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Talkback: Which Oscar Contenders Do You Irrationally Refuse to See This Year?

It’s the most wonderful time of year — that calm October blip where Oscar season’s best films are coming up and we dream about how overrated many of them will be. I feel like a little kid again! While this season is far less objectionable than last year’s , I can think of a couple movies I’d normally (and irrationally) resist if it weren’t my job to deal with them. Can you?

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Talkback: Which Oscar Contenders Do You Irrationally Refuse to See This Year?

Black Swan Interns Seeking Class-Action Lawsuit to Curb Exploitation of Unpaid Labor

“The only thing I learned on this internship was to be more picky in choosing employment opportunities… Black Swan had more than $300 million in revenues. If they paid us, it wouldn’t make a big difference to them, but it would make a huge difference to us.” Recent college grad Alex Footman didn’t pick up many useful lessons during his time making coffee on the set of the Darren Aronofsky Oscar pic, but he and a fellow intern are attempting to change how Hollywood exploits labor does business. Good luck to the little guys? [ NYT via MovieCityNews ]

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Armored Kristen Stewart Smokes Cigarette, Rides Into Sunset With Chris Hemsworth in Snow White Set Pics

Ever since hearing Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron promote their upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman project as dark, gritty and atypical of the Disney franchise at Comic-Con, we’ve been excited to see what the cast and director Rupert Sanders would come up with. Now, on the heels of the promising concept artwork , some set photos have surfaced showing Stewart as a horse-riding, cigarette-smoking, armor-wearing princess unlike any other.

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Armored Kristen Stewart Smokes Cigarette, Rides Into Sunset With Chris Hemsworth in Snow White Set Pics

Paramount Unveils Spoilery New Paranormal Activity 3 Trailer and Allows Fans To Pick Premiere Cities

Just because you’re not receiving mysterious VHS tapes in Austin this week — where rumor has it Paramount may premiere Paranormal Activity 3 tonight as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest — does not mean that you won’t get to see the franchise prequel before its October 21 release. The studio has just launched a Twitter campaign which allows fans to vote on 20 cities to host special pre-release premieres. And if that still isn’t soon enough for you Paranormal fans out there, Paramount has just released a majorly spoiler-filled new trailer for the film from Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Click ahead at your own discretion.

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Oscar Index: The Pitt and the Pendulum

A week after its stirring season debut , Oscar Index returns to the scene with the latest scientifically observed developments in the 2011-12 awards race. Indeed, Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics has issued the results from its latest zeitgeist biopsy, and they look… inconclusive. Naturally! It’s September .

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Oscar Index: The Pitt and the Pendulum

Introducing Movieline’s 2011 Oscar Index: Your Weekly, Fool-Proof Awards-Race Breakdown

Believe it: It’s awards season . Very early in awards season, to be sure, but time nevertheless for Movieline’s Institute For the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics to reopen its doors and initiate the algorithmic sequences and other complex formulas resulting in the latest edition of our annual Oscar Index.

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Introducing Movieline’s 2011 Oscar Index: Your Weekly, Fool-Proof Awards-Race Breakdown

Weekend Receipts: Contagion Fever — Catch It!

Hark, a new film hath unseated The Help for the #1 crown! All it took was Steven Soderbergh’s hypochondria-inducing Contagion , a picture that will surely also boost worldwide sales of Purell during flu season. And while there’s no love lost in seeing last week’s Shark Night 3D and Apollo 18 drop precipitously down in the ranks, the heartstrings pull for Warrior , a finely acted MMA film that only got a fraction of the theater count of its competitors, and performed accordingly. But! At least it fared better than Bucky Larson …

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Weekend Receipts: Contagion Fever — Catch It!

Photobooth: A Look at the Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

Hurray! Today begins the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. We’ve already predicted the five films most likely to ignite a bidding war up north, but what about the titles that will really get the red carpet TIFF treatment this week? Ahead, Movieline briefs you on the nineteen films that will be spotlighted with special premiere events as well as addresses from the directors and cast.

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Photobooth: A Look at the Toronto International Film Festival Gala Presentations

Weekend Forecast: Contagion to Brush Off Help For Box-Office Top Spot

Welcome to another edition of Weekend Forecast, your weekly guide to the latest film offerings and/or whatever you want to call that new thing Nick Swardson is in. It’s your call! Meanwhile, we’re looking at one of the most competitive weeks in a while — three cheers for the fall movie season, for reals .

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The Jessica Chastain Factor, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme get Expendable … Will Noah Baumbach and HBO make Corrections ? … Colin Firth is sick of Hollywood treating you like and idiot … and more…

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The Jessica Chastain Factor, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today