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Movieline’s Celebrity Oscar Predictions: Tila Tequila Wants James Franco To Call Her

A few seasoned film actors , writers and comediennes have already predicted this year’s Academy Award winners, but Movieline HQ wanted to spice up its new Oscar feature by summoning an industry “outsider” to forecast Hollywood’s most esteemed award night. Enter Tila ‘Tequila’ Nguyen, the entertainment personality and cinema enthusiast who earlier this month held her own against Jennifer Aniston and Zach Galifianakis in a riotous edition of Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns .

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Movieline’s Celebrity Oscar Predictions: Tila Tequila Wants James Franco To Call Her

James Franco’s Latest Job: An Art Exhibit with Gus Vant Sant

Yup. He is an Academy Award nominee, actor, Oscar host, curator, student, singer, soap star, literary fellow, self-pleasure enthusiast, Twitter star, and champion for seventies sitcoms, but it’s still not enough for James Franco . The man who collects jobs like Charlie Sheen collects loose-lipped escorts has added another bullet point on that already crowded CV — he is being featured in a new art exhibit alongside Gus Van Sant.

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James Franco’s Latest Job: An Art Exhibit with Gus Vant Sant

Oscar Week Classics: Shirley MacLaine Wins for Terms of Endearment

Tara Reid No Longer Able To Introduce Jeff Bridges At The Academy Awards

The greatest thing about the Academy Awards is seeing just what gimmick they will come up with every year in an attempt to boost ratings. This year of course was the selection of the very young, very talented and very easy on the eyes James Franco and Anne Hathaway to host, but it looks like something has been dropped in the process. Yes, everyone, the Oscars are no longer continuing the two year tradition of five presenters, generally former costars, presenting the “Best Actor” and “Actress” nominees (complete with 20 minute masturbatory speeches). Sigh.

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Tara Reid No Longer Able To Introduce Jeff Bridges At The Academy Awards

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Jesse Eisenberg

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 Actor nominee Jesse Eisenberg!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Jesse Eisenberg

Win a Free MacBook Air! Play Statuesque!

Oscar season is coming down to the wire, folks, and for once, all of America has something at stake: A free MacBook Air. Or a free iPod. Or other cherished prizes offered in Movieline’s Statuesque Oscar Picks sweepstakes. Have you signed up yet? Grab your friends and let me show you how it’s done.

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Win a Free MacBook Air! Play Statuesque!

Report: Mila Kunis to Join James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Oz

Everyone’s favorite Oscar-snubbee Mila Kunis is reportedly set to join Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful , the lonnnnng-gestating Wizard of Oz prequel with James Franco attached as the title character. Kunis would play Evanorah, the young witch-in-training who develops into the Wicked Witch of the East. Of course. Shooting is rumored to begin in July, but I think we all know Raimi’s protracted dawdling really portends an awesome Oz / Sex and the City 3 Memorial Day showdown in 2016. Or something. [ Vulture ]

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DVD: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who May Have the Most Outrageous Movie Title Ever

With Shout! Factory releasing the Mystery Science Theater 3000 take on Ray Dennis Steckler’s horror musical The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies on DVD this week — coming on the heels of the widespread acclaim for Sundance midnight entry Hobo with a Shotgun — it seemed like as good a time as any to look at some of the most unwieldy, memorable, and occasionally even poetic movie titles ever concocted. Such as:

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DVD: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who May Have the Most Outrageous Movie Title Ever

VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar

Perhaps in response to all those people left stymied by Hereafter ‘s Oscar nomination for visual effects (especially when Tron: Legacy got shut out of the category, poor thing), Warner Bros. have released a shot-by-shot reel showing how VFX supervisor Michael Owens and Scanline VFX put together that nine-minute opening tsunami sequence. And when you see how the live-action parts came together combining CG, green screen, water tanks, and on-location photography — well, “Oscar-nominated Hereafter ” doesn’t sound so silly anymore.

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VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar

VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar

Perhaps in response to all those people left stymied by Hereafter ‘s Oscar nomination for visual effects (especially when Tron: Legacy got shut out of the category, poor thing), Warner Bros. have released a shot-by-shot reel showing how VFX supervisor Michael Owens and Scanline VFX put together that nine-minute opening tsunami sequence. And when you see how the live-action parts came together combining CG, green screen, water tanks, and on-location photography — well, “Oscar-nominated Hereafter ” doesn’t sound so silly anymore.

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VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar