In Contention

The MTV Movie Awards are coming up this weekend (April 14), and the slate of nominees wasn’t as terrible as it has been in recent years, so it might actually be a fun watch. Last year I went back in time for a retrospective on the inaugural edition from 1992, and I plan to go back to the 1993 awards in an upcoming piece. In the meantime, here’s something different.

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David Geffen donates $25 million to the Academy, gets a theater named after him

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:52 am · April 8th, 2013

Lots of rumblings from the lab over at the Academy these days. Details have surfaced on what to really expect from that big May 4 membership meeting and today the organization has announced that entertainment industry magnate David Geffen has donated $25 million to the Academy’s ongoing Museum of Motion Pictures project, which is enough to land his name on the big theater planned for the space.

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Bérénice Bejo not so silent in French trailer for Cannes-bound 'The Past'

Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:48 am · April 8th, 2013

No subtitles needed to get excited for Asghar Farhadi’s follow-up to ‘A Separation.’

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Tell us what you thought of 'Trance'

Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:15 pm · April 5th, 2013

Danny Boyle’s trippy new heist thriller opens today.

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Tell us what you thought of 'Jurassic Park 3D'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:36 pm · April 5th, 2013

Steven Spielberg’s post-conversion dino adventure hits theaters today.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessica Chastain and Emma Stone line up for Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:51 am · April 5th, 2013

“Pacific Rim” has allowed director Guillermo Del Toro the chance to break out something like “Crimson Peak,” a haunted house picture that could use the success of something like “Pacific Rim” to find its footing. And people are lining up to be a part of it, as Deadline today reports that Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessica Chastain, Emma Stone and Charlie Hunnam have all signed on to star. Hunnam also stars in “Pacific Rim.”

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Barbra Streisand returns to the director's chair with Bourke-White/Caldwell love story

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:42 pm · April 4th, 2013

After inking a deal with worldwide sales firm Aldamisa International in February to tackle her first directorial endeavor since 1996’s “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” Barbra Streisand has settled on a project: a love story based on the relationship between photographer Margaret Bourke-White and author Erskine Caldwell.

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With 'Trance' on the way, ranking Danny Boyle's 10 feature films to date

Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:54 pm · April 4th, 2013

Counting down the Oscar-winning director’s filmography, from worst to best.

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Roger Ebert on my favorite movies

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:39 pm · April 4th, 2013

I always found that my taste tended to line up quite a bit with Roger Ebert’s, particularly when it came to our favorite movies of all time. His list of the 10 best ever overlapped with mine in three instances, while other films he loved — such as “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” — were certainly among those I held sacred.

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More details on Academy's unusual May membership meeting

Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:34 pm · April 4th, 2013

Focus will be on what AMPAS does ‘the other 364 days of the year.’

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Roger Ebert mattered

Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:32 pm · April 4th, 2013

There will be countless appreciations of the late film critic Roger Ebert today, plenty of them here at HitFix. And you can bet they will, each of them, be full of unique insights and takeaways from the critic’s life and times. He had such an invaluable impact on so many in this world of film commentary and criticism that the words will come like a landslide. And that very fact will reveal so much of his legacy.

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