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http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/ - Variety columnist and deputy online editor Anne Thompson is your trusted source for breaking film industry news. She tracks Hollywood, Indiewood, the Oscars and film festivals around the world.
[Posted by Steve Chagollan]
Having covered a few City of Lights, City of Angels French showcases, I’ve been invited to the occasional lunch at the French Consul General's home in Beverly Hills. One such event last year, for La Vie en Rose Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard, was mobbed by media ...
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The Class
Laurent Cantet
Academy Awards
[Posted by Steve Gaydos]
This week's UCLA Sneak Preview screening of Rod Lurie's Nothing But The Truth provided a showcase for the writer-director to practice his other craft - acting - while animatedly talking up his new topical thriller/lady in distress platform for star Kate Beckinsale. ...
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Nothing But The Truth
Kate Beckinsale
Vera Farmiga
Entourage
Disney's animated Bolt nabbed good reviews ( 85% Tomatometer ), while the vampire romance Twilight did not
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Bolt
Twilight
Kristen Stewart
Ron Howard
After everybody had checked their cameras and phones, J.J. Abrams stood in front of the packed Paramount Studio Theatre Wednesday to unspool four scenes from Star Trek, about twenty minutes. With the movie not opening until May and the first trailer out this week, it felt a tad early for a ...
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Star Trek
J.J. Abrams
Zoe Saldana
Leonard Nimoy
John Cho
Well before the opening of Twilight, Rob Pattinson's fame lured long lines of girls for the recent Austin Film Fest screening of his upcoming Brit indie flick How to Be, which still lacks a distributor. The producers sent me this rather strange behind-the-scenes footage of Pattinson taken ...
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First there was the story of the Landmark
Cinema digital screening of the Spanish-language Che without any
subtitles at all. Critics prepared to screen the movie were sent home when the projectionist couldn't solve the problem. Then there was an ...
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Fox Searchlight will send out its first trailer
for The Wrestler today. Their mission: to make filmgoers
want to see a movie that looks very male--Mickey Rourke plays a down-on-his-luck, aging wrestler facing the end of his career who suddenly ...
Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert keeps in touch with his fans via his well-read blog. Here's a recent memoirish entry .
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Gene Siskel
Roger Moore
Here's the latest trailer On Henry Selick's stop-motion Coraline, from the novel by Neil Gaiman.
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Baz Luhrmann loves drama, spectacle, scenery, westerns, war
movies, romance, adventure, and over-the-top emotion. That's what you
get in Australia, which is well done for what it is, assuming that you like old-fashioned Hollywood movies of the sort ...
This shot of Johnnie Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is making the rounds. Everyone likes to repeat that Will Smith is Hollywood's only bonafide movie star capable of opening movies no matter what he does, but Depp is in there too. Also coming up are Michael Mann's ...
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Johnny Depp
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton
Heath Ledger
Will Smith
IFC exec Ryan Werner is a tireless marketing machine. He's the guy who is shepherding an amazing number of films into release this fall and winter, from Steve Soderbergh's Che to Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments, one of five movies IFC is releasing that have been submitted for the foreign ...
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Academy Awards
While Charlie Kaufman's films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation were art-house hits in Israel, his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is being unceremoniously dumped by its Israeli distributor.
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[Posted by David S. Cohen] To date, other
than James Cameron's Avatar, there have been no announcements
of a major franchise installment in live-action 3-D. No 3-D Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Die Hard or Pirates of the Caribbean. We hear from ...
We've been teased. But here's the first full trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince . It was originally supposed to be opening this weekend, but was pushed back to July 17, 2009. (Twilight took its slot.)
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The Mutiny Company posts cool photos of movie directors taken in hotel rooms with natural light. These recently added ones of George A. Romero reminded me of how much I like him.
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George Armitage
Spike Jonze talks to Moriarty about his retooling of Where the Wild Things Are. Playtone had told me that Jonze was back in production on the movie with a new set of visual effects for the wild things.
Here's Jonze on AICN:
I wanted it to feel “real,” or not-real because it’s not ...
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Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze
Star Wars
Mickey Rourke
I saw Revolutionary Road over the weekend, and moderated a panel Saturday night with director Sam Mendes, Leonardo DiCaprio (nominated three times), Kate Winslet (nominated five times), Oscar-winner Kathy Bates and theater actor Michael Shannon (W.), cinematographer Roger Deakins (nominated ...
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Revolutionary Road
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Sam Mendes
Kathy Bates
Paul Newman
Esquire Magazine defined great journalism for decades. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the magazine is posting their 7 Greatest Stories in the history of the mag , including Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, Tom Junod and Tom Wolfe. Read it and weep.
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Digital Screenings Bring Headaches