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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), Big Love (tv program), Chicago Fire (tv program), GQ, Transformers (movie)
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Movie stars found heroes in Baltimore
Sun Movie CriticMovie stars John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix want to be like firefighters. Better yet, they want to be like Baltimore firefighters! How cool is that? "They're the most humble, modest group of people I know," says Travolta, who plays a fire chief in...Tags: John Travolta, Death, Senator Theatre, Joaquin Phoenix, San Francisco
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Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'
Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...Tags: John Carter (movie), Jerry Bruckheimer , Labor Day, Melissa McCarthy, Star Trek (movie, 2009)
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Grand Park filming fees temporarily lowered
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to temporarily lower filming fees at their newly opened Grand Park downtown. Movie and television crews previously had to pay $20,000 a day per block of park space they used. Many entertainment executives...
Tags: About Last Night (movie), Don Knabe, Michael Antonovich
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Movie jobs are a 'House of Cards'
Gov. Martin O'Malley says the Netflix series "House of Cards" brought $140 million into the state's economy ("'Cards' a good deal, Md. Says," April 30). Where have we heard this before? In 2010 the Detroit Free Press reported that "Michigan's bid to...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Government, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Detroit Free Press, Netflix Inc.
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Author Salman Rushdie sold 'Midnight's Children' rights for $1
This post has been corrected. See note below.Author/filmmaker Salman Rushdie joined Jon Stewart Tuesday night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the forthcoming film version of his bestselling novel "Midnight's Children." The 1981 novel won a slew of awards -- including the Man Booker Prize, the...Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Truman Capote, Life of Pi (movie), Literature
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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, Iron Man 3 (movie), Arts and Culture, V for Vendetta (movie), Django Unchained (movie)
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John Woo to direct 'Flying Tigers' as two-part feature
Director John Woo, who has primarily relocated from Hollywood to Asia, will next make the World War II drama “Flying Tigers” as a combination movie-television miniseries in China. The production, announced in Shanghai this week, will be co-...
Tags: China
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'Oblivion' cruises to top spot. U.S. movies down in China.
After the coffee. Before trying to avoid talking about Reese Witherspoon. The Skinny: "Mad Men" has developed an annoying habit of introducing a character without providing any background, which leaves viewers wondering whether it's a friend or relative...
Tags: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., The Place Beyond the Pines (movie), Media Industry, Sports, F-bomb Dropping
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China's film, TV business generate $15.5 billion in annual revenue
China’s film and television business generated revenue of $15.5 billion, or 100 billion yuan in local currency, and supported more than 900,000 jobs in 2011, according to a new study by the Motion Picture Assn. and the China Film Distributors and...Tags: China, Services and Shopping, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Television, Entertainment
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L.A. learns the perils of regulating porn
So which is more important, porn actors’ safety -- or the jobs, fees and tax money the porn industry provides? Los Angeles County voters decided on the former in November when they passed Measure B, requiring the use of condoms during film...
Tags: Elections, Sports, Pornography, Politics, Voting
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One film's rise is fueled by another's demise
Gil Kofman suspected that making a movie in China wouldn't be easy. The Los Angeles-based director doesn't speak a word of Mandarin, he wasn't acquainted with the film's inexperienced financiers and he assumed communist government censors might have...
Tags: China, Organized Crime
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