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HOLLYWOOD News, May 27, 2012

Actor's comfort zone in independent realm
Columbus Dispatch
Sound of My Voice, a film from director Zal Batmanglij, gets to the heart of how cults succeed at infiltrating the hearts and minds of its members. Some people are confounded by the idea that seemingly smart people can be swept up by cults. This movie ...
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Columbus Dispatch
The art of war: Memorial Day through the eyes ofHollywood
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
But these are the only stories Hollywood seems to tell anymore. There are no movies about the simple, stretched-tight, day-to-day drama of the home front. There are few characters who simply get through their hitches with quiet, daily determination.
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Hollywood a longtime friend of the CIA
Los Angeles Times
But David Robb, author of "Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies," sees other dangers. "When the CIA or the Pentagon says, 'We'll help you, if you play ball with us,' that's favoring one form of speech over another.
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'The Intouchables' is a top three film in France
Philadelphia Inquirer
"It's a low-budget movie with no big stars," Toledano says, listing the reasons why his movie shouldn't have been a hit. "Omar has a TV show in France, but he was not a cinema actor, really. Francois is a big star, but he is not, how you say, ...
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'MiB' agents Smith and Jones talk alien attraction
North County Times
So much so that when this Hollywood odd couple sits down together in an interview for "Men in Black 3," the affable Smith plays it like couples counseling, launching into whiny-wife mode about Jones, his sometimes curmudgeonly castmate.
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Will 'Amour' conquer all in Cannes prize race?
Boston.com
The 65th Cannes Film Festival has seen plenty of glamour, with the likes of Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart appearing both on-screen and on the red carpet. But in the movies, weighty themes dominated as the French Riviera ...
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Movie 'Dark Blood' brings River Phoenix back to life
DigitalJournal.com
Nineteen years after his sudden and unfortunate death, Hollywood star River Phoenix, will be appearing on screen in September – in his final film. Directed by George Sluizer in 1993 in the desert of Utah, production ended ten days before the end of ...
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DigitalJournal.com
International News Roundup: Pattinson And Kanye Rock Cannes; Twitter's Olympic ...
Hollywood Reporter
At this year's Cannes International Film Festival, Robert Pattinson, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Brad Pitt rocked the Croisette; Alex Baldwin trashed-talked Harvey Weinstein and the wet weather didn't put a damper on business. Here's The Hollywood ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Past winners lead the pack for Cannes film award
Chicago Tribune
"Whatever his message, the spell of this incandescent film will be an elevating memory," wrote Mary Corliss in Time Magazine. "In the history of movies about love, Amour lasts forever." The two leading actors, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva ...
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Isabelle Huppert: 'There's such respect for movies here'
The Guardian
Also there's such respect for the movies here, for the directors and theactors, that you feel a heat, a compassion when you go up the steps, like something's really beginning. It can be upsetting if afterwards they don't like your film, but actually ...
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Robert Pattinson all grown up in 'Cosmopolis'
AZ Central.com
The film starts with a quote: "a rat becomes the unit of currency," that turns out to be true for the movie's characters, who all seem to be part of a individualistic "rat race" each struggling to get his or her 15 minutes of fame.
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Daniel Craig Talks "Skyfall" with Total Film
The Gossip Girls
Moving from one blockbuster project to another, Daniel Craig has enjoyed quite the impressive career in Hollywood, thus far. With the new 007 movie "Skyfall" set to hit theaters on November 9th, the 44-year-old actor got in a little early press ...
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Marc-Andre Grondin wanted to avoid Quebec stereotypes in hockey hit 'Goon'
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO - Montreal actor Marc-Andre Grondin was fortunate enough to land his first English-language role in the gleefully violent hockey hit "Goon," which pounded down its Hollywood competition to top the Canadian box office upon its release in ...
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Plan B Schmoozes With Hollywood Bigwigs In Cannes, Heading For An Oscar?
Entertainmentwise
Plan B could be heading for movie stardom – after Oscar winning movie mogul Harvey Weinstein wined and dined the British musician and film maker on his yacht at Cannes. Weinstein has built a reputation as a man who just can't stop winning Oscars for ...
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Entertainmentwise
Older faces onscreen draw crowd that's often overlooked
TheChronicleHerald.ca
LOS ANGELES — Any time a film costs $10 million to make and ticket sales approach $100 million, Hollywood pays attention. But jaws really drop when a movie starring actors in their 70s and aimed at people over 50 pulls off that trick. Wait. Stop.
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Children's Theatre offering acting sessions
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
1 to 3 pm July 23-27 -- Hollywood in Lancaster: Film and TelevisionActing on Camera Workshop -- Students can learn about working onmovie and television sets. » 9 to 11 am Aug. 6-10 -- Acting Friends Create Fun, Excitement and Dramatic Adventures for ...
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Alex Cox comes to the Harvard Film Archive
Boston Globe
Cox was pronounced a filmmaker with a future, which he proceeded to spit back in Hollywood's face. His nextmovie, “Walker” (1987), was a period piece about 19th-century US incursions into Central America that made direct allusions to Reagan-era ...
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Boston Globe
Hooray for Bollywood
Sydney Morning Herald
Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings SBS puts a colourful, appropriately multicultural spin on the reality talent quest genre. SHARON JOHAL is a 27-year-old Melbourne lawyer with a dream: to be a star in the world's biggest film industry.
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FIlm Review: "POLISSE"
Suffolk Voice
Regardless of whether or not I realize that, I don't have to appreciate the stupid gags that (apparently, your boy) Guy Ritchie throws in at the end of each movie to assure you that you will see more of two ofHollywood's biggest actors.
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Movie based on Wichita Falls native's script
Times Record News
By Lana Sweeten-Shults Contributed photo Former Wichitan Skip Hollandsworth (left) interviews one of the locals in "Bernie," a film he cowrote with director Richard Linklater. The film was based on an article he wrote for Texas Monthly about a ...
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A 'Thailiwood' series pins hope on return of talented actors
The Nation
Experience from Hollywood suggests that great movie producers need the right combination of four things - money, directors, actors and plots. With abundant cash to spend, a movie can never be a hit without talented directors and actors.
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Dark Shadows Bites
TrendRabbit
Screenwriters are non-entities in Hollywood. Until 2004 they didn't even have the right to attend the premieres of the movies they wrote. However, the work they do is important; they lay the foundation. To paraphrase George Clooney, you can make a bad ...
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TrendRabbit
Kerouac in Cannes: A Road Not Taken
Huffington Post
I am pleased that the reports from Cannes about the On the Road, Walter Salles' film are mainly favorable, although I have taken note that some say there is no inner world for the characters, that the film has no discernable plot, that it is overlong.
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Cannes 2012, Day 10: Cronenberg meets DeLillo, Matthew McConaughey's name is ...
A.V. Club New York
Given that I only saw a handful of the films, I can't say whether Pablo Larraín's NO was the right choice, but it's hands down the funniest movie I've seen all year—not remotely what I expected, given that the director's two previous films (Tony ...
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A.V. Club New York
Philly native Matt Bush is a rising star in...
The Mercury
This Friday, the 26-year-old actor pops up in two movies. He plays the lead in the stoner comedy “High School” alongside Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”) and “The Shield's” Michael Chiklis, and he's part of the ensemble of actors who brave man-eating fish ...
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Kiwi actors, director hit the big time
New Zealand Herald
Bowler will play Oscar-winning Welsh actor Richard Burton in Liz & Dick. Hollywood wild child Lohan has beencast as Liz Taylor, who died last year after notching up eight marriages, two Oscars and 63 films. "I never expected to be given the ...
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New Zealand Herald
People think that I am a perfect fit literary roles!
Daily News & Analysis
DNAgets chatty with the intellectual hunk, speaking quite randomly about his recent most film John Cusack is not your quintessential Hollywood actor — he's essayed roles that most actors would think twice to even consider — yet, he has a loyal fan ...
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Daily News & Analysis
What does it take to become a Disney star?
Boston.com
“My dream acting job,” he says, “is to get on a Disney show.” That ambition is shared by 12-year-old Salvatore Santone of Holbrook. Despite having to learn how to do boxing moves for his role playing a young Micky Ward in Wahlberg's 2010 movie The ...
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He is legend
Mumbai Mirror
When I asked my driver, what was happening, he replied in broken English: American actor. Will Smith, actor-producer-rapper, was in Seoul for the world premiere of his new film Men in Black 3 (MIB 3). Smith is a Hollywood superstar with an almost ...
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River Phoenix: the final reel
The Independent
As Hollywood comebacks go, this will take some beating. River Phoenix, who died almost 20 years ago, aged 23, will be appearing on screen in September – in his final film. The actor was three weeks from completing Dark Blood when he collapsed and died ...
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Robert Pattinson not being cast as Finnick in 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire'
Examiner.com
Just earlier this week, actor Robert Pattinson of “Twilight” fame was considered to be cast as Finnick Odair in “The Hunger Games” moviesequel, “Catching Fire.” Rumors had spread so quickly that even the star himself wondered about the role.
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Haneke among names in frame for Cannes film awards
GMA News
CANNES, France - The Cannes film festival enjoyed cheers and jeers in equal measure this year, leaving its famously passionate and picky audiences with plenty to love, loathe and laugh about. With two days to go before the close of the 12-day movie ...
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Meet Charlize Theron's new man
Adelaide Now
Photography: Nino Munoz Source: Sunday Magazine WITH her baby boy on her hip and Hollywood movies under her belt, Charlize Theron is relishing the role of her lifetime. Charlize Theron has played her fair share of challenging roles, but now she can add ...
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Versus Cory Monteith and Lea Michele ...
Gather Celebs News Channel
But the story of their romance is one that's made for the movies—literally—as Pattinson and Stewart met and fell in love while filming the blockbuster series, The Twilight Saga, together. And there's certainly enough chemistry between the two of them ...
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Drama No takes Art Cinema Award at Cannes
kjrh.com
Actor GAEL GARCIA BERNAL's new movie NO has been honored with a top award at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Director Pablo Larrian's historical drama, starring Bernal as a Chilean advertising executive who helps to topple dictator General Augusto ...
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Next change?
The Hindu
Though Delhi is considered a melting pot of cultures, its cosmopolitan character rarely translates to the kind ofmovies it has to offer to its inhabitants. People from different regions of the country reside here, making it a much sought after place ...
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The Hindu
Fest closes with 'Mud', 'Money' McConaughey pulls off Cannes double header
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Brad Pitt, another Hollywood heavyweight, returned to Cannes as a humane hitman in Andrew Dominik's “Killing Them Softly,” an anti-capitalist gangster movie that delivers a damning indictment of the state of the American nation.
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Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
Little-known love story told in HBO film
Green Bay Press Gazette
Director Philip Kaufman merged the actors with archival footage, a technique he used to great effect in such films as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Right Stuff." "Hemingway & Gellhorn" is the kind of story made for the movies, ...
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George Jones, Country Music Legend, Released From Hospital
Huffington Post
The actor was spotted hanging out on a yacht in France, where he is in town for the Cannes Film Festival. (Pacific Coast News) Snooki and her fiance Jionni LaValle are thinking blue! The "Jersey Shore" star revealed in In Touch that she's expecting a ...
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Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis: What Are The Critics Saying?
Montreal Gazette
Based on Don DeLillo's novel, the film follows Eric Packer (Pattinson), a death-obsessed Wall Street whiz kid who attempts to drive across Manhattan for a haircut and ends up getting caught up in a series of misadventures, including a movie shoot, ...
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Matthew McConaughey to play John F Kennedy
Deccan Chronicle
PTI Hollywood actor Matthew Mcconaughey is set to star as former US President John F Kennedy in the upcomingmovie The Butler. The film is based on the true story of Eugene Allen, who, during his 50 years of service, worked for eight different White ...
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Deccan Chronicle
Robert Pattinson interview with Metro: says he was afraid that Cronenberg ...
Thinking of Rob
You started in England but you have become famous through Hollywood. Do you think young American actorsCannes considering the same way as you?Maybe not … Until their film is selected (laughs). In the US, Cannes is not widely publicized, ...
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Thinking of Rob
Movie Review: Men in Black III
California Literary Review
Fantastic performances and (eventually) a smart script make the movie worthwhile. Though it is easy to be cynical about the Hollywood movie machine and its obsession with sequels, prequels, post-production 3D conversions, explosions and more explosions ...
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California Literary Review
Batman's Gary Oldman Will Star In The Robocop Remake While Robocop Stars In Batman
The Mary Sue
Read on to find out what they are. The Hollywood Reporter had the scoop on Oldman being cast in MGM's remake of the 1987 sci-fi classic. He'll be starring opposite actor Joel Kinnaman who nabbed the role of RoboCop. “Oldman will play Norton, ...
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Chris Diamantopoulos Joins Cast of “Empire State”
Greek Reporter
Diamantopoulos made a name for himself on Broadway and on American TV, but now with “The Three Stooges,” the actor who played parts in “24″ and numerous other American shows, has put himself on the Hollywood map as an A-list movie actor.
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