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New Poster For Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter”
Word out of the Toronto International Film Festival was pretty mixed, with a lot of critics calling the film “bland.” I still want to see it because I love Eastwood’s work and will always give him the benefit of the doubt. The new poster is pretty great too. Hereafter stars Matt Damon and Cécile de France and is set to open on October 22nd.
Movie Quote of the Day – Dogma, 1999 (dir. Kevin Smith)
Loki: [to the female Mooby employee after shooting the board members] Gum? It’s okay. You’ve done nothing wrong. Oh these guys were fakes. You’re a pure soul.
[beat]
Loki: But you didn’t say “God bless you” when I sneezed!
Bartleby: [yelling off camera] LOKI!
Loki: You’re getting off light!
Jeremy Renner and the Best Actor Race
I’ve yet to see A Single Man or Crazy Heart, mostly due to living in the middle of nowhere, and thus can only comment on the three performances I have seen. I enjoyed George Clooney in Up In The Air, but he was better in Michael Clayton. My opinion on Morgan Freeman in Invictus will come up later on in this post. That leaves Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker. And of the three I’ve seen, he has my vote. It’ll be a difficult race for him, but I think he has a chance of pulling it off. He had perhaps my favorite reaction to his nomination when interviewed on Good Morning America yesterday. When asked about his competition, he replied, “I’ve gotta break some serious legs.”
My Oscar Nominations Predictions
The Academy Award nominations will be announced at 5:30AM PST tomorrow, February 2nd. I’ve got predictions for 10 of the 24 categories. I’m also going to supply some alternates. I love being able to predict what the nominations will be, but at the same time, it would be nice for some surprises to sneak in there too!
Best Picture:
- (500) Days of Summer
- An Education
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hangover
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Precious
- Star Trek
- Up In The Air
(Alternates: Up, Invictus, A Serious Man)
Miramax Offices Close – The End of An Era
I hear on the grapevine though that the Weinsteins, who were bought out of Miramax years ago and started their own company – The Weinstein Company, are still trying to get the name back. I hope they do.
All through the 90s and early 00s Miramax, under the Weinsteins, pretty much dominated the Academy Awards.
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