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10 Things I Learned This Week

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:45 +0000

By Michael Adams 1. Sam's Boots Were Made for Walking With just a month to go until “Avatar” makes him one of the biggest -- and bluest -- stars in the movie world, Sam Worthington's having himself a fun victory tour of his native Australia. This week he was named “Man of the Year” by the Down Under version of GQ magazine and lauded at the Inside Film Awards. Showing he's keeping it real, Sam wore his “lucky” old workboots -- the ones he kept o...

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Spielberg, King Team on 'Dome'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:36 +0000

By Variety It's a potent combination: Steven + Stephen. Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome." DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. DreamWorks principal Stacey Snider was key in bringing the project to the company. Spielberg, King and Snider will exec produce along with DreamWorks TV chiefs Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Read more from Variety.

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Steven Spielberg and Stephen King Team on Dome

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:41:21 +0000

Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are developing a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome," reports Variety . DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable.

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Good Vibes and 'Bad Weed' at the Governors Awards

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:06:38 +0000

By Steve Pond Not everything that happened at Saturday night's Governors Awards ceremony fit into theWrap's initial report on the evening. Herewith, more random happenings, tidbits and musings from the lengthy, emotional evening, the first of its kind and the first significant Oscar event of the season: Given the event's low profile and only 550 guests, the usual Oscar crowds were nowhere in sight – not that the public could have gotten a glimpse of any of the attending luminaries, whose cars were routed through a roundabout path, entering from the back of the Hollywood & High...

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My Hollywood Breakthrough: We Destroyed the Film

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:41:48 +0000

By Vilmos Zsigmond (to Eric Estrin) The dazzling light show that served as interplanetary communication in 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” helped win both cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and the film their only Oscar. Zsigmond was nominated three other times as well and won a lifetime achievement award from the ASC for a legendary career that has spanned decades and included multiple collaborations with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, Michael Cimino and Woody Allen. He’s the subject, along with his late friend, colleague and fellow Hungarian émigré Laszlo Kovacs, of...

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Oscars, a Red Carpet, Jack ... But No TV

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:52:05 +0000

By Steve Pond The Governors Awards, which takes place Saturday night at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland, is now a real Oscar show: Jack will be there. I’ve confirmed that Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Alec Baldwin and Peter Fonda will join a handful of previously announced participants, including Tom Hanks, Kirk Douglas, Annette Bening and Quentin Tarantino, in saluting honorary Oscar winners Lauren Bacall, John Calley and Gordon Willis, and Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient John Calley. Stars and legends will walk the red carpet, shiny new...

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Mr. Skin: PG-13 at 25: Will the Movies Ever Grow Up (Again)?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000

In 1984, Steven Spielberg released Gremlins and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom , two PG-rated films sold to children, and the intensity of this box-office blockbusters (understandably) rattled parents. Rather than chastise Hollywood's foremost money-machine, however, the MPAA created a new ratings category specifically tailored to serve Spielberg: the PG-13. As a result, the majority of films released since 1984 have been rated PG-13. The PG-13 rating provides an opportunity for studios to "soften" and, in fact, "dumb down" films to the point where "soft" and "dumb" are presently Hollywood's key ingredients for success. So while movies have grown ever more mechanically violent, nudity and sexuality have been edged out of mainstream cinema, especially serious and, indeed, "adult" treatments of such subjects. It's easy to see how PG-13 has diminished the punch of genres that employ sex as a sales element -- e.g., horror and teen farces -- but let us consider what else this ...

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D-Day historian: 'Ryan' not best war film

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:49:28 +0000

Some reviewers have called "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg's World War II film about D-Day and the search for a soldier, one of the greatest war movies.

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