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Weekend Roundtable: Inappropriate Videogame Tie-Ins

Josh Zyber — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:00:26 +0000

Last month, we had a Roundtable about movies that would be inappropriate to convert to 3D. This week, we bring you a similar topic. As much as the videogame industry loves to license movie titles for the easy brand name recognition, some movies should really never, ever be turned into tie-in games. Here are some...

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Blu-ray Highlights for 3/1/11: What Are You Buying?

Josh Zyber — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:00:10 +0000

No doubt hoping that the Academy Awards ceremony this past weekend will still be fresh in everyone’s mind, 20th Century Fox is releasing new movies on Blu-ray today starring Oscar hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Meanwhile, Sony is releasing a major stink-bomb starring former Oscar winner Cher at the same time. Isn’t synergy a...

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Academy Awards 2011 Live-Blog (With Contests!)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:00:48 +0000

This is it, folks! The 2011 Academy Awards air this Sunday, February 27th, at 8 PM EST. We’ll be live-blogging it right here in this space, starting with ABC’s official Red Carpet Special at 7PM. Best of all, we really want to make this fun, so we’re going to have Blu-ray give-away contests all through...

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Mid-Week Oscar Poll: Best Picture 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:00:02 +0000

This is it, folks. We’re coming down to the wire on the 2011 Academy Awards. In this week’s poll, it’s time for you to tell us your predictions for the big trophy: Best Picture. In this first poll, tell us which movie you predict the Academy will give the award to. Next, give us your...

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Cute Kids Reenact Best Picture Nominees

Aaron Peck — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:00:42 +0000

When the Oscar nomination announcements came out last week, there weren’t too many surprises. Most of the nominations were easily predictable, so there really wasn’t all that much to talk about. Well, that’s all changed with some wonderful little videos made by AOL featuring cute, young kids recreating some of the Best Picture nominees in...

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Mid-Week Oscar Poll: Best Actor 2011

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:00:04 +0000

February is Oscars Month here at The Bonus View. Let’s kick things off with a poll about your predictions for this year’s Best Actor award. We’re going to divide this into two separate polls. In the first, tell us which actor you predict the Academy will give the award to. This has nothing to do...

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Statuesque: Oscar Nominations Analysis – Part 1

Drew Taylor — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:00:59 +0000

Yesterday was the big day, the day I’ve been speculating about and pondering over and wasting many sleepless nights thinking about: Oscar nomination day! While a lot of the nominees were foregone conclusions, there were some surprises too. More times than I expected, I sat up in my bed and said “Huh?” about the nominations....

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And So It Begins – 2011 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:00:46 +0000

The 2011 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning. Follow after the break for a look at which movies the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences believes were last year’s best. We’d also like to use this opportunity to make our own announcement: February will be Oscars Month here at The Bonus View. We have...

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The Year in Review: The Best Films of 2010

Drew Taylor — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:00:02 +0000

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… But mostly it was the worst of times. Actually, that’s a little dramatic. 2010 wasn’t a particularly stellar year for movies (unlike, say, 2007), but there were some really dynamite pictures out there. You just had to root around for them. If there’s...

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Statuesque: The Douglas Decision (And Why It Doesn’t Really Matter)

Drew Taylor — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:00:05 +0000

A recent ‘New York Times’ article about Michael Douglas, his health troubles, and the dual Oscar campaigns of two of his films (the very good ‘Solitary Man‘ and the less-good-but-still-pretty-good ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps‘) left me puzzled and a little bit sad. As wonderful as his turns in both of those films are (in...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Megamind’ A Megahit

Drew Taylor — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:00:02 +0000

Another week, another horrible movie flocked to by mass audiences. In this case, it’s the frenetic, charmless, outrageously unfunny DreamWorks Animation trifle ‘Megamind,’ which brought in a staggering amount of money (nearly $50 million). If there’s any consolation to my gloom-and-doom outlook, there was a little movie on a limited number of screens that reported...

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Weekend Movies: All in ‘Due’ Time

Drew Taylor — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:55 +0000

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.… And by that, I mean that the studios are starting to roll out their heavy hitters for the holiday season, while the independent studios unleash more prestige pictures for a different kind of gold – Oscar gold. This is exemplified by this weekend’s output, which is a...

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