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For a long time, it was well known within the studio system that if you wanted your movie to get recognized for things like critic association awards, the Oscars, or anything like that, you couldn't release it before the middle of September Conventional wisdom was that if you released too early, people would forget that[...]

Here's a look at the official trailer, an overview of the documentary, and a preview of the teaser set to air during Sunday night's Oscars broadcast on ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUMrYgnE0UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUMrYgnE0U) "Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days," a two-hour documentary special produced by[...]

It was also Spencer Tracy's final movie before his passing, and the movie earned Oscar nominations in all the major categories, winning Best Screenplay for writer William Rose and Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn It was also Tracy and Hepburn's last movie together as a legendary couple onscreen and off. Daisy Ridley and Adrian Lester in[...]

Cast member Jo Marie Payton revealed during an interview on ABC's GMA3 that new episodes were on the way. Picking up where the ground-breaking 2001-2005 series left off and continuing to feature messages of inclusion and cultural diversity, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder picks up the story of central character Penny Proud and her family: parents[...]

Before we get into that let's give credit where it's due with the Film Academy recognizing Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite as Best Picture in the 2020 Oscars Could anyone else picture a contemporary foreign language film 5-10 years ago and beyond? What would the Academy consider otherwise? Most probably think historical drama or martial arts epic[...]

And for the new Batman writer to take over the title from Tynion. And Bleeding Cool has been tipped off that the new writer is currently expected to be the Oscar winner John Ridley IV, screenwriter of the movie 12 Years A Slave, showrunner of TV series American Crime, the documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles[...]

Heath Ledger won an Oscar for playing The Joker in Dark Knight, but that was a Best Supporting Role To date no actor has won an Oscar for playing the lead in a comic book-inspired movie But today the bookmaker Betway has placed Joaquin Phoenix as theri favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actor[...]

The Guardian and the Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for their coverage of Snowden's leaks. Laura Poitras' 2014 Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour chronicled Snowden's flight to Hong Kong and eventually Moscow  In 2015, Joseph Gordon Levitt starred in Snowden, the fictionalized account of Snowden's plight directed by Oliver Stone. Permanent Record is Snowden's own account of his part in[...]

Who are you picking and why? So what will it be, people? #TeamOscar? #TeamGrover? #TeamElmo? #TeamCookieMonster? I'm not sure what might happen to the losers, so that has me slightly concerned – and while I'm not interested in swaying your vote… I'm not sure the cookie dude's a good choice if food's limited It's a short[...]

The U.S. Library of Congress is commemorating 'Sesame Street' for its 50 years of television excellence by preserving nearly 4,500 episodes of the series.

New CEO Ynon Kreiz named Robbie Brenner, producer on the Oscar-nominated Dallas Buyers Club, The Fighter, Immortals, Dear John, and Safe Haven to head Mattel Films She will look to bring their iconic brands to life n the big screen including Hot Wheels, Thomas and Friends, and of course Barbie and Masters of the Universe[...]

Sesame Street treated us to their unique take on popular theme song to '90s NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air to give us Bert and Ernie's backstory.

Hope everyone likes awards shows, because the Academy has announced some big changes to The Oscars are coming. Namely, we're getting a three-hour broadcast of the annual ceremony — a surprising announcement considering 2018's ceremony had some of the lowest ratings in modern televised history for the event. There was also the reveal of a brand-new category,[...]

Dear Basketball was nominated for an Oscar in the best animated short category. Dear Basketball is based on the poem Bryant wrote in 2015 after announcing his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers It features hand-drawn art on graphite and paper by Glen Keane, who animated Ariel in The Little Mermaid The music was done by[...]

If you're a fan of genre movies, the odds are your favorite films best chance at an Oscar comes in the Best Visual Effects category The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have narrowed down the field for this year's awards to a mere 20 films These include some of the biggest blockbusters of[...]

That is one of the reasons that the a lot of people are loving the awards consideration that Deadpool is getting; it's about as far removed from Oscar Bait as you can get While the top awards are likely going to go to movies that deserve it (Moonlight) and movies that just know what buttons[...]

Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life, the short film written and directed by Peter Capaldi, starring Richard E Grant, that won an Oscar for best short film back in 1994. Oh look, it's on YouTube. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIBJFrRjl94[/youtube] And if that's not enough, how about Capaldi's first American chat show with his old friend Craig Ferguson including an early look at[...]