Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Hollywood’s indie film pool prepares for the Amazon plunge

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LOS ANGELES | When Amazon Inc announced on Monday its move into the movie business, the Internet retailer sent a ripple through Hollywood...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

FBI probing Sony hack, as data leaks emerge

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WASHINGTON — The FBI said Tuesday it was investigating a cyberattack on Sony Pictures, amid reports that employee information as well as ...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Turkey’s harrowing ‘Winter Sleep’ takes top prize at Cannes

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Turkish film “Winter Sleep” examining the huge divide between rich and poor and the powerful and powerless in Turkey won the Palme d’Or a...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Johnny Depp goes blonde for award ceremony for Christopher Lee

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Hollywood star Johnny Depp debuted a new look Sunday night, turning a lot of heads with his new bleached blonde hairdo at the London Film...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

J.K. Rowling announces Harry Potter spin-off movie series

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LONDON - Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is to make her screenwriting debut by penning a series of spin-off films set in the magical wor...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Ghosts beat minions as horror flick ‘The Conjuring’ leads box office

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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES – “The Conjuring,” a low-budget horror movie about a haunted farmhouse, spooked two pricey competitors and the “Desp...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Low-budget horror film ‘The Purge’ scares off ‘Fast & Furious 6′

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LOS ANGELES – Low-budget horror film “The Purge” scared up $36.4 million in ticket sales to lead the domestic box office in its first wee...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Rookie Oscar host Seth MacFarlane lives up to provocative image

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LOS ANGELES - Rookie Oscar host Seth MacFarlane casually slung a string of zingers at some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including a musi...

‘Argo’ beats ‘Lincoln’ for Best Picture; Ang Lee upsets Spielberg for Best Director

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LOS ANGELES – Iran hostage thriller “Argo” won the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday, the highest honor in the movie industry, while Ang Lee ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Studios snap up Sundance favorites, boosting indie film market

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PARK CITY, Utah – Movie studios have been searching for the next big thing at the Sundance Film Festival after the critical and commer...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima dies aged 80

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TOKYO – Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima, best known for the sexually explicit film “In the Realm of the Senses” and “Merry Christmas...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

‘Hobbit’ fever beats Tom Cruise at box office

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LOS ANGELES – The dwarfs and elves of “The Hobbit” overpowered Tom Cruise to take the box office title for a second time, grabbing $37.6 ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Vampires foil Tooth Fairy, Santa as ‘Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ stays at No. 1

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LOS ANGELES – Teen vampire film “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2″ continued to take a bite out of the domestic box office, draw...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Francine Prieto welcomes return of sexy films, happy with late night radio talk show

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Even as she already found her niche in late night talk radio, Francine Prieto is not about to give up on her TV and film career, which re...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

New ‘Star Wars’ movies – dream come true or cosmic yawn?

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LOS ANGELES – For years, it seemed like another “Star Wars” movie was just a dream, stillborn in a galaxy far, far away. But down on Eart...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Low-budget spooks scare off gore for Hollywood horror

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LOS ANGELES – After almost a decade in which torture films dominated the box office, horror movies are returning to ghostly thrills with ...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Director Marilou Diaz Abaya, 57, dies of breast cancer

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Award-winning director Marilou Diaz Abaya died on Monday evening at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig after a long battle with breast c...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Piolo, Though Loveless, Looks Forward To Producing More Films

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Even with so much on his hands, Piolo Pascual remains passionate about accomplishing more for his career and in testing his artistic limit...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

‘Avengers’ director swaps superheroes for Shakespeare

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TORONTO – Joss Whedon’s blockbuster comic book smash “The Avengers” would seem to have little in common with William Shakespeare. The wri...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Yap.TV tunes Internet age viewing for the world

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco startup Yap.TV went international with a hit service that helps people mine gems from junk in the growing m...