Movies
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George Clooney hopes government shutdown ends soonOct 02, 2013 10:11 am - NEW YORK — George Clooney knows the country is going through a tough time with the partial government shutdown. But the actor is optimistic that “cooler heads will preva...
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Angelina Jolie to direct ‘Unbroken’ in AustraliaOct 02, 2013 10:11 am - LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures has announced that Angelina Jolie is in Sydney, Australia, to direct the survival saga “Unbroken.” The film will tell the true story of ...
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‘Grandmaster’ leads Golden Horse film nomineesOct 02, 2013 8:46 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan — Wong Kar-wai’s martial-arts epic “The Grandmaster” received a leading 11 nominations for Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, including best picture. Other con...
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Chicago to host summit for local filmmakersOct 02, 2013 8:09 am - The city of Chicago plans its first Chicago Film Summit this fall. Chicago had its first music summit earlier this year. The film and media summit will be Oct. 20. Offic...
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Now at your library: Streaming movies, musicOct 02, 2013 6:43 am - SEATTLE — There’s a new source to stream movies and other digital content, and it’s not a tech company with tens of thousands of titles. It’s something more familiar, an...
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‘Raging Bull’ rights fight gets hearing at U.S. Supreme CourtOct 01, 2013 11:05 am - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a dispute over the rights to the 1980 Oscar-winning movie “Raging Bull,” accepting an appeal from the daughter of a man who worked ...
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Veteran Hollywood producer A.C. Lyles diesSep 30, 2013 5:44 pm - LOS ANGELES — A.C. Lyles, who rose from mail boy to producer during a career at Paramount Studios that lasted more than three-quarters of a century, has died at age 95. ...
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Oscar-winning filmmaker backs out of Clinton docSep 30, 2013 12:50 pm - NEW YORK — A filmmaker who was making a documentary about Hillary Clinton for CNN said Monday that he is backing out of the project because few people would cooperate wi...
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‘Cloudy’ sequel tops weekend box officeSep 29, 2013 5:27 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” slurped up the box office. The animated Sony sequel featuring the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris opened in first...
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Howard makes a believable racing film with ‘Rush’Sep 29, 2013 6:00 am - Ron Howard admits he was no racing aficionado when he set out to make the Formula One thriller “Rush,” chronicling the tense 1976 world championship battle between playb...