I went to Sunday’s 2008 MTV Movie Awards expecting the unexpected. After all, this is the show that prides itself on not being like those other “boring” award shows. This is the show that honors “movies” instead of “films.” This is the show where, last year, Sacha Baron Cohen got away with kissing Will […]

Maybe someone at MTV had a psychic moment: “Movie Awards Weekend Heats Up” was the headline on the channel’s website right around the time of the early morning blaze Sunday that turned a portion of Universal Studios into something resembling a 1970s disaster film.
Despite the fire, the 2008 MTV Movie Awards and its national broadcast […]

MTV has enlisted a slew of stars — including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black — to create their own short films, which will premiere during the cable channel’s annual MTV Movie Awards on Sunday.
Mike Myers, who will host the event at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, also created two shorts featuring […]

 
If you thought you had to know your Bertolucci from your Brad Pitt just to get a job polishing Harvey Weinstein’s golf shoes, you’re only halfway there. Movie insiders actually converse in their own “slanguage”, a rich, and often very funny, collection of invented terms popularised by the industry magazine Variety over more than a […]

It took over 25 years, $150 million, and some of the biggest names in show business to bring “Transformers” from an idea, to the big-screen, to a front row seat at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.
It could take you as little as three minutes to join them.
MTV is calling all filmmakers, provocateurs, and amateur comedians […]

 
On Sunday, Feb. 24, the Academy Awards telecast earned its lowest audience rating on record, plummeting 21 percent from last year. Is the Oscars in crisis? And what, if anything, can the Academy do to turn the tide? EW.com spoke with Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
(Source: EW)

US television ratings for this year’s Oscars sunk to an all-time low, preliminary figures showed, as viewers turned their back on a ceremony dominated by dark, bleak films.
According to figures from Nielsen Media Research, Sunday’s three-hour-long ceremony at the Kodak Theatre averaged an audience of only 32 million viewers, the worst since records began in […]

 
It used to be that violence, even more than comedy, was the kiss of death for Oscar movies. Then came blood-saturated films like “Crash” and “The Departed,” which overturned some of those rules.
But perhaps no movie exemplifies how the Oscars have changed than this year’s best picture winner, “No Country for Old Men,” a dark, disturbing […]

WPvideo 1.10

They ground up Steve Buscemi in a wood-chipper. They made baby-snatchers out of Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. They turned mythic Greek wanderer Odysseus into a Depression-era roots-music minstrel with George Clooney’s face.
Two of the most imaginatively twisted minds in modern film, Joel and Ethan Coen, completed their journey from the fringes to […]