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Top 10 movie flops of the decade (Reuters)
Reuters - Movie flops aren't just about losing money. Yes, big budgets that go bust are one consideration. But flops are also about lofty expectations dashed and high profiles brought low. They trigger embarrassing catcalls from the peanut gallery and ...
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"Moon" begins long weekend atop box office (Reuters)
Reuters - Summit Entertainment's vampires-and-werewolves phenomenon "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" shrugged off three new wide releases to top the daily box-office rankings Wednesday with domestic grosses of $14.3 million.
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Australian Aboriginal movie wins top Asia Pacific award (Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian movie highlighting the desperate state of many Aboriginal communities won top prize at the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Thursday in which 37 films from 16 countries were competing.
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A Minute With: Director Lee Daniels on his "Precious" (Reuters)
Reuters - "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels, is generating a large amount of Oscar buzz this season and getting a push from executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.
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A list of nominees at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards (AP)
AP - A list of nominees in the top categories at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, which will be announced this Saturday in Taipei:
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Art-house films top contenders at Chinese Oscars (AP)
AP - An Australia-based director's romance, a Taiwanese family drama and the story of a Chinese peasant guarding a cow are the unlikely trio of top contenders at the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars to be announced on Saturday.
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Screenwriter Peckham dives into "Deep Sea" (Reuters)
Reuters - "Invictus" screenwriter Anthony Peckham has been hired to work on the script for the DreamWorks Studios action project "Deep Sea Cowboys."
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Polanski wins $4.5M bail, house arrest likely (AP)
AP - Roman Polanski has been granted $4.5 million bail, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine resort chalet.
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"Star Trek" lands atop video charts (Reuters)
Reuters - Consumers beamed up "Star Trek" in droves during its first week in stores, enough to make the summer box-office hit the top home-video seller and renter.
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Fed credit card tips coming to big screen near you (AP)
AP - Sneak previews of upcoming blockbusters. Snappy reminders to buy popcorn, and turn off all cell phones and pagers.
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Nude photo of Polanski, Tate to be auctioned in NY (AP)
AP - A nude photo of filmmaker Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate taken just months before her death will be sold at auction next month.
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In recession, `Up in the Air' touches down on time (AP)
AP - "Up in the Air" has undergone the rarest of flights: It was delayed for a long time and its course was altered, yet it has arrived right on time.
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Iranian director, opposition campaigner wins award (Reuters)
Reuters - Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf won the Freedom to Create Prize on Wednesday, and dedicated his award to leading cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri and the popular opposition movement he supports.
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Polanski wins bail in Switzerland, in jail for now (AP)
AP - A Swiss court has approved Roman Polanski's bail offer of $4.5 million to be released from prison and kept under house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Swiss chalet.
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AP - Swiss court grants Roman Polanski bail, but he is kept in jail pending appeal.
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Hong Kong director takes on Mulan with real actors (AP)
AP - More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story of Hua Mulan with real actors.
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Peter Jackson has break from big budgets in Lovely Bones (Reuters)
Reuters - New Zealand's Peter Jackson takes a break from blockbusters with "The Lovely Bones," an adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel about girl who is brutally raped and murdered and who looks down on her family from heaven.
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Bruni-Sarkozy says 'yes' to Woody film proposal (AP)
AP - Woody Allen has successfully courted France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
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Kingsley to play Mogul emperor who built Taj Mahal (AP)
AP - Ben Kingsley, famous for his Oscar-winning portrayal of Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi, is reaching deeper into the country's history with a new role as the Mogul emperor who ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal.
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Hong Kong director takes on Mulan with real actors (AP)
AP - More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story of Hua Mulan with real actors.
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"Assassin," "Dogs" join teen vampires at box office (Reuters)
Reuters - There's no doubt that "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" will rise to the top of the domestic box office again over the coming long holiday weekend.
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Capsule reviews: `The Road,' `Old Dogs' and others (AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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Review: `Old Dogs' proves a mangy mongrel (AP)
AP - In case anyone in the audience isn't sure when to cackle, coo, snicker or sigh, the makers of "Old Dogs" have provided a handy on-screen prompt.
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Film director Tyler Perry gives $1 million to NAACP (Reuters)
Reuters - Director and comic actor Tyler Perry, whose films include the recent "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," has given $1 million to the NAACP in the largest gift ever by a single person to that civil rights group.
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Review: `Me and Orson Welles' is snappy if slight (AP)
AP - As an icon prone to caricature, Orson Welles ranks right up there with Truman Capote and Ray Charles.
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Avast! Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' runs aground (AP)
AP - "Pirate Latitudes" (HarperCollins, 320 pages. $27.99), by Michael Crichton: It's pointless to complain about the cardboard characters, dreadful action-movie dialogue and wildly improbable plot points in Michael Crichton's latest — and ...
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Filmmaker Tyler Perry donates $1M to Rights group (AP)
AP - Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.
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Filmmaker Tyler Perry donates $1M to NAACP (AP)
AP - Filmmaker Tyler Perry has donated $1 million to the NAACP to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the civil rights organization.
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King Kong figurine used in 1930s movie sold in UK (AP)
AP - The tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters has sold for about 121,000 pounds ($200,000) at a London auction.
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Gael Garcia Bernal's new role is 'provocative' (AP)
AP - Gael Garcia Bernal calls his latest film "provocative."
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Iowa AG: State lifting film tax credit suspension (AP)
AP - Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has lifted his suspension of a film promotion tax credit program for projects previously submitted by movie makers, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced.
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Utah film contest rewards with Sundance exposure (AP)
AP - Filmmakers around Utah are rushing to wrap their entries for a contest promoting the state as a desirable destination for film production.
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Review: `Princess and the Frog' is a hearty hop (AP)
AP - The last time we heard from the hand-drawn animators at Disney, they offered up the barnyard tale "Home on the Range." The 2004 'toon was so forgettable it seemed as though it really might be the last time we ever heard from the hand-drawn ...
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French first lady Bruni to act for Woody Allen (AFP)
AFP - France's first lady, singing ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in US auteur Woody Allen's next movie, she told a television interviewer.
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Screenwriting duo enters "Uncharted" territory (Reuters)
Reuters - Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have been given the keys to "Uncharted: Drake Fortune."
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Capsule reviews: `The Road,' `Ninja' and others (AP)
AP - Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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"New Moon" final weekend box office hits $142.8 million (Reuters)
Reuters - Final box office figures for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" showed the movie's ticket sales rising to $142.8 million from an estimated $140.7 million last weekend, the studio behind the film said on Monday.
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Asian films lead Toronto fest's best-of-decade poll (Reuters)
Reuters - Asian films, led by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century," dominated the Toronto International Film Festival's best-of-the-decade poll results released Monday.
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Vampire sequel 'New Moon' feasts on box office (AFP)
AFP - The "Twilight" vampire romance sequel "New Moon" took a record-breaking bite out of the North American box office this weekend, final figures showed Monday.
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Review: `Ninja Assassin' sports a dull blade (AP)
AP - When considering the meager merits of the bone-snapping, blood-splattered "Ninja Assassin," it's best to remember the words of John Goodman's PC-challenged character in "The Big Lebowski": "The man in the black pajamas, Dude. Worthy ... ...
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"New Moon" final weekend box office hits $142.8 mln (Reuters)
Reuters - Final box office figures for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" showed the movie's ticket sales rising to $142.8 million from an estimated $140.7 million last weekend, the studio behind the film said on Monday.
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Avast! Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' runs aground (AP)
AP - "Pirate Latitudes" (HarperCollins, 320 pages. $27.99), by Michael Crichton: It's pointless to complain about the cardboard characters, dreadful action-movie dialogue and wildly improbable plot points in Michael Crichton's latest — and ...
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Fox says will make profit with sci-fi epic Avatar (Reuters)
Reuters - 20th Century Fox will make a profit with James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar," Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Jim Gianopulos said in an interview, and dismissed reports the movie cost $500 million as "ridiculous."
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Fox CEO wants US to join France on Internet piracy (AP)
AP - The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films.
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Ahead of the Bell: 'New Moon' lifts theater chains (AP)
AP - A surprisingly strong weekend opening for the second movie in the Twilight vampire series, "New Moon," led analysts to raise their box office forecasts and support a more upbeat outlook for theater chains.
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Review: `The Road' strives, but leads nowhere (AP)
AP - In Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel "The Road," no word is repeated so often and with such steady emphasis as "ash."
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Cuba film institute founder looks back on 50 years (AP)
AP - Fidel Castro was 32 and building his new government on the fly.
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Brad Pitt's production company enters "Dark Void" (Reuters)
Reuters - "Dark Void" will yield movie development matter.
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"New Moon" rises to No. 1 at midnight box office (Reuters)
Reuters - Vampire romance movie "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" raked in $26.3 million at North American box offices in midnight showings, breaking the record set by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," studio officials said on Friday.
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Smash "Twilight" sequel enters record books (Reuters)
Reuters - The "Twilight" sequel scored the third-biggest opening weekend of all time at the North American box office on Sunday, as millions of young women swooned over the complex love triangle involving a high school girl, a vampire and a ...
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