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Antoine Fuqua And The Cast Of 'Olympus Has Fallen' Discuss The Bumps & Bruises Of Action Filmmaking

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • March 20, 2013 10:58 AM
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This weekend, Washington D.C. gets pulverized in “Olympus Has Fallen,” and director Antoine Fuqua wouldn’t have it any other way. The man in charge of this star-studded production boasted during press day of the glee he took in demolishing a national landmark, designed as a set in Shreveport, Louisiana. He looked forward every day to, “Tearing it up, shooting it up, making it real.”
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More: Olympus Has Fallen, Antoine Fuqua, Gerard Butler, Angela Bassett

Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett & Jennifer Hudson To Star In Big Screen Adaptation Of Langston Hughes' 'Black Nativity'

  • By Joe Cunningham
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  • July 5, 2012 9:07 AM
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Christmas movies, don’t you just love ‘em? Last year we got the child-friendly “Arthur Christmas” and the not so child-friendly “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,” but it looks like we should expect to see something very earnest at one of the next few Christmases. Fox Searchlight are prepping “Black Nativity,” a film based on Langston Hughes’ gospel musical, which first played on Broadway back in 1961. According to Variety, the story follows “a young black teen from Baltimore who is sent by his single mother to Harlem to spend Christmas with the grandparents he’s never met. Through his grandfather’s Christmas Eve sermon and a stylized, dream-sequence retelling of the classic Nativity story, he learns the importance of faith and family.”
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More: Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Black Nativity

Angela Bassett Joins 'Olympus Has Fallen'; Ron Livingston Is 'The Pretty One'; David Tennant & Emily Watson To Star In 'The Politician's Husband' & More

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 25, 2012 9:11 PM
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Angela Bassett is the latest to join "Olympus Has Fallen," Millenium Entertainment's rival to Sony's "White House Down." Set to be directed by Antoine Fuqua, the premise is pretty much the same: White House + terrorists/bad guys = hero saves the day. In this case, it's Gerard Butler with Aaron Eckhart along for the ride as POTUS. Basset will play Secret Service director Lynne Jacobs.
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More: Angela Bassett, Ron Livingston, David Tennant, Emily Watson, Marcia Gay Harden, The Devil's Knot, The Politician's Wife, Olympus Has Fallen, The Pretty One

Review: 'Green Lantern' Is A Tale Of Good Versus Evil For Dummies

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • June 15, 2011 2:16 AM
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Why are superhero and comic book movies so popular? It may be the comfort of believing there is a clear distinction between “good” and “bad” people, that “good” isn’t such an abstract notion within one’s identity and bad, in itself, is an unchanging, sometimes unstoppable force. There is poetry in this oversimplified view, both in the way it calms the troubled minds of moviegoers and the very notion of an unchanging duality forever at war, one side “morally” representing the winning side, the other not.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, Martin Campbell, Super Hero Films, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins, Blake Lively, Angela Bassett, Green Lantern

Angela Bassett Joins McG's 'This Means War' With Chris Pine, Tom Hardy & Reese Witherspoon

  • By Edward Davis
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  • November 30, 2010 2:52 AM
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Set Photos Leak From Location In VancouverWhile filming is already well underway in Vancouver, Canada and has been for several weeks now (since September 13), Angela Bassett ("What's Love Got To Do With It?") has joined the cast of McG's action/romance spy comedy "This Means War."
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, McG, This Means War, Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Angela Bassett

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