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84th Oscar Nominations Announced

Today, Jennifer Lawrence presented the nominees for major awards for the the 84th Academy Awards at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. This year’s Oscars will take place Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre and will air on ABC.   read more

WGA Announces Screenplay Nominees

The Writers Guild of America has announced the list of the best screenplays of the year. The members vote on their peers work and while some Academy Award favorites like The Descendants and Midnight In Paris made the list others like War Horse were left off.  read more

Chris Pratt May Play Lead in Kathryn Bigelow Bin Laden Film

Chris Pratt has had a pretty great 2011. Not only it he on one of the greatest comedies on TV right now, _Parks and Recreation_, but he also had a fantastic supporting role in the critically acclaimed _Moneyball_. Now it seems like Pratt may be ending this year with one of his biggest role yet.  read more

Brad Pitt Claims He'll Retire from Acting by Age 50

According to a recent report by NME, Brad Pitt has recently announced his attention to move away from acting in the next three years.  read more

Steve Carell to Kill Channing Tatum in New Film

In what is the opposite of typecasting, Steve Carell will play the murderer of Channing Tatum in a new film.  read more

Watch the Trailer for Moneyball Featuring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

A new trailer for Moneyball, the upcoming baseball drama featuring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, has recently been released. Based on the book by Michael Lewis, the movie features Pitt as Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, who takes a risky but successful approach to selecting players on a tight budget. With the help of Peter Brand, an inexperienced statistician played by Jonah Hill, Beane comes up with strategy that approaches baseball like “card counters at the blackjack table” rather relying on traditional methods. The team assembles a host of misfit players and faces some initial adversity before the numbers finally...  read more

Five Great Books Becoming Movies This Year

Not all movies are made from original scripts or comic books. Some are adaptations of good ol’ fashioned novels. Here are four of those with a treatise on baseball economics thrown in for good measure....  read more

Brad Pitt Snaps Up Movie Rights to Blind Side Author's Housing Bubble Book

The film adaptation of Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar yesterday morning, and now it seems everyone wants a piece of him. Vulture reports that Brad Pitt has snagged the rights to Lewis’ yet-to-be-released examination of the housing bubble The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine....  read more

Steven Soderbergh Says He Has Only "Three or Four Years" Left as a Filmmaker

In an inexplicable “WTF?” moment, Steven Soderbergh told a writer at The Guardian this week that he regrets making Che because the shoot was so intense and that he thinks he only has "three or four years" left in him as a filmmaker. ...  read more

Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball Delayed Indefinitely

Just 96 hours before filming was supposed to start, the production of Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt as former Oakland A's player and general manager Billy Beane, came to a screeching halt. After Columbia Pictures bigwig Amy Pascal read over the rewrites Steven Soderbergh had made to the original script, she felt uncomfortable backing the film, according to Variety. Pascal put it into "limited turnaround," allowing Soderbergh the freedom to find another studio....  read more