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The Parents Television Council Says Blue Valentine Ruined Movie Ratings, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in this Friday edition of The Broadsheet: Miley Cyrus gets filmed doing something naughty on her 18th birthday… Jim Morrison finally gets pardoned… How Do You Know cost entirely too much money… and more ahead.

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The Parents Television Council Says Blue Valentine Ruined Movie Ratings, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Jesse Eisenberg on Using Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and His Next Project (Which May Involve You)

Last week I met actor Jesse Eisenberg for a lengthy discussion of subjects ranging from his coming-of-age in the New York theater to his beloved Zombieland and his awards-season prospects for The Social Network. We covered a lot of ground, which I’ll be retracing this week in a five-part series here at Movieline. As our impromptu Hell’s Kitchen rendezvous continued, Jesse Eisenberg naturally drifted into the subject The Social Network was in part based on: Facebook, and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. The actor elaborated on his (short) experience on Facebook, the possibility of sending Mark Zuckerberg ill-advised late night emails, if he can still walk down the street without being recognized (or, as it turns out, without being given a noogie) and his new project — which just may wind up somehow involving you.

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Jesse Eisenberg on Using Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and His Next Project (Which May Involve You)

‘It’s a Lot of Pressure’: Jesse Eisenberg Reacts to NBR Win, Awards Season

Thursday afternoon, I met Jesse Eisenberg at a New York City dive bar — coincidentally named “Social” — for a pretty sprawling interview that will publish here next week. As he was en route, he heard the news that he had won the National Board of Review’s Best Actor award for his performance in The Social Network (which also claimed the group’s Best Picture and Best Director prizes). I asked Eisenberg about winning that award and what the awards season — and his real first go around with it — means to him.

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‘It’s a Lot of Pressure’: Jesse Eisenberg Reacts to NBR Win, Awards Season

National Board of Review Honors The Social Network, Jacki Weaver Among Best of 2010

It looks like at least on random collection of awards voters has been paying attention to Movieline’s Oscar Index . The National Board of Review kicked off awards season in style this afternoon by selecting Animal Kingdom star Jacki Weaver as Best Supporting Actress of the year. Huzzah ! Elsewhere, The Social Network cleaned house with awards for Best Film, Director, Actor (Jesse Eisenberg) and Adapted Screenplay. Click ahead for the full list of winners — and note that 127 Hours , Black Swan and The Kids Are All Right were all snubbed. Did the Board not get those screeners?

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National Board of Review Honors The Social Network, Jacki Weaver Among Best of 2010

The Every Day Trailer: Indie Movies Head to the Lifetime Channel

Because not enough indie movies tackle martial ennui, here comes the trailer for Every Day , a dysfunctional family dramedy designed to remind you how dysfunctional families operate, just in time for Thanksgiving. Pass the cranberry sauce!

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Oscar Index: King’s Speech Will Be Heard; Jacki Weaver in Peril?

Welcome back to another week of Movieline’s Oscar Index, a comprehensive survey of hype, hubris and other standard-issue awards-season happenings. This week it’s The King’s Speech ‘s turn in the spotlight — but the competition isn’t so far behind. Let’s break it down.

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Oscar Index: King’s Speech Will Be Heard; Jacki Weaver in Peril?

Social Network, True Grit Surge in Movieline’s Oscar Index

Another busy cycle of hype, hurdles and more Oscar madness has come and gone, leading to an all-new edition of Moveline’s 2010 Oscar Index . This week, the Coen Brothers throw their weathered cowboy hats in the ring, The Social Network builds full steam toward Friday’s opening, and a handful of would-bes slide into the morass of also-rans. Read on, and let’s break it down.

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Social Network, True Grit Surge in Movieline’s Oscar Index

Krackoon Trailer: Because What the World Needs Now is a Crack-Addicted Raccoon Splatter Flick

In a world where everything from tires to mad cows can turn fiercely homicidal in the blink of an eye, it was always kind of comforting to think that raccoons always stopped just short of murder — that the worst we could expect from them was a nocturnal trashivore binge or some medium-grade campsite ravaging. Damn you, Krackoon , for snuffing out that comfort with your nightmare visions of crack-addled, gut-munching critters terrorizing the Bronx. Like we didn’t have enough problems with steroidal bedbugs .

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Krackoon Trailer: Because What the World Needs Now is a Crack-Addicted Raccoon Splatter Flick

The I Am Number Four Trailer: Twilight With Aliens

“Number 1 was killed in Malaysia. Number 2 was murdered in England. Number 3 was hunted down in Kenya. Before they come for the others, they’ll come for me. I am Number 4.” Ominous! That’s “John Smith” — a.k.a. Number Four — one of six remaining aliens from the planet Lorien, describing his plight at the beginning of the trailer for I Am Number Four . What’s his course of action for survival?

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4 Edgy Family Situations Tackled in Last Night’s Parenthood: ‘It’s a Braverman Tradition’

During last week’s Parenthood , Sarah Braverman put her brother in a difficult situation by flirting with his supervisor over chocolate pudding . As delicious as that conversation may have seemed to them, it was a rotten dessert for Adam. He dealt with the ignominy by passive aggressively storing his resentment, only unloading fits of white, middle-class rage on Sarah days later for no apparent reason. The valuable lessons continued last night with the episode, “I’m Cooler Than You Think,” in which no character proved that they were cooler than you think.

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