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With the Oscars wrapping up a few days ago, it’s hard not to reflect over the nominees, winners and how somethings didn’t seem to add up. Ben Affleck isn’t nominated for Best Director, but Argo wins Best Picture. I guess they loved everything about the film, just not necessarily the directing. Sounds crazy, right?
This year, the category of best actor caught my attention and sent an alarm through my film geek nervous system. | Full Story
Flight have been generating some good buzz since it’s debut on November 2nd, but not everybody is pleased with the attention the film has gotten.
Budweiser and Stolichnaya are unhappy at the way their products are portrayed in Flight, claiming the movie links their beverage to alcoholism and drunk driving. Now the companies have some demands for the studio.
It has being reported that Bud and Stoli are asking Paramount to block out their logos in future releases of the film. | Full Story
Just as the largest hurricane on record wiped out the northeast, the expectation for big box office numbers were uncertain. However, after a slow start Wreck-It Ralph and Flight prevailed over the aftermath of Sandy.
Wreck-It Ralph easily claimed the number one spot this weekend with an estimated $49.1 million, making Wreck-It Ralph potentially Disney’s biggest hit without the help of Pixar. Wreck-It Ralph opened in 3,732 2D and 3D theaters making on average $13,000 per site. | Full Story
Last Sunday, Denzel Washington starred Flight premiered as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival. Subsequently, there has been Oscar talk of an anticipated battle between Washington and Daniel Day-Lewis, from the film Lincoln, which will open on November 9.
In the Robert Zemeckis directed Flight, Washington plays a commercial airline pilot with a drinking and substance abuse problem, which comes to light after he executes an emergency landing, rescues the passengers, and becomes a big hero. | Full Story
It’s been twelve years since Robert Zemeckis directed a movie not populated by soul-less animated mo-cap dolls, which is almost too outstanding to believe. But the beloved director returns to the land of the living on November 2nd with Flight. The movie stars Denzel Washington as an airplane pilot who pulls off a Captain Sully-esque feat in safely landing his catastrophically damaged plane. At first celebrated as a hero, things take a darker turn when an investigation turns up the fact that he had alcohol in his system during the flight. | Full Story
This past summer was one of the hottest on record and the same thing goes for the summer box office performance. However, Fall is once again upon us, and although its arrival signals a cool down in temperatures, that doesn’t mean things will go cold at the box office.
There are tons of films making their way to the theaters this fall. Obviously, every movie will not be good, so we’ve scoured the film release schedules to bring you the ones that are expected to perform. | Full Story
The upcoming Robert Zemeckis mystery thriller, Flight, starring Denzel Washington is set to close out the 50th Edition of the New York Film Festival. The announcement may suggest that Paramount has high hopes the film will be a major Oscar contender come award season.
Last year,the New York Film Festival closed with Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which later proved to be a big winner at this years Academy Awards. | Full Story
Get ready for another scary plane action-drama because this flight will be one that is compromised.
Paramount has released the first trailer for the upcoming Denzel Washington film Flight. The Oscar award-winner plays a pilot who struggles to land a passenger plane that has suffered an engine failure. After the flight, Washington’s character becomes the subject of intense media scrutiny after it’s discovered that he had alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. | Full Story
Robert Zemeckis decides flight plan with Denzel Washington. Washington will play a “commercial airline pilot who pulls off a heroic feat of flying in a damaged plane and saving 98 lives on a flight carrying 106 people. While the world begs to embrace him as a true American Hero, the hero is plagued by guilt and struggles with this label as he is forced to hold up to the scrutiny of an investigation that brings into question his behavior the night before the doomed flight.”
For the past decade, director Zemeckis has devoted his time to animation films such as Beowulf, The Polar Express and Jim Carrey’s A Christmas Carol. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
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