The list of films eligible for the 2010 Academy Awards has shrunk to 248 - a drop of more than two dozen films on last year, the academy has announced.

This year's alphabetical list begins with The A-Team and ends with Youth in Revolt.

Other productions on the list include The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels, and Jeff Bridges films, Tron - Legacy and True Grit.

Fewer films eligible for Oscars 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12049424


So what does this mean to the chances of Piranha 3D being nominated for best picture? /s

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD AND CHROME • DAVID EICK

By Scott Edelman
4:13PM on Dec 20, 2010

First concept art from Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome

We've got an EXCLUSIVE look at the first four concept images from Syfy's upcoming two-hour pilot movie for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. The movie focuses on the adventures of a young William Adama during the 10th year of the first Cylon war.

According to an earlier press release, here's what we have to look forward to:

"Ensign William Adama, barely in his 20's and a recent Academy graduate, finds himself assigned to the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet ... the Galactica. The talented but hot-headed risk-taker soon finds himself leading a dangerous top secret mission that, if successful, will turn the tide of the decade long war in favor of the desperate fleet."
Remember—these are concept images, so the scenes they represent may or may not make it into the final cut of the movie, but they definitely show some interesting directions being considered for what executive producer David Eick calls an "authentic, relentless depiction of combat and the agony and ecstasy of human-Cylon war, which was the hallmark of Battlestar Galactica's early seasons."

We're definitely hoping the Cylon snake (we're told it's called a "Cython") makes the cut.

Death Race 2, the sequel to Paul WS Anderson's remake of Death Race 2000, is out on a straight-to-DVD release this week, and apparently there's more on the way.

According to Moviehole, Universal are so confident about the sequel that they've shoved Death Race 3 into development.

Death Race 3 is gearing up


More here

Luke Goss plays the man who becomes masked racer Frankenstein in the prequel, which also stars Sean Bean and Danny Trejo.

[b]Judi Lench enlisted for Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar

Surely to God those last two aren't that desperate?

Judi Who?

Hasn't Sean Bean just been through another divorce? Perhaps he needs the cash.

Bean has been married and divorced four times

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