The Dark Knight faces his most ruthless foe: the Dorky Weatherman. »

Of course, no one will ever confuse Al Roker with the concept of high journalistic standards, but Erik from Cinematical is right on the money when he suggests that Roker seems more than a little out of his element on a set visit to The Dark Knight:
Naturally, the Today Show producers think it’s amusing or [...]

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In development: you want the bad news first? »

This bit of remake hysteria will make my dad spin in his grave, and he’s not even dead yet. Some day, far into the future, when my dear old pop has been laid peacefully to rest, he’ll start spinning, retroactively, simply from the absolute wrong-headedness of it. All because Cinematical and a host of others [...]

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Ellen DeGeneres given the task to remove the funny from next year’s Oscars. »

The folks over at the Oscars have announced (via Defamer) that Ellen DeGeneres will be the host of next year’s award telecast to be aired on Sunday, February 25, 2007.
Ellen’s no stranger to awards hosting duties, having presided over the Primetime Emmy Awards shows several times, as well as picking up a few Emmy trophies [...]

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Smells like Desperation Movie Marketing over at New Line. »

Read an interesting item at Cinematical today about how New Line Cinema is releasing a special DVD version of the movie Final Destination 3 with a special “Thrill Ride” feature that allows you to choose certain options presented within the movie, thereby determining the characters’ fates.
What I find interesting, exactly, is that anyone thinks this [...]

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Join Burbanked as we live-blog the Oscars. Probably. »

UPDATED! Sorry about this. Some unforeseen circumstances have stepped into the way of this evening’s Oscar live-bloggery. We apologize if you clicked all the way here and we’ve got nothing to share with you. But let us at least save you some searching:
The Oscar blog over at Defamer will likely be a blast.
And Cinematical will [...]

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The 2006 movie awards season – one bloated show down, 78 to go. »

Make as much fun as you’d like at the expense of the Golden Globes Awards and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that bestows them, but the fact is that the Academy Awards are right around the corner, and the Globes do exert a certain amount of influence on their much-more-self-important Big Golden Brothers.
Does that mean [...]

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