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Hurt Locker honoured by LA critics and American Film Institute

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Theatre of war … a scene from The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker emerged as an early favourite for Oscar glory at the weekend when it was chosen as best picture of 2009 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and named as one of the American Film Institute’s movies of the year. The LA critics also chose to award Bigelow their best director prize

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Hurt Locker honoured by LA critics and American Film Institute

Disney enjoys princely box-office receipts for Princess and the Frog

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Old-school … The Princess and the Frog The winner Disney’s animation chief John Lasseter may be more readily associated with the Pixar brand, but he’s a sentimentalist and a student of animation history, which is why several years ago he put his weight behind The Princess and the Frog . It paid off, as Disney’s first hit hand-drawn 2D animated musical in some time soared to the top of the charts with $25m (£15.3m) in its first wide weekend, according to studio estimates. The film was already a winner in its first two weekends, frankly, when it was playing in two cinemas and averaging around $380,000 per site – a phenomenal amount

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