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Cannes 2013: 'Salinger,' 'Osage County' among Weinstein hopefuls
Cannes, France--With award-season hits such as “The Silver Linings Playbook” and “Django Unchained,” the Weinstein Co. had a small but potent slate in the latter half of 2012. On Friday evening at the Cannes Film Festival, the...
Tags: Octavia Spencer, Cannes Film Festival, Arts and Culture, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Idris Elba
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Oprah Winfrey brings drama to 'The Butler' trailer
Moviegoers well-acquainted with Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels’ eyebrow-raising filmic oeuvre may be shocked to learn that his latest movie, “The Butler,” seems, at first blush, rather short on salacious surprises. This from the...Tags: James Marsden, Oprah Winfrey, Movies, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mariah Carey
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'The Butler' puts a new spin on LBJ, says Liev Schreiber
The new trailer for Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” shows an up-from-his-bootstraps man moving, Zelig-like, through U.S. presidential history, demonstrating how “one man overcame his past.” But for at least one of the actors...Tags: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (movie), Lyndon B. Johnson, Civil Rights, Immigration, Goon (movie)
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Millennium Entertainment is for sale, says CEO Bill Lee
After enjoying what it says were record revenue and earnings in 2012, Millennium Entertainment, the distribution arm of Avi Lerner’s Nu Image, is on the auction block. Millennium Chief Executive Bill Lee said in a news release Monday that Los...
Tags: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (movie), The Paperboy (movie), Bernie (movie), Entertainment
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Hollywood studios pack in titles at Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival has a long tradition of showcasing independent global cinema. But in a twist, this year's lineup also includes movies from a wide range of Hollywood entities: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS Films, the Weinstein Co., even...Tags: The Paperboy (movie), Clive Owen, Animation (Movie Genre), Cannes Film Festival, Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Cannes 2013: Coen brothers, Alexander Payne bound for film festival
The Cannes Film Festival is making a statement at this year's gathering: We still really like Americans. The main competition will feature four directors from the U.S. -- Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”) Joel and Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn...Tags: Clive Owen, Cannes Film Festival, Venus in Fur (play), Guillaume Canet, Film Festivals
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With Chan-wook Park's 'Stoker,' Nicole Kidman does an about-face
Nicole Kidman has been pushing in some unusual directions lately. But that adventurousness takes on an entirely new dimension in Chan-wook Park’s “Stoker,” a movie focusing on an unstable woman who lives in a Gothic house (Kidman), her...
Tags: Mia Wasikowska, Film Festivals, Matthew Goode, Movies, Bruce Hornsby
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Mariah Carey releases new single, 'Almost Home'
Remember when Mariah Carey was, more than anything else, a singer? Today, music is just one of the pop/soul diva's many pursuits, an occupation on equal footing with her judge's gig on "American Idol" and the hours she spends posting tubby-time pictures...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), Music, Adele (music artist), Meek Mill, Mariah Carey
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'The Paperboy'
An impressive cast gives life to a sinister story, as director Lee Daniels ("Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire") brings novelist Pete Dexter's backwoods Florida 1960s crime tale to film. Matthew McConaughey and David Oyewolo play reporters...Tags: DVDs, Macy Gray, The Paperboy (movie), John Cusack, Scott Glenn
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New Releases: 'Searching for Sugar Man' and more
Searching for Sugar Man Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $35.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Detroit-based singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodríguez couldn't get any airplay in the U.S. in the '70s with his soulful, political folk-rock, but his 1970 album,...Tags: Organized Crime, Errol Morris, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (movie), The Paperboy (movie), Searching for Sugar Man (movie)
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Golden Globes 2013: Hunt, Adams, Hathaway contend for supporting prize
Hollywood might have been buzzing over Thursday’s Golden Globe nominations, but for many of the nominees in the best supporting actress in a motion picture category, the morning was largely business as usual. “I’m sitting here at the...
Tags: Television, Golden Globe Awards, Elections, Julian Fellowes, Sally Field
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Golden Globe nominations 2013: Nicole Kidman scores dual nods
Nicole Kidman scored a pair of Golden Globe nominations Thursday for two divergent performances that showcase the Oscar winner’s versatility and willingness to tackle challenging – even potentially degrading – roles in the name of drama....
Tags: Viagra (drug), Clive Owen, John Cusack, Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globe Awards
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