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Amy Adams Is Pregnant

2 hours ago | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

Amy Adams, the co-star of Meryl Streep in "Doubt", is about to become a mother. People has recently came out with a report that the two-time Academy Award-nominated actress is expecting her first child with actor fiance Darren Le Gallo.

Before the news of her pregnancy came out, the 35-year-old has previously talked about having a family. On what kind of family she dreams of, the Julie Powell of "Julie & Julia" shared, "I probably won't have a big family." She further explained the reason why, saying "I can barely manage my own life! But I do want to have a family."

Amy first met Darren in an acting class in 2001 before then began dating. After seven year of togetherness, the two was reported to be engaged in April 2008. USA Today claimed that Darren proposed the "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" star with a diamond by French »

- celebrity-mania.com

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Oprah Winfrey demoted to No. 2 on Women in Entertainment: Power 100 list

6 hours ago | Zap2It - The Dish Rag | See recent Zap2It - The Dish Rag news »

Oprah Winfrey's quest for world domination has stalled...

The Hollywood Reporter has named Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal and Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney the most powerful women in entertainment.

Oprah Winfrey was bumped to No. 2, down from the top spot on last year's list. We're told she has vowed Amy Pascal and Anne Sweeney will never work in this town again! Kidding, kidding.

The rest of the Top 10 includes: (No. 3) Nancy Tellem, CBS Network Television Entertainment group president; (No. 4) Bonnie Hammer, president of NBC Universal; (No. 5) Donna Langley, co-chair Universal Pictures;(No. 6) Stacey Snider, co-chairman and CEO, DreamWorks; (No. 7) Dana Walden, chairman 20th Century Fox Television; (No. 8) Nina Tassler, president, CBS Entertainment; (No. 9)  Angela Bromstad, president Primetime Entertainment NBC; (No. 10) Sue Kroll, president of marketing at Warner Bros.

In-front-of-the-camera talent making the list are Ellen DeGeneres (No. 27), Meryl Streep (No. 48) and Tina Fey (No. 51). Also at »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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'Up in the Air,' National Board of Review kick off awards season

7 hours ago | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

"Up in the Air" just hit theaters today, but already the O-word is being bandied about.

The movie won best picture honors from the National Board of Review Thursday. The Nbr is usually among the first groups to announce its award winners in the run-up to the Oscars.

The last two Nbr winners -- "No Country for Old Men" and "Slumdog Millionaire" -- have gone on to win best picture at the Academy Awards (though its record as an Oscar predictor prior to that is far less reliable).

Directed by Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air" stars George Clooney as a perpetually traveling contractor who fires people for a living. "Up in the Air" also won best supporting actress for "Twilight: New Moon" co-star Anna Kendrick and best adapted screenplay.

The board also chose Clooney as best actor -- an honor he shares with "Invictus" star Morgan Freeman.

"I'm simply »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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The Naughts: The Actress of the '00s

11 hours ago | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

If time is an avenger, then the Naughts have had it both ways with Nicole Kidman. In the span of a decade, Kidman was transformed from arm candy into an artist -- the rare movie star who made genuinely interesting choices -- eclipsing her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, who filed for divorce in 2000, with an Oscar win and the embrace, finally, of her peers on her own terms.

However, as the '00s limp to a close, Kidman seems to be succumbing to a personal vendetta against time: by manipulating her face into a mask -- a waxworks ideal of "Nicole Kidman" -- rather than continuing to deploy it as a functional instrument, an artist's tool, Kidman is taking perhaps the most surprising risk of her career: she has chosen to age into glacial iconicity. In this, she exemplifies a decade that treated actresses with ambivalence, waving all the flags of »

- Michelle Orange

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Is It's Complicated Simply Twilight for Older Women?

12 hours ago | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

The reason Twilight was such a big box office hit -- and its sequel, New Moon, was even bigger -- is that the female audience finally decided to flex some of that powerhouse moviegoing muscle that had been in danger of atrophying since the phenomenon that was Titanic. Still, I don't expect that this often-unappreciated demographic is done with 2009 yet. While it'd be crazy to expect the Meryl Streep comedy It's Complicated to post anywhere near New Moon numbers, I'm starting to get the feeling women are about to make it a much bigger hit that some have foreseen. The rationale is simple: this movie is basically Twilight for older women! Here are four reasons why: »

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Movie Review - 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

19 hours ago | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman

Directed by Wes Anderson

Rated PG

Somehow, Wes Anderson has brought a very familiar story by Roald Dahl into his own idiosyncratic filmmaking style, and while Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop-motion animated story of a fox and his war with three human farmers, this is as much a Wes Anderson movie as Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums.

That also means it's a bit of a reworking of Dahl's original, but as with any good adaptation, it does exactly that: Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson's interpretation of the story, refitted to his own unique approach.

The nuts and bolts of the story are mostly unchanged: Fox (George Clooney) robs three evil farmers, Boggis, Bunce, and Bean of their wares. It's primarily stuff you'd expect a fox to steal, like chickens, but Fox loves the art of the »

- Colin Boyd

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Director: Wes Anderson

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Running Time: 87 mins.

MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least.  I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together?  He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one.  Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Director: Wes Anderson

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Running Time: 87 mins.

MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least.  I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together?  He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one.  Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Director: Wes Anderson

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Running Time: 87 mins.

MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least.  I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together?  He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one.  Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Director: Wes Anderson

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Running Time: 87 mins.

MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least.  I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together?  He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one.  Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray

Director: Wes Anderson

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Running Time: 87 mins.

MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least.  I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together?  He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one.  Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one »

- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)

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Yay! "Up in the Air" Named Best Film of 2009 By the National Board of Review! George Clooney, Morgan Freeman Tied for Best Actor

3 December 2009 3:27 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Director Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" won big at the 2009 National Board of Review Awards. The movie, based on Walter Kirn's novel, won the Best Film of the Year, while its star, George Clooney, won Best Actor tied with Morgan Freeman for "Invictus."

"Up in the Air" also won Best Supporting Actress for Anna Kendrick, and Reitman and Sheldon Turner won Best Adapted Screenplay.

(Check out my interview with Jason Reitman, Anna Kendrick, and Vera Farmiga for "Up in the Air")

And the winners of the 2009 National Board of Review Awards are:

Film: "Up in the Air"

Director: Clint Eastwood, "Invictus"

Actor: George Clooney, "Up in the Air"

Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"

Actress: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"

Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"

Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"

Foreign Language Film: "A Prophet"

Documentary:"The Cove"

Animated Feature: "Up"

Ensemble Cast: "It's Complicated" (Meryl Streep, »

- Manny

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Monthly Movie Preview – December 2009

3 December 2009 1:53 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

This is going to be a great month. No matter whether these big and small movies fall flat on their faces or not there’s going to be plenty to choose from – especially for those who want to keep up with important films.

First up is Avatar, one of the biggest gambles of this decade. Will the same kind of crowd that saw The Dark Knight or Transformers multiple times venture to movie theatres to see a 150-minute-long 3-D film that features tall blue creatures? It’s up in the air.

Which reminds me of a few more titles that should be worth checking out, one of them being Jason Reitman’s new film with George Clooney. The drama-comedy about a man who fires people for a living has been getting great buzz from its successful festival runs, with Oscar talk flying around as smoothly as paper airplanes.

But, Up In the Air »

- Nick Allen

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Nbr names `Up in the Air' best film of the year

3 December 2009 1:14 PM, PST | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »

"Up in the Air" was named best picture from the National Board of Review and won a total of four awards.Directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You for Smoking"), the film stars George Clooney as a perpetually traveling contractor who fires people for a living. The National Board of Review, which announced its awards Thursday, also chose Clooney as best actor, an honor he shares with Morgan Freeman who plays Nelson Mandela in "Invictus.""Up in the Air" also won best supporting actress for Anna Kendrick and best adapted screenplay, penned by Reitman and Sheldon Turner working from Walter Kirn's book of the same name.Already an Oscar favorite, the win boosts the awards prospects of "Up in the Air," which opens Friday. The last two Nbr winners . "No Country for Old Men" and »

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Clooney's Up in the Air Named Best Film

3 December 2009 12:55 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

The 2009 Oscar race is officially Up in the Air. The George Clooney vehicle about love in the age of layoffs has become one of the Oscar front-runners after being named best picture by the National Board of Review on Thursday. Clooney shared a win for best actor with Morgan Freeman, who won for his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in Invictus, directed by his longtime collaborator Clint Eastwood, who was named best director. British newcomer Carey Mulligan was named best actress for playing a precocious teen in An Education, while The Messenger's Woody Harrelson and Air's Anna Kendrick were recognized for their supporting performances. »

- Oliver Jones

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Penelope Cruz obsessed with Meryl Streep

3 December 2009 11:01 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »

London, Dec 3 (Ians) Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz has revealed she is obsessed with veteran actress Meryl Streep and wants to kiss her all over.

Cruz has confessed she struggles to control herself whenever she’s in the same room as the “Mamma Mia!” star, reports contactmusic.com.

“We only know each other from seeing each other at awards ceremonies or those kinds of events, but whenever I see her, I always go up to her and start kissing her,” she said.

“I don’t even say anything - I just kiss her. She must think I’m some crazy person,” she added.

Cruz also revealed her liking for Streep’s movies.

“There is nobody better. I watch her movies. »

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Penelope Strikes One Pose After Another For Nine in Interview

3 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »

Penelope Cruz went with red lips and lots of diamonds for the January cover of Interview. She posed for an accompanying sexy spread and talked about Nine with her costar in the film, Marion Cotillard. There's all sorts of speculation about Penelope's personal life and possible engagement to Javier Bardem, but the ladies kept things strictly focused on business - Penelope shared about what compelled her to act, her inspirations, and what it was like on the female-centered set of Nine. Here's more: On what inspired her to act: "That question actually brings me to the reason why I decided to become an actress, which is my constant curiosity about the endless mysteries of human behavior. Because we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers." On when she knew she wanted to act: "I think since I was around four years old. »

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Cruz Always Wants To Kiss Streep

3 December 2009 4:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Penelope Cruz has a creepy obsession with Meryl Streep - she wants to kiss the movie great all over.

The Spaniard has confessed she struggles to control herself whenever she's in the same room as the Mamma Mia! star.

She tells the upcoming issue of Interview magazine, "We only know each other from seeing each other at awards ceremonies or those kinds of events, but whenever I see her, I always go up to her and start kissing her.

"I don't even say anything - I just kiss her. She must think I'm some crazy person."

And Cruz loves to watch Streep's movies: "There is nobody better. I watch her movies over and over again. I saw Silkwood again a couple of weeks ago, and it made me just want to kiss her feet." »

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Decade in Review: 2002 Top Ten

2 December 2009 7:58 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

As with 2000 and 2001, I'm reprinting my original top ten lists and commentary. If I've got something new to say, it'll be in red below.

Please note: This list was based on NYC release dates in the year 2002. Some movies are listed as different years at the IMDb based on when they were produced or released in their home country or in La or whatnot.

Undervalued: Morvern Callar, Roger Dodger, About a Boy, White Oleander, Panic Room and Kissing Jessica Stein Top 10 Runners Up: Chicago, Monsoon Wedding, Punch Drunk Love and Spirited Away I still am glad I championed most of these movies though I am sad that some of them aren't in the top ten... particularly Morvern, Monsoon and the Miyazaki. The MMMs. Though I'm not sure I'd know what to remove to make room for them.

10. 8 Women (François Ozon)

Ever since I a French teacher took my friends and »

- NATHANIEL R

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Fantastic Mr. Fox Review

2 December 2009 4:35 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Short Version: Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasantly surprising film that is odd, witty, and probably more fun for adults than kids.

Screen Rant Reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox

I am not a Wes Anderson fan. Rushmore didn’t make me swoon; The Royal Tenenbaums made me groan; The Life Aquatic was no “masterpiece” far as I could tell and I didn’t even bother with The Darjeeling Limited. In fact, everything Anderson has done after Bottle Rocket has ultimately fallen on my cinematic bad side. Hearing his name brought up in classrooms and discussed as if he is the Shakespeare of cinema has only compounded that antagonism. If we were to play the word association game and you said “Wes Anderson” my immediate response would likely be “Pretentious and overrated.”

 

I went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox because, frankly, somebody on the site needed to review it. I wasn’t expecting much. »

- Kofi Outlaw

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