Only a week after fans of Let the Right One In complained that the retail copies of the DVD offered an awful translation of the film's original Swedish, now Best Picture Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire has been released to the masses sans special features.
That's right: The DVD has only — gasp! — the movie [...]
Did the entire country get snowed in over the weekend? Could bad reviews have really kept JoBro fans away? The mind boggles.
The box office Top 10, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:
1. Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail $16.5M
2. [...]
I'm always excited about the Academy Awards — yeah, there are still a few of us left out there — but I'm guessing there won't be a whole lot of thrilling and/or shocking moments this year. (Most any upset would go thusly: Oooh, the frontrunner didn't win! Which means...someone or -thing completely undeserving did.)
But for [...]
You know it's the same every year: You swear you're going to see all the Academy Award-nominated films before the big day. You put the chosen ones on your to-do list as soon as awards season kicks off. You've got plenty of time!
Then suddenly it's Oscar night, and you're left shrugging at all the opening-monologue [...]
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle and distributor Fox Searchlight released a statement today responding to accusations that the filmmakers did not adequately compensate Rubiana Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, the adorable kids who played two of the main characters as youngsters.
The Mumbai-set film is up for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but has been [...]
An odd thing occurred to me as I was watching the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards last night — I wasn't all that excited. Maybe it was because I was tired from an evening spent running around. Maybe it was because Thursday's Critics Choice Awards had sapped some of my I LOVE MOVIES! gush.
(Seriously. [...]
The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association today announced its pick of Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire as Best Film of 2008, additionally awarding it Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Breakthrough Performance (Dev Patel), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy).
Other notable nods include a posthumous Best Supporting Actor win for Heath Ledger, whose creepy, mesmerizing Joker [...]
Well, depending on how you look at it: Danny Boyle's latest about an Indian teenager who hits it big on his country's version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is not likely to bring in $900+ million before it even hits DVD.
But according to indieWIRE, Slumdog Millionaire's per-screen box office over its opening weekend [...]
Lots of new movies this week. Click on titles to visit each film's roundup of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with the exception of Quantum of Solace and My Name Is Bruce, whose blueness will lead you to my own humble opinions. Shockingly, the majority of these releases are receiving several upward thumbs; must be Oscar [...]
