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No Country For Old Sequels

Yes, Warner is pushing for Heath Ledger to win Best Supporting Actor… along with four other guys who appeared in The Dark Knight… see the FYC page here.

I Won”t Dance

Stand up and cheer!

Fortunately it is just a promo, not a real product. Also fortunately a “Bust a Nut” bar was not included in the package.

Three men who allegedly staged an inside-job San Jose bank robbery after watching the movie “Ocean’s Eleven” will be in court today.

Brian Tirao Deguzman and Allen Tam Vu, both 25, and Armando Anaya Mendez, 22, were arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly stealing $100,000 from the Wells Fargo branch inside the Safeway store at 3202 Story Road.

They also don’t rob Safeways.

Now before we argue about who’s going to play the iron (Steve Zahn, natch), let’s discuss what other great filmmakers might tackle what other great board games (besides “Ouija” and “Battleship”, which have already been announced).

Candyland - Peter Jackson

If you can create Middle Earth, you can create Candyland

Operation - John Carpenter

It’d be a lot worse than a loud buzzing noise when you screwed up.

Sorry! - Quentin Tarantino

Would actually be a bunch of guys sitting around playing “Sorry!”  Oh, and they’d curse.  A lot.

And not because I don’t think it’ll make a good movie. I’m sure it’ll be hilarious. No, I just wish the news were it’s coming back to television, where it might thrive, rather than as a film where, if history is any measure, movies made from excellent series with a cult following get trounced at the box office, hence destroying any chance of them returning to television or getting sequels.

Case in point: Serenity.

Still, I suppose, two more hours of Arrested Development is better than none at all.

Stay to the end for something more significant. This is the first time I can remember where a trailer encouraged us to “google” the title for more information. Don’t head to the official Web site. Don’t go to Columbia’s page. Google the movie first. Now that’s a major step for the search engine.

The score for “The Dark Knight” has been disqualified by the executive committee of the Academy music branch.

Formal letters to that effect are expected to go out this week to composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, who collaborated on the music. Their previous collaboration, on “Batman Begins,” was similarly disqualified in 2005.

Sources inside the committee said that the big issue was the fact that five names were listed as composers on the music cue sheet, the official studio document that specifies every piece of music (along with its duration and copyright owner) in the film.

Zimmer said, in an interview with Variety prior to this week’s Acad action, that listing multiple names on the cue sheet was a way of financially rewarding parts of the music team who helped make the overall work successful. (Performing-rights societies like ASCAP and BMI use the cue sheet to distribute royalties to composers.)

Zimmer, Howard and the other three individuals — music editor Alex Gibson, ambient music designer Mel Wesson and composer Lorne Balfe — reportedly signed an affidavit stating that the score was primarily the work of Zimmer and Howard.

That apparently wasn’t enough for the majority of the committee, which was also supplied with documentation indicating that more than 60%, but less than 70%, of the score was credited to Zimmer and Howard.

Actress Nicole Kidman has agreed to play the world’s first post-operation transsexual in the Hollywood movie “The Danish Girl,” industry officials say.

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I don’t so much mind promoting the competition… but Joel Siegel died over a year ago. I expect what he “has to say about the latest movies” will be very little indeed.

But hey, that’s a discount from the list price of $67.99. A bargain!

On the heels of this announcement came word that James Marsh’s captivating documentary Man On Wire had surpassed Toy Story 2 as the Web site’s highest-rated film (with the most number of reviews): 100% Fresh with 129 reviews. Not the highest-rated film of 2008, but of all time!

Why can’t Wire be considered for the Best Picture Oscar? Why can’t both of these fantastic films factor in? Will we really see better films before the year is up? It’s possible. But just because Animated and Documentary categories exist doesn’t mean films in those genres should be content with what amounts to a Runner-Up ribbon on Oscar night.

Crichton won an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Writer’s Guild of America Award for “ER.”

Gotta keep up appearances! Yeah! Keep ‘em up! No, higher! Higher! There ya go! Higher! A little higher!

1) Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen will be with us for a limited time. They will only be signing copies of their book, Influence. They will not be speaking, reading or taking questions.

2) Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen will NOT sign any memorabilia or product other than Influence. There is a limit of one book per person, and your one book must be purchased here.

3) You will be directed to pay for your book upon entering the store and will be given a receipt for your purchase. Please keep your receipt. You will receive your book at the signing table.

4) Along with your receipt, you will be given a B&N wristband, and then directed to the event space on the 4th floor. You must have a receipt and a wristband to access the 4th floor.

5) Anyone approaching the signing table must have paid for the book and be wearing a B&N wristband. One person, one wristband, one book.

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