America Ferrera in Ugly Betty by Dean Hendler/ABC
On Saturday, the Imagen Awards, which honors work by and about Hispanics, doffed its sombrero to Ugly Betty. The ABC hit went in with 11 nominations and won best prime-time TV show, best TV actress (for America Ferrera, who was also awarded the Imagen Foundation's Creative Achievement Award), and won the best-supporting-actress for Ana Ortiz's work as Hilda. On the feature side, Pan's Labyrinth came out on top, scoring the prize for best picture and best actress (Ivana Baquero). Dalia Hernandez and Gerardo Taracena (from Mel Gibson's Apocalypto) won best supporting actress and actor on the big screen.Monday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
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E! premieres Bedtime Stories: The Best of The Girls Next Door Monday at 9 pm/ET, leading into the new season of The Simple Life.... Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira will host and former 60 Minutes boss Don Hewitt will produce for NBC a one-hour celebration of the annual Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, to air in prime time in December, says Variety.... Gay Robot, an Adam Sandler-produced Comedy Central pilot that never got picked up but instead has been dwelling on MySpace, may find new life as an animated series, says the Hollywood Reporter.... Speaking of Doug Jones (and I was), Pan's Labyrinth topped the DVD sales and rental charts last week. I still haven’t seen it, argh.
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Pan's Labyrinth courtesy New Line Home Video
Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkA dark richly imagined fable about the allure and danger of retreating from harsh reality into the world of the mind Pans Labyrinth 2006 was nominated for dozens of high-profile awards in the US and abroad and deserved every one Writer-director Guillermo del Toros best film to date its a perfect mix of horror-movie imagery and sharp psychological insights anchored by 11-year-old Ivana Baqueros astonishing performance as a bookish preteen who seeks refuge from lifes real monsters in elaborate fantasies of mythical creatures and magical quests Set in 1944 in the aftermath of Spains bitter Civil War the same period del Toro explores in his equally haunting The Devils Backbone an earlier DVD Tuesday pick it begins as young Ofelia and her pregnant mother Carmen Ariadna Gil join Carmens new husband Captain Vidal Sergi Lopez at the rural army
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Doug Jones, Gay Robot
As far as culty pleasures go, Gay Robot may very well take the cupcake. An unsold TV pilot that's found new life online (at MySpace.com/GayRobot), the feyest droid since C-3PO is both proof of the power of the Internet and a perfectly twisted comedy that, well, even cable isn't ready for. And that is just how Doug Jones likes it. The affable actor behind the motorized man-lover may not be a familiar face, but there's no doubt that he's caused a few jaws to drop with his heavily disguised turns in everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth to this summer's
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See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkSend your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I once read an interview with Eddie and the CruisersEddie and the Cruisers II star Michael Pare about the possibility of a second sequel He said he had an idea for one so when I found a review online for Eddie and the Cruisers 3 I was really excited although I wasnt so happy that Pare had been replaced as Eddie Maybe thats why it didnt get any attention that plus it was probably released direct to video But Id still kind of like to see it and havent had any luck tracking it down Can you help -- Liz FlickChick You sent me on a merry chase Liz The fact is nothing ever came of Michael Pares idea for a second Eddie and the Cruisers sequel whatever it was The review you found of Eddie and the Cruisers 3 Working Man Blues is a hoax and a really good one Working Man Blues sounds ridiculous but no more ridiculous then say MGM
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Call it "ghoul power": Horror flick The Messengers placed first at the box office over the weekend with a take of $14.5 million, which handily trounced the $13 million haul of second-place finisher (and the weekend's only other new release) Because I Said So. Rounding out the top five were Epic Movie with $8.2 million, Night at the Museum with $6.75 million, and Smokin' Aces with $6.3 million. In other movie news, Pan's Labyrinth has surpassed Like Water for Chocolate to become the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever to play the States. (It's kitty is up to $21.67 million and counting.)
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The best thing I saw on Super Bowl Sunday? Pan’s Labyrinth. But that’s a different story (or a different column). Anything to get out of doors (even in the frigid cold) to skip the first few hours of pre-Super Bowl hype.The worst thing I saw on Super Bowl Sunday? A typically unpleasant, thoroughly predictable episode of Criminal Minds that followed the big game. More on that later.In between, we had a game played in torrential rain that had plenty of reversals (how slippery was that football, anyway?) and was plenty exciting, especially to a former Indiana resident and current Peyton Manning fan. The buzz about Super Bowls is that this is usually the one night of the year when you actually watch the ads and zip your TiVo through the game. This year, that would have been a mistake.I lost count of the number of moronic Bud Light ads I had to sit through just to get to the two memorable ads for classic Budweiser. As usual, there was a classy one involving Clydesdales, this ye...
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Per Variety, Roman Polanski is on board to helm his most expensive undertaking ever: Pompeii, a $130 million thriller set against the backdrop of Mt. Vesuvius before and during its eruption.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Journey 3-D, an eye-popping remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth starring Brendan Fraser, will hit theaters in summer 2008.... Jason Schwartzman will star in The Marc Pease Experience, about a guy who, 10 years after the fact, is still living off his glory days as the star of his high school's musical productions.... Rob Corddry has been cast as Woody Harrelson's nemesis in the basketball comedy Semi-Pro.... The six-time Oscar-nominated Pan's Labyrinth expands to 1,000-plus screens this weekend.
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The National Society of Film Critics has spoken, and named Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth best movie of the year. United 93's Paul Greengrass, meanwhile, took best-director honors. Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren (or "WhitMer," as the shippers on YouTube are calling them) claimed the lead-actor slots, with Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) and Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) sweeping supporting.
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