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02/04/2012
Popular character actor Ben Gazzara dies in NY
(AP)
 AP - Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in such iconic productions over the decades as the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway and the film "The Big Lebowski," has died at age 81.
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02/04/2012
Radcliffe admits being drunk during "Harry Potter" scenes
(Reuters)
Reuters - Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the "Harry Potter" movies during a period in his life where he was drinking "nightly," the young star said in an interview.
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02/03/2012
Director, writer, producer Zalman King dead at 70
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 AP - Actor and filmmaker Zalman King, who became known for his erotic work after writing and producing his breakthrough film "9 1/2 Weeks," has died. He was 70.
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02/03/2012
Congress makes it tougher to shoot in U.S. capitol
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Reuters - Last year was a banner year for production in the nation's capital -- more than a dozen high-budget film and television projects ranging from "Bourne Identity 4 to "Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss 'Obese' Season 2" spent time in the city -- but its future as a film location may be in jeopardy.
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02/03/2012
"Woman in Black" delivers scares in abundance
(Reuters)
Reuters - From a London choking in smoke and fumes to a chilly marshland blanketed in fog, early 20th century England seems tailor-made for an atmospheric horror film, and "The Woman in Black" takes full advantage of all that built-in creepiness.
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02/03/2012
Actor Ben Gazzara dead at 81
(Reuters)
Reuters - Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a Manhattan hospital, his lawyer said. He was 81.
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02/03/2012
Patricia Disney dies in Los Angeles at age 77
(AP)
AP - Patricia Disney, who was once married to Walt Disney's late nephew Roy E. Disney and was vice chairwoman of Roy's investment company, died Friday after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
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02/03/2012
Son of actor Ryan O'Neal gets 16 months in prison
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AP - A San Diego judge has sentenced the son of actor Ryan O'Neal to 16 months in prison for his involvement in a drug-fueled, head-on car crash last year that left another driver injured.
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02/03/2012
Erotica director Zalman King dies from cancer
(Reuters)
Reuters - Director Zalman King, best known for erotic film "9 1/2 Weeks" and television series "Red Shoe Diaries," died on Friday in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
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02/03/2012
Mel Gibson may be witness in discrimination trial
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 AP - Attorneys for a deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar-winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine if the officer suffered discrimination because of the case.
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01/25/2012
App developer gets Oscar nomination for film that doubles as iPad app
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Appolicious - The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are upon us, and there’s one unexpected nominee among the usual list of Hollywood studios, crew and actors – an iPad developer.
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02/03/2012
Melissa McCarthy, Chris Rock getting hitched for rom-com?
(Reuters)
Reuters - This is the best potential pairing since news that Chris Rock might launch a joint comedy tour with Dave Chappelle: Rock is writing a script for a romantic comedy he hopes will star him and "Bridesmaids" Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy.
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02/03/2012
"Artist" star Dujardin in French film poster flap
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Reuters - Oscar nominee and SAG best actor winner Jean Dujardin is in the midst of a tempest over salacious French posters for a new movie in which he appears.
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02/02/2012
Michael Sheen replaces Paul Bettany in "Masters of Sex"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Michael Sheen is stepping into Paul Bettany's sex-researcher shoes.
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02/03/2012
Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies
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 AP - "Chronicle" is working its mind-bending powers on critics, earning some of the best reviews in a crowded weekend of new releases.
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02/01/2012
Avatar's Cameron buys up land in NZ hobbit country
(Reuters)
Reuters - Avatar is moving in next door to the Hobbit.
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02/03/2012
Bogart's son opens film festival at Smithsonian
(AP)
 AP - That famous movie line, "Here's looking at you, kid," will have time to echo in the halls of the Smithsonian this weekend as the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall opens the first film festival at the National Mall's new movie theater.
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02/02/2012
Exciting "Chronicle" could have skipped the gimmicks
(Reuters)
Reuters - The heart sinks a bit with the opening shot of "Chronicle": a teenager sets up a video camera in front of the mirror and begins narrating the movie, much of which will be seen from his point of view through the lens of his own camera.
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02/03/2012
Racy ads for French movie about infidelity pulled
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 AP - What does it take to shock in the land of the Gallic shrug? Ads that suggest adulterous oral sex, according to complaints about new movie "Les Infideles."
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02/01/2012
Focus Features comes aboard Damon, Krasinski film
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Reuters - Focus Features is in final negotiations with Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon and John Krasinski to make "Promised Land," TheWrap has confirmed.
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Indie News from Cinematical
02/03/2012
Ben Gazzara Dead: Actor Dies At 81
Ben Gazzara, star of "Anatomy of a Murder" and "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie" has died at age 81. The actor, who was a favorite of director John Cassavetes, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center, his lawyer, Jay Julien, told the New York Times.
He was a contemporary of higher-profile stars Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger and also studied at the famed Actors Studio in Manhattan. He conquered Broadway, originating the role of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but didn't capitalize on his rising star when Hollywood came calling.
"When I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers,” he told Charlie Rose in a 1998 interview. “I won't tell you the pictures I turned down because you would say, ‘You are a fool.' And I was a fool.”
Gazzara still managed to make an indelible mark on the movies, especially in the films of Cassavetes, including "Husbands," "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” and "Opening Night." He also became a favorite of Peter Bogdanovich, who cast him in a rare leading role in "Saint Jack" and as a private detective in "They All Laughed."
He's probably best known for his role for the 1959 courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder," in which his character is on trial for having murdered the rapist of wife Lee Remick, defended by James Stewart and prosecuted by George C. Scott. Among his memorable supporting parts: a shady schemer in David Mamet's “The Spanish Prisoner,” a porn producer in the Coen Bros. “Big Lebowski” and a mobster in Spike Lee's “Summer of Sam." Vincent Gallo cast him as his father in 1998 film "Buffalo '66." He also had played the villain in Patrick Swayze cable mainstay "Road House," which was probably, as he often joked, his most seen role.
Gazzara won a supporting actor Emmy for his work in the 2002 HBO film “Hysterical Blindness,” opposite Cassavetes' favorite leading lady (and widow) Gena Rowlands. The two had previously co-starred in the groundbreaking 1985 TV movie, "An Early Frost," which earned Gazzara an Emmy nomination, adding to the two he received in the '60s for his role as a terminally ill man on the series "Run for Your Life."
His most recent films include "Dogville" for Lars von Trier and "Paris je t'aime."
[via NYT]
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02/03/2012
'The Woman in Black' & the Best Horror Movies For Date Night
You and your significant other may be a sickeningly sweet pair that loves going out every Saturday for dinner and a movie. But just because this weekend's big release happens to be "The Woman in Black" -- a dark and ominous gothic horror film -- it doesn't mean you still can't enjoy date night. Sure, most horror movies send gender relationships back a few centuries, and the characters who attempt to enjoy some earthly pleasures end up in a bodybag, but there are plenty of horror movies that can actually serve as the perfect compliment to a night of romance. They're filled with sexy men, women and monsters, who will scare the pants right off of you -- and lead you into the safe and secure arms of your paramour.
So, take your chances on one of these 13 tales of dread, and you might end up getting lucky.
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02/03/2012
Drew Barrymore Crying Clip: A Mashup Of The Actress' Most Tearful Moments
Who knew Drew Barrymore got so emotional in her films? The "Big Miracle" star likes to play characters with a quirky/lovable sense of humor, but something you may not have noticed about them is that they like to cry. A lot.
Thanks to the folks at Vulture, fans now have a handy mashup guide (appropriately titled, "Drew Barrymore Can Get Very, Very Sad") to some of Drew's most tearful scenes.
Not only will you see each character try (some much harder than others) to produce tears, you'll also start to notice a pattern developing behind each cry-worthy moment.
Therefore, you can call the following the Drew Barrymore Crying In Movies Checklist:
- Scrunching face
- Biting upper lip
- Light hyperventilating
- Hands over face
- Lots and lots of sniffling
Drew's latest film, "Big Miracle," opens this weekend. Spoiler alert: she cries in this one, too.
[via Vulture]
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02/03/2012
'Pink Ribbons, Inc.': New Movie Explores the Controversy Behind Breast Cancer Charity
Many people were shocked and surprised this week by Susan G. Komen for the Cure's controversial decision to yank a grant to Planned Parenthood, a move that seemed to place priorities other than women's health ahead of the Komen foundation's mission of fighting breast cancer. But perhaps there would have been less shock if people had seen "Pink Ribbons, Inc.," a new Canadian documentary that explores the apparent corporate capture of breast cancer activism, observing that such philanthropic organizations -- and Komen in particular -- seem to place a higher priority on giving positive publicity to their corporate partners than on actually finding a cause and a cure for breast cancer. The movie opens in theaters across Canada on February 3 and is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit in the United States.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Lea Pool's documentary draws upon Samantha King's 2006 book "Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy" in its study of the phenomenon known as "pinkwashing" -- using a kitschy, smiley-faced, rose-colored ribbon logo to mask the evidence that all the philanthropy has accomplished little other than giving PR cover to corporations that donate to the cause -- corporations that might otherwise be targets of complaints for the allegedly carcinogenic ingredients in their products. (Coming in for criticism, for example, are Yoplait, whose pink-ribbon-labeled yogurt contained milk laced with bovine growth hormone; and Estee Lauder, which was selling cosmetics that may also have contained carcinogens.)
Breast cancer pledge runs sponsored by Komen and others have become familiar spectacles, but Pool's film argues that they've also deflected feminist activism away from more controversial issues, and that the money they've raised has done little "for the Cure." According to the film, breast cancer rates have risen since 1940 from one in 22 women to one in eight, yet very little research has been done to find what environmental or dietary factors may have led to increased cancer rates. The money raised seems to go toward treatment more than toward prevention or discovering a cause and a cure.
Komen founder Nancy G. Brinker (who named the foundation after her late sister) is interviewed in the film. She speaks of her passion for the cause but also of her willingness to cooperate with any corporation that wants to participate in Komen's campaigns.
Such corporate-friendliness and de-emphasis on finding a cure lead "Pink Ribbons, Inc." to suggest that breast cancer charities like Komen have misplaced priorities. That was certainly the charge this week when Komen rescinded a grant to Planned Parenthood targeted toward helping poor women get mammograms. Komen's shfting explanations for the decision helped confirm the sense of many former Komen supporters that the group's actions were motivated more by politics (specifically, objections to Planned Parenthood's involvement in abortion services) than by concern for women's health.
On Friday, Komen issued an apology (well, sort of) and suggested it would take politics out of future funding decisions, but its actions this week have forced many who think they're fighting breast cancer by buying pink-ribbon merchandise and running in Komen's pledge races to question the organization's motives. Whether or not you find the arguments made in "Pink Ribbons, Inc." to be valid, its release on Canadian screens couldn't be timelier.
In the United States, First Run Features owns the theatrical and DVD rights to "Pink Ribbons, Inc." and is currently showing the documentary at film festivals around the country. (This week, it played at the Spokane Film Festival; later this month, it'll screen at the Boulder Film Festival.) A representative for the distributor told Moviefone that it plans to release the movie theatrically in America later this spring and on DVD in late 2012.
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