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Lars Von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” Gets US Release Date
We've seen the posters covered in O-faces, we've heard buzz about its reported five-hour length and the fact that it will be split into two films, we've seen the trailer that pushed the limits of YouTube's standards and practices as far as it could go, and we ...
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Universal Pictures Creates Fitting Tribute to Paul Walker
As we reported earlier in the week, Paul Walker recently passed away due to a violent car accident that claimed his life. At only 40 years old, Paul Walker was one of the lead characters in Universal Pictures' Fast and Furious franchise. Since his death, produ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Catching Fire,” “Frozen” Dominate Thanksgiving
As it does every year, the Thanksgiving holiday brought increased box office numbers all around, although the number 1 slot remained a holdover from before the holiday. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire held on with $74.5 million for the three-day window, a 52 p...
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Spike Lee Dismisses Artist Whose Work He Allegedly Stole
With Spike Lee’s latest film Oldboy hitting theaters this week the incendiary, Brooklyn-born filmmaker has been getting some serious PR – just not in the way he expected.
Recently a graphic designer by the name of Juan Luis Garcia has stepped forward and pe...
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Horrifying Report Challenges ‘No Animals Were Harmed’ Stamp in Film Credits
In a large feature piece set to run in their December 6th print issue (and available online right now), The Hollywood Reporter investigates the truth behind the American Humane Association -- the people responsible for slapping the "no animals were harmed" dis...
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Weekend Box Office: Odds In Catching Fire’s Favor
Given that its predecessor opened to $152 million and went on to gross $408 million in America alone, it's a shock to no one that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire claimed the top spot this weekend. It took $161.1 million over the three-day period, which is a sl...
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Movie Mezzanine + Letterboxd
It's hard to imagine a world in which Letterboxd doesn't exist. Since its opening in 2011, the New Zealand based outlet has become a staple in the ever-expanding film community. Many cinema-centered sites, criticism or otherwise, open and close every day. It w...
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You Can Help Support the Roger Ebert Documentary ‘Life Itself’
Even after his death, Roger Ebert remains to be the most influential film critic that we know; and the man who loved movies more than anyone is now being honored through film. Life Itself is a documentary directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters)...
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Sony Cuts Summer Movie Schedule In Half
Despite releasing nine films this past summer, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Pictures Group (which includes Columbia, Tristar, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, and others, but whose primary releasing arm is Columbia Pictures) announced that it is only...
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TCM Launches New Streaming Service, And Why That’s Great News for Young Cinephiles
Earlier this month, Turner Classic Movies announced they're launching a new online streaming service called Watch TCM, which will offer TCM channel subscribers the option to stream broadcast movies live, as well as watch a bevvy of classic movies on demand, av...
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