Hollywood Puts Focus on Fall Films, Oscars
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With movie makers wrapping up a record &#36;4 billion summer on Friday, Hollywood turned to fall films and the Oscar hopefuls it hopes will push the annual box office beyond last year's &#36;9.5 billion.
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The awards race is on.  Not the race to position films for year-end awards  consideration -- that dance has been going on since at least  the September trifecta of the Telluride, Venice and Toronto  film festivals, if not before. No, the current race is the rush  by film organizations and critics' groups to be among the first  to anoint the best films of 2006.
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If the strike continues, the Oscars could become an infomercial about the importance of writers.
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With the passing of Labor Day weekend, the really big movies -- featuring household names, gigantic budgets and baring the burden of Oscar hopes and pretensions -- are just around the corner.
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Today isn't just the official start of the holiday shopping season. It's also the start of the holiday movie season, when studios try to capitalize on the seasonal urge to get out of the house and take in a flick.
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LOS ANGELES  - With Thanksgiving over  and Christmas still three weeks away, the box office will try  to catch its breath this weekend as moviegoers turn their  attention to other seasonal pursuits like shopping.
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Film fans finally will soon learn who's competing for this season's Academy Awards. Now all we need to know is whether any nominees will turn up for the big show amid a writers strike that has thrown the awards season into turmoil.
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LOS ANGELES  - Halloween is Sunday, and  Hollywood is ready for another weekend of fright.
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood is taking  advantage of the first holiday frame of 2005, offering four new  wide releases to duke it out over what should be a competitive  extended weekend.
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It is Oscar week in Hollywood, and  after three months in the dark winter of a bitter labor strike,  the movie industry finally has something to celebrate --  itself.
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The race for the Oscars is heating up, with Martin Scorsese's 'The Aviator', Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby' and the road movie 'Sideways' dominating Hollywood's awards chatter.
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The weather might say differently, but according to the box office, fall has arrived.
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Oscar organizers hope Hollywood's  biggest stars will let down their hair and have fun at the  Academy Awards on Sunday, giving a much-needed spark to a show  that runs over three hours and can grow tiresome.
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Timing isn't everything when it comes to the Academy Awards &#151; but it helps.
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A Directors' Guild agreement and the approaching Oscars seem to have broken the logjam on Hollywood's labor impasse
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LOS ANGELES  - There just might be blood. The domestic boxoffice will feature a kind of midwinter mayhem this weekend, as strong holdover films are joined in a competitive fray by four wide-release debutants and Oscar-rejuvenated titles.
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The Toronto International Film Festival has developed a status in recent years as the curtain-raiser to Oscar season, when trophy-hungry directors premier their late-season star-studded epics, biopics, and dramas.