Oscars: 'Brave' Wins Tight Animation Race
Walt Disney's “Brave” has won the animated feature Oscar in one of the tightest races at this year's Academy Awards. “Brave” won out over two other Disney's entries — “Frankenweenie” and “Wreck-It Ral…
Academy Awards
Oscar's Baby Bump at Box Office
While only “Argo” wound up in the winner's circle, a record number of best-pic nominees had a nine-figure consolation prize. That's good news, but the downside is that the usual post-Oscars B.O. bump…
Tarantino, Terrio Take Scribe Oscars
Quentin Tarantino won his second Oscar for “Django Unchained,” nearly two decades after winning for “Pulp Fiction,” while Chris Terrio won the adapted screenplay category for “Argo.” An exuberant Tara…
Backstage at the Oscars
DIRECTOR Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” While he neglected to single out his Oscar-winning visual effects team in his acceptance speech, Lee shared sentiments for the crew and the craft backstage. “I think it'…
TV Review: 85th Academy Awards
Infusing the evening with genial snark, Seth MacFarlane joined David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock as hosts tapped to heighten the Oscars' hipness quotient and address its age-old (which is to…
'Argo' Wins Best Picture at Oscars
This time, the "Argo" story in Variety is truly about a big picture. Connecting three decades of history while erasing a quarter-century of Oscar protocol, Ben Affleck's "Argo" survived -- and indeed…
Oscar Loves 'Amour' for Foreign Language
PARIS – Although “Amour” represented Austria in the foreign-language film race, its Paris-based lead-producer, Margaret Menegoz, is the one who pulled 70% of the film's $10.6 million budget from Fra…
'Skyfall' an Oscar Windfall for Bond Franchise
James Bond doesn't thirst for gold, but he's doing OK by Oscar. The Academy celebrated the 50-year-old franchise on Sunday not only with a sizable onstage tribute, but with more hardware for the serie…
Oscars: 'Sugar' Win Sweetens the Joy for Sony Classics
Malik Bendjelloul's “Searching for Sugar Man” won the Academy Award for top feature documentary Sunday night, but the film is looking for more than just Oscar love. Pic has persisted in plexes for sev…
'Life of Pi' Oscar Wins Vindicate Patient Filmmakers
Cinematography and visual effects Oscar wins for “Life of Pi” vindicate the patience and perseverance of filmmakers who were told for years that Yann Martel's 2001 novel was unfilmable. One of the two…
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
1Daily: $8.0M Cumulative: $98.4M Paramount Pictures 1st in th week -
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
2Daily: $6.8M Cumulative: $98.4M Paramount Pictures 2nd in th week -
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Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3
3Daily: $3.2M Cumulative: $343.6M Disney 3rd in th week
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