February 2013
Editor: Stephen Graham
Top 20
2012s Highest Grossing Movies
Marvels The Avengers Skyfall The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit Ice Age: Continental Drift Breaking Dawn: Part 2 The Amazing Spider-Man Madagascar 3 The Hunger Games MIB 3 Life of Pi Ted Brave Wreck-It Ralph The Untouchables Prometheus Snow White and the Huntsman 18. Les Miserables 19. Django Unchained 20. Taken 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Argo Takes Home Best Picture in Oscars
Hollywood gave its top honor to Ben Afflecks Argo at a song-and-dance-filled Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, completing a remarkable turnaround for a film that was once a long-shot contender. Call it a Hollywood ending. In Argo, a CIA operative enlists the help of moviemakers to concoct a fake film that would get real State Department hostages out of fractious Tehran. On Sunday night, at the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, now officially called The Oscars, Argo won the Best Picture award. It doesnt matter how you get knocked down in life, said Ben Affleck, the movies star, director and co-producer, as if channeling Rocky Balboa. All that matters is that you get up. He may have meant missing out on being a Best Director finalist when the Academy nominations were announced on Jan. 10. (With nine Picture nominees and only five Directors, four auteurs were bound to be shut out.) Affleck had played that slight masterfully, making a movie that had long been an Oscar
frontrunner into a winsome underdog. In the process, Argo became the first film since Driving Miss Daisy in 1990, and only the fourth in Academy history, to win Best Picture without a nomination for its director. That prize went to Ang Lee for his rapturous Life of Pi: the second time hes been named Best Director but not won Best Picture. (His Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash in 2006.)
Jennifer Lawrence: I forgot to thank Silver Linings Playbook Director in Speech
Remembering every person who has Thank you for the most incredible helped your career along the way on Osexperience of my life. Producer Harcars night probably isnt easy. Which is vey Weinstein was the second person why best-actress Oscar winner Lawrence forgot to thank. Jennifer Lawrence is thanking You championed this I will never movie and its story from two key people she forgot to be able to forgive early days. Lawrence exmention Sunday night at the myself for such a plained. I will never be Academy Awards. In the whirlwind of last able to forgive myself for brain fart... night, I was remiss to thank such a brain fart but I hope two incredibly important people that you both can. Obviously it to this film and in my life, Lawrence was not on purpose, I couldnt rememadmitted in a statement to Entertainment ber what I had already said and my mind went blank-your mind does pretty surWeekly. The first person? Silver Linings Playprising things during the best moments book director David O. Russell. of your life.
COMING SOON
to a theater near you
March 1st -Jack the Giant Hunter -21 and Over March 8th -Oz: The Great and Powerful March 22nd -Spring Breakers -The Croods March 29th -G.I. Joe: Retaliation April 5th -Die Hard 9 -Mission Impossible 6 April 12th -Quartet: The Sing Off -Prometheus Bound April 19th -This Is The End
DreamWorks Animation Sets Free NOLA Screening of Animated Film The Croods
The Croods doesnt open in theaters until March 22, but local movie fans are getting an early peek at the prehistoric animated comedy. DreamWorks Animation has scheduled an early New Orleans screening of the film, and its giving away a limited number of passes for free. The screening will take place Saturday, March 16, at 10 a.m. at the AMC Elmwood Palace in Harahan. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Because such screenings are usually overbooked to ensure strong attendance, it is recommended that movie-goers arrive early for the screening. Featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke and Cloris Leachman, The Croods is a 3-D animated adventure that follows the worlds first modern family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always been their home, is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods are rocked by generational clashes and seismic shifts as they discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures -- and their outlook is changed forever. It is directed by Kirk De Micco (Space Chimps) and Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon), and will be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.