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'Machine Gun Preacher' has decent first round in limited release
Company Town"Machine Gun Preacher," based on the real life story of thug-turned-preacher Sam Childers, who traveled to Sudan to help children of war there, opened in four theaters this weekend. The film got off to a decent start in limited release, grossing $44,000... -
'World War Z' to Open Moscow Fest
VarietyMarc Forster's Brad Pitt starrer "World War Z" is to open the 35th Moscow film festival, which runs June 20-29. Leonid Vereshchagin, producer general of the fest, also unveiled on Saturday in Cannes the first 10 films in competition. He was joined at the...Tags: World War Z (movie), Russia, Film Festivals, Brad Pitt, Olympic Games
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'Great Gatsby,' 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 'World War Z' make for literate film season
Milwaukee Journal SentinelThis year, your summer reading list may be on the big screen. Unlike most summers, when big-concept movies dominate the multiplex, several of this summer's most anticipated releases are based on books that might have essay questions attached -- or which...Tags: Movies, Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Viral Diseases and Infections, Beyonce
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Summer's movies are heavy on the doom
The Philadelphia InquirerContrary to the Mayan calendar, which had Dec. 21, 2012, penciled in as the day everything was to go ka-boom, we're all still all here. But at the movies, the apocalypse is now. Take a look through the films premiering between next weekend -- when...Tags: Movies, Carey Mulligan, Jay Baruchel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Labor Day
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A screen's-eye view of Chicago
Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...Tags: Movies, Billy Goat Tavern, Dustin Hoffman, The Merry Gentleman (movie), Internal Revenue Service
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Purge
VarietyLike "The Kite Runner," Sofi Oksanen's novel "Purge" found international success by recounting recent historical traumas -- in this case, contemporary Russian-mafia sex-trafficking, plus the brutal Soviet takeover of Estonia decades earlier -- within...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Anne Frank, World War II (1939-1945), Finland, Literature
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Biz returns to the boom times of 2009: Scout & About: South Africa 2012
VarietySouth Africa's established locations industry got a big lift from the success of Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" in 2009. The film, per Michael Murphey of Kalahari Pictures, which co-produced it, was "a huge boost to the way the rest of the world sees and...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, BBC, Film Festivals, Tarsem Singh
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'Machine Gun Preacher'
Zap2ItThere's more to this drama than the title might indicate ... thanks to the true story it's based on, the solid performance by Gerard Butler and the direction by Marc Forster ("Quantum of Solace"). Butler plays Sam Childers, a drug dealer who altered...Tags: Kathy Baker, DVDs, Weaponry, Firearms, Quantum of Solace (movie)
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'Machine Gun Preacher' review: Hard truths compensate for storytelling issues
RedEye movie critic**1/2 (out of four) After “The Bounty Hunter,” “Law Abiding Citizen,” “The Ugly Truth,” and “P.S. I Love You” (to name just a few), I anticipate a new Gerard Butler movie like a kick in the face....Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Weaponry, Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Shannon
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Movie brings new scrutiny to the real 'Machine Gun Preacher'
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticMarc Forster was fresh from directing a James Bond film when he first heard the story of "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers. Here was a tale of a biker and drug dealer turned rescuer of African orphans, battling Sudanese guerrilla groups. Even a guy used...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Non Government Organizations, Drugs and Medicines, Academy Awards
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Machine Gun Preacher movie to be out in September
Daily American Staff WriterThe Rev. Sam Childers, pastor of Shekinah Fellowship in Reels Corner, hopes the movie about his life inspires people to do good in their own hometowns. “I was a scum-bucket, the lowest person on earth,” Childers said in a telephone interview...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Africa, Michelle Monaghan
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