Jake Gittes

I'm hoping Skyfall gets in. Even though it will almost inevitably lose, which will be like, the 235th time Roger Deakins didn't win an Oscar.

The Pirates, I guess. It jumped 85%.

Hooper, Affleck, Russell, PTA and Lee.

I also think July 2 would be the best date for DoFP under these circumstances. Especially if they bring back at least some of the original cast to go along with McAvoy, Fassbender, Lawrence and the others, I think all Fox should do after that is just give the middle finger to TF4 and market the hell out of this. I'm pretty sure that with Vaughn and Jane Goldman back, they won't have to worry about quality.

WB also hadn't had any huge tentpole for summer 2014 before they put The Hobbit there. Then they added Godzilla, but that's still not enough. The only way they could push TH back to December and still have a strong summer is to either come up with a Hangover-like original comedy, or a children's movie (too bad WB doesn't have an animation devision), or something like Sherlock Holmes 3, or a franchise-starter / Inception/Pacific Rim-like original blockbuster, or some combination of those. But they need to move fast.Here, too, you can see the effect of the Green Lantern failure - if it was successful on the level of BB or even First Class, you'd bet they would have made Green Lantern 2 one of their prime 2014 tentpoles. But you reap what you sow.

It does.

No. With Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie coming out in the next two weeks, I just hope it makes over $41.3m so it can take a place above DH2 on the all-time dom chart.

1. Goodfellas2. Taxi Driver3. Raging Bull4. Shutter Island5. The Departed6. Cape Fear7. Casino8. Gangs of New York9. HugoHaven't seen the others yet.

Masterpieces Jaws, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Last Ark Excellent The Last Crusade, The Temple of Doom, Catch Me If You Can, Saving Private Ryan, Duel, Munich Pretty Good E.T., Jurassic Park, A.I., Minority Report, Close Encounters, The Terminal Average Crystal Skull, Adventures of Tintin, Always Bad Hook, War of the Worlds, The Lost World Haven't seen The Sugarland Express, 1941, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Amistad, War Horse

You really don't know what you're talking about.

The highest by the month's end will be RE5... with something like $38-39m. The highest grossing movie released during the month will be either Looper or Hotel Transylvania.

The Good Son, a 1993 thriller with Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood.

Yet they probably would have driven it to the same gross. The Tree of Life, a film even less audience-friendly than The Master, made $13m while never being released in more than 237 theaters. It did that by having great PTA holds, and those holds happened because Searchlight knew where to expand it so it could actually make money. Weinstein could have done the same, but he just decided to release it everywhere... and in the end, The Master will finish with only several million more than TOL, if that.

The Master looks like it won't even do $20m, at least not until the Oscar-rerelease. I was hoping for $35m or so.

End of Watch is pretty good, it deserves every dollar it's going to make.

John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz are the only directors to win BD two years in a row, and that was in 1940-1941 and 1949-1950 respectively. Then you've got 3 years between Oliver Stone's wins and 5 years between David Lean's. I highly doubt Hooper's joining that company.And while Les Mis seems like a hot contender at the moment, I'm not gonna say it's "sweeping everything" until at least mid-January. So many movies yet to be released, so many things to possibly happen, and we can't be 100% sure of Les Mis' quality yet either. What if the voters fall head over heels for Argo or Silver Linings? What if Life of Pi is a masterpiece? The Master, despite clearly not being friendly to the Academy, is not totally out of the question either.

John Hawkes is most certainly in as well.

But... that would be logical and unbiased!

Oh yeah, I recall some people calling Samuel L. Jackson's Stephen the best character in Django and him possibly the surprise nominee. You do have a point though, as far as Weinstein's candidates go - I'd be surprised if PSH, LDC and SLJ all made the cut (and Silver Linings is a Weinstein release too). I don't think Waltz is likely to be nominated at all.

Considering just how overwhelming the praise for Phoenix is, it'd be really awkward if Hoffman won his Oscar for The Master and Phoenix didn't. So I think if Hoffman wins, Phoenix will be even more certain to do the same. If not, Phoenix's chances remain the same.

Yep. Kinda unbelievable even despite the lowered quality of his movies and performances in 2000's.

Other possibilities:William H. Macy in The SessionsJim Broadbent in Cloud AtlasChristopher Walken in A Late Quartetpretty much anyone from LincolnDi Caprio, Hoffman and Crowe definitely look like the most likely nominees (Hoffman is basically a lock at this point) and I'd be delighted if De Niro got in there.Edit: oh, and can't forget Dwight Henry in Beasts.

Apocalypse Now is one of the greatest I've ever seen. For some time after watching it, I wasn't sure if I would ever be able to watch other "war is hell" movies and find them at all compelling. Coppola took this one idea/concept, of a journey into the heart of darkness propelled and surrounded by the hell of war, and delivered the most complete and powerful film that could be made out of it. With all-time best cinematography, hypnotic pacing, great characterization, some instantly classic dialogue and overwhelming sound and scope. It's really a once-in-a-lifetime movie, a huge, rich epic driven by a single idea and the complete creative control of its author.