Sunday, October 31, 2010

Scene & Heard: Carousel of Hope gala draws a starry crowd

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From onstage at the 32nd Carousel of Hope, emcee Jay Leno surveyed the crowd before him, describing the gala as one where "the audience is more famous than you."
The Oct. 23 affair at the Beverly Hilton had no shortage of star-power onstage or off. Tom


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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up

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Leehom Wang, top, Jackie Chan and bear in Little Big Soldier, an enjoyable historical epic from China. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Showbox Media

In the pantheon of modern monster sci-fi, Predator will always be a poor man's Alien, an inferiority


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'Splice' turns up fear factor

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Splice is Halloween horror for adults. "I guess it's a thinking man's creature film," its Frankenstein-like creator, Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali, says in an interview.
Intellectually grounded, Splice weaves a science fiction story built around a


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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Glitzy 'City' sequel, hit 'Girl' import arrive for Halloween weekend

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A hit import (“The Girl Who Played With Fire”), a glitzy sequel (“Sex and the City 2”) and an acclaimed drama (“Winter’s Bone”) are among the new arrivals for this Halloween weekend.
The top DVD/Blu-ray Disc rental and sales offerings are:
Best Renters
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Fashion Group International's Night of Stars

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New West Village Eatery: Carmine Café Club

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Michael Giltz: Halloween DVDs: The Exorcist, Psycho, Troll 2 and More

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Boo! Did it work? Did I scare you? If that didn't do the trick, try some of these new DVDs that came out in the last few weeks.
THE EXORCIST ON BLURAY ($34.99; Warner Bros.) --This two-disc, compact but gratifyingly thorough set is a model of what


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Gold Derby nuggets: 3 or 5 animated feature Oscar nominees? | "SNL" = Oscar good luck charm?

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• Pete Hammond has the scoop on the possibility of the animated feature Oscar race expanding this year. As he reports, "the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences sent out a reminder confirmingthe 5 PM PTNovember 1st deadline for 2010 Best Animated


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Friday, October 29, 2010

NEW RELEASES

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Sinuous Adrien Brody muscles up to play a bad-ass bounty hunter in this passable sequel to 80s cult classic Predator. Featuring the same aliens that caused Arnie so much bother in the 1987 original, Brody and seven strangers are hunted by the monsters


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San Francisco Antiques Show Opens

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HuffPost Review: Inspector Bellamy

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The final film of Claude Chabrol's career before his death at 80 in September, is an intriguing exercise in misdirection, built around the formidable figure of Gerard Depardieu.
Depardieu plays the title character, Paul Bellamy, who is on vacation with


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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Trailers tease Hollywood’s upcoming blockbusters and Oscar-season favorites

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It's almost November, which means Oscar season is coming. Every winter, studios release their most aesthetically and artistically valuable projects, aspiring for some coveted nominations at the coming Academy Awards in late February or early March. This


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Contest Winners: 'Apocalypse Now' fans describe their other favorite war films

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By the time Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz shows up in 'Apocalypse Now,' it's already well past surreal, and in Blu-ray high-def, you can almost smell the sweat.
I like the idea of contests, but I'm terrible at administrating them.
See, Iwould be the


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New on DVD

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AFTER years of dizzying success, rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) releases the album African Child, which is lambasted by critics.
Soon after, he breaks up with girlfriend Maggie Q (Rose Byrne) and falls into disrepute in London. During a pitch


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

'Predators'

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Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't on hand this time, but the concept of one of his biggest movie hits gets a reboot in this thriller, placing an assortment of criminals on a planet where aliens hunt them.
Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo (


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'Predators' Tops Weekly Blockbuster(R) Hit List of Top 10 Renting DVDs

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DALLAS, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Topping the BLOCKBUSTER® Hit List of "Top 10 Renting DVD Titles" for the week ending October 24, 2010 is "Predators." In the newest spinoff from "Predator," John McTiernan's 1987 sci-fi thriller starring Arnold


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Cameraman sues Sacha Baron Cohen over 'Bruno' spat

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A cameraman sued Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday, claiming his civil rights were violated when he was roughed up by a film crew shooting the comedian in character as "Bruno" during a gay marriage rally.
FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file


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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Party Report: A Star-Studded Ball in Beverly Hills

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The head table at Barbara Davis’ Carousel of Hope ball boasted a plethora of industry star-makers that were all ears when an unknown 11-year-old girl belted out a stellar version of the “Star Spangled Banner” to kick off the bi-annual mega-ball at the


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Ball raises $2.5M for diabetes center

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Blu-ray Review: Predators

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'Predators' should have been bigger.
I remember going to a press screening one sweltering summer morning in New York this year, and having a ball with the film. (Most of my


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Abu Dhabi film fest moving in right direction

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From a Hollywood movie like "Secretariat" to a compelling conflict tale from Canada like "Incendies" and the animated movie "Chico & Rita" from a Spanish director, the Oct 14-23 fare had a lot to boast of.
The response from film buffs here was


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Gala hits the sweet spot

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And it didn't take long for the "more famous" to trump Leno's jokes on Saturday night, as Tom Hanks immediately bounced onstage, unexpectedly solo. "Uh, my wife, Rita, is in the ladies' room," he stammered, to a roar of laughter from the thesps in the


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Monday, October 25, 2010

Hollywood A-listers -- and one D-lister -- flock to the Carousel of Hope ball in Beverly Hills

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"At the time, it was like they were talking to me in Russian," Fonda says. "It was very hard, which means it took a long time for me to be able to stand on my own two feet and not have to have a man. It's nice to have one, but I got very used to coming


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Halle Berry’s Olivier Martinez is A Keeper

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The newly single, Halleand Olivier Martinez made the first official red carpet debut as a coupleat The The 32nd Annual Carousel Of Hope Ball last Saturday. The function washeld at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA on Saturday.
Halle and her new Frenchbeau,


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This is why we can’t have nice things …

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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in


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Predators

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Rating: R
Starring:
Adrien Brody as Royce
Topher Grace as Edwin
Alice Braga as Isabelle
Walton Goggins as Stans
Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai
Laurence Fishburne as Noland
Danny Trejo as Cuchillo
Louis Ozawa Changchien as


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Carousel of Hope charity ball: Buzz Aldrin parties with Joan Collins and Halle Berry

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Charity balls seem to be the coolest thing to do in Hollywood these days, outside of taking sides in Lindsay's Rehab '10 tour and watching Paris' slow but sure descent into madness. Of course we at HM don't get invited to any charity events because


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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Robert Rodriguez Predators Interview - Predators Now Available on DVD/Blu-ray

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Predators starring Adrien Brody, directed by Nimrod Antal, and produced by Robert Rodriguez just hit stores this past Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray. And in conjunction with the film's DVD/Blu-ray release, guest writer Melissa Molina hit the road to visit


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Adrien Brody suing producers of 'Giallo' horror movie for acting pay

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Adrien Brody is suing the producers of "Giallo," a horror movie he shot two years ago in Italy, claiming they owe him $640,000, court record show.


Martin Barab, a lawyer for Hannibal Pictures, one of the defendants named in the suit, told CNN Brody


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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Celebrity news: Brody sues filmmakers for back pay

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Adrien Brody has sued the makers of a thriller film for more than $2 million, claiming he hasn't been fully paid for the project and the movie is being released in the United States without his permission.
The 2003 Academy Award-winning actor for "The


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Also this week on video:

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Adrien Brody is a mercenary reluctantly leading a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet as prey. Also featuring Topher Grace, Alice Braga and Laurence Fishburne.
Disney documentary released on Earth


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Republican Billionaires(aka the real Illuminati) Memo Leaks, Plot Meeting to Destroy Obama

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Please people, enough with all this nonsense about a bunch of powerless recording artists controlling the earth and being down with the New World Order. The worst thing we will see from these guys is the Taylor Swift incident and Kanye was ready to off


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Adrien Brody:Actor files suit against filmmakers

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LOS ANGELES -- Adrien Brody has sued the makers of a thriller film for more than $2 million, claiming he hasn’t been fully paid for the project and the movie is being released in the United States without his permission.
The Academy Award-winning actor


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Adrien Brody Files Federal Lawsuit For Unpaid Work

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Oscar winner Adrien Brody has filed a $2 million federal lawsuit due after received zero cents for his role in the recently released movie Giallo.
The lawsuit was filed last week in L.A., claiming the makers of the thriller Giallo haven't paid the actor


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Jessica Alba’s CGI ‘Machete’ nude scene: Does it bother you?

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The Internet is abuzz with film fans (and men who like to think they saw Jessica Alba naked) debating whether CGI nude scenes are bad for movies after the Daily Mail reported that Jessica Alba didn’t actually go nude for her shower scene in Machete .


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Jessica Alba's (not) nude scene

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The Internet is abuzz with film fans (and men who like to think they saw Jessica Alba naked) debating whether CGI nude scenes are bad for movies after the Daily Mail reported that Jessica Alba didn’t actually go nude for her shower scene in Machete.


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He should have gone to Blockbuster and picked it up.

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MARTIN BARAB,
defense lawyer, on a lawsuit filed by actor Adrien Brody, who wants a judge to stop the DVD sales of a movie he made in 2008 because he's still owed $640,000; Brody's lawyer apparently did not know the DVD has been in rental stores since


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Adrien Brody’s attempt to halt DVD release fails

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After filing a lawsuit over unpaid wages, Oscar winner Adrien Brody is upset about the release of Giallo on DVD today. The film was shot by horror legend Dario Argento, and Brody claims the paycheck of just under $1 million never arrived.
The film had


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Film: Newswire: Piss off Adrien Brody by buying the Dario Argento movie he doesn't want anyone to see

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Dario Argento’s troubled 2009 film Giallo—which premiered at the Edniburgh Film Festival to poor reviews, then found itself “blacklisted” and without a U.S. theatrical release, leading to Argento himself essentially disowning it—now has the added


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Review: Violent 'Predators' sketchy but better than original

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accident.
"Accidentally on Purpose": Jenna Elfman stars in this short-lived CBS series about a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy.
"Smash His Camera": The documentary
examines the world of celebrity photographers.
"Forbidden Lies": Norma Khouri's


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Satellite company TerreStar files for Chapter 11

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TerreStar Corp., which operates the world's largest commercial satellite and recently started selling a satellite phone through AT&T Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday in an effort to pare debt from its balance sheet.
TerreStar


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Behind Cablevision, Fox tiff, a broader strategy

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The contract dispute that has left 3 million Cablevision subscribers without Fox programming since the weekend may be just one move in a broader chess match between broadcast TV companies and subscription TV providers.
Industry experts say one reason


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Monday, October 18, 2010

Five Action Heroes We Didn't Figure for Action Heroes

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Once upon a time, these five actors also caught us off guard with their action-hero turns:
1. Matt Damon, The Bourne Identity: His grit was never in question: He got scary-thin for Courage Under Fire; he willed himself onto the A-list with Good Will


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'Please Give' takes a look at generations

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of living and crowdedness of the Big Apple. As a way of being nice, Kate - who overly strives to be nice - invites the granddaughters to a birthday dinner for the 90-year-old Andra. With Abby and Alex also there, it becomes one of those evenings in


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This Week: Movies/Home Video (Oct. 18-25)

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MOVIES—Opening this week:
HOME VIDEO—Out on DVD and Blu-Ray this week:
DETAILS --

There's a limited rerelease of Back to the Future this week, in celebration of its silver anniversary: AMC is presenting the digitally remastered film for special


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Movies Pick: Hunt or Be Hunted

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In “Predators,” the director Nimród Antal and the producer Robert Rodriguez rejuice the nineteen-eighties sci-fi/horror franchise with the story of a motley crew of criminals (played by Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, among others) who are


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Elsa Pataky Gorgeous in Spain

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Elsa Pataky promotes her new movie ‘Di Di Hollywood’ in Seville, Spain; The gorgeous Spanish actress looks absolutely stunning, doesn’t she?
We’ve been seeing Halle Berry with her French beau, Olivier Martinez which reminds me that Elsa and Olivier had


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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Film Review: Wrecked

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Wrecked's raw shooting style and eerily quiet scenes will leave you either loving director Michael Greenspan's minimalist approach to executing screenwriter Christopher Dodd's vision, or hating it's somewhat bulky scenes, something that is hard to


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Hollywood Arts Draws Big Name Supporters

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“Formal learning can be very intimidating. by the time they come to us they believe they cannot achieve,” said Rachel Romanski, executive director of Hollywood Arts, “We make learning fun and accessible to them.”
Within just four years Hollywood Arts


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I'm not as serious as my film roles: Adrien Brody

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But he says he's an easy-going person in real life and that he's even got a comedy coming up.
"I'm a much lighter person than the perception of me is. I am very serious about my work. I'm focused and respectful to the process (of filmmaking) but in


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ADFF picks: Kelly Crane

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I'm afraid I'm one of those people who love the idea of being cultured, classy and creative enough to spend a Saturday afternoon taking in an arthouse film in a converted warehouse, but I just don't find the time. This usually means it's the mainstream


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Saturday, October 16, 2010

And it's Off!: Abu Dhabi Breaks Out of the Gate with "Secretariat"

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John Malkovich addresses the audience at the opening night screening of Randall Wallace's "Secretariat" at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. [Photo by Nigel M. Smith/indieWIRE]
A Disney film that opens with a verse from the Bible and features a feminist


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New Trailers This Week: Barney's Good Tiny Wrecked Tempest

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Hey! You! We heard you left the Internet for a few minutes, so we took the liberty of compiling the most important trailer-related info that you might have missed. In the future, please don't leave the Internet without a supervisor's approval.


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World premiere of 'Wrecked' gets warm reception in UAE

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Abu Dhabi: The story of a stranded man and how he copes with the environment he finds himself in before being rescued received a standing ovation from a packed auditorium at the Emirates Palace hotel at the Wrecked's world premiere on Friday.
The film,


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Brody, Owen happy at Abu Dhabi film fest

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The stars may have been few but the smiles were many at the opening night of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Clive Owen and Adrien Brody went out of their way to sign autographs and chat with fans as they made their way up the red carpet for Thursday night’


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"BREAKING: News Corp Pulls Plug On Fox 5 And My9 For Cablevision Customers" and related posts

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FRIDAY PM: Two movies roundly rejected by Hollywood, one for being too moronic and the other for being too moldy, are leading the North American box office tonight.
As a studio exec joked to me Friday, "The Oscar race has been turned on its head".


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Friday, October 15, 2010

Trailer For Wrecked Loses Adrien Brody In The Woods

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Adrien Brody would apparently never settle for being typecast. Though he made a name for himself with (and won an Oscar for) his performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist, this year alone he starred in the action movie Predators, the comedy HIGH


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Accordian, Secretariat screened

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Abu Dhabi: As actors, actresses, directors, producers and screenwriters left the red carpet, they walked their way into a room full of elegantly dressed fans, who shared a night of glitz and glamour with the stars as they all watched the festival’s


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'Secretariat' opens Abu Dhabi fest

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ABU DHABI -- The fourth edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival unspooled Thursday with the international preem of Randall Wallace's "Secretariat."
Pic, which stars Diane Lane and John Malkovich, follows the tale of a horse that won the Triple Crown in 19


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Aguilera files for divorce, Page won't rejoin Ladies

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Pop star Christina Aguilera Thursday filed divorce papers seeking to end her five-year marriage to music executive Jordan Bratman.
Adrien Brody attends a photo call at the opening ceremony of the Abu Dhabi Interntional Film Festival in the capital of


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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Adrien Brody Gets 'Wrecked': Exclusive Trailer!

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Adrien Brody seems to have an uncanny knack for getting knocked unconscious and waking up in dangerous, heavily wooded areas... at least in his movies. In this summer's "Predators," he came to while plummeting through the air en route to a rendezvous


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Jon Wertheim: Social Network's real-life rowing twins aim for 2012 Olympics

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Olympic rowers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss attended the Sept. 29 screening of 'The Social Network' in New York City.
In addition to the expected cluster of cast members, random celebrities (Kevin Spacey, Adrien Brody, Gina Gershon), and assorted


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DVD Review: Predators (2010)

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Predators is a science fiction, action adventure movie directed by Robert Rodriguez's and stars Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Laurence Fishburne, as elite killers, where each becomes target practice for the local aliens' right-


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Adrien Brody wakes up with no memory at the bottom of a ravine in this trailer for Wrecked

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Both were shots of an extremely battered Adrien Brody. In one of them, he's sitting in a car with a looking lost with blood covering his face. What the hell happened? He woke up like this at the bottom of a ravine with dead bodies surrounding him.
With


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Adrien Brody's 'Wrecked' Welcomes International Trailer

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Adrien Brody is totally wrecked in his upcoming movie, which has been previewed in an international trailer. An exclusive courtesy of MTV Movies Blog, the video opens as the actor's character finds himself waking up stuck in a car, which apparently has


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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Blu-ray Review: The Darjeeling Limited - The Criterion Collection

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Released in 2007, The Darjeeling Limited is director Wes Anderson's travelogue film. Stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman play three brothers who reunite after an estranged year to travel through India. Motives range from a spiritual


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Eisenberg vs. Damon? The Youngest Best Actor Nominees!

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"Do I have your full attention?"
Whilst continuing my "Best in Show" column for Tribeca Film, I decided it was high time to highlight Jesse Eisenberg from The Social Network and this is why. Here at The Film Experience though, it's time for Oscar trivia!


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DVD Tuesdays: October 12, 2010

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This week’s release list is short, but both films explore worlds that have rarely been so realistically portrayed.
One Ocean (DVD)
One Ocean is an ambitious, provocative and stunning documentary series that explores how the ocean holds the very key to


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Adrien Brody Isn't In Talks To Play Ant-Man, But He'd Like To Be

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Back during Comic Con, a rumor began that Adrien Brody would play Hank Pym a.k.a. Ant-Man in Joss Whedon's The Avengers and, subsequently, Edgar Wright's solo Ant-Man movie. Since then, however, we've learned that Ant-Man won't be a character in The


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Adrien Brody on Ant-Man link

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Next on Edgar Wright's slate after Scott Pilgrim Vs The World is his long-awaited movie of Ant-Man, for Marvel Studios. There's been a little bit of chatter about the movie of late, including rumours that Ant-Man may yet turn up in Marvel's upcoming The


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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Learn How to Train Your Dragon

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This week, we encounter a familiar problem in the world of home video, namely a lack of quality choices. While there are a few standouts, to be sure, the majority of new releases are either television box sets or direct-to-dvd movies. However, we've


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A grand ambition

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If you are rich, famous or at all well-connected you’d better dig out your penguin suit and fancy frock.
The fourth Abu Dhabi Film Festival starts this week to raise the curtain on a season of movie madness across the Middle East which will see similar


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Is Rachael McAdams And Michael Sheen Dating Each Other?

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Both actors had been earlier photographed sharing common meals while at work on the sets of the Woody Allen production "Midnight In Paris". However, there has been no official statement from the couple in this regard.
In a recent interview given to the


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The Darjeeling Limited (Blu-Ray) Criterion Collection

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If you go to the movies as often as I do, it can be easy to grow cynical
about the current state of Hollywood. We're seeing so many films made by
committee, produced in as routine and obvious a manner as possible. The
characters are frequently


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Bam! Pow! Comic Con!

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The New York Comic Con drew thousands of fans of nerd/geek culture in all 31 flavors to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan last weekend. The largest such convention on the East Coast, the NYCC this year shared space with the New York


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Monday, October 11, 2010

100,000 at New York Comic Con

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NYCC 2010: Adrien Brody Talks 'Predators' Sequel

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When studio execs green light a movie like "Predators," they're usually not thinking of it as a one-off; they've got franchise on the mind... which is why it was no surprise that the ending of this summer's man-vs.-alien reboot left the door wide


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Take Three: Laurence Fishburne

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Craig here with Take Three
Take One: Security vans and alien lands
It’s a cheeky sidestep this week. More of a Take Six – although still in three bite-size chunks. For starters, there’s two roles in a couple of nifty, no-fuss genre hits that he


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Movies Pick: Model Train

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Composed on the basis of brainstorming with Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited,” a freewheeling jaunt through India by three brothers (Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody), is an idiosyncratic travelogue


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Splice (Blu-ray)

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Buy this DVD at Amazon.com
Rating: R
Starring:
Adrien Brody as Clive Nicoli
Sarah Polley as Elsa Kast
Delphine Chanéac as Dren
Brandon McGibbon as Gavin Nicoli
Simona Maicanescu as Joan Chorot
David Hewlett as William Barlow
Abigail Chu as Child


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Sunday, October 10, 2010

NYCC 2010: Adrien Brody Says Alternate 'Predators' Ending Would Have Featured Arnold Schwarzenegger

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If you felt like the only thing missing from this summer's well-received "Predators" was a cameo by the definitive kicker of dread-locked-alien behind, one Arnold Schwarzenegger, you're not alone.
While promoting the "Predators" DVD release at New York


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Nerdvana! Comic Con brings out would-be superheroes

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Tom Goetz, dressed as Nick Fury from the Marvel Universe, was not alone in his costume at Saturday's Comic Con.

Comic Con went into warp drive Saturday as the Sci-Fi geek summit drew droves of fanboys dressed as caped crusaders, Dynamic Duos and the


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The Passion Within; a Film about Spanish Bullfighter Manolete

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A review of the 2007 film starring Adrien Brody and Penelope Cruz
Manolete or The Passion Within as its also known as, chronicles the story of the "Manuel Laureano Rodriguez Sanchez.", aka Manolete, who died a Spanish national hero in 1947 aged only 30.


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Check Out 'Splice' On Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD & On Demand

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In "Splice," superstar genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and


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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Parallel Media hires Tim O'Hair

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Parallel Media has hired senior Paradigm agent and former studio exec Tim O'Hair as head of production.
O'Hair will be overseeing current and future film production, as well as sourcing other film finance opportunities for the company. Founded in 2006,


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New on DVD: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Splice,' 'The Karate Kid'

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You can tell we're nearing Halloween when the DVD releases take a gory turn. The remade "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (R, $28.98) can't compete with the original, and this version feels especially rote. Still, Freddy's always good for a few scares, even


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Your weekend guide to DVD schlock

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Every week dozens of movies are dumped onto DVD. But some weeks are special. Why? Because every once in a blue moon the stars align in a way that an embarrassment of schlocky riches comes out all at once. This week, my friends, is one of those weeks. So,


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You’re Beautiful: An Act of Unselfishness

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One of the delights of the internet is that you can entertain yourself endlessly with all kinds of peculiar things that people somewhere invent and put online for others to enjoy. I remember once finding a little program where you could pop virtual


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High Energy: Health-Oriented Energy Kitchen Signs Agreement for Six Local Restaurants, Offers Fast Food Without the Guilt in Miami-Dade County

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MANHATTAN, NY, October 09, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Energy Kitchen, a Manhattan-based fast-casual chain whose health-centric menu features no menu item that exceeds 500 calories, announces the signing of an area development agreement for six


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Friday, October 8, 2010

'The Darjeeling Limited': Wes Anderson's Affections are Windows to the Soul (Review)

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In the Wes Anderson family, The Darjeeling Limited resembles something of an overlooked child. It didn’t receive the widespread acclaim of Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums, and while it was better-reviewed than The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, that


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DVDPicks

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Documentary; unrated; also available on Blu-ray
The Gist: An addendum of sorts to his classic 1994 series "Baseball," Ken Burns' "The Tenth Inning" tracks the American Pastime from 1992 through 2009.
The Lowdown: This two-part,


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Preview - New films on DVD

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(★★ out of ★★★) Jackie Earle Haley, the fans’ choice to take on the role of Freddy Krueger in the remake of the 1984 boogeyman blockbuster “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” proves stunningly, rousingly adequate for the job. It’s in the tale’s flashbacks,


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Smith’s ‘Karate Kid’ remake offers refreshing new spin - Fri, 08 Oct 2010 PST

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“The Karate Kid”: An appealing reboot of the 1984 original about the new kid who faces down bullies with the help of a martial-arts master. Set in Beijing, in this one the martial art is kung fu, the master is Jackie Chan and the kid is Will’s boy Jaden


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Updating the ’80s

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Two remakes top the list of new DVD releases that hit stores Tuesday.
“The Karate Kid” is about a 12-year-old (Jaden Smith) who needs help adjusting to life in China.
Director Harald Zwart’s remake of the 1984 cult favorite is a plodding two hours, 20


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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Win a Copy of “Splice” on Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack

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Slice of SciFi has a copy of the new Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack of “Splice” to giveaway. The film hit DVD and Blu-Ray October 5 and is available for On Demand viewing.
Superstar genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in


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'Splice'

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Messing around with science or nature always is dicey, as the characters played by Oscar winner Adrien Brody ("The Pianist") and Sarah Polley ("The Sweet Hereafter") discover anew in this thriller.
They play scientists who combine


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LIMP BIZKIT DETERMINED TO COVER, RUIN EVERY SONG EVER

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In 1997 there was this girl that I was really into. I don’t even remember what her name was now, but I remember being very excited when I finally found myself at her place with just the two of us for company.
“Hey, wanna hear something awesome?” she


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The beauty of Blu-ray 'Beauty and the Beast' is the pile of extras

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Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” has finally made it to Blu-ray with the sort of lavish care befitting a film which in many ways rewrote animation.Since 1991, “B&B” has been part of our collective consciousness — everybody


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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

'Karate Kid' reboot kicks its way to top of rentals-sales list

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An animated classic (“Beauty and the Beast: Three Disc Diamond Edition”), a remastered chiller (“The Exorcist: Extended Director’s Cut”), an action remake (“The Karate Kid”), a horror reboot (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”), and a dark fantasy (“Splice”)


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Now On Home Video: "Karate Kid," "Mad Max" and Freddy Krueger

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The films out on Blu-ray and DVD this week are loaded with '80s nostalgia, horror tropes played for scares and laughs, and two movies about a doctors with some radical ideas -- one of which is arguably the most disgusting film in a decade. Also in the


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Blu-Ray Review: The Darjeeling Limited -- The Criterion Collection

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Director Wes Anderson may be the most stylish filmmaker working in Hollywood. To witness his sense of style and classic direction look no further than 2007's The Darjeeling Limited, a film that manages to be both funny and serious, dramatic and wacky,


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Review: 'The Karate Kid' delivers a few good kicks

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how a beauty touches the heart of a beast combined stunning visuals and memorable music to make it one of the best animated movies of all time.
"Baseball: The Tenth Inning": The four-hour documentary from Ken Burns
and Lynn Novick looks at major


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DVD: Review: The Thin Red Line

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It’s easy, almost inevitable, to see the brutality of war as proof of the absence of God. It takes a peculiar, and peculiarly strong, sort of faith to see things the opposite way. “This great evil, where does it come from? How did it steal into the


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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

New DVDs | 'The Karate Kid,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Splice,' 'The Secret of Kells'

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New DVDs for Tuesday, Oct. 5, include two remakes of 1984 classics: "The Karate Kid," starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, and "A Nightmare on Elm Street," with Jackie Earl Haley as the murderous Freddy Krueger. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley star in


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Rewind: DVD & Blu-ray highlights - 'Tis the season for horror

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Halloween is fast approaching, and that’s no more evident than in this week’s chill-inducing releases.
We’ll start off with “Splice” (DVD, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99), with Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley portraying genetic engineers who splice together a


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A new DVD of The Thin Red Line suggests Terrence Malick is as much a mystery to his actors and crew as he is to us.

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Even before it arrived in theaters at the end of 1998, the World War II drama The Thin Red Line was a film defined by unexplained absences. Its director, Terrence Malick, had made two of the most rapturously regarded movies of the '70s, Badlands (1973)


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New on DVD, 10/5/10

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*** | "The Karate Kid," starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, is a reboot of the 1984 hit. So perhaps the right verb is "renovated," not "built." This is a solidly constructed tale of an adolescent finding his way with the help of an unlikely mentor.


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October 5 DVD and Blu-ray Releases

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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) proudly announces the Blu-ray high-definition debut of Disney’s animated masterpiece, Beauty and the Beast on October 5, 2010. Disney’s most requested film, Beauty and the Beast, arrives for the first time


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Monday, October 4, 2010

In 'Splice,' scientists confront horror of their own creation

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Older films
Beauty and the Beast - Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
The Last of the Mohicans: Director's Definitive Cut Blu-ray $34.99
Grindhouse - Special Edition Blu-ray $39.95
The Exorcist - Extended Director's Cut and Original Theatrical


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Film Review: Predators

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I've devoured every piece of Predator media out there: films, comics, video games (I even played through the atrocious Predator 2 Sega Genesis game when I was a kid), fruit snacks, you name it. When I heard that Predators was coming out, I was skeptical


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The Thin Red Line (Blu-Ray) Criterion Collection

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Piecing out a plot in The Thin Red Line is not so easy; the film is
less a dramatic story than a series of events. While that makes for difficult
coherent description, this is entirely the intention of director Terence Malick
(The New World), in his


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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Film Reviews: New DVD releases

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HTHE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED (18) stars Gemma Arterton as a millionaire’s daughter, snatched by kidnappers Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston. Compelling performances and clever twists.
H4.3.2.1. (15) is a flashy but incoherent thriller about a


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New on DVD Oct. 5: 'Karate Kid'

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The adventures of a curious young girl and a burned spy top this week's DVD releases.
"Alice in Wonderland," Grade C+: Maybe the expectations for "Alice in Wonderland" were just too high. It's logical to expect greatness because director Tim Burton,


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Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Experiment Movie Review, Trailer, Pictures and News

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Director: Paul Scheuring Stars: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr, Ethan Cohen, Fisher Stevens Year: 2010 Running Time: 96 mins Rating: Not Rated star CERT: TBC In this remake of the German original Das Experiment - which was inspired by


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Splice Giveaway: Win the Blu-ray & a Plush Dren

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Feed Philly 2010: Live Music @ the Fire for Philabundance





Philadelphia Science Festival: April 15-28, 2011





Geeks on Film: Buried Review & Ticket Giveaway!





Night of the Living Trekkies [Review]





The Social


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10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week [Video]

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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, the Sister Wives define the normalcy of their sex lives, Oprah has a


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Me, Myself (My Thumb, My Arm) and My Camera

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By Kevin Sintumuang Q: Every self-pic I take, you know, when I stretch out my arm and take a photo of myself, is either misframed or my face appears huge. Advice? A: Ah, yes. The ubiquitous vain n' lonely self portrait. Just me and my camera on vacation.


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Friday, October 1, 2010

At the movies: Oct. 1, 2010

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New in theaters
Great Escape Theaters, Moline:
-- "Case 39" (R)
-- "Let Me In" (R)
-- "The Social Network" (PG-13)
Rave Motion Pictures 53, Davenport:
-- "Case 39" (R)
-- "Chain Letter" (R)
-- "Let Me In" (R)
-- "The Social Network" (PG-13)
Nova 6


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The 'King of Bling' Chris Aire Sues Rolex, LVMH, Hublot and Others for Trademark Infringement

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based watch and jewelry designer Chris Aire, President of Solid 21, Inc., the Nevada corporation that owns Chris Aire Fine Jewelry & Timepieces (www.chrisaire.com), filed suit against 17 major watch


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Video: “True Grit” trailer

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CELEB INTERVIEWS - Woody Allen and Cast Interview

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If you're one of the few people not going to see The Social Network this weekend, Woody Allen has another option for you. The filmmaker's latest effort, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, set in London, follows the lives of various couples as they deal


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RSVIP: Cinema Society Toasts "the social network" with Justin Timberlake

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Barreling down the red carpet at The Cinema Society New York screening of "the social network," Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody ("The Pianist") grappled hands firmly with RSVIP and stated categorically that while he is not on Facebook, "There is a


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