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The Complete Guide To Winning Your Oscar Pool
6:12AM Richard Lawson | Hollywood’s big gay Olympics are approaching, and the annoying “film buff” in your office is probably pestering you to enter his Oscar pool, which he’s convinced he’s going to win. We want you to beat the little nerd. Here’s how! More »
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Best Animated Feature Oscar Honours Achievement In Scaring Kids
5:11AM Brian Moylan | The Oscars are on a campaign to ruin the psyche’s of America’s children. How? By nominating seriously scary movies for the Gee Willickers Awesome Cartoon Trophy. Beware what you’re doing to your kids by taking them to see these. More »
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Forecasting The Oscar Nominations: All Tomorrow’s Snubs
6:17AM Richard Lawson | Tomorrow is Gay Christmas Eve, with Oscar nominations announced in the ayem, setting hearts aflutter and sending visions of sugarplum fairy Hugh Jackman dancing through heads. We have a good idea of who will be nominated, but who should be? More »
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Avatar And 3D Films: The Extra ‘D’ Stands For ‘Dollars’
5:54PM Adrian Chen | If Avatar makes as much money as 20th Century Fox basically needs it to, we may never see a plain 2D movie again. Variety reports that 3D films tripled their box office take this year to $US1.3 billion. More »
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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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Flying High
3:37PM Andrew Belonsky | Having made $US288 million stateside, Pixar’s Up will be distributed in 15 international territories.
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Unfrozen Dinosaurs, Raging Robots Broker Tentative Peace Accord
12:47AM Richard Lawson | We have a tie! For now. The actuals will come out soon and one film will beat the other. But now! Ambivalence or equality or peace or something. How perfect, as we stand in the smoky ashes of Freedom’s birthday. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the US box office report. More »
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No Amount Of John Travolta-Brand Gatorade Can Cure This Hangover
12:43AM Richard Lawson | The movie about drunks and their drunken ways keeps hitting the big time. As does the movie about white people in the jungle. Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy and John Travolta have both seen better days. Click through for more on the US box office. More »
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All Pixar Has Left To Do Is Become Self-Aware And Bomb Us All
12:46AM Richard Lawson | Pixar continues its eerily strong success streak with its latest picture, about a floating house. Terminator is in trouble, while the Ben Stiller bubble has yet to pop. It probably never will. Click through for the latest US box office stats. More »
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