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03/11/2010 01:25 PM
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Thai thriller straddles homophobia, homoerotica
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Reuters - In the slasher-thriller Slice, a cop-turned-convict tracks down a serial killer by delving into his own troubled childhood memories.
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03/11/2010 01:21 PM
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Film futures markets to launch soon
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 Reuters - If start-up Media Derivatives and broker dealer Cantor Fitzgerald have their way, investors may soon be able to place bets on the box office showing of summer blockbuster Iron Man 2.
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03/11/2010 01:09 PM
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2012 debuts atop three video charts
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Reuters - The end-of-the-world drama 2012 debuted at the top of all three home video charts the week ending March 7, the first release in nearly a month with a box office pedigree of more than $100 million.
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03/11/2010 01:07 PM
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Clint Eastwood eyes J. Edgar Hoover project
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Reuters - Clint Eastwood is lining up his next directing project, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the nation's No. 1 crimefighter for almost 50 years.
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03/11/2010 12:56 PM
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Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
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 AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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03/11/2010 12:48 PM
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Tribeca unveils film lineup, Spitzer in spotlight
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Reuters - The Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its first group of films for April's event, including one documentary about the prostitution scandal that brought down former New York governor Eliot Spitzer.
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03/11/2010 09:19 AM
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New Matt Damon movie may bring Iraq war into mainstream
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 Reuters - They conjured box office magic with their Bourne spy movies, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass risk their reputation as sure-fire hitmakers when the Iraq war thriller Green Zone debuts on Friday.
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03/11/2010 09:01 AM
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Global movie box office nears $30 billion in 2009
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Reuters - Global movie ticket sales hit $29.9 billion last year, up 7.6 percent, with the most growth in the Asia Pacific region, the leading U.S. movie industry representative said on Wednesday.
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03/11/2010 08:05 AM
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Wall Street sequel delayed by five months
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 Reuters - Fox is bumping Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel to the fall.
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03/11/2010 07:36 AM
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Review: Pattinson still brooding in `Remember Me'
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 AP - In Remember Me, Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from Twilight, apparently in search of his Five Easy Pieces or Rebel Without a Cause.
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03/11/2010 01:12 PM
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Actor Corey Haim dies of overdose in Los Angeles
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 Reuters - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent prescription drug overdose. He was 38.
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03/11/2010 12:09 AM
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Animal activists target Calif. sushi restaurant
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AP - Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove.
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03/10/2010 11:04 PM
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Review: `Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence
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 AP - All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of Green Zone, Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm.
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03/11/2010 12:59 PM
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Second Hollywood trading site to launch
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Reuters - And then there were two -- box office trading exchanges, that is.
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03/10/2010 10:49 PM
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Robert De Niro set to play Vince Lombardi in movie
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 AP - Robert De Niro is set to play Vince Lombardi in an upcoming movie.
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03/10/2010 01:16 PM
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Man stabbed with meat thermometer at movie in CA
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AP - Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film Shutter Island at a Southern California movie theater.
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03/10/2010 12:32 PM
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Fawcett omission from Oscar segment no accident
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 AP - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.
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03/11/2010 11:37 AM
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Mexico hopes to lure filmmakers with subsidies
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AP - Mexico has implemented a new program subsidizing filmmakers in a bid to attract more cinema business to the country.
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03/10/2010 11:06 AM
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Review: `Our Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype
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 AP - One enters a movie like Our Family Wedding bracing for cheesiness.
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03/11/2010 11:03 AM
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Best Buy bets on 3D TV, but no quick payoffs seen
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Reuters - While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic Avatar took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a big bet on 3D televisions this year.
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