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Movies
9/9/2010 4:35:04 AM
Resident Evil: Afterlife Rated R, 90 minutes The world has been ravaged by a virus that's turned people into zombies. And one bad chick named Alice is roaming around, looking for survivors. That's been the bassic narrative arc of the "Resident Evil" series, which has proven itself a resilient video game-to-film franchise. Mila Jovovich once again takes the helm as Alice and this time, viewers ...
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Japanese samurai movie pokes fun at tradition
9/9/2010 4:33:44 AM
Reuters - Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" is a surprisingly conventional remake of a 1963 samurai movie, but he injects enough horror and humour to win over viewers at the Venice film festival.
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Porn Ban: County Votes Against Hotel Movies
9/9/2010 3:38:29 AM
One Minnesota county has declared war on hotel-room porn, prohibiting any of its employees from staying at a hotel offering adult movies. The Winona County Commissioners just approved a new "clean hotel" policy which forbids employees from staying at such properties. The commissioners said pornography leads to sexual and domestic violence and that they hope to pressure hotels to drop these ...
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How Facebook got involved in human rights film
9/9/2010 3:18:58 AM
Reuters - A harrowing trip to Africa cemented a filmmaker's bond with Facebook and created a new way for human rights activists to spread the word -- while promoting the social networking site's month-old streaming video channel.
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Venice: Tsui revives Chinese hero Detective Dee
9/8/2010 11:06:48 PM
AP - Hong Kong's action film master Tsui Hark returns to the big screen with "Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame", a new cloak-and-dagger martial arts blockbuster set in the Tang dynasty.
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Movies still playing in the Fredericksburg area
9/8/2010 10:14:32 PM
(NR) "AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION" (PG-13) There's extra footage in this re-release of a film about a planet where unique creations and an avatar body help an injured man find a happiness he thought he'd lost. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang. Rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking. 171 min. [MV] HH "EAT PRAY ...
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Movies & More: 'Titans' dazzles, but lacks emotion
9/8/2010 9:21:05 PM
Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie thinks that "Clash of the Titans," rated PG-13 and starring Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson, is a mythological tale that has plenty of action and special effects, but fails to make the viewer feel much emotion.
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Top 20 Concert Tours
9/8/2010 5:33:03 PM
AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
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Ronald Reagan movie planned for 2011
9/8/2010 4:45:14 PM
Reuters - The story of Ronald Reagan's life -- from boyhood to Hollywood actor to leader of the free world -- is about to spill out on the big screen in a way quite different from the miniseries that caused such a stir seven years ago.
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Stephen King's "Tower" gets film, TV treatment
9/8/2010 4:44:26 PM
Reuters - Stephen King's epic fantasy series "The Dark Tower" is being turned into a film and television franchise by the Oscar-winning team behind "A Beautiful Mind."
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Hong Kong model arrested after Nevada desert event
9/8/2010 2:52:58 PM
AP - Authorities in Nevada say a Hong Kong fashion model is facing a felony drug charge following her arrest at the Burning Man festival, along with misdemeanor vehicle charges after crashing a rented motor home into Reno's "Biggest Little City in the World" arch.
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Disney hires new marketing guru for "Pirates 4"
9/8/2010 1:47:34 PM
Reuters - Disney has taken the unusual step of bringing in a consultant to handle the marketing of its fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film, a move bound to raise questions about the marketing boss hired by the studio five months ago.
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Review: 'I'm Still Here' self-indulgent, pointless
9/8/2010 1:40:17 PM
AP - Joaquin Phoenix may truly have walked away from a much-heralded acting career two years ago to pursue his artistic expression as a rapper. His look, which went from dark and mysterious to shaggy and doughy, may simply have been part of his transformative process.
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Netflix adds more streamed movies
9/8/2010 1:01:39 PM
By Dow Jones Newswires Posted today at 2:25 p.m. Netflix Inc. has reached an agreement to license first-run theatrical movies distributed by Nu Image/Millennium Films for online streaming during the “pay TV window,” when they’re usually available on premium TV channels.
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Movies opening Sept. 10
9/8/2010 12:54:47 PM
"Expecting Mary," "Flipped," "Ghost Bird," "Mao's Last Dancer" " Resident Evil: Afterlife " and "Winnebago Man."
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