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EXCLUSIVE: Director Marc Forster on ‘World War Z’ and zombie mania
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelMarc Forster helped Halle Berry win her Oscar and Daniel Craig put his stamp on James Bond. His new film is “Machine Gun Preacher,” a biography of Sam Childers and his exploits in trying to save children under threat or murder, torture and... -
'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... -
'Deja viewed': Movie sequels dominate summer
With so many remakes, sequels and familiar subjects hitting theaters between now and Labor Day, this year's summer movie season should be dubbed as "deja viewed." There are sequels by the numbers: "Smurfs 2," "Red 2," "Kick-Ass 2," "Despicable Me 2,"...Tags: World War Z (movie), Kevin James, Kevin Costner, Joel Edgerton, Ed Helms
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'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: Arts and Culture, World War Z (movie), Film Festivals, Russia, Moscow (Russia)
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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: Arts and Culture, World War Z (movie), Clark Gregg, Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment
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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: Sandra Bullock, Ron Perlman, The Wolverine (movie), Kevin Costner, Entertainment
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Summer Movie Sneaks complete list
The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...
Tags: Animation (Movie Genre), Steve Coogan, Halley Feiffer, William Fichtner, Kevin Costner
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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: Alzheimer's Disease, Uptown, Harvey Keitel, North Center, Entertainment
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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: Arts and Culture, Finland, Abusive Behavior, Anne Frank, World War II (1939-1945)
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From 'World War Z' to 'Star Trek,' six story lines to watch in 2013
Predicting the biggest film stories months ahead of time is a fool's errand – last year at this time few were talking about Aurora or “Zero Dark Thirty.” Yet we here at Movies Now, along with many of our counterparts, make these kinds of...
Tags: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), J.J. Abrams, Frank Darabont, Entertainment
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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: Movies, Africa, Entertainment, Tony Scott, Film Festivals
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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: Weaponry, Firearms, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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