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  • Here’s Where You Can Watch 2016’s Oscar-Nominated Movies

    Okay, you’ve already seen “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” but where can you see “Steve Jobs,” “Creed,” and all the other Oscar-nominated movies of 2015?

    We’ve rounded up which movies are still in theaters, which are on DVD and Blu-ray, and which are available to stream or buy online. In the case of “The Martian,” you have your choice of catching it on the big screen or owning your very own copy since it’s still in theaters and out on DVD.

    Dates and availability are subject to change. For limited release movies, check the film’s official site for theaters.

    In Theaters

    In Theaters January 29: Check theaters near you

    • Best Documentary — Short Subject: (“Body Team 12,” “Chau, Beyond the Lines,” “Last Day of Freedom,” Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah,” “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”)
    • Best Live Action Short Film: (“Day One,” “Everything Will Be Okay,” “Stutterer,” “Ave Maria” “Shok”)
    • Best Animated Short Film: (“Sanjay’s Super Team,” “We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, “Prologue,” “Bear Story,” “World of Tomorrow”

    DVD/Blu-ray

    • “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” (Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
    • “Amy” (Best Documentary)
    • “Bridge of Spies” (6 nominations, including Best Picture)
    • “Cinderella” (Best Costume Design)
    • “The Danish Girl” (4 Oscar nominations, including Best Actor – Eddie Redmayne and Best Supporting Actress – Alicia Vikander) Mar. 1
    • “Ex Machina” (Best Original Screenplay, Best Visual Effects)
    • “Fifty Shades of Grey” (Best Original Song – “Earned It”)
    • “The Hunting Ground” (Best Original Song – “Till it Happens to You”)
    • “Inside Out” (Best Animated Feature Film)
    • “The Martian” (6 nominations, including Best Picture)
    • “The Look of Silence” (Best Documentary)
    • “Shaun the Sheep Movie” (Best Animated Feature Film)
    • “Sicario” (3 nominations including Best Cinematography)
    • “Spectre” (Best Original Song – “Writing’s on the Wall”)
    • “Spotlight” (6 nominations, including Best Picture)
    • “Steve Jobs” (Best Actor – Michael Fassbender, Best Supporting Actress – Kate Winslet)
    • “Straight Outta Compton” (Best Original Screenplay)
    • “When Marnie Was There” (Best Animated Feature Film)

    Streaming

    • “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared” (Best Makeup and Hairstyling): Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Amy” (Best Documentary): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Cartel Land” (Best Documentary): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Cinderella” (Best Costume Design): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Ex Machina” (Best Original Screenplay, Best Visual Effects): Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “The Hunting Ground” (Best Original Song – “Till it Happens to You”): Amazon, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Fifty Shades of Grey” (Best Original Song – “Earned It”) Google Play, iTunes
    • “Inside Out” (Best Animated Feature Film): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “The Look of Silence” (Best Documentary): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu
    • Mad Max: Fury Road” (10 nominations, including Best Picture): Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “The Martian” (6 nominations, including Best Picture): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Racing Extinction” (Best Original Song – “Manta Ray”): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes
    • “Shaun the Sheep Movie” (Best Animated Feature Film): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Sicario” (3 nominations including Best Cinematography): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Spectre” (Best Original Song – “Writing’s on the Wall”) Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Spotlight” iTunes
    • “Steve Jobs”: Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “Straight Outta Compton” (Best Original Screenplay): Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu
    • “What Happened Miss Simone?” (Best Documentary): Netflix
    • “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” (Best Documentary): Netflix
    • “World of Tomorrow” (Best Animated Short Film): Netflix

    Cable

    • “Mad Max: Fury Road” (10 nominations, including Best Picture): HBO Go
    • “Cinderella” (Best Costume Design): Starz

  • Here Are the 2015 DGA Awards Film Nominees

    Fresh off its impressive haul at the Golden Globes the weekend, “The Revenant” is poised to nab yet another statuette with a nomination for a Directors Guild of America Award.

    The DGA announced its annual slate of honorees for outstanding directorial achievement on Tuesday, and “Revenant” director Alejandro G. Inarritu was among the five nominees. Inarritu also won the DGA award last year, for 2014’s “Birdman,” and with the new momentum from “The Revenant”‘s Globes wins, the director looks like an early favorite to repeat.

    The rest of the nominees were rounded out by Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), Adam McKay (“The Big Short”), George Miller (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), and Ridley Scott (“The Martian”). In addition to those names, the DGA also included a new category this year, honoring directors who helmed their first feature films in 2015.

    “There’s a first time for every feature filmmaker, but not every first time offers fresh viewpoints in storytelling that are imperative in this industry,” said DGA president Paris Barclay in a statement. “The first-time feature directors we’re recognizing with this inaugural award we hope will develop successful and lengthy careers. We are excited and invigorated by all they have to offer.”

    The full list of nominees is below. The DGA Awards will be handed out at a ceremony on February 6.

    FEATURE FILM NOMINEES:

    ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
    The Revenant
    (20th Century Fox)

    Mr. Iñárritu’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Managers: Drew Locke, James W. Skotchdopole, Doug Jones
    First Assistant Director: Scott Robertson
    Second Assistant Directors: Megan M. Shank, Matthew Haggerty, Jeremy Marks
    Unit Production Manager: Gabriela Vazquez (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
    First Assistant Director: Adam Somner (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
    Second Assistant Directors: Trevor R. Tavares, Jasmine Marie Alhambra (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
    Second Second Assistant Directors: Brett Robinson, Kasia Trojak (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)

    This is Mr. Iñárritu’s fourth DGA Award nomination.

    TOM MCCARTHY
    Spotlight
    (Open Road Films)

    Mr. McCarthy’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Managers: D.J. Carson, Michael Bederman
    First Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
    Second Assistant Director: Penny Charter
    Assistant Unit Production Manager: Danielle Blumstein (Boston Unit)
    First Assistant Director: Christo Morse (Boston Unit)
    Second Assistant Directors: Conte Matal, Kristina Mariko Peterson, Annie Tan, Andrea O’Connor (Boston Unit)
    Second Second Assistant Directors: Phil Robinson, Mark Romanelli (Boston Unit)
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Scooter Perrotta (Boston Unit)

    This is Mr. McCarthy’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

    ADAM MCKAY
    The Big Short
    (Paramount Pictures)

    Mr. McKay’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Louise Rosner
    First Assistant Director: Matt Rebenkoff
    Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
    Second Second Assistant Director: Cali Pomés
    Second Second Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer (New York Unit)
    Location Manager: Michael Kriaris

    This is Mr. McKay’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

    GEORGE MILLER
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    (Warner Bros.)

    Mr. Miller’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Dean Hood
    First Assistant Director: PJ Voeten
    Second Assistant Directors: Samantha Smith, Wendy Croad, Chris O’Hara
    Second Assistant Directors: Eddie Thorne (Syndey Unit), Emma Jamvold (Syndey Unit)
    Second Second Assistant Directors: Danielle Blake (Syndey Unit), Joshua Watkins (Syndey Unit)

    This is Mr. Miller’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

    RIDLEY SCOTT
    The Martian
    (20th Century Fox)

    Mr. Scott’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Managers: Francesca Cingolani, Miklós Tóth
    First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk
    Second Assistant Directors: Sarah Hood, Bogi Móricz
    Second Second Assistant Director: Nick Thomas

    This is Mr. Scott’s fourth DGA Award nomination.

    FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR NOMINEES:

    FERNANDO COIMBRA
    A Wolf at the Door
    (Outsider Pictures)

    Mr. Coimbra’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Clara Machado
    First Assistant Director: Suzy Milstein
    Second Assistant Director: Raquel Toledo

    This is Mr. Coimbra’s first DGA Award nomination.

    JOEL EDGERTON
    The Gift
    (STX Entertainment)

    Mr. Edgerton’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Luc Etienne
    First Assistant Director: Michael J. Moore
    Second Assistant Director: Matt Haggerty
    Second Second Assistant Director: Dillon Neaman

    This is Mr. Edgerton’s first DGA Award nomination.

    ALEX GARLAND
    Ex Machina
    (A24)

    Mr. Garland’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Sara Desmond
    First Assistant Director: Nick Heckstall‑Smith
    Second Assistant Director: Ray Kenny

    This is Mr. Garland’s first DGA Award nomination.

    MARIELLE HELLER
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    (Sony Pictures Classics)

    Ms. Heller’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Molly Salz
    First Assistant Director: Brian Benson
    Second Assistant Director: Jerremy Stewart
    Second Second Assistant Director: Alex Gilbert

    This is Ms. Heller’s first DGA Award nomination.

    LÁSZLÓ NEMES
    Son of Saul
    (Sony Pictures Classics)

    Mr. Nemes’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Gábor Szántó
    First Assistant Director: István Kolos
    Second Assistant Directors: Zoltán Gyovai, Edina Galgócz

    This is Mr. Nemes’s first DGA Award nomination.

    [via: Directors Guild of America]

    Photo credit: Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

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  • Christmas Box Office: Audiences Play Santa Claus and Give Generously to All

    box office christmasBelieve it or not, there was a lot more than just “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” going on at the multiplex this holiday weekend. With four new wide releases competing against each other, one art-house release expanding wide, and “Star Wars” still taking up most of the oxygen in the auditorium, the new movies should all have struggled. Instead, all of them did better than expected.

    As a result, this weekend was nearly as huge as last weekend, the frame that saw “Star Wars” buoy the box office and break all those records. And it may even have been big enough to help propel 2015 into the record books.

    Sure, “The Force Awakens” probably pulled a lot of people into the multiplex, even if they ended up seeing other movies. The seventh “Star Wars” installment continues to set records, with the biggest Christmas Day take ever ($49 million), the biggest second weekend ever (an estimated $153.5 million), and the fastest pace ever to a $500 million domestic gross (10 days).

    But it also helped that Christmas Day fell on a Friday, which is why six major new films opened on December 25, each expecting to take full advantage of a complete holiday weekend.

    On paper, no one was expecting much from any of them. Either everyone would just go see “The Force Awakens,” or the new movies would simply cannibalize each other.

    And yet, “Daddy’s Home,” the new Will Ferrell comedy, earned an estimated $38.8 million, nearly twice what pundits predicted. David O. Russell‘s awards-hopeful “Joy,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, opened in third place with an estimated $17.5 million, also on the high end of expectations. It helped that both movies played better with audiences than they did with critics (both earned a B+ from viewers at CinemaScore, despite weak-to-mixed reviews). But it also helped that there’s nothing else in the marketplace like either Ferrell’s live-action family comedy or Lawrence’s biographical comedy-drama.

    Similarly, there’s no other film like Will Smith‘s serious-minded football drama “Concussion,” which opened slightly above expectations with an estimated $11.0 million, good for sixth place. And there’s also nothing like “Point Break,” the 3D action remake that opened at No. 8 with an estimated $10.2 million. Considering the movie’s terrible reviews, its weak marketing (it’s from Warner Bros., the studio that, “Creed” aside, has been releasing nothing but duds for months), and its utter superfluousness (did we really need or ask for a remake of the 1991 Keanu Reeves surfing-bank-robbers thriller?), those “Point Break” sales were also much better than expected.

    Between “Concussion” and “Point Break” was “The Big Short,” another Oscar hopeful that expanded this weekend from eight art-house theaters to 1,585 screens and earned a strong estimated $10.5 million as a result. That’s very good for a satirical movie about the 2008 financial crash starring several A-list actors in horrible wigs.

    Even the holdovers did well. In fourth place, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler‘s R-rated comedy “Sisters” earned another estimated $13.9 million, losing less than half a percentage point in sales from last weekend. Fifth-place finisher “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” earned an estimated $12.7 million, down a slight 11 percent from a week ago.

    According to Sunday estimates, Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” missed out on a top 10 debut by less than $70,000. Few predicted big numbers for a three-hour western opening in just 100 theaters, but “Eight” beat the predictions and scored an estimated $4.5 million.

    And Leonardo DiCaprio‘s western, “The Revenant,” opened in just four theaters, but it earned an estimated $117,750 at each of them. That’s a phenomenal per-screen average, the third best of any movie this year. (Only “Steve Jobs” and “American Sniper” enjoyed higher per-venue averages.)

    Like the other new movies this week, these were both offerings that likely succeeded because of their uniqueness. “Eight” may have received some of the weakest reviews of Tarantino’s career, but the chance to see the much-hyped spectacle in a 70MM wide-screen roadshow print made the film’s debut an event. And “Revenant,” in which DiCaprio’s frontiersman is notoriously mauled by a bear, has been touted as the film that may finally win the actor his first Oscar.

    It’s often said that it takes a very special event-movie to lure audiences out of their living rooms and into a movie theater. “The Force Awakens” has certainly been that kind of event, but so, apparently, were many of the other movies playing this weekend.

    Thanks largely to the huge numbers posted this weekend and last, 2015 is on track to beat 2013 for the most lucrative year on record; it’ll take only $30 million worth of tickets sold in the next four days to grab the crown. It would also take just $107 million over the next four days for 2015 to become the first year to see the North American box office crack $11 billion. For a year that saw brief but alarming slumps in the spring, summer, and fall, that’s not too shabby.

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  • ‘Big Short’ Trailer: Christian Bale and Brad Pitt Take on Big Banks

    Big Short“The Big Short,” based on Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 housing crash, is doing what its four protagonists are doing: betting big. But while the men chronicled in the book and movie bet big against banks, the movie is betting on another lucrative market: awards season.

    The first trailer for “The Big Short” dropped today, with the surprise announcement that it would be opening this Christmas. It will close the AFI Fest in Los Angeles in November, before hitting theaters in limited release Dec. 11.

    The movie should be a heavy-hitter this awards season. It stars Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling as four stock-savvy outsiders who uncover how volatile the housing market is in 2008.

    They decide to bet against the banks, and when the bubble bursts, hit the jackpot. The tale comes from Lewis, the writer behind other acclaimed books — turned into acclaimed, award-nominated movies— such as “Moneyball” and “Blindside.” And “The Big Short” was directed by Adam McKay, better known for helming comedies like “Anchorman.”

    Apparently, according to Deadline, Paramount planned to release the movie next year, but saw a nearly complete cut by McKay and decided to speed things up. That will certainly make this year’s Oscar race even more interesting, particularly in the male actor categories, as “The Big Short” actors go up against male-dominated, ensemble prestige films like “Black Mass,” “The Revenant,” “The Hateful Eight,” and “Spotlight.”

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  • Brad Pitt, Christian Bale Rock Oscar Race with ‘The Big Short’

    Millions of Americans lost their homes during the U.S. housing and credit meltdown that led to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis – and one man predicted it all.

    In “The Big Short,” Christian Bale takes on the role of Michael Burry, the founder of the Scion Capital, an investor who was one of the first people to predict the U.S. banking bubble burst.

    The drama is adapted from Michael Lewis’ bestseller “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” and follows how Burry scored a personal profit of $100 million and nearly $700 million for his investors during the economic debacle.

    Brad Pitt, one of the drama’s producers, plays Cornwall Capital’s Ben Hockett, Ryan Gosling stars as Deutsche Bank trader Greg Lippman and Steve Carell takes on the role of FrontPoint Partners money manager Steve Eisman.

    Deadline reports that “The Big Short” has thrown its name into the hat for the forthcoming Oscars race with an unexpected early release. The biopic will premiere at the closing night gala at the American Film Institute (AFI) film festival on Nov. 12.

    Costarring Melissa Leo, Marissa Tomei, Selena Gomez and Max Greenfield, “The Big Short” opens nationwide Dec. 23.

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  • Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale Team Up for Drama ‘The Big Short’

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    A trio of Hollywood heartthrobs are joining forces for a new project: Variety reports that Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Christian Bale are set to star in “The Big Short.”

    The drama is based on author Michael Lewis’s book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” which tells the story behind the build-up to the housing bubble burst and 2007-2010 financial crisis. Lewis also penned “Moneyball,” which Pitt also adapted for the big screen.

    “Anchorman” director Adam McKay is writing the “Big Short” screenplay, a departure for the comedy-minded filmmaker. According to Variety, it’s unclear if he’ll also helm the flick.

    It’s also unclear just what roles Pitt, Gosling, and Bale will play in the film, though Variety reports that it will most likely feature those A-listers in “similiar-sized roles” throughout the movie, akin to other films like “Traffic” or “The Counselor.”

    Studio Paramount had no comment on Variety’s report. Stay tuned for further details.

    [via: Variety]

    Photo credit: ROBYN BECK via Getty Images

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