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Rio De Janeiro Courts Woody Allen; City Wants To Be Setting For Director's Next Movie

Los Angeles Times | Chris Kraul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Brazil, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Location, Movie, Olympics, Rio De Janeiro, Woody Allen Movie, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Tourism, Barcelona, Spain, Rio, Oviedo, Entertainment News

Vicky Cristina . . . Rio de Janeiro? The Brazilian city has formed a new film commission, hired a longtime movie industry pro to head it and set an a...

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'Where The Wild Things Are' Makes Some Kids Cover Eyes, Ears

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Where the Wild Things Are, Film, Spike Jonze, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Spike Jonze recalls how Maurice Sendak urged him to make the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are" as dangerous as the book...

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Penelope Cruz Shows Off New Ring, Wears Layers (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pedro Almodovar, Broken Embraces, Penelope-Cruz-Pregnant, Penelope Cruz, Film, Javier Bardem, Entertainment News

Penelope Cruz wore a big sapphire and diamond rock on her ring finger to the New York Film Festival premiere of 'Broken Embraces.' Was it an engagemen...

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Bryan Singer May Return With Another 'X-Men'

AP | MIN LEE | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: X-Men, Bryan Singer, Film, Entertainment News

BUSAN, South Korea — Bryan Singer said Sunday he's interested in making another "X-Men" movie and has discussed the possibility with Twentieth C...

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'Couples Retreat' Wins Weekend Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Couples Retreat, Entertainment News

"Swingers" co-stars Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau buddied up for the weekend's top movie as "Couples Retreat" debuted with $35.3 million, while the mic...

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'This Is It': Listen To Michael Jackson's New Song (AUDIO, LYRICS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

NEW YORK - The first song from the upcoming Michael Jackson music documentary "This Is It" made it's debut online early Monday morning on MichaelJacks...

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Roman Polanski's Lawyers Meet With DOJ, Argue Against Extradition

Wall Street Journal | TAMARA AUDI | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Roman Polanski's Defense, Film, Extradition, Switzerland, Doj, Roman Polanski Extradition, Polanski Lawyers, Rape, Los Angeles, Roman Polanski, California, Entertainment News

Lawyers for Roman Polanski met with U.S. Department of Justice officials to make their case against extraditing the 76-year-old fugitive film director...

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Krissy Kocktail Finds A Home In Coney

mediastorm.org | Posted 10.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Fire Eater, Coney Island, Brooklyn, Krissy Kocktail, Coney Island Circus Sideshow, Film, MediaStorm, New York News

Kryssy Kocktail was a loner who dreamed of running away from her troubled family to join the circus. Now she eats fire, lays on a bed of nails and sit...

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Regina Kimbell Sues Chris Rock To Block 'Good Hair'

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: My Nappy Roots, Chris Rock, Film, Chris Rock Sued, Good Hair, Regina Kimbell, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — A filmmaker is suing Chris Rock for at least $5 million and trying to block the release of his upcoming documentary "Good Hair." ...

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National Lampoon 'Vacation' Sequel Booked

The Hollywood Reporter | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Beverly D'Angelo, Vacation Sequel, Vacation, Film, Chevy Chase, Entertainment News

The Warner Bros. division is developing a sequel of sorts to the 1983 comedy classic, with David Dobkin attached to produce and possibly direct. N...

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"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" Film Sued: Group Wants To Stop Production

AP | CATHERINE E. SHOICHET | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Film, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Entertainment News

MEXICO CITY — Efforts to film Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's latest novel are meeting resistance in Mexico, where an anti-p...

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Malin Akerman & Kristin Bell's Leggy Fashion Face Off (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Couples Retreat Premiere, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Poll, Couples Retreat, Entertainment News

Two stars of "Couples Retreat" (opening Friday) Kristen Bell and Malin Akersman, showed up at the film's premiere in Los Angeles Monday night in text...

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Preserving Our Queer Legacy

Alan Poul | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Outfest, LGBT Filmmakers, Queer Film, Film, Queer Cinema, Entertainment News

We don't have that long a history of LGBT imagery to protect. So what we have, we need to protect ferociously.

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Carey Mulligan Gets 'An Education' In Movie Stardom

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 10.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Peter Sarsgaard, Shia LeBoeuf, Nick-Hornby, An Education, The Seagull, Carey-Mulligan, Film, Pride and Prejudice, Entertainment News

British newcomer Carey Mulligan is already drawing Oscar buzz and Audrey Hepburn comparisons for her performance in 'An Education,' a small Sundance f...

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Munchkin Reunion Video: Aging Cast Reunites To Celebrate Wizard Of Oz 70 Years After Its Release (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Newsweek, Wizard of Oz Anniversary, Munchkin Video, Wizard of Oz, Munchkins Reunion, Toto, Old Munchkins, Film, Judy Garland, Movies, Little People, Entertainment News

Seventy years after the Lollipop Guild first sang to Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, the actors who portrayed the Munchkins reunited. Newsweek caught up...

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Who Should Play Prince Harry In The Movie?

Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slidepoll, Film, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Radcliffe, Prince Harry, Rupert Grint, Ben Whishaw, Tilda Swinton, The Spare, Prince Harry Movie, Entertainment News

If indeed there is a movie to be made about Prince Harry, rumored to be called "The Spare," (as in the heir and the spare). The movie would follow Har...

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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver (Part 1)

Nick Carr | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Film Locations, New York Film, Film, Scouting Ny, Robert DeNiro, Travis Bickle, Movies, Taxi Driver, New York News

Finding the locations used in Taxi Driver turned out to be incredibly difficult; the film documents a city that has since been demolished, rebuilt, spit-shined, and stamped with a seal of approval.

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Woody Harrelson's 'Zombieland' CRUSHES Drew Barrymore

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Whip It, Box Office, Drew Barrymore, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — The living dead led the weekend box office as Woody Harrelson's horror comedy "Zombieland" debuted at No. 1 with $24.7 million. A...

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Planet Hollywood

Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: End of World, Pandora, Earth, Aliens, The Day After Tomorrow, Prophecy, Mayan, Film, Movies, Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 2012, The Road, Animated, Planet 51, Apocalypse, Humans, Independence Day, James Cameron, 3d, Cannibals, Book, Roland Emmerich, Nuclear Winter, Cormac McCarthy, Avatar, Entertainment News

A common theme runs through several films slated to hit theaters soon: the earth and its fate. "Take heed," the filmmakers seem to be saying, "or these will be our struggles."

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Jim Carrey Fattens Up (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim Carrey, Film, Slideshow, Jim Carrey Fat, Three Stooges, Celebrity Body, Entertainment News

Jim Carrey appears to be taking his role in the "Three Stooges" seriously, visibly fattening up as planned for his role as Curly. He was out in LA Thu...

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Drew Barrymore's Movies: Which Roles Ruled And Which Did Not? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 12.02.2009 | Entertainment

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, 'Whip It,' opens this weekend, so why not take a look back at her career? Drew has grown up in front of the camera...

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Short Films, Live Score

Rufus Lusk | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Art, Video, Film, New York, New York Art, The Dirty Churches, Jesse Gelaznik, Rachel Blackwell, New York News

Rachel Blackwell and Jesse Gelaznik show new video and film work at the 92Y TriBeca this Friday on the presence and absence of ritual in contemporary life and the universality of death.

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Autumn in New York, Cinema Style

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Cinema Style, Film Set Design, Laura, Otto Preminger, Greta Garbo, The Fountainhead, New York Films, Film, Manhattan Real Estate, New York City, Movies, Interior Design, New York News

Cinema has provided a glamorous, coveted and implausible world filled with trendsetting decor and wraparound terraces against a seemingly endless Manhattan skyline -- all built on a soundstage.

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'Whip It' Premiere: Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page & A Sparkly, Gloved Juliette Lewis (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whip It, Ellen Page, Juliette-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Slideshow, Olivia Wilde, Eve, Film, Drew Barrymore, Entertainment News

Drew Barrymore showed up in a slinky black dress and shorter locks (the black tips she was sporting as of late have thankfully been chopped off) at th...

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