Tag: Toy Story 3
The 100 Must-See Films of all Time
Hot on the heels of a great British success at The Oscars, this weekend The Sunday Times website will publish their definitive 100 Must-See Films. Ten movie critics from The Sunday Times have compiled lists, lots of lists, about everything that makes movies magical.
How do the latest pretenders like The Social Network and Toy Story 3 measure up to established classics such as The Godfather, Star Wars and Apocalypse Now? Available exclusively at www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/filmlist/article568083.ece, from Sunday 6th March, the 100 Must-See Films will be fully interactive, allowing users to search the essential films of all time by genre, price, and decade; readers can even click and buy the film directly from the list.
Performers of the Oscar-Nominated Songs Announced
Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer, 83rd Academy Awards telecast producers, announced the artists who will perform the nominated songs on the Kodak Theatre stage on Oscar Night (Sunday, February 27, 2011)
Gwyneth Paltrow fans definitely are going to be satisfied with this news, because multi-talented actress will be among a group of stars singing this year’s Oscar nominated songs on the awards show. Check out the rest of this report to find out more names.
Paltrow will perform “Coming Home” from the film Country Strong. I’m actually not a huge fan of Paltrow, but I like this one and I know I’ll be singing that “after all of my running, I’m finally coming….home.” Lady has a voice!
Oscar Nominations 2011: The Full List
Quit doing all your home work, and pay good attention! Why? What do you mean – why? The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards have just been announced, and you don’t want to miss that, do you?
So, who are the biggest players this year?
Tom Hooper‘s The King’s Speech definitely leads the race with even 12 nominations, including best picture, directing, original screenplay and actor for Colin Firth.
As usual, Joel and Ethan Coen are the part of the race too, this time with the remake of the western True Grit, that gained 10 nominations, including best picture.
Let’s move on…
Social Network, King’s Speech Aim for Oscars
The Social Network, a story about the prickly author of Facebook, and The King’s Speech, a saga of Queen Elizabeth II’s stammering father, are to be announced shortly, among likely nominees for Hollywood’s top prize, at Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The 83rd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27, 2011, telecast live from the historic Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC at 8PM ET.
The two films are the best-picture front-runners. With a best-drama win at the Golden Globes and top honors from key critics groups, “The Social Network” seems to have the edge. But “The King’s Speech” pulled off an upset over the weekend for the main prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards, whose winner often goes on to claim best picture at the Oscars.
The Producers Guild of America Help Predict Oscars
The King’s Speech won best-produced film from the Producers Guild of America on Saturday, a great courage to its Oscar ambitions in an awards season so far much swollen by The Social Network. On the same night the organization praised Scott Rudin, the primary producer on ” The Social Network,” with a lifetime achievement award. Other films in line for the best-produced movie of the year were Black Swan, The Fighter and Toy Story 3, which won best-produced animated film.
The Producers Guild of America represents more than 4,500 producers nationwide, prepared for its 22nd annual Producers Guild Awards — set for Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
Golden Globe 2011 Winners
The Social Network won top honors Sunday at the Golden Globes with four prizes, together with best drama and director, solidifying its position as an Academy Awards favorite.
Winning the dramatic lead-acting prizes were Colin Firth for the monarchy saga The King’s Speech and Natalie Portman for the psychosexual thriller Black Swan.
Lead-acting honors for the Globes’ musical or comedy categories went to Annette Bening for the lesbian-family story The Kids Are All Right and Paul Giamatti for the cynic tale Barney’s Version.
The boxing drama The Fighter got both supporting acting Globes, for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.
I’m personally loath to acknowledge the kind of wonderful response this film has received for fear of becoming addicted to it, so suffice it to say, it’s been really nice,”
said David Fincher, whose film also won the Globes for screenplay for Aaron Sorkin and musical score for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Annual Box Office Drops Slightly From 2009 Record, Still Crosses $10B
While 5,36% fewer tickets overall will have been sold this year than last, income is expected to be nearly the same. No doubt 3-D movie tickets keep box-office sales high as attendance falls! If Tinsel Town got anything at the box office in 2010, it’s to be thankful for the higher price charged for 3-D movie tickets. This total attendance will also be the second lowest attended year of the decade, and certainly it was the lowest-attended summer in over a decade. And at the beginning of the year, when 2009′s Avatar, the biggest box-office in history (US$2,7 B), was still going strong it looked as if 2010 might have set a new record.
Top-Grossing Movies of 2010
The highest-grossing film of the year is Toy Story 3! 2010 saw an impressive raise and importance in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and movie releases after the success of Avatar in the format. Most of listed and numerous other titles being released in 3D formats, both converted or filmed (Jackass, Breathe, Huble, The Revenge of Kitty Galore).
The third movie of the Pixar Toy Story franchise came out in 2010, over a decade since the previous Toy Story 2 arrived theaters at 1999, and more than 15 years after the first Toy Story debuted in 1995. So, Disney grossed over $1 billion (together with Alice). This is the first time in history that two films earned such amount at the box office in the same year!
Play.com Warns About the Movies That Reduce Grown Men to Tears
Play.com is warning that even the toughest British blokes could find themselves reduced to blubbering wrecks after the release of Toy Story 3 on DVD, following a poll identifying the Top 10 films that make grown men cry.
The e-tailer surveyed its male customers to create a “guy-cry” Top 10 of the film classics that force fellas to reach for the tissues, even if they don’t want to admit it in front of their mates. They include the first film in the Toy Story trilogy at No1 followed by Tom Hanks‘ iconic role as Forrest Gump and then the final part of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, which ends with the heroic Luke Skywalker finally defeating the evil Empire.
While Toy Story, Forrest Gump and Return of the Jedi took the highest spots in the survey, the rest of the top ten included ET, Jerry McGuire, Titanic, The Notebook, Marley And Me, Shawshank Redemption and Up.
