. Burstyn has had a successful career spanning nearly 70 years, and doesn't understand why ageism hasn't affected her. Burstyn is a Triple Crown Acting Winner, having won an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony throughout her career.

Ellen Burstyn returns as Chris MacNeil to battle the forces of evil in The Exorcist: Believer. The award-winning actress is stepping back into a role that she hasn’t played in 50 years, not since The Exorcist in 1973. But director David Gordon Green lured the talented thespian back into the realm of horror after Burstyn had turned down numerous opportunities to reprise the role of MacNeil in Exorcist sequels over the years. And in a sit-down with Interview Magazine prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, she reflected on acting and ageism. Burstyn said:

This is so bizarre.

A number of great movies are leaving HBO Max at the end of March, so it’s time to prioritize these titles in your queue. Filmmaker James Gunn’s sequel/soft reboot “The Suicide Squad” will depart the streaming service on March 22 after first hitting HBO Max the same day it was released in theaters back in 2021. Similarly, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” was whisked away on March 1 after also getting a day-and-date release in 2021 (sorry/not sorry if you missed it).

You also only have until March 7 to stream “Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen,” a short documentary on the making of the Oscar-nominated biopic “Elvis.”

Other noteworthy films leaving HBO Max this month include “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “Contagion,” the extended version of “Dances with Wolves,” “Ghostbusters,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Love & Basketball” and “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Sylvester Stallone has had a few franchises over the years – Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables – but he also has a film that should have been a franchise starter, but never received any of the sequels it deserved. That’s the 1986 classic Cobra (watch it Here), which also happens to be the movie The Arrow in the Head Show hosts John “The Arrow” Fallon and Lance Vlcek are talking about in the new episode of the series. To find out what they had to say about Cobra, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by George P. Cosmatos from a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone (which was apparently loosely based on the novel Fair Game by Paula Gosling), Cobra has the following synopsis: Los Angeles policeman Lt. Marion “Cobra” Cobretti finds himself at the center of a spate of murders carried out by a secret society called New Order: killers who select...

Screen Rant is excited to present an exclusive clip from the new horror thriller Daughter. In Daughter, a young woman is abducted and held prisoner as she is inducted into a twisted and terrifying family unit, taking the place of a surrogate daughter. As she navigates through this horrifying circumstance, doing everything she can to survive, secrets are revealed that have even darker implications for her already bleak future.

Daughter features a smaller cast, making the captivity-based psychological thriller feel even more claustrophobic and terrifying. The movie stars Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Elyse Dinh (Spider-Man 2) as Mother, Vivien Ngô (Queen Sugar), and Ian Alexander (Star Trek: Discovery). Daughter is distributed by Dark Star Pictures. Daughter will be released in select theaters, on digital, and On Demand on February 10. It will be available on DVD on May 9.

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Exclusive: Warner Bros. is really upping the stakes to its I Am Legend franchise to a stratospheric level and bringing back for the next chapter, not just original star Will Smith, but he’ll be joined by Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan in what will rep the duo’s first big movie together as stars and producers. Talk about two big stars getting together, between Smith and Jordan combined, their movies have grossed a massive $12.3 billion at the box office.

Plot details, of course, are being kept under wraps.

Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the Richard Matheson 1954 novel, is also returning to pen the follow-up and producer as well.

All these deals are closed, I understand, and a director is not attached as of yet as the project is still being developed. Francis Lawrence directed the original 2007 movie.

Jordan and Elizabeth Raposo are producing via their Outlier Society banner.

Netflix’s upcoming untitled CIA drama starring and executive produced by Noah Centineo has added seven series regulars and four guest stars to its cast. Centineo will be joined by: Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Colton Dunn, Laura Haddock, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Aarti Mann, Byron Mann, Angel Parker, Fivel Stewart, Linus Roache and Kaylah Zander.

The espionage thriller series hails from creator, showrunner and executive producer Alexi Hawley, Entertainment One and Hypnotic. Per the logline, the show centers on “a fledgling lawyer at the CIA that becomes enmeshed in dangerous international power politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency unless they exonerate her of a serious crime.”

Series regular Annoh plays Terence; Bruun plays Janus Ferber; Dunn plays Lester; Haddock plays Max; Hall plays Walter Nyland; Mann plays Violet; and Stewart plays Hannah. Guest star Byron Mann plays Xander; Parker plays...

Sean Penn defiantly swims against the Hollywood current with “Flag Day,” a labor of love that harkens back to another era of moviemaking. Jennifer Vogel’s memoir “Flim-Flam Man: A True Family History,” published in 2004, resisted film financing over 18 years, said producer William Horberg (“The Queen’s Gambit”) at the Cannes afterparty at the Martinez. Back at the start, producer Michael De Luca loved the project, and after many detours and obstacles, when the MGM studio head saw the nearly finished film, enthusiastically acquired it for release in 2021 (just as the studio was acquired by Amazon). Horberg was joyful at the film’s good fortune.

Like many other well-reviewed films at Cannes, a robust theatrical future is by no means assured for this old-fashioned ’70s-’80s father-daughter story, which marks Penn’s first time acting in his own film, after helming six features. Thanks to Matt Damon, Penn said at Sunday’s press conference,...

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Was there ever a better 80s' tagline that 'Crime is a disease. Meet the cure'? Join us in celebrating the 30th birthday of Cobra...

This article contains spoilers for Cobra. We suspect we're the only website to have written those words in recent times....

Had Sylvester Stallone had his way, the now cult classic Beverly Hills Cop would have been a much different film. Before Eddie Murphy was cast in the role that would define his acting career, the part of Axel Foley was offered to Sly. Yet the Italian Stallion had other ideas in mind for what he wanted the film to be, so he took it upon himself to rewrite the script, moulding it to suit his strengths as a white-knuckled mortal terminator. As screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr told us last year, whilst it was "considered a coup to have written a script to attract...

Chicago – Cindy Crawford is one of the great supermodels, and while she acknowledges her one-of-a-kind beauty, it was also her intelligence and hard work that created her successful modeling and business careers. Ms. Crawford is also the Charity Challenge Ambassador for the Art Van furniture stores.

Ms. Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois, and was working in the prairie corn fields as a teenager, when her picture appeared in the local newspaper. The feedback from that photo convinced her to join the modeling profession. She was valedictorian at her high school as well, but pursued her modeling career by moving to New York City two years afterward. Her profile exploded, and she became one of the most popular supermodels in the 1980s and ‘90s, with visibility on magazine covers such as Vogue, People, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Allure. She even did a cover shot for the short lived political magazine called George,...

Washington, Apr.7: Cindy Crawford has revealed that her action-thriller flick 'Fair Game' might be a failure for the world but not for her.

The American super model said in a video on 'Oprah's Lifeclass' series that she was not good at acting and it doesn't resonate with her, the Huffington Post reported.

The 48-year-old model said that she discovered that she was not one of those people that loves playing a role in front of a camera.

Crawford added that failures were great gifts because knowing what you don't want gets you one step closer to what you do want. (Ani)...

Worried your sex life isn't like it looks on TV or in the movies? Don't be. Sex involving food, a piano or gunfire is never as fun as it sounds

When you've been brought up with pop culture as your unofficial guardian, it's easy to assume that you've been lumbered with the world's dullest sex life. You're forever comparing your experiences with those you see on screen, and you beat yourself up when you inevitably fall short.

For instance, not one single person has ever attempted to stab me to death with a pickaxe mid-coitus, like Sharon Stone did to that poor chump at the start of Basic Instinct. No union of mine has ever ended with my partner shooting a baddie in the chest on a moving train at the point of orgasm, like Cindy Crawford did in Fair Game. Nor, to my eternal annoyance, have I ever been...

Cindy Crawford is back in the buff -- modeling in nothing more than a strategically-placed blanket!The 47-year-old supermodel looks incredible in a new menswear shoot for V Magazine, showing off her ridiculous physique in various states of undress.Cindy, now a mother of two, tells the mag about some of her riskier career moves -- but it sounds like she doesn't have that many regrets."I’ll try MTV, that sounds cool. But my agents were telling me not to do it. They said I could make more money doing other jobs," she says. "But they were wrong, and 'House of Style' opened a lot of doors.""When I did Playboy, it was a big deal because I was also in Vogue," she continues. "I trusted [photographer] Herb Ritts, which is why I did it. So those things worked out in my favor, and it gave me the confidence to go and do other projects.

The track record of supermodels making their way on to the big screen is not a particularly strong one. Cindy Crawford in "Fair Game?" Not so much. Gisele Bundchen in "Taxi?" No thank you. Heidi Klum in "Ella Enchanted?" Let's move on, please. Nevertheless, they keep trying, particularly so in the current generation. Lily Cole, for example, has actually had more success than most, with roles in films like "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus" and the upcoming "Snow White And The Huntsman." And now, one of Cole's catwalk colleagues is dipping her toes into acting waters. Screen Daily report that model Daisy Lowe, who has been a magazine fixture since she was 17, will make her major acting debut in the British thriller "Confine," which begins filming next month. In the directorial debut of Tobias Tobbell, who produced the well-regarded 2010 indie "The Drummond Will," Lowe will take the lead role...

Models appearing in movies is nothing new – ask Cindy Crawford about "Fair Game" sometime – but it does appear to have become a bit of a trend this past year. Brooklyn Decker and Rosie Huntington-Whitley managed to hold their own against Adam Sandler and Baysplosions, and became fixtures on many a casting wishlist. Now, Victoria's Secret Marisa Miller is making the jump from the catwalk and the small screen to the big, as The Hollywood Reporter says she's joining the cast of "R.I.P.D." Damn models. They aren't already blessed with fantastic gigs and incredible physical features, but now they're all able to act too. Miller's role actually reveals a new angle of the film that we hadn't heard of previously, and one that I don't think exists in Peter Lenkov's original story. It seems that when Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges are doing police duty on The Other Side, they appear as themselves,...

The model-turned-actress — like the singer-turned-actor or singer-turned-actor-turned-back-to-singer-cause-the-acting-didn’t-work-out — is nothing new in Hollywood. In fact, it’s given the industry the likes of Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry and Charlize Theron.

While Brooke Shields certainly made a splash in 1980 with The Blue Lagoon, it would be hard to argue she became a full-fledged movie star (on television, however, most certainly). Because, as far as supermodels go, none have really been able to make that transition. Just watch Cindy Crawford in Fair Game. Better yet, don’t. That’s not to say, some models haven’t become successful actresses, because there are scads of those (Rebecca Romijn,...

When it was announced that Megan Fox wouldn't be returning for the third installment of the "Transformers" franchise, many wondered who would be appealing enough to keep the predominantly young male fan base drooling.

Enter Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the knockout Victoria's Secret model, who is not only stepping off the runway and onto the big screen for her acting debut, but is taking over as the female lead in the billion-dollar franchise, for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." While we still don't know how her character Carly will stack up against Fox's Mikaela, Rosie has already joined the ranks of models who have made the transition to film.

As we anticipate the 24-year-old beauty's breakout role, we look back at five memorable model's performances on celluloid (hey, it's one of the few times we can actually use "model" and "celluloid" in the same sentence), the good, the bad, and the (coyote) ugly.

“Deep Vote,” an Oscar winning screenwriter and a member of the Academy, will write this column — exclusively for ScottFeinberg.com — every week until the Academy Awards in order to help to peel back the curtain on the Oscar voting process. (His identity must be protected in order to spare him from repercussions for disclosing the aforementioned information.)

Thus far, he has shared his thoughts in column one about his general preferences; column two about “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions, 6/11, R, trailer) and “Solitary Man” (Anchor Bay Films, 5/21, R, trailer); column three about “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney, 3/5, PG, trailer), “Toy Story 3” (Disney, 6/18, G, trailer), and “Mother and Child” (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/7, R, trailer); column four about “Get Low” (Sony Pictures Classics, 7/30, PG-13, trailer), “The Kids Are All Right” (Focus Features, 7/9, R, trailer), and “The Social Network” (Columbia, 10/1, PG-13, trailer); column five about “127 Hours” (Fox Searchlight, 11/5, R, trailer), “Biutiful” (Roadside Attractions,...

Paticipant Media announced today that they have acquired domestic distribution rights to Circumstance from first-time writer/director Maryam Keshavarz. The suspenseful film tells the story of forbidden love set in today’s Iranian youth culture.

Check out the full press release below and be sure to follow our full coverage of Sundance Here:

Participant Media Acquires North American Rights To “Circumstance”, Suspenseful Tale Of Forbidden Love Set In Today’S Iranian Youth Culture, From First Time Writer-director Maryam Keshavarz

Participant Media has acquired North American rights to Circumstance, first time writer-director’s Maryam Keshavarz’s suspenseful tale of forbidden love set in today’s Iranian youth culture, it was announced today by Ricky Strauss, President of Participant Media. Participant is currently in discussions with several distributors for the film, which was produced by Keshavarz along with Karin Chien and Melissa M. Lee, with Christina Won serving as executive producer.

In Circumstance,...

I saw Brad Miska from Bloody Disgusting today at the supermarket and we were talking about the last Saw movie and how much I hated it and how he liked it. We both agreed that the ending would have worked better had we found out if John Kramer himself, during his tenure as Jigsaw, was victim to a larger game being played by someone else. Would have worked better than the cheap cop out shit they pulled instead. Regardless, Saw 3D came in #1 with an estimated $22.5 million. Not a big Bo compared to Pa 2's $41 million a week before. Pa would have killed Saw had they gone head to head again this year. I'm glad the Saw series is over. That cow was milked dry four movies ago.Pa 2 did good busines its second week with $16.5 million. Word of mouth kept the profits coming in. It has made $87 million worldwide.

Once again, I’m breaking down by category the Broadcast Film Critics scores. Last year’s cutoff for Best Picture was 85. Neither Made in Dagenham nor Love and Other Drugs...

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Love and Other Drugs

Photo: 20th Century Fox If you've been paying attention to my predictions along the way you pretty much already know I have a rather firm belief behind a certain number of films. Based on the films I've seen I am most certain the absolute locks for a Best Picture nomination are The King's Speech, The Social Network, 127 Hours, Black Swan, Toy Story 3 and Inception. This leaves four spots open and of those four spots I am banking on the Coen brothers' True Grit to be yet another lock (risky at this point in the game, but whatever). I'm basing this solely on the fact it's a Coen film and the reaction to the trailer from those that watched it online. This leaves me with three wild card choices.

The most prominent of those three is probably David O. Russell...

Paranormal Activity 2 broke the box office opening day record for a supernatural horror movie with $20.1 million bucks, earning $41.5 estimated dollars for the weekend. Big numbers and don't be surprised if a third isn't announced very soon. I enjoyed Pa 2 for what it was. It helped fill in story details from the first movie and the scares were effective. Can't really ask for much more than that from a ghost story sequel.AssJacked 3D made...oops, was looking at the wrong movie...Jackass 3D came in 2nd with $21.6 million. Is a 4th Jackass coming? We shall see.The only other new release was Clint Eastwood's Hereafter with Matt Damon, but it tanked with $12 million. People would rather watch pissed off ghosts than happy ones during Halloween. Rest of the movies yadda yadda yadda. I'm watching football and you know how to read a box office report.Next week Megamind,...

In the past week, Toh looked at Names That Rule in Moviesphere, considered Recycling at the Cinema [pictured: DiCaprio and Hall, potentials for Great Gatsby remake] and pondered the five things that went wrong with Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. Awards & Festivals We rounded up the week's Oscar buzz, which focused on the best actress race, from likely nominees Annette Being and Natalie Portman to Winter's Bone long shot Jennifer Lawrence. The Gotham Awards favored Winter's Bone with three nominations. Our Oscar Talk podcast covered the animation race, Michael Douglas's Oscar chances for Wall Street 2 or Solitary Man, Alice in Wonderland and Fair Game. Carey Mulligan and James Franco both got a boost into awards season with the Palm Spring Film Festival's ...

Ben Affleck (“The Town”) is 0 for 1

Amy Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone,” 2007) for best supporting actress

Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”) is 0 for 3

Ellen Burstyn (“Requiem for a Dream,” 2000) for best actress Mickey Rourke (“The Wrestler,” 2008) for best actor Marisa Tomei (“The Wrestler,” 2008) for best supporting actress

Danny Boyle (“127 Hours”) is 0 for 0

James L. Brooks (“How Do You Know“) is 4 for 10

Shirley MacLaine (“Terms of Endearment,” 1983) for best actress Won Debra Winger (“Terms of Endearment,” 1983) for best actress Jack Nicholson (“Terms of Endearment,” 1983) for best supporting actor Won John Lithgow (“Terms of Endearment,” 1983) for best supporting actor William Hurt (“Broadcast News,” 1987) for best actor Holly Hunter (“Broadcast News,” 1987) for best actress Albert Brooks (“Broadcast News,” 1987) for best supporting actor Jack Nicholson (“As Good As It Gets,” 1997) for best actor Won Helen Hunt (“As Good As It Gets,” 1997) for best actress Won Greg Kinnear (“As Good As It Gets,” 1997) for best supporting actor...

The Odds: Steve Pond gathers reactions from members of the National Association of Theater Owners to the 10 upcoming films that were screened for the group during last week’s ShowEast conference in Orlando, and concludes that “the news is good for ‘The Fighter,’ ‘Tangled,’ and ‘Morning Glory,’ but not so much for ‘Due Date’ and ‘Fair Game.’” (The event “marked one of the first times anyone outside of Paramount” had seen “The Fighter,” and Pond’s sources reiterated what Scott has been indicating for weeks on his projection charts: the film’s strongest awards prospects are Christian Bale for best supporting actor and Melissa Leo for best supporting actress.)

USA Today: Anthony Breznican previews the reunion of actor Jeff Bridges with directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen on “True Grit” 12 years after they collaborated on “The Big Lebowski” (1998). He reports that the Coen brothers told Bridges not to think about...

Check them off as you go! If you need any information about any of them, check out the Internet Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com October 1St o The Social Network o Let Me In o Case 39 October 8th o Life As We Know It o Secretariat o It’s Kind of a Funny Story (limited) o Nowhere Boy (limited) o My Soul to Take o Stone (limited) October 15th o Jackass 3D o Conviction o Red October 22nd o Paranormal Activity 2 o Hereafter October 29th o Saw 3D o Monsters (limited) November 5th o Megamind o Due Date o 127 Hours o Fair Game o For Colored Girls November 12th o Unstoppable o Morning...

Women and Hollywood: Melissa Silverstein can’t quite believe her eyes as “a feminist fall at the movies” begins to take shape thanks to many films “that have women leads who seem to be, well, quite feminist.” Among them: “Conviction,” “Fair Game,” “For Colored Girls,” “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest,” “I Am Love,” “Made in Dagenham,” “Secretariat,” and “The Tempest,” to name just a few.

IndieWire: Peter Knegt offers up 10 “underdog actresses for your consideration,” purposely excluding those whose work already “looks like a good bet for a nomination.” The list includes: Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone”), Chloe Moretz (“Let Me In”), Tilda Swinton (“I Am Love”), Mia Wasikowska in “The Kids Are All Right,” Jacki Weaver (“Animal Kingdom”), and Olivia Williams (“The Ghost Writer”). Quite a group.

FLICKgrrl: Carrie Rickey joins Allison Willmore in slapping down the notion that “The Social Network” presents a misogynistic portrayal of...

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Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race.

By 2012, the Academy would like to host the Oscars in late January or early February. Great idea.

Peter Weir’s “The Way Back,” which earned raves at this year’s Telluride festival, will receive an Oscar qualifying run in December, followed by a rollout in January.

About the race … Dave Karger at EW runs down the top categories.

CinemaBlend still sees “The Social Network” as the frontrunner, dismisses “Fair Game,” and starts banging the drum for Hailee Steinfeld of “True Grit” (based on the trailers).

Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest” gets its first trailer.

Did the fact that Peter Jackson is directing “The Hobbit” really deserve a “Toldja?”

And Scott Feinberg addresses Annette Bening and Julianne Moore both competing for Best Actress slots...

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The second poster for Fair Game corrects all the problems with the first one. (Disproportionate heads, fixed. Penn’s inappropriate expression, fixed. Absence of slightest clue what the movie is about,...

Showing up and looking fantastic, America Ferrera was spotted arriving at the “Fair Game” premiere in Deauville, France on Thursday (September 9).

The “Ugly Betty” star looked toned and beautiful as she posed for pictures with co-stars and fiancé, Ryan Piers Williams, on the red carpet at the 36th Deauville American Film Festival.

In other news, Ms Ferrera is set to host the ninth season of the PBS series "Independent Lens."

PBS says America will make her debut when the award-winning anthology series begins its new season of 27 documentaries on Oct. 19.

Showing up and looking fantastic, America Ferrera was spotted arriving at the “Fair Game” premiere in Deauville, France on Thursday (September 9).

The “Ugly Betty” star looked toned and beautiful as she posed for pictures with co-stars and fiancé, Ryan Piers Williams, on the red carpet at the 36th Deauville American Film Festival.

In other news, Ms Ferrera is set to host the ninth season of the PBS series "Independent Lens."

PBS says America will make her debut when the award-winning anthology series begins its new season of 27 documentaries on Oct. 19.

Veteran actor Ellen Burstyn believes young actors are misguided in believing an agent is a panacea. "I hear it all the time, 'How do I get an agent?' " she comments in the soft, almost breathy, voice that's become her vocal signature. "They feel the most important thing is to get an agent. It's not. The most important thing is to become a really good actor and to keep on studying, and if you do that and you have talent, people will start talking about it, and you'll find your way to an agent and work."Identified for more than 45 years with the iconic Actors Studio as a member, and now its co-president along with Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino, Burstyn is an impassioned advocate of ongoing training. "Talent only takes you so far," she says; that's a view she says is shared by current members, who are committed to...

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As far as we can tell, there are precisely zero supermodels in Sean Penn and Naomi Watts’ new spy thriller (out Nov. 5) — which, depending on your personal taste, makes it more or less appealing than the 1995 movie of the same name (which starred Cindy Crawford’s mole as the mole of a super hot lawyer on the run from the Kgb). Instead, this one is based on the tell-all memoir of ex-cia operative Valerie Plame, (played by Naomi Watts) who was publicly exposed after her husband (Sean Penn) ruffled feathers in Washington by accusing the Bush administration of bending the...

A couple of months ago, it was announced that supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley would be replacing Megan Fox in Transformers 3. Far be it for me to judge what comes between Michael Bay and his casting couch -- maybe Huntington-Whiteley is a talented actress (fat chance) -- but the history has not been favorable to supermodels in film. And yet, just this week, Peter Berg -- who I used to have considerable respect for -- decided to cast another model in his latest, Battleship. Her name is Brooklyn Decker. I'm sure she's a brilliant actress. Here's a sampling of her "acting" talents.

Indeed, if the past is any indication, there's next to no reason to believe that supermodels can become serious actors. Or even credible. Or even not completely embarrassing. What the hell is Peter Berg thinking? Maybe the next time a dumbass director decides it's a good idea to hire...

Photos galore today including new stills from 127 Hours, Little White Lies, The Debt, The Tempest, Vanishing on 7th Street, Fair Game, The Winning Season, Never Let Me Go, Miral and Somewhere.

There's also promo photos of Lindsay Lohan for Inferno, and shots from the sets of Moneyball and Dark Tide.

""X-Men: First Class" and "Kick Ass" director says one reason why he took the 'X-Men' gig is that superhero films have "been mined to death and in some cases the quality control is not what it’s supposed to be. People are just going to get bored of it"..." (full details)

"Ving Rhames confirmed on the late-night TBS talk show Lopez Tonight on Wednesday last week that he will return for "Mission: Impossible 4"..." (full details)

"Warner Bros is reportedly keen to take advantage of the New Orleans' tax incentives, which they're currently using for Martin Campbell's "Green Lantern", on...