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Apr 1, 2009 4:03 PM CDT

Top Hotels Made Famous in Film

The top ten real hotels featured in Hollywood

(Newser) - People usually use movies for escapism, but if you’d like to flip the tables and relive a classic film moment, just check into the hotel where it was shot. The Telegraph runs down some of the most famous, from around the world.

Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles: Get a room

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New X-Men Leaked Online

Apr 1, 2009 3:40 PM CDT

New X-Men Leaked Online

High-quality copy has been downloaded 75,000 times

(Newser) - An almost-done, high-quality rip of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked online and downloaded 75,000 times a month before its scheduled release, the BBC reports. 20th Century Fox hasn’t said how its summer blockbuster, starring Hugh Jackman, got out, but there’s at least some solace: “The...

Twitter Takes the
Secrets Out of
Film Shoots

Apr 1, 2009 10:04 AM CDT

Twitter Takes the Secrets Out of Film Shoots

Celebs and execs alike embrace social networking

(Newser) - Film shoots were once mysterious and secretive domains, with access allowed only to the select few—sometimes not even studio heads. Now, thanks to social networking sites like Twitter, there is no such thing as a closed set, says the Hollywood Reporter. “I have gotten thousands of enthusiastic posts...

Why Today's
Heroes Are
So 'Effed Up'

analysis

Mar 29, 2009 7:36 PM CDT

Why Today's Heroes Are So 'Effed Up'

'Powerless' America wonders if 'good is up to the task'

(Newser) - Heroes and villains have clashed in American pop culture since D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915, but today's heroes are oddly at war with another foe—themselves, Jeff Jensen writes in Entertainment Weekly. Like Lost's castaways, modern heroes are "flawed or messed up," reflecting...

Monsters vs. Aliens
Wins Box Office Showdown

BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP

Mar 29, 2009 4:21 PM CDT

Monsters vs. Aliens Wins Box Office Showdown

(Newser) - Monsters vs. Aliens battled its way to the top this weekend, grossing $58.2 million, Entertainment Weekly reports. A staggering $32.6 million of that total was from 3-D showings, helping the family flick best Watchmen as the year’s top opener. The Haunting in Connecticut scared up $23 million...

3-D Movies Inch
Toward the Holodeck

Mar 28, 2009 3:46 PM CDT

3-D Movies Inch Toward the Holodeck

(Newser) - For filmmakers on the cutting edge, moviemaking has become a technological dance on an increasingly virtual stage, Wired reports. Producers now have virtual worlds built before shooting starts and routinely blur the difference between animation and live action. And though glasses are still required, 3-D cartoons are rapidly advancing from...

Haunting Is Nothing New

movie review

Mar 27, 2009 10:23 AM CDT

Haunting Is Nothing New

Decent scare flick says it's based on a true story

(Newser) - Based on a supposedly-true story, The Haunting in Connecticut is nothing groundbreaking—but it’s good for a few screams, critics say. A few takes:

“A technically proficient horror movie and well acted. We have here no stock characters,” Roger Ebert observes in the Chicago Sun-Times. But “

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Monsters Looks
Great, Lacks Oomph

movie review

Mar 27, 2009 8:21 AM CDT

Monsters Looks Great, Lacks Oomph

Dreamworks' 3-D stunner stuck with one-dimensional storyline

(Newser) - Monsters Vs. Aliens looks amazing on screen, but grownups may find the thin jokes and the storyline of Dreamworks' animated spoof of '50s flicks a little grating, say critics.

James Rocchi, Redbox: The movie "has amazing 3D, solid gags, wacky concepts and great animation; I just wish that at

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Blockbuster to
Rent Movies on TiVo

Mar 25, 2009 7:22 AM CDT

Blockbuster to Rent Movies on TiVo

(Newser) - Blockbuster kicked off its latest reinvention effort today, announcing a new plan to beam on-demand movies through TiVo DVRs. One senior VP called the deal “step one in getting to the places that consumers care about.” Blockbuster will also sell TiVo DVRs in its stores, as part of...

Quaid, Moore
to Play Clintons
in HBO Movie

Mar 25, 2009 2:35 AM CDT

Quaid, Moore to Play Clintons in HBO Movie

Film will examine rocky US/UK relationship during Blair years

(Newser) - Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore have been picked to play Bill and Hillary Clinton in a planned HBO film, Variety reports. Special Relationship will examine the often rocky relationship between Bill and Tony Blair in the late '90s. Michael Sheen and Helen McCrory are set to reprise their Queen roles...

'Good Nazi'
Film Awakens Ugly Ghosts

Mar 24, 2009 4:38 PM CDT

'Good Nazi' Film Awakens Ugly Ghosts

Biopic sure to reopen old wounds between China, Japan

(Newser) - A new film about a hero Nazi party member is threatening to stir old tensions between China and Japan, BBC reports. John Rabe relates the true story of a German businessman who saved thousands of Chinese from a Japanese massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. China is still...

Meet the Real
Slumdog Millionaire

Mar 23, 2009 12:49 PM CDT

Meet the Real Slumdog Millionaire

(Newser) - Slumdog Millionaire is a hot topic of conversation in India, where it’s alternately viewed with pride and scorn, and few have a more interesting perspective on it than Harshvardhan Nawathe—the real slumdog millionaire. Nawathe is the only person to ever win it all on India’s version of...

Warner Bros. Opens Its Film
Vault Online

Mar 23, 2009 2:34 AM CDT

Warner Bros. Opens Its Film Vault Online

6,800 movies will be posted for viewing, recording

(Newser) - Film fans, rejoice! Warner Bros. is dusting off its archive and making 6,800 films that never made it to DVD available for purchase online. Warnerarchive.com launched yesterday with an initial 150 titles—ranging from the 1923 silent Souls for Sale to the more recent Wisdom with Emilio Estevez....

High-Tech Jacket
Makes This More Vivid

Mar 22, 2009 6:42 PM CDT

High-Tech Jacket Makes This More Vivid

'Virtual touch' jacket will stimulate film viewers in new ways

(Newser) - Moviemakers have a new tool to make your viewing experience more intense: a jacket wired with devices that use touch to stimulate the wearer, Fast Company reports. But the jacket is more than just the latest incarnation of smell-o-vision—rather than reproducing sensations being experienced by characters on screen, it...

Beatty Sued
Over Dick
Tracy Rights

Mar 22, 2009 4:50 PM CDT

Beatty Sued Over Dick Tracy Rights

Tribune Co. says filmmaker lost rights by not using them

(Newser) - A unit of the bankrupt Tribune Co. is suing Warren Beatty over the rights to the Dick Tracy character, Reuters reports. Beatty bought the rights to the hard-boiled cartoon detective in 1985 and made the Dick Tracy movie, but he has made “no productive use” of Tracy in years,...

Tyson: I Hear Voices

Interview

Mar 21, 2009 11:33 AM CDT

Tyson: I Hear Voices

(Newser) - Mike Tyson’s handlers want him to stay on task, to talk about his new movie Tyson. The notorious heavyweight has other ideas. “I’ll talk about anything,” he says. “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve done in my life.” And talk he does,...

It's No Lie: Duplicity Scores

NEW RELEASE

Mar 20, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

It's No Lie: Duplicity Scores

Spy film gets wide, warm reception

(Newser) - Critics aren’t hiding their love for the twists and turns of Duplicity, a combination “caper movie,” “love story,” and “extra-dry corporate satire,” AO Scott notes in the New York Times. The buzz on the Julia Roberts-Clive Owen flick:

"Attempts—and to a

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Knowing Doesn't Add Up

Movie Review

Mar 20, 2009 12:52 PM CDT

Knowing Doesn't Add Up

(Newser) - The reviews are in, and it doesn’t look good for Knowing, Nicolas Cage’s predestination-driven sci-fi epic. Here’s what critics are saying:

It’s “laughably bad,” says Joe Neumanier of the New York Daily News, a pseudo-philosophical mess that “reaches for sci-fi relevance, but just

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I Love You, Man:
Bromance at Its Best

MOVIE REVIEW

Mar 20, 2009 10:23 AM CDT

I Love You, Man: Bromance at Its Best

Stars keep formulaic satire on male friendship fresh

(Newser) - I Love You Man's tale of a guy searching for a best friend rolls out every buddy movie cliché from the Odd Couple onward but stays likable, thanks to its stars, say critics.

Rossiter Drake, San Francisco Examiner: Paul Rudd and Jason Segel "take what might have been a

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Neeson Film
Won't Stop
Production

Mar 19, 2009 4:38 PM CDT

Neeson Film Won't Stop Production

(Newser) - The crew of Liam Neeson’s latest film is “bereft” over the death of his wife but will continue shooting, Entertainment Tonight reports. Chloe will focus on scenes that don’t need Neeson, who is mourning wife Natasha Richardson. “There are some scenes with Liam Neeson which have...