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Google is having a go at predicting the Oscars, after Yahoo placed its bets recently. Just like Yahoo, Google is relying on search data for its predictions, while also looking at past winners for any clues."Last year we found that for three years running, the films that won best picture had two things in common when ... |
26 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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The Oscars are almost here and fans and movie buffs alike are all placing their bets on who's going to win what. Everyone has their favorites, but Yahoo has data and the data doesn't lie.
Based on searches done in the first weeks of the year, up to February 5, Yahoo has compiled a list of favorites to the ... |
18 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Woody Harrelson is the kind of actor audiences love even if he happens to do a bad movie, which, frankly, happen to every actor out there. With “Rampart,” Woody might finally get the critical recognition he deserves. As his fans must know, there's no better guy for playing a baddie like Woody. Just t... |
28 November 2011
09:32 GMT |
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If you never thought you could put “Fast and Furious” and Oscar in the same sentence, you thought wrong, the franchise’s star Vin Diesel believes. In a recent interview for the LA Times, the actor admits he resents the misconception that “Fast Five” is just another popcorn movie.
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12 May 2011
02:21 GMT |
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It's nothing unusual for an actress to win an Academy Award and then get a divorce little time after, so could this be a curse on the Oscars, or a fact with a perfectly good scientific explanation?A new study says that Oscar win for best actress increases the risk of divorce, and this was proven by a very long l... |
29 January 2011
06:28 GMT |
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Production on Justin Timberlake’s latest film has gone on hiatus after the actor suffered a minor muscle injury that requires he take a few days off. Shooting will supposedly resume very soon. Timberlake is now working on an action thriller called “Now,” also starring Amanda Seyfried – bu... |
6 December 2010
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Summer is officially over, so what better way is there for moviegoers to prepare for fall than by learning which are the most promising releases of the season. E! Online delivers. Though most major movie studios focus on the summer and the winter holiday season to bring their most hyped productions to audiences, that... |
24 September 2010
10:59 GMT |
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At the beginning of this month, word got out in the media that Summit Entertainment, the movie studio behind the “Twilight” phenomenon, was looking to get Oscar-winning director Bill Condon to helm the adaptation of the fourth original book “Breaking Dawn.” E! Online can now confirm that the &... |
29 April 2010
10:16 GMT |
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The Academy Awards have come and gone and, while the various winners show off their prizes at parties and public events, NVIDIA is proudly announcing that its graphics technology was used in all the films nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. All three nominees strove to bring an unprecedented level of ... |
9 March 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Two important brands, the Oscar Academy Awards and Steve Jobs company - Apple. This year the link between these two names is defined by the Final Cut-created documentaries. Nine of ten documentaries nominated for this year’s Oscars, in both selected categories, respectively “Documentary Featur... |
8 March 2010
11:08 GMT |
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Apple has started airing the first iPad advertisement. Available now in the iPad gallery on Apple’s website, the commercial also aired during the Oscars, people familiar with the matter say. Steve Jobs was present at the 82nd edition of the Academy Awards, on Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of L... |
8 March 2010
05:29 GMT |
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2010 will mark Jennifer Lopez’s return to the music scene with a new album, “Love?,” and, from what one may infer from her many recent interviews, a new, more positive attitude. Looking back on her career so far, the singer has no regrets as far as her music goes, but the same doesn’t apply fo... |
6 January 2010
09:18 GMT |
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Adrien Brody, star of Polanski’s Oscar-winning “The Pianist,” has been cast as the lead in “Predators,” Robert Rodriguez' reboot of the 1987 classic horror film that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. As surprising a move on behalf of 20th Century Fox as that was, it will perhaps also l... |
8 October 2009
10:48 GMT |
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At a conference held yesterday at the Delaware State University (DESU), the American space agency announced that it had awarded a $5-million grant to the institution, for the creation of a new NASA-URC Center for Applied Optics for Space Science (CAOSS) on campus. Speakers at the event included the Acting President o... |
1 October 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Earlier this month, paparazzi photos from the set of “The Fighter” emerged, with Christian Bale looking nothing short of a shadow of his former toned, buffed self. The star, known for his Method acting, is emaciated and frail to become the character he’s playing, a former boxer turned drug addict. A... |
29 July 2009
09:23 GMT |
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The children who appeared in the Oscar-laden “Slumdog Millionaire” continue to live in poverty, although trust funds have already been set up for them by director Danny Boyle. Still, the money is not enough for their families to leave the slums and lead a decent life, but that does not mean that they woul... |
21 April 2009
03:28 GMT |
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It’s been years that the Academy Awards have lost their appeal with the public, at least in terms of the ABC telecast, which has recorded lower and lower ratings with each edition. However, 2009 may hold yet other unpleasant surprises for the network, with reports swirling that several sponsors, among which cos... |
18 February 2009
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The identity of the man playing Kirk Lazarus in Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” was a mystery for quite some time while the movie was shooting. Word later transpired in the media that it was Robert Downey Jr. and, useless to say, not few were those to express disapproval at the actor playing a black ... |
30 January 2009
11:20 GMT |
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Despite getting no less than eight nominalizations at this year’s edition of the Academy Awards, “The Dark Knight” was snubbed by the panel in the most important category of them all – the Best Motion Picture of the Year one. A campaign was launched on the Internet a while ago asking that Heat... |
24 January 2009
08:21 GMT |
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The awards season is just an inch away from reaching its highest pitch, with the Academy Awards nominations being announced by Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. After weeks of intense speculation as to who would make the final cut and who would not, which has only got worse after the Golde... |
23 January 2009
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Al Gore's commitment to saving the environment is no secret to anyone, as the Nobel-prized former vice-president (1993-2001) made that perfectly clear in his environmentalist documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. His group, the Alliance for Climate Protection (APC), has recently urged newly-elected president, Bara... |
13 November 2008
10:49 GMT |
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I have a feeling Marion Cotillard is not so happy with her newly-found worldwide fame right about now, and for good reason, too. It's always interesting to note how once an actor or an actress becomes famous, all their past and previously expressed opinions become a strange kind of public property. And yes, we h... |
3 March 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Arguably, Oscar night is the most important event in the movie industry. The stars are out in force, glamorous dresses are rented, expensive jewelry gets lent, the red carpet is rolled out for the guests at the Kodak Theater, the venue for the awards show. Then, a long and sometimes boring festivity takes place in wh... |
25 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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An Academy Award is a guarantee of an actor's fame, money, roles and ...sex! An Oscar seems to boost the evolutionary success: these actors have more children than the national average, as found by a new research. Does this golden statue, just like a lion's mane, signal the best male in the pack?In the end,... |
7 May 2007
08:47 GMT |
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I told you some time not long ago about the Grammy Awards and who was the daddy there when it came to music production. Well, none other than Mr. Rick Rubin, a metal sound producer (Slayer, Danzig, System of a down and many, many more) whose expertise was solicited by artists like Justin Timberlake, Dixie Chicks and ... |
10 March 2007
06:51 GMT |
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