The Sound of ‘Skyfall’
As they’ve done a great many times, the folks at The Soundworks Collection have yet another awesome look at the sound of one of the year’s biggest releases. This time their digging into the...
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Box Office: ‘Twilight’ Finishes Strong Alongside Bond and ‘Lincoln’
With an estimated opening weekend of $141.3m, it’s not hard to foresee a future in which The Twilight Saga makes some sort of cinematic comeback. Breaking Dawn – Part 2 may be the “final” entry in...
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Box Office: ‘Twilight’ Gets Back On Top of James Bond
In an off week at the box office, it was the battle of three holdover releases, with all of the new films dropping well down the charts. From Killing Them Softly‘s lukewarm 7th place finish to horror...
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How Hollywood Melodrama Was Reborn with a Masculine Twist
Twelve years ago, the western and the musical, two genres that were incredibly successful during Hollywood’s heyday, had been considered long dead with no hopes of a revival on the horizon. After all,...
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Movie News After Dark: When Space Camp Starts, Guardians Rise and Hobbits Are...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s news, discussion, opinions, things! It’s everything that a fan of filmed and televised entertainment could want right before bed. Tonight it’s all about Hobbitses...
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Move Over, Telly Savalas, Vin Diesel Is the New Kojak
Today is the best day ever for people who have fantasized about Vin Diesel sucking on a lollipop. Deadline reports that Universal is setting the mumbly-mouthed mountain of a man up as the new actor to...
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Holiday Gifts for Movie Lovers: The Last Minute Edition
It’s way too late to even mail order something for your movie-loving loved ones this holiday season. Do you arrive to your holiday gathering empty-handed to the disappointment of all? NEVER! Please...
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Thank Bruce Banner, Batman and Bond: Box Office Biggest Ever After Two Tough...
According to USA Today, 2012 is the biggest box office year in movie history (not adjusted for inflation). The numbers aren’t set yet (because, you know, the year’s not over), but if the predictive...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Action Movies of 2012
Movies are many different things to many different peoples. A film may tug at your heart strings, tickle your funny bone, or change the way you look at the world. But sometimes all you want from a...
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Year In Review: The 12 Best Movie Soundtracks and Scores of 2012
Looking back over the past year in film, it is impressive to remember the different styles and forms of music that accompanied these various releases as they bring back the memories and emotions felt...
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2013 Golden Globe Predictions: Movie Categories
The 70th Golden Globe Awards will be held tomorrow night, and I invite you to join myself and FSR’s awards guru, Daniel Walber, for live-blog commentary during the ceremony. We’ll try to keep it...
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Where Can You Watch the 2013 Oscar-Nominated Films?
Once upon a time, the Oscar nominations were filled with titles unfamiliar to the regular Joe. Not unknown, necessarily, but at least not widely seen. But today, thanks to all kinds of home video...
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A Brilliant Week of Blu-ray/DVD Releases Starts with ‘Skyfall,’‘The Perks of...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. The Kid With a Bike (Criterion) Cyril (Thomas Doret) is a young boy in flux. His mother is...
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Drinking Game: Get ‘Skyfall’ Down Drunk
Skyfall is the most successful James Bond movie ever, raking in more than a billion dollars in worldwide box office. This week, it is available on DVD and Blu-ray for convenient home viewing. Though...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Song
Last year’s Best Original Song category had a dismal two (TWO!) nominations in a year that gave us such songs as the catchy “Hello Hello” from the piano man himself, Elton John (who has seen no love...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Original Score
Film scores can be considered a dime a dozen – a bunch of orchestration that certainly needs to be there, but plays to the background and is rarely ever noticeable. And while that can be true, the...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Cinematography
Cinematography, like many technical awards, is an incredibly difficult art form requiring years of experience, an encyclopedic knowledge of light and color, and an impossible ability to adapt to an...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Stunt Coordination
No matter what you think about the Academy Awards (and there is whole wide spectrum of thought as to their relevance and accuracy) there is no question that The Oscars are the pinnacle of filmmaking...
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Sam Mendes Won’t Direct The Next Bond After ‘Skyfall’
There’s been big speculation surrounding Sam Mendes‘ potential return to the James Bond business because his blend of character beats and surprising action acumen is rightly noted as the main reason...
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‘Skyfall’ Director Sam Mendes Goes From Making No More ‘Bond’ Movies to...
Ever since Sam Mendes announced that he wasn’t going to be able to direct whatever the 24th movie about secret agent James Bond is going to be, there has been a tidal wave of speculation concerning...
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We Knew He Couldn’t Stay Away: Sam Mendes To Direct Bond 24
Despite Sam Mendes’ protestations in March that he had made “the very difficult decision” not to return to the Bond franchise, the director and the studios themselves announced today that he is on...
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Interrogating Terror: The Movie Glass Prison’s Post 9/11 Popularity
The glass prison designers of the fictional world are making bank this year. It seems that almost every action-packed superhero or quasi-superhero film features the same prominent set piece and it...
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Roger Deakins
There’s a moment about halfway through Denis Villeneuve’s sprawling, occasionally brilliant yet sharply uneven film Prisoners that finds Jake Gyllenhaal’s Detective Loki do something that we’ve seen...
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Did ‘Anchorman 2’ Invent a Prototype for Reverse Product Placement?
“Black Friday” sales have spilled over into Thanksgiving Day. Amazon just announced that it wants to set the stage for the robot war by piloting commodity-delivery drones to your home. The holiday...
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Movies That Would Play Great With a Live Orchestra
Radio City Music Hall Would bringing live music back into theaters improve your experience of watching a film? Or would it feel like an old timey distraction? Eight-seven years ago, before movies were...
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