‘Lincoln’ And ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Lead 2012 Screen Actors Guild Nominations

Posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 by Germain Lussier

The end of the year is approaching and that means award season. Every year it starts with regional critic groups and then slowly gets to the bigger, more influential groups leading up through the Academy Awards. If a film hopes to gain an Academy Award nomination, its first major hurdle is the Screen Actors Guild. Actors make up the majority of Academy voters so it’s an important group of champions to win over heading towards the Dolby Theater (formerly the Kodak Theater).

This year, the Screen Actors Guild has nominated actors from Argo, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Les Misérables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook for its top award, Best Ensemble, with those last two leading all other films with four nominations each. Noticeably absent? Zero Dark Thirty, the current Oscar front-runner. Does this hurt its chances? See how the film did in all the other categories below. Read More »

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Sequel Bits: ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Bond 24′, ‘The Fast and the Furious 6′, ‘Red 2′, ‘The Man With the Iron Fists 2′, ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2′

Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 by Angie Han

Old people begin and end today’s Sequel Bits, which include updates on Red 2 and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2. After the jump:

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is getting sequelized (as The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel?)
• Eli Roth is interested in The Man With the Iron Fists 2
• Producer Gregg Wilson chats about the status of Bond 24
• Ian McKellen details his decision to return for The Hobbit
• Look at two more photos from The Fast and the Furious 6
• See new pics from the London-as-Moscow set of Red 2

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Fox Searchlight Wants John Madden to Direct ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ with Dev Patel

Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 by Russ Fischer

Fox Searchlight wants to go back to India. But this won’t quite be a return to a story like Slumdog Millionaire — i.e. the film that made Fox Searchlight a ton of money and generated a few Oscars to decorate the mantle.

This time the company is looking at a film that skews a bit older than Slumdog, which had rather broad appeal, managed to do. That said, Slumdog star Dev Patel is being courted for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which also has a storied cast in talks to take the lead roles, and John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, the My Fair Lady remake) as possible director. Read More »

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