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City Lights: Fame takes work
James Cameron was once quoted giving advice to people who seek a career in the movies. "I think the most important thing if you're an aspiring filmmaker is to get rid of the 'aspiring,'" he said. "You shoot it, you put your name on it, you're a filmmaker....Tags: Chris Armstrong, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Cinema Industry, Academy Awards, Entertainment
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Cannes honcho Thierry Fremaux is Hollywood's inside man
VarietyWhen Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" raises the curtain on the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, it will serve, among other things, as an indication that the love affair between the festival and Hollywood is alive and well — much more than the last...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Rust & Bone (movie), The Artist (movie), Harvey Weinstein, Movies
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Ray Harryhausen: Pixar’s Pete Docter on the monster king
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesIn the 2001 Pixar movie “Monsters, Inc.,” Mike, the one-eyed green orb voiced by Billy Crystal, takes his scaly, snake-haired […]... -
'Pain & Gain': Why is it so hard for directors to shed their skin?
If you follow directors' careers, you’ve often heard how hard it is for a so-called small filmmaker to go big. A few, like Christopher Nolan, have done it, evolving from intimate indies to studio tent poles. But it’s a trick infrequently...
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Ray Harryhausen dies at 92; special-effects legend
Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation legend whose work on "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," "Jason and the Argonauts" and other science fiction and fantasy film classics made him a cult figure who inspired later generations of filmmakers and special-...Tags: Pixar Animation, Star Wars (movie), Movies, Fiction, Literature
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Sci-fi worthy of Malthus
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it. This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had...Tags: Google Inc., Environmental Issues, Viral Diseases and Infections, Microsoft Corporation, Oblivion (movie)
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Lucha Libre enlists heavyweight expertise to help push into U.S.
The firm that helped reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and adapt Hasbro's Transformers toy line for big (and small) screens is charged with a new task: helping Mexican wrestling characters successfully cross the border into the United States. Partners...
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Despite 'Hobbit' backlash, RED still pushing 120-fps home projector
Back in 2012, before director Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” made its widely panned 48-frame-per-second debut, arguably the most talked-about gadget at that year’s National Assn. of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas was the...Tags: Epic (movie)
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10 things you might not know about film critics
Chicago Tribune reportersA screenwriter who went by the pseudonyms of R. Hyde and Reinhold Timme died recently in Chicago. Others knew the man as Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert's death got us thinking about interesting facts involving movie critics....Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Newspapers, Abraham Lincoln, Did You Hear About the Morgans? (movie), Times Square
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...
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Generating stunning visual effects, but not enough revenue
This should be a golden age for visual effects in movies. Thanks to the box office success of movies such as "The Avengers" and "Life of Pi," demand for visual effects has never been greater. Studios are spending $100 million or more to put ever more...
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Las Vegas: Luxor display a dazzling reminder of doomed Titanic
A priceless collection of jewelry salvaged from the wreckage of the luxury liner Titanic has been added to "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" at the Luxor in Las Vegas. The display, called "Jewels of Titanic" are to be shown through May 31. A...
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