Even more from Oscar Poker. Listen at 47:00-48:30 and at 56:30-57:00.

In other news they are doing pick up shots in Bath:

PARIS COMES TO BATH!
For just one evening - this Sunday evening - the Pulteney Weir area on the River Avon in Bath is going to be transformed into the Parisian banks of the River Seine in France. The big film boys have ( Read more... )

But first a new photo of Jean Valjean on parole (enlarge it; the rez is great!)

Indiewire.com: Will Critics & Audiences Sing For 'Les Misérables'? Both the "for" and "against" writers seem to be writing "against" pieces. Both are so ill-informed and dismissive -- they say Les Mis is just for old white people (according to them it's a "white ( Read more... )

Les Miz Takes Imaginary Lead at Gold Derby. Note the last paragraph of this story.

When she says "SLP" she means Silver Lining Playbook.

UPDATE: The tally shifted a bit this morning. SLP lost a supporter who defected to Les Miz. Tom O’Neill says there was a test screening of Lez Miz at the Arclight Hollywood last Saturday, Oct 6, that went ( Read more... )

Some interesting Les Mis talk in this podcast (near the bottom of the page). There's a mention of Hugh early but most of the content is 11:00 to about 13:00. Then at 14:45 to 16:00-ish.

Most important at 24:00-26:00 they say that the early screening for the Oscars etc ...for Les Mis will be around Thanksgiving (For the non-Americans here that's ( Read more... )

Oscar Poker: Jeff Wells (hollywood-elsewhere.com) and Tom O'Neil (goldderby.com) discuss Snuggle 4 and wonder if Les Mis is "old fashioned." Listen from 7:30-12:15 and then at 17:45-24:00-ish. Possibly more. Later, I'll post an edit to this post if there is more (ETA: nope, no more).

In the clips that have been seen of the Les Mis movie it seems ( Read more... )

Take this with a grain of salt: An anonymous Hollywood awards predictor "Snuggle 4" has predicted a sweep of the Oscars by Les Misérables. Why is this news? Snuggle 4's predictions for last year's Oscars were 88% correct. That's a higher accuracy rate than "Experts" such as Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood), Sasha Stone (AwardsDaily) and Tariq Khan ( Read more... )

It's beautiful! The rumor of a series of character posters looks like it may be true. Here's some commentary on the new poster at Cinema Blend, Indiewire and Empire. The official website has been updated to match! (Here's a direct link the background image)

Labeling some of the students in the new clip.

More commentary about the new clip:

• "we ( Read more... )

Les Miserables Movie Producers Honored with Hollywood Film Award

In other news: I listen to a *mostly* weekly podcast call Oscar Poker. They talk movies and it's always very insightful. Anyway they talked some more about Les Mis in this week's podcast (episode 92) and I have to say I was banging my head at their comments about the movie's sound. ( ( Read more... )

I listened to this yesterday and it's worth plugging here: Oscar Poker Podcast. It's about an hour and 10 minutes. They discuss the possible Oscar-worthy films this year. They discuss Les Mis several times. Here are the main places:

2:00-5:30
26:00-30:00
1:10:00-1:13:00