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13 hrs ago | Russia Taday

Lights! Camera! Censorship! Hollywood fed up with Chinese 'brick wall'

China's film market is the world's second-largest, just behind the US, but those shooting a movie in China inevitably come to grips with state censorship.

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Related Topix: Django Unchained, Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, History Movies

Fri May 17, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

New 'Trek' is all about ensemble work

Say this much for the new films in the long-running "Star Trek" franchise: They're real "share the wealth" exercises.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television, Star Trek Into Darkness, Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks, Chris Pine

MarketWatch

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Biggest flaw in "The Great Gatsby" is 3-D

Many critics have pounced on Baz Luhrmann's new rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "The Great Gatsby," for its contemporary music, a script device, costume inaccuracies and other ways that the movie did not exactly mirror one of the great American novels.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby, Australia, Pop/Rock, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theater, Arts

Thu May 16, 2013

MTV

'Star Trek' And Klingon: Learn The Language Of The Aliens

A new language was added to the Bing Translator this week, but it's not one that's commonly spoken in any earthly region.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television, Star Trek Into Darkness

UPI

Filmmaker, explorer James Cameron to be honored with science prize

California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography says it will honor filmmaker and ocean explorer James Cameron with its Nierenberg science prize.

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Related Topix: Titanic, Drama Movies, Action Movies, History Movies, Celebrities, James Cameron, Oceanography, Science, UC San Diego

WMCA-AM Hasbrouck Heights

Ironically, Into Darkness is Too Light on Meaningful Ideas

To receive email newsletters, updates and special offers from WMCA, select your newsletter , enter your email address and hit "Sign Up". Release Date: May 16, 2013 Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence Genre: Action Run Time: 132 min.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, People Like Us, Chris Pine, Movies

ABC News

Zoe Saldana Magazine Cover Stirs Uproar

Actress Zoe Saldana may have bared it all on the new cover of Allure magazine, but it's the headline emblazoned on the magazine's cover announcing the actress' weight that is causing a controversy, and now leading to a backlash among readers, who are questioning the editors' decision.

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Related Topix: Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks, Body Image, Health

NOLA.com

CW schedules fantasy drama 'Star-Crossed' for mid-season

The CW network series "Star-Crossed," the pilot for which shot in the New Orleans area earlier this year under the title " Oxygen ," will join the network's schedule at mid-season, it was announced Thursday .

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Related Topix: New Orleans, LA, Pop/Rock, The Originals, Vampire News, Entertainment, The Vampire Diaries, Television

Wed May 15, 2013

BIO

read Zoe Saldana bio

Zoe Saldana is a trained dancer who's become a leading actress in Hollywood, having starred in blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean , Star Trek and Avatar .

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Guess Who, Crossroads, Music!, Mystery Movies, Action Movies, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Adventure, Drumline

Boston.com

Zoe Saldana brushes off criticism of Simone role

In this Saturday, May 4, 2013 file photo, Zoe Saldana poses for a portrait session at the Corinthia Hotel in London.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks, Star Trek Into Darkness

Newkerala.com

Three sci-fi films just a coincidence for Zoe Saldana

Los Angeles, May 15 : After signing Marvel Studio's superhero film "Guardians Of The Galaxy", actress Zoe Saldana has become part of three big sci-fi franchises, including "Avatar" and "Star Trek", but insists it was not planned.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks

Tue May 14, 2013

Hispanically Speaking

Zoe Saldana Gives "Star Trek Into Darkness" Some Latin Flavor

Actress Zoe SaldaA a plays the female lead in "Star Trek into Darkness," a "much more intense" film than the one that preceded it in 2009, she told Efe on Monday.

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Related Topix: Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television

Examiner.com

Stephen King news: 'It,' 'Pet semetary,' 'A good marriage,' and 'Under the dome

Stephen King may be the top writer on the planet as far as the number of his works adapted for TV or feature films and there are more projects looming on the horizon.

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Related Topix: Jane Eyre, Drama Movies, Action TV, Entertainment, Television, Mirrors, Without a Trace, Crime TV, Drama

Metro

Saldana reveals bisexuality: I could end up with a woman

Zoe Saldana goes all girlie after recently attending the UK Premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" Bradley Cooper's ex admits she may end up with a woman one day after a torrid run of luck with the fella.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks

Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News

Saldana: I will honour Nina Simone

Zoe Saldana has insisted she will "honour" Nina Simone despite the criticism over her casting in a film about the legendary singer.

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Related Topix: Zoe Saldana, Hot Chicks, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Cleopatra, History Movies, Celebrities, Elizabeth Taylor

Fandango.com

Arnold Schwarzenegger Eyes Role in 'Toxic Avenger'

With Mother's Day just behind us and Father's Day coming up, we ask, what are some key characteristics of great movie parents ? Over the weekend, comic book fans got their first look at The Rhino, new Man of Steel footage, and heard the latest on James Cameron's Avatar epics.

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Related Topix: Life, Father's Day, Holidays, Clark Gregg, Star Wars, LucasArts, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Video Games

OhNoTheyDidnt

Chris Pine on 'Men's Health' June Cover

He's a 32-year-old action movie star headlining two of Hollywood's biggest franchises, Star Trek into Darkness and Jack Ryan, but Chris Pine knows rejection.

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Chris Pine, Sam Worthington

Mon May 13, 2013

Boise Weekly

Primus May be the James Cameron of Rock

May 12 was something of a personality test for Boise music fans. Did you go to Knitting Factory to see The Shins or to Revolution Concert House to see Primus? This salty old fart chose fast hands over lower legs and went to see some psychedelic shred-funk. In 3D, no less.

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Related Topix: Primus, Pop/Rock, Boise, ID, The Shins, Indie

CNN

Special-effects master pushes new movie format

Douglas Trumbull is one of the most famed special-effects experts in Hollywood history.

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Related Topix: The Tree of Life, Science / Technology, Inventions

Movies.com

Russian Billionaire Reveals 'Avatar'-Inspired Project to Let People Live Forever

Freddy Mercury and Queen once asked "who wants to live forever?" on the album A Kind of Magic and Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov has apparently answered with "me". In something that feels like it came straight out of a sci-fi movie which is fitting, since it was inspired by James Cameron's Avatar Itskov has revealed an ambitious plan to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Queen