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RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Up in the Air and Precious
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Hot off the Academy Awards celebration that took place just last night in Hollywood, we've got a couple of big releases to talk about this week in home video. The first of these is director Jason Reitman's third feature film, the Best Picture nominated Up in the Air; it didn't take home any awards, but it was one of the most highly regarded films of the year. And then there's Precious, which did in fact take home two Oscars, but which was probably seen by far fewer people. After that, the pickings are slim, but we've managed to weed out...
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Where Does The Hurt Locker Rank Among the All-Time Best Pictures?
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The Hurt Locker cleaned up on Oscar night, taking home six trophies, including Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to win the award) and Best Picture. The Academy has spoken -- but what do the critics have to say? Where does The Hurt Locker rank with the pundits among the Best Picture winners?
Very highly, it turns out. At 97 percent, The Hurt Locker is the 13th best-reviewed Best Picture of all time -- one slot below Gone With the Wind and one above Casablanca (we're shocked -- shocked! -- at that fact as well). It's also the...
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Awards Tour: Complete Oscar Winners List
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The Hurt Locker wins big with wins for director Kathryn Bigelow and Best Picture honors. The night also saw Oscars go to Hollywood veterans Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges. See the full list of Oscar winners below! And thank you to everyone who participated in our first ever Facebook chat and kept us company on Twitter!
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"New" John Hughes Script Stirs Interest
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Despite his untimely death last August, John Hughes is a hot property in Hollywood right now, thanks to the discovery of at least one unproduced screenplay in the Hughes archives.
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In the Beginning There Was 3-D
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One of Walden Media's co-founders is prepping a $30 million, 3-D film version of the Book of Genesis.
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David Chase Looks to the Past for Paramount
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"Sopranos" creator David Chase will make his feature directing debut with "a music-driven coming of age story set in the '60s" for Paramount Vantage.
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Liam Hemsworth Settles in for Arabian Nights
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Liam Hemsworth, co-star of the upcoming Miley Cyrus drama "The Last Song," is in talks to star in Chuck Russell's 3-D action thriller "Arabian Nights."
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Faris and Evans Ask What's Your Number?
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Anna Faris and Chris Evans will co-star in "What's Your Number?," a romantic comedy about a woman who plunges back into her sexual past after sleeping with 20 men.
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Craig Gillespie Is Headed for a Fright Night
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DreamWorks is moving ahead with its planned "Fright Night" remake, with Craig Gillespie ("Lars and the Real Girl") in negotiations to direct.
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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Alice Dazzles Audiences
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This weekend audiences could not resist the latest offering from director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp as the 3D extravaganza Alice in Wonderland exploded on the scene with a record-shattering opening weekend leaving its nearest competitor more than $100M behind. The big-budget Disney film debuted to a gargantuan $116.3M over the Friday-to-Sunday span, according to estimates, smashing box office records left and right. It was the biggest March opening ever soaring past the $70.9M of 300 from 2007 and the best debut for a 3D film beating the $77M of Avatar from last December.
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Razzie Awards Winners Announced!
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"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Land of the Lost" are tied for the most Razzie Award nominations, scoring seven chances each to take gold paint-sprayed statuettes hailing the worst films of 2009.
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Awards Tour: Independent Film Spirit Winners List
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The most prestigious awards for independent film have just been announced! With days to go before the Oscars, Precious took home the night's biggest honors, along with fellow Oscar nominees Woody Harrelson, Jeff Bridges, and An Education. See the full winners list below!
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Weekly Ketchup: A Rome movie and Honest Abe fighting vampires
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This Week's Ketchup includes news of two TV show adaptations (Rome and Gilligan's Island), yet another videogame adaptation (Space Invaders), a few more remakes (including Police Academy and one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films), new roles for Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp and movies about Abraham Lincoln and J. Edgar Hoover.
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Take One Last Look at the Oscar Nominees!
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With just two days to go until Sunday's 82nd Annual Academy Awards, we at RT have our classy monkey suits and lucky undies pressed, ballots checked and ready, and homeopathic Tomato brews boiling in our dungeon/pantry to take us through our coverage of the show. We've made our picks, collected nearly, gone through your reviews of the nominees, and created an Oscar ballot for you to use during the show. So before you make your final picks with your feather dipped in ink from the neighborhood nightingale, we're going to sum up all the biggest awards for you and give...
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Friday Harvest: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Toy Story 3, and more!
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Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy!
Picture Gallery of the Week: Survival of the Dead
Diary of the Dead was unwatchable, so I don't have the highest hopes for Georgie boy's next flick, Survival of the Dead. His explorations on rehabilitating zombies can be somewhat interesting, but he's been doing this for decades now, and with diminishing returns. Considering the last 10 years...
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Total Recall: Tim Burton's Best Movies
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For 25 years and counting, Tim Burton has been one of the most successful directors in Hollywood -- and he's done it his way, presenting filmgoers with an ever-growing list of films that celebrate the strange and macabre, from comedies (Beetlejuice) to dramas (Big Fish) to thrillers (Sleepy Hollow), with a few stops for big-budget blockbuster fare along the way (Batman, Planet of the Apes). Heck, Burton's even proven his mettle as a director of animated fare (Corpse Bride) and served as a producer on at least one movie he didn't direct, but you probably thought he did (The Nightmare...
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Five Favorite Films with Danny Elfman
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Composer Danny Elfman has scored dozens of movies in the last ten years, and received an Oscar nomination last year for his score for Milk. But he's probably most famous for his work on almost all of Tim Burton's films. This week's release of Alice in Wonderland marks the 12th time that Danny Elfman has scored a film that Tim Burton has directed, and Elfman was kind enough to sit down with RT (which he says is one of four sites he visits everyday) and share some of his favorite movies and some of his musical influences. We did ask...
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Critics Consensus: Alice Looks Great, Lacks Wonder
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This week at the movies, we've got a trip down the rabbit hole (Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasilkowska) and a ride-along with the boys in blue (Brooklyn's Finest, starring Richard Gere and Don Cheadle). What do the critics have to say? At first glace, a Tim Burton adaptation of Alice in Wonderland seems perfectly serendipitous: Hollywood's most playfully macabre filmmaker would be the obvious choice to reinterpret Lewis Carroll's darkly whimsical tale. However, critics say the result is curiouser - a film of remarkable visual invention that lacks strong plotting or a sense of wonder. Brooklyn's...
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RT Editors Predict the Academy Award Winners
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Is there anyone on the planet that doesn't claim to know who will win big on Oscar night? Still, despite the clutter of prediction and prognostication, we at RT got together to gather up our collective two cents. After five arduous hours of shouting, bitter recriminations, and a near-fatal knife fight that could only be settled by hugging it out over a bowl of Lucky Charms, we settled on our picks. If you don't like 'em, don't get mad - tell us what you think! Cast a ballot with your picks, or print it out to follow along on Oscar...
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Sharing The Secret of Kells
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"The Secret of Kells" surprised many when it was announced as one of the nominees for this year's best animated film Academy Award. Salon's Andrew O'Hehr discusses the movie, and its unexpected Oscar splash, with director Tomm Moore.
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Check out next month's blockbusters in the RT Summer Movie Preview.
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The summer movie season is generally a time when the studios pull out their big guns, and 2009 is no exception. In this year's Summer Movie Preview, we've got superheroes (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and a couple reboots of classic sci-fi franchises (Star Trek and Terminator Salvation). We've got wizards (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) and real American heroes (GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra). We've got brand new films from Pixar (Up), Judd Apatow (Funny People), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds). For those who prefer romance to explosions, there's something for you, too...
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