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/ 27 September 2008
Legendary film star Paul Newman has died after a long battle with cancer, a spokesperson said on Saturday.
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/ 25 February 2008
No Country For Old Men won the Oscar for best film and its makers, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, were named best directors on Sunday, giving the bleak crime drama four of the world’s top movie awards. Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured a wide range of movies, actors and actresses from several countries.
The new Harry Potter movie drew lukewarm reviews on Tuesday, but millions of ”muggles” are expected to ignore the critics and turn out in droves for the widest release for Warner Brothers studio. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opened across South Africa, including at the Imax theatre in Pretoria, on Wednesday.
So he’s faster than a speeding bullet and can leap tall buildings and all that, but there is one thing Superman cannot top — a Winkie. At least, not according to Joe Maddalena. The Hollywood memorabilia expert’s auction house on April 5 is holding one of its widely followed sales of movie and television items that could fetch an estimated -million to -million.
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/ 19 January 2007
The Sundance Film Festival opened on Thursday night with an innovative movie harkening back to Vietnam anti-war protests and a call by Robert Redford for an apology by United States leaders. Redford said in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks he, like many others, showed a ”spirit of unity” with President George Bush and others who backed the war on terrorism.
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/ 16 January 2007
The searing cultural drama Babel and the uplifting musical Dreamgirls won the top Golden Globe awards on Monday, making them instant front-runners in Hollywood’s Oscar race. Dreamgirls, which follows the rise of three women singers and closely resembles the ascendancy of all-girl groups like The Supremes, won three awards.
Turns out finding money to make movies was an easy mission for Tom Cruise. Only days after the Mission: Impossible movie star effectively was fired by Paramount Pictures, Cruise, his film partner Paula Wagner and an investment fund run by professional football team owner Daniel Snyder agreed on Monday to a financing package that puts Cruise back in business.
Get real, Mann. Director Michael Mann ushers Miami Vice into theatres on Friday promising a reality-based movie with the sort of raw grit and steamy sex that never would have played on the hit 1980s television show of the same name he helped create.