The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced earlier today. The Hollywood Stock Exchange offered NominOptions for the leading contenders in the top eight categories and HSX traders collectively successfully predicted 80% of the Oscar nominees. Let’s see how each category broke down.
The Best Picture race has 9 nominees this year: 12 Years A Slave [N4P12Y], American Hustle [N4PAMH], Captain Phillips [N4PCAP], Dallas Buyers Club [N4PDBC], Gravity [N4PGRV], Her [N4PHER]...
Lionsgate has released the domestic full-length trailer for the horror film The Quiet Ones [TQONE]. Sam Claflin [SCLAF] stars as a PhD student who has been recruited by a professor to create a poltergeist using the negative energy from a damaged young woman. Unfortunately, their experiment creates a dark force that manifests beyond any of their control. The Quiet Ones opens wide on April 25th.
Focus has dropped the debut trailer for the comedy Walk of Shame [WOSHM] starring Elizabeth Banks [EBANK] and James Marsden [JMARS]. "After losing an audition for her dream job, an aspiring Los Angeles TV news anchor goes out for an uncharacteristic night of partying. She awakes in a stranger’s bed to a phone message from her agent telling her the job is hers, if she can make it across town by 5 pm. Stranded in an unknown area without money, a phone, and a car, she embarks on a series of...
Fox Searchlight has revealed the full-length domestic trailer for the comedy Dom Hemingway [DOMHM] on Apple. While the redband trailer empahsized the decadent behavior of the ex-con played by Jude Law [JLAW], the greenband version focuses on his estranged relationship with his daughter, played by Emilia Clarke. Dom Hemingway hits theaters on April 4th.
Fox has uploaded the full-length trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Mr. Peabody & Sherman [MRPBS]. Based on characters from the 1960s animated series "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", Mr. Peabody & Sherman will arrive in theaters on March 7th.
Mr. Peabody (voiced by Ty Burrell) is a business titan, inventor, scientist, Nobel Laureate, gourmand, two-time Olympic medalist, and genius... who also happens to be a dog. Using his most ingenious invention, the WABAC machine, Mr. Peabody and his...
Open Road has unleashed the full length trailer for the comedy sequel A Haunted House 2 [AHAU2]. Marlon Wayans [MWAYA] and Cedric the Entertainer [CEDRC] are back to spoof recent horror films like The Conjuring as well as mine comedy gold by wrestling with a chicken. A Haunted House 2 opens wide on March 28th.
Storming into the weekend box office with an estimated $38.5 million, Lone Survivor [LSURV] exceeded all expectations to easily take first place. The true-life story of military heroism connected with both male and female moviegoers, especially in Middle America.
In second place, Frozen [FROZE.BW] grossed another $15.1 million to bring its total to $317.7 million.
The Wolf of Wall Street [TWOWS] moved up a slot to third place at $9.0 million, while American Hustle [AMBUL] tied for fourth...
Four films in limited release with Oscar aspirations expand wide this weekend at the box office led by Lone Survivor [LSURV] starring Mark Wahlberg [MWAHL]. The R-rated action drama is based on the true story of an ill-fated U.S. Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan. Universal has played up the heroism in its marketing campaign, while the real-life lone survivor Marcus Luttrell has been making the publicity rounds with director Peter Berg [PEBER]. Two years ago, Act of Valor featuring...
The Weinstein Co. has released the domestic trailer for the drama The Railway Man [RAILW] based on the true life story of Eric Lomax. Jeremy Irvine [JIRVI] plays the young Lomax, a British Army officer during World War II who becomes a prisoner of war tormented by his Japanese captor, Takashi Nagase. Colin Firth [CFIRT] plays the older Lomax who is haunted by his past and sets out to confront the older Nagase, played by Hiroyuki Sanada [HSANA]. Nicole Kidman [NKIDM] co-stars as Lomax's...
Focus Features has unveiled the green band trailer for the R-rated comedy Bad Words [BDWRD] on Apple with less bad words and more panties jokes than the previous red band trailer.
Jason Bateman [JBATE] stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. Contest officials, outraged parents, and overly ambitious 8th graders are no match for Guy, as he ruthlessly crushes...
