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Determining Who Made the Most Movies
Jeremy Irvine and Joey in War Horse. Courtesy DreamWorks. It’s been a busy year for Steven Spielberg. Witness The Adventures of Tintin, opening in the United States on December 21, and War Horse,...
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Women Action Stars: From Haywire to The Perils of Pauline
Gina Carano and Channing Tatum star in Relativity Media's HAYWIRE. Photo Credit: Claudette Barius ©2011 Five Continents Imports, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Watching Gina Carano work her way through the...
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts: A Cheat Sheet
Edvard Hægstad and Ingrid Viken in Tuba Atlantic. As mentioned in Wednesday’s post, guessing which shorts will win an Academy Award is often the hardest part of Oscar office pools. The Academy of...
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts: A Cheat Sheet
Fukushima Prefecture, from The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. Credit: Supply & Demand Integrated/HBO Of the three Oscar categories devoted to short films, Documentary (Short Subject) tends to be...
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Martin Scorsese’s Film School vs. Roger Ebert’s Parakeets
Simone Simon in Cat People, one of the 85 films cited by Martin Scorsese in a recent interview. During a four-hour interview with Fast Company, director Martin Scorsese cited 85 film titles. Not so...
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Which is the Fairest Snow White of Them All?
Julia Roberts and Lily Collins star in Relativity Media's Mirror Mirror. Photo Credit: Jan Thijs. © 2012 Relativity Media. All Rights Reserved. For 60 years, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Hollywood’s Favorite Mad Genius
Alice Eve and John Cusack in Relativity Media's The Raven. Larry Horricks © 2011 Amontillado Productions, LLC. All rights reserved. This Friday marks the release of The Raven, a Relativity Media...
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From Summer Blockbusters to Orphan Films
Javier Núñez Florián, Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre in Una Noche. Credit: Trevor Forest and Shlomo Godder. As I wrote earlier, the Tribeca Film Festival ends this weekend with a screening of The...
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Hollywood Goes to China
Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith on location for The Karate Kid. When The Artist won Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, the achievement was noteworthy not just because the film was silent, but...
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Beyond Kung Fu: 5 Movies From Asia to Catch
Joe Odagiri, Koki Maeda, Nene Ohtsuka, Ohshiro Maeda in I Wish, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. News last week that Wanda, a real estate company based in China,...
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