Watch a Trailer for Clint Eastwood's Trouble With The Curve

Watch a Trailer for Clint Eastwood's <i>Trouble With The Curve</i>

Part Moneyball drama and part romantic comedy, Trouble With The Curve’s new trailer shows Clint Eastwood in a quite different role than from his last film, Gran Torino, in 2008. There also appears to be significantly less guns and gang violence. Warner Bros. is emptying the coffers for the film, which is full of star-studded actors such as Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and Matthew Lillard....  read more

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84th Oscar Nominations Announced

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

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WGA Announces Screenplay Nominees

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

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Chris Pratt May Play Lead in Kathryn Bigelow Bin Laden Film

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

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

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

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Steve Carell to Kill Channing Tatum in New Film

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

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Watch the Trailer for Moneyball Featuring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

Watch the Trailer for <em>Moneyball</em> 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

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Five Great Books Becoming Movies This Year

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

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

Brad Pitt Snaps Up Movie Rights to <em>Blind Side</em> 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

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

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

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