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The Criterion Collection Now On Hulu Plus, Will Be Pulled From Netflix Instant By End Of '11

By Cory Everett
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February 15, 2011 5:07 AM
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Over 150 Titles Including 'The 400 Blows,' 'Breathless,' 'Seven Samurai,' 'La Strada' And MoreUpdate: Some very bad news for Netflix subscribers, apparently this Hulu Plus deal comes at a price. All Criterion titles will be removed from streaming through Netflix Instant by the end of 2011. Criterion says that Hulu seems a better fit for them because of the visibility they are being offered by the service (their own highlighted section, "Criterion" being searchable, etc.) but this writer thinks Netflix really dropped the ball in letting them go. If you can't imagine yourself paying $8 a month and still having to sit through commercials, you're about to have no choice in order to view these classics.

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Watch: New Trailer For 'Last Night' Starring Sam Worthington & Keira Knightley

By Kevin Jagernauth
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February 15, 2011 4:52 AM
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Update: Apple has dropped the HD version of the trailer. Check it out after the jump.

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New Pics Of Julie Delpy & Chris Rock In '2 Days In New York'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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February 15, 2011 4:15 AM
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No, you're not reading that wrong. Funny man Chris Rock is indeed co-starring in "2 Days In New York" Julie Delpy's sequel to her 2007 romantic dramedy "2 Days In Paris" and there are now some fresh pics from the film.

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Wentworth Miller To Star In Black List Dramedy 'Analog'

By Kevin Jagernauth
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February 15, 2011 4:05 AM
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While "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller hasn't quite established an acting career to go along with his fancypants name, he's becoming someone to watch on the screenwriting front. Under his nom de plume Ted Foulke, he penned "Stoker" which has quickly attracted Park Chan-Wook ("Oldboy") to direct and a helluva cast with Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska all attached to star. Not too shabby.

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Paul Walker To Star In Fred Durst's 'Pawn Shop Chronicles'

By Edward Davis
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February 15, 2011 3:52 AM
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While much of the populace still harbors residual resentment and ill-will towards musician/filmmaker Fred Durst for his rap-rock tresspasses and early aughts omnipresence, the Limp Bizkit frontman has undeniably contributed to modern cinema in a film that is already being considered a contemporary classic

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Nick Cassavetes To Direct 'Traffic'-Like Biopic On Rick Ross

By Kevin Jagernauth
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February 15, 2011 3:29 AM
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Former Dealer Claims He's Talked To Leonardo DiCaprio & Mark Wahlberg About Acting In & Producing The FilmReuters is reporting that Nick Cassavetes is gearing up to direct a film about Rick Ross, the famed Miami based drug dealer that also inspired the name of the hip hop artist you know and love.

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First Poster For Lone Scherfig's Rom-Com 'One Day' Starring Anne Hathaway & Jim Sturgess

By Oliver Lyttelton
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February 15, 2011 3:02 AM
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Valentine's Day has come and gone for another year, and workplaces are buzzing with what everyone got up to last night. Rom-com marathons on your own at home, candlelit champagne dinners out with a loved one, or something in between -- in this writer's case, an evening spent in a dingy hotel room with three Romanian acrobats, some strobe lighting, a tank of oxygen, a live goat, a series of dressing gown cords, and Lou Reed's "Berlin" on repeat. What? Love comes in many different forms.

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Eddie Izzard & John Turturro Join The Cast Of 'Cars 2'

By Oliver Lyttelton
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February 15, 2011 2:47 AM
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It's odd for us to know that a new Pixar film is only a few months away, and yet not feel any particular excitement about it, but that's the situation we find ourselves in ahead of the release of "Cars 2" The original wasn't terrible, exactly, (it still stands head and shoulders above most CGI fare from other studios), but considering the high standards that Pixar have set themselves, it was firmly at the bottom of the pack, and appears to have been greenlit principally because of the giant merchandising revenue that the property brings in to the Disney coffers (a mammoth $2 billion a year, totalling $8 billion to date, more than the total box-office revenue from Pixar's films combined).

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The Weinstein Company Acquire Ralph Fiennes' 'Coriolanus'; Actor May Adapt 'Antony & Cleopatra' Next

By Oliver Lyttelton
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February 15, 2011 2:30 AM
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The Berlin Film Festival is firmly underway, and yesterday saw the first big high-profile premiere of the Berlinale; namely, Ralph Fiennes' adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus." Debuting yesterday to mostly strong reviews, it looks as though Fiennes' contemporary re-up of the play, originally set in Rome, has come off, with Vanessa Redgrave's performance as the hero's mother Volumnia already gathering early Oscar talk for 2012.

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Heiress Megan Ellison Does It Again, Set To Acquire Rights To Wong Kar-Wai's 'The Grandmasters'

By Simon Dang
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February 15, 2011 2:10 AM
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A mere week ago, the name Megan Ellison wouldn't have even raised an eyebrow among the film community. Now she's pretty much the toast of the town -- at least ours anyway.

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