Oscar watchers buzzed by blog blitz

More blogs than ever cover this year's Oscars Award Show, writes Variety.
Here are a couple of them:
Variety Award Central
And the Oscar Goes To
Carpetbagger (New York Times)
The Envelope (L.A. Times)
Hollywood Elsewhere
The Hot Button
Movie City News
Oscar Watch

Like most spectator sports, the fun part of the Oscar race is watching the game unfold in all its minutiae, from strategies and statistics to proud proclamations and thwarted prognostications. Can't wait!

$10 Million for Sundance movie

According Huffington Post, Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide rights Saturday to "Little Miss Sunshine" at the Sundance Film Festival, the audacious comedy debut from husband-and-wife rookie filmmakers Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Sources placed the deal at north of $10 million, the record set by Miramax Films' purchase of "Happy, Texas" in 1999.