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Mark Romanek On 'One Hour Photo' & Leaving 'Cinderella'
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Tribeca Film Plans Theatrical/VOD Release for Tony Kaye's 'Detachment'
- By Drew Taylor
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- September 8, 2011 7:40 AM
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- 1 Comment
'Black Water Transit' Still Never Coming Out
Venice '11 Review: 'Contagion' Is A Propulsive, Terrifying Picture With A Top-Notch Cast
- By Oliver Lyttelton
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- September 3, 2011 1:46 AM
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- 5 Comments
Disaster -- an eternally popular obsession of film. Audiences have turned up in droves over the last century or so to watch mankind against their own extinction in the form of meteorites, earthquakes, alien invasions, exploding suns, planetary collisions, and whatever it was that was happening in "The Core." One of the more popular hypotheses is that when the end comes -- and it will -- it'll be not with a bang, but with a whimper. And that's what Steven Soderbergh has examined in "Contagion," his first studio film since 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen," that finds the spread of a deadly bird flu-type virus the source of man's demise.
Olivia Munn Joins Steven Soderbergh's 'Magic Mike'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- August 31, 2011 4:31 AM
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- 3 Comments
With all the hunky slabs of man meat set to appear in Steven Soderbergh's male stripper pic "Magic Mike," it looks like the dudes will get some eye candy of their own. Sort of.
Laurence Fishburne To Play Perry White In 'Man Of Steel'
- By Kevin Jagernauth
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- August 3, 2011 2:57 AM
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- 10 Comments
Get ready for the worst geek hand-wringing and casual racism this side of the Idris Elba/"Thor" embarrassment that cropped up a few months ago: EW reports that Laurence Fishburne has been cast as Perry White in Zack Snyder's forthcoming "Man of Steel."
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