- Sat, 19 Apr 2014 21:43:15 +0000:
Carriage horse foes picket Liam Neeson's NYC home
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NEW YORK (AP) — Animal welfare activists picketing Liam Neeson's home on Saturday said they don't agree with him that the city's carriage horses should keep working.
- Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:38:49 +0000:
Egypt's censorship board head resigns in film spat
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CAIRO (AP) — The head of Egypt's censorship board has resigned after the country's prime minister overruled his decision to allow a film starring a sultry Lebanese singer to be shown.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:49:43 +0000:
Idris Elba & Girlfriend Welcome Son
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- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:44:18 +0000:
Lawyer: Director not in Hawaii during alleged acts
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HONOLULU (AP) — Credit card receipts, telephone records and production schedules show that "X-Men" franchise director Bryan Singer was not in Hawaii when a lawsuit claims he sexually abused a 17-year-old on the islands, a defense attorney said Friday.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:22:13 +0000:
Lawyer: 'X-Men' director not in Hawaii in mid-1999
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HONOLULU (AP) — A lawyer for "X-Men" franchise director Bryan Singer said Friday that credit card receipts, telephone records and production schedules from the first movie in the comic book series show that Singer wasn't in Hawaii when a lawsuit claims he sexually abused a 17-year-old on the islands.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:04:47 +0000:
Chelsea Clinton, producer, debuts short at Tribeca
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NEW YORK (AP) — First-time movie producer and mom-to-be Chelsea Clinton has premiered a short film at the Tribeca Film Festival.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:05:02 +0000:
Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Family Vacation Pic
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- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:04:49 +0000:
Lindsay Lohan Talks Sex List
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Lindsay Lohan was in the hot seat on Thursday's "Watch What Happens Live" when host Andy Cohen grilled the actress about her sexual conquest list that includes names like Zac Efron, Justin Timberlake, Colin Farrell, Heath Ledger, James Franco and Adam Levine. "That was actually my fifth step in AA at Betty Ford," she explained. One actor who did deny the list was Franco, who shot down his inclusion on Lindsay's list in March while speaking with Los Angeles Magazine about his new poetry book.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:46:42 +0000:
Idris Elba welcomes baby son Winston
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NEW YORK (AP) — Idris Elba has welcomed a baby boy named Winston.
- Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:04:33 +0000:
'The Raid' remake to feature DEA task force
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Patrick Hughes, who's helming August's "The Expendables 3," has outlined some of the changes coming to his remake of hit Indonesian action film "The Raid." I think those are my favorite action films of all time, when you can balance the action and the emotion, and what [Gareth Evans] did with his first 'Raid' was phenomenal." "We're following a DEA task team, which was implemented by the Bush administration after September 11th when they realized that terrorism and the drug trade were so closely aligned."
- Thu, 10 Oct 2013 02:47:16 +0000:
Assange slams WikiLeaks film in letter to actor Benedict Cumberbatch
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange penned an open letter to British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who portrays Assange in an upcoming film, praising the actor's talents but slamming his involvement with the film and turning down the actor's invitation to meet in person. Assange, who is currently holed up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, wrote a letter to Cumberbatch dated January 15, 2013, that was published on Wednesday on the anti-secrecy website ahead of the October 18 theatrical release of Walt Disney Co's DreamWorks film "The Fifth Estate. ...
- Wed, 09 Oct 2013 05:44:46 +0000:
'Captain Phillips' star Abdi finds a risk worth taking in debut
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By Eric Kelsey BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - Barkhad Abdi, a tall wisp of a man with a narrow face and a wide grin, sat on the sofa in his hotel suite with one eye on the television and another on a view of the Hollywood Hills. The 28-year-old Somali-American, who had worked the past year at his brother's mobile phone store in Minneapolis, could hardly have called himself an actor when he began production in British director Paul Greengrass' thriller "Captain Phillips. ...
- Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:55:45 +0000:
France bows to stage director Patrice Chereau, dead at 68
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By Tom Heneghan PARIS (Reuters) - The French theatre, opera and film director Patrice Chereau, who mounted one of the most famous productions of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle in Bayreuth in the 1970s, has died at the age of 68. Chereau, who was preparing a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" when he succumbed to lung cancer, was a restless innovator who began directing at high school in Paris and never looked back. ...
- Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:07:02 +0000:
Lebanon bans two films in setback for tolerant image
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By Stephen Kalin BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has banned the screening of a film about homosexuality and another on short-term "pleasure marriages" practiced in some Muslim communities, in a blow to its reputation as a bastion of tolerance in a deeply conservative region. The films, which had been due to be shown at the Beirut International Film Festival that opened last week, were blocked by a government censorship committee, festival organizers said. ...
- Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:50:52 +0000:
Scarlett Johansson again named 'sexiest woman alive' by Esquire
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(Reuters) - American actress Scarlett Johansson has been named the sexiest woman alive for the second time by Esquire, the men's lifestyle magazine said on Monday. "The Avengers" star was named sexiest woman in 2006 and is the only woman to have been given the title twice by the publication. The annual recipient of the title is chosen by Esquire editors. Husky-voiced Johansson, who rose to prominence as a teenager in the 2001 cult film "Ghost World," stars in three films this fall. ...
- Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:56:09 +0000:
Lebanon bans two films in setback for tolerant image
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By Stephen Kalin BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has banned the screening of a film about homosexuality and another on short-term "pleasure marriages" practiced in some Muslim communities, in a blow to its reputation as a bastion of tolerance in a deeply conservative region. The films, which had been due to be shown at the Beirut International Film Festival that opened last week, were blocked by a government censorship committee, festival organizers said. ...
- Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:34:44 +0000:
Britain's 'kitchen sink' cinema finds dark new twist
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By Patrick Graham LONDON (Reuters) - British director Paul Wright's new film "For Those in Peril" pans across a dour Scottish coastal town where madness, tragedy and a feared sea monster lurk close beneath the surface. It's a dark tale, typical of a new generation of filmmakers like this year's Oscar hopeful Steve McQueen, who are taking Britain's tradition of gritty "kitchen sink" cinema in a stark and sometimes strange direction. ...
- Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:42:15 +0000:
Home of British film launches online player
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By Paul Casciato LONDON (Reuters) - The British Film Institute plans to launch a digital service this month offering access to one of the world's richest movie collections stretching from rare Edwardian footage to contemporary cinema. Founded 80 years ago, the BFI will introduce its BFI Player on October 9 to a rapidly growing video-on-demand (VOD) market worth some 243 million pounds ($393.75 million) in Britain in 2012. "I think this is our most important moment since I've been here," BFI Chairman Greg Dyke told Reuters on Wednesday. ...
- Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:20:58 +0000:
In thriller 'Runner Runner,' Timberlake, Affleck explore gambling's underside
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By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The dark and murky world of online gambling comes alive in new film "Runner Runner," a thriller exploring the depths of greed starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck. Writers David Levien and Brian Koppelman, who penned the 1998 gambling drama "Rounders," return to the poker world with "Runner Runner," out in U.S. theaters on Friday. While gambling is a core theme, the writers said they were inspired by the behaviors and motivations of shady operators from many other industries as well. "We never set out to intentionally hit a topic. ...
- Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:01:39 +0000:
'Raging Bull' copyright fight headed for U.S. Supreme Court
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By Lawrence Hurley and Erin Geiger Smith WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emotionally raw boxing movie "Raging Bull" may have come out 33 years ago, but a copyright fight over an early screenplay has found its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court on Tuesday agreed to take up the case brought by Paula Petrella, daughter of the deceased screenwriter Frank Petrella. She says MGM Holdings Inc and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have infringed the copyright of a 1963 screenplay upon which she alleges 1980 movie was based. ...
