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Gamers will get a kick from maniacal 'Raid: Redemption' ✭✭ 1/2
Gamers will be slain, over and over, by the insanely violent multilevel bash "The Raid: Redemption," in which a skeezy 15-story tenement complex serves as the setting for a series of stabbings, slicings and a showcase for the Indonesian martial art...Tags: The King's Speech (movie), Heavy Engineering, The Raid (movie), Action (Movie Genre), Gaming
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By the finale, 'Twilight' vampire series is mostly anemic ★ 1/2
The fifth and very likely final "Twilight" picture boasts one moment, perhaps three or four seconds in length, so delightfully intense and uncharacteristically juicy that the rest of the film — most of the rest of the whole series, in fact —...
Tags: Stephenie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Twilight (movie), Wildlife
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More blood, less wit when the 'Evil Dead' return ★★
In the Book of the Dead, the barbed-wire-wrapped volume causing the fuss in "Evil Dead," one lavishly illustrated page states that after the forest demon "feasts on five souls, the sky will bleed again." Translated into franchise terms: If this grim,...
Tags: R Rated Movies, Evil Dead (movie, 2013), Entertainment, Movies
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How an Extreme Movie Makeover Saved 'Fast & Furious' From Going Direct to DVD
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" has become a road race to riches without a finish line in sight. Roaring into theaters Friday, the movie is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend -- astounding numbers for a...Tags: Social Media, Auto Racing, The Fast and the Furious 6 (movie), Sung Kang, Fast Five (movie)
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6 Lessons Hollywood Needs to Learn From 'The Fast & The Furious'
ReutersMay 23 (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & the Furious 6" is widely expected to dominate the Memorial Day box office and potentially become the highest grossing film in the lucrative franchise's history. For a franchise keep growing as it enters its second decade...Tags: Iron Man (movie), Saw (movie), The Fast and the Furious 6 (movie), Fast Five (movie), James Franco
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Exclusive: EU cites Chinese telecoms Huawei and ZTE for trade violations
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines. European Union Trade...Tags: Telecommunication Equipment, Barack Obama, International Organizations, New Products, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
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John Waters has mellowed, but his humor remains twisted, his sensibilities bizarre
Wholesome little Appleton, Wis., slips past the passenger window without arousing any visible interest in tonight's guest lecturer. A shop selling sewing machines. A Christian bookstore. The Martin School of Hair Design. Not very promising. The...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Human Interest, Celebrities, Charles Manson, Film Festivals
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'Iron Man 3' Launches Spanish-Dubbed Blockbuster Movies In Bloomfield
The Hartford CourantPeople who go to Digiplex Bloomfield on Monday night to see "Iron Man 3" may need to answer a question at the box office: Are you here to see "Iron Man 3," or "El Hombre de Hierro Tres"? On May 6, the cineplex at 863 Park Ave. in the Wintonbury Mall...Tags: Star Trek into Darkness (movie), Epic (movie), 2010 Census, Hartford County, Iron Man 3 (movie)
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As Opposition to N.C. Film Credits Mounts, MPAA Claims 'Iron Man 3' Created 2,000 Jobs
ReutersApr 30 (TheWrap.com) - As opposition to film tax incentives intensifies in North Carolina, the Motion Picture Association of America is using the upcoming blockbuster "Iron Man 3" to make the case that film production is a shot in the arm to the states...Tags: Economic Policy, Iron Man 3 (movie), Pittsburgh, The Avengers (tv program), Entertainment
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Harvey Weinstein: Paying Royalties Won't Break Google
ReutersApr 26 (TheWrap.com) - Harvey Weinstein unleashed a biting attack on Google on Friday, telling a Washington audience that Google's failure to compensate performers and content providers for YouTube videos amounts to stealing and is making technologists...Tags: Aspen Institute, Music, Computing and Information Technology Industry, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Corporation
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Hollywood yielding to China's growing film clout
Coming soon to a theater near you: China's Communist Party. From demanding changes in plot lines that denigrate the Chinese leadership, to dampening lurid depictions of sex and violence, Beijing is having increasing success in pressuring Hollywood...
Tags: China, Skyfall (movie), Django Unchained (movie), Iron Man 3 (movie), Cinema Industry
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$1.5M of counterfeit goods seized from Dundalk flea market
Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market...
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