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Roll out the red carpet, get the teary acceptance speeches ready, and for the love of god, somebody please check the envelopes. Hollywood’s biggest awards night, The Oscars , is on the horizon, and the nominations are now in for this year’s crop of top-tier films. The 2018 ceremony is looking to be a good night for The Shape of Water, Dunkirk , and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri . Guillermo Del Toro’s swooning inter-species romance has bagged 13 nods, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Sally Hawkins, Best Supporting Actor for Richard Jenkins, and Original Screenplay. Christopher Nolan’s war survival film has snagged him eight nominations, including his first ever Best Director nod, with Dunkirk up for eight categories overall. Meanwhile Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards has seven nominations, with Best Picture and Best Actress for Frances McDormand in the mix. Faring exceptionally well as a genre film, Jordan Peele’s satirical horror-thriller Get Out

Even though one of the new competitors was actually named 12 Strong , nothing that arrived at the American box office proved to be as tough as Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle , which continued to see off all comers. The action comedy took in $20 million (a drop of just 28 percent), according to studio estimates. With $316.9 million in the bank Stateside and a global total of more than $767 million, Jumanji is proving to be a powerhouse, while also benefitting from a seeming lack of worthy competition at this quiet time of year where the focus is on awards films over blockbuster entertainment. And despite its hoo-rah patriotism about American soldiers on horseback in Afghanistan post-9/11, 12 Strong only managed a second place launch with $16.5 million. Gerard Butler's latest, Den Of Thieves snuck in at third place with $15.3 million. The Post dropped a couple of places to fourth, earning $12.1 million, while The Greatest Showman rounded out the top five on $11 million. P

The four-day Martin Luther King holiday in the States saw little change in the box office charts despite some new arrivals. So it was left to Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle to stay atop the list as it rounded its fourth week on release. The movie earned $27 million, according to studio estimates. Expanding out into a much wider release (adding a whopping 2,783 screens), Steven Spielberg's The Post leapt into the top 10 at second, making $18.6 million in the process. The movie has now earned a little over $23 million in total in the US. You have to reach third place before you find one of the actual new releases, as Liam Neeson powered through another action pic with The Commuter . His latest collaboration with director Jaume Collet-Serra launched with $13.4 million. Insidious: The Last Key dropped from second to fourth on $12.1 million, and the horror has taken in $48.3 million in the US, which makes it a success given the typically thrifty Blumhouse $10 million budget. Ro

20th Century Fox has released the official trailer for THE POST , directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep with Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford , and Zach Woods ! THE POST will be released in select theaters on December 22, 2017 and in theaters everywhere on January 12, 2018! Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers - and their very freedom - to help bring long-buried truths to light.