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HOLLYWOOD News, Apr 22, 2012


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NPR (blog)
And to watch what's happened to him is to watch the way movies sell boys to girls give way to the way movies sell men to women. Actors Zac Efron, as basketball star Troy, left, and Vanessa Anne Hudgens, as the shy academic Gabriella, in High School ...
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On His 75th Birthday, The Best Jack Nicholson Movies Of All Time
Huffington Post (blog)
When he first got to Hollywood in the late fifties with a dream to make a living in the movies, Jack was not an immediate hit. For a time he was an assistant at Hanna-Barbera, and actually showed promise as an animator. But drawing cartoons wasn't his ...
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See Hollywood's next discoveries today at NFFTY film festival
The Seattle Times
The film, a Western starring actors James Ransone and Josh Peck, is currently in postproduction in Hollywood. Brett Smith, whose short film "Jane in the Factory" won a 2010 NFFTY jury award, explained that winning at thisfilm festival is not a golden ...
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Gibson's film hits theaters -- for one night -- same day a new profane rant ...
Washington Examiner
That doesn't mean no one else will get to see it, though: It will be available on DirecTV's video-on-demand service on May 1. Most movies that head straight to VOD with a small, simultaneous theatrical run, or no theatrical run at all, are small, ...
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Jack Nicholson Movies: Rating The Actor's Best And Worst Films
Moviefone
Director Elia Kazan's last movie, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel, featuring a cast of movie royals playing dress-up for a tale set in golden-ageHollywood, should have been a bigger deal, but it turned out to be little more than a footnote ...
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Cusack talks Poe, acting jobs, Steve Jobs
Toronto Sun
By Jim Slotek ,QMI Agency For a generation of movie-goers, one of the most iconic scenes in movies is Lloyd Dobler (Cusack)'s defiant ghetto-blaster serenade, playing In Your Eyes for Ione Skye. (Screen grab) Stephen Frears, a Jim Thompson novel, ...
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Cusack talks Poe, acting jobs
CANOE
In a career dotted with beloved cult movies (The Sure Thing, Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank), he has not exactly boycotted the Hollywood blockbuster machine, but close. "I haven't put on tights yet," he says of his unconventional career, ...
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Independent Film Festival Boston celebrates 10 years
Boston.com
By Ty Burr and Wesley Morris A little over a decade ago, two Boston movie fanatics named Jason Redmond and Adam Roffman ran into each other at the Sundance Film Festival and wondered why there was nothing remotely like that back home.
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Boston.com
Gibson's new movie to skip theatrical run
Hollywood.com
By WENN.com | Sunday, April 22, 2012 The actor/director's self-financed filmGet the Gringo opened in select cinemas on Wednesday night (18Apr12) - to coincide with the movie's premiere in Austin, Texas - but fans shouldn't look for it this weekend ...
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Marvel Entertainment: Wolverine Clawing Up Hollywood Comic Movies; Thanks ...
StreetCorner
by mediamanoz Marvel Entertainment: Wolverine Clawing Up HollywoodComic Book Movies; Thanks Australian Government; Marvel Comic Book Fans And Australian Film Industry: Excelsior!... Australia's favourite son, Hugh Jackman, is returning back down under ...
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Movies and music: Starring California
Sacramento Bee
By Carla Meyer As the Golden State and center of the movie and recording industries, California is ground zero for sun-and-fun pop cultural expressions. But movies and songs that just celebrate the state's beauty would be boring.
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Silent-film era's illustrated songs come back to life at Cinematheque
Plain Dealer
The songs-with-slides featured many actors and actresses, such as Fatty Arbuckle and Norma Talmadge, who would later becomefilm stars. The songs were a regular part of the program in vaudeville shows, but when nickelodeon movie venues came along about ...
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Plain Dealer
From Hollywood to East Stroudsburg
Pocono Record
The actor will screen his latest movie, "Being Flynn," in which he stars with Robert DeNiro, at 7:30 pm Friday at the theater, then host a Q&A session afterward. Paul Dano: It's a true story, based on a memoir by Nick Flynn. It's a stunning read.
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'Think Like a Man' Stars Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy and Romany Malco on 'Every ...
Hollywood Reporter
Self-help tomes seldom make for riveting movies, but Think Like a Man is less an adaptation of Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, than a hypothetical depiction of what might happens if a handful men and women get their hands on it.
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Pearce: My King's Speech nerves
The Press Association
The former soap actor turned Hollywood star played King Edward VIII to Colin Firth's stuttering Bertie in the massively successful Tom Hooper film. "You never know how a film's going to be perceived but Tom made an extraordinarily beautiful movie," the ...
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DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS, Fancast by STARKILLER21
Comic Book Movie
So I trust Zack Snyder if he was hired to make Dragon Age Origins into films, as long he stays AWAY from the slow motion unless it is a bada** killing moment. If you do not know the actor/actress I'll type a movie, tv show they appeared on or role they ...
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Emily Blunt tipped to join Hollywood A-list
The Guardian
Just as Emily Blunt hits UK screens this week in her biggest role to date, a string of movies coming out in the United States look set to catapult her to the Kate Winslet category of stardom. The 29-year-old, who stars in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen ...
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The Guardian
`Teri Meri Kahaani` will be a memorable film: Priyanka Chopra
Zee News
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra says that her upcoming film `Teri Meri Kahaani`, a story of eternal love, will be a memorable movie. "The movie will be a memorable one. The story takes us through a journey of eternal love between a couple who ...
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Zee News
Row over Samuel L Jackson's portrayal
Times of India
"The biggest controversy to my knowledge involved M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, in which the good characters were white and the bad ones were not. With some movies, particularly superhero movies, studios might engage in something which is not ...
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Touchdown for "TouchBack"
WOOD-TV (blog)
Since 2008, when the movie incentive hit Michigan with Jennifer Granholm's bill, Hollywood has made a mark on the mitten. Local businesses and actors in our community were impacted with new opportunities the films have created. " TouchBack” a film shot ...
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WOOD-TV (blog)
Quoth the Cusack: Playing Poe in The Raven dream of 'any actor'
National Post
In his latest movie, The Raven, opening April 27, Cusack plays the 19th-century writer Edgar Allan Poe. The quasi-biopic, directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), follows Poe near the end of his miserable life in Baltimore, where he's embroiled ...
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National Post
WiFilmFest 2012 Review: Amateur Monster Movie (screens again Saturday)
Dane101
Even for fans of supremely low budget films, a red flag can go up when the same name appears under the credit for writer, editor, producer, director, and actor of a movie. Yet, with “The Amateur Monster Movie”, somehow Milwaukee native Kyle Richards ...
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Dane101
The kids assemble 'The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook'
33 KDAF-TV
'The Sound of Music' actors who played the Von Trapp children will be at theHollywood Show and some at the LA Times Festival of Books with their new book. The seven child actors who played the Von Trapp kids in the "Sound of Music" are the subject of ...
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Tour at England's Leavesden Studios brings 'Harry Potter' movie franchise to life
Kansas.com
By Brady MacDonald Hard-core Harry Potter fans who devoured the books, camped out for the movies and trekked through the theme park now have a new way to relive the boy wizard's adventures: The Making of Harry Potter behind-the-scenes tour at the ...
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Making the cut
WA today
He is Joel Edgerton: Australia's man of the moment in Hollywood, star of the new Aussie thriller Wish You Were Here and part of the filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue, lauded by many as the future of the Australian film industry after producing Animal ...
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WA today
Living in the Land of Make Believe: Why Our Hearts Still Beat for Leon
Eurweb.com
After exchanging pleasantries and having a laugh about my confusing the timezones we were in, Leon and I began our conversation with his introduction to Hollywood. Leon's interest inacting began when he was in the seventh grade, and after seeing his ...
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Eurweb.com
Cinema, stars and fans at the TCM Classic Film Festival
SheKnows.com
The third annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywoodwelcomed legendary film icons to the four-day event, including Kim Novak who had an imprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Kim Novak partook in a Hollywood tradition enshrining her hand ...
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SheKnows.com
Joe Eszterhas and 'Showgirls' keep resurfacing, teasingly
Capital New York
By Simon Abrams Last week, Joe Eszterhas publicly condemnedactor/director Mel Gibson in a scathing rant which unsurprisingly accuses Mad Mel of being antisemitic. Gibson and Eszterhas were supposed to collaborate on a film about famous Jewish leader ...
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Capital New York
Indonesian Thriller 'Modus Anomali' Is Not Your Ordinary Holiday Movie
Jakarta Globe
The film premiered at the prestigious South by Southwest filmfestival in March in Austin, Texas, and despite mixed reviews, a US distributor bought and will distribute the film. “It's a lo-fi film, small budget, small crew and cast,” Joko said.
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Jakarta Globe
'My mum's going to see this': Actors and actresses reveal secrets of the sex ...
The Independent
Writers are coming up with more – and more graphic – sex scenes for directors to film and actors to perform. "So many scripts these days... you just can't get away from it," says Maxine Peake, who has portrayed coition in dramas as diverse as Shameless ...
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Emily Blunt on her role in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Scotsman
Actually, I don't think I even know the word for salmon.” If she hadn't become an actor Blunt would have liked to have been a translator or an interpreter. Instead, in the last five years the 29-year-old has become one of Hollywood's most in-demand ...
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Scotsman
Cape Town Film Studios becoming a major world player
BusinessLIVE
Late last year The Hollywood Reporter named Cape Town FilmStudios among the top 10 film studios in the world outside ofHollywood. Dekker said that although very young, the company had "already made a significant mark in the world".
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BusinessLIVE
'Lucky One' is another Nicholas Sparks tearjerker
Waynesboro Record Herald
Swept up in the aftermath are a couple of legitimate actors in Blythe Danner as Beth's impossibly sweet granny, and “Mad Men's” Jay R. Ferguson as Beth's belligerent ex-husband and father to her mop-topped Hollywood-kid son, Ben (Riley Thomas Stewart).
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Hollywood not up to scratch, says 'Boardwalk Empire' creator
Yahoo! Philippines News
From the likes of Scorsese who co-produced "Boardwalk Empire", Steve Buscemi who stars in it, or A-list actors like Dustin Hoffman and Glenn Close, screen talent now flows freely between film and television. But for Winter, the series format pioneered ...
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'Detention' Director Joseph Kahn on 'Freejack' References, Funding His Own ...
Hollywood Reporter
But when his 2004 debut Torque was poorly-received by both critics and moviegoers, Kahn became a cautionary reminder that not all music-video helmers were made for movies – even if he simultaneously proved that the movies weren't quite ready for what ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Could Star in 'Fifty Shades of Grey ...
Gather Celebs News Channel
Gossip Cop has debunked that story by pointing out that it hasn't even been a month since rights to turn the book into a movie were acquired. So at this point there's been no talk about who will be cast or who will direct. However,Hollywood Life's ...
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Universal spices up 'Five-Year Engagement' with new red-band trailer
Examiner.com
As with most movies starring Segel, this one was co-written by the actor as well, along with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” director Nicolas Stoller. It also has the finger-prints of “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” director Judd Apatow, ...
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Tant: Adventures of a 'roads scholar'
Online Athens
By Ed Tant Actor Luke Askew, who died at the age of 80 on March 29, was never one of Hollywood's household names, but he had a never-to-be-forgotten role as the hitchhiking hippie in the iconic and iconoclastic 1969movie “Easy Rider.
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HOLLYWOOD HELLRAISER STILL GRINNING AT 75
Express.co.uk
The man is, of course, Hollywood legend, lothario and rebel Jack Nicholson. The actor with the hardest-working eyebrows in showbusiness is as well-known for his bad behaviour off-screen as he is for his prowess on screen. Yet somehow he has been able ...
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A centenary of Bollywood
Malaysia Star
Such was the pull of films that over a short period, India became the largest producer of films in the world, leaving Hollywood far behind. Bollywood aside, there is now a flourishing film industry in various regional languages.
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Selena Gomez in Various Shades of Sexy
Gather Celebs News Channel
According to a report from Hollywood Life, there's no question whatsoever about why Justin Bieber is drawn physically to his Selenita. She's a beautiful young woman, and she grows prettier with each film, video or personal appearance.
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Was it the stylist's day off? Nicole Kidman hits red carpet in dowdy ensemble
Daily Mail
Nicole has completed work behind the camera as a producer on her film Rabbit Hole, as well as the Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester flick Monte Carlo. But she'll have to get back into glamorous mode for her next acting role.
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Daily Mail
Monkey business!
Pakistan Observer
GOING through a scrap book of some years ago, one came across the news item, datelined Palm Springs, California (US), conveying the momentous tidings that Cheetah, the last actor to have played the lead chimpanzee role in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s ...
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'Marvel's The Avengers' earns glowing reviews
Yahoo! Canada Shine (blog)
And I think the Ed Norton Hulk movie was fine. He was not part of the problems that movie had. Joss did a great job on Serenity filmfrom the Firefly series. He does sci-fi and ensembles exceptionally well - I think it is because the actors respect, ...
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Yahoo! Canada Shine (blog)
Revolution in Malawi film industry 'is yet to happen'
The Times Group (blog)
The Sunday Times Correspondent JUSTICE MPONDA talked to author, publisher and filmmaker Michael Phoya, who is also the creator and creative director of Kupeza Chambo, which has organised the lecture, to shed more light on the nascent movie industry in ...
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