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20 Animated Pics Gunning for Oscar

Written by Tara the Mom Thursday, 12 November 2009 08:59

This year, the Academy Awards will allow 10 Best Picture nominees. No other category will get 10, but sometimes, categories only have three. Best Animated Picture sometimes falls into this category, but not this year. Twenty animated films have been submitted in the Best Animated Pic category which, unless five are disqualified, means five of those films will get the nod (16 eligible entries are required in a category to get five official nominations).

The movies submitted with Oscar dreams are:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Astro Boy
Battle for Terra
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mary and Max
The Missing Lynx
Monsters vs. Aliens
9
Planet 51
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
A Town Called Panic
Up

KPF will predict the nominees will likely be: Up, 9, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Disney's A Christmas Carol.

CLOUDY Seeing Light on Blu-Ray in Dec.

Written by Tara the Mom Wednesday, 11 November 2009 07:54

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has had such a successful run since it's Sept. 18 release that it's still showing in more than 1,000 theaters. If you haven't gone yet, though, go now because the movie theater owners will likely pull the title on Friday, ticked off at the news that Sony is going to release Cloudy digitally on Dec. 4, a much shorter window than the four-month norm.

Cloudy will be available digitally for $24.95 for those with Internet-enabled TV sets and some Blu-Ray players. Cloudy has earned $121 million at the domestic box office so far.

To read more, go to:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8d89a411d4e37fb5153b40b2337bb84b

TWILIGHT Is the People's Choice

Written by Tara the Mom Wednesday, 11 November 2009 07:28

Twilight was the most nominated entity in this year's People's Choice Awards, nominated for favorite movie and movie franchise. The top trio of actors nabbed four nominations: Kristen Stewart for Actress, Robert Pattison for Actor, Taylor Lautner for Breakout Actor, and all three for Favorite On-Screen Team.

You can vote at www.PeoplesChoice.com or MySpace.com/peopleschoiceawards through Dec. 8. To vote for "Favorite Franchise," you have to vote with your cell phone by texting VOTE to 24475 and then your favorite.

Following is the list of all the nominees:

FAVORITE MOVIE

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek, Twilight, The Proposal, The Hangover

FAVORITE FAMILY FILM

Hannah Montana: The Movie, Up, Ice Age: The Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Where the Wild Things Are, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

FAVORITE COMEDY MOVIE

17 Again, The Proposal, The Hangover, Bride Wars, He's Just Not That Into You

FAVORITE INDEPENDENT MOVIE

(500) Days of Summer, District 9, Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, Paranormal Activity, Inglorious Basterds

FAVORITE FRANCHISE

Transformers, The Twilight Saga, Star Trek, Harry Potter, X-Men

FAVORITE MOVIE ACTOR

Robert Pattison, Ryan Reynolds, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman

FAVORITE MOVIE ACTRESS

Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston

FAVORITE BREAKOUT MOVIE ACTOR

Taylor Lautner, Chris Pine, Sam Worthington, Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Zachary Quinto

FAVORITE BREAKOUT MOVIE ACTRESS

Emily Osment, Miley Cyrus, Zoe Saldana, Anna Kendrick, Gennifer Goodwin

FAVORITE ACTION STAR

Shia LaBeouf, Gerard Butler, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Vin Diesel

FAVORITE COMEDIC STAR

Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Ryan Reynolds, Vince Vaughn

FAVORITE ON-SCREEN TEAM

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

The Twilight Saga: Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox

The Proposal: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds

X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber, will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney

Animated KELLS Won't Be a Secret to Oscar

Written by Tara the Mom Wednesday, 11 November 2009 07:09

European animated sensation The Secret of Kells will get a limited run in Los Angeles and LA to qualify it for the Academy Awards before a nationwide release in March 2010. GKIDS, an arm of the New York International Children's Film Festival with a mission of distributing quality family films, picked up the U.S. distribution rights just three days before Oscar's deadline.

The Secret of Kells is about a ninth century boy who discovers Ireland's legendary Book of Kells, an ancient beautiful book containing the Four Gospels. A user of IMDB describes the animation as a mixture of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and "Kim Possible." The animated pic has won a boatload of awards overseas.

GKIDS picked up other films for release next year including the French/Swiss/Italian animated environmental pic Mia and the Magoo.

To read more, go to:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011126.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

SQEAKUEL To Open Early

Written by Tara the Mom Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:21

I like 20th Century Fox. When the studio puts out a movie for children, it's usually pretty safe and pretty fun (Alvin and the Chipmunks, Horton Hears a Who). Now, it's determined that it will move up the release date of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel from Christmas Day to Dec. 23 because most children will be out of school on Wednesday. While that's a financial move for Fox, it's a thoughtful move for parents. If you have a kid who can't wait to see Squeakuel, like I do, it's nice to have an option to see the film before Christmas Day.

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