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
Found in: Movies, FeaturesFilm 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
Found in: Movies, ColumnsThe 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayEnnio 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
Found in: Movies, NewsInglorious 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
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