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'Anonymous' won't open nationwide in last-minute change
Company TownSony Pictures will open the William Shakespeare authorship drama "Anonymous" in only 250 theaters next weekend, scaling back from an initial wide release and hoping to first build word of mouth.... -
'Anonymous' provokes skepticism from Shakespeare experts
Culture Monster"Anonymous," the new movie from disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich, revives the age-old Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship arguing that Edward de Vere was in fact the man behind the Bard's masterpieces.... -
Movie Projector: 'Puss in Boots' to stomp on competition
Company TownThe animated fugitive hero of "Puss in Boots" will run away with the box office crown this weekend, according to those who have seen pre-release audience surveys. Two other films debuting in wide release, "In Time" with Justin Timberlake and "The Rum... -
Music theater review: Peter Sellars' 'Desdemona' at Berkeley
Culture MonsterPeter Sellars' "Desdemona" -- with text by Toni Morrison and music by Rokia Traoré -- is an incantatory new re-imagining of Shakespeare's "Othello," giving the missing voice to the women and Africans.... -
Shakespeare whodunit
Opinion L.A.If I may borrow from the Bard, it's "much ado about nothing." The movie "Anonymous" has stirred the simmering pot of those who find reasons, and adequate spare time, to question whether William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the most remarkable.... -
Critic's Notebook: Who wrote 'Hamlet'?
Culture MonsterRoland Emmerich's film "Anonymous" has added fuel to the Shakespeare authorship debate, but what are the Shakespeare debunkers and defenders both leaving out?... -
An early look at Ralph Fiennes in Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'
Culture MonsterRalph Fiennes stars in 'Coriolanus'... -
Shakespeare Center L.A. honors Hollywood figures, professor
Culture MonsterShakespeare Center of Los Angles will honor filmmaker Roland Emmerich and entertainment lawyer Bert Fields for their work in keeping the Bard prominent. Emmerich's new film, `Anonymous,' and a 2005 book by Fields both focus on the controversy over who... -
Disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich takes on William Shakespeare
Culture MonsterThe idea that Roland Emmerich -- the disaster-flick auteur behind "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" -- was taking on William Shakespeare for his next movie project struck many as strange, incongruous and just plain wrong. What... -
The Shakespeare authorship question isn't settled
As the screenwriter of "Anonymous," the Roland Emmerich film about the Shakespeare authorship question now in production, I read with great interest James Shapiro's April 11 Times Op-Ed article, "Alas, poor Shakespeare."
I was particularly fascinated...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens
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'2012' and the making of the end of the world
The Hero ComplexHOLLYWOOD BACKLOT The end of the world begins on Nov. 13. That's the release date of "2012," the disaster film from director Roland Emmerich, the German filmmaker who apparently likes to pluck his movie titles from the calendar ("Independence Day,"...... -
The '2012' doomsday craze is keeping scientists busy and frustrated
The Hero ComplexLos Angeles Times staff writer John Johnson Jr. writes about science for the paper, not science fiction, so you don't see his name pop up in this blog. That changes today, though, because Johnson and the scientists he covers are......
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