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Producer Simon Oakes brings life back to Hammer Horror
BY TODD GILCHRIST
On Friday, March 5, producer Simon Oakes invited a small group of reporters to the Beverly Hills offices of Hammer Films, the newly-resuscitated imprint of the studio that brought genre fans horror films for more than five decades. Largely defunct since the 1980s, Hammer wa ...
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SXSW: ‘Kick-Ass,’ ‘Leaves of Grass’ and flight delays on Day 1
Somebody is trying to tell me something.
As you read, my laptop fried yesterday. But I trudged on, with the annual South By Southwest Film Festival in my sights.
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Chris Weitz on New Moon, his next movie and being a part of ‘Breaking Dawn’
BY TODD GILCHRIST
In little more than a decade as a director, Chris Weitz has proven that if nothing else, he’s incredibly versatile: he started his career with the first “American Pie”, moved on to “About a Boy”, brought “The Golden Compass” to life, and most recently conquered the second “Twilight̶ ...
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“Green Zone” tops week of weak openers
BY KEVIN CRUST
A rundown of this week’s four wide releases — none of which pose a threat to reigning box-office champ “Alice in Wonderland.” Likewise, worldwide juggernaut and best-picture also-ran “Avatar” remains the best-reviewed film in general release.
GREEN ZONE
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Ben Stiller’s Haitian School Initiative and Artists for Peace and Justice Join Forces for Haiti
BY STAFF
URGENT HELP NEEDED TO REBUILD HAITI – DONATE NOW PLEASE
Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) announced today that Ben’s Stiller’s Haitian school initiative (HSI) will merge with APJ effective immediately.
The two organizations, both of whom were committed to improving living condit ...
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Exclusive: Film Critic Armond White Dislikes Baumbach’s Movies
BY ROBERT W. WELKOS
New York Press film critic Armond White wants to make one thing perfectly clear: it isn’t that he doesn’t like director Noah Baumbach. It’s Baumbach’s movies he dislikes.
“I have no more against Noah Baumbach than I do against Michael Mann ...
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Will ‘Captain America’ fight Hugo Weaving?
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
“The First Avenger: Captain America” reportedly is circling its main villain. Now it needs to cast its hero!
Hugo Weaving (“The Matrix”) is in negotiations to play the Red Skull in Joe Johnston’s anticipated big-screen adventure, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two co ...
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Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana sign up for Wright’s ‘Hanna’
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
While promoting last year’s “The Soloist,” director Joe Wright (“Pride & Prejudice”) told reporters he planned to adapt the novel “Indian Summer,” about the final days of Britain’s colonial rule in India. Apparently that summer vacation is on hold.
Focus Features announced that Wright’s next project wi ...
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Exclusive: ‘Ghost Writer’’s Olivia Williams on acting with Ewan, reacting to Roman
BY TODD GILCHRIST
Although not quite a household name in the U.S., Olivia Williams has steadily worked over the last decade to establish herself as one of the movies’ most versatile and interesting actresses. Early roles in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense earned her both visibility and indie cred, and since th ...
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SXSW: Festival preview, and off to a rough start
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
We all have computer horror stories, where laptops die at the worst possible time. Here’s my latest.
Roughly 24 hours before I’m due to board a plane for Austin to cover my first South By Southwest Film Festival, an annual Mecca for lovers of film, music and interactive technologies, when my own modest pi ...
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“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” releases the first trailer
BY TODD GILCHRIST
Here you have it Twilight fans, the moment that you have all been waiting for. The new trailer for the highly anticipated “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” has been released and does it look amazing! The famous series that stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner is sure to keep fans enthusiastic and dying for the June 3 ...
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Paramount’s ‘League’ dreams of being next ‘Something About Mary’
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
She’s Out of My League (** out of 4)
There’s sentimental work being done by geeky Jay Baruchel (“Tropic Thunder”) and gorgeous Alice Eve in Jim Field Smith’s “She’s Out of My League.” Too bad the lewd, rude, R-rated comedy’s too hellbent on becoming the next “There’s Something About Mary” or Judd Apatow offshoo ...
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AND THE OSCAR FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY GOES TO?
It is no longer news that Mauro Fiore, ASC took home an Oscar for his artful rendering of live-action images in Avatar. But, the reality is that cinematography tends to fly under the radar at the Academy Awards. Maybe it’s because none of the nominees was wearing a posh evening gown adorned with [...]
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Jewel designs pendant for “Project Clean Water”
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Pop singer Jewel has just finished a collaboration with Pennyroyal to create a pendant to benefit her “Project Clean Water.” The jewelry is the latest pendant in the Pennyroyal Signature Collection and features a water drop shape with the phrase “Give a Drop” engraved on the back. Give a Drop is in reference to [...]
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Amy Winehouse to remarry Blake in Las Vegas
Amy Winehouse is going to remarry her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil in a quick ceremony in Las Vegas as soon as she can get clearance to come back to the U.S. The couple divorced and then reconciled a few months later and it looks like they’re ready to be back together again. A source stated, “They [...]
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Oscar winner ‘Precious’ on DVD
HollywoodNews.com stays on top of the latest DVD and Blu-ray releases so you know which films are worth your time and money. This week, we recommend:
‘Precious’
Talk about good timing. Days after Lee Daniels’ raw “Precious” won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Mo’Nique) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher), the heart wrenching drama arrives [...]
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“The Hurt Locker” crushes “Avatar”
BY ROBERT W. WELKOS
Decades from now, Hollywood may still be debating the events that unfolded Sunday night at the 82nd annual Academy Awards and wondering how David came to slay Goliath?
How did “The Hurt Locker,” a small, independent film about a bomb disposal squad in the Iraq War made on a shoestring budget, manage to [...]
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Green Day Rock Band game scores release date
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Circle your calendars, American Idiots. MTV Games, Harmonix and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records have announced that the anticipated “Green Day: Rock Band” will be unleashed on June 8.
A standalone music video game, “Green Day” puts players on stage as a member of the San Francisco power trio, shredding through renditions of [...]
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Corey Feldman talks Haim with Larry King
BY SEAN O’CONNELL
Upon hearing that Corey Haim had passed away Wednesday morning, many probably though, “I wonder what Corey Feldman thinks of this?” Wednesday night, we found out. Feldman, who co-starred alongside Haim in several films and a short-lived reality television program, appeared on “Larry King Live” last night to discuss Haim’s death. The actor [...]
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Wall Street 2 gets pushed back to Sept. 24
BY STAFF
The new Oliver Stone film, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” has been pushed back from April 23 to September 24 to try to make an attempt to have it show at the Cannes Film Festival. Variety reported that “Insiders say the film has a strong shot at being included in the fest, which runs [...]
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OK Go leaves EMI to start Paracadute Recordings
BY LINELLE SCHULTZ
OK Go has left EMI to go form their own independent label entitled Paracadute Recordings. This move allows them to have total control over their recent album, “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.”
Below is the statement from EMI:
“OK Go, the band whose inventive internet campaigns and self-directed music videos have set records [...]
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Has time run out for ‘24′?
Various reports hitting the wires this morning suggest that Fox has decided to end “24″ after its current season, the show’s eighth.
The Wrap’s Josef Adalian says that the network has “all but decided to make the current season of the Keifer Sutherland thriller its last,” and adds that sources close to the series confirm “end [...]
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