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Del Close: Dueling scripts detail improv pioneer
Charna Halpern's script about her late iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) co-founder Del Close opens with the vastly influential, hard-living, difficult, brilliant improvisation pioneer glimpsing a TV on which his former student Betty Thomas is thanking him...
Tags: LSD, Eugene Levy, Faster (movie) , Tim Meadows, David Pasquesi
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Toronto film fest opens with shows of force
Immersing yourself in a major film festival means more than getting your feet wet. In the screening time it takes to experience two films, perhaps the very first two you see across several days, your perceptions are scrambled in the best possible fashion....
Tags: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Action (Movie Genre), Toronto International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Arts and Culture
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Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'
Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...
Tags: Death of a Salesman (play), Cloud Atlas (movie), Hugo Weaving, Gangster Squad (movie), Entertainment
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Time-traveling 'Looper' starts strong, remains intriguing ★★★
For about an hour "Looper" really cooks. Its second half is more of a medium boil, and less fun. But watching it, I realized how few commercial entertainments hold up straight through to the end-point. Even a clever and idiosyncratic filmmaker such as...
Tags: Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Entertainment, Jeff Daniels, Liam Neeson
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'Looper' review (****): The year's most excitingly original movie
**** (out of four) Personally, I prefer sci-fi with a relatively low quantity of sci. Writer-director Rian Johnson seems to feel the same. In his spectacular "Looper" Johnson creates a futuristic world and connects the dots as needed, but several times...
Tags: Entertainment, In Time (movie), Bleep (euphemism), Movies, Bruce Willis
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‘Looper’: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson are a tight team
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comIt's late afternoon on a sweltering day in Hollywood, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer-director Rian Johnson have just finished recording ...... -
What Buyers Want at Cannes: More Jennifer Lawrence, Less Sylvester Stallone
ReutersMay 13 (TheWrap.com) - Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are just a few of the Hollywood luminaries to descend upon Cannes this week for the world's most famous film festival. What no one seems to know is whether this will be a good...Tags: Italy, The Hunger Games (movie), Mathieu Amalric, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bullet to the Head (movie)
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FilmNation Grabs $50M in New Money to Finance More Films
ReutersMay 07 (TheWrap.com) - FilmNation has secured $50 million in new capital through a credit facility backed by Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Union Bank, the company announced on Thursday. The sales, financing and production company will use the money...Tags: Mud (movie), Memento (movie), Economy, Business and Finance, Magic Mike (movie), Entertainment
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Colin Firth & Emily Blunt: 'Arthur Newman' Is Not Just Indie, It's Subversive
ReutersApr 26 (TheWrap.com) - "If you don't have a life, get someone else's," is the tagline on "Arthur Newman," a black comedy about identity from first-time feature director Dante Ariola. It stars a couple of people with lots of history inhabiting other...Tags: Entertainment, Arthur Newman (movie), Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), Celebrities
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Hong Kong film industry changes focus to mainland
HONG KONG — When Mabel Cheung, one of this city's leading directors, shot her historical-political drama "The Soong Sisters" in China in the mid-1990s, the nature of the exchange for the co-production was simple: Beijing provided inexpensive...
Tags: Peter Chan, Politics, Arts and Culture, Taiwan, Freedom of the Press
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'Iron Man 3' not the first film to get a unique Chinese cut
Hollywood is pretty well accustomed to its movies being censored by authorities in China. But in the case of Marvel Studios' forthcoming "Iron Man 3," something close to the opposite of that practice is taking place. On Friday, Walt Disney Co....Tags: The Walt Disney Co., China, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Entertainment, Men in Black III (movie)
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'The Croods' is weekend's No. 1, 'Olympus' beats expectations
It was a weekend of firsts at the box office. The No. 1 spot went to the first cave-man family in "The Croods," and "Olympus Has Fallen" star Gerard Butler had his first strong showing at the multiplex in years. The 3-D animated family film beat out...Tags: U.S. Secret Service, The Hunger Games (movie), Selena Gomez, Rise of the Guardians (movie), Nicolas Cage
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