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Nicolas Cage bombs at box office with "Bangkok"
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Less than a year after starring in
the biggest movie of his volatile career, Nicolas Cage led the
North American box office to its worst weekend in five years on
Sunday with one of his weakest.
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Malkovich gets mad in Coens' 'Burn After Reading'
(AP)
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AP - TORONTO (AP) ? The Coen brothers' new movie gave John Malkovich a chance to blow off some steam. Malkovich's seething character in "Burn After Reading" bursts out in perpetual tantrums, a nice exercise in anger management, according to the actor.
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Tommy Lee Jones seeks $10M in 'No Country' lawsuit
(AP)
- AP - SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller.
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Venice hails cinema's comeback king Mickey Rourke
(Reuters)
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Reuters - Eleven days of red carpet galas, 21
films in competition and countless interviews, photo calls and
parties at the Venice film festival boiled down to just one man
in the end -- Mickey Rourke.
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Silent screen siren Anita Page dies at 98
(AP)
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AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died. She was 98.
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Two more "Spider-Man" films on the way
(Reuters)
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Reuters - Tobey Maguire and
"Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi plan to reunite for the fourth
and fifth installments of Columia Pictures' comic book
franchise, dispelling speculation that a new actor would play
the crime-fighter.
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Lindsay and Samantha rock the runway crowd
(AP)
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AP - NEW YORK (AP) ? Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson.
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'40-Year-Old Virgin' actor faces new charges
(AP)
- AP - Prosecutors have brought additional charges against Hollywood actor accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 20 times.
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War films take new strategy at Toronto fest
(Reuters)
- Reuters - At this year's Toronto
International Film Festival, the war movies are all wearing
camouflage.
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Spike Lee's "Inside Man" sequel moving forward
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Spike Lee is working on a
sequel to his 2006 crime thriller "Inside Man," which earned
more than $175 million at the worldwide box office.
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Spider-Man 4: Tobey Not a Lock???Yet?
(E! Online)
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E! Online - Call it the battle of the contractual web weavers. Tobey Maguire's very interested in doing the next Spider-Man sequel, sure, and now there's word today that the deal is done. Not true at all, blab several top sources on the project, who say the news about Spidey 4—and maybe 5—is jumping the gun.
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Germany Already Writing Auf Tarantino's Bastards?
(E! Online)
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E! Online - Quentin Tarantino is entering Tom Cruise territory.
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A-List Secrets: The Truth About $20 Million Paychecks
(E! Online)
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E! Online - When a movie star asks for $20 million for a movie, does he really get that in his bank account?
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A pair of Coens might as well be one at Toronto
(Reuters)
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Reuters - There is a reason they are called the
Coen Bros., and not Joel Coen and Ethan Coen: they might as
well be one person.
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Casting Couch: Tom Cruise's Monster Mash
(E! Online)
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E! Online - Apparently there's nothing like a good killing spree to get Tom Cruise going.
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Columbia Scaring Up Ghostbusters Revival
(E! Online)
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E! Online - No need to believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis.
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LaBeouf, Efron: Legends of the Fall?
(E! Online)
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E! Online - If all goes well for Hollywood, Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron will be the new Reese Witherspoon.
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An Old West shootout at the Toronto film festival
(Reuters)
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Reuters - Westerns have been around as long as
moving pictures, and two movies at this week's Toronto film
festival, including Ed Harris's "Appaloosa," show how the old
standard has taken wildly different looks over a century.
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'The Wrestler' wins Venice Film Fest top award
(AP)
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AP - VENICE, Italy (AP) ? Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" has won the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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Eva Mendes: "I'm Big on Therapy"
(E! Online)
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E! Online - Eva Mendes is one happy camper.
