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If Illegal Downloads Were Votes, District 9 Would Win Best Picture
9:42AM Maureen OConnor | Bookies favour The Hurt Locker for a Best Picture win (gaining traction: an Up in the Air upset) but if BitTorrent downloads were votes, District 9 would squeak past Avatar for the win. Biggest losers: An Education, Blind Side. [TorrentFreak]
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Oscar Standings: Everyone Gets A Bump From Weekend Awards
8:33AM Richard Rushfield | Another slew of awards and nominations came in this weekend and the result is that this year’s stagnant deathmarch of an Oscar race got a tiny bit shaken up, or at least it got a bit more confusing. More »
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Movieland Braces For Full Frontal Assault Of Couple’s Retreatmer
4:21AM Richard Rushfield | The big question is whether a trio of decent looking British imports can make a dent in the latest instalment of Vince Vaughn’s crusade against comedy. Our guess is no. More »
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For Your Consideration! October Oscar Movies
3:05AM Richard Lawson | As lazy August gnaws at our edges, we can start expecting at least one thing: Spring Oscar-candidate trailers. We’ve got two for you today! There’s the much-ballyhooed An Education, a stuffy British trifle, and Amelia, a string-tugging biopic. More »
Sony Classics Takes Defamer’s Advice, Gets ‘An Education’
8:57AM Kyle Buchanan | Even before its Sundance premiere, we postulated that An Education would be a great fit for Sony Pictures Classics and predicted a sale in the neighbourhood of $US4 million. More »
Today In Sundance Hell: ‘Adam’ Sells, ‘Education’ Stalls, Robin Williams’s Best?
4:28AM STV | Wherein your loyal, frostbitten editors survey tomorrow’s movie forecast today: Mostly cloudy, with strong industry winds and a 75 percent chance of cliché storms:
Nick Hornby Getting The Hang Of This Screenwriting Crap
3:15AM STV | The soaring success of An Education is the worst-kept secret in Park City today, and novelist and breakthrough screenwriter Nick Hornby isn’t about to let star Carey Mulligan hog all the Sundance-darling honours. More »
‘An Education’ Takes Commanding Lead Among Sundance’s Best
5:55AM STV | Coming into Sundance, we had a feeling the coming-of-age dramedy An Education would probably be pretty good. But as 282 lucky ticketholders at Sunday’s premiere soon discovered, “good” isn’t the half of it. More »