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‘Black Swan’ Takes Best Feature, Actress, Director & Cinematographer At Indie Spirit Awards

The Playlist Staff — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:05:14 +0000

'Black Swan' Takes Best Feature, Actress, Director & Cinematographer At Indie Spirit Awards

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Oscarbation: The Road To The Oscars 2011 & Predictions

The Playlist Staff — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:52:31 +0000

Oscarbation: The Road To The Oscars 2011 & Predictions

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2011 Oscar Nominations: ‘The King’s Speech’ Leads The Pack With 12 Nominations

The Playlist Staff — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:50:16 +0000

2011 Oscar Nominations: 'The King's Speech' Leads The Pack With 12 Nominations

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‘The Social Network’ Tops The Golden Globes With Four Awards Including Best Picture

The Playlist Staff — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:00:17 +0000

'The Social Network' Tops The Golden Globes With Four Awards Including Best Picture

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ACE Eddies Nominations Round Up The Usual Suspects, ‘Scott Pilgrim’ & ‘Easy A’ Get Some Comedy Love

The Playlist Staff — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:10:45 +0000

ACE Eddies Nominations Round Up The Usual Suspects, 'Scott Pilgrim' & 'Easy A' Get Some Comedy Love

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2011 Writers Guild Nominations Has Some Surprises

The Playlist Staff — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:19:01 +0000

2011 Writers Guild Nominations Has Some Surprises

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No Surprises In 2011 Producers Guild Award Nominations; ‘The Town’ Becoming An Oscar Contender?

The Playlist Staff — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:33:07 +0000

No Surprises In 2011 Producers Guild Award Nominations; 'The Town' Becoming An Oscar Contender?

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My Top 10 Films Of 2010: Kevin Jagernauth

The Playlist Staff — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:12:00 +0000

My Top 10 Films Of 2010: Kevin Jagernauth

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‘Winter’s Bone’ & ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Lead The Nominees For The Spirit Awards

The Playlist Staff — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:18:37 +0000

'Winter's Bone' & 'The Kids Are All Right' Lead The Nominees For The Spirit Awards

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Annette Bening & Julianne Moore Will Both Go For Best Actress For ‘The Kids Are All Right’

Oliver Lyttelton — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:45:00 +0000

One of the brighter spots of the year so far, and one of the few likely year-end awards contenders to have been released to date, is Lisa Chodolenko’s “The Kids Are All Right.” Easily the director’s best work, the film’s long been thought to be a near-certainty for one of the ten Best Picture slots at the Academy Awards, in addition to delivering nominations for Julianne Moore and Annette Bening, who play the lesbian couple at the film’s center.

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Weekend Box Office: Brawn Beats Estrogen, Quirk As Stallone’s ‘Expendables’ Romp

Gabe Toro — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Let this weekend be a study in recognizable advertising versus selling something a bit off the beaten path. Two distinctly aged box office behemoths battled this weekend, with Sylvester Stallone’s “The Expendables” defeating Julia Roberts’ “Eat Pray Love,” and both handily outdistancing the offbeat “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.” Lionsgate finally opens something that isn’t a “Saw” or Tyler Perry movie, Sony takes the safe bet, and Universal continues a banner year during which they took baths on “Green Zone,” “The Wolfman” and “Robin Hood.”

Marketing tells the story of this weekend, as Lionsgate has been pushing “The Expendables” hard for months now.

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Weekend Box Office: Leo And The Dreamers Finally Defeated By ‘The Other Guys’

Gabe Toro — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:40:00 +0000

The Will Ferrell-Adam McKay teaming still works gangbusters. Each film they’ve teamed up for has done at least $85 million, with $30-something-million openings a virtual guarantee at this point. McKay doesn’t seem to be a selling point, so there must be some sort of pedigree the audience recognizes in the “real” Ferrell movies he does with McKay as opposed to the other, lesser films he does in between. The opening weekend of his last starring role, last year’s “Land of the Lost,” was only half of what “The Other Guys” is expected to do after final estimates.

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Inception’ Defeats Cats, Dogs, Zac Efron And ‘Schmucks’

Gabe Toro — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:30:00 +0000

That’s three straight weekends of Chris Nolan’s “Inception” as the ruler of the roost. While the competition wasn’t stellar, the dream-attack heist picture posted a muscular hold to survive being outgrossed by “Dinner For Schmucks” on Friday with its stronger IMAX pricing scam/business strategy. It’s hard to say the film has become a definitive zeitgeist-grabber, but it’s a water-cooler film, no doubt, and while it might not crest $300 million, it’s sure to cross $200m by mid-week.

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MIFF 2010: ‘Carlos,’ ‘Winter’s Bone,’ ‘HaHaHa’ & More

Simon Dang — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:24:00 +0000

The cold July winter in Melbourne once again brings the illustrious international film festival to town and, along with it, a vast selection of films from all around the globe.

This year’s line-up is a typically eclectic mix, including a healthy number of 2010 festival darlings that has us in revelry even if an apparent budget cut in guest recruitment has resulted in a significant drop in the caliber of guests from last year that included the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Carey Mulligan and Nicolas Winding Refn.

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Weekend Box Office: Filmgoers Request Pinch Of ‘Salt’ But Plate Of ‘Inception’

Gabe Toro — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0000

By and large, studios have somewhat agreed to play nice during the major moviegoing periods of the year, agreeing to space out their major releases so that each studio can have their own weekend to themselves, with the other majors and mini-majors offering only smaller counter-programming. As a result, Sony had no real competition opening this weekend against their action thriller “Salt” and it was reflected in a solid opening frame that firmed up Angelina Jolie’s rep as one of Hollywood’s more versatile stars.

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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me’ Proves Lovable to Audiences with $60.1 Million

Kimber Myers — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:15:00 +0000

If you don’t like kids, it was probably best to stay away from the movie theater this weekend. Between the $60.1 million that top-earner “Despicable Me” brought in and “Toy Story 3″‘s $22 million, your local megaplex likely felt more like a daycare center (shudder). With “Despicable Me,” Universal continues to try to break into the animation market dominated by Pixar, Disney, and DreamWorks, and this is their most successful attempt yet. The Steve Carell-voiced film trounced the previous opening weekends of their earlier films “Coraline” ($16.8 million), “The Tale of Despereaux” ($10.1 million), and “Curious George” ($14.7 million).

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For ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Cast and Filmmakers, It’s All About Character

Kimber Myers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:30:00 +0000

For those of you keeping track at home, this is our third piece on Lisa Cholodenko’s indie comedy this week, after a solo interview with the filmmaker and a glowing review. And although it might seem like we’re performing the journalistic equivalent of sexual favors on “The Kids Are All Right” for three straight days, trust us: the pleasure is all ours. Cholodenko’s film is a solid, character-driven comedy that doesn’t rely on wacky situations or bodily functions for its humor; instead it earns our laughs by what we know of its entirely human characters.

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In Theaters: ‘Despicable Me,’ ‘Predators,’ ‘The Kids Are All Right’

Jessica Kiang — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:49:00 +0000

US theaters seem to collectively be taking a breath this week, in anticipation of bigger weeks to come, with just two new releases going wide, the animated 3D “Despicable Me” for the kids, and the live action, non 3D “Predators” for everyone else. Any other week we suspect the latter would be a smaller b- release and the former a pale Pixar me-too, but as it stands both should benefit from a relative lack of competition for their core audiences right now, with “Toy Story 3” having done the majority of its business after 3 weeks, “Knight and Day” tanking, and the box office domination of “Twilight: Eclipse” meaning teenage boys are feeling unusually underserved at their local multiplex.

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Review: ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Is One of the Year’s Best (And We’re Not Saying That Just Because It’s Only July)

Kimber Myers — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

If Nancy Meyers of “It’s Complicated” and “The Holiday” fame wrote about lesbians — and actually had talent — she might have made “The Kids Are All Right.” Like Meyers, filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko crafts a movie actually made with adults in mind as an audience (and features some gorgeous, glossy-worthy house porn), but Cholodenko doesn’t rely on unlikely, Ephron-aping meet-cutes and groan-worthy dialogue. Instead, “The Kids Are All Right” feels bracingly authentic — and entirely entertaining — in its picture of a middle-aged marriage whose participants just happen to be two women.

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Family Matters: Lisa Cholodenko Talks ‘The Kids Are All Right’

Edward Davis — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:31:00 +0000

It’s been eight years since “Laurel Canyon” and six since her little-seen Showtime TV film, “Cavedweller,” but indie filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (“High Art”) hasn’t been wasting time. In fact, perhaps her new film, the sharply written and affecting Sundance 2010 hit, “The Kids Are All Right” demonstrates that taking your time to craft a screenplay can really pay off. Cholodenko always flirted with greatness in the uneven, but always interesting, “High Art” and “Laurel Canyon,” but the raves from Sundance have been justifiable — “The Kids Are All Right” is easily her finest work to date and a terrifically funny and moving film.

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Josh Hutcherson Talks His ‘Spider-Man’ Audition & ‘Red Dawn’ Role

Edward Davis — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Yesterday we sat down with Josh Hutcherson, one of the stars of Lisa Cholodenko’s excellent upcoming dramedy, “The Kids Are All Right,” starring Annette Benning, Julianna Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska (“Alice In Wonderland”).

The film is wonderful, one of our faves so far this year, but let’s not kid ourselves, top of everyone’s minds at the moment is whether Hutcherson will star in Marc Webb’s 3D re-imagining of “Spider-Man” which hopes to shoot by the end of the year in time for a July 3, 2012 release date.

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New ‘Life During Wartime’ Poster Is Unremarkable; ‘Kids Are All Right’ Featurette Illustrates Why Film Is A Winner

Edward Davis — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:45:00 +0000

A new poster for Todd Solondz’s “Life During Wartime” has arrived and it’s basically a more illustrated version of the already released U.K. one, and frankly we liked the English version better (and surely that will sell the picture better too). The film is a quasi sequel to Solondz’s “Happiness” and stars Allison Janney, Ciarán Hinds, Paul Reubens (aka “Pee Wee Herman”) and Ally Sheedy among many others. The boy in the poster is the actor Dylan Riley Snyder.[Vulture]

Vertigo Films is making its second 3D live-action pic based on Novel Entertainment’s children’s property “Horrid Henry.” The first was the $30 million box-office hit “Street Dance 3D.” The character is the second most successful children’s character in the U.K.

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‘The Kids Are All Right’ Soundtrack Features MGMT, Bowie, Deerhoof, CSS & More

Edward Davis — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:37:00 +0000

The soundtrack to Lisa Cholodenko’s upcoming Sundance hit “The Kids Are All Right” has been announced and it’s a pretty great mix of current indie rock bands (MGMT, Deerhoof, CSS, Fever Ray) and classics (X, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Leon Russell). Some new photos have been released on the film’s Facebook page too.

The 17-track album comes out August 3rd, but digitally on July 6th. The Focus Features film (which we’re kind of dying to see at this point in the summer dearth we’ve been delivered so far) hits theaters July 9.

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Michael Sheen & Toni Collette Love ‘Jesus Henry Christ’

Christopher Bell — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Variety reports that Michael Sheen (“Frost/Nixon”) and Toni Collette will be headlining the family-comedy “Jesus Henry Christ.” The film is being directed by Dennis Lee, who is basing the feature off of his 2003 Academy Award-winning student film of the same name.

The story follows a boy, conceived in a petri dish, that discovers a whole new world upon meeting his half-sister. He eventually finds way to his biological father’s whereabouts, and (we bet) hilarity ensues.

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Trailer And Poster For Lisa Chodolenko’s Family Dramedy ‘The Kids Are All Right’

Simon Dang — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:26:00 +0000

The first trailer and poster have been unveiled for Lisa Chodolenko’s family dramedy, “The Kids Are All Right,” which took both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals by storm earlier this year.

The film stars Annette Benning and Julianne Moore as same-sex parents whose world is turned upside down when their children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) bring the sperm-donor father, played by Mark Ruffalo, back into their lives. Things evidently become increasingly complicated when one of the mothers (Moore) becomes involved with the donor, whose developing stature in the family causes troubles.

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