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Review: Dear John, Like Most Relationships, Ends Badly
Sony Pictures
Review in a Hurry: From sensitive, boring director Lasse Hallstrom (The Shipping News, An Unfinished Life) comes a love story featuring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as the two most perfect people ever. This is undeniably appealing at first, no matter which lead you find more attractive, but a horribly contrived third act displaces our empathy with its conveniences.
Avatar's Zoe Saldana: Feeling Blue Again?
Twentieth Century Fox
Zoe Saldana doesn't care how long it takes James Cameron to make the sequel to Avatar.
Same goes for the follow-up to Star Trek, the other sci-fi hit she was in this year...
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Robert Pattinson's Remember Me Quickie
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As we all know by now, Robert Pattinson will be on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon March 1 and The View March 2 to promote his new, nonvampire flick Remember Me.
But how much more press he'll be doing around the time of the film's release is probably going to be limited to not much else...
Carrie Underwood Trying the Acting Thing
Anthony, PacificCoastNews.com
Why should Taylor Swift, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson have all the multihyphenate fun?
Carrie Underwood is crossing over for her film debut, signing up for Soul Surfer, the biopic of 19-year-old surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack but persevered to resume hanging 10 less than a month later.
Underwood will play the church youth leader in the movie, joining AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid and, in a nice convergence of nepotism, Lorraine Nicholson and Sean Brosnan, the daughter and son of Jack and Pierce, respectively. Shooting kicked off in Hawaii this week.
Sounds gnarly, yes?
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Amy Adams, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Christian Bale, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem are also heading to the big screen. Find out why in our Casting Couch gallery.
Why Didn't This DiCaprio Movie Come Out Last Year?
What's the deal with Shutter Island? They had trailers out early fall, and now they're opening the movie in the dead of winter. Did Scorsese and DiCaprio make a stinker they're trying to hide?
—Karen in Indiana, via the Answer B!tch inbox
If you have Martin Scorsese lighting up your phones asking why his picture has been moved from October—the height of Oscar season—to February, you cite circumstances largely out of your control.
You say you don't have the money to showcase the movie properly until 2010. And that your star, Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio, is, of course, a legend in his own time, much like you, Mr. Scorsese, but he's not available for international publicity junkets right this second.
And that is, in fact, what Paramount has said, to Scorsese and the press. (Meantime, we're getting some pretty righteous trailers, like this new Super Bowl spot that came out today.)
Movie marketing insiders tell me these reasons are indeed valid—but they may not be the full story...
Oscar Hopeful Anna Kendrick's Bubbly Celebration
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Let the Oscar celebrations begin!
Twilight star turned Up In the Air Academy Award hopeful Anna Kendrick toasted her nomination last night at RH restaurant at the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood.
"She was with three friends," says a source. "They had drinks at the bar and then dinner with champagne and wine."
And just across the street at the same time, some more nominees were celebrating. An Inglourious Basterds group of about 13, including director Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz and Eli Roth—but no Brad—got together at the Mondrian's Asia de Cuba for dinner and drinks.
Get more star sightings, including Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, after the jump...
Speaking of Oscars, Where Is Tom Cruise's?
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Now that this year's kinda ho-hum Oscar noms have been announced, let's think of ways to sex up the damn awards in the future and perhaps prevent this yawn-worthy spread from ever happening again.
Plus, it could help save Tom Cruise's career at the same time!
Oh, and before I tell you how, can someone please explain to me why some red-hot mama wasn't chosen to cohost this year's show with Alec Baldwin, instead of pasty Steve Martin?
I know Alec's pasty, too, but, he's sexy pasty, Steve's just...pasty. Why the hell wasn't Jennifer Aniston or arch nemesis Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Hudson chosen? Yeah, I really wanna look at two bloated dudes who haven't done crunches since Lady Gaga dressed normally.
Anyway, back to how we're going to wake up the Oscars and Tom Cruise's career:
Five Oscar Nominees You Don't Know but Should
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George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Penélope Cruz and Matt Damon are just a few of the very familiar names who popped up on this year's list of Oscar nominees.
But what about some of those, well, lesser-known contenders?
Here is our list of five Oscar nominees you don't know but should…
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Oscar's Snubs: Star Trek, The Hangover, Michael Jackson!
Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros.
Does it count as a snub if you never believed that no matter how many Best Picture spots there were, there'd never be enough for your movies?
And so it came to pass that despite the Oscars' expanded Best Picture field, and despite Avatar's and District 9's success, Star Trek, The Hangover and Michael Jackson's This Is It were denied shots at the biggest prize.
Star Trek was treated like a sci-fi film, earning four technical nods for the 82nd Academy Awards. The Hangover was treated like a comedy that was unabashedly funny, rating zero nominations. This Is It was treated like a surprise critical hit nobody knew what to do with, its all-or-nothing gambit (the concert film was eligible for Best Picture, but not Documentary Feature) netting nothing.
Other snubs, surprises, trends and factoids:
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Jennifer Aniston's New Benefit to Help Haiti
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Jennifer Aniston's efforts to help Haiti didn't start and end with her recent $500,000 donation to various relief organizations.
What's Aniston doing next?
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Oscar Nominees Want to Thank the Academy, Their Costars and…Car Manufacturers?
Warner Bros. Pictures
It's more than an honor to be nominated: It's an exercise in well-worded effusion. Here's what the ever-gracious nominees had to say about their (mostly) well-deserved accolades:
• Sandra Bullock, Best Actress, The Blind Side (and one day removed from a Razzie nod): "Who would have thought after all these years that I would be experiencing this moment now...I certainly didn't...I'd always assumed that the road to Oscar was planned. I thought people chose projects that were considered 'Oscar-worthy.' No one wanted to make this film. I didn't want to make this film for the better part of the year. Everyone is as blindsided—can I say that?—as I am."
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Avatar Up for Oscar; The Blind Side, Too!
Twentieth Century Fox
The Avatar, sorry, Oscar nominations are out.
James Cameron's big, blue blockbuster will vie for Best Picture opposite The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds; Precious; Up; Up in the Air; the Coen brothers' A Serious Man; An Education; one entry that wasn't entirely a sure thing, District 9; and one entry that was completely a shock, The Blind Side.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker tied with the most overall nominations: nine. Inglourious Basterds scored eight. Precious and Up in the Air notched six each.
The acting categories contained a surprise or two. No, actually, they contained a surprise, not two.
