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Best Picture

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Frost/Nixon
  • The Reader
  • Milk
  • Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director

  • David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
  • Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
  • Gus van Sant, Milk
  • Stephen Daldry, The Reader

Continue reading to check out the full list of 2009 Oscar Nominees! And keep checking back with the site as Phasekitty watches and takes a look at all of the nominees as we march towards the awards show.

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Fringe is the best show that is sitting and collecting dust in my Tivo. Once my schedule opens up a little more I’m going to sit down to a weekend Fringe marathon.  For those of you who have been watching it weekly, tonight’s all new episode gets the golden spot after American Idol at 9pm on FOX.

Official episode description: “A visit from Olivia’s sister (Ari Graynor) and a formal review of the Fringe Division coincide with the investigation of the murder of a famous scientist, which may have something to do with Olivia’s recent abduction.”

What else is new tonight?

8PM

  • CW: 90210 (Teen Drama)
  • FOX: American Idol (Reality)
  • NBC: Biggest Loser: Couples (Reality)

9PM

  • CBS: Change and Challenge: Barack Obama (News)
  • CW: Privileged (Drama)
  • MNT: Vice Squad

Gossip Girl Spin-Off

After weeks of rumors, it is official! The CW’s hit series Gossip Girl is getting a spin-off in the form of a prequel. The new series will focus on the younger years of Lily Van Der Woodsen, Serena (Blake Lively)’s mother who is portrayed in Gossip Girl by Kelly Rutherford.

According to EW, the pilot follows Lily as she moves out of her wealthy parent’s home to live with her outcast sister in Los Angeles. There she’ll deal with going to public school and experience the glitz of Hollywood in the 80s.

I think this is a really cool way to expand the universe created in Gossip Girl without losing any of the show’s actors. A pilot for the prequel will air on May 11th in the place of Gossip Girl.

Posted on January 15th, 2009 by ThePit | Leave a Comment (1)
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With 5 years and 57 issues under its belt, The Walking Dead is as strong as ever. Not only is it one of the best ongoing comics on the market, but it is completely engaging and constantly leaves me on the edge of my seat with my jaw on the ground.

Created by Robert Kirkman, the series follows a small town cop, Rick Grimmes, who struggles to survive in a world over run by zombies. Kirkman originally pitched the series to Image Comics as a print version of Night of the Living Dead that would never end. While it became its own original story, Kirkman has kept true to the “never end” part of the pitch and he has said time and again that as long as he is allowed to publish the book, than he will continue to. Well, as long as he publishes the book, I shall be reading it.

Newsarama has an indepth interview with Robert Kirkman on the series and its March to issue #60, which is less than 3 months away.

“…everything that’s happening in the book is still part of the larger “Road to Washington” arc that’s going on in the book. They’ll be on that road for a while—and there are a lot of things that will happen to them along the way…but it’s all leading to them, or at least some of them, arriving in Washington D.C and what happens after that—and oh, boy—let’s just say I’ve never been more excited about this series.”

Read the full interview by heading here.  Catch up on the series by buying these trades…


Posted on January 15th, 2009 by ThePit | Leave a Comment
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Okay, Everyone Loves Raymond is not returning to television, but Ray Romano will be!

The comedian/actor will be starring in and producing Men of a Certain Age for the TNT Network. Romano will be producing along with Mike Royce, who executive produced Everyone Loves Raymond with him.

According to Variety, the series focuses on “three fortysomething college buddies who are each coming to terms with a midlife that doesn’t live up to their previous expectations.”

Co-starring in the series is Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street) and Scott Bakula (Quantum *freaking* Leap).

The dramedy is currently signed up for 10 episodes, but I’m sure we’ll be seeing more. The network is eying January 2010 for the show’s premiere.

Bloody Disgusting scored a pretty cool update on the status of Scream 4.  Their unnamed sources confirm the report from last July that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson are hard at work on early prep for a new entry in the Scream series.  Williamson is handling the writing duty on the film and there is a good possibility that Craven will return to direct the film.

The film itself is said to focus on a new group of young characters, most likely high school students like the original Scream. Apparently they are trying to get David Arquette, Courtney Cox Arquette and Neve Campbell to make cameos in the film.

Personally, I think that this is the best direction that they could go with the franchise. It would keep it fresh and offer a ton of possibilities for future films. Scream 3 was a bit of a mess with an over complicated storyline and unneeded deaths (poor Cotton). Thankfully Williamson will be back to write the film after he didn’t write part 3. That alone gives me a ton of hope for the new flick. I miss good horror.