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Opening day Christmas Carol debut not looking too jolly (08 November 12:49) |
| Pre-release surveys had indicated the movie would open to at least $40 million domestically over its first three days.
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Review Turning Green (07 November 01:30) |
| An unhappy teen seeking a way out of Ireland turns to illegally importing and selling porn magazines.
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Grant Heslov George Clooney team up for The Men Who Stare at Goats (07 November 01:30) |
| The director and the star have been friends and colleagues since the 1980s.
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Alessandro Nivola Man of a thousand accents (07 November 01:30) |
| American's ear for dialect makes him an in-demand character actor. He's Irish in the upcoming 'Turning Green.'
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Robert Zemeckis Christmas Carol Bah humbug Too many special effects (06 November 01:30) |
| Jim Carrey plays multiple parts in the motion-capture animated re-imagining of the Dickens' classic.
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Review The Men Who Stare at Goats (06 November 01:30) |
| This kinda true story of an experimental Army unit is a showcase for George Clooney & Co.
"The M... |
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Precious cuts deep (06 November 01:30) |
| The heartbreaking, hopeful tale of an abused, pregnant teen should not be missed.
Nothing quite pre... |
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Reviews Died Young Stayed Pretty about rock poster artists loses focus (06 November 01:30) |
| Also reviewed: 'Looking for Palladin'; 'The Wedding Song'; 'Victory Day'; 'Yes Men Save the World.'
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Review Araya (06 November 01:30) |
| The 1959 film's style is dated, but it is visually glorious and tells a fascinating story.
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Review The Fourth Kind (06 November 01:30) |
| They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.
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Review The Box (06 November 01:30) |
| Too bad Norma and Arthur didn't leave it on the porch. Richard Kelly's latest is no 'Donnie Darko.' The morality tale is fractured, foolish and slow as molasses.
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Margot Benacerrafs film Araya returns (06 November 01:30) |
| Her 1959 work about an isolated community of salt harvesters on Venezuela's Caribbean coast emerges from a cultural black hole.
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Holiday season kicks off with Disneys pricey Christmas Carol (06 November 04:31) |
| Executives who follow pre-release polling say the movie will likely sell between $40 million and $45 million worth of tickets on its opening weekend.
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The Telephone Book at the Egyptian Theatre (05 November 01:30) |
| Also: Overlooked Auteurs at Silent Movie Theatre
When the X-rated sex comedy " The Telephone Book" was released in 1971, ... |
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1939 Redux Series digs beyond the classics of Hollywoods Greatest Year (05 November 01:30) |
| UCLA Film & Television Archive's tribute skips 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Wizard of Oz' and still comes up with a list of gems.
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Mariah Carey shows her ugly side in Precious (05 November 01:30) |
| Yes, that's the pop diva -- deglammed and with facial hair -- playing the dowdy caseworker.
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Precious aims to translate buzz into box office gold (05 November 01:30) |
| The drama about an abused teenager lists Oprah Winfrey among its vocal supporters and Lionsgate has planned targeted theater runs across the nation. Now it's up to moviegoers to take the bai... |
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Sandra Bullock Blind Sides the competition (05 November 06:29) |
| This is the kind of inspiring and solid upbeat studio release that could put Bullock firmly in the race for best actress.
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Albert Cubby Broccoli a Bond man all the way (04 November 01:30) |
| The USC School of Cinematic Arts will pay tribute to the creator of the longest-running film series ever, with a weekend centennial featuring screenings, panels and exhibits.
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New Muhammad biopic drives the anti-Hollywood crowd nuts (04 November 03:19) |
| England's the Guardian is reporting that Barrie Osborne, one of the producers of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix," is hoping to mount a biopic of the prophet Muhammad.
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Hotels seek the Hollywood limelight (03 November 10:50) |
| Now you can shoot your movie and hold the junket for it at the same place.
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This Is It as his personal thriller (03 November 01:30) |
| The film on Michael Jackson proves an unlikely odyssey for Tim Patterson, a commercial director who made crucial contributions.
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Is Hollywood always in panic mode Ari Emanuels history lesson (03 November 07:48) |
| It's nervous time for talent, especially with the studios crowing that most of their biggest hits this year have come without the presence of any big-name talent.
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Hollywood Backlot The Twilight Saga New Moon (03 November 04:38) |
| More photos of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner on set in Vancouver filming the "Twilight" sequel.
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Barry Levinson delves into celebs politics (02 November 01:30) |
| The director's documentary 'Poliwood' follows stars as they attend political events before President Obama's inauguration.
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North by Northwest still full of thrills and chills (02 November 01:30) |
| The Hitchcock film keeps viewers on the edge 50 years on. The AFI Fest is having a screening, and a DVD will be released.
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New films are on the serious side (01 November 12:30) |
| This season's movies, including 'Precious,' 'The Road,' '2012,' 'Avatar' and 'Up in the Air,' may seem hard to digest in troubled times, but their cast, directors and stories make them worth... |
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Building an afterlife in The Lovely Bones (01 November 12:30) |
| The filmmakers had to reimagine Susie Salmon's postmortem dream-like landscape from the novel for the screen.
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Michael Sheen relishes vamping it up in New Moon (01 November 12:30) |
| Used to playing a werewolf in the 'Underworld' series and other colorful characters, he likes the switch to playing an evil character in the 'Twilight' series.
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Surviving 2012 (01 November 12:30) |
| For all the destruction in '2012' (there goes L.A. again), Roland Emmerich was more interested in what would be saved than what would be obliterated.
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Ben Foster puts his heart into The Messenger (01 November 12:30) |
| He says that while at work Iraq war drama/romance, he truly fell in love with Samantha Morton. And Woody Harrelson.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel was a walk down memory lane for Betty Thomas (01 November 12:30) |
| She still remembers her first album by the group and how cool it made her feel.
Nostalgia was a dri... |
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The Box Fingers on the button (01 November 12:30) |
| A mysterious man presents a couple with a box, telling them that if they push its button they will receive a large amount of cash but someone in the world will die as a result. Such is the ... |
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Jeff Bridges psychic warrior (01 November 12:30) |
| To play the leader of a military unit devoted to the use of brain energies to help the Army in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats,' the actor just recalled his trippy days in the '60s and '70s.
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Emily Blunt is The Young Victoria (01 November 12:30) |
| Forget those images of an elderly monarch in long-term mourning. Julian Fellowes' script focuses on her days as a rebellious young woman.
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Seth Green learns new tricks in Old Dogs (01 November 12:30) |
| He gets to riff with his idol Robin Williams in the Disney comedy.
Disney's family comedy "Old Dogs... |
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Maguire feels he can be a good Brother (01 November 12:30) |
| The actor put his feelings on the line for the family drama. 'I was in a mood for two months,' he says.
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Sherlock Holmes makes the detective a troubled action hero (01 November 12:30) |
| Forget the deerstalker hat, the twee houndstooth Inverness overcoat and the oversized spyglass. Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 big-budget rendition of Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective is mo... |
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Anna Kendricks the upstart opposite George Clooney in Air (01 November 12:30) |
| The young actress found her groove opposite the actor by joking around a lot.
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John Myhre dresses a set to the Nine (01 November 12:30) |
| The production designer wanted the musical to look different from the movie '8 1/2' and the stage show.
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A Christmas Carol (01 November 12:30) |
| Jim Carrey haunts and is haunted in Robert Zemeckis' latest motion-capture project.
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Honored Horror A century sort of of Oscar-nominated fright films (31 October 06:16) |
| Enough for a dusk-to-dawn movie marathon for you and your fellow night creatures. Don't forget to dim the lights.
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Battsek is out The last nail in the coffin at Miramax (31 October 06:07) |
| After its already-in-production films pass through the pipeline, expect to see it die a quiet death.
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New documentary explores just how awesomely bad Troll 2 is (31 October 04:51) |
| Michael Stephenson -- the child star of the disaster -- reunites with his former costars and investigates the film's pop-culture status.
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Miramax Films chief Daniel Battsek out (31 October 01:21) |
| The head of Disney's specialty movie label Miramax Films is being forced out of his job after a series of flops failed to turn around the struggling company.
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Hugh Jackman will not host 82nd Oscars (31 October 12:53) |
| Word has it that he did not wish to do the show two years in a row.
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Holiday movie sneaks (30 October 09:15) |
| Photos, videos, news and more on this year's holiday movies.
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Review Gentlemen Broncos (30 October 12:30) |
| Jared and Jerusha Hess' 'Gentlemen Broncos' treats all its characters like jokes, and they're unfunny jokes at that.
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Review Skin (30 October 12:30) |
| A South African family is divided by race.
There is a pivotal scene in "Skin," a truth-is-stranger-... |
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Review The House of the Devil (30 October 12:30) |
| It's the baby-sitting gig from hell, and writer-director Ti West and star Jocelin Donahue make it a devil of a good time.
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