Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” is getting the 3D treatment this weekend on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. We’ll circle back later this week with some thoughts on the film and the conversion, but with it in mind, the HitFix team started pondering what other films we MIGHT consider seeing converted to 3D.
15 films we might consider seeing in 3D
Posted by Drew McWeeny · 8:00 pm · April 2nd, 2013
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Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein come together for 'Big Eyes' with Waltz and Adams
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:55 pm · April 2nd, 2013
Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have apparently been trying to get their project, “Big Eyes,” about feuding artist couple Walter and Margaret Keane for years. They’ve finally secured a progressive track, reports Deadline, with Tim Burton set to direct and The Weinstein Company closing a deal to fund and distribute. Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams, fresh off awards attention in the Weinstein-distributed “Django Unchained” and “The Master,” will star.
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The Academy's membership meeting: Is one-term president Hawk Koch just making waves?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:52 pm · April 2nd, 2013
Over the weekend, The New York Times broke the news that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited its 6,000-strong membership to a May 4 session to be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco to discuss…something. “Please join us for a special event: The future of the Academy,” the invite read, somewhat mysteriously.
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'Twelve Years a Slave' set for a December release, but likely to skip Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:58 pm · April 2nd, 2013
We’ll have to wait a bit longer than we’d hoped for Steve McQueen’s third feature.
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Bill Clinton, Pierce Brosnan and more set to fete Chaplin Award recipient Barbra Streisand
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:09 am · April 2nd, 2013
Event is set for April 22 in New York.
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Peggy Siegal on Oscar's build: Hathaway's Valentino snub, Clooney's Dujardin revenge
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:35 am · April 1st, 2013
I read Peggy Siegel’s Oscar weekend diary at The Huffington Post with the expected mixture of fascination and disgust. You find yourself smiling at the gluttony of Hollywood during awards season until you don’t, as the cup of excess runneth over. And Siegel’s diary is a perfect record of all that superficiality.
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Tell us what you thought of 'The Host'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:59 am · March 30th, 2013
Andrew Niccol’s latest hit like a brick with critics but give us your take.
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Jim Carrey fires back at Fox News over anti-NRA 'Cold Dead Hand' dust-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:41 am · March 30th, 2013
‘A media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams…’
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Tell us what you thought of 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:25 pm · March 29th, 2013
The Rock crashes multiplexes this weekend with the action figure-based sequel.
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Academy to revise Documentary Short rules and expand voting branch
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:00 am · March 29th, 2013
Changes will give more voters a say in the award.
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Forest Whitaker steps in to produce the Richard Pryor biopic – but will it actually happen?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:24 am · March 28th, 2013
Honestly, this project seems cursed…
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Malick's 'To the Wonder' to be released day-and-date in theaters and on VOD
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:57 am · March 28th, 2013
Magnolia will finally release the divisive film Stateside on April 12.
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Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are back in the trailer for 'Before Midnight'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:32 am · March 28th, 2013
Sony Pictures Classics has Richard Linklater’s “Before Midnight” primed for a May 24 release. Michael Barker and Tom Bernard picked the film up out of Sundance, reuniting them with the filmmaker they brought to the fore over 20 years ago with “Slacker” via Orion Classics.
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Fox Searchlight checks into Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:59 pm · March 27th, 2013
The period comedy could be out later this year.
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Jon Stewart's directorial debut 'Rosewater' to go on sale at Cannes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:05 pm · March 27th, 2013
Scott Rudin will co-produce adaptation of journalist Maziar Bahari’s memoir.
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How Harvey Weinstein apparently played the press on the last day of Oscar voting
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:12 pm · March 27th, 2013
David O. Russell was reportedly never really attached to ‘The Ends of the Earth’
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Mendes will return to the Bond franchise, vow producers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:25 pm · March 26th, 2013
Oscar-winning director ruled himself out of the next one, but ‘left the door open.’
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About that time David Letterman kicked 'Spring Breakers' director Harmony Korine off his show
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:17 am · March 26th, 2013
Plus, Korine’s increasingly bizarre appearances on the show over the years.
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