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9 hrs ago | /film

Shield Writer to Pen Fourth Underworld Film

What would it take to get you really excited for the fourth Underworld film? I'm not sure anything would do the trick for me but putting a really good writer on the job would help.

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Related Topix: Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies

13 hrs ago | DVD Dungeon

John Hlavin Brought on to Write Underworld 4

A popular genre franchise's next entry will be written by the writer of one of TV's most popular cop dramas.

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Related Topix: Underworld, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies

19 hrs ago | Clover Herald

Meet the Volturi, Twilight's' vampire royalty

Don't get on their bad side. This powerful coven enforces the laws of the vampire world.

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Related Topix: Frost/Nixon, Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Michael Sheen, Mystery Movies, Sweeney Todd, War of the Worlds, Adventure, The Runaways, Pop/Rock

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Stamford Times

Michael Sheen plays Aro

MICHAEL SHEEN plays Aro MICHAEL SHEEN plays Aro, the leader of the Volturi clan and the unofficial king of all vampires.

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Related Topix: The Damned United, Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Michael Sheen, Pop/Rock, The Beatles

J.B. Spins

Film Noir: The Missing Man

The film noir world of railway sleeper cars and smoky jazz clubs might sound like a throwback to the 1940a s. However, reluctant protagonist John Rosow is definitely a creature of the world in which we now live.

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Related Topix: Short, The Missing Person

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Village Voice

Name The Best Film About Alcoholics

There have been so many good movies made about drunks, you wonder why booze can inspire so many artists while ruining so many lives.

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Related Topix: Alcoholism, Health, Medicine, Barfly, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, The Lost Weekend

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Hacking NetFlix

Film Noir Titles Missing From Netflix

This is a guest post by Michael Ravnitzky, with titles suggested by Katherine Brosnan.

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Related Topix: Short, Rap, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Dark City, Drama Movies, Science Fiction Movies, John Garfield, Burgess Meredith, Elisha Cook Jr.

Hartford Courant

Atheneum Film Series Pays Tribute To Paul Newman

It's all Paul all the time on Saturday and Sunday at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art .

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Related Topix: Nobody's Fool, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, The Sting, Hud, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Western, Action Movies, The Verdict, Cool Hand Luke, Movies, Entertainment

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Ledbury Reporter

Theatre season has something for everyone

FANS of drama, dance, music and laughter are well-catered for in Malvern Theatresa newly-announced Winter a 09 to Spring a 10 season.

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, Thriller, Top Gun, Crime Movies, Western, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Accused, Kelly McGillis

Sun Nov 15, 2009

CBS 46

'Gidget' Director Paul Wendkos Dies At Age 84

Paul Wendkos, who directed over 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie "Gidget," has died.

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Related Topix: Gidget, Comedy Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Sandra Dee, The Burglar, Drama Movies, Thriller

Telegraph.co.uk

Lauren Bacall receives Oscar

Hollywood presented its first Oscars of the awards season, including one to 85-year-old screen legend Lauren Bacall for her life's work in film.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, The Big Sleep, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Lauren Bacall, Oscars, Humphrey Bogart

Metroblogging Seattle

Weekend Film Agenda November 13

Senegalese pop star Youssou N'dour has made headlines for his music in more than one way - frustrated by negative perceptions of his Muslim faith, he created a deeply spiritual album titled Egypt which he used to call for a more tolerant view of Islam.

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Related Topix: Islam, Religion, Thriller, Drama Movies, Leave Her to Heaven, Gene Tierney

Sat Nov 14, 2009

WXMI-TV Grand Rapids

Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis to get early Oscars Saturday

The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season are set to be handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood.

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Related Topix: The Big Sleep, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Oscars, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Comedy Movies, Postcards from the Edge, Humphrey Bogart, Entertainment

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Inside Bay Area

Michael Sheen vamps it up in 'New Moon"

It's a crisp May morning on the set of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," and Michael Sheen strides into an elaborate reconstruction of an Italianate marble hall in costume as Aro, the head of the Volturi, a menacing group of age-old vampires that metes out justice in the realm of the supernatural.

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Related Topix: The Damned United, Frost/Nixon, Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Mystery Movies, Twilight, Michael Sheen, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Entertainment

Richmond Times-Dispatch

a The Damned United,a an acting tour de force

Some actors are so much fun you'll even watch them in a film you didn't care about.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Providence Journal

Library begins film noir series

The classic thriller "The Maltese Falcon," starring Humphrey Bogart, will kick off free Sunday matinee film noir screenings at the Providence Public Library's Auditorium at 2 p.m. Sunday.

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Related Topix: The Maltese Falcon, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, The Big Sleep, Thriller, Humphrey Bogart, Providence, RI, Movies, Entertainment

PeoriaTimes-Observer

Bob Tremblay: Giving violent films a going-over

One can assume that certain moviegoers have been violently opposed to movie violence since the first fist was thrown on the silver screen.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Prison, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Action Movies, The Public Enemy, Entertainment

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Azcentral.com

Q&A: 'Pirate Radio's' Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy was a journeyman TV and theater actor when his flamboyantly entertaining performance as an aging rock star in the 2003 film "Love Actually" kicked his career to a new level.

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Related Topix: Valkyrie, Pirate Radio, Underworld, Horror Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Bill Nighy, Theater, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Movies, Entertainment

Cleveland.com

Eminem to star in 3-D horror film; 'Dr. Horrible' sequel news; and more: The Morning After

Rapper Eminem is returning to the movies after his critically acclaimed work in "8 Mile." Here he performs in Detroit on May 19.

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Related Topix: Rap, Eminem, Horror Movies, May, Thriller, Drama Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Underworld, Short, Comedy Movies, Crime Movies, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Kevin Grevioux, The House Bunny

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Collider

Director Len Wiseman to End the World with NOCTURNE

Len Wiseman, the man who abused his blue-filter privileges for Underworld and Underworld: Evolution , will follow up 2007's Live Free or Die Hard with an end-of-the-world flick entitled Nocturne .A According to THR , 20th Century Fox has picked up the project based on an original idea about a group of people who survive the end of the world and the ...

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Related Topix: Underworld, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Science Fiction Movies

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