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carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com - 10 hours ago
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Alec Baldwin stopped to talk about how to
get through awards ceremonies. "They're always there to clap...
for someone else," Mr. Baldwin said. "They're never going to call your name. You know that. And if they do, that's like, you know, a hallucinatory ...
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Awards Show Tips From Alec Baldwin
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getthebigpicture.net - 18 hours ago
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Time will tell if this is the first
major hurdle for The Hurt Locker to overcome on...
the way to what would be a major (industry) upset at the Academy Awards, but Kathryn Bigelow 's gritty and fantastic Iraq War movie picked up the equivalent to Best Picture at The Gotham Awards , ...
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'Hurt Locker' Wins Best Feature at Gotham Awards
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filmschoolrejects.com - 20 hours ago
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I love The Hollywood Reporter. Beyond measure. Especially
on days like this when it’s a little chilly...
outside, the future seems bleak and unrelenting, and the lack of discussion regarding penises on screen garnering awards praise is downright staggering. Over at the respectable rag, ...
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So Alec Baldwin Might Win an Oscar for Exposing Himself ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 20 hours ago
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"Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's
known at my house, Passover," Bob Hope quipped as...
he opened the Oscar show in 1968. During his 18 stints as emcee of the awards extravaganza, Hope made his lack of an Oscar -- or even a nomination -- a ...
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Oscar host Alec Baldwin may also be nominee
indiewire.com - 36 hours ago
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An eclectic batch of awards offer a considerable
honor in their own right, the Oscar precursors are...
about to start coming at us fast and furious. Starting early next week with the Gotham Awards, Spirit Award nominations, and the National Board ...
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For Your Consideration: A Guide To The Oscar Precursors
reassurance.blogspot.com - 46 hours ago
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Via Variety , Nicholas Ray's final (solo-directed, feature)
film We Can't Go Home Again , a little-seen...
"experimental" film he made with his wife Susan and a group of his film students at the time, will undergo a $500,000 restoration funded by the Nicholas Ray Foundation with the Venice Film ...
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Nicholas Ray's Final Film to Be Restored; Plus Award Updates
filmexperience.blogspot.com - 46 hours ago
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Refresh screen for updates. T hanks to Tony
for the tips. Maggie Cheung alert! She walked the...
carpet earlier in this white number to your left. She was presenting Best Picture at the Golden Horse Awards . The Golden Horse is Taiwanese in origin ...
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Golden Horse Awards: Maggie Cheung, Ang Lee, Leon Dai
dvdverdict.com - 2 days ago
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Reviewed by Christopher Kulik Quote: "Revisiting Forrest Gump
on Blu-ray was a truly magical experience."...
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Forrest Gump (Blu-Ray)
getthebigpicture.net - 2 days ago
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We finally have some commercials for Nine ,
which is pretty distinguishable from the other Best Picture...
hopefuls because of its major league cast and it's the only musical anywhere near the running. If you've been following our coverage of Nine , you won't see a whole lot that's new in ...
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A Couple New Commercials for 'Nine'
getthebigpicture.net - 2 days ago
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Here's news you can use: A chart of
what Oscar handicappers are thinking moving into the final...
month of the year. Now, this year, we have ten Best Picture nominees, and the winner will be determined by the weighting of the votes (first place votes are worth more than second place, and so on). ...
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Insiders Rate Potential Best Picture Nominees
getthebigpicture.net - 3 days ago
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The Lovely Bones is well-positioned, if nothing else,
to play spoiler at the Academy Awards. It could...
be a vote-splitter in a couple categories, although Best Picture and Best Director don't seem to be the ones you hear about. Best Supporting Actor has some legs, though, since Stanley ...
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Two New Clips from 'The Lovely Bones'
filmexperience.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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Australia's only knowledge of Thanksgiving is, essentially, what
we see from TV and the movies. I feel...
then that it is only fitting that I "give thanks" for a certain woman who has shaped by idea of Thanksgiving more than any other: Christina Ricci . ...
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Glenn Gives Thanks
goldderby.latimes.com - 6 days ago
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"Up in the Air" and "The Hurt Locker"
are the only two films cited as likely Oscar...
best-picture nominees by all 20 of the pundits contributing to The Envelope's first Buzzmeter of derby season. Participants include Brad Brevet (RopeOfSilicon), Greg ...
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Oscars Buzzmeter: Experts say 'Up in the Air,' 'The Hurt ...
theonering.net - 7 days ago
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Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson has confirmed the first
script for the two films based on JRR Tolkien’s...
The Hobbit has been completed. Pan’s Labyrinth helmer Guillermo del Toro is to bring the novel to the screen while Jackson, Fran ...
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Peter Jackson: First Hobbit Script Is Completed
inthenews.co.uk - 8 days ago
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Monday, 23, Nov 2009 06:00 By Lewis Bazley
. Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson has confirmed the first...
script for the two films based on JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit has been completed. Pan's Labyrinth helmer Guillermo del Toro is to bring the novel to ...
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The Hobbit - Peter Jackson happy to hand over Hobbit ...
guardian.co.uk - 8 days ago
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Hollywood celebrities can't compete with the canine stars
of the Fido awards for dogs in cinema In...
Hollywood, awards season is already in full swing, although it's at least three months until the Oscars ceremony. The big news so far is that, in a ...
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Forget the Oscars, the Fidos are best in show | Charles Gant
firstshowing.net - 8 days ago
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13 what actually defines oscar quality?? the film
delivered its every intends if not even more it...
was funny it was good acted it had a great OST it had no loose ends almost everything tied nicely at the end it had really a nice plot where you couldnt ...
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The Hangover for Best Picture?!
getthebigpicture.net - 9 days ago
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Another list of potential Academy Award nominees has
been released, this time in the animated short film...
category. No, it's not exactly the inside word on Best Picture coming a few weeks early, but I can say from experience, having made a little noise in order to get a DVD of all the ...
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Shock: Pixar On Oscar Shortlist for Animated Shorts
getthebigpicture.net - 10 days ago
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Earlier this week, the Oscar shortlist for documentaries
was unveiled. It's the fifteen films that can wind...
up making it to the final round of five. There were omissions: This Is It doesn't qualify because it was released too late. The other music doc, Anvil was excused for no reason that ...
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Snubbed 'Tyson' Director Claims Oscar Extortion
slashfilm.com - 10 days ago
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
today announced the animated short films short list, a...
list of 10 shorts, narrowed down from 37 films, that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. The Academy branch members ...
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Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders
getthebigpicture.net - 11 days ago
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Hey, whaddya know: It's New Moon weekend, and
it's bound to be a big one. In fact,...
we break down the potential box office for the film and its remarkable pre-sale numbers below, as part of our weekly bite-size news bundle. But put it this way: It's pretty much going to be the dominant movie ...
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Week in Review: 'New Moon,' Oscars, 'Batman 3'
boy-meets-girl.skynetblogs.be - 11 days ago
getthebigpicture.net - 12 days ago
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I'm not quite ready to follow Gold Derby
's logic when it claims that Inglourious Basterds will...
be the Best Picture winner at the Oscars. Sure, it's a prediction for the sake of making a prediction, but I don't think it's a stong case. I do think Basterds will likely get nominated, along ...
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Curious Oscar Prediction: 'Basterds' Wins Best Picture
awardsdaily.com - 12 days ago
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The category for Sound at the Oscars has
always been somewhat of a mystery. Everyone has their...
own theory as to why certain films are recognized for Sound and others aren’t. Some say “the loudest movie always wins.” Others ...
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SoundWorks Will Listen Harder
blog.reelloop.com - 12 days ago
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I n a surprising snub, Michael Moore’s Capitalism:
A Love Story heads a list of high profile...
non-fiction features ignored in the long-list vying for a Best Documentary Academy Award Nomination. The rotund polemicist had previously won the award for Bowling Columbine and ...
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Michael Moore won’t be causing a ruckus at the Oscars ...
edendale.typepad.com - 12 days ago
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About an hour ago, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Documentary Feature...
Shortlist. The 15 films that made the cut are: THE BEACHES OF AGNES Directed by Agnes Varda BURMA VJ Directed by Anders Østergaard...
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Oscar Narrows Features to 15: First Thoughts on Snubs ...
indiewire.com - 12 days ago
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
named 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will...
advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards(R). Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 15 films are ...
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Academy Names 15 to Documentary Shortlist
getthebigpicture.net - 13 days ago
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Keeping up with the awards circuit, here's the
official list of eligible films for the Best Documentary...
category, as released by Oscars.org . Now that I think about it, it hasn't been a big, big year for docs, and Michael Moore's Capitalism , while not a great film, was probably the most ...
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Oscar-Eligible Documentaries Announced
awardsdaily.com - 13 days ago
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As Nikki Finke foretold : Beverly Hills, CA
(November 18, 2009) — Hamish Hamilton will direct the...
82nd Academy Awards ® telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. It will be Hamilton’s first time directing the ...
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Hamish Hamilton is The Guy
edendale.typepad.com - 13 days ago
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Rumor has it that the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences is due to announce its...
Documentary Feature shortly (perhaps as early as later today). Given that, there've been a bunch of conversations of late as to what may...
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Previewing the Academy's Documentary Feature Shortlist
goldderby.latimes.com - 13 days ago
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As all Oscarologists know, the movie that wins
best picture usually wins best director too, and the...
recipient of that prize is usually the same person who claims the top honor from the Directors Guild of America. At this point in the derby, we don't ...
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Oscars prediction: 'Inglourious Basterds' will win best ...
cinematical.com - 13 days ago
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[Note: Scott Weinberg has the pro side of
this argument -- why Roger Corman does deserve an...
Oscar -- in an article that will run later today.] In a post yesterday about the honorary Academy Awards given out over the weekend, I said this about ...
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Why Roger Corman Doesn't Deserve an Oscar
blogs.indiewire.com - 13 days ago
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Awards Oscar Watch: Where Are The Hurt Locker
Screeners? At the start of the awards season, I...
had The Hurt Locker at the top of my top ten picks list. But right now quite a few other movies are getting more noise. That doesn’t matter in the end. ...
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Oscar Watch: Where Are The Hurt Locker Screeners? - ...
getthebigpicture.net - 13 days ago
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The Golden Globes are expanding (is expanding?) the
animated film category this year from three movies to...
five. Of course, since it's the Globes, they could always go to eight one year, you know, just for the hell of it. The move comes a week after the Oscars announced the 20 films in the ...
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Golden Golbes Animation Category Expanded
weblogs.variety.com - 14 days ago
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Disney has put “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea” in dry dock. The picture, tentatively scheduled...
to begin production in February, has been halted indefinitely, and McG is no longer steering the ship. The studio confirmed that the studio ...
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Disney Beaches "Captain Nemo"
getthebigpicture.net - 15 days ago
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We don't have a whole lot to go
on here but Thompson on Hollywood (or, if you...
prefer, Anne Thompson) writes that Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar will be among the presenters at the 144th annual Academy Awards in March. Thompson reports that Bill Mechanic, the Oscar telecast ...
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Tarantino, Almodóvar to Present Academy Awards
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 15 days ago
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As stars and filmmaking elite arrived Saturday night
for the inaugural non-televised Governors Awards, in which honorary...
Oscars are handed out, it became apparent this new, more intimate awards showcase was indeed a big hit. The academy was clearly out...
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Oscars in November: A brand new kick-off to awards season
goldderby.latimes.com - 16 days ago
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Following up on the inside track we recently
gave you on the best-picture race, here's an update...
on the slugfest over best actor. Bullets alongside entries on the list below connote the five guys I think will still be standing when nominees are ...
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Inside track on the Oscars' best actor race
getthebigpicture.net - 16 days ago
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The Visual Effects Society announced at the end
of this week that just a few days before...
the Academy Awards, it will present James Cameron the VES Lifetime Achievement Award. That's pretty much imposible to argue against, don't you think? Animation World Network has the entire ...
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Cameron Receiving VES Lifetime Achievement Award
incontention.com - 16 days ago
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Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall and Gordon Willis show
off the Oscars they received at last night’s Governors’...
Awards. (The fourth honoree, John Calley, could not attend.) More pictures from the evening to be found at the official AMPAS site here . (On a side note, one pic on the ...
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Welcome to the club
oscars.org - 16 days ago
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oscars.org —
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The
Awards Academy Awards Governors Awards Sci-Tech Awards Student Academy...
Awards Nicholl Fellowships Meet the Academy Members History & Organization Our Buildings Movie Museum Project Posters & Books Events ...
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Video Highlights
reassurance.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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I've likely spoken at some length on the
majority of these awards, seeing as how most of...
them were given out this year... which means this will be the last installment of the Awards section of The Decade List, as I hope to will finish this all up by the end of the year. The "national film ...
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The Decade List: Awards (2008)
indiewire.com - 19 days ago
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Before any of you get all optimistic about
this year’s awards race, I decided to utilize this...
week’s column to remind you of how horribly wrong things can turn out. As the end of this decade approaches, and you start considering your favorite ...
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For Your Consideration: The 50 Most Despicable Oscar ...
atomicpopcorn.net - 20 days ago
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Having only been introduced in 2001,”Best Animated Feature”
is a fairly new category for the Oscars. Since...
then, the Academy has only had three nominees in the category every year. This year, however, it’s looking like that might change. The number of nominees is determined ...
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Oscars Possibly to Have Full Ballot for Best Animated ...
indiewire.com - 20 days ago
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
has released a list of the twenty films that...
have submitted themselves for consideration for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar. The unusually high number means that for the second time in ...
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20 Films To Contend For Animated Feature Oscar
getthebigpicture.net - 20 days ago
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Here's the list of the 20 films that
have already been submitted for the Best Animated Feature...
category at the Academy Awards. Now, with Up a very likely Best Picture nominee, that kind of undercuts this category. We've mentioned this before: If Up is in the running for Best Picture and, ...
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'Up' Leads List of 20 Potential Animated Nominees
oscars.org - 20 days ago
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oscars.org —
Beverly Hills, CA — Twenty features have been
submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category...
for the 82nd Academy Awards.
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20 Animated Features Line Up for 2009 Oscar Race
oscar-watch.ew.com - 20 days ago
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By Dave Karger Dave Karger on outside chance
the two buddies will vie in both Best Actor...
and Best Supporting Actor races
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Oscars: Clooney vs. Damon...twice?
blog.reelloop.com - 20 days ago
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F ollowing the news that Smith’s Oldboy remake
has fallen through , the erstwhile Fresh Prince has...
returned to more familiar territory – finding an Oscar-baiting role to alternate around his action projects. With an I Am Legend prequel in development, and ...
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Smith to star in Flowers for Algernon
reassurance.blogspot.com - 20 days ago
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As per usual, the day after I make
a post about several US distribution deals several more...
are announced. Sony Pictures Classics paid top-dollar for Juan José Campanella's The Secret in Their Eyes [ El secreto de sus ojos ], a box office smash in its native Argentina and the country's official ...
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