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Weinsteins Pick Awards-Friendly December Date for Kidman-Starrer 'Grace of Monaco,' UPDATED

UPDATE: The Weinstein Company finally confirmed their acquisition of US distribution rights to Olivier Dahan's "Grace of Monaco," starring Nicole Kidman in the title role. The film is set for an Oscar-friendly December 27 release.
  • By Anne Thompson & Sophia Savage
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  • March 25, 2013 11:25 AM
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Take Our Poll: Best Live-Action Movie Musical of the Last 75 Years

In celebration of "Les Miserables," HitFix has listed the 20 best movie musicals of the last 50 years. Their top five? "The Sound of Music," "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," "Mary Poppins," "Cabaret," and "Little Shop of Horrors" in first place.
  • By Anne Thompson
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  • December 24, 2012 2:20 PM
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'An Academy Tribute to Pedro Almodóvar' in London; Plus Vote for your Favorite from the Spanish Auteur

The Academy will celebrate the career of Pedro Almodóvar at an intimate invite-only retrospective in London's Curzon Soho Cinema on December 13.
  • By Sophia Savage
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  • December 4, 2012 3:54 PM
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RESULTS: TOH! Best Foreign Films of All Time - The Italians Win with 'Bicycle Thief' & '8½'

As of 10am Tuesday, here are the winners of our TOH! Best Foreign Films of All Time Parts One (pre-1960) and Two (post-1960). Disagree? Go ahead and continue voting for your favorites. Below are the top five in each category. France is a clear winner, with four titles across the list of ten, and two winners for the late great Francois Truffaut! However Italy took #1 in both categories (trailers below). Viva Italia!
  • By Anne Thompson & Sophia Savage
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  • July 31, 2012 1:28 PM
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VOTE: TOH! Best Foreign Films of All Time, Part Two: Post-1960

We hope that you voted for your ten favorite foreign language films in our first, Pre-1960 poll. Here's Part Two--the Post-1960 list of fifteen of the best foreign films of all time. Your job: narrow that list down to ten.
  • By Anne Thompson
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  • July 25, 2012 6:23 AM
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VOTE: TOH! Best Foreign Films of All Time, Part One: Pre-1960

Inspired by various best foreign film of all time lists, We've broken out top consensus titles into two polls, Pre-1960 (Part One) and Post-1960 (Part Two), with fifteen titles in each. You can vote for up to ten top picks. Let's see what your consensus picks turn out to be.
  • By Anne Thompson
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  • July 24, 2012 12:38 PM
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Is 'Magic Mike' What Women Want? (Red Band Trailers & Poll)

We've done our fair share of promoting (and sarcastically mocking) Steven Soderbergh's "Magic Mike." With the arrival of two new UK red band trailers, in which we see even more of Channing Tatum & Company's waxed bodies, we can again exclaim our anticipation for what is posturing itself as what women really want.
  • By Sophia Savage
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  • June 14, 2012 2:23 PM
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Oscars 2012: TOH! Readers Poll Results -- Snubbed Fassbender Beats Dujardin; Love for 'Tree of Life'

The results of our TOH! Readers Poll for Oscars 2012 are in and one thing is clear: Your taste is very different from that of the Academy.  Take a look at the winners below.
  • By Sophia Savage
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  • February 27, 2012 7:44 PM
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Oscars 2012: TOH! Readers Poll -- Pick Your Winners!

Here's your chance to pick (not predict) your Oscar winners. Vote in the polls below for each of the major categories. We threw in a few wild cards for the Best Actress and Best Actor races to keep it interesting. We'll report the winners next week.
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  • February 26, 2012 12:30 PM
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Vote: Superman's Woman Not Lois Lane; Alice Eve, Diane Kruger or Rosamund Pike?

Move over, Lois Lane. American actresses, you can move over too. Warner Bros.' Superman, with Brit Henry Cavill set to star, is eyeing three women to co-star in a role not based on Lois Lane.
  • By Sophia Savage
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  • February 4, 2011 7:41 AM
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