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Oscar predictions 2013: Sounding off on sound
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. He tackled the troublesome shorts categories here. Now it's time to peek...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), Gold Standard Incorporated, Academy Awards, Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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Oscar 8-Ball: Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'
Can a movie that New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick called "basically a three-hour homage to 'Blazing Saddles'" manage to pull in a few Oscar nominations? Time to check in with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in...
Tags: Christoph Waltz, Gold Standard Incorporated, Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio, Inglourious Basterds (movie)
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Dressing the parts: Film costumes that help make statements
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs the year winds down, multiplexes fill up with films vying for award-season consideration. Thanks to a bumper crop of period movies, late 2012 has showcased some serious talent in the field of costume design. Some of the films are worth watching for...Tags: Christoph Waltz, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley
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‘DJesus Uncrossed’: Most blasphemous skit in ‘SNL’ history?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“DJesus Uncrossed” may have crossed the line, with some calling it the single most offensive skit in “Saturday Night Live” ...... -
Oscars 2013: Telluride festival emerges as best picture predictor
Oscar pundits love to debate the best forecaster of the Academy Awards. Is it the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild ensemble trophy or some obscure film critics organization? Here's a new theory: the Telluride Film Festival. If "Argo" takes home...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The Artist (movie), Cannes Film Festival, Ben Affleck, The Hurt Locker (movie)
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'Les Miserables' among winners of Cinema Audio Society Awards
The period musical "Les Miserables" won the 49th Cinema Audio Society Award on Saturday evening for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for a live action motion picture for 2012. The award went to the sound mixing team of production mixer Simon...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), Beirut (Lebanon), Amusement and Theme Parks, Pete Smith, Peter Jackson
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Judge approves interim loan for Rhythm & Hues
A federal judge approved a $17-million loan from two movie studios to keep the lights on at troubled Rhythm & Hues, the award-winning visual effects company that worked on the Oscar-nominated “Life of Pi.” Rhythm & Hues, based in El Segundo,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Layoffs and Downsizing, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Economy, Business and Finance
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Depictions of violence in theater: Revelation, not nihilism
In one of the most infamous scenes in modern drama, a group of young men in a London park stone a baby to death in its carriage. What begins as roughhousing escalates to all-out sadism until a rock is thrown at point blank range, ending the child's...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Mud (movie), William Friedkin, Sarah Kane
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A sneak peek at three Oscar ballots
On the eve of Oscar voting, we asked three academy members to let us peek at their ballots and tell us, anonymously, who they're voting for and why. Here's what they had to say: OSCARS 2013: Full Coverage PRODUCERS BRANCH: This 40ish Oscar nominee...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Preston Sturges, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Quentin Tarantino, Celebrities
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Oscars 2013: 'Argo' generates most heat, but can 'Lincoln' catch it?
With the Oscars finally upon us Sunday, it's do-or-die for the movies ranked in the L.A. Times Data Desk's HeatMeter, which tallies points at events throughout the season to gauge the overall traction of people and films. With Ben Affleck's "Argo"...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Les Miserables (musical), Entertainment, Schindler's List (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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Rhythm & Hues to file for bankruptcy protection
The award-winning visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues, considered one of the industry's leaders, is laying off 200 employees as it files for bankruptcy protection, sources close to the studio said. The layoffs come as the L.A. company, which worked...
Tags: Ang Lee, Layoffs and Downsizing, Economy, Business and Finance, Malaysia, Employees
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Weinstein Co. asks toymaker to discontinue 'Django' action figures
Re-imagining the slave narrative should be left to the professionals. That was the word Friday when the Weinstein Co. announced that it has asked toymaker NECA to discontinue the "Django Unchained" action figure dolls after receiving complaints that the...
Tags: Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Slavery, Jamie Foxx
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