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'Slumdog' Named Best Film of 2008 by National Board of Review

4 December 2008 2:04 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

The National Board of Review, annually the first group to award its end-of-the-year honors, has named Slumdog Millionaire  its top movie of 2008. No argument here. Clint Eastwood won an award, too - for Best Actor in Gran Torino, if you can believe it. Actually, it makes no difference whether or not you believe it; he won.

Though the Board is not usually a predictor for the Academy Awards, it's rare that some of the group's major winners are completely left out in the cold. Here's a list of the National Board of Review winners, from Awards Daily, along with the Nbr's list of the ten best films of the year. It should be noted that for the top ten list, the National Board of Review omits the winner, thereby essentially creating a top eleven.

Best Film - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director - David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actor - Clint Eastwood,

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Anne Hathaway Takes Big Step Toward Oscar

4 December 2008 1:07 PM, PST | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Anne Hathaway is starting off awards season right.    Hathaway was named Best Actress today by the National Board of Review for her indie turn in Rachel Getting Married. The win came days after Hathaway notched an Independent Spirit nomination. Slumdog Millionaire, the feel-good fable set in the slums of India, was named Best Picture. The Dark Knight represented for blockbuster Hollywood, tapped as one of the Nbr's Top 10 Films. (The Nbr doesn't do nominations—just winners and best-movie lists.)   Clint Eastwood, who's usually honored these days for directing, was named Best Actor for his turn as a crank in the...

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Fan Made: The Dark Campaign

4 December 2008 1:02 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

In an effort to reach those Academy voters who haven't a clue what The Dark Knight is or was or could potentially become, folks have kick-started something called The Dark Campaign -- a site dedicated to getting their favorite film of the year a little recognition come Oscar time. Personally, I'm not sure what an Oscar nod or two could add to this film's resume, especially since it definitely doesn't need the money. Not only is The Dark Knight approaching $1 billion at the box office, but chances are it will also become the year's hottest-selling DVD when it arrives in stores next week. Obviously it's a popular movie. Obviously a lot of people really dug it. Obviously the Academy could use its massive following to bolster ratings. So even if voters decide not to reward this Batman sequel for all its accomplished, something tells me the flick's already made its mark and done its job.

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'Slumdog Millionaire' Takes National Board of Review Best Film Kudos

4 December 2008 12:35 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Once again the National Board of Review manages to confuse us all with their picks and not because they are all that much of a surprise, but more because the film they consider to be the best film of 2008 doesn't make it into their list of Top Ten Films. Can someone explain that to me please? Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire came out on top as the group's Best Film of the year while the film's star, Dev Patel, nabbed kudos for Breakthrough Performance by an Actor and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy won Best Adapted Screenplay in a tie with Eric Roth for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which also took home an award for David Finsher as well as being named inside the group's list of top ten films of 2008, a status Slumdog didn't manage to achieve. Therefore I guess it shouldn't be a big surprise that Man on

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Grammy noms for Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Sweeney Todd & more...

4 December 2008 12:32 PM, PST | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced this morning, with several Fangoria Musick favorites revealed as contenders.

Rob Zombie picked up a "Best Hard Rock Performance" nom for "Lords of Salem" from last years "Zombie Live" set; while the soundtrack for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street picked up a nom for best complilation soundtrack, joining The Dark Knight which is up for best original score. Slipknot picked up their 7th nomination for "Psychosocial" off of their recent self-titled release, joining Roadrunner labelmates Dragonforce, along with Metallica (no Jethro Tull this year?), Judas Priest, and Ministry in the running for "Best Metal Performance".

The awards show will be held on February 8, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Biggest Headline of 2008: Rip Heath Ledger

4 December 2008 12:30 PM, PST | From Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news

We've been counting down the most shocking headlines of 2008, and we'll be revealing more throughout the month of December. We hope you enjoy this look back at some of the posts and stories that created the most buzz throughout the year. On January 22, 2008 we all learned a lesson about the tragic side of fame when we learned Heath Ledger had passed away of an apparent overdose that morning. As fans old and new alike tried to make sense of it and scramble for bits of information, the heartbreaking truth set in: we had lost one of the greatest actors of our time. He was a father, a son, a partner. He was known as a devoted actor and a kind person. He is still missed, he will be missed. By the end of the 22nd, the details were still unknown but there were many theories being floated — some about Mary-Kate Olsen,

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Grammys Right Oscar Wrongs, Nominate 'Dark Knight' and 'There Will Be Blood'

4 December 2008 6:02 AM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Leave it to the folks behind the Grammys (that would be The Recording Academy) to put things right when it comes to movie music. Sure, they have a bazillion categories, but, unlike the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), they know a good musical score when they hear it and don't allow outrageous reasons to disqualify it.

Specifically, we're talking about The Dark Knight, whose composers James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer were disqualified for consideration because they listed too many people on the cue sheet, and There Will Be Blood, whose composer Jonny Greenwood was DQed because the Academy thought his score was "diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music." Both scores were nominated for a Grammy last night, in the category "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media." (Bear in mind that their eligibility period is different from the Oscars,

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Tarzan Being Done Pirates Of The Caribbean Style

3 December 2008 8:56 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

While everyone else is busy doing their level best to rip off The Dark Knight and Twilight, director Stephen Sommers is borrowing inspiration from the country's previous box office obsession, Pirates of the Caribbean. According to EW, his new Tarzan movie will be similar in tone to Disney's piratical, CGI-fest. It seems Sommers and his screenwriter Stuart Beattie are ditching the boy raised by apes origin story and going for a 1930s romance romp. I'm not sure how you make a Tarzan movie without having the lead character raised by apes, but EW claims he's going there. Maybe an adult man named Tarzan gets hit on the head by a coconut and wakes up believing he's a monkey? They say, "Think Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." Odds that Cheetah will be CGI and played by Any Serkis? I'd say

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Sneak Peek: 'The Dark Knight' on Blu-ray and DVD

3 December 2008 7:02 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

The biggest film of 2008 arrives on Blu-ray and DVD this December 9th, and Cinematical is here to share our initial impressions, likes and dislikes, as well as let you know whether this monster piece of home entertainment is worth the purchase. Perhaps time will tell if The Dark Knight is the best comic book movie ever made, but in the meantime it's fairly easy to declare it the best comic book movie of 2008. Director Christopher Nolan and his team of Bat-freaks brought out the bigger guns for this sequel, adding more explosions, more depth, more darkness and more Gotham. The result is an action-packed psychological salad full of delicious performances and fantastic visuals.

In fact, that's exactly why you'll want to own this thing -- it just looks ... so ... good. On the Blu-ray disc, for example, the film alternates between aspect ratios, showing the IMAX-filmed scenes in 1.78:1, and the rest in 2.40:1. Sure,

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'The Dark Knight' Most Downloaded Film for 2008

3 December 2008 6:49 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Apple has announced that Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight is the most downloaded film of the year from its iTunes store. The movie is not yet available but pre-orders have pushed it to the top of the charts according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The iTunes list also says Gossip Girl was the television series with the most Season Pass orders at $39.99 a season. Family Guy, South Park Uncensored, Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men round out the top five.

Apple said the top songs this year are "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis and "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. The latter's album by the same name is the year's best-selling album download.

Here’s the top 10 movie list and tell us if you’re surprised. We’re not.

1. The Dark Knight

2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

3. Twilight

4. The Incredible Hulk

5. Iron Man

6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

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Will 'Magneto' Origin Story Get Underway in 2009?

3 December 2008 6:18 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

IndieLondon (via iO9) has an interview with well known superhero producer Lauren Schuler Donner in which at the end of the interview they dish for a bit on the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as the proposed X-Men Origins: Magneto as the tendency to tell more singular superhero stories based on the "X-Men" franchise hopes to flourish. Wolverine hits theaters next May and Donner says, "It's good... it's very good. I'm very pleased with it. It's very much an origins story. It's very much in the tone of the first X-Men." However, that one's in the bag and when it comes to superhero franchises and its fans it has gotten to the point beyond "What have you done for me lately?" to "What are you doing for me tomorrow?" Donner has always seemed just as interested in getting these films off the ground as the fans and Magneto doesn't

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Dark Knight - Exclusive Clip

3 December 2008 4:59 PM, PST | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

In this exclusive peek from The Dark Knight’s collection of DVD special features, we get a look at Gotham Tonight’s spotlight on controversial cop Jim Gordon. Bat-fans ought to lose their minds at the realistic portrayal of the events of Batman Begins.  And while Anthony Michael Hall isn’t in this clip (he’s in others) the cementing of Gcn as a fine news source comes across perfectly. Dig all our Dark Knight content at our Dark Knight HQ.

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Dark Knight - Exclusive Clip

3 December 2008 4:43 PM, PST | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

In this exclusive peek from The Dark Knight’s collection of DVD special features, we get a look at Gotham Tonight’s spotlight on controversial cop Jim Gordon. Bat-fans ought to lose their minds at the realistic portrayal of the events of Batman Begins.  And while Anthony Michael Hall isn’t in this clip (he’s in others) the cementing of Gcn as a fine news source comes across perfectly. Dig all our Dark Knight content at our Dark Knight HQ.

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Watchmen's Running Time Gets Shorter, But Does That Matter?

3 December 2008 4:35 PM, PST | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

The last time we talked with Zack Snyder, he mentioned that the running time of Watchmen was expected to be around 2 hours and 43 minutes. The Dark Knight, in comparison, ran 2 hours and 32 minutes, slightly shorter. While referencing running times to judge how good or bad a movie might be is foolish, we thought it'd worth mentioning that the movie has been getting shorter, only for the sake of talking further about the Watchmen universe. In an interview with SciFi recently, Zack and his wife / producing partner Deborah Snyder revealed that the running time is now closer to 2 hours and 35 minutes. So why does this really matter? Well, fans have been impressed by the trailers so far, so the only thing they're still hesitant about is whether the story lives up to the very extensive one found in the graphic novel. To most, that story ...

Alex Billington

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The Incredibly Shrinking 'Watchmen'

3 December 2008 4:13 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

How much Watchmen is too much Watchmen? Apparently two-and-a-half hours, according to Zack and Deborah Snyder. The missus told Sci Fi Wire that they're whittling the running time, adding, "We're getting really close...we're at two hours and 35 minutes."

"The movie's pretty long...compared to 300, which was an hour and 58 minutes," confirmed Zack Snyder. "The director's cut [of Watchmen] is about three hours and 10 minutes long. It has even more than the theatrical version, as far as the detail that gets even closer to the graphic novel."

So in other words: Wait till you see the DVD! If not just for the director's cut of the feature, but also for the animated Tales of the Black Freighter comic-within-the comic footage, which Snyder says will eventually be edited into the master version of the film.

"The Black Freighter version of the movie that we're working on--which has the ins and outs of the

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Dark Knight - Exclusive Clip

3 December 2008 3:23 PM, PST | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news

In this exclusive peek from The Dark Knight’s collection of DVD special features, we get a look at Gotham Tonight’s spotlight on controversial cop Jim Gordon. Bat-fans ought to lose their minds at the realistic portrayal of the events of Batman Begins.  And while Anthony Michael Hall isn’t in this clip (he’s in others) the cementing of Gcn as a fine news source comes across perfectly. Dig all our Dark Knight content at our Dark Knight HQ.

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Oscar Eye: Choosing Favorites Among Slim Pickins

3 December 2008 1:53 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

When all is said and done, when this Oscar season is over and we've moved on to the best pictures of 2015, Wall-e and The Dark Knight will be the only movies of 2008 that actually matter. It's sad, but true. I've seen nearly all of this year's big fall Oscar contenders, and not a one of them has possessed the imaginative spark and airtight storytelling we saw in the two summer movies that captivated us most. Instead we're dealing with a lot of good movies-- Frost/Nixon, Rachel Getting Married-- and some damn-near great ones-- Revolutionary Road, Milk-- that Oscar will have to pick from whether they like it or not. It's just the undeniable greatness that, with those summertime exceptions, we're missing this year. I realize I was spoiled by last year, when I first started writing this column. It was insanely lucky to have three or four directors

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Boogeyman 3 DVD Cover Art!

3 December 2008 8:51 AM, PST | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Because you demanded it! (Well, ok... you really didn't.) Below you'll find the front cover DVD art for the upcoming direct-to-dvd Boogeyman 3! It hits store shelves on January 20th, 2009 and stars Erin Cahill (TV’s “Supernatural”), Kate Maberly (Finding Neverland), Matt Rippy (The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army), Jayne Wisener (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), Mimi Michaels (Shark Swarm), Chuck Hittinger (TV’s “90210”), Nikki Sanderson (TV’s “ Coronation Street ”), and Elyes Gabel (TV’s “Casualty”).

You can check out the trailer and full synopsis at our previous Boogeyman 3 news article Here!

Boogeyman 3 was directed by Gary Jones (Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter’s Cove, Crocodile 2: Death Swamp) from the screenplay by Brian Sieve (Boogeyman 2), and produced by Andrew Pfeffer (The Grudge 3, The Messengers, Bangkok Dangerous).

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Fans Kick Off The Dark Knight's Oscar Campaign

3 December 2008 6:45 AM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

The best thing about this year's Oscar season is that, if The Dark Knight makes it in as a big contender, it will be propelled by the sheer power of millions and millions of fans. The unofficial For Your Consideration site DarkCampaign.com is only part of the evidence, though it's probably the best-looking one too. Some Dark Knight fans have gathered together to build a site dedicated entirely to getting Oscar nominations for what, for my money, is still one of the best movies of 2008. The highlight is a clip reel of the movie, which we've embedded below but appears in much better quality on the site. They've picked a lot of moments that you haven't seen over and over again in the trailers-- the Joker saying "hi" to Harvey Dent in the hospital, the police scattering after the mayor is shot, Harvey threatening Gordon's family. The only part

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Tdk lights up iTunes

3 December 2008 2:19 AM, PST | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news

When it's released next Tuesday, you can be sure that The Dark Knight will break pretty much all available home video records. DVD, Blu-ray, sales, rentals...the whole magilla. But The Dark Knight has already set a pretty impressive record. Apple announced that the film is the best-selling downloadable movie on iTunes and it isn't even available for download yet. Based solely on pre-sales, Tdk easily beat the runners-up Wall-e, Kung-fu Panda, Iron Man and National Treasure 2. Pretty...

Mike Sampson

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