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While the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and such are nice (especially to wager on), the awards given at these celebrated events are more about Hollywood’s and film critic land’s, respectively, acceptance of the movies in question. These decisions don’t always sit [...]

The precursor to the Academy Awards movie awards, the Golden Globe Awards, go off on January 17th. Naturally, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event represents one of the year’s biggest occasions for proposition betting. Below follow the odds on nominees winning in certain categories as provided by Bet 365 online bookmakers, along with gut reactions [...]

James Bond movie no. 23 is set for a 2011 release and Daniel Craig still holds the role. With “Quantum of Solace” returning relatively dismal box office after the success that was “Casino Royale,” whispers (and odds!) have begun about just who will be playing 007 number seven…

So here’s a question. Where the hell is the Wonder Woman live-action movie? Seriously, isn’t this is no-brainer? Isn’t Wonder Woman a household name of a sort that few comic book heroes outside of Superman, Batman and Spiderman have ever been before their on-screen adaptations? And how could two hours devoted to the screen time of one hot scantily-clad female who kicks ass in the streets?

So which of these is more inevitable: The huge Hollywood biopic on Michael Jackson probably already the subject of dozens of pre-pre-pre-production meetings or Paddy Power bookmakers offering a cheeky novelty bet on the subject?

“In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.”

Are you ready to talk some “The Lead Villain in the Next Dark Knight movie” betting? As for this writer, two and half decades’ worth of comic book reading and a good seven years in the film review biz have all led to this moment…

Think this is just blowing smoke? Perhaps, but the truth is the odds are shortening rapidly on the ‘Dog, having fallen from 4/1 to its present 9/4 in just two weeks. While now, the smartest money is probably best put on “The Dark Knight,” “Slumdog Millionaire” at 9/4 odds may be worth your consideration.

The story cut into this month’s cinema newswires like Max Cady on crack: Music and movie fans (not to mention musical movie fans) were certainly stoked to hear that Universal Studios had acquired the rights to shoot a biographical movie on Ratpacker and Ronny Reagan buddy Frank Sinatra; better yet, studio moguls announced that Martin Scorsese was tabbed as director for the flick.

What sort of Payback will Mel Gibson be expected to pony up to estranged spouse Robyn Denise Moore Gibson in divorce proceedings? PaddyPower’s proposition bet entitled “How much will Mel’s wife get?” reckons the bidding will probably start at around $200 million