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Review: 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone's' title oversells movie
What is it with Hollywood and hyperbole these days? Last week saw "Oz the Great and Powerful" and now we have "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." Calling it "The Mildly Diverting Burt Wonderstone" would have been more accurate, but how many tickets is that...
Tags: Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, James Gandolfini, Steve Buscemi
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Believing in magic at 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone' premiere
Jim Carrey walked the red carpet at "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" premiere Monday night wearing shiny silver boots, gold Elvis-style sunglasses and a white jacket. Hordes of screaming fans along Hollywood Boulevard in front of TCL Chinese Theater made...
Tags: Movies, Aerosmith (music group), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (movie), Olivia Wilde, David Copperfield
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Oscars 2013: Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor
Christoph Waltz won the supporting actor Oscar for "Django Unchained" in one of the tightest acting races at this year's Academy Awards on Sunday. The man who already had one Oscar on his mantel beat out four other veteran performers: Alan Arkin ("Argo"...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Argo (movie), Christoph Waltz, The Master (movie)
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Oscar predictions 2013: We call the four acting races
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Earlier he looked at the short films, sound categories, visual crafts races,...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Argo (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Gold Standard Incorporated
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'Argo' producers show confidence in Affleck, even if Oscar didn't
Producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov had no idea who was going to direct "Argo." "Maybe I was going to, maybe Grant would, maybe somebody else," Clooney said. "We didn't know." But when Ben Affleck called Clooney and Heslov's Detroit hotel in early...
Tags: Film Festivals, Argo (movie), U.S. Department of State, John Goodman, The Town (movie)
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SAG Awards 2013: 'Argo' a go-go; Day-Lewis an Oscar frontrunner
"Argo" took home a single prize at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night, but it was the one that mattered most. Winning the trophy for performance by a cast in a motion picture, Ben Affleck's CIA drama solidified its status as the front-runner...
Tags: David O. Russell, Mary Tyler Moore, Alec Baldwin, Argo (movie), Flu
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SAG Awards 2013: Tommy Lee Jones wins best supporting actor
Tommy Lee Jones won the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role Sunday night for playing the outspoken Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln." Jones was not in attendance to receive the award,...
Tags: Nicole Kidman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Argo (movie), Screen Actors Guild
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The Gold Standard: Bet a penny on Day-Lewis as Lincoln?
"I am 10 years older than I was a year ago." We believe that's a line Abraham Lincoln said to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of "Lincoln." Or it could be something "Lincoln" lead Daniel Day-Lewis wearily muttered during one of the endless Q&As he's done...
Tags: The Help (movie), Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Impossible (movie), Argo (movie)
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Heatmeter: 'Argo' and Jennifer Lawrence lead the Oscar pack
A flurry of ceremonies over the last 2 1/2 weeks -- the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild prizes and the Screen Actors Guild awards -- has separated pretender from contender in Hollywood's 2012-13 awards season. According to the L.A. Times HeatMeter,...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Impossible (movie), Bernie (movie), Argo (movie), Jennifer Lawrence
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'Argo' named best film at the BAFTA awards
Director-producer-star Ben Affleck’s historical drama “Argo” continued its late-inning awards sweep Sunday, winning a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for best film. Although snubbed by 2013 Oscar balloters in the best...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pixar Animation, Argo (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Christoph Waltz
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Teen girls give zombie romance 'Warm Bodies' a healthy box office
While most Americans will camp out in front of their televisions with seven-layer dip watching the Super Bowl this afternoon, a relative handful of teen girls is likely to head to the multiplex instead. Young female moviegoers pushed "Warm Bodies"...
Tags: Sports, The Expendables (movie) , Nicholas Hoult, Stand Up Guys (movie), Teresa Palmer
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Ticket sales to slow as Americans stay home for Super Bowl
Cold-blooded linebackers will knock down “Warm Bodies” at the box office this weekend, as the Super Bowl is expected to be a much bigger draw than the new zombie movie. Super Bowl weekend is traditionally one of the slowest of the year at the...
Tags: Sports, Stand Up Guys (movie), Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Football
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