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Fall Sneaks list
SEPT. 9
All's Faire in Love
A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...Tags: Vincent Kartheiser, Gavin O'Connor, Kenneth Lonergan, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Topher Grace
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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... -
Top 3 Pop Releases: 'World War Z,' Kanye West's 'Yeezus,' 'Ocean at the End of the Lane' book
'WORLD WAR Z' IN THEATERS FRIDAY 1 Based on Max Brooks' 2006 dystopian horror novel, "World War Z" stars Brad Pitt as a United Nations worker struggling to save his family and humanity from a zombie pandemic sweeping the globe. "Quantum of Solace"...Tags: Music, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Frank Ocean, Arts and Culture, Authors
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'Star Trek,' 'World War Z' Pivotal to Paramount's Impact on Viacom Financials
VarietyWhile Paramount Pictures has argued that its austere slate churns out profitable films at a price, the studio's operating income has been in decline, putting even more pressure on big summer bets like "World War Z" to perform. While most of Paramount's...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lucasfilm Ltd., Stop-Loss (movie), Drillbit Taylor (movie), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (movie)
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What's opening in theaters next week
The Miami HeraldTHE BLING RING (R Writer-director Sofia Coppola explores our cultural obsession with celebrity via this comedy, based on actual events, about a group of teenagers (Emma Watson, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien, and Taissa Farmiga) who...Tags: Mindy Kaling, Henry Cavill, Movies, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Sofia Coppola
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Brad Pitt's zombie epic 'World War Z' a zero?
Liz Smith"SOMETHING COMING back from the dead was always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies," says writer David Wong. THE world did not end on Dec. 22, 2012, as some insisted it would, because of the ancient Mayan...Tags: QVC (tv network), Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Gary Busey, Liz Smith
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'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: Bruce Willis, Labor Day, Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock, Kick-Ass (movie)
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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: Moscow (Russia), Arts and Culture, Film Festivals, Russia, Brad Pitt
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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, Movies, Old Town (Chicago, Illinois), Risky Business (movie), Irving Park
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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, Arts and Culture, Finland, Anne Frank, World War II (1939-1945)
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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: Forest Whitaker, Movies, Film Festivals, Entertainment, Clint Eastwood
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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: Firearms, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gerard Butler, DVDs, Michael Shannon
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Jun 6, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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Feb 23, 2013
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Jan 9, 2013
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