Movies
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Ben Stiller Wins BAFTA/LA’s Britannia Award for Comedy
Actor/writer/director becomes second recipient of Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award
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Neil Young, Francis Ford Coppola Conversations Highlight Toronto Film Fest Additions
Christopher Plummer and Tilda Swinton will also appear in conversation; Brad Pitt, George Clooney on massive guest list
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Hollywood’s China Revolution: Smaller Is Better
Still, DMG, Relativity and Legendary East will face structural challenges in trying to penetrate the exploding new market
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New Line Signs First-Look Deal with Beau Flynn
Producer and former Contrafilm partner wants to make R-rated comedies, big-budget spectacles and thrillers
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Justin Lin Signs Production Deal with Universal
“Fast Five” director signs two-year deal for his Barnstorm Pictures
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Cody Horn Circling Channing Tatum’s Stripper Drama
The daughter of former Warner Bros. honcho Alan Horn would play the love interest in Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike”
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The Cinematic Magic of Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Iris’
The new show at the Kodak is a true nirvana ride of eye-popping magical wonder and movie world appreciation
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Devastating 9/11 Doc Struggles to Find a Home as Anniversary Nears
DocuWeeks entry “S.O.S./State of Security” has had an easier time overseas than here at home
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Johnny Knoxville, Patton Oswalt to Star in Todd Rohal’s New Comedy
Big Beach Films is financing the movie about two battling brothers who take a troop of boys on a camping trip that goes wildly wrong
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Whose Captain America Is It? … and a Final Note on Hanoi Jane
In my Captain America (aka “Easy Rider”), weren’t the bad guys the forces of plutocracy and repression that under the guise of the Nixon’s Southern strategy conspired to culture-nap America and hand it back to the racist rednecks?
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Saadi Gadhafi, Hollywood Investor and Dictator’s Son, Arrested
Saadi – a former soccer player– had returned to Libya to serve as commander of special forces in his father’s regime.
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Why Gerard Depardieu Is My New Hero
Depardieu’s urgent needs to relieve himself are metaphoric to the basic rights and privileges that are denied to many of us. In his own way, he faced down the culture of corporate greed and control
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‘The Help’ Creams ‘Conan,’ ‘Fright Night,’ Wins Weekend Box Office With $20.5M
DreamWorks period drama drops just 20% in 2nd weekend; “Conan the Barbarian” and “Fright Night” remakes flounder; “Spy Kids 4” hits its unspectacular tracking
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Legendary Gets $220M Investor for China Filmmaking Venture
Paul Y. Engineering Group will take a 50% stake in the new company to fund two English-language, event-style films per year for global audiences