WALL-E Named Best Picture Of The Year by LA Film Critics Assn.
by Eddie Varley
- Dec 10, 2008
Variety has reported that Disney/Pixar's robot love story 'Wall-E' was named best picture of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. yesterday Tuesday December 9th, marking the first time in the org's 33-year history that an animated film has taken the top prize.
'MILK', 'BUTTON' Nominated For 8 Critics Choice Awards
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Dec 9, 2008
'Milk' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' were both nominated for eight Critics Choice Awards.
Both were among the 10 films nominated for best picture. 'Milk,' was also nominated for lead actor Sean Penn, supporting co-stars James Franco and James Brolin and director Gus Van Sant. 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' which opens Christmas Day, has Brad Pitt nominated for best actor, supporting nominations for Cate Blanchett and Taraji P. Henson.
Hugh Jackman to Appear on Jimmy Kimmel 12/4, The View 12/5
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Dec 1, 2008
Hugh Jackman is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel December 4th and The View December 5th in promotion of his new film 'AUSTRALIA.'
The film takes place in northern Australia prior to World War II. An English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.
Pill & Schreiber to Star in LaBute's 'reasons to be pretty' at MCC
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 6, 2008
MCC Theater has announced casting for the World Premiere of Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama reasons to be pretty and Terry Kinney will direct. The complete cast includes Piper Perabo (as Carly), Alison Pill (Steph), Thomas Sadoski (Greg) and Pablo Schreiber (Kent).
