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Larry Zanoff's aim: Teach actors to bear arms for the film's sake
For Larry Zanoff, the armorer who lent Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" its firepower, fake blood can be a serious occupational hazard. "The gun gets splattered with fake blood," he said. "Now it's all gummed up; it doesn't want to work anymore....
Tags: Celebrities, The Last Stand (movie), Savages (movie), World War I (1914-1918), Gangster Squad (movie)
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The Sunday Conversation: Violence in entertainment has long history, film expert says
Elizabeth Daley, a former producer, has served as dean of USC's School of Cinematic Arts for more than 20 years. She's also the founder and executive director of the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy, which develops educational programs and conducts...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming Industry, Arts and Culture, Gaming, Sex Crimes
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Database catalogs movie firearms
This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty," the TV western "Justified" and the military video game "Medal of Honor: Warfighter." The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, University of California, Santa Barbara, Korean War (1950-1953), Justified (tv program)
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Judge approves interim loan for Rhythm & Hues
A federal judge approved a $17-million loan from two movie studios to keep the lights on at troubled Rhythm & Hues, the award-winning visual effects company that worked on the Oscar-nominated “Life of Pi.” Rhythm & Hues, based in El Segundo,...
Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Career and Workplace, China, Employees, Justice System
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Depictions of violence in theater: Revelation, not nihilism
In one of the most infamous scenes in modern drama, a group of young men in a London park stone a baby to death in its carriage. What begins as roughhousing escalates to all-out sadism until a rock is thrown at point blank range, ending the child's...
Tags: United Kingdom, William Friedkin, Crime, Law and Justice, Artists, Culture
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A sneak peek at three Oscar ballots
On the eve of Oscar voting, we asked three academy members to let us peek at their ballots and tell us, anonymously, who they're voting for and why. Here's what they had to say: OSCARS 2013: Full Coverage PRODUCERS BRANCH: This 40ish Oscar nominee...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Voting, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Academy Awards, Wes Anderson
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Weinstein Co. asks toymaker to discontinue 'Django' action figures
Re-imagining the slave narrative should be left to the professionals. That was the word Friday when the Weinstein Co. announced that it has asked toymaker NECA to discontinue the "Django Unchained" action figure dolls after receiving complaints that the...
Tags: Entertainment, Slavery, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Rhythm & Hues to file for bankruptcy protection
The award-winning visual-effects company Rhythm & Hues, considered one of the industry's leaders, is laying off 200 employees as it files for bankruptcy protection, sources close to the studio said. The layoffs come as the L.A. company, which worked...
Tags: James Cameron, Life of Pi (movie), United Kingdom, Career and Workplace, Employees
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The 'Argo' factor in this year's Oscar fest
In the week since Oscar nominations were announced, we've sat through two award shows — the Critics' Choice Awards, thrown by a group of junketeers who, according to Anne Hathaway at least, can't even spell the names of their winners right, and...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Rupert Murdoch, Michael Haneke, Voting, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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'Argo' named best film at the BAFTA awards
Director-producer-star Ben Affleck’s historical drama “Argo” continued its late-inning awards sweep Sunday, winning a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for best film. Although snubbed by 2013 Oscar balloters in the best...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Marion Cotillard, Helen Mirren, The Master (movie), Anne Hathaway
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'Red Tails,' Kerry Washington among NAACP Image Award winners
"Red Tails," the World War II drama about the Tuskegee airmen, was named best picture at the 44th NAACP Image Awards on Friday evening at the Shrine Auditorium. But the evening's biggest winner was actress Kerry Washington. She won for actress in a...
Tags: NAACP, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), ABC (tv network), Awards and Prizes, Flight (movie)
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Now for real insight into Oscars -- by the guilds
The academy liked "Argo," but not its director, Ben Affleck. The Directors Guild of America nominated Affleck, but couldn't find room for "Silver Linings Playbook" auteur David O. Russell, who, naturally, received an Oscar nomination for direction....
Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Academy Awards, Career and Workplace, Screen Actors Guild
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