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Ted Hope Announced as New CEO of Fandor
Fandor, the online community that allows audiences to watch a broad array of independent and international cinema, is getting a new CEO, and that man is film veteran Ted Hope.
Ted Hope has a long history in the film business. Formerly, he served as the San ...
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Birthday Wishes: David Bowie Fell to Earth 67 Years Ago
David Bowie, the legendary pop icon, celebrates his birthday today, turning 67. Bowie is indisputably one of the most influential stars of all-time, with his androgyny and gender-bending feeling way ahead of its time and as the pioneer of glam rock. He brought...
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Steven Spielberg Contemplates Montezuma and Cortez Film Starring Javier Bardem
The year is still young, but what better way to start it out than by getting the rumor mills running with one of the bigger blockbuster epics potentially coming down the pipeline? With over a year past since Lincoln hit theaters, the world is long overdue for ...
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Jane Campion to Head Jury at Cannes 2014
Jane Campion, the director of The Piano (1993) and Bright Star (2009), has been chosen to lead the jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year. She is just the 10th woman to act as president of the jury in the festival's history, and remains the only female dir...
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The Bane of Cinema: Awards and Armond White
The perpetually polemical Armond White spiced up the 79th annual New York Film Critics Circle awards last night when he heckled director Steve McQueen.
While McQueen was accepting his Best Director award for 12 Years a Slave, White yelled out from his table...
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Birthday Wishes: The One True God, Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage, born 1964, is 50 today.
Academy Award-winning actor, star of plenty of great films, star of more crappy films than dozens of actors combined, Internet legend, an endless source of memes... there's very little that can be said about Mr. Cage th...
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Letterboxd’s Best of 2013
etterboxd is a site that is quickly gaining popularity in the short time it has existed allowing users to log, rate, review and tag movies as they are watched, even following friends to check in onwhat they are watching. Just in 2013 alone, the site has regist...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Frozen’ Closes Out Holiday Movie Season On Top
The Christmas/New Years holiday movie season drew to a close this weekend, with the kids going back to school and everyone returning to work tomorrow. Considering that there's an absolutely brutal cold front moving in to most of the upper part of the U.S. and ...
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Birthday Wishes: The Virtuosic Hayao Miyazaki Is 73
The recently maybe perhaps un-retired Hayao Miyazaki turns 73 today. Whether or not the legendary Japanese animator and director makes another film, his filmography speaks for itself as one of the strongest in world cinema. As the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, ...
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A Familiar Story: Hayao Miyazaki May Not Be Retiring
Correction: upon further examination of the radio interview with Miyazaki, it would appear that his remarks are more suggestive than declarative. At this time we can't accurately or confidently claim that he's not retiring.
A funny thing happened on New Ye...
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