Potrivit News Corporation, Avatar a vândut bilete în valoare de 1 miliard 283 de milioane de dolari în box office-ul din afara Americii de Nord şi a depăşit recordul de 1 miliard 242 milioane stabilit de Titanic.
În America de Nord, însă, “Avatar” va mai avea nevoie de cel puţin două săptămâni de succes pentru a [...]

Win or lose at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, British actress Kate Winslet will enter Academy Award history.
Winslet, 33, will either walk past her chief rival, Meryl Streep, to collect her first Oscar for her performance as a woman with a secret Nazi past in “The Reader,” or share the dubious title of biggest loser for having [...]

Complete list of 81st annual Academy Award nominations announced Thursday:
1. Best Picture: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.”
2. Actor: Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”; Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler.”
3. Actress: Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married”; Angelina Jolie, [...]

Australian actor Hugh Jackman was named on Friday as host of February’s Oscars in a departure from the tradition of picking U.S. comedians on Hollywood’s most prestigious night.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which hands out the world’s top film honors, said Jackman, 40, star of the romantic epic “Australia,” will host the [...]