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JOHNNY DEPP’S BIG MONEY CAREER COULD BE IN THE BALANCE
Jonny Depp’s career as a Hollywood A-lister pulling in $20 million a movie could hang on the performance of his next movie, the science-fiction thriller Transcendence.
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BRAD PITT’S MOVIE GETS CUT FOR CHINA
China’s fast-growing appetite for movie blockbusters is exerting a powerful influence on the major Hollywood studios who are re-cutting, editing and altering their films to make them acceptable for Chinese audiences.
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DIRECTOR AND STAR LEAVE WESTERN MOVIE IN THE DUST
Rumours and controversy are flying around the New Mexico set of the Western Jane Got A Gun following the abrupt departure of the director, Lynne Ramsay and Jude Law, who was to…
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And next year’s winners are ….
Now that Argo has won the award for best picture it would seem that the Oscar campaigns are finally over for another year. But not a bit of it.
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IS THIS ARNOLD’S LAST STAND?
He’s back….but it seems like very few people care. The Last Stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie comeback and his first starring role in nearly a decade, has flopped badly at the box office…
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WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN BRINGS FAWAD TO THE OSCARS
Young Fawad Mohammadi, a first-time actor who was discovered selling gum and touristmaps on a street corner in Kabul, will be attending this year’s Oscar ceremony thanks to a worldwide campaign to…
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STAR OF OSCAR MOVIE SELLS GUM ON STREETS OF KABUL
While most of the stars of this year’s Oscar-nominated films are doing the rounds of Hollywood’s red carpets, parties and “swag rooms”, one, 14-year-old Fawad Mohammadi, spends his time on a street…
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IS THERE ANYTHING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH ISN’T IN?
The first production shots of Wikileaks movie The Fifth Estate show Benedict Cumberbatch playing Julian Assange. Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. Photo: DreamWorks Whether you like him…
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OSCAR WINNER TURNS HIS CAMERAS ON MARGATE
Oscar-winning documentary maker Arnold Schwartzman is turning his cameras on Margate, the seaside town where he grew up and where he first experienced the lure of Hollywood.
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CRUISE AND JACK REACHER? A BIT OF A DIFFERENCE
Jack Reacher, according to author Lee Child who created him, is a 6ft. 6in. blonde-haired ex-soldier who is “built like the side of a house….his hands, giant battered mitts that bunch into…