A few months back, a number of my Oscar blogging colleagues had been pointing out that no movie about Hollywood or the movie business had ever won Best Picture at the Oscars, which at the time was more of a disclaimer for what was already looking to be the frontrunner. Now it's a few months later and two of the top Best Picture contenders are movies about making movies that either celebrate Hollywood as a whole or celebrate the earliest filmmaking pioneers. Clearly, this is the year when Hollywood is ready to celebrate itself in a big way and the trend of movies about moviemaking not being considered Oscar-worthy is coming to an end.

It's Super Bowl weekend and also the first weekend of a new month as the box office continues to show its strength with a lot of surprise hits. The Super Bowl on Sunday normally affects every movie because so many people make plans to watch even if they're not football fans, and this year's match-up between the New York Giants and New England Patriots should knock out a good portion of the Northeast on Sunday… kind of like one of those big snowstorms. Like the big game, it should be a fairly tight race between two movies this weekend, one with a major star of the most successful franchises of all time, the other one starring unknowns in a fairly cool concept using the ever-popular found footage format.

The Sundance Film Festival has been over for a few days, and it's been another exciting week and a half for filmmakers, movie lovers and film writers alike as we get a taste of what's in store for the coming year. This year seemed to be much better for movies arriving at the festival looking for buyers, as according to our math, twenty-four movies were picked up for distribution during the festival proper and things certainly seemed far more positive and optimistic about the state of the industry.

That said, we saw roughly 32 films during the festival and nothing really affected us as much as last year's Incendies or Martha Marcy May Marlene, both which ended up in the Weekend Warrior's Top 10. Then again, maybe we were a bit warier of lavishing praise on the films we liked until we had a second chance to see them outside the normally-overenthusiastic festival environment.

ComingSoon.net talks to director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) about her new doc West of Memphis, produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, which takes a look at the case of the West Memphis 3 and new evidence discovered in the past ten years meant to fully exonerate them of the crimes they were accused of committing that put them in prison for 18 years.

Nicolas Winding Refn's critically-acclaimed Drive hits Blu-ray with UltraViolet, DVD and Digital Download tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31st, and today you can check out the first seven minutes here on ComingSoon.net!

Earlier this evening, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) presented their annual Actor awards for film and television acting, and the big winner of the night was Tate Taylor's The Help, which took home three of the five SAG film acting awards it was up for with Octavia Spencer winning in the Female Actor in a Supporting Role category, followed by Viola Davis taking the Female Actor in a Supporting Role award, and the film going on to take the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival announced the Jury, Audience, NEXT <=> and more at the festival's awards ceremony, hosted by Parker Posey, last night in Park City, Utah. Audience favorites included The Invisible War, The Surrogate, Searching for Sugar Man and Valley of Saints. Sleepwalk With Me received the Best of NEXT <=> Audience Award:

French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius has been presented with the top honor from the DGA (Directors Guild of America), their award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film, for his direction on the black and white silent film The Artist.

The Sundance Film Festival is often full of surprises, and every once in a while, an independently-made movie with a big name cast shows up in the "Premieres" section without already having distribution. In the case of the festival's Closing Night film, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal's The Words, it managed to score a distribution deal with CBS Films before any audience was able to see it, but it probably shouldn't be too surprising with a cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons and Ben Barnes. ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk to both of the film's writers and directors, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, best known for their work on Disney's TRON: Legacy, as well as most of their primary cast.

According to distributor Open Road, Joe Carnahan's survival thriller The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, is looking to win the weekend, having grossed roughly $6.5 million on Friday on its way to somewhere between $17 and 18 million for the weekend. Taking advantage of the Groupon discount ticket deal has helped boost interest in Lionsgate's One for the Money, starring Katherine Heigl, which took second place Friday with $4.1 million on its way to roughly $11 to 12 million for the weekend.