I thought I'd give an update on my current list of Best Picture nominee predictions, seeing as I now have two vacant spots. Let's see the last list:
Avatar (20th Century Fox)
Inglorious Basterds (Weinstein Company)
Invictus (Warner Bros.)
Nine (Weinstein Company)
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
The Lovely Bones (Paramount/DreamWorks)
The Road (Weinstein Com…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on December 5, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Welcome back, Spill readers! The race for Oscar 2009 is starting to get pretty heated, and with that will have to come (several) changes to my list of Best Picture predictions. Here's my old list:
An Education (Sony Pictures Classics)
District 9 (Tristar)
Inglorious Basterds (Weinstein Company)
Invictus (Warner Bros.)
Nine (Weinstein Company)
The Hurt Locker (Equinoxe Films)
The Lovely Bones (Paramount)
The Road (Weinstein Co…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on November 21, 2009 at 3:36pm —
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Okay, this franchise has gone too far.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened yesterday to a first day total of...
God damn it, I just can't say it. It's too painful.
Fine- $72.7 million.
No, that wasn't some sort of typo.
$72.7 million. In one day.
This ranks as the
biggest opening day gross of all time. That's right, R. Pat absolutely crushed
The Dark Knight's opening day gross of $67.2 million with his sparkling six-pack. I apologize for just giving you an…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on November 21, 2009 at 2:54pm —
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Welcome back! Well, seeing as the Fall movie season (September-October) is pretty much out of the way, it's time to look at a far bigger, greater, more interesting moviegoing period... the HOLIDAY SEASON!! Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years, oh my! This is an apt description of both my thought process (any holiday to escape the working world) and the major studios, who save some of their higher-profile, big-budget pictures and the vast majority of their major awards contenders for this sea…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on October 27, 2009 at 8:59pm —
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Hello once again! Are you a movie buff (like me) who'd see just about anything that catches your eye (like me) but you're too strapped for cash to see everything (also like me)? Well you're in luck, because the Sound of Doom (or SoD- on second though, use the long version) is going to review the weeks ahead, so you'll know the prime time to get into the ticket line (rhyming!).
Now before we begin, I'll lay down how the system works: as you should know, every Friday sees a batch of new releases…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on September 17, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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I hope I'm hallucinating, because this is just getting f***ing ridiculous.
This has yet to be confirmed on any major news websites, but if
Box Office Mojo is to be believed, then Paramount isn't even trying to compete for Oscar 2009. As I checked the post of recent release schedule changes (which also lists
The Road's move from October to November 25 and
Up in the Air's November 13 limited launch- before it expands on November 25 as well), I was shocked to see that…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on September 10, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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Alright, there's been some patience on your part. I've decided to reveal my predictions for...
Wait, what's this?
Apparently the academy has just changed their voting rules for Best Picture (again, you ask? Well... yeah, again). You know how people in the Academy just peeled off a stick-it note and wrote their top choice in before slipping it in the ballot box? Well, with 10 nominees comes a big change to this voting system.
Now Academy voters will have to rank all 10 nominees in order…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on September 1, 2009 at 11:19am —
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If you're just joining right now, then Scorsese's
Shutter Island has been moved out of the Oscar 2009 race to February 2010, leaving a huge gap in the already large field of 10 nomination slots for Best Picture this year (after an extension from the usual 5). Part 1 covered the potential nominees from earlier this year (believe it or not, there were more than you'd expect), and now we will delve into the world of the not-too-distant-yet-still-uncertain future, examining the potential Best…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on August 26, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Well, with the recent bumping of Martin Scorsese's certain-to-be-a-masterpiece
Shutter Island, the Oscar race for 2009 has certainly opened up, even more so than usual thanks to the Academy's decision to increase the number of Best Picture nominees from the usual 5 to 10 (similar to the Academy's earlier years in the 1930s and 40s). And boy, do we ever have a wide field, so big that even with 10 slots predicting the nominees this far in advance is a de facto challenge. However, I believe…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on August 22, 2009 at 3:25pm —
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has officially opened, and if opening day figures are a good indication, then we just might have a sequel on the horizon...
The live-action adaptation of the Hasbro toy line and 80s animated series grossed a fairly impressive
$22 million on Friday, which would likely point to an opening weekend within a range of $55-60 million or more, depending on audience word-of-mouth. This would automatically make it the 4th biggest opening weekend the month of Augu…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on August 8, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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As Paramount's $150 million (!) domestic marketing campaign (!!) has let us all know,
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra opens this Friday (August 7). Either this is a very troubled project (likely) or the studio has a whole lot of faith in the film (also possible, but maybe they're nucking futs), but seriously-
$150 million. On marketing. JUST FOR THE U.S.
Honestly, when the film in question has already cost the studio $175 million just to PRODUCE, yo…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on August 5, 2009 at 8:35pm —
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I asked, I implored, I begged, I pleaded, and now it's going to happen.
(No really, I did. I wrote a whole article about it on this site, if you want to see it.)
According to
CinemaBlend's Katey Rich, come this October we'll be able to witness
Where the Wild Things Are: The IMAX Experience. According to the report, the release in IMAX was confirmed during an IMAX presentation at San Diego Comic Con. The film was mentioned in a conversation regarding the future of the IMAX format…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on July 22, 2009 at 6:40pm —
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Wow. Just... wow. It's barely been out for a day and the latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise is already stunning the industry.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has just broken the record for Midnight gross, enchanting
$22.2 million worth of muggles. This exceeds the previous record for Midnight sneaks set by
The Dark Knight last year ($18 million), and handily tops the Wednesday record for midnight sneaks set by
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on July 15, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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According to
/Film (in turn from the
Hollywood Reporter), that headline is true. Let me repeat:
Ryan Reynolds is Hal Jordan.
While the deal isn't yet finalized, the man currently known as Sandra Bullock's green card and Deadpool is indeed the final choice for the (approximately) $150 million production of the famous DC Comics character. The other three contenders for the role (who each received screen tests along with Reynolds) were Jared Leto,
The Hangover star Brad…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on July 10, 2009 at 10:55pm —
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If you did not already hear, last weekend saw something that is extremely rare in the box-office landscape- a TIE for first place! The estimates for the Friday-to-Sunday weekend for both
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen AND
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs were $42.5 million. Not since 1998 when
The Man in the Iron Mask opened against
Titanic have two studios picked the exact same number for their weekend estimate (though that was on a smaller scale).
Now thanks to…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on July 6, 2009 at 4:02pm —
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Estimates are in, and
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen reached astounding heights of box office glory in its opening 5 days, soaring to a level not seen since a certain caped crusader.
The sequel to Michael Bay's
Transformers grossed an unbelievable
$201.2 million in its first 5 days of release, breaking several records, and coming surprisingly close to others. The Friday-to-Sunday weekend portion of the gross came to an (estimated)
$112.0 million, easily t…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on June 28, 2009 at 1:43pm —
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According to initial figures from
Variety, mega-sequel
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has probably exceeded all expectations, amassing an astronomical opening day figure.
Are you ready for it? Here goes...
$60.6 million. That's right,
$60.6 million. In one day.
This now ranks as the all-time biggest opening Wednesday, kicking the pants off previous record-holder
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's $44.2 million opening day. This also exceeds the…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on June 25, 2009 at 10:30am —
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A message to both IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Studios:
Looking at the fall 2009 schedule, the months of September and October are quite crowded at the moment with several films that are sure to do solid business, but few to no standout smash hits. There are only a few films coming out during this period of dead air that could really break out: Sony's
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (September 18 in Digital 3D), Touchstone's
Surrogates (September 25), Paramount's…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on June 23, 2009 at 9:17pm —
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Well well well, after a few down weeks the box office is about to get a rude awakening with the arrival of the biggest movie of the summer,
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen... or IS it?! See, there have been huge hits this summer that have already made their names known (
Star Trek,
Up) and a few more that are certain to clean up regardless (
Ice Age,
Public Enemies), but all will pale in comparison to the return of the Autobots...
Except one:
Harry Potter…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on June 23, 2009 at 12:30am —
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Hey Spill, long time no see! Now that school's out (...for... SUMMER! [insert awesome guitar riff here]), I have all the time in the world to write for the site!
So... where was I?
Oh yeah, the Summer Movie Season!
If you recall my (featured, much-commented) article posted in April meant to determine which film would be the highest-grosser of the Summer (maybe the year), I made some (very detailed) analysis of many of the summer's big movies. By now, some are done and over with, some are on t…
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Added by Chilling Sound of Doom on June 20, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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