LA Times: For 'Les Miserables' fans, it's a spectacular dream

HitFix: Tell us what you thought of 'Les Misérables' (Read for the terrible user comments LOL!)

Hollywood Reporter: Christmas Box Office: 'Les Mis' No. 1 With $17.5 Million; 'Django Unchained' Strong No. 2 (Deadline has it at $18 Million but rumors I'm hearing have it higher than that ( Read more... )

New photos on the official site. They look almost computer-wallpaper, very low-skill Photoshopped (the official site uses them as backgrounds for the cast pages and other pages):

• Javert and Jean Valjean
• Cosette
• Jean Valjean
• Enjolras
• Eponine

( Twitter -- unbelievably, Sasha Stone changes her mind about 'Les Mis' )

Beautiful photos!
"A Little Fall of Rain"
"Come to Me"
"Fantine's Arrest"
"I Dreamed a Dream"?

More new photos of Jean Valjean, the Bishop, Young Cosette and a tiny shot of Fantine.

Online commentary
The Huffington Post Blog: Les Misérables May Be the Best Movie I Have Ever Seen (this thing is incredible!)

The Daily Beast: ‘Les Miserables’ Is New ( Read more... )

Sasha Stone posted photos from a screening now in progress. I think it's the same one Tom O'Neil is attending. It started at noon: one, two and three.

I'll just update this post and more information comes in.

ETA: Ok I'm back from the store:

So far the reaction out of LA has been good. So no War Horse disaster as yet. Hopefully none ever. There ( Read more... )

Jeff Wells continues to make me laugh. Oh and read the comment on that article by Gabe from The Playlist. Yes, remember that Playlist story?: These morons ;-) LOL! Gabe is the one who wrote the "against" piece.

Lynn Stairmaster at The Data Lounge's comments. (make sure you scroll down read through the thread for her other comments)

Collider: LES ( Read more... )

I haven't been able to listen to all these yet but here are the latest podcasts:

Oscar Poker 102 (Tom O'Neil and Jeff Wells)

(ETA:

• 0:00-2:30-ish - Les Mis screenings
• 21:00-29:00 - Best Picture and the second trailer. GREAT PART! But Wells still doesn't get it.
• 53:45 to the end - Tweeting about the screenings.)

Jeff Wells posts with it:

Gold Derby's ( Read more... )

First off, the Live Journal goat has eaten one my Les Mis posts. It was up for like a day or so and then it died. How I do not know. Here is the direct link to the missing post (I had the link in my browser history). Hopefully the goat puts it back. Meanwhile, I've put the content on an LJ cut at the end of this post.

Let's ID the barricade boys ( Read more... )

First off I should note that now that Universal has realized they can't shut Pandora's box they have officially released the international trailer here. It has a couple different shots in it than the version that leaked and the sound it better, so check it out.

Film blogger Jeffrey Wells had this to say about upcoming Les Mis screenings at ( Read more... )

A new video interview with Hugh Jackman. (Les Mis talk at 4:00-5:00) Fun note: I have a friend who works for the charity, World Vision, Hugh was talking about. Of course Tim Costello, whom Jackman mentioned, is the leader of their Australia office.

More Oscar talk re: Anne Hathway and Best Picture.

I haven't listened yet to the latest Oscar ( Read more... )