TMMC Weekly Round Up

It's been a long week here at TMMC, so we'll keep this short and sweet so you can get back out and see some movies.  Here's your next installment of the Weekly Round Up and we've got some great news bits to share with you.  The biggest of course being the announcement of the TMMC Oscars Sweepstakes!  You've got a little more than a week left to enter to win the grand prize of a $50 gift card to Fandango.com or a movie theater of your choice.  That's how much I care for you, readers...I mean when was the last time you saw Arianna Huffington or Perez Hilton give anything to their readers!?  VOTE OR DIE!

So, here's what our trained monkey's picked out of their hair for you this week - hope you enjoy!

• The big match up between The Hurt Locker and Avatar heated up last Sunday at the BAFTAs (a.k.a.Diet Oscars, a.k.a. I Can't Believe It's Not the Oscars, a.k.a. the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards).  Hurt Locker takes the top two prizes with Best Picture and Best Director, leaving Avatar to take only two technical awards...ouch.  Oscar preview?  Read more here.
• My rage against Hollywood remakes and sequels continues, now with Zoolander 2.  With nearly a decade past the original, we apparently have so little creativity left in Hollywood we have to dredge Ben Stiller back up from oblivion.  Read more here.
• My obsession with Alice in Wonderland also continues as the battle between Disney and movie theaters around the world heated up this week.  A few Round Ups ago, I brought you a story in which Disney announced they were planning on shortening the theater run of AiW so they could rush deliver it to DVD, and make a bundle of money.  Well with movie theaters threatening to boycott the film, check out how the battle ended.  Who says David can beat Goliath?  Read more here.
• The Hollywood Stock Exchange will conduct live trading for the first time on April 20.  This means you'll be able to buy shares of movies before they hit the theater and may even have the opportunity to share in the profit.  Like we needed another stock market to crash.  Read more here.
• For the first time, Godzilla, 2012 and Independence Day director Roland Emmerich will not look to the sci-fi genre for inspiration, but rather look to the past as he prepares to make a period piece about Shakespeare.  The movie will explore the theory/conspiracy that Willy's plays were all really written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.  Vanessa Redgrave plays Queen Elizabeth.  What...I didn't say this movie would be for everyone.  Read more here. 
• Test screening began this week for Captain America, with The Office's John Krasinski as a potential front runner.  Hmm...I don't know how I feel about Captain America shrugging awkwardly and looking into the camera every five minutes.  Read about who else is being considered. 
• And finally, Matt Damon is expected to play Robert F. Kennedy in an upcoming biopic.  Well at least he's already got the accent down, but does this mean Ben Affleck is playing JFK?  Read more here. 

That's all she wrote - have a great weekend and don't forget to vote in the weekly poll (only a few hours left) and the Sweepstakes.