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The Emoji Movie was – briefly – awarded 0% on the review aggregating site. What does it take to earn membership of this most exclusive band?

For a glorious spell last weekend, The Emoji Movie – a film that has been called “venal”, “insidious” and “the end of the world” – achieved the almost impossible and gained entry to the Zero Per Cent Club. In other words, it failed to receive a single positive notice from a professional critic on Rotten Tomatoes. Not a scrap, not a jot, not even the barest pity point. It was, in a word, irredeemable.

This is no longer the case, thanks to a lukewarm review by El Nuevo Dia. But for a while it was part of the most exclusive club in Hollywood. The Zero Per Cent Club includes triumphs such as Run for Your Wife, 10 Rules for Sleeping Around and Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back. It takes...

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

With Top Cat just recently celebrating the 50th anniversary of his television show’s premiere, it is an apt time for Hanna-Barbera to indulge in a little nostalgia for their feisty feline creation. Putting out bare bones slop like this, however, is not the way to do it. Inside of 90 minutes, director Alberto Mar nearly undoes any and all goodwill, managing to make us forget most of what is fun and lovable about the titular character amid a lame-brained script delivered in the most appalling 3D presentation imaginable.

It would be nice to say that the spunky characters and zany situations are what sticks out to the viewer in Top Cat: The Movie, but audiences will instead likely be left agape at the garish, laughably substandard 3D textures applied to what has always been a perfectly functional 2D outing. While Top Cat himself looks great, as...

"True Grit" shot down "Black Swan," "Inception," "Shutter Island," and "The Social Network" to win Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing at the 47th annual Cas Awards given by the Cinema Audio Society.

Here's the full list of winners (highlighted) and nominees. Check out Awards Avenue for your complete winners/nominees of all the award-giving bodies leading up to the Oscars!

47Th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards

Motion Pictures:

Black Swan

Production Mixer Ken Ishii, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Dominick Tavella, Cas Craig Henighan

Inception

Production Mixer Ed Novick

Re-recording Mixers Lora Hirschberg Gary A. Rizzo

Shutter Island

Production Mixer Petur Hliddal

Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleishman, Cas

The Social Network

Production Mixer Mark Weingarten, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Ren Klyce David Parker Michael Semanick, Cas

*** True Grit

Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas

Television Movies and Mini-Series:

The Pacific Part 2

Production Mixer...

"Black Swan," "Inception," "Shutter Island," "The Social Network," and "True Grit" are competing under the Motion Pictures Category for the 47th Annual Cas (Cinema Audio Society) Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2010.

Winners will be announced at their Awards gala on February 19th.

Here's the complete list of nominees (Check our Awards Avenue for complete winners/nominees for all award-giving bodies):

Motion Pictures:

Black Swan

Production Mixer Ken Ishii, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Dominick Tavella, Cas Craig Henighan

Inception

Production Mixer Ed Novick

Re-recording Mixers Lora Hirschberg Gary A. Rizzo

Shutter Island

Production Mixer Petur Hliddal

Re-recording Mixers Tom Fleishman, Cas

The Social Network

Production Mixer Mark Weingarten, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Ren Klyce David Parker Michael Semanick, Cas

True Grit

Production Mixer Peter F. Kurland, Cas

Re-recording Mixers Skip Lievsay, Cas Craig Berkey, Cas Greg Orloff, Cas

Television Movies and Mini-Series:

The Pacific Part 2

Production Mixer Andrew Ramage

Re-recording Mixers Michael Minkler,...

It looks like John Stevenson will not be working with DreamWorks again for a long time, if at all. Today Stevenson announced the upcoming projects that he is working on with Vanguard Films.

John Stevenson has signed a producing/directing pact with Vanguard Films, and has begun work on directing Alien Rock Band for Vanguard. Rock Band is a mix of live-action and CGI that follows a garage band from Earth that journeys across the Universe for a chance to quality for the Intergalactic Battle of the Bands.

Vanguard Films has directed such duds as Valiant, Happily N’Ever After, Space Chimps and Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back. Hopefully bringing the likes of Stevenson on board to produce and direct will be a step into financial and critical success.

A new strategy has been put into place to prepare for the upcoming films according to a press release.

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The first Space Chimps wasn’t exactly an animation triumph when it hit theaters back in 2008, nor did it stand up as a decent film. Jokes fell flat, the premise was weak, and the animation felt years behind even some of the smaller independently produced CGI films. It wasn’t a promising venture from Fox animation and invoked questions as to whether or not they had any hope in the field without a supplementary production house like Ice Age’s Blue Sky Studios behind it. Perhaps the most perplexing aspect of the Space Chimps sequel, Zartog Strikes Back, is that it seems a genuine regression in animation quality from its studio’s earlier ventures like Happily N’Ever After and Valiant. Nothing works in this direct-to-dvd sequel, and it’s hard to understand under which merits it was greenlit.

If you’ve been following along, at the end of the first Space Chimps,...

Because you couldn't get enough of those lovable animated apes the first time around, and because the conclusion of Zartog's imprisonment in stone just couldn't last, Fox has seen fit to give us a second Space Chimps movie as of October 5th. Yes, my friends, Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back exists, and you can win it on DVD. Have some kids desperate for monkey antics? Have some kids who should be on Adderall but you figure a movie about space-traveling chimps and departiclization rays might just do the trick as you run out to the grocery store? Well, then, we've got just what you need.

The film follows Comet, who is usually left at mission control, but longs to venture into space like his chimp-colleagues. Comet gets the chance to travel to Planet Malgor where he meets Kilowatt, the once shy alien, and lives out his ultimate fantasy of exploring outer space.

She sounds like a human. And who would watch a love story between a human and a garden ornament? Don't answer that

There's nothing Hollywood enjoys more than updating old Shakespeare plays for new audiences. Forbidden Planet, for example, was a sci-fi update of The Tempest. 10 Things I Hate About You was The Taming Of The Shrew set in an American high school. And, as everybody knows, Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back 3D was an almost word-for-word replica of King Lear.

One group has traditionally been alienated from all this fun, and that's people with bizarre monomaniacal garden gnome fetishes. Now, finally, this abandoned demographic will receive some recognition with an upcoming gnome-based remake of Romeo and Juliet entitled Gnomeo and Juliet. And apparently it's as faithful to the play as anybody could have hoped. So let's fish through its trailer, shall we?

1) As with the play, the gnomes...