Yikes: TMZ is reporting that veteran Oscar producer Gilbert Cates has died. The awardscast guru, 77, was said be discovered in a parking lot at UCLA, where Cates was a professor. No other details are available at the moment, but like I said: Yikes .
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Report: Veteran Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates Found Dead at UCLA
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Benicio Del Toro, Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales are among the stars named in a protest of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new rule to block Puerto Rico from competing in the Foreign-Language Oscar race.
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Benicio Del Toro, Others Linked to Outcry Over Academy’s ‘Discriminatory’ Puerto Rico Ban
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Well, lookie who just officially entered the Oscar race! Fox Searchlight excitedly Tweeted today that they’ll release filmmaker Steve McQueen’s hot festival pickup Shame on December 2, 2011. That means two things: A) Rejigger those early Oscar charts to allow for stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, and B) get ready for some erotic, angsty December sexytime. Just in time for the holidays! [ @FoxSearchlight ]
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Fox Searchlight Will Release Fassbender-Mulligan Pic Shame This December
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This week’s edition of Oscar Index made the point of allowing for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as an awards contender on paper, while withholding any specific hype until we’d all seen at least a trailer. Hours later, that trailer arrived. But even more interesting than the footage therein? How about the test-screening gossip trickling out around Stephen Daldry’s magic-realist 9/11 tearjerker? [Warning: Spoilers ahead.]
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A Few Things About the First Trailer — and First Rumors — for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Beginning January 24, 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will begin cracking down on the lifeblood that arguably keeps awards season flowing each year: Oscar parties. (Gasp!) “To the extent that the public dialog about the Oscars is who threw a good party or ran a successful campaign versus the quality of the work, that’s off-point for us,” Academy COO Ric Robertson told The Hollywood Reporter. “We want people to be talking about the work.”
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Academy Announces Oscar Campaign Reform to Curb Schmoozing
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You think the Oscars selection process gets political here? Just imagine sitting in the room when Russia’s national Oscar committee grudgingly voted for Nikita Mikalhkov’s enormous critical and commercial bomb, Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel ( Utomlyonnye solntsem 2: Predstoyanie ), to become the country’s official foreign language selection. Filmmaker and committee head Vladimir Menshov so strongly opposed the pick of the $45 million flop that he’s now lobbying publicly for the film’s director to pull out of the race.
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Head of Russia’s Oscar Committee Calls for Giant Bomb/Official Selection to Withdraw on Account of It Sucks
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The entertainment world may have been a little shocked earlier this month to learn that Eddie Murphy would be hosting this year’s Academy Awards but three-time Oscar host and Murphy’s Bowfinger co-star Steve Martin has complete faith in the comedian’s statuette-presenting ability. And a few mildly funny words of advice.
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Steve Martin Invokes Norbit, Bowfinger in Mildly Funny Oscars Letter to Eddie Murphy
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So there’s good news and bad news about Madonna’s W.E. , whose Venice/Toronto festival coming-out parties made more of a splash for the Material Girl’s attitude toward hydrangeas than for being the type of classy, prestigious filmmaking breakthrough its principals had anticipated. Critics, including Movieline’s own Stephanie Zacharek , were cool toward W.E. at best, with some beating it apart like a glossy piñata. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we know what that calls for, especially with Harvey Weinstein at the domestic-distribution reins: Recut!
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Madonna to Cut W.E. in Attempt to Salvage Awards Hopes
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This week we learned a lot of important lessons: First, that no matter how ridiculous something sounds — like Eddie Murphy hosting the Oscars, what a joke! Oh, right — things can always get ridonkulouser. Also: Madonna LOATHES hydrangeas, you serf! I mean, really. Pour a scotch and try to relax as we take you back through this increasingly silly week in Movieline news.
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Movieline’s Week in Review: Hydrangeas Have Feelings, Too!
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Spencer Susser’s intense indie drama Hesher features a fair amount of extreme angst — embodied by the charismatic Joseph Gordon-Levitt , tattooed and grimy like you’ve never seen him before — but plenty of fun was had behind the scenes, if Movieline’s exclusive outtake reel is any indication. After the jump, watch a sweetly dorky Natalie Portman goof of between scenes with her young co-star Devin Brochu in a special feature from the forthcoming DVD /Blu-ray release.
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Exclusive: Natalie Portman Gets Goofy in Outtakes from Hesher
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