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USA Today
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Sep 24, 08 1:19 PM CDT
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Oliver Stone is looking to attract the political center with his new movie, W. , about the life our 43rd president, USA Today reports. The film, a satirical biopic starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, is neither hagiography or damning indictment. “I'm not interested in that radical 15% that hate Bush or the 15% to 20% who love Bush,” Stone said.
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Associated Press
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Sep 23, 08 1:18 PM CDT
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No one is going to confuse Hari Puttar for Harry Potter, an Indian court ruled today, dismissing a Warner Bros. lawsuit against the upcoming Bollywood flick Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors. The court said Potter fans wouldn’t confuse Puttar , a Home Alone- like tale devoid of wizards, with their beloved franchise.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Sep 21, 08 3:26 PM CDT
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"The difference between marital bliss and a train wreck of a relationship is the difference between Charlie Wilson's War and Saw IV , " writes Peter Hartlaub in the San Francisco Chronicle . There's no overestimating the power of that first-date movie. How to walk the tightrope: Bad isn't bad: Think brainless Matthew McConaughey bad, not brain-exploding Dane Cook bad.
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New York Times
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Sep 20, 08 2:35 PM CDT
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A generation that never saw the Muppets is about to meet Kermit and Miss Piggy, the New York Times reports. Disney has owned the old puppet/marionette gang for 4 years, but inertia and infighting have kept them undercover. Now the media giant is blitzing outlets with viral video, clothing lines, and customizable toys to hype a 2010 Muppets movie.
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Rolling Stone
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Sep 19, 08 6:55 PM CDT
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There's no Behind the Music -style debauchery to be found in It Might Get Loud , Rolling Stone reports. Rather, the documentary more resembles “having three carpenters talk about a radial-arm saw,” quips Jack White, who along with the Edge (of U2) and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), form the heart of a film paying homage to the guitar and six-string heroics.
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Sep 19, 08 11:50 AM CDT
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Lakeview Terrace labors mightily to turn its B-movie cop/neighbor-from-hell premise into “deep social commentary about race, or real estate, or something,” writes Chris Farnsworth of E!, “but the result is an inexplicable mess.” The tensions between Samuel L. Jackson’s loose cannon cop and the interracial couple next door build nicely, but the end is “loud, dumb, generic, and over-the-top,” says James Berardinelli of Reelviews.
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Fox News
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Sep 19, 08 11:05 AM CDT
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The writer-producer of the Sex and the City movie is already at work on a sequel. Michael Patrick King is writing the screenplay, he told Fox News at last night's DVD release party. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall are reportedly interested. Parker quipped: “Let’s wring everything we can out of this thing!”
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Time
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Sep 18, 08 1:40 PM CDT
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When Steven Spielberg is feeling a budget pinch, you know the financial crisis is bad. His hunt for financing on a new studio deal gets tougher with each day of bad news from Wall Street, Time reports. With credit as tough to come by in Hollywood as everywhere else, many studios are “making a conscious decision to slow it down,” one exec says.
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Variety
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Sep 17, 08 12:56 PM CDT
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Disney has asked Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle , to write a screenplay tailor-made to star Miley Cyrus in an attempt to sell the tween queen to a more adult audience, Variety reports.
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Fox News
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Sep 16, 08 12:14 PM CDT
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Richard Gere is weighing an offer to play the Spencer Tracy role in a Broadway production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? —opposite Debra Winger. The famously feuding co-stars of An Officer and a Gentleman haven't worked together since that 1982 smash hit. The production is stalled as producers search for a replacement for Bill Pullman, Fox News reports.
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Variety
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Sep 14, 08 4:57 PM CDT
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The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading led an unexpectedly strong box office weekend by nabbing top spot with $19.4 million, Variety reports. With overall sales up 35% over this frame last year, Tyler Perry’s The Family that Preys took second with $18 million, followed by Righteous Kill ($16.5 million), The Women ($10 million), and The House Bunny ($4.3 million).
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Forbes
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Sep 10, 08 11:40 AM CDT
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With an ignominious 1:1 ratio of salary to receipts, Nicole Kidman snags the top spot on Forbes ’ list of most overpaid movie stars. In other words, her films make a mere $1 for every dollar she’s paid, an average $15 million per flick. Ex-husband Tom Cruise is close behind at No. 3, with Jennifer Garner in the runner-up slot.
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Hollywood Reporter
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Sep 9, 08 4:13 PM CDT
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New Line Cinema will produce a romantic comedy based on hockey star Sean Avery’s summer internship at Vogue , the Hollywood Reporter notes. “I think it's great to be into something that you care about,” the fashion-savvy Avery said of his apparently odd choice of off-season employment. “But I’m still an athlete who likes to beat the crap out of people.”
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Associated Press
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Sep 9, 08 10:12 AM CDT
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Steven Spielberg ripped off Rear Window when he made last year’s thriller Disturbia , a lawsuit filed yesterday alleges. The 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic was based on a 1942 short story, and the owner of the rights to the story has sued for compensation from Spielberg, DreamWorks, and Paramount Pictures, the AP reports. The defendants declined comment.
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Wall Street Journal
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Sep 8, 08 10:47 AM CDT
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Warner Brothers’ postponement of the release of the sixth Harry Potter film enraged some dieha