Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 26, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
Fans mark 30 years of Star Wars
More than 25,000 fans have gathered for a convention to mark 30 years since the release of Star Wars in US cinemas.
Director George Lucas' tales of intergalactic battles between good and evil first opened in just 32 US cinemas on 25 May 1977.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 13, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Top 50 VFX Movies
A few weeks ago, myself and the other 1500 members of the Visual Effects Society voted on a survey to determine the 50 most influential movies from a visual effects point of view. Each of us was asked to pick our favorite 50 from a list of 400 visual effects driven movies, from Mary, Queen of Scots filmed in 1895 to the latest crop of 2006 including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and a few others.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on May 12, 2007 at 5:00:00 PM CEST
Coppola film set for Rome debut
Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years will premiere at Italy's second annual Rome Film Fest in October.
The Italian-American director will showcase his World War II film Youth Without Youth, starring Tim Roth, according to Screen Daily.
Roth stars as an elderly professor whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 26, 2007 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
The Month-Long Party Begins: Happy Birthday, Star Wars
On a sidewalk far, far away, outside the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, fanboys showed up in numbers but not in costumes Monday night for the 30th-anniversary screening of Star Wars. Notably missing from the sold-out show? Wookiees and Princess Leias in metal bikinis.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 11, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Casting Kurt & Courtney is… Nevermind
Back in January Courtney Love acquired the rights to a biography on her deceased husband Kurt Cobain with the intention of turning it into a movie. Now, rumors are starting to circulate about who’s going to play the famous couple on the big screen. AOL Music threw together a list for people to vote on potential Kurt and Courtneys. Their suggestions both fascinating and terrifying.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 28, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
' I Took Paris Hilton's Virginity '
Socialite Paris Hilton lost her virginity to TV producer Aaron Spelling's son Randy, according to the former Sunset Beach star himself.
The 26-year-old actor, who co-starred with his former flame in the 2006 straight-to-video movie Pledge This!, claims they had sex together when Hilton was just 15--three years shy of the legal age of consent in California.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 15, 2007 at 1:57:00 PM CET
The Magic of Movie Editing
The is a documentary about the unappreciated art of film editing. It shows how film editing came about, and explains all the groundbreaking ... all » ways it has changed the film watching experience. There are a bunch of interviews from big names in the film industry including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster, and many more. This is really a must see for any big film buff
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 7, 2007 at 9:24:00 AM CET
Obi-Wan's brown cloak sells for $104,000
The brown hooded cloak worn by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films — and then forgotten for years in a warehouse — sold for $104,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder Tuesday at an auction of movie and TV memorabilia.
Audience members raised their paddles in rapid succession as costumes flashed across TV screens at Bonhams, a British auctioneer, as staff fielded phone bids from all over the world. When the hammer dropped on a Bond girl's cat-suit or Anthony Hopkins' army uniform, men in dark blazers whispered the prices into their cell phones.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 2, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Al Gore’s Own Inconvenient Truth: He Uses Lots of Electricity!
After Al Gore’s documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar last week, Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a conservative think tank, blasted him as an environmental hypocrite and pointed out that Al Gore wasn’t as green as his image.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 26, 2007 at 12:22:00 PM CET
Two friends of CC -- updated
Two friends of Creative Commons have
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 26, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth Wins Oscar For Best Documentary
Vice-President and Oscar winner? You can now add the ultimate award in the entertainment industry to Al Gore’s resume. At the 79th Annual Academy Awards Sunday night, Gore’s film — his passion — An Inconvenient Truth was the winner in the Best Documentary category.
ecorazzi.com thinkprogress.org An Inconvenient Truth [Wikipedia] Eine unbequeme Wahrheit [Wikipedia]
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 26, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Oscars 2007 Liveblogging: Renington Steele
Hier lege ich ab 1 Uhr los, mal sehen wie lange ich diesmal durchhalte. Bei den Globes hab ich ja jämmerlich versagt.
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