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On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19
Channel Guide MagazineCloud Atlas is certainly the most ambitious of this week's titles. With a budget of over $100,000,000, the film is one of the most expensive independent films made to date. Nominated for a Golden Globe award, the film involves cast members playing... -
'Mr. Selfridge': The man who invented retail therapy
Until recently, the Vera Wang bridal shop in Singapore imposed a non-refundable $482 fee to try on dresses. And last month a health food retailer in Australia posted this notice on its door: “As of the first of February, this store will be...
Tags: Buckingham Fountain, Dick Wolf , Meryl Streep, Man of Steel (movie), Arts and Culture
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Netflix goes sci-fi with the Wachowskis
Netflix is going big with its next original series. After tapping the talents of David Fincher and Eli Roth for previous productions, the online outfit is getting Andy and Lana Wachowski, creators of "The Matrix" series, who will work with J. Michael...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Lorne Michaels, Literature, David Fincher, Stephen Colbert
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GLAAD award nominees include 'Wallflower,' 'Cloud Atlas'
Among the nominations for its annual entertainment awards, GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy and anti-defamation organization, chose to honor animation's first gay character, a film directed in part by a transgender woman...Tags: Tom Tykwer, Josh Hutcherson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), Your Sister's Sister (movie), Emily Blunt
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Robin Weigert taps Brooke Wyeth's mind in 'Other Desert Cities'
On your way to meet actress Robin Weigert for the first time, you may be forgiven for feeling some trepidation about who, exactly, will greet you at the door. Will it be Calamity Jane, the buckskin-wearing, dirt-encrusted, foul-tongued frontier woman...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Rachel Griffiths, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Sons of Anarchy (tv program)
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Is city short of space to shoot?
According to Andy and Lana Wachowski, most of their films are set in Chicago — although none have actually shot here. When my colleague Chris Borrelli asked about this for a piece that ran in the Tribune last week, Lana Wachowski replied, "There...
Tags: Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Unforgiven (movie), North Lawndale, Arts and Culture, Cinema Industry
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Inside 'Cloud Atlas' directors' Chicago workshop
The Wachowskis lie low. It's what they do. Indeed, They do it so well that when you meet the Wachowskis and ask them about their lying low, you find yourself reminding yourself: You have never really seen them before. Not really. They don't stand for...
Tags: Tom Tykwer, Architecture, IKEA, Arts and Culture, MTV Movie Awards
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An interview with David Mitchell, the author behind 'Cloud Atlas'
David Mitchell came to Los Angeles because of an 8-year-old book. Thanks to the movie by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, Mitchell's novel "Cloud Atlas" has landed on American bestseller lists -- right behind the decidedly less literary...
Tags: Andy Wachowski, Arts and Culture, Music, Authors, Literature
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Holdover 'Argo' beats four newcomers on slow moviegoing weekend
Moviegoers had four new films to choose from at the box office this weekend, but "Argo" — the well-reviewed film that has been out for 17 days — still seemed like a better option to most. Ben Affleck's political thriller claimed the top...
Tags: Gerard Butler, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Nickelodeon (tv network), Hannah Montana (tv program), Movies
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Taylor Swift, 'Cloud Atlas' and assumption junction
On semi-rare occasions, you absolutely know when something’s going to be good. You judge a book by its cover because you’ve practically already read it. A new Fiona Apple album, good. 3 Doors Down’s greatest hits, bad. That said, it&...
Tags: Rock of Ages Corporation, Awards and Prizes, Animal Collective (music group), Taylor Swift, Jim Broadbent
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'Cloud Atlas' review: A historic mess
* (out of four) Hokum of monumental proportions is still hokum. Watch the 6-minute “Cloud Atlas” trailer about 30 times and you’ll have an idea of what it’s like to sit through this epic disaster, which never bores but never...
Tags: Tom Tykwer, Halle Berry, Entertainment, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving
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'Cloud Atlas'? Shrug ★★ 1/2
A big-budget film's marketing mission is simple: Eliminate the idea of an unsuspecting audience. Did people know what they were getting when they got "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"? Yes. They got what they were shown in the 30-second ads, over and...
Tags: Metropolis (movie), Ben Whishaw, Movies, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry
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