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Cannes 2013: 'Salinger,' 'Osage County' among Weinstein hopefuls
Cannes, France--With award-season hits such as “The Silver Linings Playbook” and “Django Unchained,” the Weinstein Co. had a small but potent slate in the latter half of 2012. On Friday evening at the Cannes Film Festival, the...
Tags: The Weinstein Company, Octavia Spencer, Film Festivals, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Movies
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'The Butler' puts a new spin on LBJ, says Liev Schreiber
The new trailer for Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” shows an up-from-his-bootstraps man moving, Zelig-like, through U.S. presidential history, demonstrating how “one man overcame his past.” But for at least one of the actors...
Tags: The Weinstein Company, Oprah Winfrey, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Celebrities
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Oprah Winfrey brings drama to 'The Butler' trailer
Moviegoers well-acquainted with Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels’ eyebrow-raising filmic oeuvre may be shocked to learn that his latest movie, “The Butler,” seems, at first blush, rather short on salacious surprises. This from the...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mariah Carey, Movies
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Millennium Entertainment is for sale, says CEO Bill Lee
After enjoying what it says were record revenue and earnings in 2012, Millennium Entertainment, the distribution arm of Avi Lerner’s Nu Image, is on the auction block. Millennium Chief Executive Bill Lee said in a news release Monday that Los...Tags: The Paperboy (movie), Bernie (movie), Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (movie), Entertainment
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NuImage Puts Millennium Entertainment on the Block
ReutersApr 22 (TheWrap.com) - NuImage, Exclusive Media and Connecticut-based hedge fund Prentice Capital have hired Salem Partners, a Los Angeles-based investment bank, to help them sell independent distributor Millennium Entertainment, Millennium announced on...Tags: Salem (New London, Connecticut), The Paperboy (movie), What Maisie Knew (movie), Bernie (movie), Movies
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Hollywood studios pack in titles at Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival has a long tradition of showcasing independent global cinema. But in a twist, this year's lineup also includes movies from a wide range of Hollywood entities: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS Films, the Weinstein Co., even...Tags: Guillaume Canet, The Weinstein Company, Independent (Movie Genre), Paramount Pictures, Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival
The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...Tags: Guillaume Canet, The Weinstein Company, Carey Mulligan, Human Interest, Paramount Pictures
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Mariah Carey releases new single, 'Almost Home'
Remember when Mariah Carey was, more than anything else, a singer? Today, music is just one of the pop/soul diva's many pursuits, an occupation on equal footing with her judge's gig on "American Idol" and the hours she spends posting tubby-time pictures...Tags: Skyfall (movie), Meek Mill, Music, Adele (music artist), Mariah Carey
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With Chan-wook Park's 'Stoker,' Nicole Kidman does an about-face
Nicole Kidman has been pushing in some unusual directions lately. But that adventurousness takes on an entirely new dimension in Chan-wook Park’s “Stoker,” a movie focusing on an unstable woman who lives in a Gothic house (Kidman), her...
Tags: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Lanza, Film Festivals, Matthew Goode, Bruce Hornsby
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New Releases: 'Searching for Sugar Man' and more
Searching for Sugar Man Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $35.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Detroit-based singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodríguez couldn't get any airplay in the U.S. in the '70s with his soulful, political folk-rock, but his 1970 album,...Tags: Organized Crime, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Movies
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'The Paperboy'
An impressive cast gives life to a sinister story, as director Lee Daniels ("Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire") brings novelist Pete Dexter's backwoods Florida 1960s crime tale to film. Matthew McConaughey and David Oyewolo play reporters...Tags: Macy Gray, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, Zac Efron, Scott Glenn
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'The Paperboy': Nicole Kidman is used to audience discomfort
Talk about a good week. On back-to-back days last week, Nicole Kidman received two nominations each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. Both organizations cited her performance in the television movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn" opposite...
Tags: Academy Awards, Film Festivals, Grace Kelly, Movies, Screen Actors Guild
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