50. ’Alice in Wonderland’

What’s with the hate, critics? Granted, Tim Burton’s refashioning of Lewis Carroll’s tale lacked some narrative focus, and it probably didn’t need to be in 3-D. But the film is visually striking, Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen and her gigantic head (not to mention those frog servants) had us in stitches, and Mia Wasikowska is lovely as an Alice who only wants to live her own life. Just please don’t make us watch Johnny Depp break-dance again. — Patricia J. Chui

49. ’The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’

We know what you’re thinking: ‘Twilight’? Really?! But before you judge, hear us out: While it didn’t exactly reinvent ‘Citizen Kane,’ at the end of the day, ‘Eclipse’ was a pretty fun time at the movies. Sure, it had its fair share of ‘Twilight’ trappings, and we still think Bella would have been better off with Jacob, not Edward. But as an action-thriller, ‘Eclipse’ totally worked. (The scene in which Bryce Dallas Howard gets her head smashed? Awesome.) If ever there was a time to embrace ‘The Twilight Saga,’ it would be 2010. – Andy Scott

48. ’Made in Dagenham’

Another spirited ‘Full Monty’-style tale of working-class Britons standing up for themselves and challenging class and gender norms in the process — only this one happens to be based on a true story. Sally Hawkins is feisty, funny and ultimately moving as the Norma Rae type who leads a squad of seamstresses at a Ford plant in 1968 in England’s first successful battle to ensure that women earned equal pay to men in equivalent jobs. – Gary Susman

47. ‘Buried’

A claustrophobic’s worst nightmare, this is the only film to ever take place entirely within the confines of a wooden coffin. The sole person we ever see on screen –- Paul (played by Ryan Reynolds) –- endures just about every horror possible. As the viewer we are buried alive, too, and we gasp for air right along with him. This one’s definitely not for the faint of heart. — Chris Jancelewicz

46. ‘TRON:

Legacy’Disney took a major gamble by throwing an estimated $170 million at a sequel to a cult 1982 movie that few people have ever seen. Whether it earns back that massive investment remains to be seen, but the overall result is a genuinely exciting, eye-popping, 3-D action flick about a human (Garrett Hedlund) who gets sucked into a sentient computer program while searching for his long-lost father (Jeff Bridges). You can bet that if it does turn a profit, the next installment in the ‘TRON’ franchise won’t take 28 years to come to the screen. — John Sellers

45. ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’

Jim Carrey turns in his funniest movie in a decade in this bizarre true story about a gay con-man who won’t let prison — or anything else, for that matter — keep him from the love of his life, Phillip Morris (Ewan MacGregor). This subversive, laugh-a-minute comedy — which almost didn’t get released — is ‘Catch Me if You Can’ with dark, twisted humor and a zany lead performance by Carrey. — Brian Childs
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London, Jan 24 (IANS) English actress Sienna Miller is hinting she’s ready to start a family with her former fiance actor Jude Law, after reportedly rekindling her romance with him.

The couple split in 2006, after a British newspaper exposed Law’s affair with his children’s nanny but the two reunited late last year while starring on the New York stage, and enjoyed a festive vacation in Barbados together.

Though neither have confirmed a reconciliation, Miller admits she’s thinking about starting a family, reports imdb.com.

‘(I’ll) probably be a mum, I’d love to have kids,’ she said.

Melbourne, Jan 2 (ANI): Elin Nordegren has left hubby Tiger Woods behind in the US to take a secret trip to the snowy French Alps, it has emerged.

The Sun reported that the Swedish stunner gave the golfing star the cold shoulder.

According to reports, Elin is seeking refuge in a 6,000dollar-a-night chalet.

Elin, 29, is holed up in the chalet near the posh French resort of Chamonix. She’s there with her twin sister Josephin and five trusted pals, reports The Daily Telegraph.

A family friend told The Sun: “Elin wanted to take her family and close friends away from the minefield Tiger has created by his behavior.

“She has been absolutely torn to pieces by what he has done to her. But she still sees a future with Tiger because of the beautiful children they have.

“She told him she needed a lengthy time apart to reflect on how they might possibly salvage the marriage.”

Meanwhile, it has been reported that the sex scandal could see the golfer’s antics being made into a film.

Hollywood producers are keen to tell the story in a made-for-TV movie. Jerry Maguire star, Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr, 41, is said to be one of those being lined-up to play the golfer. (ANI)

London, Dec 29 (IANS) With no family, friends and alleged high-class madames around, it’s going to be a lonely birthday for troubled celebrity golfter Tiger Woods who turns 34 Wednesday.

Woods is said to be still on his yacht Privacy avoiding the daily allegations spewing from waitresses and porn stars, reports news.co.au.

Woods’ life took a downturn when he crashed his car outside his house in the early hours of Nov 27 amid allegations of a massive fight between him and his wife Elin Nordegren, who apparently used a golf club to break the window on his car.

After the accident, the golfer has been tainted by allegations of serial infidelities with as many as 14 women around the US, including various waitresses, nightclub hostesses and porn stars, claiming they had affairs with him.

His wife is apparently living separately with their children, while the golfer, who has taken an indefinite break from golf, has gone into seclusion.

More humiliation for Woods came as his image was removed from Florida publicity shots for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, which he has won six times. Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer announced it was dropping him from its US ad campaigns.

Also, management consultancy firm Accenture announced that it would discontinue its sponsorship agreement with the scandal-tainted golfer. Gillette has also axed a 12 million pounds (about $19.4 million) marketing deal with him.

Pepsi bosses have also held talks about their 60 million-pound five-year contract with Woods since ditching the Gatorade Tiger Focus drink, and US phone giant AT&T is “evaluating” its link with the star.

Business experts in the US have estimated the loss to shareholders from Woods’ marital infidelity at about $13.65 billion, comparing returns for Woods’ sponsors to those of the total stock market and of each sponsor’s closest competitor.

London, Dec 29 (IANS) The Tiger Woods infidelity story may be turned into a TV movie and Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is reportedly lined up to play the troubled celebrity golfer, according to reports.

Gooding Jr, 41, is reportedly being eyed for the high-profile role by several Hollywood producers, who are vying to be the first to make a film about the sensational revelations in the New Year, reports dailyexpress.co.uk.

As soon as the Woods story made headlines, the battle has been on to dramatise the scandal for the screen.

“It makes a great movie because people love the drama of seeing someone really successful fall from the top and then scramble to pick up the pieces of their life. It proves that even the world’s greatest athlete is human just like the rest of us but the movie needs to be made before the public loses interest in Tiger so the race is now on,” a leading Hollywood producer told dailyexpress.co.uk on condition of anonymity.

Woods, 34, shocked everyone when reports about his alleged affairs with 14 women came out following his accident Nov 27 where he crashed his car into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida mansion. It was also reported that he had been attacked by his Swedish wife, 31-year-old former model Elin Nordegren, prior to the crash.

Woods, who released a statement admitting “infidelity” earlier this month, could face an expensive divorce which could see his wife of five years walk away with more than 169 million pounds — almost half his empire.

After various women came forward with accusations about Woods, who last year earned an estimated 69 million pounds from winnings and endorsements, he now faces a probe by US taxman over reports of cash payments to his mistresses.

He could also be investigated over his alleged links to high-class call girls and money paid for sex.

In a recent statement Woods said he was taking “an indefinite break from professional golf”.

By Steven Zeitchik

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Awards season might have an originality issue.

Since it was introduced 70 years ago, the Academy Awards’ original screenplay category has been a breeding ground for fresh new voices, launching careers and solidifying the legacy of writers as diverse as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky.

But this year the category looks as thin as a supermodel on a crash diet.

The Coen brothers’ “A Serious Man,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and Bob Peterson’s and Tom McCarthy’s “Up” are likely near-locks for noms. That leaves two slots, one of which could go to Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber for their quirky breakup story “(500) Days of Summer.”

Beyond that, the voters are going to have to look farther afield. Almost certainly vying for attention are the duo behind the “Star Trek” update, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who also count cinematic tour de force “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” among their 2009 credits, though the Academy could qualify it as adapted. (The writers branch will meet in the coming weeks to make rule determinations.)

The field has changed pretty dramatically during the past several decades. The last time Tarantino was nominated (in 1994), he went up against Woody Allen, Richard Curtis and Peter Jackson; this go-round he could end up pitted against “The Hangover” scribe Scott Moore (most recent credit: “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”), who’s also jockeying for a spot.

If this were just a down year, that would be one thing. But the lack of established writers is catching the eye of many in the development community as something more permanent.

“I think you can look at the state of the category as a direct result of studios’ reliance on known brands and the death of the spec market,” says one agent.

Original screenplays used to comprise the bulk of what Hollywood did. But ever since the studios became obsessed with remakes and sequels, there’s been a depletion of new plot ideas that might have populated the category.

About the only fresh material these days comes from purely personal stories such as “A Serious Man” and “(500) Days” — movies that come together only through an alignment of the planets and despite a highly unreceptive climate.

When execs at Sony passed on “(500) Days” — joining nearly every other studio in doing so — they asked Neustadter if he and Weber could pen “The Pink Panther 2″ instead.

“I was like, really? Have you read our script?” Neustadter recalls (though the pair did end up doing a draft for the “Panther” sequel).

All this would be troubling enough if the Oscars existed independently of the realpolitik of Hollywood. But the current lack of original screenplays might reinforce the negative trend: Studios don’t produce many, the Academy doesn’t have many to choose from, and then the category loses stature, further disincentivizing studios from greenlighting those types of movies.

Because the category is relatively free of the politics of the acting categories and depends upon a more defined group of voters for its first-round selection than does best picture, original screenplay has an uncanny way of reflecting the movie zeitgeist.

When socially realistic, auteur-driven pictures such as “Chinatown” and “Network” were being cultivated by the studios in the 1970s, they won original screenplay Oscars. When such indie pics as “The Crying Game” and “Fargo” were taking the film world by storm in the 1990s, they won the prizes, signaling and fueling the renaissance of offbeat fare.

This year could see the same. If movies such as “Star Trek” and “Hangover” are in the mix, the current vogue for big-budget remakes and low-budget broad comedies will be reflected. The Welleses and Wilders of today just might be Kurtzman and Orci.

God! he is dead? “DJ AM was very friendly, he recognized me, we will really missed him”- this was the feeling of a fan after just hearing that he is no more.

Fans always liked him because he was easily reachable, friendly, and always stopped to talked with friends and fans if he could recognized their faces.

Star Disc Jockey DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), age 36, found dead at about 5.30 p.m. Friday, in his seventh-floor SoHo, Manhattan apartment.

He was discovered face-down in his bed with a crack pipe and unspecified prescription drugs nearby. According to police it seems to be a natural death no foul play suspected.

DJ AM, was undoubtedly a high profile disc Jockey famous for his top level creative scratching and mixing, which was popularly know as his “mash up style of spinning“. He was a regular figure on the celebrity club circuits since 1990s. From 2009 onwards, DJ AM became Rain Nightclub’s regular Friday night DJ.