• 84th Academy Award Nominations: 'The Artist,' 'The Descendants,' 'Hugo' And 'Moneyball' Honored In Many Categories

    This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone, The Hunger Games) read the new Oscar nods, with by Academy President Tom Sherak. The big nominees were The Descendants, The Artist, and Hugo, all which come as no surprise. But Moneyball scored…

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  • American Cinema Editors Release Nominees For Achievement In Editing In 2011

    Each year American Cinema Editors (ACE) recognizes the best editing of the year in narrative film, documentary and television through the Eddie Awards. The nominations for achievement in 2011 have been released. They include a couple of expected films such as Hugo and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and feature a couple other inclusions…

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  • Watch THR's Hour Long Interview With 2011's Award-Worthy Producers

    We've posted the directors, actors, actresses, writers and now it's time for the people who bring them all together. Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty…

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  • 69th Annual Golden Globes Award Nominations

    Gerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones, and Sofia Vergara got up extra early this morning to announce the nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 69th Golden Globes Awards, which will be televised on January 15, 2012. Returning host Ricky Gervais (called a "naughty, naughty schoolboy" this morning by Aida Takla-O’ Reilly, the president of…

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  • Watch THR's Hour Long Interview With 2011's Award-Worthy Writers

    Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…

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  • Watch An Hour-Long Roundtable Interview With 2011's Award-Worthy Directors

    Every year at award season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For the…

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  • /Filmcast Ep. 162 - Moneyball (GUEST: Laremy Legel From Film.com)

    This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam run down some fall TV show premieres, praise the low-budget Trollhunter, try to make sense of Netflix's recent moves, and hear about some of the best films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Special guest Laremy Legel joins us from Film.com. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com,…

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  • 'Moneyball' Review: Brad Pitt Hits A Triple Off The Wall

    Moneyball is a baseball movie, an underdog tale, a true story and a Brad Pitt vehicle. But more than any of those things, Moneyball is a character study about what it’s like to stand up against everyone and everything because you have faith in an idea. In 2001, the Oakland Athletics, with a payroll of…

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  • 'Moneyball' UK Trailer – Brad Pitt And Jonah Hill Change Baseball

    When I read Michael Lewis' book Moneyball back in 2003, the idea that a movie could be made never crossed my mind. The reality of the situation - A's general manager Billy Beane changing the game of baseball - was being played out in reality. Players like Nick Swisher and Kevin Youkilis, whom the book…

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  • 'Moneyball' Trailer #2

    Rounding out today's batch of 'second-look' trailers (see also Killer Elite and In Time) we've got the alternate second trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, which stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill as two men whose stat-based approach to building a baseball team had a deep and lasting effect on the business behind the game. This…

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  • New Posters: 'The Raven,' 'Haywire,' 'The Amazing Spider-Man' And More

    Quite a lot of new posters showed up on the internets during the first official day of Comic Con today, and there are a few good ones. The teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man isn't high-res, sadly, and it basically repurposes a shot of Spidey's back that we saw via EW last week. But it's…

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  • 'Moneyball' Trailer Is A Little 'Oceans Eleven,' A Lot 'Friday Night Lights'

    Did you skip the awful Entertainment Tonight presentation of the trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, which came complete with unwanted additional voiceover? So did I, but we're all in luck now, as Sony has released a clean HD version of the trailer to Yahoo. Check it out below. I like the arc of this trailer…

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  • 'Moneyball' Trailer Starring Brad Pitt And Jonah Hill [EW Premiere]

    Editor's Update: Entertainment Tonight has aired the full trailer for Moneyball (with only minor annoying voice over). Watch it now embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Eric B for the tip. If you wind the clock back to mid-2009 and took a look at /Film you'd find the film Moneyball as one of…

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  • Germain's Top Ten Most Anticipated Films Of 2011

    If you read my top ten of 2010 you saw that, despite some diamonds in the rough, I felt 2010 was largely unimpressive in terms of film. Well, if potential says anything, 2011 is going to be amazing. We've got new films from filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Michel Gondry, Ron Howard and Jodie Foster, incredible…

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  • Kathryn Morris Joins Moneyball

    The long saga of Moneyball is about to close -- after the film was set to shoot with Steven Soderbergh directing his rewrite of Steve Zaillian's script, Sony shut things down at the last minute. Aaron Sorkin was brought in to rewrite (though some of Zaillian's script is reportedly being used) and Bennett Miller is…

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  • Moneyball Looking To Bring Philip Seymour Hoffman And Robin Wright To The Plate

    After a year of wrangling and new talent, I'm still going to be surprised when the cameras start to roll on Moneyball. Director Bennett Miller and Sony seem determined to give me that surprise, however. They're in talks now with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright to bolster the cast, which still includes Brad Pitt…

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