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New York, NY, January 31, 2010 – On January 31, 2010, MOSAEC.com (MOSAEC) announced the winners of its 3rd annual awards. The MOSAEC Audience Excellence award winners were determined after two weeks of online voting, in which the public chose from lists of eligible nominees in traditional “Best of” categories as well as several contemporary categories.

Audiences chose The Hangover as the Best Comedy or Musical and Avatar as the Best Dramatic Film. The timely, Up in the Air, received multiple acting awards. In addition to George Clooney’s Best Actor award, Anna Kendrick was honored as Best Supporting Actress and the Best Breakthrough Performance Awards. Separately, Kristen Stewart was overwhelming voted as the Best Young Actor or Actress (Under 21). Stewart also shared an award with her Adventureland co-star, Jesse Eisenberg, in the Best Onscreen Intimate Portrait category.

Meryl Streep was voted Best Film Actress for her fantastic embodiment of the iconic Julia Child in Julie & Julia. Matt Damon bested all contenders in the Supporting Actor category, winning for his performance as the blonde and buffed baller, Francois Pienaar, in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus. Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story won top honors for his econ-driven documentary.

In the television categories, Family Guy was voted Best Television Comedy and Tina Fey won the award for Best Television Actress for the second time. HBO’s True Blood was voted the Best Television Drama. MOSAEC’s audience chose Hugh Laurie (House) as the Best Television Actor and Amy Poehler as the Best Supporting Actress on Television.

“Voting in this year’s awards mushroomed,” said MOSAEC’s Marona Lowe.

“Year-to-year, voting more than doubled,” Lowe added.

To announce its awards, MOSAEC drew on the “talent” from its past awards presentation. The presentation is viewable online by clicking here.

The complete winners list for the MAE Awards is as follows:

1. Best Action Film: Avatar
2. Best Actor (Television): Hugh Laurie, House
3. Best Actor: Film: George Clooney, Up in The Air
4. Best Actress (Television): Tina Fey, 30 Rock
5. Best Actress: Film: Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
6. Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in The Air – Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
7. Best Animated Feature Film: UP
8. Best Breakthrough Performance (Actor): Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
9. Best Breakthrough Performance (Actress): Anna Kendrick, Up in The Air
10. Best Cinematography: Avatar
11. Best Director: Film: James Cameron, Avatar
12. Best Documentary: Capitalism: A Love Story
13. Best Ensemble Cast: Nine
14. Best Film (Comedy/Musical): The Hangover
15. Best Film (Drama): Avatar
16. Best Film Editing: Dana E. Glauberman, Up In The Air
17. Best Foreign Film: The White Ribbon (Germany)
18. Best Horror Film: Zombieland
19. Best Independent Film: Skin
20. Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For Television: Taking Chance, HBO
21. Best Onscreen Intimate Portrait: Kristen Stewart & Jesse Eisenberg, Adventureland
22. Best Original Score: Randy Newman, The Princess & the Frog
23. Best Original Screenplay: Jon Lucas & Scott Moore, The Hangover
24. Best Original Song: Film: “I See You” (Avatar)
25. Best Play or Musical: Shrek The Musical
26. Best Political Comedy on Television: Saturday Night Live
27. Best Prequel: Star Trek
28. Best Remake or Re-Imagining: Sherlock Holmes
29. Best Science Fiction Film: Avatar
30. Best Sequel: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
31. Best Sports Moment: UConn-Syracuse 6 Overtime Game in NCAA Basketball
32. Best Superhero Film: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
33. Best Supporting Actor (Television): Michael Emerson, Lost
34. Best Supporting Actor: Film: Matt Damon, Invictus
35. Best Supporting Actress (Television): Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
36. Best Supporting Actress: Film: Anna Kendrick, Up in The Air
37. Best Television Series for Teenagers: Glee
38. Best Television Series: Comedy: Family Guy
39. Best Television Series: Drama: True Blood
40. Best Young Actor/Actress (Under 21): Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: New Moon & Adventureland
41. Maestro Award (Actor): Hal Holbrook, That Evening Sun†
42. Maestro Award (Actress): Sophie Okonedo, Skin†
43. Maestro Award (Director): Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds†
44. Maestro Award (Supporting Actor): Christopher Waltz, Inglourious Basterds†
45. Maestro Award (Supporting Actress): Mo’Nique, Precious†
46. Athena Prix d’Excellence: Katie Couric, CBS News†
47. Sans Souci Prix d’Excellence: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
 

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Twilight Examiner

As expected, at least one new edition of the DVD for The Twilight Saga: New Moon has come about. Before, Best Buy’s listing for the DVD was rather sparse, and now, thanks to the wonderful research of some Twilight fans, it is known that Best Buy will be offering a Steel Case Edition of the DVD.

It is supposedly still unavailable on the store’s website, but it is said to include a free cell phone skin upon pre-ordering the DVD.

No word yet on when the Best Buy steel case edition will be available for pre-order.

In the meantime, head on over to the list of what else is available to see what your known options are right now for those stores which are accepting pre-orders.

Bear in mind, though, that things are liable to change or be updated between now and the DVD’s release. That’s not to say, though, that you shouldn’t jump on an opportunity you find fitting with your needs, just a plea for you to be choosey as I have a feeling that there are more possibilities than just the standard two-disc edition and this.

Movie Score Magazine

Howard Shore is on board to compose the original score for the third film in the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Temple Hill Entertainment today confirmed to MovieScore Magazine that the Lord of the Rings composer is going to write the music for the film, following in the footsteps of Carter Burwell (who scored the first film in 2008) and Alexandre Desplat (who wrote the music for the second, New Moon). Shore has begun work, spotting the movie, this week.

Howard Shore is, of course, best known for the Tolkien trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson, an epic work that is currently touring the world in concert form, performed live to projection. Shore also recently rescored the Mel Gibson action thriller Edge of Darkness for Warner Bros, replacing John Corigliano. This film is opening in the US next week.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is based on the third novel in the series of four books written by Stephenie Meyer. The film is directed by David Slade (30 Days of Night and Hard Candy), with returning cast members including Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene and Jackson Rathbone. Summit Entertainment will release the film on June 30.

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Runaway Productions

We’ll get to that kiss in a second, but first let’s note the other hot thing about The Runaways.

The outfits that Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning wear are nothing short of spectacular. We’re talking cha-cha heels, skintight bodysuits, lots of sequins and just about anything else you can think of when it comes to the drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll era of the ’70s.

“I kept all the wardrobe,” Fanning told reporters at the movie’s Sundance Film Festival premiere. “I can break it out again some day.”

Can’t wait. So OK, risqué clothing wasn’t the only naughty thing going on in the movie…

In one scene, Fanning and Stewart lock lips. It’s pretty cool just how OK these two actresses are about same-sex smooching.

“It wasn’t that big of a deal,” Fanning said. “It’s just another part of the story.”

Michael Shannon had to spew some rather colorful—and, well, pornographic—words playing Kim Fowley, the eccentric music producer who created Joan Jett‘s legendary all-girl rock band in 1975.

“That’s the way that guy talks,” Shannon said when asked if he ad-libbed any of his cuss-filled rants. “It’s his vernacular.”

Shannon had only met the real Fowley once before filming began.

“We had dinner,” Shannon said. “Me, Kristen and Joan met him for dinner one night at Denny’s. The waiter, he took our drink orders and then got real nervous and he came back and spilled the entire tray of drinks all over the table.”

Twilight Examiner

A lot of people in the film industry have quite famously opined that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has a better chance of blowing up the 2010 box office by sheer temporal positioning than did The Twilight Saga: New Moon in 2009.

That is in part due to the fact that New Moon was the only one of the top ten biggest box office openings which did not debut during the summer.

So, for the most part, many have taken it as a given that Eclipse will probably outperform New Moon in this year’s box office, but at least one source feels otherwise.

Here’s what Box Office Mojo has to say on the issue:

Odds are that Eclipse won’t reach the heights of New Moon, given the history of closely-timed, serialized sequels. The Matrix Revolutions, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and even Back to the Future Part III all grossed significantly less than their predecessors. When a second movie is hotly-anticipated after the first movie’s success, it’s highly unlikely that the next picture will even maintain the momentum (The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter being notable exceptions), and signs from New Moon’s run suggest that The Twilight Saga will follow the pattern. New Moon had one of the biggest openings of all time, was extremely front-loaded and probably wasn’t as well-liked as the first Twilight: Box Office Mojo readers gave it a “C+,” compared to the first movie’s “B.” Also, the vampire fad could show fatigue by the summer, given the flood of vampire-themed TV shows, movies and paraphernalia in the market.

This is actually a really interesting matter (and not necessarily just because of the issues concerning The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn).

Twilight series fans have certainly proven their staying power over the past few years. The books started coming out roughly five years ago, and the buzz surrounding the series only grows deeper and more defined as time progresses.

BOM has made a good point here that New Moon‘s box office intakes were “front loaded,” meaning a lot of Twilight fans went and saw it first thing and early on in the release, but didn’t continue to see it as many over-and-over times as they might’ve with Twilight. That might not, however, be as crushing of a statistic as this opinion makes it out to be.

Perhaps, instead, you could point to the fact that the first film drew in a lot of the fanbase and that many of Twilight‘s viewers were newcomers to the series (who maybe went and saw it as a result of its grand opening numbers or the film’s initial chatter). In that case, it wouldn’t be very surprising that the New Moon viewership came out in a more timely manner.

Even with a front-loaded release, New Moon proved to be a big player in the box office game for 2009. So, the question is: will Eclipse bring in the same latitude of moviegoers as did New Moon?

With the variables pointed to by Box Office Mojo, there are certainly some sequel-related obstacles to consider, but do the historical figures associated with three-quels really apply to this series? Perhaps not. Perhaps the Twilight series likens more to LOTR and Harry Potter than Matrix. 

There’s at least one obvious similarity which would beckon such an opinion: the fact that they are all based upon book series which have a built-in and long-standing fanbase as opposed to being off-the-cuff continuances of a popular film series. So, yeah, maybe Eclipse follows upon New Moon rather closely in time – and this is not something that most films see success in doing – but there’s hardly any chance that Twilight fans will take a rain check in seeing Eclipse in theaters, will they?

Another point to consider, and this is more against BOM’s analysis than anything else, is the fact that a large amount of Twilight‘s audience consists of young adults. A summer release for this demographic would be helpful to them seeing the film (given that school wouldn’t be in session).

While BOM certainly goes against the grain and raises some interesting points, it’s not altogether convincing that Eclipse will not fare as well in the box office as New Moon.