Donât miss either 2006 Oscars or Winter Olympics
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The 78th Academy Awards, Oscar 2006 will begin from March 5, a week after the 2006 Winter Olympics, said the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officials on Thursday.
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Will there be a good movie this year? Do we have to wait till November for Hollywood to unveil the niche prestige items that it saves for Oscar consideration?
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Take a look at the top movies stories this week!
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and hopefully so are your shopping and wrapping - now is the time to just enjoy. New films have filled the multiplexes - and there&#39;s something for everybody from the
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A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past.
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Reward Russia with its first Winter Olympics? Take the games to a new Asian market in South Korea? Or return to the Austrian Alps for the first time in nearly 40 years?.
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There can be no stranger box-office week than one in which Christmas falls on a Saturday, like this year, or a Sunday. You have heavily publicized movies opening midway through the weekend.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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Bourne is back and better than ever. Check it out and give thanks that a muscular thriller can still come out of Hollywood.
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The best of the best, from tennis, chessboxing, beard growing and more.
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Attending a winter sports school can be as valuable as good SAT scores.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week said the 2006 edition of Hollywood&#39;s highest honours would be moved back by one week to Sunday, March 5 (March 6th NZ time), to avoid a conflict with the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Last February in the Olympic Games in Turin, a new discipline of snowboard cross -- "NASCAR on snow" -- proved to be as exciting and TV ratings-worthy as its early billing.
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Travel: Night skiing in Niseko is the best in the world. The aprÃ¨s in volcanic pools is merely a bonus, says Tom Collinson
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Yep, once a year, when they give their awards and start fanning the Oscar flame
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Just a couple of hours to go and it will be clear which movie is getting the Oscar for best film. I was wondering whether Google Trends will have any predictive value and did 3 Trend searches. Release dates and other factors haven&#8217;t been taken into consideration and the whole exercise is in no way scientific, just [...]
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It's been a winter wonderland so far for US athletes, who've already won 10 world medals with upcoming global championships in skiing, figure skating, and speedskating likely to provide more. Experience has been the biggest factor; the winners of nearly half of last year's 25 medals in Turin have returned for another season, if not another quadrennium.