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First Trailer For Tatia Rosenthal’s Oscar Submitted $9.99!

4 December 2008 5:33 PM, PST | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news

“Have you ever wondered “What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?” The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You’ll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.”

This is the ad that alters the life of the unemployed 28 year old who still lives at home, Dave Peck. In his struggle to share his find with the world, Dave¡¦s surreal path crosses with those of his unusual neighbours: an old man and his disgruntled guardian angel, a magician in debt, a bewitching woman who likes her men extra smooth, a broken hearted man who befriends a group of hard partying two inch tall students, and a little boy who sets his piggy bank free.

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Black's Jesus Role To Promote Gay Rights

4 December 2008 4:17 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Hollywood funnyman Jack Black has played a heavenly role in America's gay rights movement - he portrays Jesus in an online skit which mocks California's decision to ban same-sex marriages.

The Kung Fu Panda star appears in the three-minute comedy sketch alongside openly gay How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris.

Black takes a comedic turn as the Son of God in the short musical sketch, in which he tries to resolve the conflicts between gay rights advocates and California citizens who voted in favour of the controversial Proposition 8.

The law was ban on same-sex unions, which was overturned in May, was re-introduced after a ballot on Proposition 8 early in November.

The online skit was written by film composer and lyricist Mark Shaiman.

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'The Dark Knight' Most Downloaded Film for 2008

3 December 2008 6:49 PM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Apple has announced that Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight is the most downloaded film of the year from its iTunes store. The movie is not yet available but pre-orders have pushed it to the top of the charts according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The iTunes list also says Gossip Girl was the television series with the most Season Pass orders at $39.99 a season. Family Guy, South Park Uncensored, Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men round out the top five.

Apple said the top songs this year are "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis and "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. The latter's album by the same name is the year's best-selling album download.

Here’s the top 10 movie list and tell us if you’re surprised. We’re not.

1. The Dark Knight

2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

3. Twilight

4. The Incredible Hulk

5. Iron Man

6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

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International Animation Award Nominees Named

2 December 2008 8:11 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, announced nominations for its 36th Annual Annie Awards, recognizing the year's best animated features, TV productions, commercials, video games and short subjects and a host of individual achievements.  DreamWorks Animation leads the way with a total of 27 feature nods, including 17 for Kung Fu Panda, followed by Walt Disney Animation Studios, which received 9 nominations, and Pixar with 8. 

Nickelodeon leads the way with 12 television nominations. 

The Annie Awards will be handed out at a ceremony on Friday, January 30, 2009, at UCLA's Royce Hall in La. 

http://www.annieawards.org

Animated Feature

Bolt - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Kung Fu Panda - DreamWorks Animation

$9.99 - Sherman Pictures/Lama Films

Wall-e - Pixar Animation Studios

Waltz With Bashir - Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films

Animated Home Entertainment Production

Batman: Gotham Knight - Warner Bros. Animation

Christmas Is Here Again - Easy To Dream Entertainment

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Yahoo Unveils the Top Ten Trailers of 2008

2 December 2008 3:13 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Top 10 Reasons to Make Batman 3 and Why Chris Nolan Needs To Direct It Yahoo has unveiled their top ten most watched trailers from all of 2008. I am not sure if they are estimating all of December or if it just doesn't count, but the results aren't all that surprising, but I do think it is quite interesting to see that the top two most watched trailers are two trailers I didn't watch until after seeing the films. All of the trailers are featured over the course of the next four pages... Enjoy! Kung Fu Panda

Sex and the City

Hancock

Wanted

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Iron Man

The Incredible Hulk

Twilight

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Dark Knight

Brad Brevet

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The Best of 2008 With One Month to Go

2 December 2008 2:06 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Photo: Paramount Pictures Can you believe it? There are only 30 days left in 2008! Every year I get together with my family at Thanksgiving and that realization hits you and you ask, "Can you believe it's Thanksgiving already?" The reply typically comes, "Well can you believe we have less than a month until Christmas?" Time just never seems to slow down allowing any of us to take a break and with the awards season in full swing and top ten lists just around the corner I thought I would take a quick look at the year that has been and what is left. A quick check in the RopeofSilicon movie review archives tells me I have reviewed 118 films so far this year (easily a record for me) and currently have the reviews for Waltz With Bashir, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,

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Brad Brevet

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"Kung Fu Panda" Leads Nominees With 17 Nods At The 36th Annies

2 December 2008 1:40 AM, PST | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

"Kung Fu Panda" is leading the rest of the animated films with 17 nods at the International Animated Film Society Awards or Annies.

The 2008 DreamWorks Animation film, which featured the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, and Jackie Chan among others, has been shortlisted for 17 prizes at the Asifa-Hollywood awards show.

Among the nominations "Kung Fu Panda" has amassed are Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Video Game, Animated Effects, 3 bets for Character Animation in a Feature Production, and Directing in an Animated Feature Production to name a few.

It has beaten Pixar-produced "Wall-e," which snagged 7 nods, including Best Animated Feature, Walt Disney's "Bolt" garnered five.

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The 2008 Annie Award nominees! DreamWorks rules with 27 nominations

2 December 2008 12:49 AM, PST | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

DreamWorks' excellent "Kung Fu Panda" lead the 2008 Annie Award nominees with a total of seventeen nominations which included Best Feature, Best Feature Writing, Best Directing, Best Animated Effects, Best Character Animation as well as Best Animated Video Game. Disney/Pixar's heart-warming "Wall-e" ended second best with a total of eight nominations. Also faring well was another Disney pic in the recent "Bolt" voiced by John Travolta and Miley Cyrus. The adventure comedy scored five nominations. DreamWorks, which also released "Kung Fu Panda" companion piece "Secrets of the Furious Five" and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa," landed a grand total of 27 nominations. As listed, here are the 2008 Annie Award Nominations by Category

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Full Feature Film Nominees List for 2008 Annie Awards

1 December 2008 6:37 PM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

On Monday, December 1, the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, has come out with an announcement of 2008 Annie Awards' nominations. Dominating the list is "Kung Fu Panda" with 17 nods for the animated features category as well as for video games category.

In the feature film category itself, this DreamWorks Animation comedy has collected in total 16 nods. One comes from the production category, that is Best Animated Feature, whereas the rest from the individual nominations. For the Best Voice Acting title, "Panda" has managed to put three of its voice actors, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong and Ian McShane, to compete with voice actors from "Wall-e" and "Bolt". Additionally, it also gives directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne a shot for Best Animated Film Director.

Beside "Kung Fu Panda", other movies collecting multiple nominations for Annie are "Bolt" and "Wall-e". "Bolt" has earned 9 counts and "Wall-e" has landed on 8 nods. Both of which

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Kung Fu Panda Leads Annie Awards Charge

1 December 2008 5:38 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Kung Fu Panda will be leading the way at the 2009 Annie Awards after landing 17 nominations ahead of the 30 January event.

DreamWorks Animation's cuddly hero beat Wall-e and Bolt as the nods were handed out on Monday.

Among its haul, Kung Fu Panda is up for Best Feature and Best Feature Directing, while voice actors James Hong, Ian McShane and Dustin Hoffman were also nominated for honours.

Wall-E scored eight nominations, while Bolt claimed five.

The three films will compete for the Best Feature prize with the acclaimed Waltz With Bashir and $9.99.

Meanwhile, King of the Hill, Moral Orel, Phineas and Ferb, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II and The Simpsons will fight it out for the Best TV Show prize,

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Will 'Kung Fu Panda' dropkick 'Wall-e' at the Annie Awards?

1 December 2008 2:10 PM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

Today's Annie Awards nominations could be the first sign that "Wall-e" is less of a lock for the animated feature Oscar than we thought. Although the Pixar picture was hailed by critics, ranking as one of the top-rated films of the year, it managed only eight nods from those truly in the know about the art of making animation — the International Animated Film Society. Just as "Kung Fu Panda" trumped it in the worldwide box office race ($633 million to $488 million), so too did that DreamWorks feature prevail here, reaping a staggering 17 nominations. Both films are up for the top award of best animated feature, competing against "Bolt" (five noms total), "Waltz...

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The Annie Award Nominees are Announced

1 December 2008 12:49 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Photo: DreamWorks Animation The International Animated Film Society announced the nominees for the 2008 Annie Awards and Kung Fu Panda is leading the way with 17 nominations followed by Disney's Bolt with 9 and the Disney/Pixar feature Wall-e earning 8. Panda picked up a healthy amount of noms in categories such as Character Animation, Character Design, Music, Production Design, Storyboarding, Voice Acting and Writing. In each of those categories it was either nominated while Bolt and Wall-e were not or secured multiple nominations giving it the outright nomination lead by 8. Could this be a sign of a Panda-over-wall-e Oscar upset? The nominees are listed below and you can check out the official award site here. Best Animated Feature Bolt (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks Animation) $9.99 (Sherman Pictures/Lama Films) Wall-e (Pixar Animation Studios) Waltz With Bashir (Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films) Best Animated Home Entertainment

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'Wall*E' Leads DVD Sales

1 December 2008 11:04 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Heading into the holiday season, home video companies are hoping for a surge in shopping as sales for standard and Blu-ray discs combined to drop with a 9% increase in the third quarter compared with #Q 2007.  There remain rays of hope with Wall*E topping the charts for the week ending November 23. In second place in sales, but first in rentals, is Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder.

As one would expect during a holiday period, kids fare did very well with Kung Fu Panda taking first the week prior with 117,954 units sold according to Billboard.  What was a surprise, though, was the sales and rental strength of Hellboy II: The Golden Army. This bodes well for encouraging Universal to add the third film in the series to Guillermo del Toro’s crowded schedule.

A disappointment, according to The Numbers, has been Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has disappointed with 4.8 million in sales.

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Jack Black is the most popular celebrity on MovieJungle.com.

1 December 2008 1:01 AM, PST | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Jack Black registered the most hits for a celebrity on MovieJungle.com last week. This comes after two big home entertainment releases. Firstly the successful animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda" which hit shelves on November 8th on DVD and Blu-ray. This was then followed by the uproariously funny comedic actioner "Tropic Thunder" on DVD and Blu-ray on November 18th. The film directed, written and starring Ben Stiller, was released in the big screen r-rated version as well as unrated director's cuts in standard and high def. Californian Black is in post-production for "The Year One" where he stars alongside Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, June Raphael, David Cross, Juno Temple, Oliver Platt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Hank Azaria and Gabriel Sunday.

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Review: Bolt

27 November 2008 8:51 PM, PST | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

While hardly a groundbreaking original, Bolt is one of the more engaging non-Pixar computer animated features to be released by Disney. At the very least, it's a massive leap forward from the rather dull Chicken Little. Much of the credit should go toward producer John Lasseter, a wily animation veteran who reportedly had a major influence on the production.

It's Truman Show goes to the dogs in this tale of adorable pooch Bolt (voiced by John Travolta), a loving canine who believes he's a super dog. You see, Bolt is in the movies, but the joke's on him as he has no idea that his apparent super strength is the product of cinematic trickery. He actually believes that his powers are real. Bolt gets a reality check when he's thrown into the real world and soon, through the aid of streetwise alley-cat Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman) and hyperactive hamster

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Jolie Denies Pregnancy As Baby Rumours Increase

25 November 2008 11:03 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie has been forced to deny she is pregnant again following U.S. tabloid reports suggesting the actress is expecting her fourth biological child with Brad Pitt.

Speculation surrounding a reported pregnancy has dogged the Hollywood supercouple in recent months - rumours which were denied by the Oscar winner's publicist earlier this month.

U.S publication In Touch magazine - who broke the news Jolie was expecting twins earlier this year - has most recently claimed Jolie is pregnant again, reporting that the actress announced the happy news to a waiter in a London restaurant after he tried to pour her an alcoholic drink.

But the Tomb Raider star's representative, Geyer Kosinski, refutes the reports, telling Usweekly.com the claims are "not true".

However, Jolie continuously refused to confirm she was pregnant with her twins, Knox and Vivienne - even when she was sporting a huge pregnancy bump. The news was later confirmed at the Kung Fu Panda premiere in Cannes in May after co-star Jack Black revealed all during a TV interview.

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Downey on 'Avengers', Rejected 'Twilight' Script, 'Terminator' Poster and Much, Much More

25 November 2008 2:59 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

(from top left) New Terminator Salvation poster, Criterion logo, Whatever Works, Dolph Lundgren, I am Legend, He-Man, "Star Trek" comic, Tim Blake Nelson in The Incredible Hulk It's been a long time since there were enough stupid online stories to create a Rumor Mill Roundup, but thanks to fanboy excitement and a lack of stories to copy out of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter we have a fresh batch of inane items from around the Internet to dazzle the eye and illuminate the senses. Let's get started shall we... First off, Sony Pictures is handling the international distribution of Terminator Salvation and as a coming out prize they bring a Flash animated motion poster picturing the destruction of Los Angeles as it turns into the robotic face of a Terminator. You think that is just a coincidence? Guess again. Check it out here. Rumor: Sylvester Stallone hints at the possibility

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Review: Bolt

21 November 2008 7:02 AM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

I'm trying to muster up some enthusiasm for Disney's latest animated film, Bolt. It's cute. It has funny pigeons. My eight-year-old niece is going to like it, especially since Miley Cyrus is involved. It's the first non-Pixar Disney feature produced by John Lasseter, who directed the Toy Story movies and Cars. It's got Hollywood jokes in it, including a director voiced by James Lipton, and a comically pushy agent. And yet I never thrilled to the story or the characters; I wasn't half as amused as I'd been by Kung Fu Panda, a film for kids I saw earlier this year.

The story should sound familiar to anyone who grew up with Lassie movies or other animal-road-trip films, but with a Hollywood twist. The title character, a cute dog called Bolt (John Travolta), is fiercely attached to "his person," teenage Penny (Miley Cyrus). Bolt saves Penny's life on a regular

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Movie Review - 'Bolt'

20 November 2008 11:02 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Bolt

Featuring the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, and Mark Walton

Directed by Byron Howard and Chris Williams

Rated PG

Disney’s Bolt should not be confused with a Disney Pixar film. It’s high praise to suggest that it could be, and while it lacks the remarkable writing of the very best Pixar movies, the quality of the animation and the entertainment value is not far off the pace.

Actually, Bolt may help Disney level the playing field with Pixar, which is already getting much stronger competition from DreamWorks with films like Kung Fu Panda. This is fast-paced, funny, creates memorable characters, and offers as much for adults to enjoy as it does the wee ones.

Bolt (John Travolta) is the star of his own primetime show, on which he saves the planet every week with his adoring co-star, Penny (Miley Cyrus). He believes he’s blessed with superpowers,

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He-Man film has a director

20 November 2008 6:12 PM, PST | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news

Well, by the power of bleedin' Grayskull. It seems that Joel Silver's He-man movie has a director (finally) attached to it. According to the ever reliable source that is Latino Review, Kung Fu Panda helmer Kevin Stevenson will take the reigns to direct the film for Warner Brothers.

Apparently Stevenson recently pitched an insane idea to the studio, who subsequently dug it, and brought him on board. My guessing is that this puppy will start shooting next year for a Summer 2010 release. We'll keep you up to date on it.

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