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Will This Awesome King’s Speech Takedown Rock Oscar Race?

Heads up, Harvey! Incoming fire at 10 o’clock! Don’t let the Academy get anywhere near this hot potato: A writer at Big Hollywood has finally said what needed to be said about the vexed stutterer whose dramatic, heart-wrenching travails have touched the hearts of awards voters everywhere: Who the hell feels sorry for the King of England?

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Will This Awesome King’s Speech Takedown Rock Oscar Race?

Michael Moore’s Weinstein Lawsuit: Shady Accounting or Oscar-Timed Hit?

Earlier today we were tickled by tales of Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s genius early ’80s sexifying shenanigans , but this afternoon brings allegations of shady accounting and legal chicanery lobbied by none other than former collaborator Michael Moore, who claims the Weinsteins deceived him out of millions in profits from his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . Naturally, we wonder: What’s this mean for the Oscar race?

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Michael Moore’s Weinstein Lawsuit: Shady Accounting or Oscar-Timed Hit?

Movieline’s Week in Review: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even

Look at Paul Giamatti’s face and just try to pretend you’re not totally pumped for the weekend. As the curtain draws on the first week of February, it’s time for another edition of Movieline’s patented Week in Review. Check back here Saturday and Sunday to experience the delights weekend editor Dixon Gaines has in store for you, and don’t forget: Bring something to the Super Bowl party you’re attending. It is so not cool to show up empty handed.

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Movieline’s Week in Review: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even

Create Your Own Arrested Development Sequel…With These Paper Dolls

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Helena Bonham Carter

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Supporting Actress nominee Helena Bonham Carter!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Helena Bonham Carter

Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Resume Steel-Cage Death Match

So you’ve probably heard about yesterday’s Academy Award nominations . Pretty interesting, if you’re into that kind of thing. And really, who isn’t? More importantly, who isn’t into Movieline’s Oscar Index, which went a respectable 30 for 35 in its inaugural attempt to narrow down this year’s nods to a science? Let’s break it all down — and see what it means for the Oscar home stretch:

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Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Resume Steel-Cage Death Match

Fox Searchlight Acquires Aptly-Titled Another Earth

One more Sundance acquisition to start the morning: Fox Searchlight will be bringing Mike Cahill’s low-budget sci-fi film Another Earth to theaters. Starring co-writer Brit Marling, the film involves a promising MIT student who kills a talented composer’s family in a car crash the same night that a duplicate version of earth is discovered orbiting the sun. So yes, it’s not just some letdown-metaphor title! No release date on this one yet. [ Deadline ]

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Fox Searchlight Acquires Aptly-Titled Another Earth

Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this humpday edition of The Broadsheet: Ryan Murphy has some choice words for Kings of Leon… J. Edgar finds its icy blonde… a new Oscar nominee is also a new father… and more ahead.

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Harvey Weinstein Wants to Recut The King’s Speech, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today