Daniel Day-Lewis agrees to be honored by Santa Barbara Film Festival

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has landed one of the top prizes of awards season, announcing on Tuesday that it will host the celebrated but elusive "Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis with a tribute at its festival in the coastal town north of Los Angeles.Day-Lewis has been dominating critics' awards with his performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's...

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"Game of Thrones" gets expanded episodes for Season 3

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As the drama grows on "Game of Thrones," so do the episodes.HBO's hit fantasy series will air expanded episodes for its third season, a spokeswoman for HBO told TheWrap on Tuesday, with each of the episodes running slightly longer."Thrones" co-creator and co-showrunner Dan Weiss told EW.com that nearly an hour of extra material will be included over the course of the season."There's...

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Tom Hooper, Mychael Danna join crowded slate of Palm Springs honorees

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Les Miserables" director Tom Hooper and "Life of Pi" composer Mychael Danna are the latest awards-season hopefuls to be added to the slate of honorees at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, PSIFF organizers announced on Tuesday.The two will join a list of honorees that in recent days has expanded to include Helen Mirren, Richard Gere, Bradley Cooper and Sally...

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"Zero Dark Thirty" review: Like a really good "Law & Order" - with waterboarding

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's always a challenge to tell a story where the audience knows the ending. The trick comes in offering a new perspective on familiar events or at least generating suspense in a way that makes us nervous that Apollo 13 might not land safely, even when history tells us otherwise."Argo" and "Lincoln" are two films that successfully tread these waters, and now comes "Zero...

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Kelsey Grammer to host DGA awards again

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Boss" star Kelsey Grammer will host the 65th Annual DGA Awards, DGA president Taylor Hackford and 65th Annual DGA Awards Dinner Chair Michael Stevens said Tuesday.This will mark the second consecutive year that Grammer has hosted the ceremony."We're so pleased to welcome Kelsey Grammer back as host of the DGA Awards for the second year in a row," Hackford said. "Last year,...

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