Between their recent problems with The Wolfman being pushed to Land of the Lost and Funny People basically being ignored, out of the billions of dollars spent at the cinemas very little of it went to Universal in 2009. Their highest grossing film of the year came in at #17 and it wasn’t even one to be proud of, it was just another sequel in The Fast and the Furious series. It’s safe to say that 2009 was a complete disaster for Universal… and they know it.

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Just got into ShoWest last night, got my passport and had my first glass of free wine at a cinema during the event. There’s something very nice about relishing in your favorite alcoholic beverage while watching a movie. Gotta love Vegas!

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Although I was a bit surprised to see Sandra Bullock take the Oscar last night (she did do a fine job in The Blind Side, but I was rooting for new-comer Carey Mulligan or my favorite Helen Mirren), I will say she gave one damn fine speech, one with a bit of humility, a few jokes, acceptance of her peers, a message to the mothers of adopted parents and then a WHOLE lotta talk about making out with the Streeper.

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It’s come down to this.  Time to put my money where my mouth is.  Time to face the music.  Time to… write an introduction wrought with cliches. Yes, it’s prediction time again – and this the big one: Predicting the Oscar Winner. Yesterday we posted who SHOULD win, today it’s who WILL win.

While this isn’t nearly as fun as picking the nominees (with only five slots and all) it’s still a bit of a challenge.  Well, unless you count the acting races which have been pretty much closed since the nominees were first announced. But who cares about those?  This is the closest Best Picture race we’ve seen since 1991 when JFK and Silence of the Lambs were neck-and-neck.  Except this year, we’re neck-and-neck-and-neck.

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The Oscar Power Rankings for the past few months has been nothing but cold analysis: A completely objective look at the state of the race and the height of the buzz.

Now it’s time to get subjective. Before we get to the final analytical predictions of who will ultimately take home gold, it is first time to actually take a critical look at the films, performances and screenplays up for the big prizes this year, and analyze who actually deserves to take home the statuette.

With that, here is the ranking of who should win an Oscar on Sunday night…

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So tonight, Wednesday March 3rd at 7:00pm, Scripped will be hosting its first “Hollywood 2.0″ event of the year at Mahalo’s offices and yours truly will be on the panel. Yikes! I’ve attended a lot of panels, asked many questions, but this will be my first time on the other side of the battlefield, hopefully I won’t come out too scarred.

According to the website: The topic of the discussion will be “Film Production and Online Distribution – Strategies for Success” This will be an especially useful chat for those of you interested in hearing how quality content is put together, and how to go about distributing content on the web.

This is where it gets really scary: Our panelists for this event will be:

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“I do the best I can with every movie I make”, was the answer given by Mr Scorsese after being called the “Greatest Living Director” at the Shutter Island Press Conference in London — pretty modest I would say. Martin Scorsese is and always will be the one of the greatest directors to ever hit the film industry. With his career spanning nearly 50 years, he has made some of the most beloved cinematic masterpieces ever created, this includes Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, finally winning his overdue Best Director Academy Award in 2007 with The Departed, and now he takes on the psychological thriller, Shutter Island.

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Last Friday, the cast and crew behind Do Not Disturb got together with friends and family to try and do what every film has to do at some point… RAISE MORE MONEY. Although we’re done shooting, nearly done editing, and quite honestly, nearly done all around, we needed help getting through color correction, sound design, and some other important steps. We threw a fundraiser extravaganza at amazing YADA (Youth Academy of Dramatic Arts) studios. It may seem odd that we brought blood, sex, and quite a bit of adult content to a Youth Academy, but it was the perfect venue! We had two rooms, one with a lounge area and another for the screening -  and don’t worry, no children were scared in the raising of our funds.

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It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and that means expensive chocolates, teddy bears, and vampires. Vampires?! You might be asking yourself what the walking dead has to do with the most romantic holiday of the year? Recently, Hollywood has been capitalizing on the long running obsession that people have had with the creatures, and it’s probably because the majority of the ones we’ve seen have been ridiculously good looking. Sure, they’d drain you like a bowl of spaghetti, but we just can’t shake them.

So this Valentine’s Day curl up with your significant other and watch your favorite vampire flick that will hopefully feature some of the pretty men and women who made our list.

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