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Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology Movie Shelved

NxBigmouthery — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:15:03 CDT

Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology project has stalled, according to Examiner.com. The movie was to feature actors Jeremy Renner and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Renner told TotalFilm that The Master , which would have focused on Scientology and an L. Ron Hubbard-like figure, has been postponed indefinitely.

There Will Be Blood Best of the Best: Critics

Harry Kimball — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:24:00 CST

Back in the day, P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood wasn't even unanimously considered the best film of 2007. But it comes out on top in Gawker 's aggregation of critics’ “Best Films of the Decade” lists, “its straw in the whole damn cinema’s milkshake.” In a sweep of...

Clooney Sees No Country Sweep

Harry Kimball — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:19:17 CST

If you’re betting on Oscar results this weekend, Time has an odd piece of advice: Listen to George Clooney. The actor says he's never been wrong about winners, the magazine reports, and he shares this year’s picks: The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men will sweep, netting the film...

There Will Be Blood Takes Top Honors

Sam Biddle — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:00:00 CST

There Will Be Blood , a riveting movie about the greed and corruption of oil prospecting in America a century ago , captured several of the highest awards from the National Society of Film Critics yesterday. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of a 1927 Upton Sinclair novel earned awards for best picture,...

Treasure Shines Again

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:00:39 CST

National Treasure: Book of Secrets shone in the top spot again this weekend as filmgoers kept flocking to the movies, Variety reports. Alvin and the Chipmunks crooned its way into second, humbling I Am Legend , as Mike Nichols-directed Charlie Wilson's War claimed fourth over Juno , an offbeat dramedy that nabbed...

Blood Makes Critics Swoon

Kevin Spak — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:50:00 CST

There’s no avoiding it: There Will Be Blood is another long, “indie-flavored, male-centric American art film,” says Variety’s Todd McCarthy. But the “boldly and magnificently strange” flick still has critics enthralled. Following an unsavory and maybe unhinged oil tycoon’s rise to power, the film possesses “a blistering intensity,” raves Newsweek’s...