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NEW YORK, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in 67 years, there will be ten Best Picture nominees at the Oscars. This major change to the Academy Awards has everyone abuzz, including the mobile community at Predicto Mobile, a digital content service owned by Snackable Media. Members of the interactive SMS entertainment provider vote by text message to express their predictions about current events, including who will receive Oscar nods when nominations are announced on February 2....

ATLANTA, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will go full circle with its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR® festival in February. The 2010 edition of the month-long event will feature 360 Academy Award®-nominated and winning movies, all presented uncut and commercial-free. The month's schedule is designed so that each movie is linked to the next movie in the lineup through a shared actor or actress. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click:...

ATLANTA, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will go full circle with its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR® festival in February. The 2010 edition of the month-long event will feature 360 Academy Award®-nominated and winning movies, all presented uncut and commercial-free. The month's schedule is designed so that each movie is linked to the next movie in the lineup through a shared actor or actress. 31 DAYS OF OSCAR will begin Monday, Feb. 1, at 6 a.m. (ET) with Kevin Bacon...

NEW DELHI, India, December 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Global School of Animation & Games, a leading 'Animation and Games' institute in India, is organizing a one-of-its-kind seminar known as 'Inside Story of an Oscar Nomination', Animation Achiever's Assembly, on December 3rd, 2009, at the Global School Auditorium, Saket, New Delhi. Global School of Animation & Games is among the first in Animation Schools throughout India to offer high-end technical infrastructure commensurate with...

NEW YORK and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Multiple Grammy winner and Oscar-nominated producer, musician and songwriter T Bone Burnett will be the executive musical producer and an executive producer for Lionsgate's "Tough Trade," the first original series pilot for EPIX (TM), the new multiplatform entertainment service from Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B), its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading...

ATLANTA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- When Turner Classic Movies (TCM) launches the first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2010 in Hollywood, the spectacular events will include the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor's music-filled 1954 drama A Star is Born; the North American premiere of a restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent masterpiece Metropolis; and a 50th anniversary screening of the influential French classic Breathless, the film that...

Spanish film stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have gotten engaged, a source told Usmagazine.com. The couple met on the set of the 1992 movie, Jamon, Jamon, but didn't start dating until 2007, the report said. They co-starred in last year's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which earned Cruz an Oscar for best supporting actress. Bardem won his best supporting actor Academy Award for his work in the 2007 movie, No Country for Old Men. He was nominated for a best actor Oscar for the 2000 film,...

Lionsgate says it has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the latest film by Oscar-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan. Gaghan will direct and produce the as-yet-untitled film, a character-driven action thriller he is co-writing with Shannon Burke. Allyn Stewart and Kipp Nelson are the movie's executive producers. The announcement was jointly made Tuesday by Joe Drake, Lionsgate's co-chief operating officer and motion picture group president, and Alli Shearmur, Lionsgate's...

DALLAS, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- HDNet Movies presents a special Sneak Preview of the gripping drama, THE BURNING PLAIN, starring Academy Award winners Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, Wednesday, September 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080313/LATH533LOGO) THE BURNING PLAIN is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (BABEL, 21 GRAMS, AMORES PERROS, and THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA). Pete Hammond of THE LOS...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIVX), a digital media company, today announced a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment that will enable online retailers worldwide to offer Paramount Pictures feature films for secure download in the high-quality DivX(R) video format. DivX digital media technology allows consumers to enjoy DivX content on the PC, the television and mobile devices. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081124/DIVXLOGO) The new...