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Keanu Reeves' '47 Ronin' delayed until 2013
Company TownUniversal Pictures has delayed its big budget Thanksgiving movie "47 Ronin" amid concerns that the 3-D film and its extensive special effects won't be ready in time.... -
'Revenge' preview: Emily teaches us about 'Loyalty'
![After a week off, "Revenge" is back tonight and it sounds like Emily will be teaching a few of the folks on her Hamptons hit list about "Loyalty."](http://redeye.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/290178460-07063142.jpg "After a week off, "Revenge\" is back tonight and it sounds like Emily will be teaching a few of the folks on her Hamptons hit list about \"Loyalty.\"")
RedEyeAfter a week off, "Revenge" is back tonight and it sounds like Emily will be teaching a few of the folks on her Hamptons hit list about "Loyalty." Here's what ABC has to say about the episode: Emily (Emily VanCamp) questions Nolan's (Gabriel Mann)...Tags: Henry Czerny, Margarita Levieva, ABC (tv network), Gabriel Mann, Ashton Holmes
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'The Promise'
Zap2It.comFollowing in the footsteps of Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," Chinese director Chen Kaige is the latest internationally acclaimed Asian director lured by the call of the wu xia genre....Tags: Ang Lee, Slavery, Social Issues, Entertainment, Movies
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'Twilight Samurai'
![For Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi — or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great Toshiro Mifune, star of such Akira Kurosawa masterpieces as "Seven Samurai," Belushi's satiric samurai perfectly distilled the image of the warrior as lethal enigma — a powder keg with a topknot and very short fuse. In the years since, the archetype has been tweaked and twisted but seldom to such pleasantly moving effect as in Yoji Yamada's "The Twilight Samurai."](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-04/12437559.jpg "For Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi — or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great Toshiro Mifune, star of such Akira Kurosawa masterpieces as "Seven Samurai,\" Belushi's satiric samurai perfectly distilled the image of the warrior as lethal enigma — a powder keg with a topknot and very short fuse. In the years since, the archetype has been tweaked and twisted but seldom to such pleasantly moving effect as in Yoji Yamada's \"The Twilight Samurai.\"")
Times Staff WriterFor Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi — or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great Toshiro Mifune, star of such Akira Kurosawa...Tags: John Belushi, Japan, Toshiro Mifune, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Death
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Chen Kaige Keeps 'The Promise'
Zap2It.comOscar-nominated director Chen Kaige ("Farewell, My Concubine") admits that he's in somewhat unlikely terrain for his new film "The Promise." "Quite honestly, I wasn't a big fan of the martial arts, because when my generation was young, that kind of...Tags: China, Confucianism, Gaming, Slavery, Social Issues
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'The White Countess'
![Directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel "The Remains of the Day" was adapted in 1993 by longtime Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and is set in the Shanghai of 1936 and '37, on the brink of the Japanese invasion.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-12/21061715.jpg "Directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess\" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel \"The Remains of the Day\" was adapted in 1993 by longtime Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and is set in the Shanghai of 1936 and '37, on the brink of the Japanese invasion.")
Times Staff WriterDirected by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant and finished shortly before Merchant's death in May, "The White Countess" marks the final work in a collaboration that spanned 40 years. The screenplay was written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, whose...Tags: Politics, Death, Sony Corp., Lynn Redgrave, Bars and Clubs
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