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'Argo,' 'Lincoln' spare no expense in Oscar best picture race
Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year is the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle...Tags: Amour (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Artists, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Advertising
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'Argo' wins Producers Guild award
Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov won the the Darryl F. Zanuck outstanding producer of motion picture for "Argo," besting "Lincoln" and other contenders in the category. It was the latest triumph for the film, which won the Golden Globes...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Golden Globe Awards, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Television
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Studios relying more on outside funding to make award contenders
For this awards season, Hollywood came through with a bumper crop of movies that were critical and fan favorites. But in many cases, the big studios themselves can't take much of the credit. Among the films basking in Oscar nominations — and...Tags: Paramount Pictures, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Charlie Chaplin, Les Miserables (musical), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
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Oscars: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo,' 'Les Miz' - hits poised for nominations
Film buffs who like to complain that the Academy Awards only favor art-house titles that most mainstream moviegoers avoid will have to come up with a new gripe: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will unveil Oscar nominations Thursday...Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Les Miserables (musical), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
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Spielberg, Affleck and Bigelow among DGA award nominees
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Four former winners and one newcomer were nominated for the 65th annual Directors Guild of America Award for directorial achievement in feature film for 2012. Steven Spielberg, 66, earned his 11th DGA nomination for "Lincoln," the acclaimed epic about...Tags: David O. Russell, Music, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Kelsey Grammer
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'Zero Dark Thirty,' 'Argo,' 'West of Memphis' among WGA nominees
The scripts of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln" and "Silver Linings Playbook" are among the nominees for Writers Guild of America Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen in 2012. Nominees announced Friday in the original screenplay...Tags: David O. Russell, Amour (movie), West of Memphis (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), The Help (movie)
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Boublil, Schonberg revisit, rework the songs of 'Les Miserables'
By Todd Martens"We were very reluctant," said one of the principals of 2012 film adaption of "Les Misérables," "to have an all sung-through movie." Such a statement could be guessed to originate from, say, a studio executive, one who is weighing the financial pros and...Tags: Movies, Music, Hugh Jackman, Music Theater, Entertainment Events
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Movie talk with Affleck, Bigelow, Gervasi, Hooper, Lee and Russell
When your movie is making a killing at the multiplex and collecting all manner of rave reviews, it's safe to assume that your movie is working. But the six filmmakers who came together for the fourth annual Envelope Directors Round Table looked for a...
Tags: Movies, David O. Russell, Hugh Jackman, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Entertainment
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'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Music, Russell Crowe, Golden Globe Awards, Television, Les Miserables (musical)
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For 'Les Miserables' fans, it's a spectacular dream
A theater fan can cycle through a litany of apprehensions about the new film adaptation of "Les Miserables." The lead, Jean Valjean, is portrayed by Hugh Jackman, an actor with Broadway chops but whose best-grossing films involve mutants, penguins and...Tags: Music, Movies, Genres, Entertainment Events, Music Theater
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Oscar nominations: 'Les Miserables' scores eight nods
After it opened in New York in 1987, the Broadway production of "Les Miserables" garnered eight Tony Awards, including best new musical. Twenty-five years later, the movie version of the beloved epic has scooped a total of eight Academy Award nominations,...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, Hugh Jackman, Entertainment, Tony Kushner
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Reel Critics: Not a big 'Reach,' but fast-paced fun
Tom Cruise already has a successful action movie franchise in the "Mission: Impossible" films. But he makes a serious bid to start up a similar action series as "Jack Reacher," a hard-boiled operative in the mold of Jason Bourne. Jack lives off the...Tags: Movies, Hugh Jackman, Robert Duvall, Hyde Park on Hudson (movie), Russell Crowe
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