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Hollywood reacts to death of visual effects guru Ray Harryhausen
Directors, actors and animation fans of all stripes saluted Ray Harryhausen on Tuesday as news of the visual effects pioneer's death reached Hollywood. Harryhausen, the stop-motion animator of such classics as 1955's "It Came From Outer Space," 1958's...
Tags: Entertainment, Patton Oswalt, Movies, Action (Movie Genre), Clash of the Titans (movie)
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Disney's profit and revenue soar on "Oz," parks, ESPN
Walt Disney Co. reported a massive jump in net income for its fiscal second quarter, lifted by the performance of its media networks, movie studio and theme parks. The Burbank company posted net income of $1.51 billion for the quarter that ended March...
Tags: Entertainment, ESPN (tv network), Gaming, Science and Technology, Electronic Arts Inc.
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Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'
Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...
Tags: Jonah Hill, Jerry Bruckheimer , Genres, Melissa McCarthy, Armie Hammer
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Disney welcomes its 'Oz' as biggest 2013 debut
What a difference a year makes. On March 9, 2012, Walt Disney Pictures released "John Carter," the sci-fi adventure film that promptly bombed, taking in about $40 million en route to a $73-million domestic gross that precipitated the resignation of Walt...
Tags: Entertainment, Mila Kunis, Travel, The Walt Disney Co., Rachel Weisz
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'Oz' poised to find box-office gold. Horn has cool hand at Disney.
After the coffee. Before deciding if I'll see 'Oz' this weekend. The Skinny: After seeing "Being Flynn" on HBO last night, I've decided that "Silver Linings Playbook" was over-hyped. Friday's headlines include a preview of the weekend box office, a look...
Tags: Entertainment, Satellite and Cable Service, ESPN (tv network), Time Warner Cable Inc., The Walt Disney Co.
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'Jack the Giant Slayer': Five lessons from a box-office bomb
If it's March, it must be an effects-driven dud. Nearly a year after Disney's "John Carter" crashed to earth, bringing an executive down with it, a different fantasy-heavy film fell mightily at the box office this weekend. Nominally based on the myth of...
Tags: Entertainment, Sundance Film Festival, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects (movie)
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'Jack the Giant Slayer' director faced some towering challenges
When screenwriter Darren Lemke first proposed the idea of contemporizing the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale with CG technology, it was 2005. Tim Burton had not yet jumped into the rabbit hole with "Alice in Wonderland." Amanda Seyfried had yet to don...
Tags: Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Superman (fictional character), Stanley Tucci
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Valentine’s Day super love [Photos]
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesJohn and Dejah, Mary Jane and Peter, Catherine and Vincent, Jean and Scott. On Valentine's Day, we turn to our ...... -
40th Annie Award nominees and winners list
Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" was named best animated film of 2012 at the 40th Annie Awards on Saturday evening at UCLA's Royce Hall. Rich Moore also was named best director for the animated comedy about a video game villain who dreams of being a hero, and ...
Tags: SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Bydlo (movie), Brave (movie), Judaism, Dr. Seuss
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Working Hollywood: Tattoo artist Dickcherry has lasting influence
The artist and graphic designer known as Dickcherry doesn't sport any real tattoos, but he makes temporary ones for characters in the supernatural thriller "Mama," the action movie "The Last Stand," and "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters." "I can't even...
Tags: Derrick Rose, Adidas AG, Mama (movie), Fine Artists, Artists
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Studios relying more on outside funding to make award contenders
For this awards season, Hollywood came through with a bumper crop of movies that were critical and fan favorites. But in many cases, the big studios themselves can't take much of the credit. Among the films basking in Oscar nominations — and...
Tags: Entertainment, Buster Keaton, The King's Speech (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Academy Awards
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Mark Andrews is up to the task for 'Brave'
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — It takes a fearless sort of man to wear a skirt to the office — even when the office is a den of art school grads, the boss is an avuncular guy with a Hawaiian shirt fetish and the skirt is a stylish plaid number...
Tags: Entertainment, Reese Witherspoon, Animation (genre), Cancer, Ratatouille (movie)
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