This week on home video, we've only got five major releases to talk about in detail, but they certainly run the gamut. From angsty (and ridiculously popular) teen vampires to thrill-seeking surfers, from an exploration of cult dynamics to a cinematic dream, and including a doc with that rare 100% Tomatometer, we think you'll be hard pressed not to find something to watch this week. Click through to see the full list!
We at Rotten Tomatoes freely admit we're not the world's greatest Oscar prognosticators. Still, we did a bit better than usual this year; while there were some surprises (Sound Editing was a tie?!) and a few winners that aren't all that surprising in retrospect, most of our predictions came true at the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Read on to see how our forecast squared with the final results!
The 85th Academy Awards are scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 24th in Los Angeles, and if you're looking for the winners, you've come to the right place. We'll be updating this article with each of the Oscar winners as they are announced, so if you don't have easy access to the telecast, be sure to check back here!
With Hollywood busy preparing for the Academy Awards, studios dumped out lame new releases which not surprisingly led to a soft session at North American multiplexes allowing former chart-topper Identity Thief to reclaim the number one spot. Universal's hit comedy declined by a reasonable 40% from the Friday-to-Sunday portion of last weekend's Presidents' Day frame and grossed an estimated $14.1M leading all films. After 17 days, the Melissa McCarthy-Jason Bateman pic has now collected $93.7M and will hit the $100M mark next weekend - a big achievement for an original R-rated comedy.
The Razzie Awards, in their 33rd year of "incinerating cinema sins," announced the recipients of the worst film achievements in 2012 on Oscar Eve, Saturday, February 23, 2013. Click through for the full list of winners.
The winners of the 28th annual Independent Spirit Awards were announced on Saturday February 23, 2013, in a ceremony hosted by Andy Samberg at a beach luncheon in Santa Monica. In a tight race for Best Feature, in the end Silver Linings Playbook took home the gold or, in this case, the bird on a pole. The event will be broadcast on IFC tonight at 10pm. See the full list of results below.
It's Oscar weekend - your last chance to see all the nominees before the winners are announced. Fortunately, you can watch Academy Award-nominated movies like Argo, Life of Pi, and Anna Karenina from the comfort of your living room. Click through to find out more.
This Sunday, Hollywood throws the 85th annual Academy Awards, the biggest movie party in the world. We expect glitz, glamour, and a few dozen Coppolas running around untended. But, if history is to be trusted, we should also expect the unexpected. Will Quvenzhané Wallis drop a few bon mots? Seth MacFarlane in a teddy bear suit? Perhaps a light sparing of witty rejoinders between Michael Haneke and Tommy Lee Jones? Whatever happens on Sunday, remember that the Academy has been privvy to a few zany things. Read on for our 10 favorite memorable moments in Oscar history.
This week leading up to the Academy Awards was relatively quiet, possibly because movers and shakers are waiting until next week to see who they should be making new deals with. So, Megan Fox gets the headlines, and the other nine stories involve sequels like Anchorman: The Legends Continues, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and possible sequels for Identity Thief and Mama, as well as new roles for Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Adam Sandler.
The 2012-2013 awards season has been full of ups, downs, and shots of Tommy Lee Jones' grumpy face. Matt Atchity and Grae Drake lay out all of the goings-on as we say goodbye to trophy-time. Click through for the details.
Watching the Academy Awards is a perfectly fine way to spend an evening, but let's face it: Half the fun of the Oscars is trying to predict who'll win, and the other half is bellyaching about who wasn't even nominated. It's in that spirit that we assembled this week's list -- looking back over the last few decades of Oscardom, plenty of worthy films have been honored, but just as many (if not more) have seen their contributions to cinema unfairly overlooked in favor of some rather questionable nominations. Obviously, this is meant to be a conversation starter rather than a complete list, but hey -- that's what the comments are for. Let's Total Recall!
As the eyes of the movie world turn to the Oscars, we'd like to remind you that there are a couple new viewing options out there this week. We've got a pair of new wide releases (Snitch, Dark Skies), as well as a teen-friendly rental (Fun Size). Read on to find out what's appropriate for the whole family.
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