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03/16/2010 06:02 PM
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Channing Tatum approached for Captain America
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Reuters - Add Channing Tatum to the list of actors being considered for the role of Captain America.
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03/16/2010 06:01 PM
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Smallville duo bring Existence 2.0 to screen
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Reuters - Paramount has picked up rights to the comic book Existence 2.0, with the duo behind Smallville attached to adapt.
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03/16/2010 03:11 PM
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Jason Segel to star in Muppets movie
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 Reuters - Jason Segel has found his rainbow connection with Disney's Muppets movie, signing to star as the human lead.
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03/16/2010 02:01 PM
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Two kiwi actors join Green Lantern
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Reuters - A pair of New Zealand actors have joined the cast of Green Lantern, a superhero movie that happens to be directed by one of their compatriots.
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03/16/2010 10:39 AM
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Hollywood braces for talks on DVD releases
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Reuters - Top Hollywood executives and theater owners will seek this week to resolve a brewing dispute over DVD release schedules, a contentious question as the industry grapples with shifting viewer patterns and the advent of high-tech home entertainment.
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03/16/2010 09:39 AM
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Review: Stiller reveals new depth in `Greenberg'
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AP - The lesson Ben Stiller's praise-hungry actor learned in Tropic Thunder was that you never go full retard when playing a simpleton in hopes of snaring an Academy Award.
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03/16/2010 08:47 AM
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Canadian tyke to play Hugh Jackman's son
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Reuters - After casting a wide net to find a young actor to play Hugh Jackman's son in Real Steel, the producers of the sci-fi film have hired 11-year old Canadian Dakota Goyo for the part.
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03/16/2010 08:31 AM
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British actress Kate Winslet splits from husband
(AP)
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 AP - British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam Mendes after nearly seven years of marriage, their law firm said Monday.
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03/16/2010 08:20 AM
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'Alice in Wonderland' keeps hopping with $62.7M
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AP - Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland still reigns at the box office, pulling in $62.7 million in its second weekend and becoming the first film released in 2010 to top the $200 million mark.
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03/16/2010 08:17 AM
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Sony boss asks theater owners for healthier snacks
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AP - The head of Sony Pictures suggested Monday that movie theaters offer healthier snacks to help fight obesity and give audiences a broader range of food choices.
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03/16/2010 07:07 PM
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China plans film to mark Communist Party birthday
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AP - After its successful propaganda movie to mark 60 years of communist rule, China's leading state-run studio is working on a follow-up timed to coincide with next year's 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
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03/16/2010 03:40 PM
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China star Zhang takes blame in 'Donationgate'
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 AFP - Chinese film starlet Zhang Ziyi has taken the blame for an earthquake donation scandal in her first comments on a flap that sparked a firestorm of Internet criticism and questions about her honesty.
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03/16/2010 04:31 AM
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Tim Burton, Marion Cotillard get French honor
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 AP - American movie director Tim Burton and Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard were added to France's cultural honor roll in a star-studded Paris ceremony Monday.
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03/16/2010 09:39 AM
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Hallelujah! Valerie Harper Is Tallulah in 'Looped', Opening on Broadway
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Playbill - A late-career Tallulah Bankhead - the hard-drinking, blowsy American stage and film actress - sweeps back onto Broadway, embodied by Valerie Harper, in iLooped,/i a new comedy that officially opens March 14 at the Lyceum Theatre.
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03/15/2010 05:29 AM
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Alice leads box office, as Green Zone flops
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 Reuters - Alice in Wonderland raced to a $430 million haul at the worldwide box office on Sunday, while Matt Damon's new Iraq war conspiracy thriller Green Zone was one of the year's first big flops.
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03/16/2010 04:07 AM
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Farrell, Duvall bring films to Tribeca Film Fest
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AP - The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival will include a new movie from Neil Jordan, a documentary on Joan Rivers and a Southern folk tale starring Robert Duvall.
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03/16/2010 09:39 AM
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Turner to Star in Premiere of 'High' at Hartford TheaterWorks Prior to Midwest and NYC
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Playbill - Tony and Academy Award-nominated actress Kathleen Turner will star in the world premiere of iLooped/i playwright Matthew Lombardo's iHigh/i at Hartford TheaterWorks this July.
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03/16/2010 12:24 AM
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Polanski's wife says their worst moments are over
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AP - The wife of Roman Polanski says she believes the 32-year-old sexual abuse case against her husband will be finished soon.
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03/15/2010 07:49 PM
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News Corp to net $350-400 million from Avatar: report
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 Reuters - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will earn $350 million to $400 million from James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar, once the movie is released on pay television and DVD, Bloomberg said, citing two people with knowledge of the financial performance.
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03/15/2010 10:04 PM
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Penn spends serious time helping post-quake Haiti
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 AP - Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of supplies, that's Sean Penn.
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