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NEWS ABOUT: There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood stories: 9 news summaries
OPINION

 Hopeless Is Hot in Hollywood 

Movies and viewers love to get miserable

Nov 30, 08 7:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Bleak is the new chic in Tinseltown, writes Dan Zak in the Washington Post. Cloverfield's crowd-trampling monster, the psycho serial killer of No Country for Old Men, and the twisted oil entrepreneur of There Will Be Blood (need we mention the Dark Knight?) highlight the "raw misery of the... More »

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Hollywood • The Dark Knight • Heath Ledger • No Country for Old Men • Javier Bardem • There Will Be Blood • Cloverfield • the Joker • movies • films

Non-Mainstream Seduced Oscar

Non-Americans are dominating as increasing revenue comes from overseas

Feb 25, 08 7:35 AM CST
(Newser) - For a Hollywood award, Oscar wasn't too fond of Tinseltown last night. The Academy Awards were dominated by a crew of crack European actors—and a pair of maverick brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, operating far from the Hollywood mainstream. It was a record year for the number of Oscars... More »

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Hollywood • Academy Awards • Coen brothers • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • No Country for Old Men • Javier Bardem • Joel and Ethan Coen • There Will Be Blood • Marion Cotillard • Daniel Day-Lewis • Tilda Swinton • Bardem • Oscars

Movie Lovers Get the Point
at Box Office

Political thriller opens
in first on slow
Oscar weekend

Feb 24, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Vantage Point took top spot at this weekend's box office by nearly doubling the yield of number-two pic Jumper, Variety reports. The Dennis Quaid political thriller banked $24 million to Jumper''s $12.7 million and number-three The Spiderwick Chronicles' $12.6 million, both in their second... More »

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Hollywood • No Country for Old Men • There Will Be Blood • Vantage Point • Be Kind Rewind • Fool's Gold • Witless • Jumper • Spiderwick • Definitely, Maybe • movies • Oscars

OPINION

Oscars Pose
a Threat to
Good Movies

Small, 'self-involved' clique hands out the awards: NYT critic

Feb 23, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Oscar night may seem like fun, but it has quietly turned the US market for serious films into a “brutal blood sport,” critic AO Scott writes in the New York Times. The highly commercial fare of January through August is followed by an “avalanche of art”... More »

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Academy Awards • film • Michael Clayton • No Country for Old Men • Juno • Atonement • There Will Be Blood • Oscars

Brit Honors to Day-Lewis, Atonement & Coen Brothers

Step closer to Oscar at BAFTA

Feb 11, 08 4:30 AM CST
(Newser) - In what many see as a prologue to the Oscars, Atonement was named best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards yesterday, and Daniel Day-Lewis won the best actor award for his power performance in There Will Be Blood, reports Variety. In a surprise win French... More »

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BAFTA • No Country for Old Men • Javier Bardem • Juno • Atonement • Joel and Ethan Coen • There Will Be Blood • Marion Cotillard • British Academy of Film and Television Arts • Daniel Day-Lewis • La Vie En Rose • movies

There Will Be Blood Takes Top Honors

Grabs best picture, actor, director awards from US film critics

Jan 6, 08 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - There Will Be Blood, a riveting movie about the greed and corruption of oil prospecting in America a century ago, captured several of the highest awards from the National Society of Film Critics yesterday. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of a 1927 Upton Sinclair novel earned awards for best picture,... More »

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Academy Awards • awards • There Will Be Blood • Paul Thomas Anderson • National Society of Film Critics • Daniel Day-Lewis • movies • Oscars

Treasure Shines Again

National Treasure: Book of Secrets keeps top spot as Alvin out-sings Legend

Dec 30, 07 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - National Treasure: Book of Secrets shone in the top spot again this weekend as filmgoers kept flocking to the movies, Variety reports. Alvin and the Chipmunks crooned its way into second, humbling I Am Legend, as Mike Nichols-directed Charlie Wilson's War claimed fourth over Juno, an offbeat dramedy that nabbed... More »

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Morgan Freeman • film • movie review • box office • Mike Nichols • Jack Nicholson • No Country for Old Men • Juno • Charlie Wilson's War • There Will Be Blood • Nicolas Cage • Persepolis • Paul Thomas Anderson • The Bucket List • I Am Legend • Alvin and the Chipmunks • National Treasure: Book of Secrets • movies

NEW RELEASE

Blood Makes Critics Swoon

Oil film impresses with strong performances

Dec 26, 07 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - There’s no avoiding it: There Will Be Blood is another long, “indie-flavored, male-centric American art film,” says Variety’s Todd McCarthy. But the “boldly and magnificently strange” flick still has critics enthralled. Following an unsavory and maybe unhinged oil tycoon’s rise to power,... More »

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movie review • Radiohead • There Will Be Blood • Paul Thomas Anderson • Johnny Greenberg • Daniel Day-Lewis • movies

Atonement Gets 7 Globe Nods

Charlie Wilson's War follows with 5

Dec 13, 07 9:34 AM CST
(Newser) - The WWII-era romance Atonement leads today's Golden Globe nominations with seven, including best drama, best actor, and best actress. Also among the seven drama contenders—there are typically five—are There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, The Great Debaters, American Gangster, Michael Clayton, and Eastern ... More »

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Hairspray • Cate Blanchett • I'm Not There • Philip Seymour Hoffman • American Gangster • No Country for Old Men • Juno • Atonement • Golden Globes • Joel and Ethan Coen • Charlie Wilson's War • Elizabeth: The Golden Age • The Savages • Sweeney Todd • Across the Universe • There Will Be Blood • The Great Debaters

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