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Participant Media hopes more filmgoers will get its messages
In "Snitch," a thriller set in the dangerous drug world, Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes to work as a drug informant to free his jailed son. The PG-13 film from Participant Media features a street fight, a car chase and a gun battle — high-...
Tags: Action (Movie Genre), An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Marketing, Peter Guber, Entertainment
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WikiLeaks movie 'The Fifth Estate' starts production
DreamWorks Studios has begun filming the “The Fifth Estate,” a movie about the controversial founder of WikiLeaks. The film, which will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 15 through Disney's Touchstone label, began principal photography last week...
Tags: Bill Condon, Laura Linney, Entertainment, Anthony Mackie, Benedict Cumberbatch
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Review: 'Lost Angels' documents struggles on L.A.'s Skid Row
"Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home" is an absorbing, at times heartbreaking look at several former and current denizens of downtown L.A.'s Skid Row, a 50-block area that one observer here respectfully calls "an open asylum for the mentally ill." As the...
Tags: Entertainment, Catherine Keener, Movies, Bipolar Disorder
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Storytelling on L.A.'s skid row
Once a week for the last several years, I've driven to skid row to visit a friend. I get depressed about the area at times because it's such a depository of the unfortunate and the forgotten. But then I'll catch a warm greeting, or see a sign of hope in...
Tags: Addiction, Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Mental Illness, Rentals
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Motion picture academy invites 176 new members
This post has been updated, as indicated below. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 176 new members into the organization on Friday, including Octavia Spencer, Terrence Malick, Matthew McConaughey, Kristen Wiig, Kerry Washington,...
Tags: Jurassic Park (movie), Simon Chinn, Melissa McCarthy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (movie), Michel Hazanavicius
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On Location: Skid row finds new home in 'Lost Angels' documentary
Company TownDowntown Los Angeles has been a favored filming location since the days of the silent movies. But rarely do filmmakers get a chance to shine a spotlight on people who actually live on its streets, especially in a 50-block area known as skid row.... -
Is 'The Social Network's' view of Harvard's final clubs hopelessly outdated?
The Big PictureThe people who are closest to the world portrayed in a film are almost always the ones quickest to indulge in all sorts of nitpicking criticism of the film's depiction of that world. It's one reason why Hollywood probably has...... -
Will Paul Thomas Anderson direct Pynchon adaptation?
Jacket CopyPaul Thomas Anderson, the director of "Magnolia" and "There Will Be Blood," may direct an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, "Inherent Vice," New York magazine reports. The book features a stoned private detective in a Southern California beach... -
Robert Downey Jr. starring in Steven Spielberg's 'Harvey' remake?
The Hero ComplexThe official announcement may be a week or two away, but the word is that Robert Downey Jr. is poised to go down the rabbit hole in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of "Harvey," the Pulitzer-winning stage play that reached the...... -
PEN Center USA awards fete Elmore Leonard
Jacket CopyThe PEN Center USA literary awards, held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, made for an odd intersection of worlds. Book people are somewhat less glamorous than movie people -- more glasses, lower heels, generally less camera-ready -- but...... -
Placido Domingo, Lang Lang and Renee Fleming make Billboard's top classical artists of 2009
Culture MonsterFor the serious classical music and opera connoisseur, Billboard's list of the top classical artists of 2009 can seem like a sacrilege, or maybe just a big joke -- Il Divo, Paul Potts, Andrea Bocelli, Andre Rieu and Sarah Brightman......
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