1. Interesting fact: only 13 percent of Wikipedia’s contributors are women, reports the New York Times. The Wikimedia Foundation vows to increase the number of women contributors to 24 percent by 2015.
2. After taking home top honors at last night’s SAG Awards, The King’s Speech is now considered the front-runner for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. [via Vulture]
3. Meet your next Superman: British actor Henry Cavill — who was previously cast as the Man of Steel in a JJ Abrams-scripted version of the film — will star in Zack Snyder’s franchise reboot. We were hoping for Jon Hamm. How about you? [via Slashfilm]
4. Bright Eyes’ forthcoming album The People’s Key — which comes out on February 15th — is now streaming in full over on NPR where they’re calling it “a career-defining work of art.”
5. We’re curious what Mayor Bloomberg thinks of this week’s Valentine’s Day-themed cover of the New Yorker, a drawing called Bloom in Love by Barry Blitt. Also worth checking out from a few issues back:Excerpts from Bloomberg’s snow diaries, a humor piece by John Kenney.
“So glad they finally announced the Oscars,” our friend Eugene Mirman tweeted this morning. “I was getting worried that no one would give any awards to films this year.” No worries, Eugene! Hollywood’s season of self-congratulation will crash to a conclusion on February 27th, when America’s Secret Boyfriend James Franco and Secret Girlfriend Anne Hathaway host the 83rd Academy Awards. After the jump, we’ll take a gander at the surprises and snubs in this year’s noms. Read More »
Amid the raft of film awards nomination announcements that have flooded in over the past month, why should we care about the relatively low-profile Producers Guild Awards? Well, as Vulture notes, the ten movies in the running for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures may well be the exact same group to score Oscar nominations for Best Picture on January 25th. Check out the films that made the cut and let us know who you think got snubbed after the jump.
1. ArtsBeat is reporting that the opening of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Lights will now be pushed from January 11 until sometime in February. This will allow time for the creators to make several changes, including changing the final number, rewriting the dialogue, adding new music from the composers, U2’s Bono and the Edge.
2. Watch David Letterman’s hilarious tribute to Larry King, who hosted Larry King Live for the last time last night, complete with a Larry blooper reel. [via Gawker.tv]
3. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman are pitching a new movie! According to the LA Times, “While the plot is being kept under tight wraps — it’s a pitch, so a script has yet to be written, and Kaufman movies are famously hard to describe in a few sentences anyway — two people familiar with the project said it has been making the rounds to independent financiers in recent weeks.”
4. Yesterday Anne Hathaway surprised the kids from the PS22 Chorus with the news that they’ll be performing at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony on February 27th. Watch a video of their reaction.
5. An anonymous LA street artist has put a new work in response to MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch’s decision to paint over another artist’s mural that he had commissioned: “The wheat-pasted mural depicts the face of Deitch on the body of an Iranian ayatollah holding an extension pole with a paint roller at the end — and it’s set against Italian street artist Blu’s now-controversial anti-war imagery.” [via Culture Monster]
1. Lou Reed has directed Susan Boyle’s music video for her cover of his song “Perfect Day” — the same track that he was wrongfully accused of refusing to allow her to perform on America’s Got Talent. [via Vulture]
2. Hugh Jackman was asked to host this year’s Academy Awards, but he said no because he’s too busy preparing the Wolverine sequel. May we suggest Tina Fey instead? [via Deadline]
3. A newly-released Lil Wayne joined Drake on stage in Las Vegas over the weekend for a performance of “Miss Me.” (video) [via P4K]
4. Planters’ animated mascot Mr. Peanut is getting both a new vintage-inspired look (complete with a gray flannel suit) and a new voice courtesy of Robert Downey, Jr. [via NYT]
5. An upcoming Christie’s auction of the art of Playboy includes 80 photographs, more than a dozen contemporary works, and 24 cartoons, most of which have appeared in the publication. [via Yahoo!]
1. There’s something weird happening on Twitter this morning that will cause you to auto-retweet the problem-causing code anytime you mouse over the page. We recommend that you use mobile.twitter.com until it’s fixed. [via Boing Boing]
2. In case you missed it, Pavement played “Gold Soundz” on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. [via Arts Beat]
3. J.J. Abrams has cast Kyle Chandler (aka Friday Night Lights’ Coach Taylor) and Elle Fanning (Dakota’s little sis) as the leads in his super secretive film project, Super 8, which is being produced by Steven Spielberg. [via THR]
4. Catch Me If You Can is being adapted into a Broadway musical by many of the same creatives who worked on the Tony Award-winning production of Hairspray. It will open next spring. [via Playbill]
5. Focus Features has announced that it will be campaigning both The Kids Are All Right stars — Annette Bening and Julianne Moore — for Best Actress. Note: That has only been successful five other times in Academy Awards history. [via EW]
1. Are you sitting down? A new Lady Gaga song has leaked! Start off your morning with the synth-pop strains of “Changing Skies.” [via Vulture]
2. Because Glee cast members wouldn’t stop hooking up on set, the show’s creator was forced to ban sex in trailers. [via Telegraph]
3. The Academy Awards may be moving from February to January in 2011. [via Deadline]
4. Edith Shain, the nurse who kissed a sailor returning from World War II in one of the period’s most famous photos, has died at 91. [via Entertainment Weekly]
5. So there is life after Harry Potter: Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in a film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front. [via Cinematical]
Hayyy. No one is reading real news today; instead we’re all looking at pictures of pretty dresses. And ugly dresses. But definitely not tuxedos because they are boring. Anyway! You probably watched the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, and you may have even seen Kathy Ireland acting like a Frankenstein on happy pills during the pre-show, but have you seen the outfits color coded? That’s what we’re here for. Peep into our box of Oscar Crayola after the jump. (Sarah Jessica Parker, featured at right, did not make the cut because her dress was confusing. See Matthew Broderick? Stymied.)
We hope you’ve filled out your Oscar ballot and have got the champagne chilling because we’re only moments away from the 2010 Academy Awards. Follow along here for our minute-by-minute commentary on the ceremony, and if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Flavorpill’s Official 2010 Academy Awards Drinking Game — 100% guaranteed to have you speaking Na’vi before the night is over.
