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Crazy Heart - Poster and images from the Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal starrer.

9 hours ago | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

There's a poster as well as images in the "Crazy Heart" group. The film opens on December 16th in limited areas and stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall. Scott Cooper directs from his own screeplay based on the novel written by Thomas Cobb. Original music is by T. Bone Burnett. Four-time Academy Award® nominee Jeff Bridges stars as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in the debut feature film Crazy Heart from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times... »

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Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats – Nothing much to see here…

11 hours ago | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

Loosely based on British writer Jon Ronson's book of the same name, The Men Who Stare At Goats follows Ewan McGregor - taking on Ronson's role as frustrated journalist Bob Wilton, somewhat unnecessarily rewritten in the film as an American. As a result of various farcical events and coincidences Wilton finds himself in Kuwait, anxiously hoping to make it over the border into Iraq, until he meets former solider - or 'Jedi Warrior' as he refers to himself - Lynn Cassady, suavely played (as ever) by George Clooney, who introduces Wilton to the potentially bigger story of the secret division of the army he used to belong to which researched the possibilities of psychic warfare. Photographed by Robert Elswitt who won the Oscar for There Will Be Blood, the film is definitely one of the best looking comedies in recent memory, even managing to make Middle Eastern Desert (although »

- Mark Davison

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Crazy Heart Poster Released

15 hours ago | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who’s had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can’t help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. Bad also becomes the mentor to a contemporary country star, Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell), while simultaneously struggling in the rising young crooner’s shadow.

Crazy Heart has been generating Oscar buzz for some time now and it’s not at all hard to see why. It has the luxury of having a great cast, boasting Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell. It also has the added bonus of having a very Oscar-friendly story. We all know how much the Academy loves stories about redemption and the film has already drawn »

- Alex Wagner

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Box Office Beat Down: 2012 Destroys the Weekend with $65 Million!

20 hours ago | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Weekend Box Office

1) 2012 - $65 million

2) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $22.3 million

3) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $6.2 million

4) Precious - $6.09 million

5) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $5.1 million

6) The Fourth Kind - $4.7 million

7) Couples Retreat - $4.25 million

8) Paranormal Activity - $4.2 million

9) Law Abiding Citizen - $3.9 million

10) The Box- $3.1 million

The latest Roland Emerich disaster flick, 2012, destroyed everything in it's way this weekend to earn the number one spot in the box office making an estimated $65 million. The film about the end of the world, which had a reported budget of somewhere around $260 million, was released on a little over 3,000 screens and made an estimated $19,095 per screen. Last week's number one film, Disney's a Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge fell 25.7% only making $22.3 million in it's second week. The movie, which was released on around 3,404 screens, earned only $6,062 per screen.

The Men Who Stare at Goats starring Oscar Winners »

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Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Vera Farmiga: Governors Awards 2009

20 hours ago | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch, and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14. Actress Vera Farmiga, a potential contender for the 2010 best supporting actress Oscar Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges and wife Susan Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (for The Silence of the Lambs) and Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman Photos: Michael Yada / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photos to enlarge them. »

- Joan Lister

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Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009

22 hours ago | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year’s Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14. Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of numerous low-budget films including Attack of the Crab Monsters, Carnival Rock, Bloody Mama, and House of Usher Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, with Jeff Bridges, one of the stars of Bad Company, a 1972 Western shot by Willis Richard Harbaugh (Willis/Bridges, group photo), Matt Petit (Corman) / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photos [...] »

- Anna Robinson

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Crazy Heart Poster, The Oscar Contender Earning Comparisons to The Wrestler

15 November 2009 11:19 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

When I reported on Crazy Heart in 2008, the film was affiliated with the Cmt network, yet drew my interest with a cast that included Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Robert Duval. All of these actors excel in roles steeped in the weathering of life and excess, and this tale of, "a washed-up, alcoholic country singer (Bridges) who gets his life back on track thanks to a reporter-type (Gyllenhaal)," obviously played to those strengths on the surface. The addition to the cast of Colin Farrell, forever in our good graces for In Bruges, made this a must-see no matter what. Well, here we are in the fourth quarter of '09 and the performance by Bridges is in the thick of Oscar buzz, drawing early comparisons to Mickey Rourke's unflinching, redemptive arc in The Wrestler. Furthering this parallel, Crazy Heart is being distributed by Fox Searchlight, the company behind Darren Aronofsky »

- Hunter Stephenson

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Best Actor Race Breakdown

15 November 2009 9:59 AM, PST | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »

Tom O’Neil at Gold Derby has run down a list of the potential nominees.   He has starred those he thinks have the best shot.  Worth noting: Tom’s favorite performance is Viggo Mortensen in The Road: Best Actor Front-runners • Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart” Nicolas Cage, “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” • George Clooney, “Up in the Air” Matt Damon, [...] »

- Sasha Stone

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Emmerich's disaster epic 2012 opens with a massive $65 million.

15 November 2009 4:22 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Love his films or loath them, Roland Emmerich is the master of disaster with "2012" bringing in a gargantuan $65 million in U.S. sales on its debut weekend. Worldwide, the film starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrselson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt has already brought in over $225 million. This one's going to be big folks and clearly a year for Sony after the success of "District 9" and "Zombieland" among others. Doing well in its sophomore weekend, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "A Christmas Carol" sang up 14% of the weekend gross with $22.3 million added, making the animated film's total over $63 million so far. JIm Carrey, Gary Oldman, Crispin Glover and Robin Wright Penn star in the Robert Zemeckis-directed and adapted family animated adventure. Overture Films' comedy "The Men Who Stare At Goats," starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges, showed a 51% change in its »

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Oscar hopefuls Jeff Bridges, Vera Farminga and more at the 2009 Governors Ball

14 November 2009 11:06 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

An impressive array of Academy favorites and potential nominees landed the hard to get tickets to the first annual Governors Ball. From potential nominees Jeff Bridges and Abbie Cornish to this year's Oscar co-host Alec Baldwin a number of well known faces arrived to honor Lauren Bacall and other industry legends. A spectacular star to what should be a new November Oscar tradition. How long till the public gets to view the festivities? »

- Gregory Ellwood

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DVD Playhouse--November 2009

14 November 2009 6:25 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—November 2009

By

Allen Gardner

Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Great New Poster for 'Crazy Heart' with Jeff Bridges

14 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

We've written and you have commented about Fox Searchlight's mysterious year of failures. Normally at this time, the baby studio has set itself up for a great Oscar run (or two), but outside of (500) Days of Summer, which figures to only make hay in the screenplay category, Searchlight has whiffed a lot this year. The studio announced maybe ten days ago that its sleeper this season will be Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges, kind of a modernized Tender Mercies, which won Robert Duvall an Academy Award. Click the pic to see the whole poster.

With any movie about music, I always gravitate to that section of the credits that deals with the musical score and soundtrack. In this case, the score is by O Brother composer and soundtrack producer T-Bone Burnett and a guy named Stephen Bruton. Bruton was a fixture in Austin and throughout the Texas music scene for about 40 years. »

- Colin Boyd

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Check This Out: Official Poster for Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart

13 November 2009 9:00 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Seen below is Fox Searchlight's official poster for Crazy Heart from the La Times. The trailer arrives on Monday, but I thought I'd feature this anyway. If you haven't heard yet, Crazy Heart is the latest big Oscar contender, and it already has a lot of support. Jeff Bridges plays a broken-down, hard-living country music singer in a kind of Wrestler-like story. Apparently it's a "performance of a lifetime" from Bridges with critics like Kris Tapley of In Contention and Jeffrey Wells supporting him. "Jeff Bridges is definitely in the Best Actor derby... [His] best since The Big Lebowski but tonally opposite and much harder hitting, of course." Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help »

- Alex Billington

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Giveaway: 'The Open Road' DVD

13 November 2009 4:51 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »

Coming to DVD this Tuesday, November 17th is The Open Road, atarring Jeff Bridges and Justin Timberlake. To mark the occasion, we're giving away a copy of the DVD to one lucky entrant of our contest below! To get in on this one, all you have to do is abide by our rules and enter a comment below telling us which is your favorite movie featuring Jeff Bridges. Official Rules: Entering is simple. You’ve got to be 18 years of age, reside in the USA and provide your name and a valid email address (only used to contact winner) and leave a comment below telling us which is your favorite Jeff Bridges movie. Only one entry per person per day. The winner will be contacted via email and will have 7 days to claim their prize. Make sure you get your entry in before Sunday November 29, 2009 11:59Pm Pst! Synopsis: In The Open Road, »

- Buzzfocus Staff

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Gold Derby nuggets: 411 on 'Nine' | Two perspectives on 'Avatar' | Four toons top 50 Oscars snubs

13 November 2009 3:04 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

• Tony-winning composer Maury Yeston talked in great detail to Harry Haun about the journey of "Nine" from screen (as "8 1/2") to stage and back to screen. "There are only two ways to approach Broadway shows becoming movies," Yeston says. "One of them is to be an over-controlling fuddy-duddy and not let anybody change anything. The other is to step back and go with the new medium." For Yeston, "The adaptation back into film was a very organic one that made a tremendous amount of sense. It was a great opportunity to allow this piece -- which had been so cinematic to begin with -- to find again its place in the grammar of cinema. That means things like dissolves, edits, close-ups, lighting effects -- things film can do for exposition to get inside the mind." Playbill

• Steve Pond delivers more scoop on Saturday's inaugural Governors Awards at Hollywood and Highland's Grand »

- tomoneil

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Crazy Heart poster

13 November 2009 12:09 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

The buzz from Crazy Heart is that this might get Jeff Bridges the Oscar he deserves. I might sound delusional but I could have swore I saw a trailer for this movie, even though there is no trace of one online. The story is adapted from the book of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Bridges plays country singer Bad Blake whose life actually echos the music that he plays. Blake's had several bad marriages, too many drinks, and has done a lot of hard living. When Blake meets Jean (Maggie... »

- Niki Stephens

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“Scene Selection” Review ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ with George Clooney, Ewan McGregor

12 November 2009 1:43 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Scene Selection review of ’The Men Who Stare At Goats‘ by Alex Kartman

for MovieSet.com

George Clooney is blossoming into a great comedic actor (not including the dismal Batman and Robin, because that’s only funny because of how awful it is). His five most recent films, including two yet to be released, all are comedies in one form or another: “Leatherheads,” “Burn After Reading,” “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Up in the Air,” (not a total comedy, but he maintains his charm and whit in the trailers), and this past weekend’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” What is so amazing about Clooney is that three of the films are releasing between now and Christmas. Talk about a guy committed to acting. The flip side is that he had no other films released this year.

Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) and Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) in Overture Films’ The Men Who Stare At Goats. »

- Alex Kartman

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The Men Who Stare At Goats: A Plot in Search of a Movie

12 November 2009 12:04 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Grant Heslov's movie The Men Who Stare At Goats is a good premise stuck in a mess of a movie. Based on a stranger-than-fiction book about paranormal research within the U.S. military, it should be a black comedy about the lengths to which our army will go to kill people. Instead, it's a collection of tonally tin-eared, quirky setpieces that strain believability and almost completely ignore the human cost of the Iraq War during which the movie is set. In particular, it pales in comparison to George Clooney's previous Middle Eastern dramedies, the brilliant Three Kings and fitfully brilliant Syriana. The cast of Goats is a mixed bag. George Clooney is terrific playing a character convinced he's always in control, all circumstances to the contrary; Ewan McGregor is a complete zero as Clooney's straight man, a journalist unsure of what to make of all the supernatural stuff Clooney is talking about. »

- Alex Remington

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Exclusive Video: Hit The Open Road with This New DVD Clip

12 November 2009 7:57 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

We have a brand new exclusive clip from the upcoming DVD release The Open Road, which will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on November 17. Click below for our exclusive clip which features Jeff Bridges and Justin Timberlake bonding over Rolaid's.

Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Steenburgen star in writer/director Michael Meredith's tale of a young man looking to reconnect with his long-lost father -- a famous athlete -- and bring him back to the bedside of his ailing mother. Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, and Kate Mara fill out the supporting cast in the Perfect Weekend production.

Special Features:

- Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Michael Meredith and Actor Jeff Bridges

- "Behind the Scenes of The Open Road"

- Theatrical Trailer

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Oscar Update: Movement In the Predictions, but the Front-runners Remain

11 November 2009 2:23 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Last year I was pumping out Oscar Updates with ease on a weekly and almost twice-a-week basis, but this year I am slowly groing bored by the news (or lack thereof). A lot of this year's buzz seems to be manufactured, such as those wondering if Michael Jackson's This is It will be a Best Picture nominee. Guess what, no, it won't be. However, there are other bits of buzz that come in, but they hardly stir much emotion as the films are still a couple months out and haven't been widely seen or have quite simply appeared out of thin air.

Should I take Helen Mirren seriously as a Best Actress contender for The Last Station? How about the buzz on Jeff Bridges for the late-to-the-party Crazy Heart? Many now have Bridges as the lead contender for Best Actor and some even have him winning. Who would have thought? »

- Brad Brevet

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