Tag: The Blind Side
Short Oscar 2010 Preview
Where will you be on March 7th? Are you guys ready for the 82nd Academy Awards? Filmofilia is right here to remind you that glamorous red carpet has never been closer! Concurrence is very tough, especially because of the fact that this year, instead of traditional five, we have exactly ten movies that will fight for this prestige award. Nominations came, and nobody was surprised…
The adventures of Jake Sully, as we all expected, went very well. Avatar won nine nominations so we guess that James Cameron has a lots of reasons to be satisfied! He’s biggest wish, as he said, was to give people movie, that will make them have a feeling they lived Avatar during the cinema projection. Guess he’s wish came truth, since the movie won a whole bunch of “technical” nominations. Among them, Avatar managed to win nomination for the best movie, and Cameron could go home with statue for the best director. Seems like excited action is moving from Pandora to Los Angeles, but this time without virtual cameras.
Avatar Sees 45% Increase in Ticket Sales on Fandango Following Oscar Nominations
Avatar‘s nine Academy Award® nominations may have created an increased demand for tickets on Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination. “Avatar”, already the site’s top ticket-seller in company history, saw daily sales increase by 45% shortly after the Oscar ® nominations were announced this morning.
Moviegoers appear to be pleased with the concept of the Academy®’s new and expanded Best Picture category, which recognized such popular hits as “Avatar”, “The Blind Side”, “Up” and “District 9″, among others. In an online poll on Fandango, 83% of moviegoers say they like the fact that the category now includes 10 nominees.
In a separate survey posted on Fandango today, fans picked the movies they would have liked to have seen nominated in this year’s expanded category.
New Moon Box Office Results Setting Records!
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” has shattered all competition and earned a whopping $140.7 million from 4024 theaters over the weekend, easily good enough for the #1 spot at the box office.
Richie Fay, head of distribution for Summit said:
“Obviously, with the success of ‘Twilight’ itself, sequels being what they are will generate X-number of dollars more, particularly if it’s a satisfying sequel”
Sandra Bullock’s “The Blind Side” Trailer, Poster and TV Spot
Below we have trailer, TV spot and poster for Sandra Bullock‘s next movie “The Blind Side,” the true story of now-NFL player Michael Oher and the family that adopted him when he was a homeless teenager.
Synopsis: A poor, undereducated 344-pound African-American teenager in Memphis, whose father was murdered and whose mother was a crack addict, is shuffled through the public school system, despite his low grade point average and absenteeism. But his tremendous size and quickness attracts the interest of a wealthy white couple who take him in and groom him both athletically and academically to become one of the top high school football prospects in the country.
