Sunday, July 19, 2009 - Posts
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," a portrait of a poor Mississippi family, won the jury award for best dramatic feature at Outfest, the 27th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which concluded Sunday.
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In the comics universe, where characters are endlessly reborn and reoutfitted, a motto from the 1980s -- "DC Comics is on the move" -- could just as well apply to the current, hyperactive state of the publisher as it relates to Hollywood.
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Leave it to the Warner Bros. marketing team to get the last nickel out of Harry Potter, beyond the nearly $5 billion the films have grossed at the box office worldwide.
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Sean Bean has nabbed the lead in "Game of Thrones," HBO's adaptation of the George R.R. Martin fantasy-book series.
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Recent Oscar nominee Viola Davis is negotiating to take a role in "Eat, Pray, Love" opposite Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins.
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Rosie O’Donnell loves “Dance Your Ass Off” – and she told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson she wants to join a celebrity version of the Oxygen reality show.
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“She’s not a happy camper as a result of what’s going on. She’s hurt. She’s angry,” David Sonenberg, the “Idol” judge’s manager, told the L.A. Times on Friday.
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The Jackson brothers are negotiating with concert promoters AEG to perform a number of dates at the same venue their late brother Michael was set to stage his comeback in, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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HBO's "True Blood" isn't going to cut it for me anymore. It's not that "True Blood" is a bad show. But I don't like the way the black characters are portrayed.
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Is it the bad economy, or your secret desire for domination? Psychologists weigh in on our obsession with the bloodsuckers.
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Walter Cronkite's final resting place will be next to his late wife in Missouri, where the two first met, his chief of staff said Saturday.
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Madonna is expected to visit some of the eight workers who were injured in an accident in which two workers were killed while assembling a music stage for the singer in the French port of Marseilles.
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A flock of global entertainment notables and politicos, including France's first lady Carla Bruni, toasted Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday with an all-star concert at Radio City Music Hall.
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Who could resist the furry guinea pig spies of "G-Force"? Also this week: "Moonshot" dramatizes the 1969 moon landing; "Coraline" hits DVD.
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Thanks to continued robust demand for Michael Jackson's catalog since his June 25 death, "Thriller" appears on the verge of matching the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" as the U.S.'s all-time best-selling album.
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Harry Potter cast a spell over moviegoers worldwide as the sixth entry in the fantasy franchise set a new opening record of $396.7 million, breaking the former global record held by “Spider-Man 3.”
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Harry Potter continues to work box-office alchemy, turning the sixth installment in his movie franchise into an overnight blockbuster and earning nearly $160 million in just five days.
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An auction of rights to the filmed rehearsals for Michael Jackson’s “This is It” tour is underway. Although the rights are said to be valued at $50 million, Jackson’s family won’t have a substantive say in where the material lands.
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So this is what the face of an impressionable lad turned corrupted bloodsucker looks like.
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Another day, another breakup rumor for Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri.
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Astronaut Edward White, who gave his life as part of man's race to the moon, was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame on Saturday along with the first female shuttle pilot and the late Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart.
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As Barack Obama campaigned to become the first black U.S. president, teenagers in the small Mississippi hometown of Hollywood star Morgan Freeman battled racism to hold their high school's first integrated prom.
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Harry Potter continues to work box-office alchemy, turning his latest movie adventure into an overnight blockbuster.
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Harry Potter cast a spell over moviegoers worldwide as the sixth entry in the fantasy franchise set a new opening record of $396.7 million, a clear sign that the lucrative franchise has lost none of its magic.
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AEG Live, the company behind Michael Jackson's planned comeback in London, is negotiating with several Hollywood studios seeking a deal to release in movie theaters a documentary about the final days of the pop singer, the Wall Street journal said on
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