Now that final Oscar voting is underway, can Ben Affleck’s Argo really win Best Picture at the Academy Awards after Affleck was snubbed as Best Director? Although EW reveals that oddsmakers have Argo on top of the Oscar race for Best Picture, with 1-4 odds over Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the read more
Zero Dark Thirty surprised critics by topping the Friday box office in its first day to beat A Haunted House and Gangster Squad to lead the weekend movies. On Friday, director Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden, took in an estimated $9 million read more
Ben Affleck won Best Director at the 18th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Thursday night for his work directing the political thriller Argo. On Thursday night, the same day that the 2013 Oscar nominations were announced, Ben Affleck took home the Best Director award at the Critics’ Choice Awards read more
2012 was a good year for moviegoers everywhere as studios unveiled a schedule full of highly anticipated sequels, superheroes, indie gems, and surprise hits. Although some movies in 2012 stirred up heated emotions and controversy, huge franchises like Batman, The Avengers, and James Bond broke box office records during the read more
Ben Affleck’s Argo won the weekend box office in its third week of release with an estimated $12.4 million in ticket sales to beat Hotel Transylvania at $9.5 million. The Ben Affleck directed political thriller Argo won the weekend box office for the first time since it was released on read more
The second trailer for Luc Besson’s The Lady was released this week on Friday ahead of the official April 12 debut in the United States. The new trailer for The Lady gives fans a look at Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi who became a national heroine in Burma read more
The new Clint Eastwood directed J. Edgar film opened the AFI Fest in Hollywood and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this past week where Eastwood spoke about his latest movie. Reuters reports that director Clint Eastwood screened his new film about the life of former FBI head J. read more
Actor George Clooney spoke about American politics in New York on Wednesday at the premiere of his latest film, The Ides of March. While in New York, Clooney revealed that he will never run for political office since it’s an arena that doesn’t hold his interest. According to ABC News, read more
