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Beverly Hills, CA—Academy Award® winner Gwyneth Paltrow is slated to be an Oscar presenter at the 77th Academy Awards®, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.

CHARLIZE THERON, FRANCES McDORMAND AND SISSY SPACEK TO STAR IN UNTITLED NIKI CARO PROJECT FOR WARNER BROS. PICTURES IN ASSOCIATION WITH PARTICIPANT PRODUCTIONS Charlize Theron

The following letter appeared as a full-page advertisement in the Tuesday, January 25th edition of Daily Variety. The letter is reprinted here with permission from the author. Please read Box Office Mojo's news article for more information. Jon Voight

An actor's union controversy has erupted in Hollywood and cast a pall over the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards presentation, scheduled to be held on Feb. 5. Actor Jon Voight, nominated by the union for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for his role in ABC's Premiere Event, "Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven," has been prohibited from attending the awards ceremony. Marlon BrandoJon Voight

Through a unique and inspired distribution strategy, Indigo, a low-budget, high buzz feature grossed $1.397 million this weekend. Utilizing a targeted Internet campaign to sell tickets in more than 700 worldwide venues, Indigo had sell outs in all 50 states, 42 countries on 6 continents, including 100 AMC DTDS (digital) theaters for the January 29, 2005 premiere theatrical engagements. Non-theater venues included a wide variety of new thought churches, schools, and bookstores some of which had as many 1,000 movie-goers per venue.

"Saturday Afternoon with Oscar" Screenings to Be Held Saturday, February 19

Beverly Hills, CA—Academy Award®–winning actress Halle Berry will be a presenter for the 77th Academy Awards® Presentation, producer Gil Cates announced today.

The least popular group of Best Picture nominees since 1986 enjoyed sizable increases over the weekend, hot off the Jan. 25 Academy Awards nominations announcement. They followed the rule that the lower the gross, the more there is to gain from Oscar. Clint EastwoodMartin Scorsese

Another weekend, another horror hit. On the heels of Universal's White Noise success earlier this month, 20th Century Fox came swinging back after its recent Elektra blow with the star-driven thriller Hide and Seek featuring Focker fresh Robert De Niro, child actress Dakota Fanning and her unseen sinister friend "Charlie." Ice Cube

Without a doubt, The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11 defined 2004—the rest of the box office was business as usual. The Passion and Fahrenheit emerged as the most talked about movies, sparking controversy that reflected and defined the nation and re-configuring religious movies and documentaries as big moneymakers. Mel GibsonMichael MooreRobert De NiroDustin HoffmanJerry BruckheimerRobert ZemeckisBen StillerJim Caviezel

Nearly 3,000 players participated in Box Office Mojo's Box Office Derby last year, but only one won the competition, in which each player predicts weekend movie grosses and gets points based on accuracy.

Beverly Hills , CA—Academy Award-nominated director Martin Scorsese will present at the 77th Academy Awards® Presentation, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.

Beverly Hills, CA—The 10 short films that received Oscar® nominations this week in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories for the 77th Academy Awards® will screen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Beverly Hills, CA—Salma Hayek will be a presenter at the 77th Academy Awards, telecast producer Gil Cates has announced.

Beverly Hills, CA—Academy Award® nominee Asylum and Lost Boys of Sudan will be screened for the February 9 installment of the Contemporary Documentary Series, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, at 7:30 p.m., in the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

Beverly Hills, CA—Academy Award®-winning actor Tim Robbins has been tapped to present at the 77th Academy Awards®, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.

Beverly Hills, CA—Documentary category rules for the 78th Annual Academy Awards® have been changed by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to exempt documentaries "with a true theatrical rollout" from the rules' television blackout provision.

Closer enjoyed a strong turnout over the weekend, raking in $12.9 million overall at 2,066 screens in 21 territories, but came in second internationally to Ocean's Twelve's $14.4 million from 4,612 prints in 58 countries. Oliver StoneJennifer GarnerNicolas Cage

Grand Total Surpasses Studio's Previous Record of 28 Nominations for the Films of 1943 Clint EastwoodMartin Scorsese

The marketplace stalled in the face of snowstorms in the East, but Ice Cube slid into the weekend top spot. The actor and producer's first family vehicle Are We There Yet? scored the and his third biggest opening after the two Barbershop movies. Queen LatifahVin DieselMartin LawrenceEthan Hawke