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The Fifteen Best Movie Escapes

This week, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer announced that they’re planning a reality show called The Great Escape, in which contestants will be challenged to escape from movie-inspired settings—prisons, islands, deserts—and rewarded with a cash prize if they do. Since we love Ron Howard, and we love movies, and we love escapes, here are 15 of the best cinematic getaways....  read more

By the Bookie: A Bookmaker's Guide to the Oscars

It’s a tricky business, predicting the outcome of the Academy Awards, but luckily there are professionals who make money doing just that. To help you out in your pre-Oscars speculation, Paste got ahold of some odds from Mickey Richardson, CEO of BookMaker.com, on who is most likely to walk away with the little gold man come Sunday night....  read more

Film Friday: Favorites of 2009

When Chris Anderson used the phrase “long tail” in Wired, he was referring to the way information is gradually detaching from the physical world. Music no longer needs shelf space in stores, and books and movies will surely follow. For businesses who sell physical objects, it’s been helpful to have consumers who cluster around a few big titles. That way they know how many disks to make, how many books to print. But a world where shelf space doesn’t matter looks pretty different. There may still be big hits, but the demand for more obscure items from deep in the...  read more

The 25 Best Movies of 2009

Our favorite movies of 2009 belie a diverse appreciation ranging from a quiet rumination on death to gruesome horror; from a mostly ad-libbed, low-budget character study to the most expensive movie of all time.  read more

Ennio Morricone scoring Inglorious Basterds

For his past two movies, Kill Bill and Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino appropriated some of the music by noted film composer Ennio Morricone. No actual collaboration ever occurred, even though Tarantino was requesting that people write Morricone-esque music for his next film. It's not like this was the first time he'd tried for Morricone, either, since the Italian composer refused to work on Pulp Fiction....  read more

Inglorious Basterds completes casting with Jackson, Cheung

We've been watching the casting fill up on Quentin Tarantino's WWII film Inglorious Basterds for some time now, and today the saga seems to be closing down. The Playlist reports that Samuel L. Jackson muscled his way into a part (after being miffed he wasn't being considered for any) as a rarely present narrator. ...  read more