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'Think Like a Man's' Will Packer: Hollywood's new buzz king
Los Angeles Times
But Will Packer, producer of the upcoming romantic comedy “Think Like a Man,” is far more likely to boast about his film's social media buzz. Last weekend, Packer re-tweeted a rave review from LeBron James, who told his followers: “Great movie and ...
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Djimon Hounsou: 'Blood Diamond' star's remarkable journey
CNN
The Benin-born actor, one of the most prominent film stars to come out of Africa, has appeared in blockbusters such as "Gladiator," "Amistad" and "Blood Diamond," and has worked with Hollywood royalty like Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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TCM festival boasts classic films on the big screen
Long Beach Press-Telegram
It was Ball who suggested that he combine his love of film with his journalistic abilities. He took her advice, and wrote a number of books on Hollywood and worked as a columnist before becoming a host, first at The Movie Channel and then TCM since ...
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B-Movies Extended: Is Eddie Murphy's Career Your Fault?
Crave Online
The comments on The B-Movies Podcast only serve to illustrate how unforgiving audiences can be to actors. Indeed, there's an unfortunate adage in Hollywood: You're only as good as your last project. Someone may have been a superstar 20 years ago, ...
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America's Junk Film Addiction
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
By Brian Gordon In a year that brought us the first half of a new sexual abstinence PSA Twilight film, four new Nicolas Cage movies with titles like Season of the Witch and Drive Angry, as well as a motion picture called Midgets vs.
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The 'Creature' that Julie Adams can't forget
MiamiHerald.com
I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men," she said of her career. "It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart," said Adams, who nearly 20 years after "Bend of the River" played his wife on the actor's ...
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James Van Der Beek on Katie Holmes and the Secrets of 'Dawson's Creek'
Daily Beast
How is it that the entire cast of the show is still working inHollywood? I think it was such a big hit. It also happened at a time when George Clooney was proving you could be on a hit TV show and do movies. That opened up the door for us as well to ...
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Daily Beast
A Decade After Perseus Takes on Kraken ...
Washington Bangla Radio
Over the years, viewers have revelled at the sheer excellence and entertainment quotient of smart Hollywood action-fantasy films like 'The Matrix trilogy', 'X-Men' and 'Iron Man'. More recently, the movies from the 'Twilight' and the 'Harry Potter' ...
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James Van Der Beek spoofs himself in a new ABC comedy
Kansas City Star
When ABC's new comedy "Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23" premieres Wednesday, Van Der Beek will be joining a growing list of actors - Matt LeBlanc, Larry David, Ricky Gervais - playing meta-versions of themselves. It's the 35-year-old actor's first ...
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Movies/TV's 3R's 04.10.12: The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, Dan Harmon, Kim ...
411mania.com
From new Avengers clips, the slow motion Dark Knight Rises trailer, and the Kim-Kanye relationship to Dan Harmon's apology, Fox renewing three shows, and more, 411's Porfirio Diaz breaks down the Right, wRong, and Ridiculous from the week in Movies/TV!
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Video: Mad Men star Jessica ParĂ© shines as Hollywood's new It Girl
Vancouver Sun
Although she grew up switching between the two languages, she has mostly acted in the language of Shakespeare, in movies like Stardom (which was her first big break), Lost and Delirious, and Hot Tub Time Machine. But she's proud of her bicultural ...
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Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, 'Batman' and 'Ninja Turtles': LatestHollywood ...
AllMediaNY
Iron Man Gets New Enemy: Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley has portrayed the villain in many of his movies, like in Shutter Island, and now he will go head-to-head with Robert Downey Jr.'s superhero in Iron Man 3. Kingsley would travel around the planet ...
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Meaty role proves a lucky break
The Australian
Video Image Our Scott directs Hollywood's Zac ZAC Efron emerges from a dust cloud, dazed and shell-shocked, following an explosion in the Iraqi desert. Clad in marines-issue khaki, semi-automatic rifle in hand, he flexes a bicep, raises the weapon to ...
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James Van Der Beek is just being himself
Los Angeles Times
More specifically, on 'Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23' he joins the list ofactors playing versions of themselves. The onetime 'Dawson's Creek' heartthrob has shown a readiness for self-spoofing. James Van Der Beek, former "Dawson's Creek" star ...
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Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos
Access Hollywood
Katy Perry has already entered the big screen world, as the voice of Smurfette in the live action film, “The Smurfs,” last year, but she revealed to Teen Vogue she very nearly had a... A Canadian woman has been arrested in New York on charges of ...
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The Essentials: 5 Of Michael Curtiz's Greatest Films, On The 50th Anniversary ...
Indie Wire (blog)
He stayed at the studio for nearly 20 years, taking on whateer he was assigned at a terrifyingly prolific rate -- he made over 100 Hollywood movies up to "The Comancheros" in 1961. And some of them are terrible, as you might expect.
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Movie review: 'The Hunger Games' smolders but fails to ignite the screen
GMA News
“The Hunger Games” is Hollywood's latest attempt to launch the next hot filmfranchise, banking on a captive audience composed mostly of fans of Suzanne Collins' bestselling dystopian trilogy for young adults. Set in the country of Panem, ...
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Joseph Kahn talks about latest teen slasher film, 'Detention'
Adrian Daily Telegram
My mistake was that I thought it would be like a music video, where you get to do whatever you want and play around and improvise. But that's not gonna happen on a studio film.” He quickly learned that making a studio film meant that someone was ...
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Woody Harrelson Circling Out Of The Furnace With Christian Bale And Casey Affleck
Cinema Blend
From the biggest of Hollywood blockbusters like The Hunger Games to made-for-TV movies like HBO Films' Game Change, Woody Harrelson manages to find himself in a bit of everything. And deservedly so since the actor almost always delivers a compelling ...
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Cinema Blend
Fox credits The Dictator with reigniting her love of acting
Hollywood.com
She is set to appear in Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie playing a tyrant's prostitute, and she relished the chance to show off her comedic talents and change film fans' opinions of her. She tells Britain's The Sun, "When I first started acting I was ...
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Adam Sandler Sweeps The Razzies Making Worst Film of the Decade
Lumino Magazine
In a mock ceremony Razzies are given out each year for Worst Supporting Actress, Worst Actor, Worst Screenplay and of course, Worst Picture of the Year. “It's strange, we created The Razzies hoping that it would pushHollywood to create better movies,” ...
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Kristen Stewart puts Robert Pattinson on a diet
NDTV
... criticism when he splashed out on film-making equipment for Kristen's 22nd birthday. The insider told the Daily Star newspaper, "Robert has been searching shops in Hollywood for movieequipment. Kristen's always dreamed of being behind the camera.
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The Lucky One sparks romance
Vancouver Sun
Hollywood has embraced that best-selling, romantic trademark with a seventhfilm adaptation of one of his books - The Lucky One, opening wide April 20. The movie stars former High School Musical star Zac Efron. He plays Marine Sgt. Logan Thibault, ...
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Think Like A Man
Screen International
A warm, funny rapport between the actors helps immeasurably, but not enough to make you want to commit to this film's reductive view of relationships. Like a lot of Hollywood romantic comedies, Think Like AMan portrays men as infantile and fearful of ...
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NewNowNext Awards :: On the Red Carpet
EDGEOnTheNet
Held at The Avalon in the heart of Hollywood, the awards show, which airs on Logo on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 10/9c, it features the hottest of the hot and the up-and-coming stars and projects in television, film and music.
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Robert Di Niro stars in movie about University of Houston professor
KHOU
by khou.com staff HOUSTON -- A University of Houston professor is helping produce a movie about his own life, and one of Hollywood's legendary actorshas a starring role. Nick Flynn teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Blu-ray)
DVD Talk
Brando and Kazan, who began his career as an actor and then a beloved and admired stage director, had had a long history with Stanley Kowalski on Broadway before a film was ever planned, and with his combination of experience, skill, inspiration, ...
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STAGE TO SCREENS: Justin Long Jumps From TV to Films to Broadway's Seminar
Playbill.com
By Brandon Voss Justin Long, the goofy-handsome actor of TV's "Ed," "New Girl" and Mac commercials — and Hollywood's "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Live Free or Die Hard" — is making his Broadway debut in Seminar. Having contributed his boyish ...
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Playbill.com
Assange's early years to be captured for TV
The Australian
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is to get the film treatment following confirmation yesterday that Aussie exports Rachel Griffiths and Anthony LaPaglia will star in a movie about the political activist's teenage years.
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An older slice of American Pie
Times of Malta
Thirteen years after American Pie, the adolescents from the worldwide hitmovie are back for a fourth helping, still tempted by the juicy bits despite having grown up, somewhat, in the meantime. For the actors too it was a nostalgic film.
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Mission From God: The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children and ...
The Atlantic
No Bibles, but movies. Instead of telling us what to believe, silently, secretly pulling our consciences towards Jesus. "America has wrapped itself around the cross, and that is blasphemy," Russell told me. "Our point is, let humanity be the identity; ...
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The Atlantic
Attorney plays condemned in Crossroads film
Madison County Herald
By Lucy Weber • lweber@mcherald.com • April 10, 2012 And, for the second time, movie-goers can watch his version of a twisted killer at Crossroads FilmFestival. The Madison resident who fills most of his time on the other side of the law as a criminal ...
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Finding the joy in just being human
Montreal Gazette
The movie, starring Richard Jenkins and a host of talented character actors, is what could be called horror satire. It opens with kids heading to a cabin in the woods for a fun and raunchy weekend. And, really, what could possibly go wrong?
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Hollywood trash created because of us
Henderson State University Oracle
We've all noticed it over the past few years, we've all probably ranted on it as well, but it seems Hollywood is running out of film ideas. A quick scan of anyfilm site's “upcoming” section says it all too well. Going off of Screened.com's upcoming ...
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Thatcher vs. “Nixon”
Salon
Richard Nixon did have soul – and unlike “The Iron Lady,” this filmdoesn't allow us the luxury of denial. Oliver Stone gives us no choice but to watch him slaughter his, and our, finer impulses. “Nixon” is one of the handful of movies far better in ...
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Salon
'Hunger Games' tops the box office
Detroit Free Press
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the sequel to Fox's "X-Men: First Class" will begin shooting in January, so Lawrence -- who played shape-shifter Mystique in the superhero movie -- will be available to film the sequel to "The Hunger Games" this ...
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Pop Off: Novel trauma that comes with popcorn
UConn Daily Campus
By By Brendon Field Lately it seems like the only movies with any ability to sell tickets are those based on over-hyped novels written for pre-teenage, star-infatuated girls or fantasy obsessed, sexually-repressed and parent-dependent adults.
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BGT's Ashleigh tips dog Pudsey to follow in Uggie's acting pawsteps
Metro
Britain's Got Talent contestant Ashleigh Butler says she can see her dog Pudsey making movies, following in the tradition ofHollywood dogs Lassie and The Artist's Uggie. Pudsey amazed judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams ...
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Metro
Birmingham casting call for Jackie Robinson movie "42" draws hundreds to ...
The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
She estimates that 400-500 came through in the first two hours after the doors opened at 11 am The movie name comes from the jersey number of baseball great Jackie Robinson, the subject of the film. Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier...
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The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog)
Pinch 'N' Ouch charms with Mamet's <i>Speed-the-Plow</i>
Creative Loafing Atlanta (blog)
one movie producer barks at another in Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet's portrayal of Hollywood's dog-eat-dog behavior. Mamet's stylish, staccato dialogue perfectly suits the swaggering hyperbole of film industry dealmakers and lunch-takers.
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Creative Loafing Atlanta (blog)
Upright Cabaret Presents Lesli Margherita, David Hernandez & More in RHYTHM OF ...
Broadway World
Chris Isaacson announces the performers for UPRIGHT CABARET's AMERICAN ICON SERIES' third show of their 3rd Season, RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT, starring Olivier Award-Winner Lesli Margherita, American Idol's David Hernandez (Thousand Oaks and Hollywood Shows ...
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One way to fame: stalk a Baldwin
Montreal Gazette
Then she was in a couple of tiny movies, in, as far as I can tell, even tinier parts. Now she's been swamping Baldwin with texts and emails about how much she loves him, says the NY Daily News, and trying to see him. He called the cops Sunday; ...
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Kristen Stewart Puts Robert Pattinson On Diet To Lose 10lbs Actorhas been ...
Entertainmentwise
The couple recently celebrated Kristen's 22nd birthday, and the actor gave his leading lady film-making equipment for birthday gift. ''Robert has been searching shops in Hollywoodfor movie equipment,” an insider told the Daily Star.
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Entertainmentwise
'Argo' Takes 'Gangster Squad' Release Date, Leaving Crime Pic Without A Slot ...
Indie Wire (blog)
The film centers on the real-life CIA plan to rescue a group of diplomats from Tehran after the 1979 Iranian revolution by claiming that they were part of aHollywood movie crew shooting a film. The actor/director has rounded up a helluva cast for this ...
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I love doing comedy... it gives me a break from being a sexy action girl
The Sun
It is just a cameo, but being able to get laughs out of her rather humour-free image is a joy for the Hollywood beauty. Megan, 25, says: “When I first started acting I was always playing the bitchy or mean girl, then I was playing these cool, ...
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