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Tom Cruise, in Bit Role, Nips Studio’s Top Gun (03 April 09:30) |
| At an industry screening of the forthcoming comedy “Tropic Thunder,” Tom Cruise brought down the house with his portrayal of a dirty-dancing movie mogul. |
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Actors Set Date for Formal Contract Talks With Studios (02 April 09:26) |
| Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild have agreed to open formal contract talks with representatives of Hollywood’s movie and television companies on April 15. |
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Offer of a Murder Surfaces at Wiretap Trial (02 April 12:12) |
| A hedge fund manager testified that Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private detective accused of wiretapping, had once offered to have a movie producer killed for him. |
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Tough Marketing Calls for a Film Linked to War (02 April 02:27) |
| After a poor box-office showing for war-related movies, how could a Hollywood studio possibly entice audiences into seeing the next one? |
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Now on the Endangered Species List: Movie Critics in Print (01 April 10:35) |
| The reviews are in: “A dire situation” for serious film. |
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Spat Between Actors’ Unions Snarls Negotiations With Studios (31 March 11:27) |
| The sudden split between two actors unions this weekend appeared to weaken labor organizations without making life easier for the studios they bargain with. |
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Voice, Eyes and Camera of Katrina Survivors (31 March 08:39) |
| The main reason to check out the final week of this year’s edition of New Directors/New Films is the superb documentary “Trouble the Water,” about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. |
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Ruling Gives Heirs a Share of Superman Copyright (29 March 12:06) |
| The co-creator of Superman had sold his rights to the character 70 years ago for $130. |
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An Appraisal: A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity (29 March 09:23) |
| Richard Widmark never quite shook the dark associations of his early roles, even after his studio, 20th Century Fox, rehabilitated him as a leading man. |
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Creator’s Family Reclaims the Rights to Superman (29 March 07:24) |
| A judge ruled that the heirs of the co-creator of Superman were entitled to reclaim their share of the U.S. copyright, 70 years after their ancestor sold rights to the character for $130. |
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Film: Four Stars’ Bright Idea Still Shines 90 Years On (27 March 09:56) |
| United Artists will turn 90 next year, and Film Forum celebrates with a five-week tribute. |
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In Potential Studio Split, Who Keeps the Movies? (27 March 09:52) |
| After a $1.6 billion marriage in 2005, DreamWorks and Paramount may be headed for divorce. |
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A British Dynasty for All Seasons (22 March 12:48) |
| Among the many things for which he will be remembered, Paul Scofield helped to usher in a whole era of classy, lushly produced costume films set in the Tudor period. |
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Anthony Minghella, Director, Dies (18 March 08:00) |
| The Oscar-winning director, who turned such literary works as “The English Patient” and and “Cold Mountain” into acclaimed movies, was 54. |
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: Georges Méliès (18 March 02:54) |
| “Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913)” is a major act of scholarship that brings together surviving Méliès films from eight countries. |
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Animated Repatriation: Disney Art Returns (18 March 02:49) |
| A Japanese university plans to return about 250 pieces of original animation art to the Walt Disney Company that were mis-laid in storage after traveling to Japan nearly five decades ago. |
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Film Skirts Loose Ends in Death of a Rapper (17 March 09:01) |
| Fox Searchlight Pictures will tackle the formidable task of making sense of the death of Christopher G. Wallace, known as the Notorious B.I.G. |
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Film: For France, an All-Purpose Heartthrob (16 March 04:20) |
| Louis Garrel is an actor women of all ages, and a few men, can love. |
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Film: Stories From a World in Motion (15 March 06:04) |
| With immigration currently a subject of raw political contention, movie screens are busy tracking the latest tales of departures and arrivals. |
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When Omaha Met Cinema (14 March 10:46) |
| A city best known for its beef is now being offered a menu of independent and foreign films. |
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Wiretap Trial Revisits Lawsuit by Comedian (14 March 11:04) |
| The Hollywood wiretapping trial began to live up to its billing, as Gary Shandling described how it felt to be on the receiving end of the attentions of Anthony Pellicano. |
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Husband of Actress Tells Killer to Suffer (14 March 10:33) |
| The husband of the murdered actress and filmmaker Adrienne Shelly told her killer during sentencing, “I want you to suffer like she suffered.” |
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With Theaters Barely Digital, Studios Push 3-D (13 March 03:34) |
| Coming soon, and coming straight at you: houseflies in astronaut suits and a nearly 50-foot-tall she-monster with Reese Witherspoon’s voice. |
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Studios Announce a Deal to Help Cinemas Go 3-D (12 March 10:26) |
| Four major Hollywood studios announced on Tuesday a deal to subsidize the conversion of 10,000 theaters to digital projection systems. |
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Indie Company Cuts Staff (08 March 10:07) |
| Sidney Kimmel Entertainment said on Friday that it was scaling back its ambitions. |
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Prosecutor Says Detective Bragged of Wiretapping (07 March 12:21) |
| Anthony Pellicano, who is defending himself, denied nothing in his opening remarks, saying that his business was “problem solving.” |
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Hollywood Hopes to Laugh to the Bank (06 March 09:15) |
| When the weather turns warm, movies will turn to comedies. |
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Film: Centenarian Director’s Very Long View (06 March 12:20) |
| Portugal’s premier director, Manoel de Oliveira, 99, has been making one film a year since he was 82. |
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Hollywood on Edge of Its Seats as Wiretapping Trial Is Set to Start (05 March 09:32) |
| The case of Anthony Pellicano, the onetime sleuth-to-the-stars who is accused of eavesdropping, has a D-list of no-name defendants but big names may be called to testify. |
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: German Expressionism (04 March 03:32) |
| The films in the “German Expressionism Collection” converse between themselves in illuminating ways. |
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The Media Equation: In Oscars, No Country for Hit Films (03 March 10:26) |
| It’s no longer about blockbusters and crowd-pleasers. |
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Film: Will the Heist Work? Will the Movie? (02 March 01:47) |
| The most exciting heist movies involve best-laid schemes that, almost inevitably and pleasurably, will somehow go wrong. |
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Film: New Line’s 40 Years of Reaching Brows High and Low (01 March 10:43) |
| New Line Cinema was a studio where long shots were part of the business plan. |
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Back in Portland, the Latest Outsider Has a Skateboard (01 March 05:09) |
| Gus Van Sant’s new film, “Paranoid Park,” again shows his fascination with the young, “the creators of the new.” |
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Prosecutors Build Case Against Pellicano (01 March 03:35) |
| Four crucial witnesses will testify at the racketeering trial beginning next week for Anthony Pellicano, the infamous Hollywood private eye. |
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Warner Studio Takes Control of New Line (29 February 09:30) |
| Time Warner announced Thursday that New Line Cinema would become a unit of Warner Brothers, ceasing to operate as a full-service, stand-alone unit. |
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Film: The Eiffel Tower Is Always Ready for Its Close-Up (29 February 05:43) |
| Paris exerts a sweet, mythic force on the 2008 Rendez-Vous With French Cinema film festival. |
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‘No Country for Old Men’ Wins Oscar Tug of War (25 February 11:21) |
| “No Country for Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s chilling confrontation of a desperate man with a relentless killer, won the Academy Award for best picture. |
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Kiss-and-Make-Up Jitters at a Poststrike Oscars (25 February 09:15) |
| Javier Bardem, in “No Country for Old Men,” won best supporting actor, and “Ratatouille” won the Oscar for best animated feature early Sunday night at the Academy Awards. |
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Film: He Shoots! He Scores! He Makes Movies! (24 February 09:41) |
| A two-time N.B.A. All-Star, Baron Davis has a couple of other jobs: movie producer and movie critic. |
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The Carpetbagger: Hollywood Gets Ready for Hoopla as Usual (23 February 10:39) |
| The Academy Awards are New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day rolled into one, a day of reckoning when accounts are tallied, blessings are counted and resolutions are forged anew. |
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With Oscar Show Salvaged, a Planned Film Museum Is Back in Play (23 February 10:34) |
| How the Oscar telecast holds up on Sunday will go a long way toward determining whether the 80-year-old Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can transform itself. |
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Are Oscars Worth All This Fuss? (23 February 04:25) |
| If only, in a year of such cinematic bounty and variety, appreciation for the best movies could be liberated from the pomp and tedium of Hollywood spectacle. |
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Oh, Just Lighten Up and Enjoy the Show (23 February 02:35) |
| Reasons to love the Oscars: their impact, their surprises, their chance to yell at the television. |
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An Oscars Crystal Ball (22 February 09:19) |
| The Carpetbagger makes his predictions for the 80th Academy Awards. |
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What’s Up, Golden Boy? (22 February 06:25) |
| The Carpetbagger makes his predictions for the 80th Academy Awards. |
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Jon Stewart, Hands Long Tied by Strike, Pedals Fast for Oscars (20 February 10:43) |
| Until the strike by the Writers Guild of America ended a week ago, Jon Stewart was unable to prepare, or even to think much about, his Oscar assignment. |
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New Dvds: Absolute Artifice: A Movie Star of the Old School (19 February 05:01) |
| More than 30 years after her death, Joan Crawford continues to exert a fascination that has little or nothing to do with her gifts as an actress, a fact that is one working definition of the... |
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Director’s Reward: A Second First Chance (18 February 09:41) |
| “Step Up 2 the Streets,” the new hip-hop dance movie, represents a second chance of sorts for the director Jon M. Chu. |
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Film: There Will Be Memories (17 February 01:05) |
| A look back at some of the more memorable elements of Oscar broadcasts past. |
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